Zelenskyy gives Elon Musk Order of Freedom, asks for more Starlink access for Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday awarded Elon Musk the Order of Freedom, one of Ukraine’s highest state honors, for his “outstanding...
Six months into the Iran war, Hormuz is still shut — and now Tehran wants military ships excluded
Iran will not allow military vessels to transit through the Strait of Hormuz under an agreement the Islamic Republic is...
New York metro area touts $3.5 billion impact from World Cup, silent on full costs from transit overruns and hosting FIFA
On July 19, 80,663 packed MetLife Stadium to watch Argentina and Spain fight for the World Cup. And they weren’t...
Intuit hits a record milestone of $20 billion in revenue—and sets the stage for a strategic pullback
Good morning. Intuit closed fiscal 2026 with numbers that would make most software companies celebrate. But the company is entering...
Alex Karp was right: you don’t own your data
Alex Karp isn’t crazy, and he isn’t just talking his book. On July 1, the Palantir CEO went on CNBC...
Current price of oil as of August 26, 2026
At 7:15 a.m. Eastern Time today, the price of oil sits at $87.41 per barrel, using Brent as the benchmark...
There’s a deal on the table to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but Trump isn’t part of it—yet
Good morning. On Fortune’s radar today: Bill Gates says the world is unprepared for AI’s risks: “There is no plan.”...
OpenAI’s new revenue chief has a simple mission: make the money match the hype
OpenAI’s CRO position has been in flux for, well, years. The most recent change came as Denise Dresser, former CEO...
Mark Cuban wants companies to give their employees more stock. Could that narrow the divide between the bottom and the top?
In today’s CEO Daily: The idea of giving workers more access to the tools of wealth-building is getting traction The...
Why Dubai has become a city of retail traders
Welcome to this week’s Fortune Gulf Brief. Regular readers might notice a different author byline today, that’s because Melissa is...
Corporate America’s anti-woke retreat is reaching its limits
Much of corporate America has spent the past 18 months second-guessing and editing itself. Many diversity programs were renamed or...
Deloitte puts the lunar economy at up to $566 billion by 2050—and SpaceX is speeding the timeline
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk described plans to build factories on the moon as he presided over the now public rocket...
Instagram is like a digital cigarette and box of chocolates that ‘encourages gluttony.’ How do you fix that?
Meta’s child-safety reckoning has drawn plenty of comparisons to Big Tobacco, but cigarettes were never designed to learn what each...
Gen Z wants to be ‘tradwives.’ New data reveals the exact salary your spouse needs to earn—and in most states it’s under $100K
For many Gen Zers, becoming a “tradwife” is the dream—with even teen girls taking to TikTok and sharing how they’re...
Bill Gates fears world leaders are unprepared for 3 major AI risks: ‘Stunted’ child development; emboldened criminals; and vanishing jobs for Gen Z
Bill Gates, the cofounder of Microsoft, turned billionaire philanthropist, is a self-professed optimistwhen it comes to artificial intelligence. He’s had...
