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OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents(fortune.com)

92 points by DASD 8 days ago | 74 comments

Fortune article reporting that OpenAI disclosed four more rogue AI incidents involving financial, medical, and government data.

LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents(fortune.com)

373 points by Anon84 22 days ago | 670 comments

Fortune article reporting Yann LeCun saying he has zero concerns about AI causing human extinction and calling Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei deluded.

Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout(fortune.com)

239 points by andsoitis 1 month ago | 315 comments

Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat(fortune.com)

269 points by Brajeshwar 1 month ago | 315 comments

AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T(fortune.com)

82 points by mapping365 2 months ago | 61 comments

Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights(fortune.com)

75 points by imzadi 3 months ago | 75 comments

America pays workers just 27% of what its wealth allows – the worst in the OECD(fortune.com)

78 points by robtherobber 3 months ago | 70 comments

Data centers have hiked electricity prices on the public by $23B(fortune.com)

171 points by measurablefunc 3 months ago | 104 comments

'Careless People' author claims Meta surveilled her for 12mos to enforce silence(fortune.com)

121 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 4 months ago | 37 comments

Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'(fortune.com)

158 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 4 months ago | 174 comments

PwC Report: AI Making Medical Bills Higher(fortune.com)

51 points by karakoram 4 months ago | 12 comments

Sergey Brin told Google staff that working 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot'(fortune.com)

28 points by randycupertino 4 months ago | 27 comments

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions(fortune.com)

159 points by ianrahman 5 months ago | 129 comments

Alaska's oil revival sparks a new energy rush Into the Arctic(fortune.com)

39 points by Brajeshwar 5 months ago | 35 comments

Microsoft reports AI is more expensive than paying human employees(fortune.com)

184 points by nreece 5 months ago | 43 comments

Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center(fortune.com)

138 points by logickkk1 5 months ago | 121 comments

AI is wiping out entry-level jobs(fortune.com)

32 points by Brajeshwar 5 months ago | 37 comments

50K Tahoe residents need power as utility eyes redirecting lines to data centers(fortune.com)

103 points by cdrnsf 5 months ago | 95 comments

Nvidia executive says AI is more expensive than human workers(fortune.com)

27 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 6 months ago | 5 comments

FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX(fortune.com)

152 points by ineedasername 6 months ago | 62 comments

CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity(fortune.com)

36 points by tcp_handshaker 6 months ago | 25 comments

The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent(fortune.com)

33 points by cols 7 months ago | 11 comments

FCC chairman threatens TV broadcast licenses over news coverage(fortune.com)

100 points by geox 7 months ago | 2 comments

Asia rolls out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by Iran war(fortune.com)

348 points by speckx 7 months ago | 265 comments

Fortune article on Asian governments adopting four-day weeks, work-from-home, and other emergency measures to address a fuel crisis caused by the Iran war.

Iran's attacks on Amazon data centers in UAE, Bahrain signal a new kind of war(fortune.com)

12 points by rawgabbit 7 months ago | 2 comments

Palantir and other tech companies are stocking offices with tobacco products(fortune.com)

56 points by donutshop 7 months ago | 51 comments

Pentagon chief blocks officers from Ivy League schools and top universities(fortune.com)

68 points by geox 7 months ago | 21 comments

Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona(fortune.com)

370 points by robtherobber 8 months ago | 267 comments

Fortune article reporting that Discord dropped Peter Thiel-backed identity verification vendor Persona after its code was found tied to U.S. surveillance efforts.

Thousands of CEOs just admitted AI had no impact on employment or productivity(fortune.com)

725 points by virgildotcodes 8 months ago | 637 comments

Fortune article on a survey of thousands of CEOs reporting AI had no measurable effect on employment or productivity, reviving the Solow productivity paradox.

IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption(fortune.com)

316 points by WhatsTheBigIdea 8 months ago | 184 comments

Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins(fortune.com)

138 points by shscs911 8 months ago | 248 comments

OpenAI won't make money by 2030 and needs another $207B, HSBC estimates(fortune.com)

10 points by TMWNN 11 months ago | 1 comments

Nevada Governor's office covered up Boring Co safety violations(fortune.com)

284 points by Chinjut 11 months ago | 56 comments

Nasdaq 100 set for worst week since April meltdown(fortune.com)

52 points by pera 11 months ago | 37 comments

Powell – unlike the dotcom boom, AI spending isn't a bubble(fortune.com)

24 points by madaxe_again 11 months ago | 34 comments

The only people who feel good are making over $200k and have large portfolios(fortune.com)

29 points by dataflow 11 months ago | 1 comments

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025(fortune.com)

171 points by ryan_j_naughton 1 year ago | 143 comments

Larry Ellison – 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid nonstop recording(fortune.com)

101 points by thunderbong 1 year ago | 79 comments

AI negotiator successfully haggles down the price of a car thousands of dollars(fortune.com)

12 points by zachshefska 1 year ago | 7 comments

What Really Caused the Sriracha Shortage? (2024)(fortune.com)

19 points by indigodaddy 1 year ago | 16 comments

Meta is spending $10B in rural Louisiana to build its largest data center(fortune.com)

90 points by voxadam 1 year ago | 101 comments

Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed(fortune.com)

327 points by danielmorozoff 1 year ago | 372 comments

Fortune article on Noland Arbaugh, Neuralink's first human implant recipient, describing how his life has changed 18 months after surgery.

95% of AI Pilots Failing(fortune.com)

110 points by amirkabbara 1 year ago | 66 comments

Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers(fortune.com)

172 points by zdw 1 year ago | 185 comments

Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers(fortune.com)

539 points by robtherobber 1 year ago | 786 comments

Fortune article reporting that job candidates are avoiding AI-conducted interviews, with some saying they'd rather stay unemployed than talk to an AI interviewer.

AI hallucinations will be solvable within a year (2024)(fortune.com)

4 points by rvz 1 year ago | 2 comments

American sentenced for helping North Koreans get jobs at U.S. firms(fortune.com)

105 points by fortran77 1 year ago | 74 comments

Delta moves to eliminate set prices, use AI to set your personal ticket price(fortune.com)

30 points by toss1 1 year ago | 19 comments

AI more likely to create 'yes-men on servers' than any scientific breakthroughs(fortune.com)

63 points by Bluestein 1 year ago | 44 comments

JD Vance has changed his name multiple times over the years(fortune.com)

4 points by keepamovin 1 year ago | 0 comments

Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left(fortune.com)

442 points by andrewfromx 1 year ago | 719 comments

Fortune article reporting the Port of L.A. executive director's warning that retailers have about seven weeks of full inventories left amid the U.S.-China trade war.

North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500(fortune.com)

5 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 1 comments

Canada investigates whether Tesla helped itself to a subsidy-fueled sales boom(fortune.com)

21 points by debo_ 1 year ago | 6 comments

Steve Wozniak says Tesla 'is the worst in the world' at improving its technology(fortune.com)

34 points by doener 1 year ago | 9 comments

Sergey Brin says 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot'(fortune.com)

21 points by hakaneskici 1 year ago | 19 comments

The most underreported story in AI is that scaling has failed to produce AGI(fortune.com)

15 points by unclebucknasty 1 year ago | 11 comments

JPMorgan employee questioned Dimon's RTO mandate, fired, then told he could stay(fortune.com)

44 points by libpcap 1 year ago | 36 comments

In a showdown of psychotherapists vs. ChatGPT, the latter wins, new study finds(fortune.com)

15 points by dr_dshiv 1 year ago | 12 comments

JPMorgan CEO: "I don't care how many people sign that f—ing [WFH] Petition"(fortune.com)

24 points by Zaheer 1 year ago | 12 comments

Man who threw away $750M in Bitcoin wants to buy the dump where it's buried(fortune.com)

8 points by larrymcp 1 year ago | 3 comments

UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts criticiz(fortune.com)

174 points by taimurkazmi 1 year ago | 141 comments

Amazon blew Alexa's shot to dominate AI, according to employees (2024)(fortune.com)

