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AI is taking over managers’ busywork—and it’s forcing companies to reset expectations | Fortune
AI isn’t just a new tool for the modern workplace; it’s already quietly reshaping how some companies are organized. Companies including Amazon, Moderna, and McKinsey are already eliminating management layers, working to flatten organizations, and deploying AI agents to...
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Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In finds more women leaning out for the first time since the promotion survey began a decade ago: ‘Major moment of...
The prophet of leaning in has found that, at least in 2025, women are leaning out. According to nonprofit Lean In and McKinsey & Company’s latest Women in the Workplace report, for the first time since the report began a...
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America’s mobile housing affordability crisis reveals a system where income determines exposure to climate disasters | Fortune
Option A is a beautiful home in California near good schools and job opportunities. But it goes for nearly a million dollars – the median California home sells for US$906,500 – and you’d be paying a mortgage that’s risen...
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Fed’s expected rate cut today is less about stimulating the economy and more about protecting the jobs market from ‘shattering’ | Fortune
Today is like Christmas morning for markets: Will they be granted their wish for December, and have a final interest rate cut for the year delivered by Santa Jerome Powell? So far, the signs are pointing to yes.Investors priced...
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Coupang CEO resigns over historic South Korean data breach | Fortune
Coupang chief executive officer Park Dae-jun resigned over his failure to prevent South Korea’s largest-ever data breach, which set off a regulatory and political backlash against the country’s dominant online retailer.The company said in a statement on Wednesday that...
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New contract shows Palantir is working on a tech platform for another federal agency that works with ICE | Fortune
Palantir, the artificial intelligence and data analytics company, has quietly started working on a tech platform for a federal immigration agency that has referred dozens of individuals to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for potential enforcement since September.The U.S....
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Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi says his company will be worth $1 trillion by doing these three things | Fortune
Ali Ghodsi, the CEO and cofounder of data intelligence company Databricks, is betting his privately held startup can be the latest addition to the trillion-dollar valuation club.In August, Ghodsi told the Wall Street Journalthat he believed Databricks, which is reportedly...
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Physical AI will automate ‘large sections’ of factory work in the next decade, Arm CEO says | Fortune
AI-powered humanoid robots could take over large sections of factory work within the next five to 10 years, transforming the manufacturing industry, predicts Arm CEO Rene Haas.One of the key forces pushing humanoid robots into factories is their advantage...
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‘Customers don’t care about AI’ — they just want to boost cash flow and make ends meet, Intuit CEO says | Fortune
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While Wall Street and Silicon Valley are obsessed with artificial intelligence, many businesses don’t have the luxury to fixate on AI because they’re too busy trying to grind out more revenue.At the Fortune Brainstorm AI conference in San Francisco...
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‘But is that real work? It’s not’ Business leaders still don’t trust AI agents, Harvard survey shows | Fortune
Businesses are increasingly testing the waters with AI agents, but trust issues persist.A survey by integration platform Workato and Harvard Business Review of more than 600 tech leaders found that most respondents find agents more trustworthy outside of core...