At Fortune’s 2024 Global Forum, Brady said the only way to build real confidence is to put yourself “in uncomfortable positions,” mess up, and then figure out the solution. “The reality of your business and career is overcoming adversity. The only way to do that is to fail." https://bit.ly/4rASz2i

Joanna Griffiths experimented with executive coaches for years to help her work through challenges in leading Knix. But now, she’s finding new wings by falling into a trance-like, meditative state. https://bit.ly/3Ourtvx

While Cuban, Barra, and Altman come from vastly different backgrounds—and carry very different responsibilities—their actions reflect a shared belief: as AI becomes more powerful, the most valuable skills for Gen Z may be the ones technology can’t replicate. https://bit.ly/4aD0M0n

“They’re not just communicating to consumers, they’re also communicating to investors who watch these ads. They’re reinforcing this kind of view that the company is very innovative.” https://bit.ly/4qozvne

“So when I got into entrepreneurship, private equity, venture, and when times got tough, I just told myself, well, it took me 10 years to actually become a pro.” https://bit.ly/4r8SnYz

Housing affordability “may primarily be about differences in income growth at the top of the distribution relative to the middle.” https://fortune.com/2026/02/07/housing-affordability-crisis-home-prices-income-inequality-supply-growth-population/

The Microsoft cofounder put up for sale a $4.8 million property “nestled into one of Medina’s most coveted hillsides,” according to the listing—a four-bed, three-bath home. https://fortune.com/2026/02/08/bill-gates-house-for-sale-xanadu-2-seattle-washington-reversal-on-downsizing/

“This is the best time to consider Malaysia as your [investment] destination…given our approach of being friendly to everyone and focusing on economic prosperity.” https://fortune.com/2026/02/07/malaysia-economy-minister-akmal-nasir-johor-semiconductors-energy/

Associated Builders and Contractors estimates the industry will need to bring in 456,000 new workers in 2027, up 30.7% from the 349,000 needed this year. https://fortune.com/2026/02/07/us-construction-industry-employment-outlook-500000-new-workers-ai-boom-infrastructure-skilled-trades/

“Nothing else will solve the national debt. We just need enough time to build the AI and robots to not go bankrupt before then.” https://fortune.com/2026/02/07/elon-musk-us-bankruptcy-ai-robotics-economic-growth-national-debt-crisis/

“The things that make us human will become much more important instead of much less important,” Daniela Amodei told ABC News. https://fortune.com/2026/02/07/anthropic-cofounder-daniela-amodei-humanities-majors-soft-skills-hiring-ai-stem/

On paper, at least, Disney has set up D’Amaro and Walden to navigate the many pitfalls such a scenario poses by giving the new CEO and chief creative officer roles that are distinct and complementary. https://fortune.com/2026/02/07/disney-succession-josh-damaro-dana-walden/

Super is the first female CEO of the new parent company Victoria’s Secret & Co. after a 2021 spinoff from L Brands. “It’s hard to have an intuition about a category that you cannot put on your body." https://fortune.com/2026/02/07/victorias-secret-ceo-hillary-super/

One of Bisignano’s first moves was to ensure that people could access the ssa.gov website 24/7. “When I took over, I learned that the site was down 29 hours a week or 17% of the time,” he told Fortune. https://fortune.com/2026/02/07/social-security-crisis-benefits-frank-bisignano/

Gu said she reached her lowest point six months after the 2022 Olympics. “You’re 18, you feel like you’re on top of the world, and then you hit this hole.” https://fortune.com/2026/02/07/freestyle-skier-eileen-gu-post-olympic-depression-burnout-anxiety-beijing-milan-games/

In some ways, 10-year-old Giancarlo is one of the lucky ones. He still goes to school. Sometimes only seven of Giancarlo’s classmates show up when there should be close to 30. “The teachers cry,” he said. “It’s sad.” https://bit.ly/4thMoCd

Lawyers for conservation groups, Native American tribes, and the states of Oregon and Washington are returning to court Friday following the collapse of a landmark agreement with the federal government to help recover critically imperiled salmon runs. https://bit.ly/4rGpqDb

According to the Wells Fargo Agri-Food Institute, hosting a Super Bowl party in 2026 will cost approximately $140 for a group of 10 hungry and thirsty fans. https://bit.ly/3NYBkK0

Posts on Moltbook, a sort of Reddit for AI agents, have ranged from “overthrowing” humans, philosophical musings, and even the development of a religion (Crustafarianism, in which there are five key tenets and a guiding text — “The Book of Molt”). https://bit.ly/3MqVETS

“In 36 months, but probably closer to 30 months, the most economically compelling place to put AI will be space,” SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said. “The only place you can really scale is space." https://bit.ly/3MgxjjA

“With AI these days you can make videos that appear to be very real. So we can’t just take a video and trust that that’s proof of life,” Heith Janke, the FBI chief in Phoenix, said at a news conference Thursday. https://bit.ly/4qrxVRx

There are plenty of theories swirling around about the cause of the massive Bitcoin crash, but one is particularly compelling: Hong Kong traders who placed high-leverage bets that went horribly wrong. https://bit.ly/4aBju8w

As the NFL tries to figure out how to better engage and serve female fans, one team has had a head start—the Kansas City Chiefs. https://bit.ly/3Zi0iGG

