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Fortune @fortune.com · 10h

Air traffic controllers aren’t showing up to airports, as they’re expected to work without pay during the government shutdown. It’s making the industry’s staffing problem even worse, with staffing down 50% in some areas. trib.al/eDVqSj4

The government shutdown spotlights America's air traffic controller shortage—but those who qualify can make $145,000 every year | Fortune

Air traffic controllers aren’t showing up to airports, as they’re expected to work without pay during the government shutdown. It’s making the industry’s staffing problem even worse, with staffing down 50% in some areas.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 11h

“Firms can only absorb so much,” Nathan Sheets, Citigroup's top economist and an Obama treasury appointee, told Fortune.

He warns, the consequences of President Donald Trump’s renewed tariff wars will hit regular Americans the hardest. trib.al/FY9iLtg

Top Wall Street economist sees 2 ways tariffs could play out — and neither is good for the average worker | Fortune

Nathan Sheets, Citi’s global chief economist, told Fortune that it's a similar situation to the "devastating" 1930s, but maybe not in the way you think.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 11h

A growing sense of economic pessimism is taking hold in the U.S., as new Fannie Mae survey data reveals nearly 70% of Americans believe the economy is headed in the wrong direction. trib.al/K17fd5j

Nearly 70% of Americans think the economy is on the ‘wrong track’ and it's a bad time to buy a home, Fannie Mae survey shows | Fortune

Americans are short on hope about the housing market.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 12h

YouTube megastar Jimmy Donaldson, the creator behind the platform’s biggest channel MrBeast, is worried there are “scary times” ahead for the creator economy as AI video tools make it increasingly difficult to tell what is real. trib.al/vt5Vzkg

'Scary times': Youtube’s biggest star MrBeast fears AI could impact 'millions of creators' after Sora launch | Fortune

Content creators such as Casey Neistat have warned of the ramifications of Sora, which he called a “TikTok clone where every video is AI.”

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Fortune @fortune.com · 12h

Hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones, founder and CIO of Tudor Investment Corporation, has raised alarms about the state of financial markets, drawing pointed comparisons to the explosive tech-driven boom of 1999, trib.al/w1QZhAc

Hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones says 2025 is 'so much more potentially explosive than 1999' because of the way bull markets always end | Fortune

Paul Tudor Jones also got far out and sci-fi, talking to CNBC. "We’re kind of boldly going where no man has ever gone before."

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Fortune @fortune.com · 13h

All-cash offers have cemented their place as a formidable force in the U.S. housing market, accounting for nearly one in three home purchases in the first half of 2025, according to the latest analysis from Realtor.com. trib.al/6by2ADe

All-cash offers are still a third of all home purchases, dominated by 'investors and second-home buyers,' data shows | Fortune

All-cash deals were 27.5% of the market in 2019. It's a different world now, according to Realtor.com's Hannah Jones.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 14h

President Donald Trump does not seem eager to fuel MAGA’s rage over the NFL’s decision to tap Bad Bunny for next year’s Super Bowl halftime show. trib.al/THnjNZZ

Trump tries to cool off MAGA’s rage over the Puerto Rican rap superstar headlining the Super Bowl: 'I don’t know who he is' | Fortune

Trump didn't touch the MAGA trial balloon over an NFL boycott, but he did say he hates the new kickoff rules. "It just looks terrible."

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Fortune @fortune.com · 15h

U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was almost entirely driven by investment in data centers and information processing technology, according to Harvard economist Jason Furman. trib.al/uuOwM9w

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

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Fortune @fortune.com · 15h

Most interns settle for group meet-and-greets. This Gen Zer cold-emailed the boss—and walked away with career advice from the LA Clippers’ exec Gillian Zucker. trib.al/NFq0J49

A 19-year-old NBA intern landed a private meeting with LA Clippers CEO from a cold email—she told him ‘to do work that you can do for free’ | Fortune

Most interns settle for group meet-and-greets. This Gen Zer cold-emailed the boss—and walked away with career advice from the LA Clippers’ exec Gillian Zucker.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 16h

AI isn’t just coming for low-wage or entry-level jobs—it could erase nearly 100 million of them across the U.S. over the next decade. That’s according to a new report from Senator Bernie Sanders. trib.al/RCAognc

100 million jobs could be wiped out from the U.S. alone thanks to AI, warns Senator Bernie Sanders | Fortune

It’s not just software developers who are at risk. According to the new Senate Democrat report, even nursing and fast-food jobs are set to get slashed by AI.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 17h

John Ternus has been given a bigger spotlight at Apple events recently. He's rumored to be the "heir apparent" to CEO Tim Cook. trib.al/dVwdzEw

Meet John Ternus, the 50-year-old Apple executive and former swimming champ who's rumored to succeed Tim Cook as CEO | Fortune

Apple is in the midst of a major leadership shakeup, where many senior executives are reportedly set to depart.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 17h

Jeff Bezos, now the fifth-richest person in the world at a $234 billion net worth, founded Amazon when he was 30 years old after about a decade of work experience. trib.al/1yN3vAn

