# c-suite (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover c-suite. Page: Feed: --- ## [Retired racer Jimmie Johnson credits his multimillion-dollar success to shining his shoes and arriving 10 minutes early: ‘Small things matter’](https://fortune.com/2026/08/22/nascar-hall-of-fame-racer-jimmie-johnson-secrets-success-small-things-matter-gen-z-advice/) _2026-08-22 · Preston Fore · Fortune | FORTUNE_ Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson tells Fortune how small habits, support from his parents, and work-life balance have shaped his career. ## [The veteran Fortune 500 CEO who turned an 80-year-old AC company into an AI darling](https://fortune.com/article/dave-cote-vertiv-stock-performance-ai-boom/) _2026-08-22 · Shawn Tully · Fortune | FORTUNE_ First Dave Cote transformed Honeywell. Then out of retirement he placed a stunning bet on a little known company called Vertiv. ## [Powering the cloud after 60 years underground: Ormat’s geothermal pivot to AI](https://fortune.com/2026/08/22/after-60-years-underground-power-cloud-ormat-ai-pivot/) _2026-08-22 · Jordan Blum · Fortune | FORTUNE_ Ormat launched two next-gen geothermal projects with Sage Geosystems and SLB in Nevada. ## [Exclusive: Amazon quietly hiked prices on Echo, Fire TV, Kindle, and eero overnight to offset ‘significant increases’ in memory costs](https://fortune.com/2026/08/21/exclusive-amazon-quietly-hiked-prices-echo-fire-tv-kindle-eero-significant-increases-memory-costs/) _2026-08-21 · Sebastian Herrera · Fortune | FORTUNE_ The e-commerce company's hardware price hikes follow similar moves by Apple, Dell, and Microsoft Xbox. ## [Alex Jones no longer on-the-hook for $50 million owed to Sandy Hook families—but he still has $1.25 billion looming over his head](https://fortune.com/2026/08/21/alex-jones-50-million-sandy-hook-families-1-25-billion/) _2026-08-21 · Jim Vertuno, The Associated Press · Fortune | FORTUNE_ The Infowars' founder can only be forced to pay about $6 million from the Texas court, but still has a separate judgement in Connecticut up to $1.25 billion. ## [Republicans say let them eat overpriced burgers, turning on Trump for ‘flooding the market with foreign beef’](https://fortune.com/2026/08/21/republicans-donald-trump-beef-import-announcement-consumers-expense/) _2026-08-21 · Seung Min Kim, Jesse Bedayn, The Associated Press · Fortune | FORTUNE_ “You don’t put America first by putting U.S. cattle producers last,” U.S. Cattlemen's Association President Justin Tupper said. ## [The AI boom is lifting economies across Asia. But for Southeast Asia, it might just be a ‘short-term blip’](https://fortune.com/2026/08/21/asia-ai-boom-southeast-asia-economic-geopolitical-divide-short-term-blip/) _2026-08-21 · Angelica Ang · Fortune | FORTUNE_ Economists studying the region are worried that AI’s gains won’t be evenly shared across Asia. ## [Chief Justice John Roberts allows Trump’s ballroom crews to keep working 20-hour days](https://fortune.com/2026/08/21/trumps-ballroom-roberts-supreme-court/) _2026-08-21 · The Associated Press, Lindsay Whitehurst, Michael Kunzelman · Fortune | FORTUNE_ The White House says the privately funded project is already 65% complete, even as courts test the limits of presidential renovation power ## [YouTube offers creators millions to not work with Netflix](https://fortune.com/2026/08/21/youtube-netflix-millions/) _2026-08-21 · Lucas Shaw, Bloomberg · Fortune | FORTUNE_ YouTube’s stars built streaming’s new prime time and now Netflix is forcing it to pay to keep them ## [Leader of Fat Marmot Week fights the budget cut era: ‘we’re going to be laughing our way down as the Titanic sinks’](https://fortune.com/2026/08/21/fat-marmot-week-climate-change-colorado-titanic/) _2026-08-21 · Brittany Peterson, Mead Gruver, The Associated Press · Fortune | FORTUNE_ Marmot researchers in Gothic, Colorado, affectionately call themselves “marmoteers.” Funding cuts have already wiped out a third of the grad