After pouring $450 million into Florida real estate, Larry Ellison plans to lure the ultrarich to an exclusive town just minutes from Mar-a-Lago
Ellison bought the aging but glamorous Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa in August and plans to renovate.
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Chaos, cheap money, and a collapse in crypto sends gold up 69% for the year, hitting a new record high
With two live armed conflicts over oil, weakness in the dollar, and Bitcoin off the menu for anxious investors, gold is the beneficiary, analysts said in emails sent to Fortune.
Meta’s Threads makes a play for podcasters and their rabid fans
If podcasters engage with the service, it could make Threads more compelling to listeners and viewers.
Shield AI took its drones from the ‘Batcave’ to the battlefield. Now the $5.6 billion defense-tech startup’s new CEO says it’s at an inflection point
After eight months spent tweaking its surveillance drone in Ukraine, demand for Shield AI’s V-BAT is ramping up in Europe and Asia.
Tom Freston, the beat-poet exec who made MTV cool for 20 years, sees ‘really nothing in it for the consumer’ from Netflix, Warner, or his old company
The ex-Viacom and Paramount chief is as proud of his new book as he is aghast at MTV leadership. "They've run it into the ground over the last 15 years."
2025: the year sustainability didn’t die
Even with all the challenges of 2025, sustainability managed to sustain in 2025.
Gen Z is open minded about blue-collar work and the Fords of the economy need them — but both sides are missing each other
Clinton Crawford, an automotive technician, said college was pushed on his kids. “That’s good, if that’s for you, but I don’t think it’s for everyone.”
James Talarico says the biggest ‘welfare queens’ in America are ‘the giant corporations that don’t pay a penny in income taxes’
The 2026 Senate hopeful says major corporations cost taxpayers far more than social safety net programs.
Natasha Lyonne says AI has an ethics problem because right now it’s ‘super kosher copacetic to rob freely under the auspices of acceleration’
Lyonne’s production company developed a tool for generating big screen-ready AI content.
