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Millions of workers are bracing for AI layoffs and restructurings. But a growing slice of Gen Z isn’t even making it onto the corporate ladder in the first place—and increasingly, they’re young women.
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Good morning. In today’s Fortune 500 Digest:
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Middle East war now involves 17 different countries.
Stock markets are broadly up today. Phew!
Why hasn’t Iran bombed any of its neighbors’ water desalinization plants?
Angeliki Frangou,

Imagine a small concert venue, hosting 900 people, give or take. That’s about the number of passengers and crew on a small cruise ship, or of students attending the average U.S. public high school. A group that size collectively holds more wealth than the bottom half of the country combined,

Prosecutors began presenting never-before-seen video depositions of Meta executives at a trial in New Mexico on Tuesday to bolster accusations that the social media conglomerate failed to disclose what it knows about harmful effects to children on its platforms, including Instagram.
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Summer Yue isn’t the most famous employee at Meta. The director of “superintelligence alignment and safety research” posts pictures of her walking her dog on the beach and messages about testing the honesty of AI assistants. She has a modest number of followers on social media. 
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The Strait of Hormuz has become the center of the energy universe again after the U.S. and Israel began bombing Iran over the weekend.
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In retaliation, the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has launched missiles at vessels near the critical choke point in the global e

For the Louvre, the world’s most visited museum, it is “statistically inevitable” that fraud would come up at some point, the museum’s No. 2 said in the wake of a decade-long, 10 million euro ($11.8 million) suspected ticket-fraud scheme revealed last week.
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Russian aircraft, drones and missiles have violated NATO airspace dozens of times since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022.
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Individually, many of these incidents appear minor: a drone crash here, a brief fighter incursion there, a missile discovered

Erik Brynjolfsson has spent the last several years building one of the most detailed empirical pictures of how technology is reshaping the American workforce—and the picture keeps getting darker for workers at the bottom of the corporate ladder.
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Barely an hour after the first U.S. and Israeli missiles struck Iran, President Donald Trump made clear he hoped for regime change. “Now is the time to seize control of your destiny,” he told the Iranian people in a video. “This is the moment for action. Do not let it pass.”
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With 100 days until the World Cup, fans express hope for Spain and England but raise concerns over safety and funding issues in North America, especially regarding security amidst political tensions and local financial challenges.

Milan has added the title of Olympic city to its long-held monikers as Italy’s fashion and finance capital, a legacy that crowns two decades of growth that reshaped the skyline and boosted investment,

California Governor Gavin Newsom reassured European allies at the Munich Security Conference that Trump's influence is temporary, emphasizing the importance of US state partnerships and defending democratic norms against an imperial presidency.

Bill Deng, CEO of China-based fintech platform XTransfer, thinks stablecoins can help finally digitize business-to-business transactions, often still stuck in a world of PDFs and emails. 
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Børge Brende has resigned as head of the World Economic Forum following scrutiny over his past interactions with Jeffrey Epstein. Despite an internal review finding no new concerns, he decided to step down to allow the forum to continue its work without distractions.

Target is refocusing on "busy families" to revive sales after a revenue decline post-pandemic. CEO Fiddelke plans to enhance supply chains and reduce inventory diversity, aiming for 2% growth this fiscal year despite recent mixed earnings.

Headlines about AI often focus on the most surprising or concerning innovations. But this misses out what really matters: the multi-trillion-dollar opportunity of enterprise AI. The race for AI-powered economic gains is on, and Europe can lead if it makes the right moves now.
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What started as a Super Bowl ad about finding lost dogs ended in a multicity contract termination for Flock, not because its technology was featured in the ad, but because of growing public sentiment as a result.
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Monday’s sentencing of Hong Kong democracy advocate and one-time media magnate Jimmy Lai brought an outcry from governments and rights groups. Chinese and Hong Kong authorities defended it, saying it reflected the spirit of the rule of law.
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The 78-year-old Lai was sentenced t