Fortune2h
Fruit giant Chiquita Banana paid off Colombian guerrillas 20 years ago. A jury just ordered it to pay $38 million to families of people they killed
Amy Sancetta/AP Photo Banana giant Chiquita Brands must pay $38.3 million to 16 family members of people killed during Colombia’s long civil war by a violent right-wing paramilitary group funded by ...
Elon Musk says he’ll lock iPhones in an electromagnetic cage at all his businesses after Apple announces OpenAI partnership
"Apple has no clue what's actually going on once they hand your data over to OpenAI. They're selling you down the river." ...
Fortune2h
Women have the edge on soft skills to succeed in the age of AI—it might be the magic fix to smash the glass ceiling
After making significant progress in recent years, women are beginning to see their march up the corporate ladder stalled by a still very apparent glass ceiling, new research from LinkedIn shows. The ...
Fortune2h
Michigan couple among winners of $842 million jackpot elated at ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ event: ‘He was so stunned he dropped his phone’
The winning numbers drawn were: 12, 21, 42, 44, 49 and red Powerball: 1. A mid-Michigan couple and a lawyer from the west side of the state were announced Tuesday as winners of an $842.4 million ...
Fortune8h
No one wants another pandemic—but bird flu has already flown the coop
Carolyn Barber, M.D., is an internationally published science and medical writer and a 25-year emergency physician. She is the author of Runaway Medicine: What You Don’t Know May Kill You, and the ...
Fortune2h
The 3 biggest lessons from Roger Federer’s inspirational commencement speech
Christian Liewig - Corbis / Contributor—Getty Images Long before Challengers made tennis into a metaphor, Roger Federer used his sport as a way into learning life’s lessons. He imparted a number of ...
Fortune4h
Apple Intelligence solves one of Tim Cook’s biggest problems: finally giving customers a reason to upgrade their iPhones
AI—no, not artificial intelligence; Apple Intelligence™—was the focal point of Apple’s keynote presentation for its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday. The 100-minute program was ...
Fortune4h
Apple finally makes its AI strategy clear. It’s all very Apple—and very risky
Apple debuted a clutch of AI-enabled features at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) yesterday. For investors and consumers wondering how Apple planned to meet the AI moment, this was finally ...
Fortune6h
‘The world might become stuck in the slow lane’—World Bank warns of the consequences of sustaining elevated interest rates
The World Bank upgraded its outlook for the global economy Tuesday, estimating that it will expand 2.6% this year on the strength of sustained growth in the United States. The bank’s latest outlook ...
Fortune9h
The government using taxpayer money to bail out banks will unavoidably continue. Here’s why
Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Why do banks fail? They fail because bankers are and forever will be debtors. Banks are in the business of debt; they owe to their clients, their fellow ...
Fortune6h
Canadian youth have put hockey on thin ice: As participation declines, the future on the beloved pastime is precarious
BRAMPTON, Ontario (AP) — All four ice rinks at Susan Fennell Sportsplex are full of action on this winter Saturday morning, the air filled with the sound of hockey skates grinding through ice and ...
Fortune1d
What the CEO of toymaker Hasbro learned from a failed media acquisition and a $3.5B loss: ‘We’d strayed from our core mission’
Since becoming CEO in early 2022, Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks’ biggest move has involved radically shrinking the business to better reset it for growth. How? By focusing on what it does best: making toys ...