Corning CEO says Steve Jobs pressured him into making all the screens for the first iPhone: ‘Do you know what your biggest problem is? You’re afraid’
The story began after Weeks initially pitched Jobs on a different innovation: a synthetic green laser that could turn smartphones into projectors. Jobs dismissed the idea bluntly. “That’s the dumbest…
Trump’s trade deals are illegal, Piper Sandler warns, predicting a Supreme Court smackdown by June 2026
It’s not a new opinion from Piper, necessarily—the bank laid out its reasoning in April, shortly after Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcement of universal tariffs under the IEEPA. Then, as now,…
Tesla reports record sales, record storage—but profit slips as tax-credit rush pulls demand forward
CEO Elon Musk is expected to give more detail on the company’s quarterly earnings call at 5:30 p.m. Eastern time. For this story, Fortune used generative AI to help with an initial…
Prince Harry, Richard Branson, Steve Bannon, and ‘AI godfathers’ call on AI labs to halt their pursuit of ‘superintelligence’—warning the technology could surpass human control
New polling conducted alongside the open letter, which was written and circulated by the nonprofit Future of Life Institute, found that the public generally agreed with the call for a…
An American chess grandmaster is dead at 29, and players are in an uproar about it. Here’s what’s going on
Naroditsky’s family requested privacy and asked that he be remembered “for his passion and love for the game of chess, and for the joy and inspiration he brought to us…
Beyond Meat’s 250% stock pop was spurred by a Dubai-based real estate developer. Now the company is squarely in meme-stock territory
The stock pop was spurred by Dubai-based real estate developer Dimitri Semenikhin, who goes by Capybara Stocks on social media. His original Reddit post hyping up Beyond Meat was removed,…
As government shutdown persists, ICE agents are among the still-paid employees receiving ‘super checks’ including lost pay and overtime
“To think that somehow we can live with, ‘You’ll get paid eventually,’ that doesn’t pay the creditors, that doesn’t pay the mortgage, that doesn’t pay gas, that doesn’t pay the…
RGA CEO Tony Cheng: Americans are living longer—adding risk for insurers—but the real danger is people outliving their savings
Humanity’s aging population poses many questions for the public and private sector alike, not least how to pay for it.Longer lifespans may change the shape and cashflow of the sector…
JPMorgan’s new $3 billion skyscraper is open 24/7—and bankers can order coffee straight to their desks
Jamie Dimon pulled out the stops to lure bankers back into the office—and to incentivize them to stay late.JPMorgan Chase’s new $3 billion skyscraper on 270 Park Ave in Midtown…
As national debt accelerates to $38 trillion, watchdog warns it’s ‘no way for a great nation like America to run its finances’
Michael A. Peterson, CEO of the nonpartisan watchdog dedicated to fiscal sustainability, said this landmark is “the latest troubling sign that lawmakers are not meeting their basic fiscal duties.” In…