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Fortune @fortune.com · 18h

The recent frenzy of AI-fueled investments and stock-market gains has John Chambers, the former CEO of Cisco, experiencing déjà vu: The AI-hype feels all too reminiscent of the 1990s crash. trib.al/MLdsyMh

Former Cisco CEO John Chambers navigated the dot-com crash—now he sees the same red flags with AI | Fortune

“If I am right about AI moving at five times the speed of the internet, we are going to destroy jobs faster than we can replace them,” he said.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 18h

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday that the government shutdown is putting more stress on air traffic controllers who already have an extremely stressful job. trib.al/mCVL188

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Fortune @fortune.com · 19h

Only 8% of hiring professionals think that Gen Z is prepared for the workplace, according to a new report from Criteria which surveyed more than 350 managers across small and large enterprises. trib.al/ba4j7Lf

350 hiring managers gave their honest thoughts about Gen Z—and only 8% believe they're ready for the workforce | Fortune

The young generation is second-guessing their college degrees—and as more employers lean on skills-based hiring, Gen Z faces stiff competition.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 19h

Citadel’s Ken Griffin cautioned that America’s market rally is being propped up by policies better suited to a recession than a growing economy. trib.al/o2rrNkD

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Fortune @fortune.com · 19h

Delta CEO Ed Bastian also revealed that, due to aging air traffic control systems, it actually takes longer today to fly from Atlanta to LaGuardia than it did in the 1950s when the airline opened that route. trib.al/QRFHb3q

Delta CEO says air traffic control systems are so outdated that some commercial flight routes were faster in the 1950s than they are today | Fortune

Ed Bastian says it’s still safe to fly, though.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 21h

Sharran Srivatsaa, president of Acquisition.com and a former Goldman Sachs investment banker, recently shared a story on TikTok about how he managed to get hired at Goldman Sachs—a process that apparently required 39 one-on-one interviews. trib.al/ezsdSBk

Entrepreneur says Goldman Sachs once gave him 39 separate interviews to land the job—and the decisive conversation was less than a minute | Fortune

Goldman Sachs' acceptance rate for internships is less than 1%.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 21h

As CEO of a bank that now has 38,000 employees and manages assets of more than $600 billion, DBS chief executive Tan Su Shan faces a formidable challenge: to sustain its extraordinary momentum in a moment marked by geopolitical turmoil. trib.al/p77zv8k

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Fortune @fortune.com · 21h

Studies show employee referrals, while representing only 6-7% of job applications, account for 37-45% of successful hires across various industries, underscoring the importance of making connections. trib.al/vEkPfcN

Scott Galloway says the key to landing jobs is be as social as possible: '70% of the time, the person they pick is someone with an internal advocate' | Fortune

"You want to be placed in rooms of opportunities where you’re not physically there," the NYU Stern School of Business professor said.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 1d

Meet Asia’s most powerful woman in business: DBS Bank CEO Tan Su Shan. #FortuneMPWAsia trib.al/t3J5Wr0

Tan Su Shan, CEO of Southeast Asia's largest bank, is Fortune's most powerful woman in Asia for 2025 | Fortune

DBS's new CEO is No. 1 on Fortune's second-ever Most Powerful Women Asia ranking, among a finance- and tech-heavy top five.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 1d

"I’ve told colleagues, ‘This is going to be a volatile year, so you better buckle up,'" DBS Bank CEO Tan Su Shan said. trib.al/QDH3OSK

'You better buckle up': DBS's Tan Su Shan prepares for AI, crypto, and geopolitical change | Fortune

The first woman to lead Southeast Asia’s largest bank has an ambitious agenda—and no illusions about the challenges ahead.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 1d

When President Donald Trump compared “Big Homebuilders” to OPEC in a Sunday evening Truth Social post, he gave a voice to a common populist trope: Greedy developers are hoarding supply of houses and thus driving up costs. trib.al/wrFVOiS

Trump says the American dream is on hold because ‘big homebuilders’ are ‘sitting on’ 2 million empty lots | Fortune

It's an unusual attack, since it resembles Ezra Klein’s “abundance” thesis," and one of Trump's top deputies is a homebuilding heir.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 1d

Anthropic’s newest AI model, Claude Sonnet 4.5, often understands when it’s being tested and what it’s being used for, something that could affect its safety and performance. trib.al/Pjt0uDy

'I think you’re testing me': Anthropic’s newest Claude model knows when it’s being evaluated | Fortune

Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 shows some "situational awareness" raising safety and performance concerns

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Fortune @fortune.com · 1d

Jenny Han, the author behind hit series like “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,” said she wouldn’t change a thing about her come-up, and that working as a librarian helped her tap into what young readers were looking for. trib.al/CqAeK97

'The Summer I Turned Pretty' writer worked at Olive Garden and was a librarian before scoring big deals with Netflix and Amazon | Fortune

Jenny Han, the author behind hit series like “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,” said she wouldn’t change a thing about her come-up, and that working as a librarian helped her tap into what young readers were looking for.

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