Leadership
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From Warren Buffett to Tim Cook, these 5 Fortune 500 legends all share the same childhood job
Long before the corner office, the IPO, and the billionaire life, several of America’s best-known executives had the same predawn alarm clock and the same stack of newsprint waiting on the curb. They all got their start in newspapers, either pedaling routes in the dark, tossing the latest newspaper on the porch, or chasing down
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says this career path will thrive in the AI era—and drive a new Industrial Revolution
There may be no single person more integral to shaping the future of work than Jensen Huang. As cofounder and CEO of Nvidia, Huang has transformed a company once focused on computer gaming graphics into a chipmaking powerhouse at the center of data centers, artificial intelligence, and robotics. Nvidia is now the most valuable company
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CEOs got millions after boards ‘neutralized’ the impact of tariffs. Some won’t say what it was worth
Christopher Calio, CEO of RTX, collected $27.7 million in compensation last year. That was his total after the $241.5 billion aerospace and defense giant’s board decided the trade war wouldn’t touch his bonus. At its January 2025 board meeting, the compensation committee of RTX, formerly Raytheon, pre-authorized the removal of tariff impacts on business metrics
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Mark Zuckerberg’s AI ambitions back in the spotlight as Meta execs begin ‘moonshot’ mission for $9.5 trillion valuation and massive payouts
Meta Platforms is set to report first quarter of 2026 earnings on Wednesday, and investors will have a gimlet eye on capital expenditures. Capex is expected to rise to between $115 billion and $135 billion this year as Meta focuses on its Superintelligence Labs. However, a batch of SEC filings also indicate Meta is betting
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Justin Trudeau warns AI boom could create hundreds of trillionaires—and it will mean there’s something ‘fundamentally wrong with the world’
For all the hype around artificial intelligence—from curing cancer to accelerating space travel—tech leaders have been quick to emphasize its upside. Some, such as Elon Musk, have even suggested it could one day make work optional and money irrelevant. But there’s a darker scenario taking shape alongside that optimism. As AI increases efficiency and prosperity,
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Your job can actually kill you: More than 840,000 people die annually from health conditions linked to work stress, ILO report says
We all agree to the unwritten contract when we enter the corporate world: put in long hours, toil twice as hard as the next guy, and forgo sleep and a social life long enough for you to climb the ladder. And sure, you put up with intense stress from tight deadlines, anxiety about the office
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The frontrunner in the longevity revolution was born during the Civil War
Few things capture Brooks Tingle’s approach to being a longevity warrior like watching him walk on stage in a dark suit jacket and custom Air Force 1 sneakers earlier this month. The CEO of John Hancock was there to kick off the company’s 3rd annual “Longer. Healthier. Better” symposium for brokers, dispensing the kind of
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CEO of a $25.9 billion bank had his AI clone lead the company’s earnings call—as Mark Zuckerberg builds his own digital twin
AI has been taking over company coding, managing worker calendars, and screening job candidates—and now, it’s even leading important company calls. Customers Bank recently held an earnings call to talk over first-quarter results with analysts, but 30 minutes into the meeting, CEO Sam Sidhu rocked the room with a confession: up until that point, an
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Self-made multimillionaire Emma Grede says she was ‘using AI like a 42-year-old woman’—until Mark Cuban gave her a wake-up call
The British-born entrepreneur Emma Grede, best known as the founding partner of Kim Kardashian’s $5 billion shapewear empire Skims and the CEO of denim brand Good American, has built a reputation on spotting cultural shifts before they hit the mainstream. When her and Khloe Kardashian’s Good American denim line dropped, it made $1 million on
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Microsoft researchers have revealed the 40 jobs most exposed to AI—and even teachers make the list
Microsoft’s released its list of 40 jobs that have high crossover with AI—and professionals warned it highlights the careers “most at risk,” with historians, translators, and sales reps high on the list. While Microsoft said high applicability doesn’t automatically mean those roles will be killed by AI, employers have been putting a pause on hiring