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Fortune @fortune.com · 5h

SAIC CEO Toni Townes-Whitley told #FortuneMPW that the biggest threat to national security isn’t technology, adversaries, or resources—it’s the fact that much of U.S. defense strategy has become anachronistic. trib.al/7i3364l

Top defense CEO on America’s ‘anachronistic’ aging infrastructure: ‘Our adversary can use their entire industrial base’ | Fortune

Speaking at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, SAIC CEO Toni Townes-Whitley talked about how war is less about conventional theaters of conflict.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 6h

"If you’re leading people, you probably know people are not okay," Brené Brown told #FortuneMPW. trib.al/6pOLiSg

Brené Brown says the key to surviving AI is rejecting Jack Welch's advice and embracing humanity. The problem is humans 'can’t stand each other' | Fortune

Treating our humanity like a liability could mean ignoring our greatest superpower, Brown said.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 6h

“Frankly, this thing that trade is dead is completely overstated,” International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told #FortuneMPW.

“Trade is like water. You put [up an] obstacle, it goes around it.” trib.al/t2jmlws

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva dismisses impact of Trump trade war: 'Trade is like water, you put in an obstacle, it goes around it' | Fortune

Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, says fears that “trade is dead” are overblown.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 6h

Kalshi is scrambling to add crypto capacity, but it will be hard-pressed to catch its rival, Polymarket. trib.al/iROlH99

Kalshi is the early leader in prediction markets, but its rival Polymarket is worth nearly twice as much. Why? | Fortune Crypto

Polymarket is a crypto-native company, which could put it in position for a windfall.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 7h

While CEOs encourage workers to use AI liberally, they may also be injecting friction into their operations. It turns out corporate America is awash in “workslop.” trib.al/LVjQZfI

Diane Keaton's legacy for women | Fortune

Diane Keaton died at 79. The actress made it cool to be an "odd ball."

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Fortune @fortune.com · 8h

While CEOs encourage workers to use AI liberally, they may also be injecting friction into their operations. It turns out corporate America is awash in “workslop.” trib.al/42Im1Xh

How ‘workslop’ is wasting workers’ time and creating AI resentment | Fortune

While CEOs encourage workers to use AI liberally, they may also be injecting friction into their operations. It turns out corporate America is awash in "workslop."

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Fortune @fortune.com · 9h

Diane Keaton showed women that there were ways to be in the world, to present to the world that perhaps they hadn’t even thought of yet. trib.al/rtIYhoX

Diane Keaton's legacy for women | Fortune

Diane Keaton died at 79. The actress made it cool to be an "odd ball."

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Fortune @fortune.com · 10h

Mike Wilson, chief U.S. equity strategist for Morgan Stanley, warned on Monday that a “larger than expected correction is likely” for U.S. equities if Trump and China fail to resolve their escalating trade tensions. trib.al/WPu2jt8

Top analyst warns that 'larger than expected correction is likely' if Trump and China don't kiss and make up

If the truce in the trade war doesn't resume by early November, Morgan Stanley's Mike Wilson writes, brace for a 10% to 15% haircut.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 10h

Much of Taylor Swift’s largely female, liberal fanbase is arguing whether her new era, blending glamorous showgirl styling with vintage domestic undertones, resembles a “tradwife” image associated with far-right and MAGA-coded online spaces. trib.al/46YoMra

The rare Taylor Swift backlash, explained: why some fans feel jilted by the star's tradwife, almost MAGA-coded turn | Fortune

Earlier this month, Swift told the BBC it was "shockingly offensive" to ask whether she was dropping her last album before getting married and having kids.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 11h

GoFundMe’s CEO just said the quiet part out loud: in this economy, more Americans are crowdfunding groceries to get by. trib.al/ATnLmdk

GoFundMe CEO says the economy is so bad that more of his customers are crowdfunding just to pay for their groceries | Fortune

GoFundMe’s CEO says more Americans are crowdfunding everyday essentials like groceries as high costs and strained household finances persist.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 13h

China’s tightening grip over the minerals that power advanced technologies has moved from long-term strategic concern to immediate economic threat—and the U.S. is woefully unprepared, Wharton’s Jeremy Siegel warned. trib.al/qtWpLgA

'Scandalous': top economist Jeremy Siegel says U.S. sleepwalked into rare-earths crisis as China tightens its grip | Fortune

The Wharton professor says Washington ignored the mineral threat for decades, leaving U.S. supply chains exposed and Beijing in control of 90% of global refining.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 13h

Sam Altman reportedly wants 250 gigawatts of new electricity to run gigantic new data centers by 2033.

