Thirty years ago, a Fortune cover story chronicled the improbable campaign that brought the Centennial Olympic Games to Atlanta. The force behind the global campaign for “this Sun Belt hustler” to host the 1996 Olympics was an extraordinary pairing, wrote John Huey, himself an Atlantan. Billy Payne, a white real estate lawyer and former University of Georgia football player,
I’d been up since 4 a.m., sitting at my computer with an email ready to rescind my acceptance of a customer-service job at a large department store. It was August 2025, and I was supposed to start that morning. Shame had me hovering over the “send” button. I wondered how it had come to this.
AI is making businesses move faster. But faster doesn’t always mean better. The real advantage is using technology to help people make better decisions, faster and with greater confidence. That’s what I see happening in global commerce right now. Every day, millions of decisions determine whether a production line keeps running, a store shelf stays
Tech stocks slipped in premarket trading Monday after a weekend of increasingly dire warnings about AI. Nvidia was down 3% in premarket trading, while SpaceX shares fell 0.6% and Google was off 0.7%. Nasdaq 100 futures pointed to a 1.6% decline at the open, suggesting the selling could extend across large-cap tech. The weakness followed
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As soon as they had sex on July 27, Bryan Johnson tells me, he knew his cofounder and girlfriend, Kate Tolo, was hours away from getting her period. Normally, the couple has sex two to three times a week, most often between 3 and 5 p.m. “Too close to Bryan’s bedtime” — 8:30 p.m. —
