Blackstone strikes $1.8 billion deal for Air Canada division

It’s an AI world and we’re all just living in it. PitchBook released its Q2 2026 U.S. VC Valuations data...

The Gulf wants to break free from the world’s data chokepoints

Welcome to this week’s Fortune Gulf Brief. We’ll be covering: The new data highways taking shape across the Gulf Dubai...

From Edison to the AI age: inside GE Vernova’s reinvention and 600% stock spike

In today’s CEO Daily: Scott Strazik’s stunning turnaround at GE Vernova. The big leadership story: Sam Altman’s magic email address....

Universities are buying and selling property for data centers, prompting concerns about an AI brain drain

The AI boom is putting a new kind of pressure on American universities. The topic of AI has long been...

Meet ChatTJB, the “AI” chatbot with no AI, no algorithm and no LLM. It’s just one guy and 10,000 volunteers typing back

For years, workers have been warned that AI was coming for their jobs. Now, 32-year-old Tucker Bryant decided to return...

Forget the gala, these Silicon Valley schools run their own venture capital funds

Most American private schools still raise money the old-fashioned way—silent auctions, annual giving, and a yearly gala with mixed drinks...

Iran wants a mafia-style ‘protection’ toll on the Strait of Hormuz, but the eye-popping $20 billion per year haul is a pipe dream

Iran’s hardline demand for a Strait of Hormuz fee system would generate close to $20 billion a year, but such...

CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator cites ‘sold out’ capacity as revenue more than doubles and backlog swells to $104 billion

Neocloud provider CoreWeave’s revenue more than doubled in the second quarter, totaling $2.58 billion and topping analysts targets thanks to...

When OpenAI employees have a problem, they email this special address to see if Sam Altman will solve it immediately

Operating at AI speed is not easy. At OpenAI, a special process—and a magic word—helps employees instantly cut through layers...

U.S. stocks fall after Iran says Strait of Hormuz will remain shut

US stocks turned lower Tuesday after Iran said the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed until its conditions were met,...

Anthropic to start embedding invisible watermarks in Claude’s AI-generated text—as the industry scrambles to police AI slop

Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. Beatrice Nolan here, filling in for Jeremy. In this edition: AI-generated content might...

Long-time OpenAI exec Brad Lightcap is leaving the ChatGPT maker to ‘start something new’

Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s Chief Operating Officer and one of the most recognizable faces on its senior leadership team, is leaving...

How Khloé Kardashian’s snack brand Khloud got ahead of the protein craze: ‘The timing was everything’

Khloé Kardashian is off camera on Zoom, scrolling through her old emails. She’s looking for the date she started working...

The cofounder of $2 billion toy giant Spin Master says the best time to start a business is in your 20s because ‘no one sees you as competition’