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A Texas CEO told his employees he was giving them bonuses so they wouldn't kill him. He wasn't entirely joking.In a company-wide message that has since gone viral, Aad...

The Touchscreen Backlash Has a Powerful New Ally: Volkswagen’s CEO Is Bringing Back the Buttons

For the better part of a decade, automakers chased a singular design obsession: eliminate every physical control from the cabin and replace it with a glowing touchscreen. The...

The Gospel of Not Thinking: Marc Andreessen and Silicon Valley’s War on Self-Reflection

Marc Andreessen doesn't want you to think too hard about what you're doing. Not in those words, exactly. But the sentiment runs through his public philosophy like a load-bear...

Sam Altman’s Pentagon Pivot: How OpenAI Went From AI Safety Champion to Defense Contractor

Sam Altman admitted he got it wrong. Not about artificial intelligence itself — he still believes that's the most consequential technology humanity will ever build — but abou...

Larry Fink Wants to Raise the Retirement Age. He Might Not Be Wrong.

Larry Fink has never been one to shy away from controversy. But the BlackRock CEO's latest salvo — a proposal to fundamentally rethink Social Security by raising the retireme...

The Boardroom’s Blind Spot: How AI-Powered Consensus Is Breeding a New Era of Corporate Groupthink

Gary Shapiro has spent more than four decades watching technology reshape industries. As the CEO of the Consumer Technology Association and the man who runs CES, the world's...

Greg Abel’s $26.3 Billion Opening Salvo: Inside the First Major Deal of the Post-Buffett Era at Berkshire Hathaway

Less than two weeks after Warren Buffett announced his retirement as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, his successor made a statement that reverberated through boardrooms and tradin...

Warren Buffett’s Final Act: How the Oracle of Omaha Is Engineering His Exit From Berkshire Hathaway

Warren Buffett, 94 years old and still sharp enough to command a room of 40,000 shareholders, is doing something he's never done before: letting go.In a wide-ranging i...

The Anti-Inflation Playbook of Jeff Bezos: How the World’s Second-Richest Man Keeps His Fortune From Eroding

Jeff Bezos doesn't worry about inflation the way most people do. He doesn't clip coupons. He doesn't downgrade his coffee order. But the founder of Amazon, whose net worth ho...

Inside the Fight Over Elon Musk’s Access to America’s Payment Systems — and Why Congress Can’t Look Away

The most powerful financial pipeline in the United States runs through the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, a little-known arm of the Treasury Department that processes roughly...

A CEO Brought Down by Language: How Air Canada’s Bilingualism Crisis Exposed a Fault Line in Canadian Identity

Michael Rousseau lasted less than five years as chief executive of Air Canada. His downfall didn't come from a financial scandal, a safety failure, or a boardroom coup. It ca...

The Great AI Alibi: Why Every Tech CEO Now Blames Artificial Intelligence for Laying Off Thousands

Something strange has happened in the corner offices of America's largest technology companies. Executives who once promised that artificial intelligence would augment human...

The Résumé Is Dead: What AI Startup CEOs Actually Want When They Hire

Forget your Ivy League diploma. Forget your perfectly formatted LinkedIn profile. And definitely forget the cover letter you had ChatGPT write for you — they can tell....

The AI CEO Exodus: Why the People Who Built Artificial Intelligence Keep Walking Away

They built the most powerful technology companies on Earth. And now they're leaving.Over the past two years, an unusual pattern has emerged across the artificial intel...

The Boss of 2026 Won’t Manage People — They’ll Manage AI Agents

Guillermo Rauch has a prediction that should make every middle manager uncomfortable. The CEO of Vercel, the web development platform valued at $3.5 billion, believes that wi...

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