Bitcoin’s Identity Crisis: Can It Truly Become a Digital Store of Value?
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How Students Can Earn a Degree With Minimal or No Debt
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What to Do With Your Retirement Plan After Losing a Job
Job loss brings uncertainty, but one financial decision often gets pushed aside: what to do with the retirement money left behind in your former employer’s plan. That account may be one of your largest assets, and handling it wisely can protect your long-term...
Why More Borrowers Could Soon See Smaller Student Loan Payments
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Understanding the Proposed Child Savings Incentive: What Parents Should Know
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Why Americans Are Feeling the Pinch — And What You Can Do About It
2025 isn’t a return to “pre-pandemic normal.” Instead, we’re in a transition: a time where rising costs, economic uncertainty, and shifting global conditions demand both vigilance and adaptability.
- The Gulf wants to break free from the world’s data chokepointsby Melissa Hancock on August 12, 2026 at 9:51 am
In this week’s Fortune Gulf Brief.
- From Edison to the AI age: inside GE Vernova’s reinvention and 600% stock spikeby Diane Brady on August 12, 2026 at 9:21 am
Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.
- Iran wants a mafia-style ‘protection’ toll on the Strait of Hormuz, but the eye-popping $20 billion per year haul is a pipe dreamby Jordan Blum on August 12, 2026 at 7:08 am
Details of any tolling or voluntary fee system are unlikely to be finalized in any potential interim deal, further delaying a permanent peace solution.
- Forget the gala, these Silicon Valley schools run their own venture capital fundsby Amanda Gerut on August 12, 2026 at 7:02 am
A handful of elite Bay Area schools have enlisted parent-donors from Sequoia, Lightspeed, and Battery to steer small pools of donated capital into early-stage startups. With massive IPOs back en vogue, schools are lining up for what could come next.
- Meet ChatTJB, the “AI” chatbot with no AI, no algorithm and no LLM. It’s just one guy and 10,000 volunteers typing backby Tatiana Sataua on August 12, 2026 at 7:00 am
There's no AI behind ChatTJB, just a former Google employee and soon, more than 10,000 volunteers answering strangers' questions in his place.
- Universities are buying and selling property for data centers, prompting concerns about an AI brain drainby Joshua Hong on August 12, 2026 at 7:00 am
The George Washington University recently sold its Virginia campus to Amazon, and The University of Michigan proposed a new $1.2 billion data center development.
- CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator cites ‘sold out’ capacity as revenue more than doubles and backlog swells to $104 billionby Amanda Gerut on August 12, 2026 at 3:33 am
The neocloud provider said revenue more than doubled in the second quarter, while backlog rose 246% year-over-year to $104.2 billion.
- When OpenAI employees have a problem, they email this special address to see if Sam Altman will solve it immediatelyby Emily Forlini on August 11, 2026 at 11:19 pm
From office parking issues to technical roadblocks, the [email protected] inbox is a way for senior leadership to get direct visibility into on-the-ground issues and eliminate 'big company bulls**t'
- The best time to start a business is in your 20s—not 30s—says cofounder of $2 billion toy giant Spin Master: ’No one sees you as competition’by Emma Burleigh on August 11, 2026 at 3:28 pm
While the average founder is 42 years old, Spin Master cofounder Ronnen Harary says your 20s is actually the best time to start a business.
- How stalled models, missed deadlines, and staff burnout led to the unraveling of Google’s DeepMindby Beatrice Nolan on August 10, 2026 at 9:05 am
Within DeepMind, current and former employees say tensions have been simmering for months.





