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98% of workers say breaks boost productivity, but most skip lunch due to workload

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In place of lunch breaks, there has been a rise in "little treat culture," influenced by the TikTok trend of the same name.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/16/lunch-breaks-shrinking-gen-z-work-culture-ezcater/

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff blasts rival Microsoft’s ‘disappointing’ Copilot: ‘It just doesn’t work’

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Benioff has attacked Copilot for months as he promotes Salesforce’s own AI product.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/17/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-blasts-microsoft-ai-copilot/

Meta’s ‘permanent’ efficiency layoffs affected about 100 employees, including engineers and business roles

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For at least the third time this year, Meta laid off several dozen workers.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/17/meta-permanent-efficiency-layoffs-100-employees-engineers-monetization-mark-zuckerberg/

At $5 trillion investment giant Fidelity, battling burnout is a gamechanger

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Leaders at Fidelity, Cotopaxi, and Baylor University discuss how to support women in the workplace—and how to help yourself.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/17/battling-burnout-gamechanger-female-leaders/

23andMe’s entire board resigned on the same day. Founder Anne Wojcicki still thinks the startup is savable

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The blue-chip board and the startup star had been on a collision course for months. Here’s what really happened.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/17/23andme-what-happened-stock-board-resigns-anne-wojcicki/

China unveiled more stimulus actions for its property sector—investors weren’t pleased, again

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Some analysts were hoping for Beijing to expand a program that would allow the government to act as a buyer of last resort.

https://fortune.com/asia/2024/10/17/china-stimulus-actions-property-sector-investors-underwhelmed-again/

Top AI leaders say they don’t want women to get left behind in the tech revolution

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Tech executives at Accenture, Salesforce, and Bloomberg Beta say women need to become AI users to reduce bias.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/16/accenture-salesforce-bloomberg-ai-leaders-women-left-behind/

Meta reportedly fires staffer on $400K a year for spending $25 meal credits on toothpaste and tea

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Meta employees online alleged the fired staffers spent their in-office meal credits on goods even when working from home.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/17/meta-staff-layoffs-meal-credits/

Childcare failures and a maternal health crisis are crushing working parents

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Reshma Saujani and Christy Turlington Burns discuss the final fight for gender equality at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women summit.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/17/childcare-failures-maternal-health-crisis-crushing-working-parents/

OpenAI is quietly pitching its products to the U.S. military and national security establishment

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The hiring of a top executive from Palantir also signals OpenAI's national security ambitions

https://fortune.com/2024/10/17/openai-is-quietly-pitching-its-products-to-the-u-s-military-and-national-security-establishment/

23andMe’s entire board resigned on the same day. Founder Anne Wojcicki still thinks the startup is savable

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The blue-chip board and the startup star had been on a collision course for months. Here’s what really happened.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/17/23andme-what-happened-stock-board-resigns-anne-wojcicki/

How to prevent millions of invisible law-free AI agents casually wreaking economic havoc

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There’s a real risk that a flood of AI agents will join our economic systems with essentially no legal infrastructure in place.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/17/ai-agents-law-economy/

OpenAI is quietly pitching its products to the U.S. military and national security establishment

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The hiring of a top executive from Palantir also signals OpenAI's national security ambitions

https://fortune.com/2024/10/17/openai-is-quietly-pitching-its-products-to-the-u-s-military-and-national-security-establishment/

Jeff Bezos says companies need ‘a culture that supports truth-telling.’ Here’s how he built one at Amazon

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"We mostly survive by being social animals and being cordial" but "important truths can be uncomfortable," said the Amazon founder.

https://fortune.com/2023/12/17/jeff-bezos-leadership-truth-telling-company-culture-amazon-blue-origin/

Basketball great Candace Parker wants to buy a WNBA team—and an NBA team too

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Even after retirement, this three-time champion continues to aim for the biggest goals.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/17/wnba-great-candace-parker-wants-to-buy-a-team-in-the-league-and-an-nba-team-too/

Walmart will sell you a tiny house for under $16,000

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There’s a cheaper option, though.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/17/walmart-tiny-house-amazon/

OpenAI is quietly pitching its products to the U.S. military and national security establishment

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The hiring of a top executive from Palantir also signals OpenAI's national security ambitions

https://fortune.com/2024/10/17/openai-is-quietly-pitching-its-products-to-the-u-s-military-and-national-security-establishment/

Google Flights adds a ‘Cheapest’ tab in a huge assist to bargain-hunters everywhere

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Cheap doesn’t mean convenient, though.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/17/google-flights-cheapest-tab/

This could be America’s first ‘podcast election’—just look across the pond

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High-profile podcast appearances by Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have brought political discussions into the podcasting spotlight.

https://fortune.com/2024/10/17/america-first-podcast-election-culture-media-politics/

Trump Media lockup deadline leaves Trump with a choice: trigger a fire sale or hold a meme stock

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Some say the stock is worth only $1.50 a share.

https://fortune.com/2024/09/18/donald-trump-media-truth-social-stock/