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Jeff Bezos may have a beach house to go with his $237 million Miami compound.

New York Gov.

Millennial and Gen Z heirs are eagerly anticipating a $124 trillion “Great Wealth Transfer” as they inherit their parents’ wealth—however, many are set to be disappointed.

The blowout news from SpaceX’s Q3 earnings wasn’t the rocket and AI giant’s outstanding performance that far exceeded even the analysts’ elevated expectations, but Elon Musk’s revelation that SpaceX and Tesla are weighing a merger.

Esther Nguyen has what may be a stereotypical story for a Vietnamese-American entrepreneur working in Vietnam.

Americans have placed an unprecedented bet on the transformative power of artificial intelligence.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg intends to maintain control over the company he founded in 2004 and a new class of stock will help him do just that.

Supporters of California’s proposed billionaire tax say it could raise $100 billion, with 90% of the proceeds earmarked for health care.

Maine Republican Susan Collins has promoted her reputation as one of the most independent U.S. senators and she is using the waning days of the election season to sell that message to voters by campaigning with a former Democratic colleague who has endors…

Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Wednesday to resume three-way negotiations next month with Washington and Kyiv aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, a Kremlin official said, potentially setting up the first such talks since February.

President Donald Trump’s political groups have spent more than one-quarter of a billion dollars to bolster Republicans in the final stretch of this year’s midterm elections, an unprecedented amount for a sitting president that underscores the stakes on No…

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms said Wednesday that third-quarter revenue rose 26% to $64.6 billion, above the $63.3 billion analysts expected, according to Visible Alpha consensus from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Increasingly powerful AI tools are at the center of a new war between those who want to use them to supercharge cyberattacks, and the defenders who are harnessing the same tools to fend them off.

A judge on Wednesday ordered Meta to pay New Mexico $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for deceiving users about privacy and content moderation policies on Facebook.

Collectors send their cards to authenticators for one reason: to find out what they’re worth, and usually to make them worth more.

California state workers began a one-day strike Wednesday, urging Gov.

Amazon is reversing its plan to expand its data center footprint in Virginia—forgoing its $427 million plan to build data centers on George Washington University’s Virginia campus it had signed an application for in February.

General Motors says it simulated more than 300,000 designs for its next EV battery before building a single physical cell.

A growing number of companies are pushing back against tokenized trading of their shares.

Ken Griffin has spent millions helping Republicans win elections.

It pays to stay on good terms with your ex in Silicon Valley.

Nearly 15 years ago, Jimmy Donaldson uploaded his first video under the moniker MrBeast—a three-minute Minecraft walkthrough.

Anthropic has named Christopher Stubbs, a Harvard University astrophysicist, to its Long-Term Benefit Trust.

For In-N-Out fans, the yellow arrow and red lettering paired with a palm tree backdrop can signal a familiar destination: relatively cheap burgers, fries, and most often than not, a line.

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin is one of many people growing increasingly concerned about America’s $40 trillion national debt burden, and the budget deficits that add to it year after year.

Hungarian police arrested the country’s former Central Bank governor on Wednesday, a significant step in the new government’s pursuit of suspected financial abuses during the rein of Viktor Orbán, whose government has been accused of widespread corruption.

Keith Castello spends a lot of time praying about available real estate.

American Cancer Society Chief Executive Officer Shane Jacobson says he is currently in the process of creating a new plan that will look at how his nonprofit has leveraged data and artificial intelligence in the past and what future bets should be made on…

Martha Stewart’s career has spanned Wall Street, television sets, the modeling studio, and even federal prison.

There isn’t an endless stream of revenue for AI as early adopters once thought.

Like so many Americans, Jenny Escolastico has watched wearily as the cost of living has risen, straining her household budget.

Andy Staane started as a bartender at The Mooring in Newport, R.I., in 2002, as a teenager trying to scrape together a few extra bucks.

Jamie Dimon has warned for years that the U.S. has let itself become dangerously dependent on China.

Japan’s trade deficit reached 2.81 trillion yen ($17.8 billion) for the first fiscal half, according to government data released Wednesday, as the war in Iran sent oil import prices soaring.

Thousands of students and teachers marched through the streets of the Greek capital of Athens Wednesday, calling for affordable student housing and more state investment in education, as protests that have swept Europe spread further.

Inflation in the U.K. rose to its highest rate in almost a year as the Iran war continues to ratchet up fuel prices, official figures showed Wednesday, cementing market expectations that the Bank of England will raise interest rates next month.

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NextDC, an Australian data center operator, is the latest such company to get hit by a growing investor selloff of AI stocks.

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Within three months of the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on Feb. 28, 2026, the average price of gasoline for American drivers climbed from US$2.94 to $4.35 a gallon.

Morgan Chittum here.

Blacksmith, a startup that runs the infrastructure companies use to test code before it ships, has been valued at $1 billion following a new $66 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital.

When President Trump told the world on “Liberation Day” last year that foreigners had “torn apart our once-beautiful American dream,” his plan to restore it promised “jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country.”

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Traders woke up in a cheerful mood today, shaking off the riots in France and the rising price of oil.

In today’s CEO Daily: Carlos Gutierrez reflects on his late-in-life diagnosis.

In recent years, Abu Dhabi-based Space42 has emerged as one of the region’s most prominent names in space technology and AI, with its achievements helping to establish the UAE as a respected player in the space industry.

Welcome to this week’s Fortune Gulf Brief.

Mark Cuban says many of the customers flooding his low-cost pharmacy have something in common: They already have insurance.

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos are putting $100 million behind the idea that the world’s most endangered animals and plants can still be pulled back from extinction.