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Forget the chatbot wars. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is thinking about something far bigger
In today’s CEO Daily: Europe Editorial Director Kamal Ahmed reports on a conversation with Demis Hassabis. The big leadership story: Everyone’s anxious about AI—even founders. The markets: Mostly up as tech optimism returns. Plus: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune. Good morning. Not every CEO will have a book written about them. But…
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Why insurance giant Travelers’ CTO is placing fewer, bigger bets on AI
As a child growing up in Iran, Mojgan Lefebvre dreamed of becoming a doctor. But turbulent times in the Middle East nation led her to immigrate to the United States, where she took a pragmatic approach to planning for her future. The cost to study medicine felt too prohibitive, especially given that Lefebvre would fund…
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Citi’s new CFO touts AI gains as bank posts record $24.6 billion revenue quarter: ‘This is not the spell-checker working better’
Good morning. Gonzalo Luchetti stepped into his first earnings spotlight as Citigroup’s chief financial officer on Tuesday, holding his debut media call ahead of the company’s Q1 2026 earnings. Citi notched its highest quarterly revenue in a decade, he said. Net income for Q1 2026 was approximately $5.8 billion, or $3.06 per share, beating a…
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Exclusive: Hyfix raises $15 million to build a U.S. alternative to DJI’s drone dominance
U.S. tech VCs are backing a new play to rebuild the drone stack from the silicon up. Hyfix Spatial Intelligence just raised a $15 million seed round to create an American-made “brain” for drones and robots, Fortune learned exclusively. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based startup is developing a single autonomous-systems chip that folds flight control, high-precision…
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Dow’s next chapter depends on whether new CEO Karen Carter gets room to lead—and how fast Jim Fitterling steps back
In today’s CEO Daily: Diane Brady grades Dow on its succession planning. The big leadership story: AI CEOs are facing physical risks. The markets: Holding relatively steady as investors eye U.S.-Iran talks and digest early earning results. Plus: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune. Good morning. Former Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers…
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Exclusive: AlphaSense names new CFO as revenue tops $500 million
Good morning. For several years, Samantha Greenberg used AlphaSense to analyze companies. Now she’s the platform’s CFO. AlphaSense is a specialized AI-powered search engine for companies, investors, and analysts. Instead of the open web, the platform indexes a library of about 500 million documents, including premium business content such as SEC filings, earnings transcripts, and…
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Trump’s war and rhetoric are drowning out the IMF’s growth agenda
In today’s CEO Daily: Diane Brady on the factors that will determine whether the IMF can stay focused on growth. The big leadership story: One CEO is backing off a vow to evaluate employees on their AI use. The markets: Up as investors shrug off stalled U.S.-Iran peace talks. Plus: All the news and watercooler…
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Exclusive: Chad Rigetti’s Sygaldry raises $139 million to bring quantum hardware to AI data centers
Chad Rigetti has devoted his career to quantum computing—a phrase you’ve perhaps most recently encountered in Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Superhero movies aside, quantum computing is somewhere between reality and moonshot. In the most rudimentary terms (all I feel remotely qualified to give you), a quantum computer uses counterintuitive rules of physics to…
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This is the hidden reason your AI investments are failing, according to Brené Brown
Good morning! Most C-suite leaders today are obsessed with preparing employees for the AI era by teaching new technical skills. Brené Brown thinks they’re fighting only half the battle. The billions being poured into AI, she says, will not pay off if companies fail to invest in the human foundations—trust, development, and culture— that determine…
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Tens of billions in days: CoreWeave shows how aggressively AI infrastructure is being funded
Good morning. For finance leaders trying to understand how the AI infrastructure race is being funded, CoreWeave just offered a revealing case study. In the span of a few days, the Nvidia-backed startup locked in tens of billions in customer commitments and layered on multiple forms of debt. This underscores a defining feature of today’s…