Forbes Australia

This ex-NASA physicist had a ‘cushy job for life’. He took a gamble now worth $400M

Daniel Shaddock’s Canberra-born Liquid Instruments turns one box into a lab full of instruments. Apple and NVIDIA are already buying.

Issue 25

Pearl dynasty: Meet the heir designing Paspaley’s new era of luxury

Quick Takes: Three entrepreneurs we’re watching right now – Issue 25

The ASX wants Australia’s unicorns. So why hasn’t it won them over?

A word from our Editor-in-Chief: Why luxury is digging into its past

Featured

Firmus absorbed 70% Australian startup funding before attempted IPO

‘The Social Reckoning’ policies that Silicon Valley avoided – and Canberra delivered

Australia's Real Time Rich List: Top 50 Billionaires Ranked. See the full Forbes Rich List.

Live: Atlassian Founders Surge Up Australia’s Real-Time Rich List

OpenAI asked the chip industry to build faster. Then it built its own chip team.

Anthropic pauses free Claude startup perks days after launch

Life

Australia’s first Michelin Star restaurants revealed

How the best horse on the planet came to Sydney to run in the richest turf race in the world

Queen Elizabeth II’s custom Bentley could fetch $735,000, with a royal handbag twist

summer suits for men

Six of the best menswear brands to heat up your summer suit game

Forget the corporate playbook: Camilla Franks says embracing one’s flaws is key

Omega combines James Bond and Spectre in new Seamaster collection

Billionaires

Nvidia chief Jensen Huang’s net worth falls below $200 billion mark as tech stocks drop

OpenAI’s Sam Altman says world should accept ‘some bad things’ from AI

Evan Spiegel’s ill-fated $3 billion plan to put Snapchat on your face

Elon Musk becomes a trillionaire again after SpaceX stock soars

Should the wealthy pay for their friends’ trips? Savannah James sparks debate online

Inside the mega-deals behind Europe’s AI billionaire boom

Entrepreneurs

Promethean BioPharma

The $200 million CBD gamble: Inside the Australian biotech betting on a cannabis pill

Inside alcheMe: Rebecca Judd’s new formula for tween skincare

Beyond the burn: How a trans-Pacific leap built Glasshouse Fragrances

Wendy McCarthy’s quiet campaign to fund next-gen rebel women

Bondi to Baroque: Camilla Franks’ palatial, but distilled, evolution

Samsara Eco kicks off $100m raise to recycle critical minerals

Innovation

This ex-NASA physicist had a ‘cushy job for life’. He took a gamble now worth $400 million

Figure’s Brett Adcock sold investors a humanoid future. Now he has to build it.

This former OpenAI exec is trying to cure chronic diseases, including her own

Anthropic will let Australia stress test dangerous new models

Arkeus

How Arkeus crossed defence tech’s ‘valley of death’

ChatGPT’s traffic roars back after year of stagnation

BrandVoice

As commercial real estate private credit evolves, clarity becomes a competitive advantage

Australia’s great wealth transfer: How Australia’s wealthiest families are rewriting the rules of inheritance

Why AI’s real superpower isn’t predicting markets

Investing

‘Confidence evaporated’: Explaining Firmus’ $44 billion IPO flop

Square Peg's Ben Hensman, Leila Lee, Dan Krasnostein and Paul Bassat. Credit: Square Peg.

Square Peg raises over $1 billion for new funds amid AI bonanza

‘Culture clash’: Inside three years of transformation and tumult at Xero

RBA Rate Decision Tracker (September, 2026)

RBA hikes cash rate by 25 basis points to highest level in 15 years

Oracle stock slides after company issued ‘force majeure’ notice for major data center project

Leadership

OpenAI reportedly fires 3 researchers over allegedly mishandling confidential information

Oracle filing reveals Co-CEO made 6,623 times the company’s median worker

Jane Goodall’s lasting lessons for our planet

$790 million medtech Harrison.ai reveals revenue surge after restructure culling 15% of staff

How 540 AFLW players became the world’s biggest women’s league

U.S. and China discuss AI alert system for safety incidents

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