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Cisco just posted its strongest quarter in memory. Revenue climbed. Orders poured in from hyperscalers hungry for faster networks to feed their AI clusters. Yet on the same d...

Steve Jobs’s Forgotten Exile at NeXT Forged the Future of Apple

Steve Jobs walked out of Apple in 1985. Ousted by the board he once dominated, he carried bitterness and $7 million from stock sales. Eleven years later he returned. The comp...

Arm CEO Rene Haas Warns x86 Giants: Efficiency Will Reshape AI Data Centers

Rene Haas sees trouble ahead for the old guard. The Arm Holdings chief executive delivered a pointed message on the company’s recent earnings call. Its first production silic...

Mark Cuban’s Firing and the Brutal Lesson That Built a Billion-Dollar Empire

Mark Cuban once stood in a Dallas software store with a $15,000 check in hand and promptly lost his job. The boss wanted the doors opened on time. Cuban had chosen to close a...

Jensen Huang’s Beijing Noodle Run: How the Nvidia Chief Mixed Street Food and High-Stakes Diplomacy

Jensen Huang stood on a Beijing sidewalk Friday, black leather jacket on, bowl of zhajiangmian in hand. He took a bite. Nodded. Declared, "It's so good." A crowd pressed in....

How Steward Ownership Offers Baby Boomer Founders an Exit That Preserves Their Legacy

Baby boomer entrepreneurs face a stark choice. Sell the company they spent decades building to private equity or a larger rival. Watch it close when no buyer appears. Or hand...

Synlait Loses Third CEO in Five Years as Leadership Turmoil Deepens Financial Strain

Richard Wyeth lasted barely a year as chief executive of Synlait Milk. The New Zealand dairy processor confirmed his resignation on May 14, 2026. He will stay on until June 3...

Nadella’s $13 Billion Bet: How Fear of Repeating IBM’s Fate Reshaped Microsoft’s AI Strategy

Satya Nadella stared down a federal courtroom this week and laid bare the calculation that has defined Microsoft’s place in the artificial intelligence race. The CEO didn’t s...

Chili’s CEO Kevin Hochman Runs at Dawn to Plot a Casual Dining Comeback

Kevin Hochman rises before most of the restaurant industry stirs. The president and CEO of Brinker International, parent to Chili’s Grill & Bar, wakes between 5 and 6 a.m. He...

Mark Cuban’s Stark AI Warning: CEOs Without a Clue Face Extinction

Billionaire Mark Cuban doesn’t mince words. Companies whose leaders fail to grasp artificial intelligence won’t just fall behind. They risk disappearing. In a May 6 post on X...

Lip-Bu Tan’s Intel Gamble: Alliances With Trump, Musk and Apple Outrun Factory Fixes

Intel shares have tripled since Lip-Bu Tan took charge. The stock set records in April. Yet the veteran chip executive has spent more time courting presidents, billionaires a...

CEOs Face Binary AI Choice: Slash Staff or Pile on the Work

Business leaders insist artificial intelligence leaves them with just two paths forward. Cut headcount to capture savings. Or hold staff steady and demand far higher output....

Ryan Cohen’s eBay Ban: How GameStop’s CEO Turned Socks and Carpet Squares Into Takeover Theater

Ryan Cohen listed a pair of dirty socks on eBay. Bids climbed past $14,000. He added a square of old GameStop carpet. A mug. Some store signs. Each came with a signed copy of...

Musk’s Stand in Oakland Courtroom Exposes Cracks in OpenAI’s Founding Story

OAKLAND, Calif. — Elon Musk sat in the witness chair. His voice carried the familiar mix of certainty and urgency. Over two days he laid out a simple accusation. OpenAI had b...

Trump’s CEO Escort to Beijing: Tim Cook’s High-Stakes Finale in China

President Donald Trump is assembling a high-profile group of American business leaders for a trip to China next week. The move comes as he prepares to meet with President Xi...

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