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These COOs became CEOs. Here’s what they wish everyone knew about the tricky transition
In today’s CEO Daily: Two chief executives on how to nail the COO-to-CEO handoff. The big leadership story: Inside Lip-Bu Tan’s turnaround at Intel. The markets: Mostly down as Middle East tensions rise. Plus: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune. Good morning. CEO succession is never easy and coming up through the COO…
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How Bazooka’s CIO is bringing AI to the gum game and navigating candy industry headwinds
When Sankar Karuppasamy served as chief information officer at trading card manufacturer Topps, he reported to the chief financial officer. But after moving into the role of CIO at gum maker Bazooka, which was separated from Topps through a $700 million sale to buyout firm Apax Partners in 2023, the technologist began to report to…
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How Amazon’s CFO ‘shatters’ expectations and helped power the company to No. 1 on the Fortune 500
Good morning. A brand new Fortune 500 list is out this morning. Amazon eclipsed the $700 billion mark with a 12% jump in revenue in 2025 and took the No. 1 spot, ending Walmart’s historic 13-year run. And Amazon’s SVP and CFO Brian Olsavsky has led finance for over a decade with a front-row seat…
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Town’s AI assistants learn your life—Andreessen Horowitz and Forerunner just backed the vision with $55 million
Jean-Denis Grézé’s AI assistant is a silver fox who wears a little satchel, and her name is Ivy. Ivy is Grézé’s Townie—the personalized AI assistant at the center of his startup, Town. His choice of mascot, an homage to his prematurely grey hair, says something about the product’s philosophy: this isn’t a chatbot. It’s yours.…
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Bigger, richer, more concentrated: Inside the new Fortune 500
In today’s CEO Daily: Diane Brady reports on the biggest takeaways from this year’s list. The big leadership story: Executives are debating whether to treat agents as colleagues. The markets: Mixed globally after the S&P 500 closed at another record. Plus: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune. Good morning. The 2026 Fortune 500…
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AI may already be adding hundreds of billions to the economy—without showing up in the data
Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…The AI economy has a measurement gap…Anthropic files IPO paperwork…Meta bets on subscriptions and enterprise to monetize AI…and AI-generated fake citations are infiltrating scientific literature. When it comes to measuring the economic impact of AI, no one can agree on where to start. Listen to the…
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Anthropic’s CFO Krishna Rao is steering one of the most anticipated IPOs ever
Good morning. Anthropic’s leadership has taken a significant step toward going public—and CFO Krishna Rao is leading the charge. The maker of Claude AI confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form S-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed public listing. For Rao, who joined Anthropic in May 2024 after holding…
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Anthropic’s confidential S-1 signals summer AI IPO race could heat up fast
Anthropic was open about its confidential S-1 filing on Monday. The $965 billion AI juggernaut announced the filing—which we cannot yet see—on its blog. It’s a contradiction, but then Anthropic is its own kind of contradiction, a still-young private company we know quite a lot about. The nearly trillion-dollar startup (if it can be called…
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Cognizant CEO says AI is remaking middle managers into player-coaches who can ‘both executive and develop others’
In today’s CEO Daily: Diane Brady talks with Ravi Kumar S. about the broad impact of AI. The big leadership story: Inside Kelly Ortberg’s effort to remake Boeing. The markets: Mixed globally, with European markets staging a rebound. Plus: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune. Good morning from Scottsdale, where we are on…
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Robots screening robots: Inside the AI arms race reshaping hiring
Good morning! More than half of job candidates are using AI to apply for jobs. Meanwhile, nearly 90% of companies are using AI to screen candidates, overwhelmed by a staggering volume of résumés. So, if both sides are using AI with such regularity, are any humans actually winning here? That’s the question I set out…