weekly-highlights
Exclusive: Polymarket launches institute to fund independent academic research on prediction markets | Fortune
Prediction markets are redefining how society assesses uncertainty. In recent years, these markets have often proved…
No. 1 on the Fortune Global 500: Amazon's Jeff Bezos on how his garage startup became the largest company in the world by revenue | Fortune
Jeff Bezos won’t pretend he didn’t see this day coming. Sure, when he was sitting in…
Hugging Face, OpenAI drop new hack details. Here’s what we know now, and what remains a mystery | Fortune
A pit in my stomach formed last night on the train as I read Hugging Face’s…
Meet SLB: The $70 billion oil services giant poised to cash in on AI data centers and the post-Strait of Hormuz oil exploration boom | Fortune
In 1912, the French physicist Conrad Schlumberger could be found kneeling on the ground of his…
How GE CEO Larry Culp pulled off the turnaround of the century | Fortune
When Larry Culp first saw Plant One in Lynn, Mass., back in 2018, it was, in…
Lamine Yamal is the third-youngest World Cup finalist—and he was scouted from his working-class neighborhood at just 6 years old | Fortune
This Sunday, millions of soccer fans across the globe will be glued to their screens watching…
He worked 100-hour weeks to save a nearly bankrupt boat company. At 83, he’s just turned down $400 million for it—and gave it all to charity instead | Fortune
For the past 58 years, Eddie Smith Jr. has transformed Grady-White Boats from a near-bankrupt North…
Users’ seemingly private conversations with Anthropic’s Claude showed up in Google search results | Fortune
A trove of seemingly private conversations with Anthropic’s Claude chatbot turned up in public Google search…
Coinbase and Robinhood are locked in a heated battle ahead of Q2 earnings—but only one is being called the industry’s ‘first hyperscaler’ | Fortune
When Robinhood and Coinbase went public back in the first half of 2021, the companies occupied…
The Strait of Hormuz isn't fertilizer's first starring role — an 1856 law still defines U.S. overseas territory | Fortune
As an environmental historian, I study how fertilizer transformed the modern world. That history is about…