Tens of millions on Social Security go without cost-of-living adjustment due to government shutdown
Originally scheduled for Wednesday, the 2024 Social Security COLA announcement will now be Oct. 24. It is timed to the September Consumer Price Index, which also has not yet been…
As billionaire wealth soars $33 trillion, Mark Cuban says it’s time for workers to receive a cut of their employers’ success in the form of stocks
As founders and C-suite executives grow wealthier from soaring stock gains, billionaire Mark Cuban says employees deserve a piece of that pie too. “You know who is funding the increase, particularly…
31,000 Kaiser health workers just launched the largest strike in union’s history over pay and staffing
Organizers say the five-day strike across 500 medical centers and offices in California, Hawaii and Oregon is the largest in the 50-year history of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union…
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian says ‘so much of the internet is dead’—and the rise of bots and ‘quasi-AI, LinkedIn slop’ killed it
According to Alexis Ohanian, investor and Reddit co-founder, there’s some truth to the idea, and a new era of social media will emerge because of it.For Ohanian, the solution to…
MacKenzie Scott has cut her stake in Amazon by 42%—worth nearly $13 billion—as the billionaire casually donates over $110 million to DEI causes
Under the terms of their divorce, Bezos still exercises voting authority over her holdings and is required to disclose them annually. Now, the latest filing reflects how Scott’s wealth and…
Want to build your own chatbot for $100? A glimpse into AI’s small, cheap, DIY future
Andrej Karpathy, a former OpenAI researcher and Tesla’s former director of AI, calls his latest project the “best ChatGPT $100 can buy.” Called “nanochat,” the open-source project, released yesterday for his…
Why the Supreme Court may choose to uphold Trump’s tariffs: ‘It would be incredibly disruptive to scramble those eggs’
As former Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar noted at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women conference, the Supreme Court now faces a “hard question” about whether to disrupt a sitting president’s signature economic…
UN sees the world entering ‘extremely dangerous’ climate era as CO2 spikes by the most in the history of human civilization
Emissions from burning coal, oil and gas, alongside more wildfires, have helped fan a “vicious climate cycle,” and people and industries continue to spew heat-trapping gases while the planet’s oceans…
The next big corporate risk isn’t AI—it’s antitrust
These exits distort the dashboard. When people stop looking for work, unemployment improves on paper even as productive capacity erodes in reality. A shrinking labor force means fewer people building,…
Amid disruption, C-suite leaders have the power to steady their workforces
In a world intent on dividing us into factions, political discourse threatens to disrupt workplace culture at a time when companies must unite around change and growth strategies in the…