Like many Gen Zers, U.S. women's synchronized swimmer and silver medalist Daniella Ramirez turned to social media content creation as a side gig during the pandemic. Now, it pays more than being an Olympian does. https://bit.ly/4tkAV4N

Angel Juarez is a software engineer at American Express and makes $150,000 a year. Juarez said he “hated high school” and earned a 1.0 GPA, because he felt school was “just making me a number.” https://bit.ly/4kmxOVJ

OpenAI’s ChatGPT app market share plummeted from 69.1% in January 2025 to 45.3% the following year, while Google’s Gemini chatbot app increased its market share from 14.7% to 25.2%. https://bit.ly/4qozIqm

Bitcoin has lost 50% of its value, peak to trough, falling from a high of about $125K per coin in October 2025 to its low yesterday of $61.3K. https://bit.ly/49Z99Di

As Super Bowl Sunday approaches, the battle off the field for advertisers to win over 120 million-plus viewers will be just as heated as the rivalry between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks. https://bit.ly/4tl82Fr

Newly released documents from the Department of Justice reveal that Epstein cultivated ties to the still-emerging crypto industry with early investments in the U.S crypto exchange Coinbase, as well as the Bitcoin infrastructure company Blockstream. https://bit.ly/4kidLaW

Journalist Megan Robinson, 28, spent much of last year on a job hunt, applying for about 1,000 jobs. She landed just three interviews. https://bit.ly/4cdI80d

“Richard Marcinko was a gentleman that trained CIA officers and special-ops people how to endure torture," said actor Jim Carrey. "He gave me a litany of things that I could do when I began to spiral." https://bit.ly/46koKLm

The online furor over Moltbook was cascading and immediate. But we’ve seen this film before in a 2017 a Meta AI research experiment. https://bit.ly/4khHsci

Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that he’s stepping down, though he’ll stay on through the end of the year as a senior advisor with the goal of giving successor Josh D’Amaro some time to settle. https://bit.ly/4qjRNpy

“It would clearly be less of a painful path, I’m sure, to not do it in the public sphere," said Niklas Östberg, founder and CEO of Delivery Hero. “But we don’t do this because it’s easy." Read more of Kamal Ahmed's Letter from London, Fortune Europe's global news dispatch. https://bit.ly/3ZidhrZ

“Interestingly, that pattern echoes what we saw in 2000 as the dot-com bubble started to burst,” said Deutsche Bank’s Henry Allen. “Equities started to fall from the March 2000 as tech stocks saw significant declines." https://bit.ly/4tmviCW

Around 44% of employers plan to roll out uniform, across-the-board wage bumps in 2026, according to a new Payscale report. https://bit.ly/4kie9q4

“We are on the brink,” said billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio. “That means not in, but it means we are quite close to [a capital war], and it would be very easy to go over the brink into a capital war, because there are mutual fears.” https://bit.ly/4rtCRGd

Markets were flat or down globally this morning, with damage coming from the tech and software sector as investors began to realize that the promise of AI won’t always be sunshine and roses. https://bit.ly/46lPqva

Gen Z creators in the U.S. are staging a quiet revolt against TikTok’s new American owners, and their protest is happening one download at a time: by installing a rising alternative app built by a former Oracle employee. https://bit.ly/3ZkdvyI

In a dataset released Tuesday, the New York Fed analyzed monthly consumer spending data for 200,000 Americans. Adjusted for inflation, retail spending rose 4% among Americans without a college degree, but nearly 6% for consumers with one. https://bit.ly/4qlemtU

Anduril, a $30 billion defense tech startup, is approaching hiring with a radically different approach: Don’t tell us what you can do—fly it. https://bit.ly/4ayQCha

Some thought that Bitcoin’s nosedive couldn’t get any worse. They were wrong. The original cryptocurrency dipped to under $68,000, its lowest level since October 2024. https://bit.ly/4rzHyyy

A hearing about oversight of the U.S. financial system devolved into insults several times Wednesday as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent clashed with Democratic lawmakers. https://bit.ly/4aeJLrT

In a report by the HOW Institute for Society, about 94% of employees in the study said the need for moral leadership is more urgent than ever — but fewer than 10% of CEOs were judged to be leading effectively. https://bit.ly/45RVdbH

On Wednesday, Uber announced Balaji Krishnamurthy, current vice president of strategic finance, as their new CFO. https://bit.ly/4tl2Pxp

Meta has quietly purchased roughly 1,400 acres adjacent to its already-mammoth 2,250-acre Hyperion AI data center site in Richland Parish, La. https://bit.ly/4akE9g5

“I think specifically at this moment, maybe the top question is definitely around compute capacity,” Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said. https://bit.ly/45OtGrN

“I want the same thing for my company that I want for my kids: Go explore life,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang explained. https://bit.ly/3OnXBAY

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his husband welcomed a son in February 2025, upending Altman’s disciplined daily routine. “I’ve just accepted that life is going to be chaotic for a few years," he said. https://bit.ly/3NQVaH8

In this 1966 issue of Fortune, writer Charles E. Silberman explained how government spending was incentivizing corporations to produce educational technology. https://bit.ly/4a9ah64