47 points by williamstein 1 year ago | 39 comments

Musk says DOGE is halting Treasury payments to US contractors(fortune.com)

15 points by bloomingkales 1 year ago | 3 comments

UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%(fortune.com)

248 points by this_weekend 1 year ago | 139 comments

AT&T follows Amazon in demanding employees spend 5 days a week in office(fortune.com)

32 points by belter 1 year ago | 30 comments

Tesla excluded from EV buyer credits in California proposal(fortune.com)

48 points by MiguelX413 1 year ago | 44 comments

FDIC accidentally reveals the Silicon Valley Bank depositors it bailed out(fortune.com)

5 points by tortilla 2 years ago | 0 comments

There is mounting evidence that starting a business reduces stress(fortune.com)

20 points by aard 2 years ago | 15 comments

ByteDance’s Bytespider is scraping at much higher rates than other platforms(fortune.com)

107 points by wmstack 2 years ago | 80 comments

Angry Amazon employees are 'rage applying' for new jobs after RTO mandate(fortune.com)

46 points by bentocorp 2 years ago | 37 comments

Our ping pong startup hit a $50M valuation in 5 years by tapping into automation(fortune.com)

37 points by tomwiddles 2 years ago | 31 comments

Binance founder 'CZ' leaves prison on Friday(fortune.com)

103 points by svenfaw 2 years ago | 80 comments

Amazon ordered a return to the office – but research says they'll backtrack(fortune.com)

37 points by Melchizedek 2 years ago | 33 comments

Amazon employees: 'I'd rather go back to school than work in an office again'(fortune.com)

83 points by achristmascarl 2 years ago | 54 comments

Swiss watchmakers put employees on state-funded leave as luxury demand disappear(fortune.com)

52 points by cwwc 2 years ago | 58 comments

Nearly half of Nvidia's revenue comes from four mystery whales each buying $3B+(fortune.com)

205 points by mgh2 2 years ago | 197 comments

Elon Musk was just forced to reveal who owns X. Here's the list(fortune.com)

109 points by jesperancinha 2 years ago | 56 comments

More young men are becoming NEETs than women(fortune.com)

4 points by amichail 2 years ago | 0 comments

X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired after yes-or-resign ultimatum(fortune.com)

402 points by pzmarzly 2 years ago | 319 comments

Fortune article reporting that X was ordered to pay €550,000 to an Irish employee fired for not replying to Elon Musk's 'extremely hardcore' yes-or-resign ultimatum.

X is closing San Francisco HQ and relocating staffers to San Jose(fortune.com)

160 points by simonswords82 2 years ago | 200 comments

Rich, western countries face a stark choice: 6-day workweeks or more immigration(fortune.com)

5 points by shinryuu 2 years ago | 2 comments

Tech CEOs are backtrack on RTO mandates–now, 3% want workers in office full-time(fortune.com)

54 points by t-writescode 2 years ago | 38 comments

Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon(fortune.com)

133 points by ecliptik 2 years ago | 153 comments

Ferrari exec foils deepfake attempt by asking a question only CEO could answer(fortune.com)

40 points by sebazzz 2 years ago | 39 comments

Portugal brings back tax breaks for foreigners in bid to woo digital nomads(fortune.com)

62 points by WWWMMMWWW 2 years ago | 74 comments

Even The Pentagon can't freeze Huawei out of its operations(fortune.com)

20 points by ironyman 2 years ago | 2 comments

A WFH 'culture war' has broken out across Europe(fortune.com)

29 points by rustoo 2 years ago | 21 comments

Netflix wants managers to ask whether they would rehire their employees(fortune.com)

22 points by mji 2 years ago | 31 comments

Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid(fortune.com)

91 points by Capstanlqc 2 years ago | 115 comments

IKEA's retailer's solved global 'unhappy worker' crisis by raising salaries(fortune.com)

189 points by belter 2 years ago | 140 comments

How Waymo outlasted the competition and made robo-taxis a real business(fortune.com)

170 points by webel0 2 years ago | 315 comments

Novo Nordisk facing pressure as study finds $1k drug can be made for $5(fortune.com)

