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Forbes Daily BriefingFormer School Teacher And Sister Become Billionaires After Tape Maker’s Stock Surges 787% In IPO
China’s enthusiasm for new stocks has helped to mint two billionaires on paper, as the surging shares of tape maker Crown New Materials Technology during its…
Forbes Daily BriefingThe Top 10 Richest People In The World | November 2026
The world’s top ten richest people lost a total of $273 billion over the past month, as disappointing tech earnings and concerns over AI spending drove the…
Forbes Daily BriefingMukesh Ambani Gains $8.5 Billion On Monday To Become Asia’s Richest Person
Mukesh Ambani, the head of India’s most valuable company, overtook Bytedance’s Zhang Yinmin to become Asia’s richest person on Monday after a nearly 12% surge…
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The Untold Story Of The Elizabeth Holmes Photo That Framed The Scandal
Is one of Forbes most famous portraits deceiving us or just telling us what we want to hear? Examining the extraordinary afterlife of an iconic image. Learn…
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DoorDash Will Acquire Instacart In $17 Billion Deal
DoorDash is acquiring its competitor Instacart for $17 billion, the company announced Thursday. A majority of the deal will be paid in cash and shareholders…
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Inside Anthropic’s $1 Trillion Spending Plan On Data Centers, AI Chips
The Claude maker filed for its blockbuster IPO on Monday, revealing $1 trillion in spending over the next two decades on chips and data centers. Learn more…
Forbes Daily BriefingBillionaires Andreessen And Horowitz Are Betting On Pro-AI Politicians Who Could Boost Their Massive Fortunes
In January, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz announced it had raised $15 billion in new funds. It was a monster fundraising haul…
Forbes Daily BriefingTwo Big AI Risks Revealed In Anthropic's New S-1 Filing
Anthropic filed for its blockbuster IPO on Monday, bringing the AI behemoth closer to what could be the largest public debuts in stock market history. The…
Forbes Daily BriefingWhy Struggling Cannabis Growers Are Betting On The AI Data Center Boom
As cannabis prices crash around the country, struggling cannabis companies with big industrial buildings outfitted with power, fiber, water and HVAC systems…
Forbes Daily BriefingHighest-Paid Soccer Players 2026: Messi Hits A New High But Can’t Touch Ronaldo
This summer represented a bit of a changing of the guard on the soccer pitch, as exemplified by Spain’s winger Lamine Yamal, who hoisted the World Cup trophy…
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Elon Musk Says He’ll Give Every Child In America One SpaceX Share Next Year
Elon Musk on Monday announced he plans to give every child in America one share in his aerospace and AI company SpaceX next year, shortly after he criticized…
Forbes Daily BriefingTheranos Whistleblower Alleges Elizabeth Holmes ‘Misled’ Nathan Fielder In Documentary Scene
Tyler Shultz, a former Theranos employee who blew the whistle on the ill-fated biotech company, alleged its founder and convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes…
Forbes Daily BriefingCounterfeiters Are Advertising Fake Cash On TikTok
The Chinese-owned social network has run dozens of ads promoting the sale of counterfeit currency. One even directed users to a Telegram account offering a…
Forbes Daily BriefingHighest-Paid NBA Players 2026: Curry Is Basketball’s First $200 Million Man
Stephen Curry was the NBA’s first unanimous MVP, in 2016. The first player to lead the league in 3-pointers four times, then five times, then six and seven and…
Forbes Daily BriefingTrump’s Golf Empire Is A Billion-Dollar Tax Shelter
IN SEPTEMBER 2025, staff from an environmental nonprofit descended on Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida. Over three days, they looked for the kind…
Forbes Daily BriefingGLP-1s Took Eli Lilly To $1 Trillion. CEO Dave Ricks Is Betting Billions He Can Do It Again
As CEO of the largest, most successful drugmaker on the planet, Dave Ricks sure spends a lot of time thinking about risk. Eli Lilly’s weight-loss and diabetes…
Forbes Daily BriefingThe Most Valuable NBA Teams 2026
NBA teams don’t come up for sale often—two-thirds of the league’s control owners have been in place for at least a decade—which is one big reason why it was…
Forbes Daily BriefingHow Vivek Ramaswamy's Well-Timed Ohio Move Likely Saved Him $12 Million In Taxes
In case you haven’t heard, Vivek Ramaswamy wants Ohio to stop taxing capital gains. The Republican candidate for governor has made the proposal his opening…
Forbes Daily BriefingHow California’s Billionaire Exodus Is Changing Who’s Richest In Other States
California voters are set to determine the fate of California’s proposed billionaire wealth tax in November. But some of the state’s wealthiest people aren’t…
Forbes Daily BriefingInside Corning’s Mission To Become Bubble-Proof
The AI boom runs on Nvidia chips, staggering amounts of electricity and water—and a lot of glass. Corning makes more of it than anyone else. More precisely…
Forbes Daily BriefingHow These Startups Cornered The AI Agent Market
Ayear ago, as AI was supposedly coding software engineers out of a job, it still couldn’t reliably book dinner. And some of the biggest tech companies around…
Forbes Daily BriefingMichael Dell’s Net Worth Soars After Stock Market Gains—Closing The Gap With Google’s Larry Page
Michael Dell’s net worth briefly leaped by more than $10 billion in the hours after markets opened on Tuesday, placing him just behind Google co-founder Larry…
Forbes Daily BriefingRxBar, David Bars Founder Is Now A Billionaire
Medici Brands, the parent company behind David protein bars and low-calorie, low-sugar candy brand HallPass, raised $250 million at a $2.25 billion valuation…
Forbes Daily BriefingInside The Wild, Lucrative World Of Vegas Matt
Stephen Mathew Morrow, better known by his nom de casino, Vegas Matt, looks like a caricature of a high-stakes gambler. A large, one-pound gold chain hangs…
Forbes Daily BriefingAI Could Allow For 3-Day Workweeks And Single-Income Households, Bezos Claims
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said he believes artificial intelligence could generate enough productivity gains to allow Americans to have a three-day workweek or…
Forbes Daily BriefingFigure’s Brett Adcock Sold Investors A Humanoid Future. Now He Has To Build It.
