Forbes Australia

The wearable banned at the Australian Open is now worth $14.7 billion

Whoop has raised a further $800 million.

Featured

Meet Mary Barra: The woman who rebuilt General Motors – and brought it to F1

OpenAI valuation reaches $852 billion after massive funding round

The 7 rules that built Wikipedia – and the one that nearly killed it

$1.6 billion in card surcharges to be scrapped under new RBA rules

Billionaire Jack Dorsey thinks AI will kill middle management

Life

Australia Public Holiday 2026 Guide

Australia’s public holidays 2026: How to maximise your leave days

This bottle of 1945 French wine just sold for $1.4 million—shattering wine auction records

Fancy a lunch on the harbour with Peter Gilmore? Image: Supplied

Peter Gilmore on seafood, Sydney, and the end of Quay

Knobs returning to some automakers’ vehicles, to the relief of many

From F1 Academy to Ferrari: Alba Larsen’s data-driven ambitions

Three Aussie innovators chosen as 2026 Cartier Women’s Initiative fellows

Issue 21

How rich are Australians, really?

Tim Gurner

Tim Gurner on habits, indulgences and what matters most

After losing one of Australia’s top restaurants, Mark Best is cooking again. Just not where you’d expect.

Kellie Wood – Where I’m putting the money

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

From Marlboro to LVMH: How the business of F1 evolved into a $21 billion giant

Entrepreneurs

The Melbourne doctor who built a $660m health AI company just launched hardware

These 26-year-old founders quit their jobs and built a $200 million AI cyber startup

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

Innovation

The wearable banned at the Australian Open is now worth $14.7 billion

This crypto billionaire wants to use the human brain as a blueprint for AI

What to know about the AI robot—and its billionaire owner—that appeared with Melania Trump

Trump taps Zuckerberg, Huang and Ellison for White House AI panel

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says he thinks ‘we’ve achieved AGI’

Mr. Fix-It: “We’ve become the 'Better Call Saul' for all the most complex problems that the biggest brands in the food industry have,” says NotCo founder Matias Muchnick.

Meet the AI company food conglomerates call when they want to future-proof their products

BrandVoice

From Legacy to AI: How TomorrowX is solving the trillion-dollar bottleneck constraining the AI economy

From fighter to finance: How Billel Dib built a multinational accounting empire

Beyond blue chip: How data identifies superior property returns

Ideas to Save the Planet

Rolex marks 50 years of its awards program with five new Laureates for 2026

‘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

Billionaires

The $100 billion club: The 20 people with 12-figure fortunes

Inside the race to sell OnlyFans

Billionaire Kumar Birla, Blackstone to buy Royal Challengers for $1.8 billion amid bidding frenzy for Indian cricket teams

OnlyFans billionaire Leonid Radvinsky, dies at 43

What we know about Jeff Bezos’ $100 billion AI fundraising plan

Warner Bros. CEO Zaslav may become a billionaire thanks to Paramount deal

Investing

New bill wants lawmakers banned from trading on prediction markets

Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq rebound in ‘relief rally’—as gold prices stumble

Live: RBA Rate Decision Tracker

Oil, interest rates, and why Australia is burning through its new fuel safety net

Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brooks said the decision was not an easy one - but necessary. Image: Atlassian / Loom

Atlassian cuts another 1,600 jobs amid AI shakeup

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

Leadership

The $66 billion drain: Why exhausted leaders are costing Australia dearly

How ‘quiet firing’ destroys companies from the inside out

The workplace has a social skills problem. Esther Perel has a solution

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