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Several years ago, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels began sharing predictions on how technology would likely impact our lives the following year. So what’s he forecasting for 2026? trib.al/CYRlXES
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels just released his 2026 tech predictions | Fortune
He's most optimistic about 'personalized learning' and 'renaissance developers'
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November 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Crypto may be suffering from a significant shift in sentiment: Until Oct. 6 this year, Bitcoin and gold had moved up together, though certainly not in tandem. trib.al/1A2eqb7
Bitcoin plunges while gold rises, destroying the crypto ‘safe haven’ narrative | Fortune
The lower Bitcoin tumbles, the less it looks like “digital gold.”
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November 26, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Robinhood cofounder and CEO Vlad Tenev said young people are embracing old-fashioned investments. It seems to be working, as Gen Z is already on track to successfully retire. trib.al/lEjlD13
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Citigroup CFO Mark Mason will step down from his post in early March 2026, the bank announced on Nov. 20, marking another notable leadership transition among Fortune 500 finance chiefs. trib.al/Xxk32oz
Citi CFO Mark Mason has the CEO qualities for his next chapter, says former American Express chief | Fortune
Mason plans to leave Citigroup by the end of 2026 after a 25-year journey at the company.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is telling employees to lean into artificial intelligence as much as possible—and to stop worrying that doing so will automate them out of a job. trib.al/FtS1SpV
Billionaire CEO Jensen Huang blasts Nvidia managers who are 'telling their people to use less AI': 'Are you insane?' | Fortune
Huang said Nvidia employees should use AI until it can address every need of theirs, "because we have the power to do so."
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November 26, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The National Retail Federation anticipates that, for the first time, U.S. holiday spending will cross $1 trillion. Now, a seeming contradiction—funding for e-commerce startups is at a low. trib.al/648nbyj
Global e-commerce startup funding hits 2020s low, while 2025 U.S. holiday spending could break records | Fortune
In 2021, global e-commerce-related startup funding peaked, but in 2025 those numbers have come crashing down to around $7 billion for the year, per Crunchbase.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Harry Stebbings has a simple piece of advice for getting the attention of the world’s top leaders: learn to be “a stalker” when it comes to cold emailing. trib.al/845ZyPW
29-year-old founder spammed Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff 53 times—it worked and now he spends 30 minutes a week ‘hustling’ and shooting cold emails | Fortune
“It is absolutely nuts to me that you can find anyone's email on the internet and just cold email them,” the millennial VC founder said.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
If the market doesn’t seem sure whether or not to expect a base interest rate cut next month, it’s not alone—members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) themselves may have little clue which way the vote is going to go. trib.al/gwDFE37
Wall Street is on tenterhooks over the Fed’s ‘rare, genuinely suspenseful’ December meeting, because the committee itself doesn’t know what to make of the data—or of one another | Fortune
“This is the most uncertain FOMC meeting in years because the committee itself doesn’t yet know the answer,” wrote Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, one of Silicon Valley’s most vocal boosters of ChatGPT, announced Sunday that he’s abandoning OpenAI’s chatbot after a brief trial of Google’s newly released Gemini 3 model. trib.al/L0Slgyq
'I'm not going back': Billionaire Marc Benioff says he's switching to Google's Gemini 3 after using 'ChatGPT every day for three years' | Fortune
Despite Salesforce’s new deal with OpenAI, Benioff is now more excited about Google’s latest offering. “It feels like the world just changed, again.”
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November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Chancellor Rachel Reeves plans to raise taxes in the U.K., which has seen a 9% reduction in its millionaire population over the past decade. trib.al/Q1nnu4s
Ultra wealthy are looking to leave the U.K. thanks to tax hikes—but the CEO of $1 billion tax platform says it’s their ‘social responsibility’ to stay | Fortune
Millionaires are eyeing an exit from the U.K. over tax hikes—but Taxfix CEO Martin Ott says now’s the time to stay, invest, and keep the country’s brainpower intact.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Open source AI models from China, such as Qwen, developed by Alibaba, are gaining traction in many parts of the world outside the U.S. and Europe. trib.al/6nDufqw
Why China's open source AI models are eating the world | Fortune
U.S. and European execs emphasis performance. But cost and data control are top concerns in much of the world.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
London-based consulting firm Deloitte has come under fire for the second time this year after another foreign government-commissioned report contains potentially AI-generated errors. trib.al/G1E4DTY
Deloitte allegedly cited AI-generated research in a million-dollar report for a Canadian provincial government | Fortune
In a healthcare report aimed to address a nurse and doctor shortage, Deloitte cited several fake studies with real researchers’ names attached.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Nvidia took to X to publicly defend itself after a report suggested that one of its biggest customers, Meta, is considering shifting part of its AI infrastructure to Google’s in-house chips, called TPUs. trib.al/LbQtjQY
