Using AI just to reduce costs is a woeful misuse of a transformative technology
Rolling out AI requires a total reimagining of existing business models. You should be looking for butterflies—not faster caterpillars. The...
Can Saks’ new CEO repair the damage done to the luxury retailer by years of being treated as a ‘financial plaything’?
For the second time in his career, luxury executive Geoffroy van Raemdonck has been tasked with fixing an iconic department...
The head of marketing at Slate posted on LinkedIn requesting cleaning services as a benefit at her company. The next day, HR answered her call
When Christina Le posted generally on LinkedIn about mental health, burnout, and work-life balance, she didn’t expect her company to...
AI ‘godfather’ Yoshua Bengio says he’s found a fix for AI’s biggest risks and become more optimistic by ‘a big margin’ on humanity’s future
For the past several years, Yoshua Bengio, a professor at the Université de Montréal whose work helped lay the foundations...
Denmark and Greenland agree to form working group over the future of the territory
A top Danish official said Wednesday that a “fundamental disagreement” over Greenland remains with President Donald Trump after holding highly...
Landmark crypto bill on knife’s edge as Coinbase CEO pulls support ahead of key Senate vote
As the Senate Banking Committee prepares to debate long-anticipated legislation that would establish regulation for the crypto industry, the fate...
Bitcoin closes in on $100,000 in surprise surge
New Year, new hope for Bitcoin. After several months of sputtering, Bitcoin is back on the rise. On Wednesday, the...
Americans have been quietly plundering Greenland for over 100 years, since a Navy officer chipped fragments off the Cape York iron meteorite
President Donald Trump’s insistence that the U.S. will acquire Greenland “whether they like it or not” is just the latest...
Rural America is getting a bailout, but not from Trump—billionaires are riding to the rescue
Rural America is getting a bailout. Billionaires are increasingly stepping in to plug gaps in services, education, and opportunity that...
Trump is sorry for deporting college student who flew home to surprise her family for Thanksgiving, but is still deporting her
The Trump administration apologized in court for a “mistake” in the deportation of a Massachusetts college student who was detained...
Highway 1 along Big Sur reopens after 3 years of closures amid tourism-destroyin landslide
A 90-mile (145-kilometer) section of California’s Highway 1 along the famous Big Sur coast finally reopened Wednesday after three years...
China graduates 1.3 million engineers per year, versus just 130,000 in the U.S. We need AI to bridge the gap
When business leaders hear “AI,” they often think of chatbots, sales automation, or marketing. The headlines emphasize job disruption. But...
Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser warns of job cuts and says it’s time to raise the bar in a fiery memo to staff: ‘We are not graded on effort’
Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser, one of Fortune‘s Most Powerful Women—and the top female executive on Wall Street—is pushing ahead with...
California’s wealth tax doesn’t fix the real problem: Cash-poor billionaires who borrow money, tax-free, to live on
California’s proposed wealth taxaims to go after billionaires’ balance sheets, but it largely sidesteps the way many ultrawealthy people actually...
How Expedia’s CTO is using AI to transform work for 17,000 employees—and travel for millions
Ramana Thumu, the chief technology officer at Expedia Group, says there’s no “AI Center of Excellence” at the online travel...
