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Exclusive: Accounting AI startup Rillet reaches unicorn status with $1 billion valuation. Its founder says he wants to give CFOs back their weekends

“Our message is not that we’re coming after jobs,” Rillet CEO Nicolas Kopp told Fortune. “That’s just not correct.”

By Nick LichtenbergAugust 18, 2026
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Reed Hastings says he learned why companies aren’t families after laying off one-third of Netflix: ‘You would never lay off two of your kids’
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OpenAI says it paused AI training for two weeks and announces new security protocols following Hugging Face hack
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OpenAI data center deal with Nvidia comes in $145 billion lower than reported—signaling concerns of artificial demand for chips
By Joshua HongAugust 18, 2026
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Dropbox co-CEO has just shared the simple rule he follows for when to turn down a meeting

Dropbox co-CEO Ashraf Alkarmi writes down five goals each quarter—if ‘I get meetings that are not related to these things, I don’t go,” he says.

By Emma BurleighAugust 18, 2026
Alibaba’s $2 billion gaming exit signals where Beijing wants its money

The e-commerce giant sells its gaming studio and pours $53 billion into AI as the US-China tech rivalry heats up

By Mia OsmonbekovAugust 18, 2026
Meta heads to child safety trial facing financial damages as large as $1.4 trillion

Four states want penalties that approach Meta’s market value, but the lasting threat is a court-ordered overhaul of Facebook and Instagram for young users.

By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated PressAugust 17, 2026
Andreessen Horowitz focus of DOJ probe over board directors

Andreessen Horowitz has closely aligned itself with the second Trump administration.

By Josh Sisco, Natasha Mascarenhas and BloombergAugust 17, 2026
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AI gets its own “boiler room” scandal

The SEC accuses a Long Island firm of running a $74 million boiler room that sold retirees marked-up shares in Anduril, Anthropic, Perplexity, and SpaceX.

By Allie GarfinkleAugust 18, 2026
A dropout living in a trailer, he got $1 million from Peter Thiel at 19—now he’s a billionaire who says the American Dream isn’t dead

Billionaire Palmer Luckey sold Oculus to Facebook for $2 billion by 21 years old—and says that kind of break “isn’t happening in China.”

By Orianna Rosa RoyleAugust 18, 2026
Unitree vs. Shein: How August’s big China IPOs show how AI hype is leaving e-commerce giants behind

Unitree may be smaller and younger compared to Shein. But in the eyes of investors, the robot maker is the more exciting bet.

By Nicholas GordonAugust 17, 2026
Billionaire Gen Zer dropped out of high school to launch his startup at 17—now he’s the richest self-made 25-year-old in the U.K and all of Europe

James Dacombe, the 25-year-old behind AI chipmaker Olix and brain monitoring startup CoMind, says being young and “naive” was a career advantage.

By Emma BurleighAugust 17, 2026
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Meet OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Teens, which doesn’t talk about sex or suicide and gives you homework help instead

OpenAI doesn’t verify users’ ages, but it already uses age assurance to estimate if someone is under 18 based on factors such as their types of queries.

By Barbara Ortutay and The Associated PressAugust 18, 2026
The finance skills that are becoming more and more critical in the AI age

Finance leads Heidrick & Struggles’ list of the 15 most in-demand skills amid the rapid rise of AI.

By Sheryl EstradaAugust 18, 2026
AWS’s Asia chief is relocating to Japan as the country scrambles to modernize its legacy IT systems

Last year, Japan began a push to reboot its innovation engine with a plan to channel $2.3 trillion in investments to 17 strategic sectors by 2040.

By Angelica AngAugust 18, 2026
The most important AI habit I have is making one phone call a day

As AI gets better at recording, summarizing, and analyzing every conversation, I’ve started protecting the one skill I never want to outsource: listening.

By Maria ColacurcioAugust 18, 2026
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Wispr talks its way to a $2 billion valuation. The company says dictation’s only the beginning
Wispr talks its way to a $2 billion valuation. The company says dictation’s only the beginning

Wispr has raised $280 million in its Menlo Ventures-led Series B, as it looks beyond dictation.

By Allie GarfinkleAugust 17, 2026
Billionaire founder agrees with Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Jeff Bezos: We will live and work in space—and could be commuting to the moon by 2030

“We’ll have a moon base, people living and working on the moon,” says billionaire Voyager Technologies founder Dylan Taylor.

By Orianna Rosa RoyleAugust 17, 2026
Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu says AI and liberal democracy share the same crisis: ‘there is a tendency to escalate everything’

“It’s become sort of radical to hold two apparently conflicting ideas in your head at the same time,” the MIT economist told Fortune.

By Nick LichtenbergAugust 15, 2026
Nvidia has $21 billion SpaceX stake, $30 billion in Intel shares

Nvidia also had stakes in Coherent Corp., Generate Biomedicines Inc., Nebius Group NV, Nokia Corp. and Synopsys Inc. as of June 30. 

By Lynn Doan and BloombergAugust 15, 2026
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Data center gas plants to boost U.S. power emissions by 20%
Data center gas plants to boost U.S. power emissions by 20%

Ninety-nine proposed gas plants to power AI data centers could lift emissions by up to a third, with Amazon and Microsoft among the developers

By Matt Day, Mark Chediak and BloombergAugust 18, 2026
Tether has the gold. Now, CEO Paolo Ardoino is making a bold push into AI

A KPMG audit appears to establish the legitimacy of Tether’s reserves. Meanwhile, the company’s ambitions are scaling far beyond crypto.

By Jeff John RobertsAugust 17, 2026
The ‘manosphere’ is actually a multibillion-dollar industry that sells courses and supplements to insecure Gen Z men, report finds

“In the very real moment of confusion…there is an industry of platforms, influencers and advertisers who are making billions off of young men’s insecurities.”

By Sasha RogelbergAugust 15, 2026
Jimmy Wales: ‘AI can generate answers. It still can’t earn trust’

The leadership lesson of Wikipedia.

By Ioanna ThomaAugust 16, 2026
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