81 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 111 comments

A 173-year-old law for wooden ships could complicate rebuilding in Baltimore(fortune.com)

7 points by haltingproblem 2 years ago | 1 comments

Reddit CEO defends $193M compensation following backlash from unpaid moderators(fortune.com)

38 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 33 comments

Expensive EV repairs and low resale prices following purchase of 100,000 Teslas(fortune.com)

8 points by pg_1234 2 years ago | 1 comments

Nvidia founder tells Stanford students their high expectations is a hindrance(fortune.com)

64 points by Netherland4TW 2 years ago | 60 comments

The $100M Deal for Kickstarter to use Blockchain(fortune.com)

39 points by bmm6o 2 years ago | 35 comments

TikTok: Shareholders who make 'disparaging statements' will lose their holdings(fortune.com)

4 points by samspenc 2 years ago | 0 comments

$34T debt triggering 2025 meltdown as mortgage rates spike above 7%(fortune.com)

10 points by thelastgallon 2 years ago | 0 comments

Homebuyers need to make about $50k more than they did pre-pandemic(fortune.com)

10 points by belter 2 years ago | 0 comments

IRS is going after Americans who earn more $400k but don't file tax returns(fortune.com)

25 points by paulpauper 2 years ago | 8 comments

Apollo calls AI a 'bubble' worse than even the dotcom era(fortune.com)

49 points by zekrioca 2 years ago | 62 comments

CRE vet says 30% of office buildings are 'basically worth nothing'(fortune.com)

20 points by belter 2 years ago | 31 comments

Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy(fortune.com)

798 points by jacooper 2 years ago | 630 comments

Fortune exclusive reporting that Mozilla has named Laura Chambers as interim CEO, succeeding Mitchell Baker, as the company refocuses on data privacy.

'Black Swan' author Nassim Taleb says the U.S. is in a 'death spiral'(fortune.com)

32 points by pg_1234 2 years ago | 29 comments

Remote work morphs into elite status symbol for wealthy, college-educated(fortune.com)

27 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 40 comments

Harvard Medical affiliate retracts, corrects research after sleuthing by blogger(fortune.com)

40 points by DocFeind 2 years ago | 16 comments

Over 2k shell companies have directors aged 123 years or older(fortune.com)

132 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 43 comments

Craig Wright offers settlement to Bitcoin developers(fortune.com)

12 points by greyface- 2 years ago | 3 comments

Bosses are using RTO mandates as a way to blame employees as a scapegoat(fortune.com)

101 points by rustoo 2 years ago | 109 comments

'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' author Robert Kiyosaki reveals he's $1B in debt(fortune.com)

44 points by andyjohnson0 2 years ago | 35 comments

Sam Altman got $75M from the University of Michigan for a new VC fund(fortune.com)

47 points by jadbox 2 years ago | 24 comments

Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000, no jail(fortune.com)

26 points by TheAlchemist 2 years ago | 19 comments

Most companies using AI are 'lighting money on fire,' says Matthew Prince(fortune.com)

152 points by rezonant 2 years ago | 94 comments

Factors driving a productivity explosion(fortune.com)

104 points by pg_1234 2 years ago | 84 comments

'Greedflation' study finds many companies were lying to you about inflation(fortune.com)

53 points by safaa1993 2 years ago | 40 comments

Startups weather a dismal year – 543 have declared bankruptcy or shut down(fortune.com)

49 points by annabyrd 2 years ago | 27 comments

Amazon exec: it's time to 'disagree and commit' to office return despite no data(fortune.com)

29 points by softwaredoug 2 years ago | 36 comments

Spanish agency created AI influencer and she's raking in up to $11,000 a month(fortune.com)

44 points by smusamashah 2 years ago | 23 comments

New York may ban noncompete employment agreements and Wall Street is not happy(fortune.com)

504 points by pg_1234 2 years ago | 308 comments

Fortune/AP article on a New York bill to ban noncompete employment agreements, awaiting Gov. Kathy Hochul's decision, and opposition from Wall Street firms.