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Pope Leo launches an AI commission days before he releases a papal letter alongside Anthropic cofounder Christopher Olah | Fortune

It’s all-knowing, omnipresent, and somewhere between one to two billion people in the world subscribe to…

NextEra's $67 billion Dominion takeover creates world's largest utility—just in time to win the AI data center power surge | Fortune

NextEra Energy’s massive $67 billion deal to acquire Virginia-based Dominion, announced on May 18, will effectively…

Employers are quietly pausing 401(k) matches again. The last time this happened was the 2008 recession and Covid | Fortune

That looks to be the case for at least one technology services and outsourcing firm. TTEC…

Harvard sold off its entire $87 million Ethereum stake just one quarter after buying it | Fortune

Earlier this year, Harvard’s endowment fund shook up its crypto approach by reducing its Bitcoin ETF…

Not the Allbirds effect: Japan's top bidet maker Toto has been quietly making chip supplies for decades, and the stock market finally noticed | Fortune

Whenever someone visits Japan, they mention the sights, the food, the impeccable transportation. Oftentimes, they mention…

New York Fed warns about $69 trillion foreign investment ‘burden’ on U.S. economy | Fortune

For decades, the U.S. enjoyed a peculiar privilege: It owed the world a fortune but somehow…

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon had 2 jobs as a teenager while also juggling 3 sports. Now, he’s telling Gen Z to stop wasting time | Fortune

Long before he became CEO of Goldman Sachs, David Solomon got a tough lesson from his…

Jury rules against Elon Musk in suit against OpenAI | Fortune

An Oakland, Calif., jury rejectedElon Musk’sclaims against OpenAI and its CEOSam Altman, after just two hours…

Meet the California cheese mogul who turned to AI agents to save his iconic $50 million business | Fortune

Larry Peter has as much personality as the cheeses that once made Julia Child melt. He…

President Trump on being America's CEO-in-chief, making 'deals that no normal person would make' | Fortune

In a wide-ranging conversation that spanned an hour—and covered topics from tariffs to AI data centers…