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"It would not shock me if we have 100 billion agents": Verizon CEO on network demand
10 insights: net adds up 9x after Verizon stopped giving away phones, $4B of edge-computing deals from old copper offices, and why he now assumes SpaceX…
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Diary of a CEO is on track for $60M this year, up from $1.2M in 2021 — its founder
11 moments: why he turned down a deal for 4x the ads, how a medical PhD now fact-checks every health episode, and what the BBC and his female listeners…
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AI will replace junior auditors' work and flatten management layers — Workday CEO
9 arguments: why Google, Anthropic and OpenAI all run Workday, an HR agent already deflecting 25–30% of cases, and the cut from 50 AI agents in…
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Runway COO on the AI ad agent one employee built: "an additional 100 million in ARR"
14 lessons: A futurist on why flexibility beats being AI native, a team spending a couple hundred million on tokens around its CTO, and leaked Anthropic…
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Emily Forlini: OpenAI did not know its own AIs were hacking Hugging Face
8 takeaways: What Sam Altman told Fortune about a 10% chance of extinction, why he rules out a 2026 IPO, and the $4.3T asset class billionaires are…
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Mary Barra: GM is the only Western automaker gaining share and profit in China
13 takeaways: Why she calls EVs "the end game" on a slower US timeline, what she'd redo about buying Cruise, and what Warren Buffett told her about…
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Nick Lichtenberg: an 18-year-old junk remover vibe-coded his way to $15K a month
6 takeaways: The pricing calculator he built with AI and then gave away, the 21-year-old landscaper making $300K, and how fast parents changed their…
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Sebastian Herrera: Apple skipped AI models and data centers, and now Ternus owns it
6 takeaways: The $4.5T company Ternus inherits on day one, the memory chips he has to secure, why Samsung beat Apple to the foldable, and what Tim Cook…
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Jim Edwards: Temu may be paying itself to run ads by influencers who don't exist
9 takeaways: The $962M in Temu ads Fortune traced to likely-fake creators, the European law that made the spending visible, and why Meta has little…
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Orianna Rosa Royle: the CEO of the largest workspace provider says commuting dies by 2040
5 takeaways: What Mark Dixon's research says Gen Alpha will accept, the 8,000-worker study linking CEO age to remote policy, and the bias that only…
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Catherina Gioino: Flock's cameras follow you all day, and no warrant is involved
10 takeaways: How a 9-year-old startup reached 120,000 users, the searches its software allows, and why Bernie Sanders and Josh Hawley are on the same…
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