Business
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The 2026 Fortune Most Powerful Women list is here—and 11 CFOs made the cut
The 2026 Fortune Most Powerful Women list was released this morning. The women on the global list are leaders at 94 companies with a combined 11.8 million employees and $7.3 trillion in annual revenue. Earning the top spot is Citigroup chair and CEO Jane Fraser—the first new No. 1 since 2024. Fraser became the first woman to…
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Inside CEO Jane Fraser’s 5-year grind to restore Citi’s credibility
In today’s CEO Daily: Fortune publishes its 2026 Most Powerful Women list. The big leadership story: CEOs are starting to rethink their predictions of an AI jobs apocalypse. The markets: Mixed globally after the S&P 500 hits another high. Plus: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune. Good morning. When Jane Fraser became CEO…
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A CEO fired all of HR. The EEOC is suing the NYT. Both defended it onstage
Good morning! One quick way to enrage a room of people leaders? Tell them you let go of your entire HR team. That’s what Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow said at the Fortune Workplace Innovation Summit last week, and his comments quickly went viral. “We had an HR team, and that HR team was creating problems…
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Spotify is aiming for 1 billion users and 20% operating margins by 2030. Here’s how it plans to get there
I attended Spotify Technology’s first Investor Day since 2022 on May 21. The Stockholm-based streaming giant, which turns 20 this year, transformed Highline Stages in New York City into a physical extension of the app, including a set modeled after Good Hang with Amy Poehler, the podcast that won the inaugural Golden Globe for Best…
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Creators who built followings based on trust refuse to outsource some tasks to AI: Humans can ‘sense a decoy’
In today’s CEO Daily: Valuing effort in the AI age. The big leadership story: A ‘troubling’ relationship under the microscope ahead of the SpaceX IPO. The markets: U.S. futures tick up in hopes that a U.S.-Iran peace deal is imminent. Plus: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune. Good morning. For my birthday, a…
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Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary blasts the 4-day week as the ‘stupidest idea’ because the digital economy means we’re always working
Millionaire Shark Tankjudge Kevin O’Leary isn’t a fan of the shift to a four-day workweek, laughing off the idea in a Fox News appearance. Instead, he said in today’s modern workplace, everything is project-based, and tasks need to be completed by their deadline: “There’s no such thing as a workweek anymore.” If you have dreams…
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Forget quiet quitting—4 in 10 millennials are taking ‘quiet vacations’ and checking out of work (and the country) on company dime instead
Nearly 4 in 10 millennials secretly take time off work and go on vacation behind their bosses back. They’re taking their work phone to the beach, and checking in on their emails every so often to not get caught. Here’s how to tell if your worker is one of them this summer. It feels like…
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Uber CEO says rideshare ‘freed up’ his son from having to get a driver’s license—and he’s one of many Gen Zers who aren’t willing to drive
Gen Z is turning away from getting driver’s licenses because they can just grab rideshares instead, according to Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi—and his own son is no exception. While getting a license for Khosrowshahi was “a goal in life” representing freedom, his son has passed on this benchmark of teenagedom, he told The Verge’s Decoder…
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Millionaire podcaster Mel Robbins hits back at Gen Z’s lazy label—she says they’re stuck in a world their baby boomer parents wouldn’t even recognize
Gen Z has been branded a “lazy” generation of workers, marked by their TikTok addiction and work-from-home allegiance. But multi-millionaire podcast personality Mel Robbins hit back at critics who slam the next generation of workers—and even encouraged them to step into their shoes and see if they’d like it. “We sit here and we look…
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Inside Microsoft’s high-stakes push to win back its AI lead
Good morning. Microsoft was once the undisputed front-runner of the generative AI boom, fueled by a $13 billion OpenAI bet. But that narrative has flipped, and so has the stock. “Microsoft lost its way in the AI race. Can Copilot get it back on course?” is a new Fortune feature article by Jeremy Kahn. He…