$100,000+ to install elevators — these six-figure trade jobs don’t require college degrees

With AI threatening to steal corporate jobs and recent graduates finding themselves “unemployable,” trade jobs are becoming increasingly attractive—and lucrative, for that matter. Despite “significant stigma” surrounding vocational careers and assumptions that grad jobs are the only path to success, a new report highlights that tradies in the U.S. can earn six-figure salaries without the added debt of a college degree.  In fact, elevator and escalator installers are taking home just over $100,000 a year on average—and you just need a high school diploma to get started in the industry.…

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Why two-time founder and MacArthur Genius Daphne Koller sees a future where humans “create together with the machines”

On this episode of Fortune’s Leadership Next podcast, cohosts Diane Brady, executive editorial director of the Fortune CEO Initiative and Fortune Live Media, and editorial director Kristin Stoller talk to Daphne Koller, founder and CEO of Insitro. They talk about using AI to combat the antiquity of drug discovery, working with Big Pharma and the Trump Administration, and helping society prepare for a post-AI world. Daphne Koller: I think that the future is in a partnership between the human and the machine. I think for every technology that we’ve constructed in the…

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Hershey CEO exit means Fortune 500 loses a female CEO

– Sweet and sour. The Fortune 500 will soon be down one female CEO after Hershey’s announced yesterday that longtime chief Michele Buck will hand over the reins of the $11.2 billion-in-revenue chocolate-maker Aug. 18. Buck had already announced her plans to retire, but moved up the timeline by almost a year. Her successor is Kirk Tanner, a PepsiCo alum-turned-CEO of Wendy’s who led the fast food chain’s collabs with brands from Spongebob to Takis. When the 2025 Fortune 500 was published a month ago, 55 companies on the list…

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Why success with AI requires elevating workplace relationships

AI is finally delivering the productivity gains long promised. But something else is quietly slipping away: our connection to one another. While many conversations about AI fixate on job loss, new research from the Upwork Research Institute reveals a more immediate and underrecognized risk. AI is accelerating output, but at an emotional and relational cost, pointing to a growing lack of trust and clarity from leadership. The hidden cost of AI-driven productivity Upwork’s global survey of 2,500 C-suite executives, employees, and freelancers confirms what many leaders have hoped for: AI…

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‘Shut up, Dan’ — Elon Musk snaps at Tesla bull Dan Ives for demanding board take action

If “card-carrying Tesla bull” was a term in the dictionary, a picture of Dan Ives would be next to it. The Wedbush Securities tech analyst never wavers in his conviction the company is the most undervalued AI play in the market.  In his view, the share ought to trade closer to $620 with Tesla deserving of a $2 trillion market cap—slightly more than double what its currently worth. Nor does Ives tire of explaining that Tesla’s single most important asset driving this projected growth over the next 12 to 18…

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Gen Z and millennials can’t afford to buy a house, and it shows: The number of first-time homebuyers is half the historical norm

Those factors have gatekept the housing market from many first-time home buyers, who are typically younger generations like Gen Z and millennials. In fact, the housing market has become so unaffordable for these buyers, the number of first-time home buyers shrank to a historic low. To put it in perspective, the number of first-time homebuyers in 2004 was nearly 3.2 million, according to NAR data shared with Fortune on Tuesday. By 2024, that number had plummeted to just 1.14 million.  And many realtors and real estate experts don’t expect this…

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Switzerland approves first antimalarial drug for infants

Switzerland’s medical products authority has granted the first approval for a malaria medicine designed for small infants, touted as an advance against a disease that takes hundreds of thousands of lives — nearly all in Africa — each year. Swissmedic gave a green light Tuesday for the medicine from Basel-based pharmaceutical company Novartis for treatment of babies with body weights between 2 and 5 kilograms (nearly 4½ to 11 pounds), which could pave the way for hard-hit African nations to follow suit in coming months. The agency said that the…

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