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He’s quietly invested in Australia’s biggest space tech startups. Now he’s moving to launch a $150m fund

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The metering reflex: When an AI budget becomes the strategy

A little-known company called Fluidstack has become a test bed for Google’s plans to push its own AI chip. That’s helped it hit a $18 billion valuation and minted its founders as new billionaires.

A tiny startup helping Google take on Nvidia is now worth $18 billion

Amazon cargo plane crashes at Miami International Airport

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

Live: Australia’s Real-Time Rich List

A $1.3 billion event is coming to Australia. And ‘nobody is ready’

Life

F1 Driver Standings 2026: Live Championship Order and Points

Rado's First Australian Flagship Joins the Horological Party on Collins Street

Rado’s first Australian flagship joins the Horological party on Collins Street

Morris of Rutherglen whisky

Casella’s whisky bet gets down to a single barrel

Forbes Travel Guide’s 8 best Sydney hotels

Lürssen launched unprecedented 6 new superyachts in 2026

Australia’s most expensive property sales (August, 2026)

Issue 24

The business of Sam Kerr: Inside the Matildas captain’s next chapter

Sam Kennard, CEO of Kennards Self Storage.

How Sam Kennard built his family’s storage business into a $4.5 billion empire

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Where I’m putting the money: Rory Hunter

Forbes Creators

The new rules of influence: How Australia’s top creators turn followers into fortunes

‘This is what I always say to young people’: Susie Grehl’s reality check for Gen Z investors

A word from our Editor-in-Chief: Issue 24

Billionaires

Billionaires—including Jeff Bezos and Rihanna—billed for unpaid private jet taxes

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

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

Mareterra is Monaco's newest neighbourhood, where $550 million apartments draw F1 stars, superyacht owners and the world's billionaires.

Inside the world’s most expensive neighbourhood: $550 million apartments, F1 stars and billionaires

Billionaire Tim Draper Selling His Private Island In Tanzania—Wants Offers By Email

Jensen Huang passes Zuckerberg and Ellison in billionaire ranks as Nvidia pops 9%

How Josh Kushner’s fortune tripled this year

Entrepreneurs

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

IREN co-founders score $1.14 billion pay packet amid AI bonanza

Innovation

He’s quietly invested in Australia’s biggest space tech startups. Now he’s moving to launch a $150m fund

Ex-OpenAI scientist warns of ‘rogue AIs’ that ‘try to get money and power’

Prompts on the playa: AI invades Burning Man

Meet the ex-OpenAI guys building a cheaper open source alternative

AfterQuery founders Carlos Georgescu, 22, and Spencer Mateega, 23, pose for a photo in San Francisco.

AfterQuery becomes YC’s fastest unicorn at US$3.2 billion

OpenAI to launch its competitor to Anthropic’s Mythos ‘soon’

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

Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face for almost $13 billion

Uber cuts 10% of staff in company’s largest layoffs since pandemic

Malaysian Energy Tycoon Lim Hang Weng In Talks To Take Yinson Holdings Private In $1.7 Billion Deal

PayPal plunges 15% after reports that Advent, Stripe abandon $53 billion bid

Qantas takes a corporate travel hit – but luxury flyers are booming

VCs are so obsessed with this AI assistant that its valuation jumped fivefold in weeks

Leadership

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy

Xero investors protest CEO’s new $25.5m pay pack

Jacinda Ardern on impostor syndrome and the illusion of guilt

The two Aussies who helped secure the internet, and never made a cent from it.

When a company’s reputation is damaged, employees pay the price

We’re in the era of synthetic content. How can leaders build trust?

SafetyCulture has a new name – and an insurance bet to match

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