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

Terry Snow, one of Australia’s wealthiest people, died a year and a half ago, leaving behind a business empire and unique legacies.

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A word from our Editor-in-Chief: Issue 21

Six entrepreneurs making their fintech 50 debut in 2026

The 50 hottest fintech startups 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

Former Prince Andrew released from police custody after arrest

Australia's 50 Richest People 2026

Life

Vacheron Constantin Legend of the Chinese Zodiac Year of the Horse © Clement Rousset - Studio Contraste SARL

Six brands prance year of the horse watches onto the market

Underrated travel destinations for 2026: Where to avoid overtourism

Buried 650ft underground, the lost Elvis reels behind Baz Luhrmann’s ‘EPiC’

‘Wuthering Heights’ grosses US$34.8 million – Emerald Fennell’s best domestic opening yet

Meet the jewellery tycoon who paid US$38.5 million for an ultra-rare Ferrari

Forbes Travel Guide’s 2026 Star Award winners – including the world’s first five-star cruise

30 Under 30

From Sydney to Mayfair: Yerin Ha’s Bridgerton breakout

Tap here to see the full 30 Under 30 list.

Introducing Forbes Australia’s 30 Under 30 list for 2025

$100 million man: How Josh Giddey became Australia’s highest-paid athlete at 23

Inside Milly Alcock’s meteoric rise from the Inner West to Westeros

How this trio are saving Australia’s pipes with a ‘ferret’ – and a $2 million cheque

How Sophia Begg turned TikTok stardom into a multi-million-dollar brand

Entrepreneurs

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

How Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni raised $35m to build an AI shopping unicorn

TikTok star Khaby Lame sells his core company in $975 million deal

AI contract review firm Ivo raises $82m Series B

Innovation

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Gene editing has struggled to go commercial. This Nobel laureate has a $1 billion plan to fix that

Thomas Edison on powering the future: A 1929 Forbes interview

Racist videos and payment problems: The dark side of this AI startup’s super-fast growth

Forbes 250: America’s greatest innovators

Brisbane startup Cortisonic emerges from stealth with a chip built on sound, not electricity

OpenAI

Sam Altman reveals why OpenAI is poised to make the biggest business bets ever

BrandVoice

From enterprise to academia: How Dr Nikhil Jayaraj of Regen Power is building a net zero playbook

Opening the private credit market to a new class of investors

How Easy Super is redefining SMSFs

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

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

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

Billionaire Hyatt Hotels Chair Tom Pritzker retires over Epstein association

How a Chinese engineer became a billionaire making robotic ‘eyes’

Laurence Escalante

Laurence Escalante became a billionaire from his online casino – Now his luck may have run out

Jensen Huang overtakes Bernard Arnault as world’s seventh-wealthiest person as Nvidia surges

Investing

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

Once as high as $360 billion PayPal’s market value has slipped to $40 billion, below former parent, eBay

In an interest rates blow for Australian homeowners, The Reserve Bank has hiked the cash rate 0.25 percentage points on Tuesday. I

RBA delivers first interest rate hike since 2023

Australia’s startup funding jumps to $5.1 billion in 2025 as AI takes the lead

Leadership

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’

The four most powerful women in Australia

The world’s most powerful women 2025: Where do women hold real power?