Brett Adcock has spent the past decade turning tomorrow into money. He made his first $30 million the old-fashioned way: building and then selling job website…
Forbes Daily BriefingWhat To Know About The Russian Plague Scare
Federal agencies are working together to monitor travelers arriving from Siberia after a potential pneumonic plague case was identified in Russia, though…
Forbes Daily BriefingThis Fintech Unicorn Hit A $2.3 Billion Valuation To Bring AI To America’s Mortgage Market
The biggest pile of consumer debt in America isn’t sitting on credit cards or student loan balances. It’s in our homes. Americans owe $13 trillion on their…
Forbes Daily BriefingBillionaire Ray Dalio Warns AI Bubble Could Soon Burst
Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio said the artificial intelligence bubble is nearing the point where it may burst as interest rates rise and technology…
Forbes Daily BriefingJob Hopping Paid Off For Older Workers. Gen Z May Miss Its Chance
After graduating from the University of Virginia in 2019 with a bachelor’s in business analytics and finance, Megan Lieu took a job at EY Consulting. She spent…
Forbes Daily BriefingElon Musk Becomes A Trillionaire—Again—After SpaceX Stock Jumps
Elon Musk’s net worth topped $1 trillion Monday morning as stocks for his companies SpaceX and Tesla climbed after the stock market opened, restoring the…
Forbes Daily BriefingBillionaire Data Center Builder Insists There’s No AI Bubble
Ona bright August morning, Bob Clark, the founder of construction giant Clayco, stops by the new $850 million, 19-acre Obama Presidential Center, which he…
Forbes Daily BriefingArgentine Citizenship Will Be New ‘Status Symbol’ For Wealthy Americans, Say Experts
Announced Friday by Argentina’s Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, and set to launch before the end of 2026, the country’s citizenship-by-investment program is…
Forbes Daily BriefingThe Billionaires Backing India’s Massive AI Infrastructure Buildout
The race to make India a data center hub geared up this year as the country’s two richest men made multibillion-dollar pledges to support a nationwide…
Forbes Daily BriefingMeet Joe Strada, Florida HVAC Mogul Set To Become The Richest Member Of Congress
Joe Strada is getting his picture taken and his employees are giving him a hard time about it. Professional photos are apparently not a common occurrence…
Forbes Daily BriefingMark Cuban Doubles Down On Criticism Of Humanoid Robots
Billionaire Mark Cuban has emerged as one of the most prominent critics of humanoid robots for consumer households, repeating his criticism on Monday after…
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White House Releases ‘Accord’ Between Billionaire AI Execs: Here’s What It Says
The White House released the text of an “accord” reached between billionaire AI titans who met with President Donald Trump on Tuesday, an agreement the…
Forbes Daily BriefingHow Martinelli’s Turned The Champagne Of Apple Cider Into A $500 Million Family Business
For 158 years the Martinelli family has turned apples grown in Northern California orchards into a golden juice, and it's grown into a sweet family business…
Forbes Daily BriefingMove Over STEM. Humanities Degrees Are Poised For A Comeback Thanks To AI.
Both humanities’ decline and possible revival can, no surprise, be traced to concerns about career and financial security. For a time, STEM (science…
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Trump Debuts New America.Gov Chatbot Ahead Of Meeting With Industry Execs
President Donald Trump unveiled a new government website powered by artificial intelligence ahead of his meeting with top AI executives—as he has contested…
Forbes Daily BriefingNvidia Launches New Safety Platform—Says It Can Prevent AI Agents From Going Rogue
Nvidia on Monday launched a new security system that it claims can prevent AI agents breaching their testing environments and gain unauthorized access to…
Forbes Daily BriefingThese Fitness Fans Took Bootleg Peptides. It Landed Them In The Hospital.
