Business Innovation

Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX has acquired xAI, the artificial intelligence firm founded by Musk three years ago, in a massive, and unconventional, deal that combines the two privately held firms into a company with an astounding $1.25 trillion...

Anxieties about AI putting people out of jobs is bubbling over: A Reuters/Ipsos poll from August 2025 found 71% of Americans feared permanent job loss as a result of AI. Last week, Amazon announced 16,000 roles across the company...

Singapore will launch its first national space agency in April to provide “decisive leadership” for the Southeast Asian country to tap an “expanding space economy,” the nation’s government announced on Feb. 2. Tan See Leng, Singapore’s Minister-in-charge of Energy...

From board decks to earnings calls to leadership offsites and coffee-machine conversations, the topic of AI is ubiquitous. The opportunity is enormous: to reimagine work, unlock creativity, and expand what organizations and people can do. So is the pressure. In...

If Mauro Porcini’s mother had had her way, Samsung Electronics’ head designer wouldn’t have gone into design at all. “She wanted me to be a priest,” the Italian-born Porcini says, as he sits in his new office at Samsung’s...

In a rapidly evolving job market, the prestige of a university degree is facing stiff competition from a more pragmatic metric: actual capability. LinkedIn is betting that employers are increasingly prioritizing demonstrated AI skills over traditional resumes, and to...

Growing up in Concord, North Carolina, just outside Charlotte, Jacob Palmer was a classic academic achiever. “I was a good student,” he said in an interview with Fortune. “In high school, I participated in all types of extracurriculars, student...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been leading the charge on artificial intelligence (AI) for years, owing to his long alliance with OpenAI’s Sam Altman and the groundbreaking work from his own AI CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, particularly with the Copilot...

For the past two-and-a-half decades, the mandate for global business leaders was relatively straightforward: grow the existing business, allocate capital efficiently, and implement technology to drive productivity. But Mohamed Kande, global chairman of PwC, speaking to Fortune in Davos,...

In the future, Elon Musk sees humans as metaphorical vegetable farmers.The Tesla CEO said at the recent U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington that in the next 10 to 20 years, work will be optional, likening the decision to have...