Dave Smith

Dave Smith

Dave Smith is Fortune's U.S. News Editor. He previously has been published in Business Insider, Newsweek, ABC News, and USA TODAY. He lives in Toronto.

Tyrese Haliburton stands hunched over during a game

11 teams passed over Tyrese Haliburton in the NBA Draft. The 25-year-old is now on the brink of winning it all

Portrait de l’informaticien américain Bill Atkinson, lors de l’?Apple Expo? de 1987, France. (Photo by Michel BARET/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Bill Atkinson won the respect of Steve Jobs by creating a high-level programming language in just 6 days

Elon Musk looks down

Elon Musk says Trump ‘is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public’

Trump and Musk lean into each other to talk

Elon Musk says ‘without me, Trump would have lost the election’

Trump points his finger at Musk inside the White House

House Speaker Mike Johnson says Trump is ‘not delighted that Elon did a 180’ after the pair spent four months working closely together

People holding an ice cream cone and boba tea from Mixue, the world's largest fast-food chain by number of store locations

A 21-year-old asked his grandmother for money to open a street-food stall. Now, it’s the world’s largest fast-food chain, eclipsing McDonald’s

Telegram founder Pavel Durov smiles while wearing an all-black outfit

Telegram’s CEO built two dominant social networks from scratch before 40 and has fathered more than 100 biological children. He’s also facing up to 10 years in prison

Coinbase founder and CEO Brian Armstrong smiles

Headaches at Coinbase: A data breach, a $20 million ransom demand, and a federal investigation into ‘verified users’

Elon Musk’s AI says it was ‘instructed by my creators at xAI’ to accept the narrative of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa

BYBeatrice Nolan and Dave Smith

Kevin Hart holds a microphone while performing stand-up comedy

The world’s highest-paid comedian says you must embrace rejection if you want to be successful: ‘It’s supposed to be hard’

Fidji Simo sits on stage

Instacart boss Fidji Simo was the first member of her family to graduate from high school. Sam Altman just carved out a brand-new ‘CEO’ role for her at OpenAI

Karoline Leavitt holds up a picture of Jeff Bezos

Amazon pours cold water on report saying it will show how tariffs affect each product’s price: ‘Never a consideration for the main Amazon site’

BYDave Smith and Jason Del Rey

Apple CEO Tim Cook looks at new iPhone models following Apple’s “It’s Glowtime” event in Cupertino, California, September 9, 2024. (Photo by Nic COURY / AFP) (Photo by NIC COURY/AFP via Getty Images)

Apple’s design for the 20th-anniversary iPhone is apparently so ‘extraordinarily complex’ it must be made in China, report says

Kevin Hart smiles for the camera wearing sunglasses

Kevin Hart says there’s one thing still worth splurging on in this uncertain economy, regardless of income level

Parisa Tabris, general manager for Google Chrome, sits on a panel holding a microphone

Google says Chrome will suffer if it’s forced to sell the world’s most popular web browser