Peptides are a large category of amino acid-based drugs that include legal ones, like GLP-1 weight-loss medications and insulin. More and more people are…
Forbes Daily BriefingBill Gates Warns AI Is ‘Powerful’ Enough To ‘Cause A Billion Deaths’
Billionaire Bill Gates told “Meet the Press” that government regulation is needed for artificial intelligence and warned the technology is “powerful” enough to…
Forbes Daily BriefingThe Seller’s Market For Legal Stars Is Booming
In the course of producing Forbes Top Lawyers, the yearlong research often reveals insights into the state of the legal profession. With this, our third-annual…
Forbes Daily Briefing21 Elite Colleges Where Middle Class Students Go For Free
Free tuition guarantees have now been extended by 21 private schools that rank in the top 50 on Forbes’ list of America’s Top 500 Colleges. While the schools…
Forbes Daily BriefingWhy The Economy Looks Great To Boomers, But Miserable To Gen Z
Talk of a “K-shaped economy” took off during the pandemic recovery. Economist Peter Atwater popularized the term in the spring of 2020 to describe an economy…
Forbes Daily BriefingTrump Wants Diesel Export Ban As Prices Hit Record High
President Donald Trump said he has told “people” he supports a ban on diesel exports as the country faces record prices for the fuel used for trucking and…
Forbes Daily BriefingA Chinese Hacker Used AI To Attack 100+ Companies In One Of Largest AI Hacks Yet
Over just five days earlier this month, a Chinese-speaking hacker deployed AI agents to launch cyberattacks on as many as 100 organizations, stealing hundreds…
Forbes Daily BriefingForbes’ Top 25 Public Colleges
The long-feared college enrollment cliff—a product of the decline in U.S. births that began in 2008—is finally arriving. Yet many of America’s top public…
Forbes Daily BriefingWhite House Launches 'Trump TV' After President's Press Ban
The White House launched “Trump TV” on Monday, revealing a 24/7 platform streaming old Trump administration events after President Donald Trump revoked White…
Forbes Daily BriefingRamaswamy Would Be The Third-Richest Elected U.S. Official If He Wins Ohio
On the Ohio campaign trail, Democrat Amy Acton has turned her opponent Vivek Ramaswamy’s fortune into a line of attack. She calls the Republican nominee her…
Forbes Daily BriefingStates Settle Paramount-Warner Bros. Lawsuit—Clearing Way For Merger To Go Through
State attorneys general have reached a settlement with Paramount Skydance in their lawsuit over Paramount’s planned merger with Warner Bros., multiple outlets…
Forbes Daily BriefingInside Pocket FM’s $400 Million Content Farm
In a dystopian world ravaged by alien war, a boy who has been bullied at school discovers an ancient book left by the parents he never knew. It turns him into…
Forbes Daily BriefingWhy Africa’s Richest Man Aliko Dangote Is Now Worth Over $50 Billion
Africa’s richest person Aliko Dangote, is opening up his privately controlled oil refinery to public shareholders on Monday, September 14 for the first time in…
Forbes Daily BriefingInside The $118 Billion Fortune Of America’s Richest Woman
Wealth begets wealth. Just ask Alice Walton, who again ranks as the nation’s richest woman on the annual Forbes 400 list—her fourth straight year at the top…
Forbes Daily BriefingA Record 590 U.S. Billionaires Aren’t Rich Enough To Make The Forbes 400 List
Money is the only thing that can buy you a spot on The Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans—but it takes a lot of it. With markets trading near all-time…
Forbes Daily BriefingPresident Trump’s Fortune Falls As Everyday Supporters Lose Faith
Faith is a remarkable asset. A year ago, Donald Trump’s followers had so much of it that the president could spin billions out of thin air. First came Trump…
Forbes Daily BriefingThe 2026 Forbes 400 List Of Wealthiest Americans
Just how difficult is it to make the Forbes 400 list of America’s richest people these days? Consider this: There are now a record 590 American billionaires…
Forbes Daily BriefingThe Richest New Forbes 400 Member Hails From OpenAI. It Isn’t Sam Altman.
“Financially, what will take me to $1B?” Greg Brockman wrote in his journal in August 2017. Back then, OpenAI was still a nonprofit, and its…
Forbes Daily BriefingMacklemore Says Billionaire Robert Kraft Organized His Removal From Ed Sheeran’s Tour
Macklemore claimed Monday that billionaire New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft pioneered his removal from Ed Sheeran’s U.S. Loop Tour after the rapper made…