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Anthropic is merging its agentic tool—Claude Cowork—and its chatbot—Claude Chat—into a single product.

Workers have been taking home a shrinking slice of the American economy for more than three decades, and the headline number is stark: the labor share of income in the nonfarm business sector has fallen roughly 7.5 percentage points since the 1990s, accor…

Sam Altman, the billionaire CEO of OpenAI, spends his days at the center of the AI revolution—but when it comes time to unwind, he’s just like millions of Americans who enjoy scrolling through TikTok before bed.

The American Dream of graduating college, landing a six-figure job, and moving into a white picket-fenced home is slipping out of reach.

“I am the house now,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told traders last week, as he defended the administration’s increasingly interventionist approach to the bond market.

Today’s private credit market is fragmented.

Two years ago, I asked the president of one of America’s largest public power utilities what worried him about the data centers lining up to connect to the grid.

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In 2025, Mark McQuade took a gamble wholly specific to the AI era.

In a factory in Vantaa, a city in southern Finland, scientists and engineers are working on a groundbreaking innovation that converts carbon dioxide and hydrogen into a protein powder called Solein.

While military action in Iran has dragged on longer than the White House initially estimated, President Trump is still insistent that, in the grand scheme of things, the conflict doesn’t even constitute a war.

Welcome to this week’s Fortune Gulf Brief.

In today’s CEO Daily: Leaders haven’t forgotten the value of a good boss.

The first instinct of any school meeting a new technology is often to block it.

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Sir Alex Chisolm has been U.K, chair of EDF for more than two years, but he is still awestruck by the power on display when visiting any one of the company’s eight nuclear power stations.

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s startup ecosystem has become increasingly vibrant in recent years and boasts a string of unicorns and innovative businesses.

As more states have begun to introduce wealth taxes, billionaires and other ultrawealthy individuals have been forced to make the hard choice between sucking it up and paying the bill or moving elsewhere.

There is a couch outside the fitting rooms at nearly every mall in America, and for decades it looked like the least productive real estate in the building.

All Gen Z wants for Christmas is something old school.

In 2009, the great blogger and cultural critic Mark Fisher picked up on the concept of “capitalist realism,” describing a state of mind where the triumph of this economic organization of life was so complete that it was impossible to imagine an alternative

Before I co-founded Dexory a decade ago, I had no experience in robotics.

Amid the frenzy that AI is on the cusp of taking everyone’s jobs, there’s a clear winner emerging from the chaos: millennials.

Anthropic is opening an office in Singapore—its first in Southeast Asia—planting its flag in a market that’s quickly becoming a new battleground for the U.S.’s top AI firms.

FOMO—the fear of missing out—used to be a shorthand favorite of young people worried about not being at the right party on a Saturday night.

The English engineer, Henry Mill, submitted the first-ever patent for a “machine transcribing letters” in 1714.

The combined revenues of the companies on the 2026 Fortune 500 Europe list hit a record high of $15.5 trillion this year, equivalent to half of Europe’s GDP.

Karin Rådström is used to being the only woman in the room.

Concerns about AI safety are reaching a fever pitch in the U.S. after a X post by a former Anthropic researcher went viral, claiming the technology could kill all of humanity by the end of the decade.

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Former Palantir engineer-turned New York state Assemblymember Alex Bores knows Americans want AI regulation.

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has some new digs—an Airstream trailer in Memphis, parked just steps from xAI’s most ambitious project yet.

In March, shortly after the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) tariffs and paved the way for $100 billion in import taxes being redistributed back to American importers, U.S.

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CADDi, a startup that sells AI software to help manufacturers organize and use their engineering and production data, has raised $114 million in a new funding round that values the company at $1.2 billion.

America’s most popular sport is back—and the NFL just set a new record in its opening week: it was the highest-scoring Sunday in week one ever.

Elena Rybakina won the U.S.

At a Walmart Supercenter in North Bergen, New Jersey, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan, Victor Lopez, 21, tapped the screen of his work-issued smartphone.

Prepare your “working hard or hardly working?”

The U.S. has one of the highest maternal mortality rates among wealthy nations, research shows, so heirs of the multibillion Walmart fortune are working to drastically lower it.

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Mark Zuckerberg has access to some of the most sophisticated artificial intelligence systems on the planet.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Is This It, the classic album by the Stokes, the rock band that turned the page from Gen X pop culture to something more distinctly millennial.

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The first workable global AI safety pact should be designed for a world without trust.

Baton, a marketplace for buying and selling small businesses, has publicly posted valuations and local competitor rankings for two million small businesses across the country: a bid to do for Main Street what Zillow did for the housing market a decade ago.

OpenAI’s still looking at an IPO—but not in 2026.

Budget watchdogs have been given fresh cause for concern this week as the rate on 10-year Treasuries has tipped over 5%—a symbolic benchmark for investors and economists.

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