I won a Pulitzer for explaining the Great Depression. The AI spending boom terrifies me

They cut the dining out first. Then they stopped putting money away. Then came the retirement account—the one thing financial...

The U.S. and Europe feared the Iran conflict would curtail the Gulf’s appetite for global investments. The opposite is true

Gulf sovereign wealth funds collectively stepped up dealmaking over the last three months, defying expectations that the Iran war would...

Jeff Bezos’ 25-year-old stress cure is to ‘make the first phone call, or send the first email’— and a recruiter says it lands even harder in 2026

With economic uncertainty, AI anxiety, and a brutal job market weighing on workers everywhere, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has a...

If S&P Dow Jones rewrites its listing rules, SpaceX and Anthropic will benefit—investors won’t

To get into the S&P 500, a company is supposed to make some money. The sum of its four quarters...

He sent out 3,200 résumés and got zero job offers in the 2008 crash. Now Outdoor Boys’ Luke Nichols is telling grads how he survived

Luke Nichols, better known as the Outdoor Boys YouTuber who captured the hearts of millions of viewers for his outdoor...

It’s not a recession. But Goldman says your paycheck is acting like it

Americans aren’t losing their jobs. The stock market isn’t in freefall. And the official recession call is nowhere in sight....

FIFA’s foray into dynamic pricing may be backfiring by keeping actual fans out of the World Cup—and sending some prices lower as backlash hits demand

Last week, the New York and New Jersey attorneys general announced an investigation into FIFA’s ticketing practices ahead of the...

6 years of jersey design, 4 years of prep, 4 weeks of games: Execs at U.S. Soccer and Nike know how much this World Cup means

With less than two weeks until kickoff, the 2026 World Cup—co-hosted by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico—has not been without...

The automation illusion: Why AI is making COOs’ jobs harder, not easier

When the COO of Nike, the chief of operations at an $84 billion food distributor, and the CEO of a...

Cognizant CEO is swimming against the tide on AI: he’s hiring over 20,000 graduates this year and says AI tokenmaxxing is a ‘vanity metric’

For months, the loudest voices in artificial intelligence—including OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei—warned that entry-level white-collar jobs were...

The ‘godfather of AI’ says we’re not just creating new beings — they’ll be much smarter than us, and soon

Geoffrey Hinton almost didn’t believe he’d won the Nobel Prize. When the committee called in 2024, the 77-year-old computer scientist...

Grey rhinos, black swans, and the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie: What Corporate America still gets wrong about risk

When Savannah Guthrie’s 84-year-old mother was abducted in Arizona earlier this year, the FBI issued an unusual warning: in the...

‘Nobody’s safe’: Cognizant projected 90% of jobs would be disrupted by 2032—but we’re beyond it 6 years early

In 2023, Cognizant researchers made a prediction that, by their own admission, made people think they’d lost their minds: by...

Okta’s COO says companies are in denial about the hardest part of the AI revolution: redesigning work itself