students. ## [Non-custodial Crypto Payments & Escrow (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/LKSDt7XYb6j6) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto with trustless escrow, instant confirmations, and no KYC ## [Bitcoin soars to nearly $80,000—but crypto’s new favorite coin, Hyperliquid, is stealing its thunder](https://fortune.com/2026/08/21/bitcoin-cryptos-new-favorite-coin-hyperliquid-thunder/) _2026-08-21 · Camila Grigera Naón · Fortune | FORTUNE_ Bitcoin’s rally to $78,200 coincided with a record run for Hyperliquid as active traders increasingly use the platform to place leveraged bets on crypto prices. ## [Trump admits tariffs are a tax on America’s love for hamburgers and allows 300,000 metric tons of ground beef imports at ‘below current market prices’](https://fortune.com/2026/08/21/donald-trump-tariffs-300000-tons-ground-beef-imports/) _2026-08-21 · Joshua Hong · Fortune | FORTUNE_ “Tariffs are simply taxes on American consumers,” said economist Steve Hanke. Meanwhile, cattle groups are "disappointed" in the president's post. ## [Forget RTO: Fully remote workers report the highest well-being—and are less likely to quit, new study of 7,700 employees finds](https://fortune.com/2026/08/21/work-from-home-major-study-remote-workers-well-being-less-likely-to-quit-despite-ceos-like-musk-dimon-push-rto/) _2026-08-21 · Preston Fore · Fortune | FORTUNE_ The research found little evidence that remote workers felt less connected to colleagues or workplace culture—despite what CEOs like Jamie Dimon say. ## [The bond market is sending CEOs a blunt message: Borrowing costs are going to go up](https://fortune.com/2026/08/21/bond-market-warning-cheap-money-era-over-ai-debt/) _2026-08-21 · Diane Brady · Fortune | FORTUNE_ Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune. ## [The AI ‘death zone’ is here and most corporate AI strategies are standing in it](https://fortune.com/2026/08/21/what-is-ai-death-zone-china-models-open-source/) _2026-08-21 · Mark Minevich · Fortune | FORTUNE_ Chinese models just swept the top five spots on the world's largest AI marketplace. American labs still own the frontier. Don't get caught in between. ## [AI productivity tools are overhyped and overfunded. Investors should look elsewhere](https://fortune.com/2026/08/21/ai-productivity-tools-overhyped-overfunded-northzone/) _2026-08-21 · Sanjot Malhi · Fortune | FORTUNE_ Over 50 years ago, Charlie Munger convinced his best friend Warren Buffett to ditch the proverbial cheap cigar butts for durable, high-quality businesses. ## [Amazon, Uber, DoorDash, and Walmart are taking the delivery wars to the skies](https://fortune.com/2026/08/21/amazon-uber-doordash-walmart-drone-delivery-wars/) _2026-08-21 · Tatiana Sataua · Fortune | FORTUNE_ After years of experiments and setbacks, some of America’s biggest delivery companies are racing to make drones mainstream. ## [MacKenzie Scott gave California public education $461 million—and let the recipients decide how to spend every dollar](https://fortune.com/2026/08/21/mackenzie-scott-461-million-california-public-education-donations-unrestricted-gifts/) _2026-08-21 · Sydney Lake · Fortune | FORTUNE_ The billionaire's unrestricted gifts to 16 institutions reflect a giving philosophy built on trusting recipients to know their own communities best. ## [Our AI startup is growing 40% a month helping financial advisers do what they love: giving advice](https://fortune.com/2026/08/21/marloo-cofounders-ai-startup-growing-40-percent-per-month/) _2026-08-21 · Hardy Michel, Shakeel Lala, Ben Robertson · Fortune | FORTUNE_ Our growth has come at a time when the investment landscape is more complicated than ever. It's no coincidence. ## [Billionaire Jeff Bezos once asked Warren Buffett why so few people copy his strategy—now he’s backing $7 billion Liverpool FC](https://fortune.com/2026/08/21/billionaire-amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-liverpool-fc-warren-buffett-investment-strategy-advice/) _2026-08-21 · Orianna Rosa Royle · Fortune | FORTUNE_ If Amazon founder Jeff Bezos takes his own Warren Buffet-inspired advice, Liverpool fans can expect him to stick around for at least seven years. ## [Real SIMs for AI Agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/OyUB4uiPsW4l) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Pass 2FA and verifications with real carrier numbers via our API. ## [Baby boomers look richer than ever—but many are retiring with record levels of debt](https://fortune.com/2026/08/21/boomers-rich-but-debt-retirement/) _2026-08-21 · Mia Osmonbekov · Fortune | FORTUNE_ Decades of home-price gains made older Americans wealthy on paper. Debt and rising costs are making that wealth harder to live on ## [Prediction market exec says gambling fight could reach Supreme Court by June](https://fortune.com/2026/08/21/prediction-market-exec-gambling-fight-supreme-court-june/) _2026-08-21 · Camila Grigera Naón · Fortune | FORTUNE_ A possible circuit split could determine whether federal commodities law overrides state gambling rules. ## [Airwallex expands from cross-border payments to autonomous finance—though president Lucy Liu says it’s still ‘not the best time’ for an IPO](https://fortune.com/article/airwallex-fundraise-lucy-liu-ai-fintech-ipo-08-20-2026/) _2026-08-20 · Nicholas Gordon · Fortune | FORTUNE_ In late June, Airwallex raised $320 million in a Series H funding round led by Addition, which valued the cross-border payments platform at $11 billion ## [Amazon can’t quit Bezos’ drone dream](https://fortune.com/2026/08/20/amazon-cant-quit-bezos-drone-dream/) _2026-08-20 · Alexei Oreskovic · Fortune | FORTUNE_ In today's edition: Amazon drones, Stripe OpenRouter, Google Marvell deal, Meta trial, OpenAI IPO, SpaceX Cognition, YouTube v Netflix, Rivian spinoff Also ## [Venezuela oil minister to U.S. companies: ‘It’s an entire world waiting to be discovered’](https://fortune.com/article/venezuela-oil-minister-us-entire-world-waiting-discovered-08-20-2026/) _2026-08-20 · Jordan Blum · Fortune | FORTUNE_ Smaller, private U.S. oil producers are beginning to ink deals in Venezuela as the dilapidated energy industry evolves. ## [Meta faces a $1.4 trillion threat that could mean ‘turning in the keys and walking away’—but the stakes of the case reach across tech](https://fortune.com/article/meta-faces-1-4-trillion-threat-stakes-of-case-reach-across-tech-08-20-2026/) _2026-08-20 · Tatiana Sataua · Fortune | FORTUNE_ The $1.4 trillion figure may be unlikely, but the case could give states a new way to challenge how social media platforms are designed. ## [Companies are spending trillions on AI. The C-suite doesn’t know who is in charge of it](https://fortune.com/2026/08/20/companies-spending-ai-ceo-csuite-board/) _2026-08-20 · Amanda Gerut · Fortune | FORTUNE_ Boards, CEOs, and the executives who report to them are sharply divided on who owns AI. ## [Teachers in one of San Francisco’s richest suburbs are so underpaid that a philanthropist just gave each of them $9,161](https://fortune.com/article/san-francisco-philanthropist-donates-1-million-for-teacher-salaries-maja-kristin-08-20-2026/) _2026-08-20 · Sydney Lake · Fortune | FORTUNE_ Local philanthropist Maja Kristin donated $1 million to fill the gap in teacher salaries. ## [‘Buyers aren’t yet opening their wallets’: AI-generated assets are flooding marketplaces, but consumers are snubbing them for human-made products](https://fortune.com/2026/08/20/ai-product-fatigue-online-marketplace-ecommerce/) _2026-08-20 · Sasha Rogelberg · Fortune | FORTUNE_ In 3D model marketplace CGTrader, AI-generated assets made up one-sixth of newly uploaded models, but just 2.6% of sales. ## [In this economy, millennials and Gen Z would rather break up than date someone in debt: ‘There’s a pretty big divide’](https://fortune.com/2026/08/20/millennials-gen-z-break-up-dating-finances-personal-partnerships/) _2026-08-20 · Catherina Gioino · Fortune | FORTUNE_ Nearly half of Americans say a partner's debt is a dealbreaker, and younger generations are the pickiest of all. ## [CLI-first decentralized compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Yssorl6mNrcl) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Run and pay spare GPUs from the CLI — transcode, coinpay (DID+escrow), infernet (AI). ## [Amazon isn’t giving up on Jeff Bezos’ drone deliveries dream—and after 13 years of turbulence, the momentum is finally shifting](https://fortune.com/article/amazon-isnt-giving-up-on-jeff-bezos-drone-deliveries-dreamand-after-13-years-of-turbulence-the-momentum-is-finally-shifting/) _2026-08-19 · Sebastian Herrera · Fortune | FORTUNE_ The e-commerce giant announced it is expanding drone delivery to nearly 500 U.S. cities and towns by the end of this year, a sixfold increase from its current capabilities. ## [Bitcoin posts surprise rally as currency nears $70,000 for the first time since June](https://fortune.com/2026/08/19/bitcoin-surprise-rally-since-june/) _2026-08-19 · Camila Grigera Naón · Fortune | FORTUNE_ The U.S. Treasury’s bond-buyback announcement helped send Bitcoin up nearly 6% with one analyst saying a broader recovery may be afoot. ## [Millionaire Mel Robbins says her waitressing boss taught her how to spot the most influential person in the room: ‘It’s never who you think it is’](https://fortune.com/article/multimillionaire-podcaster-mel-robbins-learned-secret-spotting-most-influential-person-in-the-room-as-waitress-08-19-2026/) _2026-08-19 · Emma Burleigh · Fortune | FORTUNE_ “The Mel Robbins Podcast” host says the most powerful person in the room is “never who you think it is.” ## [Current price of oil as of August 19, 2026](https://fortune.com/article/price-of-oil-08-19-2026/) _2026-08-19 · Joseph Hostetler · Fortune | FORTUNE_ When oil prices change, it affects your energy costs—and even the price of everyday items. Here’s why. ## [Iran has Trump right where it wants him and suggests he seek ‘a dignified exit’](https://fortune.com/2026/08/19/iran-has-trump-right-where-they-want-him-dignified-exit/) _2026-08-19 · Jim Edwards · Fortune | FORTUNE_ Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning. ## [One of the VC world’s biggest stars is doubling down on sports in a big way, and there’s a compelling tax reason behind the strategy](https://fortune.com/2026/08/19/joshua-kushner-bob-iger-lakers-sports-team-stake-tax-deduction-benefits-intangible-assets/) _2026-08-19 · Jason Ma · Fortune | FORTUNE_ Thrive Capital founder Joshua Kushner's $12.5 billion deal with former Disney CEO Bob Iger to buy the Los Angeles Lakers vaults him into an elite club. ## [How the UAE has emerged as a ‘leading light’ for tokenization](https://fortune.com/2026/08/19/how-uae-has-emerged-leading-light-for-tokenization/) _2026-08-19 · Melissa Hancock · Fortune | FORTUNE_ Coinbase's decision to base its global tokenization hub in Abu Dhabi is the latest sign that the emirate's bet on regulated digital assets is paying off—with $500 billion in GCC assets predicted to move onto blockchain by 2030. ## [Coinbase establishes Abu Dhabi tokenization hub](https://fortune.com/2026/08/19/coinbase-establishes-abu-dhabi-tokenization-hub/) _2026-08-19 · Melissa Hancock · Fortune | FORTUNE_ In this week’s Fortune Gulf Brief. ## [OpenAI hits pause on training in Hugging Face aftermath](https://fortune.com/2026/08/19/openai-hits-pause-on-training-in-hugging-face-aftermath/) _2026-08-19 · Lily Mae Lazarus · Fortune | FORTUNE_ In today's edition: OpenAI presses pause; China's robot dogs; Apple's EU sacrifices, teen AI, TikTok money, Meta, China's edge, Alibaba, and Etched. ## [For CEOs, retirement is the ultimate performance review—and 60% are failing it](https://fortune.com/2026/08/19/ceos-retirement-preparing-failure-bcg-study/) _2026-08-19 · Phil Wahba · Fortune | FORTUNE_ New data from BCG shows why the CEOs best at running companies are often the worst at leaving them. ## [The IRS