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https://fortune.com/2026/04/21/tim-cook-apple-ceo-transition-turnover-reckoning/
Tim Cook's exit is part of a CEO reckoning sweeping Corporate America | Fortune
Apr 23, 2026 - Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.
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https://fortune.com/2026/04/24/gen-z-entrepreneurship-gig-work-freelance-entry-level-jobs-corporate-america/
With entry-level jobs vanishing, Gen Z grads are ditching corporate America | Fortune
Apr 24, 2026 - “What we're seeing now is something less linear, yet their outcomes are actually improving.”
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https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-food-took-over-america-fortune-cookies-to-peking-duck-2026-1
How Chinese Food Took Over America: Fortune Cookies to Peking Duck - Business Insider
Feb 17, 2026 - Here's how America ended up with more Chinese restaurants than it has locations of nearly any fast-food chain.
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https://www.cnn.com/travel/fortune-cookies-origins-japan-chinese-restaurants-america
From Japan to America, the changing fortunes of fortune cookies | CNN
Apr 9, 2026 - Fortune cookies emerged from Edo-era Japan, evolved in the US through Japanese and Chinese communities and are now bridging cultures with humor, wisdom and...
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https://fortune.com/2026/03/24/covid-war-on-science-harvard-brown-book-fauci-trump-vaccines/
How COVID turned America against science — and what it will take to win it back | Fortune
Mar 24, 2026 - Tony Fauci was not just jerking the country around.
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https://fortune.com/2026/04/12/longevity-ready-america-aging-boomers-retirement-planning/
America is not ready for its own longevity crisis — and 2026 is the wake-up call | Fortune
Apr 12, 2026 - As the oldest baby boomers turn 80, a broken patchwork of financial, health, and community systems leaves millions dangerously unprepared for longer life.
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https://fortune.com/2026/01/03/sweden-unicorn-factory-ai-startups-most-outside-silicon-valley/
Meet Sweden, the unicorn factory chasing America in the AI race | Fortune
Jan 3, 2026 - Stockholm has the highest number of unicorns per capita of any city in the world outside of Silicon Valley.
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https://fortune.com/2026/04/16/stanford-study-how-has-china-gained-on-us-ai-war/
Stanford: China has ‘nearly erased’ U.S. AI lead as flow of tech experts to America slows | Fortune
Apr 17, 2026 - The U.S.’s $286 billion in private AI investment far exceeds China’s, but America is seeing its lead shrink in performance and talent.
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