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Rich List

Canva valuation marked down by US titans T. Rowe Price and Franklin Templeton

OpenAI’s ‘flight risk’: Why Sam Altman is comparing AI disasters to plane crashes

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Zuckerberg, Musk and Huang reportedly convinced Trump to block AI regulator

Life

Australian F1 Grand Prix has a new title sponsor – and a new race day

At Kaleidos in Shanghai, Bvlgari envisions colour as a "universal artistic language"

Inside Kaleidos, Bvlgari’s biggest jewellery show of the year in Shanghai

Collection of historic jewels and objects could fetch $25 million at auction

The Macallan's new film explores the craft behind exceptional whisky casks

Steve McCurry’s new Macallan documentary lifts the lid on 3-year secret project

Apple’s new Siri AI can recap your conversations: What to know

Ranked: The NFL’s most valuable teams 2026

Issue 24

Sam Kennard, CEO of Kennards Self Storage.

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

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

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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

The Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans: facts and figures

Meet the 34 newcomers to the 2026 Forbes 400 List

The 10 youngest billionaires on the 2026 Forbes 400 list

The richest new Forbes 400 member hails from OpenAI. It isn’t Sam Altman.

Michael Dell hits No. 2 on Forbes billionaire list for first time—passing Larry Page

‘Musk’ documentary portrays Tesla billionaire as an ‘unabashed megalomaniac’

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

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Quantum startup SQC appoints ex-GlobalFoundries CFO

‘Ridiculous’ AI extinction fears are a cybersecurity investment opportunity, says Cathie Wood

OpenAI isn’t going public this year, Sam Altman says

Ternarx

Drugging the undruggable. The Melbourne biotech taking on the world

Meta offered this Australian $1.5 billion. Now he’s joining Anthropic.

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

AI stocks plummet amid calls for slowdown—SoftBank chief’s fortune drops by $8 billion

Crowdstrike skyrockets 14% as AI fears send cybersecurity stocks surging

Meta shares boosted after Muse AI agent launch

Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face for almost $13 billion

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

$1.2 billion VC King River Capital predicts ‘flood’ of super money flowing to startups

Leadership

Dolly Parton’s life at 80 taught women to live fully at every age

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?

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