is scrutinizing how UnitedHealth moved money through foreign subsidiaries—and whether it underpaid taxes](https://fortune.com/2026/08/19/unitedhealth-irs-transfer-pricing/) _2026-08-19 · Tatiana Sataua · Fortune | FORTUNE_ The agency wants to raise the health giant's taxable income for four straight years. Neither side will say how much is at stake. ## [Tesla asked Las Vegas for 5,000 robotaxi permits. Sin City gave it 10, capped the speed at 45mph, and banned airport trips](https://fortune.com/2026/08/19/tesla-las-vegas-5000-robotaxi-permits-sin-city-10-capped/) _2026-08-19 · Catherina Gioino · Fortune | FORTUNE_ Nevada capped Tesla's fleet at a fraction of its request and kept it away from Harry Reid airport. ## [Ousted L3Harris CEO Chris Kubasik forfeits $45 million—but he’ll still walk away with $80 million in stock and options](https://fortune.com/2026/08/17/l3harris-ceo-ousted-chris-kubasik-sam-mehta/) _2026-08-18 · Amanda Gerut · Fortune | FORTUNE_ The ex-CEO was previously forced to resign from Lockheed Martin after a 2012 ethics investigation confirmed he had a personal relationship with a subordinate. ## [New Mexico’s attorney general reportedly pushes new social media safety laws a day before 29 AGs testify against Meta in federal trial](https://fortune.com/2026/08/17/new-mexico-attorney-general-social-media-safety-laws-states-federal-trial-meta-facebook-instagram/) _2026-08-17 · Catherina Gioino · Fortune | FORTUNE_ Raul Torrez, New Mexico’s attorney general, is drafting two bills as a separate 29-state trial over child safety opens in Oakland tomorrow. ## [57 Trump officials are worth $100 million or more—quadruple the combined total of the last three presidents](https://fortune.com/2026/08/17/trump-wealthy-officials-biden-obama-bush/) _2026-08-17 · The Associated Press, Thomas Beaumont · Fortune | FORTUNE_ The tally comes as only 32% of Americans approve of Trump's handling of the economy, down from 40% ## [Check your fridge: Nearly 19 million eggs are under the FDA’s most serious recall classification](https://fortune.com/2026/08/17/egg-recall-salmonella-outbreak-fda-midwest-poultry/) _2026-08-17 · Tatiana Sataua · Fortune | FORTUNE_ Nearly 19 million eggs linked to a 98-person salmonella outbreak now carry the FDA's highest-risk classification. Some may still be in fridges. ## [‘Only idiot startup founders stay in Cali’: Mark Cuban rips billionaire tax—and opens a rift inside the Democratic Party](https://fortune.com/2026/08/17/mark-cuban-california-billionaires-tax-wealth-ro-khanna/) _2026-08-17 · Joshua Hong · Fortune | FORTUNE_ The business mogul fired shots at the Democratic economic patriot over concerns of taxing young startup companies out of California. ## [U.S. strategic reserves are getting so low the drawdown threatens to damage the 60 underground salt caverns storing American oil](https://fortune.com/2026/08/17/depleted-us-strategic-oil-reserves-risk-damaging-salt-caverns-iran-war/) _2026-08-17 · Sasha Rogelberg · Fortune | FORTUNE_ “We should be highly concerned about the integrity of the caverns anytime crude inventories drop below 300 million barrels,” one petroleum engineering professor warned. ## [The ‘Jamie premium’ nears $1 trillion as JP Morgan flirts with historic market valuation](https://fortune.com/2026/08/17/jamie-dimon-jpmorgan-valuation/) _2026-08-17 · Mia Osmonbekov · Fortune | FORTUNE_ CEO Jamie Dimon has spent two decades building JP Morgan into the lion of Wall Street. Its market cap was $138 billion when he took over ## [Trump pivoted from bombs to an economic war against Iran. But Tehran is now ‘fully offensive’ and doesn’t think the real fighting has even started yet](https://fortune.com/2026/08/17/iran-economic-war-blockade-hormuz-escalation-attacks-oil/) _2026-08-17 · Jason Ma · Fortune | FORTUNE_ Unless the U.S. implements the June ceasefire deal in a few weeks, Iran will launch a “timely and precise” ​attack to break the blockade, an Iranian official told Reuters.