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    Disney offered a 13-year-old $2 million to sing in ‘The Lion King.’ His mom took $100K plus royalties instead. He’s still getting paid 34 years later (fortune.com)

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    ‘No one was coming to save me’: How Reese Witherspoon built a $900 million company from a problem Hollywood wouldn’t fix (fortune.com)

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    Nobel laureate calls it "treason": $580 million traded minutes before Trump's oil reversal (fortune.com) [Possible Paywall]

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    As economic despair mounts, Russian official admits the country has had enough of Putin's war on Ukraine. "We can’t even take one region" (fortune.com) [Russia/Ukraine]

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    Anthropic's S-1 makes clear it's on the hook for billions in compute. Its customers can walk at any time. (fortune.com) [📰 News]

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    Anthropic’s S-1 risk factors include human extinction, the Pentagon, and Dario Amodei’s reputation (fortune.com) [📰 News]

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    Robinhood bets $10 million on AI coding tool maker Cognition—after previously backing a rival (fortune.com) [GENERAL-NEWS]

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    ‘Nobody prepared them’: The ultrawealthy worry wealth will dull their heirs’ ‘drive and desire’ and so some aren’t telling them how much there is (fortune.com)

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    ‘Nobody prepared them’: The ultrawealthy worry wealth will dull their heirs’ ‘drive and desire’ and so some aren’t telling them how much there is (fortune.com)

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    ‘We like to be first to be second’: How True Religion’s CEO is rebuilding the denim brand for Gen Z and millennials (fortune.com)

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    ‘Nobody prepared them’: The ultrawealthy worry wealth will dull their heirs’ ‘drive and desire’ and so some aren’t telling them how much there is (fortune.com) [📰 News]

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    Anthropic’s founders’ 80% giving pledge could be worth nearly $80 billion (fortune.com)

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    'There’s nothing temporary about a temporary store': How Spirit Halloween’s CEO took it from 130 stores to 1,550 — and swallowed your mall’s Hot Topic (fortune.com)

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  14. 91points

    'My eyes are on you': Netanyahu denies allegations of initiating attack on Iran 'out of fear of losing the election' amid final 24 hours of voting (fortune.com)

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    Biotech firm Rakuten Medical wants to bring its novel 'lightsaber' cancer cure to the U.S. (fortune.com)

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    42% of America's recent college grads are working jobs that don’t need a degree. From Kathmandu to Paris, young people are taking to the streets (fortune.com)

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  17. 113points

    Trump said China was headed for ‘big trouble.’ Instead, its economy is growing faster than the U.S., and its deficits are pulling in the right direction (fortune.com) [新闻 | News]

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  18. 51points

    Cloud gaming was once billed as cheaper than buying titles. But new pricing from Microsoft’s Xbox is eroding that argument, gamers say (fortune.com) [News]

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  19. 38points

    Anthropic plans to spend up to $567 billion on compute. Its S-1 reveals plans to set up its own data centers (fortune.com) [📰 News]

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  20. 10points

    Anthropic’s dual-class share structure borrows ideas from Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk — and the New York Times (fortune.com) [📰 News]

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  21. 135points

    Anthropic’s 7 co-founders are each worth $14 billion already — and that could double in an IPO. They've promised to give most of it away (fortune.com) [📰 News]

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    Anthropic’s S-1 shows $16.3 billion in revenue and an $80.7 billion net loss (fortune.com) [📰 News]

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    The first Russian diesel tanker under Trump’s deal with Putin is headed to New York, the first such shipment since 2023 (fortune.com) [News]

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  24. 15points

    Raffles Family Office is betting on Asia's stablecoin billionaires (fortune.com) [新闻 | News]

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fortune

Minami Maeda, CEO of Rakuten Medical, hopes he can get doctors to stop using their scalpels and try something more science-fiction instead. 

“We’re essentially asking surgeons to put down their knives, and pick up this lightsaber,” he tells Fortune, referring to the company’s new technology that uses light as a way to treat cancer. 

Rakuten Medical, the biotech offshoot of Japanese tech conglomerate Rakuten, is putting about 95% of the company’s resources into cracking the U.S. market. The San Diego-headquartered firm is already using its signature photoimmunotherapy treatment to treat head and neck cancers in Japan; it’s now running Phase 3 clinical trials in the U.S. and gunning for a 2028 FDA submission.

“The U.S. is the world’s biggest market, and it’s also where a lot of capital is deployed,” Maeda tells Fortune. “We want to be able to treat all solid tumors, rather than stop at just head and neck cancers—that means we need significant capital to be invested into R&D.”

Read more [paywall removed for Redditors]: https://fortune.com/2026/10/26/biotech-firm-cancer-cure/?utm_source=reddit/