Even in a turbulent year at the top, a record 56 women lead Fortune 500 companies in 2026, 11.2% of the newest ranking of America’s largest businesses by revenue. That’s the highest share in the list’s 72-year history and the…
Sitting alongside Pope Leo XIV as he delivered his first encyclical on the dangers of AI was a curious speaker: a self-declared atheist and the billionaire cofounder of one of the most valuable AI companies in the world. Chris Olah,…
In the run-up to the iPhone’s launch in 2007, Apple cofounder Steve Jobs made a fateful decision: Apple would not turn to its partner Intel to make chips for the device, on the grounds that the firm was “really slow…like…
Apoha, a deep tech startup that is building AI models for creating new kinds of substances—from proteins to food products to paints—based on a new kind of data about how materials behave, is emerging from stealth today with $36 million…
TIAA CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett knows firsthand the struggle many Americans are facing as they try to figure out how they’ll get by in retirement. Her own father, after three decades of work, had never contributed to his 401(k) plan,…
In the past decade and a half, Delta Air Lines has been wildly effective in training its customers to pay more for its premium seats. The airline now gets 20% more revenue per seat than its U.S. competitors, and its…
Nvidia’s rise from chipmaker to AI infrastructure powerhouse has transformed it into one of the world’s most valuable companies. Leading the financial operation behind that ascent is CFO Colette Kress, No. 49 on the 2026 Fortune Most Powerful Women list.…
Sløk pointed to ADP employment data as evidence, concluding that the AI spending frenzy is “stoking both employment and inflation.” And thanks to the tech boom, he even believes that nonfarm payrolls in May—accounting for all U.S. workers excluding agriculture…
Berkshire Hathaway was long teased as the conglomerate that couldn’t find anything worthwhile to buy. Now, as the cash pile has swelled to $400 billion—it’s highest ever—and with a new CEO in charge, the firm is finally pulling the trigger.…
Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella proclaimed a “new paradigm” on Tuesday in a keynote at the company’s Build conference in San Francisco. He was talking about the advent of agentic AI, but for anyone who has followed Nadella’s company closely…