weekly-highlights

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…

Helen Toner: the Hugging Face hack was just a matter of time and exposes a huge blind spot in AI policy | Fortune

Last Tuesday, a blog post appeared on the OpenAI website that, despite its innocuous title, contained…

The new Air Force One controversy is really about a 90-year power struggle over presidential travel | Fortune

Air Force One used to be a high-flying symbol of American technology, ingenuity and power. For…

The war between competing AI models could end up more like Apple vs. Android than VHS vs. Betamax | Fortune

The tech world has been consumed recently by the debate over open-weight and closed AI models,…

Why did a $154 billion CEO just endorse stripping most Americans of voting rights—and taking us back to the 19th century? | Fortune

Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke, whose company commands a market capitalization near $154 billion, told his social…

StubHub CEO Eric Baker is under scrutiny for enabling mass scalpers on his ticket reselling platform | Fortune

Good morning. Ticket resellers have long turned to StubHub to hawk their wares, selling seats to…

AI and the ‘skinny hamburger, fat bun’ problem — why the future of work needs to look more like a pizza | Fortune

On a recent call with the Yahoo Finance product chief, I pulled up a slide that…

The millennial generation is split in 2: an older crowd with boomer-style comfort, a younger set going 'back to the early 1900s' | Fortune

Millennials were supposed to be one generation with one story—priced out, saddled with debt, perpetually behind.…

Jeff Raikes: The talent debt I warned about is now showing up in the data | Fortune

In April, I warned in these pages that companies letting AI absorb entry-level work were quietly…