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Experts say high-end Swiss-made watches carry social cachet strong enough to retain young luxury watch fanatics willing to spend big.

“It was extremely difficult,” IgniteTech CEO Eric Vaughan tells Fortune. “But changing minds was harder than adding skills.”

In exclusive interviews with Fortune, Wharton professor Joao Gomes and AEI’s Desmond Lachman warned that while tariffs may slow debt growth, they won’t meaningfully reduce it.

SoundHound AI CEO Keyvan Mohajer grew his Stanford dorm room start-up into a $6.5 billion company, fueled by a refusal to just be “average.”

Nvidia and AMD agreeing to give 15% of their China chips revenue back to the U.S. doesn't recall any deal ever struck by the U.S. government.

Even conservative Heritage Foundation economist Steven Moore is worried about a labor shortage.

The Thiel fellowship awards $200,000 to young people who skip or leave college to spend two years building a startup, with notable alumni including Figma CEO Dylan Field and Scale AI cofounder Lucy Guo.

“Researchers are interested in solving problems that have their curiosity. It’s not like we start off with the same goal of, what’s the future of humanity going to be?”

Trump has called Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan both “highly conflicted” and possessing “an amazing story.”

A significant software leak has inadvertently revealed internal identifiers for a wide range of unreleased Apple hardware—spanning iPads, Apple Watches, Vision Pro headsets, HomePod mini, Apple TV, Studio Display 2, and more—indicating a massive and sweeping product refresh headed for late 2025 and into 2026.