weekly-highlights

Teacher, blame thyself: Yale report savages Ivy League schools for destroying American trust in higher education | Fortune

America’s colleges and universities are facing a crisis of legitimacy, and Yale University just issued one…

A United American merger is by no means impossible given the president 'loves big deals' | Fortune

In the past few days, headlines are buzzing over the possibility of a mega-mega-merger that before…

From wool sneakers to GPUs: Allbirds’ desperate AI pivot and 600% stock surge, explained | Fortune

Many companies, from Walmart to United Airlines, have been heavily touting their use of artificial intelligence…

The Sam Altman attack is putting two anti-AI groups under scrutiny—but the story is more complicated | Fortune

The attempted firebombing of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s San Francisco home last Friday, allegedly carried out…

Prediction: XRP (Ripple) Will Hit This Price in 2026 |

Geoffrey Kendrick, head of digital asset research at Standard Chartered, recently lowered his 2026 forecast for…

'Robbing them blind, baby': Live Nation and Ticketmaster are a monopoly, jury rules | Fortune

A jury has found that concert giant Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary had a harmful…

Elizabeth Warren on her proposal to bring back IRS Direct File: ‘For just one day of bombing Iran, we could pay for 20 years’ | Fortune

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has long been a vocal opponent of privatizing the tax filing system—i.e., how…

The Bezos-Musk space rivalry is shooting for the moon, and the winner will dominate not just the cosmos—but the future of AI infrastructure | Fortune

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, two of the three richest men in the world, are engaged…

Fed chair nominee Kevin Warsh is worth more than $100 million and has stakes in SpaceX and Polymarket | Fortune

Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s pick for the next Federal Reserve chair, isworth more than $100…

Prediction: 1 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock That Will Be Worth More Than Palantir and Micron Combined by 2028 |

Micron Technology (MU 3.82%) and Palantir Technologies (PLTR 1.29%) have been among the hottest artificial intelligence…