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- A Deadly Consensus: No Interest Rate Cut Will Happen In 2026
How Kevin Warsh can fight the new—and wrong—consensus that the Federal Reserve may have to raise interest rates.
- Blue Jays’ Former All-Star Prospect Retires After Team Window ‘Shut’
The Toronto Blue Jays received news that a former All-Star talent made a midseason retirement decision at age 28.
- Notion takes a quiet approach to designing AI features: ‘You can’t have every new tool screaming at you’
“There are other ways to drive awareness or adoption that aren't about making all the features immediately present," says design head Randy Hunt.
- How Elon Musk sold a $1.77 trillion dream—and what other CEOs can learn from the SpaceX IPO
Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.
- Port Laredo Is Nation’s Top Trade Gateway For 2nd Straight Month
Port Laredo had been the top U.S. port in 2023 and 2024 but fell behind O’Hare International Airport and JFK International Airport in 2025 despite record trade.
Technology
- You do your own time
There we were, a regular murderers’ row of librarians. Little Jo. Eustace. And me. Turning around in the nave of our library to greet the sound of footsteps, pistols leveled in case whoever was coming in didn’t respect sanctuary. Little Jo had a stack of books under one arm. Eustace was holding the screwdriver she’d…
- Inside Interoception: The hidden sense of how you feel inside
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Your brain lives in the dark space of your skull. Yet it knows when the wind lifts the hairs on your skin, when your heart is…
- Why “reprogramming” is the buzziest approach to reversing aging right now
Earlier this week, Life Biosciences, a biotech company focused on reversing age-related diseases, announced that it had dosed its first volunteer. A person with glaucoma has had an experimental treatment injected straight into their eyeball. The idea is to try to treat the disease—which can cause vision loss—by regenerating healthy nerves in the eye. But…
- Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden try to fight censorship with bipartisan JAWBONE Act
Cruz/Wyden bill would help Americans sue federal officials over censorship.
- AcuRite admits new app falls short, delays old app’s May shutdown to fix problems
The old app "still needs to be retired," AcuRite tells us.
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