Bill Gates wants to tax robots to deter businesses from replacing humans with machines
Workers are concerned that they’ll lose their jobs to AI—and Bill Gates thinks they are right to worry. He has...
Saudi brothers mint billion-dollar fortune from AI boom
Two Saudi brothers have amassed a fortune of about $1.4 billion as the technology company they control rides the kingdom’s...
Dubai airport traffic plunged 31% as the Iran war sent travelers looking for routes outside the Middle East
Dubai International Airport, one of the world’s busiest hubs, said Wednesday it saw a sharp drop in passengers during the...
Goldman Sachs Global Institute co-head: remaking our world for machine intelligence
The emergence of new technology has long inspired humans to shape our environments. The invention of steel permitted the rise...
The U.S. declared an ‘onslaught’ on Iran. China’s banks got a pass
The “ economic onslaught ” that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has declared on Iran’s financial connections around the world may...
Polarized America united around one issue: the data centers powering the stock market and the biggest tech boom in decades
In rural eastern Nebraska, a technology revolution could rise from fields of corn and soybean in the form of new...
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...
