Forbes Australia

How F1 evolved into a $21 billion giant

With the 2026 season about to roar to life in Melbourne, we break down the money, sponsors and power players behind the grid.

Featured

Netflix buys Ben Affleck’s AI company shortly after ditching Warner Bros. acquisition

‘That’s the top 4’: Oscar Piastri on F1’s new era and McLaren’s MCL40

OneMRI

Edtech to medtech: Two unicorns pivot to a full-body gamble

World Cup uncertainty grows—Here’s why the promised tourism boon is under threat

Apple announces $899 laptop

Life

Porsche

From an Alpine Pass to Albert Park: Porsche celebrates 75 years in Australia in style

From Bondi to Vaucluse: Inside the rise of Sydney’s high-end heritage obsession

Richard Mille presents the RM 41-01 Tourbillon Soccer

Issue 21

Hayden Stephens & Associates

The lawyer weaponising class actions to take on sloppy bosses

Hypersonix

Australia’s hypersonic ‘bus to space’ launched successfully at Mach 5

The Australian startup trying to clean up fashion’s dirty secret

Meet the newcomers on Australia’s 50 Richest List

Why the heirs to the Snow fortune are parting with a $200 million architectural masterpiece

A word from our Editor-in-Chief: AI shakes up the rich list

Forbes Australia Issue 21 is out now.

Entrepreneurs

Quick Takes: Three Australian entrepreneurs to watch – Issue 21

Six entrepreneurs making their fintech 50 debut in 2026

Appetise offers a free meal planning, recipes, and smart shopping app to users across Australia and New Zealand. It sells the aggregated data on consumer preferences to food companies. Image: Appetiser

Appetite for data: This husband-and-wife duo just raised $7m to decode the Aussie shopping cart

Jim Penman

Jim’s Politics: Why Australia’s franchise king is running for the Libertarians

Neara

Unicorn watch: Meet Australia’s newest billion-dollar company

Sovereign Australia AI founders Simon Kriss and Troy Nielson

After accidentally building ‘Bogan AI’ these Aussies are raising $80M for a local ChatGPT-rival

Innovation

This 25-year-old founder wants to kick Chinese drones out of American skies

5-under-25: Meet the agtech founders tackling farming’s biggest challenges

AI music platform Suno reaches 2 million subscribers—as industry backlash grows

Aussie cybersecurity firm UpGuard ascends with $105 million raise

The 50 hottest fintech startups in 2026

Ex-top Tesla engineer raises $140 million to rewire the electric grid

BrandVoice

The growth architects deploying AI at scale

Stripe bets big on AI agents to transform online commerce

Manly Beach trophy for sale: Inside Australia’s rarest 717sqm beachfront penthouse with 30-metre frontage

Ideas to Save the Planet

‘River guardians’: Inside the Great Spine of Africa’s push to protect the source

Rolex Laureate Mark Kendall. Image: Supplied

From vaccines to wearables: How Mark Kendall is betting on skin tech

The 19-cent fix feeding 25 million people a day

Billionaires

Paramount merger could create streaming behemoth with 200 million subscribers

Mark Zuckerberg closes on record-setting $170 million Miami mansion

Meet the world’s youngest self-made woman billionaire

Elon Musk’s net worth has surged past $800 billion, setting yet another record and widening the gap between him and the next richest to more than $500 billion.

The top 10 richest people in the world (March 2026)

Bill Gates admits to affairs, says he never did anything ‘illicit’ with Epstein

Taylor Swift named top-selling artist of 2025 worldwide—it’s a record sixth time at No. 1

Investing

OpenAI raises $110 billion in latest round, valuing firm at US$730 billion

Netflix allowed the legacy media company to reopen talks with Paramount.

Warner Bros. Discovery says Paramount’s new bid might top Netflix’s

IBM shares plummet 13% – worst day since 2000 – after Anthropic launches programming AI tool

PARIS, FRANCE - MAY 22: Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, an artificial intelligence safety and research company attends the Viva Technology show at Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles on May 22, 2024 in Paris, France. Viva Technology, the biggest tech show in Europe but also in a unique digital format, for 4 days of reconnection and relaunch thanks to innovation. The event brings together startups, CEOs, investors, tech leaders and all of the digital transformation players who are shaping the future of the Internet. The annual technology conference, also known as VivaTech, was founded in 2016 by Publicis Groupe and Groupe Les Echos and is dedicated to promoting innovation and startups. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)

Software stocks—Oracle, Intuit, more—fall as Anthropic’s latest Claude model fuels AI concerns

How Jeffrey Epstein helped his publicist become a big-time venture capitalist

Bitcoin crashes below $65,000 as historic free fall worsens – price is down almost 50% in 4 months

Leadership

The pioneer problem: Kamala Harris, the glass cliff, and ‘first mover disadvantage’

After raising $2M, Sydney’s Lunar New Year gala is betting big on its on next-gen donors

Meet the three Australian women on Forbes’ 50 over 50 list for 2026

50 over 50 global: 2026

The best business reads of 2025 (plus bonus books from Bill Gates)

The problem with the ‘highest paid person’s opinion’ and leaders being the ‘smartest person in the room’