Emerald AI’s CEO Varun Sivaram’s objective is to solve the problem of those rare high-demand moments the grid can’t handle. trib.al/lKvPPke

Companies like OpenAI are sucking up power at a historic rate. One startup thinks it has found a way to take pressure off the grid | Fortune

Emerald AI, which launched in July, is trying to solve the problem of powering the data centers that all AI companies need.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 14h

Billionaire investor Peter Thiel is urging the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, to opt out of the Giving Pledge—a promise by billionaires to give away the majority of their wealth to charitable causes. trib.al/tCvDgI0

Peter Thiel says he warned Elon Musk to ditch donating to The Giving Pledge because Bill Gates will give his wealth away ‘to left-wing nonprofits’ | Fortune

"What am I supposed to do—give it to my children?" Musk responded, as Thiel recounted. "You know, it would be much worse to give it to Bill Gates."

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Fortune @fortune.com · 14h

It’s a buyer’s market, and that means house hunters are walking away from contracts more frequently, according to data from Redfin. trib.al/TuLRcmL

Would-be homebuyers are getting cold feet and backing out of deals at a record pace as some sellers have a 'hard time adjusting' to new reality | Fortune

About 56,000 U.S. purchase agreements were canceled in August, representing 15.1% of homes that went under contract that month, Redfin said.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 15h

Baby boomer NYU professor Suzy Welch said people should sympathise with the “vulnerability and sadness” of Gen Z’s current situation—crippling debt and uncertainty—instead of hating on them. trib.al/AaDUWvP

Suzy Welch says Gen Z and millennials are burnt out because older generations worked just as hard, but they 'had hope' | Fortune

"We believed that if you worked hard, you were rewarded for it," Welch said. "This is the disconnect."

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Fortune @fortune.com · 15h

“This notion that somehow you can achieve greatness, you can build something extraordinary by working 38 hours a week and having work life balance, that is mind-boggling to me,” Andrew Feldman, CEO of $8.1 billion AI chip company Cerebras, stressed. trib.al/uZZgjxF

CEO of $8 billion AI company says he's ‘mind boggled’ that people think you can work 38 hours a week, have work-life balance, and be successful | Fortune

Cerebras cofounder Andrew Feldman warned aspiring entrepreneurs they need to be working “every waking minute,” echoing the likes of Zoom CEO Eric Yuan and LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 16h

President Trump’s tariff offensive against China appears to be backfiring as Beijing sidesteps U.S. consumers and boosts exports elsewhere. trib.al/qyLvOXf

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Fortune @fortune.com · 17h

The UK Government has quietly posted a six-figure job ad not for a policy expert or border agent, but for a communications lead whose main mission is to make the public believe Labour is tackling immigration. trib.al/YgUMbnT

The UK government will pay you $120K to convince the public that it's successfully tackling illegal immigration | Fortune

The UK Government has quietly posted a six-figure job ad not for a policy expert or border agent, but for a communications lead whose main mission is to make the public believe Labour is tackling immigration.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 17h

As retiring in America becomes increasingly unaffordable, retirees are booking a one-way trip to Portugal instead. trib.al/wIHW6Is

The 10 best countries to retire right now—and America didn’t make the cut | Fortune

As retiring in America becomes increasingly unaffordable, retirees are booking a one-way trip to Portugal instead.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 17h

Applications for the 2025 Fortune Next to Lead list are officially open.

Our list highlights rising executives already demonstrating the range and judgment required to run complex, high-performing organizations.

🔗 For more information or to submit a nomination: trib.al/6rGJb8v

The search for corporate America’s next Fortune 500 CEOs | Fortune

Is it you?

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Fortune @fortune.com · 17h

“Historically, there’s always been a trade-off between taste, texture, and nutrition. That’s what we’re trying to do, is break the trade-offs,” Zach Ranen, cofounder of the protein bar company David, told Fortune. trib.al/71tmkgJ

The protein bar startup David is upending food science through its venture-backed experiments—and it’s just getting started | Fortune

Inside the frontlines of the protein wars.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 18h

Chosen by Fortune editors for their measurable impact, strategy reach, and capacity to shape the future, the #FortuneMPWAsia 2025 list includes founders, CEOs, and other C-suite leaders whose influence crosses borders and industries. trib.al/ir9VBlL

Fortune's Most Powerful Women Asia 2025 list includes top CFOs from Huawei, ByteDance, Sony, Temasek | Fortune

MPW Asia 2025 includes founders and C-suite leaders whose influence crosses borders and industries.

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Fortune @fortune.com · 19h

Gen Z women are finding unexpected allies in the workplace: male bosses with daughters. trib.al/oCNy7LG

Female Gen Z workers say the best kind of bosses have one thing in common—they're 'girl dads' | Fortune

‘Girl dad’ managers are being described as more empathetic and fair by Gen Z women on TikTok because they have ‘built-in sensitivity training.’

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Fortune @fortune.com · 19h

Even in the age of flexible work, landing your dream hybrid job might not be enough to keep you safe from creeping in-office policies. trib.al/gd9eDNK

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“Always remember that supply is elastic. If our lives depend on it, we can surmount many challenges far faster than the policy planners in Beijing, Brussels, and Washington realize.” trib.al/ZpkAgxu

China's rare earth controls can 'forbid any country on Earth from participating in the modern economy,' former White House advisor warns | Fortune

"They can do this because they diligently built industrial capacity no one else had the fortitude to build."

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