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Ford CEO Jim Farley recently said “the air we breathe is a four-year degree.”

When Amazon.com hired Panos Panay from Microsoft in 2023, senior executives hoped he could bring some of the devices magic he pulled off at the software giant to the e-commerce company.

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This summer was a bright moment for Europe’s brewers.

Over the past several months, we have been interviewing CIOs and other senior executives about how AI is changing management.

Justin Zheng is pretty sure Dylan Iskandar took his money the first time they met as teenagers, over a poker game in 2019 at a conference run by economist Tyler Cowen.

I’ve spent two and a half decades responding to cyber incidents or leading teams of people who do.

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Politicians all over the world have been grappling with how to deal with low voter turnout, as it keeps falling in recent decades even as the number of countries holding elections (and the voters voting in them) has grown, according to International IDEA.

For some of the world’s richest people, buying a mansion is the first in a string of many purchases.

There is one question I keep hearing from business leaders, and it is reshaping the way I think about what comes next: “What if you started from scratch, knowing what AI can do today – how would you design your business?”

DINKs have been having a moment.

As Wall Street’s biggest banks prepare for Q3 earnings starting next week, in one sense things have never looked better.

Darren Ellis and his older brother were the first in their family to go to university.

Much has changed at Nvidia in the 19 years since HR director Febe Punsalan started working at the Santa Clara, California, headquartered company.

Relocating for work can bring a lot of additional stress.

Amid a workforce shortage in the hospitality industry, Marriott International is focusing on employee development to improve its talent acquisition and retention.

AI anxiety has reached new heights recently, with tech CEOs warning of safety risks and job losses.

The art world’s biggest spenders are getting younger and younger.

Wealthy Gen Z art collectors are spending more than twice as much as their baby boomer and millennial counterparts.

By many measures, China is fast catching up with the U.S. in AI development.

If you were lucky enough to grow up in the New York City school system, you more likely than not came across the story of Claudia and Jamie Kincaid in the children’s classic The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs.

Microsoft’s Windows operating system, the longstanding flagship of the company’s software empire, is getting a revamp for the AI age.

OpenAI published AI-generated full or partial solutions Tuesday to more than 370 outstanding mathematical problems, including some that have long been considered grand challenges in the field.

If you’d never heard of red-dyed diesel before it suddenly entered the news cycle this week, you’re not alone.

FBI agents thwarted a terror attack by a teenager on the Mall of America after supplying him with an assault rifle following months of text messages, authorities said Wednesday.

Semaglutide—the diabetes and weight-loss drug known by brand names like Ozempic and Wegovy—is continuing to show its potential to treat a wide range of other conditions.

President Donald Trump says his administration will make one-time payments of $90 per person to help more than 20 million Medicare enrollees pay for their Part B premiums.

The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday proposed a $70,000 fee for international students seeking to work in the United States, the latest effort from the Trump administration to crack down on foreign enrollment.

A crack is forming in Indian Country’s united front against prediction markets.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he has a call scheduled with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a possible case of plague at a Siberian research institute.

Rich Americans are getting richer, but not all equally.

During President Donald Trump’s announcement of “Liberation Day” in April 2025, which would bring with it a raft of aggressive tariffs, Trump claimed the import taxes would slash the U.S.’s stubborn trade deficit, or when a country buys more goods from ov…

Justin Casse thought he wanted to become a horse trainer like his older brother, but there was just one little problem: the 4:30 a.m. wake-up calls.

Last fall, I stood at the center of what would have been one of the biggest deals in sports: a $2.4 billion public pension fund investment in the Big Ten Conference.

The companies behind America’s power plants, oil refineries, and data centers have spent decades developing the most efficient infrastructure systems in human history.

John Kell When Ali Dasdan left software and data platform ZoomInfo, his plan was to create his own agentic AI startup.

Young people are worried that AI may consign them to the unemployment line.

America’s older households sit on nearly $140 trillion in wealth, and much of it showed up recently.

Iraq devalued its currency Wednesday, changing the official exchange rate from around 1,300 Iraqi dinars to the dollar to 1,500 dinars to the dollar.

Britain’s ultra-rich are increasingly voting with their feet as a wave of tax changes has left many reconsidering their U.K. residency.

Countries both rich and poor must take faster action to cut debt and counter growing inequality as their economies weather a triple whammy from the artificial intelligence boom, heavy borrowing and shocks from wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, the head…

Republicans are entering the final month of the midterm campaign increasingly anxious that the $1 billion at their disposal may not be enough to fend off sweeping losses as the party reckons with President Donald Trump’s unpopularity, persistent cost conc…

For decades, job-hopping was one of the surest ways to climb the career ladder and boost your earning potential.

Elon Musk’s net worth once again topped the $1 trillion mark this week—and few people have had a closer look at the forces behind his success than his former deputy Linda Yaccarino.

AI anxiety hit a fever pitch this September, when a former Anthropic researcher warned on X that the technology could destroy humanity—and accused major frontier labs of “gambling with our lives.”

Nate Wilson and Eli Ben-Joseph generated more than $150 million in revenue from their AI health care company Regard following their 2024 Series B valuation of $350 million.