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Alphabet’s Ruth Porat responds to Jefferies warning that AI boom will bring U.S. capital destruction
This essay appears in the Oct. 17, 2026 edition of the Fortune 500 Digest newsletter, which rounds up the headlines…
Flex CEO says infrastructure and the grid needs to scale with AI or ‘Forget all the frontier models’
AI seems to be springing up in nearly every facet of people’s professional and personal lives, from chatbots installed into…
Michael Dell is the fifth richest person in the world—his worth has nearly doubled to $262 billion
The world’s richest entrepreneurs have watched their net worths skyrocket and plummet at the whim of the stock market. And…
Russia and North Korea open first road bridge across borders—expanding ‘transport infrastructure’
Russia and North Korea opened the first road bridge across their narrow stretch of border Monday, creating a new physical…
White House officially asks permission to change name of Penn Station after hinting it will be called ‘Trump’
Will President Donald Trump ’s name grace one of the most famous — and sometimes maligned — landmarks in his hometown of…
Wyoming officials: Meta’s 715,000-square-foot data center responsible for water system contamination
Cheyenne, Wyoming, officials say Meta’s data center construction is responsible for the contamination of part of the town’s recycled water…
The scale of global AgFoodTech topped $16 billion in 2025. Investors have poured billions into AgTech, including smart machinery, automated…
America just committed $1.2 trillion to fix its infrastructure. We’re still flying blind
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act authorized $1.2 trillion in total spending. It is the largest infrastructure commitment in modern…
Blackstone COO Jon Gray predicts ‘huge boom’ in blue-collar jobs—his own data center company is hiring 30,000 new roles
That’s at least according to Jon Gray, president and chief operating officer at Blackstone—the biggest publicly-traded alternative asset manager—who predicted…
How the 173-year-old glass-maker behind Edison’s light bulb and iPhone screens became a Silicon Valley darling
In his corner office at Corning Inc.’s towering steel-and-glass headquarters in Corning, N.Y., CEO Wendell Weeks keeps a small, yellowed…











