Less than two months after the Trump administration rolled out its electronic tariff refund platform, it is now threatening to bring the operation to a standstill. The administration said on Friday it plans to appeal a federal judge’s order that…
If you’ve been feeling uncertain about the future of the economy, you’re not the only one. As the war in Iran pinches the global energy supply for the foreseeable future, and as AI companies threaten to reshape the entire labor…
Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains just a fraction of pre-war levels, but more ships are transiting lately, especially via a lane carved out by the U.S. military, even as fighting heats up. That alternate channel has become even…
When she isn’t working on a novel, Ann Patchett is often thinking of what she can do for others: maybe coming up with a blurb for Douglas Stuart, or recording a video birthday message for fellow author-bookseller Emma Straub, or beginning an interview with…
More than half of job candidates are using AI to apply for jobs. Meanwhile, nearly 90% of companies are using AI to screen candidates, overwhelmed by a staggering volume of résumés. So, if both sides are using AI with such…
Elon Musk may be about to use SpaceX’s soaring valuation as a lifeline for Tesla—and in doing so, create a combined giant that potentially loses money. A new Fortune analysis by my colleague Shawn Tully lays out the math behind…
Data is the oil of the AI boom—and the startup Mecka AI hopes to tap the vast reservoir of hand gestures, walking gaits, and immense collection of humanity’s physical motions to better train our future overlords: robots. So-called “embodied” AI…
Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, announced on Monday that its users will be able to trade more than 7,000 U.S. stocks and ETFs. The company also announced an upcoming plan to allow customers to convert the stocks they hold…
The scene plays out in family offices from Greenwich to Geneva, in slightly different variations but with a familiar arc. A junior analyst — often the founder’s grandchild, or close to it — has spent the last six months running…
Before Boeing named Kelly Ortberg as CEO in August of 2024, the airplane-maker was an enterprise in crisis, and faith was fading that arguably the most iconic of American manufacturers would ever regain its lost luster. Just as Boeing was…