Nvidia is so spooked by Google's sudden AI comeback that it’s posting on X to defend itself | Fortune
“We’re delighted by Google’s success,” Nvidia said, perhaps passive aggressively.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The financial industry is leading the charge for “tokenization”: turning stocks into digital assets that can be traded and settled instantly on a blockchain. trib.al/OZTcYU3
A massive tech update will bring faster, cheaper trading to Wall Street. Get ready for stocks on a blockchain | Fortune
Giants like JPMorgan Chase and BlackRock are embracing 'tokenization,' while upstarts like Robinhood and Kraken race ahead.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
“I have to ensure I deliver today’s results and be an organization that can stay fit for the future, the next 180 years. That’s really scary,” Malina Ngai, group CEO of AS Watson, said at the #FortuneInnovation Forum. trib.al/ra5NKD5
Meet the CEO of a 184-year-old drugstore chain with more stores than CVS or Walgreens | Fortune
Malina Ngai runs Asia's flagship drugstore brand Watsons, part of AS Watson.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Beast Philanthropy, the charitable organization started by MrBeast founder Jimmy Donaldson, and the Rockefeller Foundation announced a strategic partnership Monday. trib.al/lbEQMSB
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Beast Philanthropy, the charitable organization started by MrBeast founder Jimmy Donaldson, and the Rockefeller Foundation announced a strategic partnership Monday. trib.al/QSp7zMe
'I’ve spent my entire life making YouTube videos. They’ve spent their entire lives helping people': MrBeast teams with the Rockefeller Foundation to reshape philanthropy | Fortune
Rockefeller President Rajiv Shah said the philanthropic sector has long failed to capture “the hearts and minds of hundreds of millions of young people.”
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November 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Esteemed economist Nouriel Roubini is breaking with his cohort — including fellow 2008-financial-crisis-prophet Michael Burry — to dismiss their pessimism about the U.S. economy as misplaced. trib.al/GlwuFC5
'Dr. Doom' Nouriel Roubini breaks with the crowd on the AI bubble, saying the U.S. is headed for a ‘growth recession’ and not a market crash | Fortune
“The now common view,” according to the NYU Stern School of Business professor emeritus, “is incorrect over the medium term.”
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November 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Figuring out whether there will be enough human jobs to go around in the future, as AI and robotics proliferate, is a conundrum business leaders can no longer ignore. trib.al/9A8eRA1
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Back in April, President Donald Trump touted his aggressive tariff policy as a catalyst for the reshoring of manufacturing jobs. Eight months later, reshoring progress is nowhere to be seen. trib.al/ngcN8cA
Despite Trump's best efforts to reshore manufacturing, blue-collar employment is plunging for the first time since the pandemic with 59,000 lost jobs | Fortune
"It is striking how soft manufacturing has been because in theory, you put tariffs in place to protect domestic manufacturing … and we have seen the opposite of that," one economist said.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The holiday season is on a budget this year. American households are entering the next festive few weeks with constrained spending power, a result of weak real income growth and a softened labor market. trib.al/YCJHLMJ
‘Just enough to spend, not enough to splurge’: The low-hire labor market bites for Gen Z and lower-income Americans, JPMorgan finds | Fortune
Workers ages 50–54 are experiencing negative real income growth, year over year, so reality bites for Gen Xers in the 2025 economy, too.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham, the Louisiana surgeon general who halted his state’s vaccine promotion campaigns and delayed warning the public about a deadly whooping cough outbreak, has quietly been installed as the second-highest official at the CDC. trib.al/IM1lRee
Meet Ralph Lee Abraham, the CDC's new second-in-command who believes the Affordable Care Act should be repealed and called vaccines 'dangerous' | Fortune
Abraham, 70, started his career in veterinary medicine.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Sir Richard Branson, the billionaire entrepreneur behind the Virgin Group empire, announced on Tuesday that his wife, Joan Templeman, has died at the age of 80. trib.al/gUVHl7I
Billionaire Richard Branson mourns his wife and partner of 50 years, Joan: 'She was my best friend, my rock, my guiding light, my world' | Fortune
Branson announced Joan's death on Tuesday. She was 80 years old.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
As much as $250 billion was wiped off Nvidia’s market cap in Tuesday morning trading as markets digested the reality that maybe Google is striking back in the race to win the AI space. trib.al/tgkaAAR
Markets wipe $250 billion off Nvidia as they digest Google's revenge, with Gemini 3 emerging as 'current state-of-the-art' | Fortune
What if AI's version of Google turns out to be ... Google?
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November 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Figuring out whether there will be enough human jobs to go around in the future, as AI and robotics proliferate, is a conundrum business leaders can no longer ignore. trib.al/xBFp8I6
Amazon's layoffs and leaked AI plans beg the question: Is the era of robot-driven unemployment upon us? | Fortune
As Amazon doubles down on automation, the tech giant’s vision for “collaborative robots” sparks debate over the future for both blue-and white-collar workers—and what’s truly at stake for its massive workforce.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM