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From roommates to decacorn founders: Inside the rise of legal AI startup Harvey

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Atlassian cuts another 1,600 jobs amid AI shakeup

Life

TAG Heuer appoints insider Béatrice Goasglas as CEO

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.

New Jeep Wranglers ‘won’t roll over anymore’

Porsche

From an Alpine Pass to Albert Park: Porsche celebrates 75 years in Australia in style

Piaget unveils reimagined flagship at Place Vendôme

Issue 21

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

OneMRI

Edtech to medtech: Two unicorns pivot to a full-body gamble

Meet the world’s youngest self-made woman billionaire

Hayden Stephens & Associates

The lawyer weaponising class actions to take on sloppy bosses

Forbes Australia Issue 21 is out now.

Entrepreneurs

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

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

Innovation

Microsoft launches Co-Pilot feature that gives medical advice

How to move your ChatGPT data over to Claude

The case for upgrading Australia’s digital finance plumbing

Apple announces $899 laptop

The Anthropic cofounders standing up to Trump

Google’s data centre buildout could top US$1 trillion

BrandVoice

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

Beyond blue chip: How data identifies superior property returns

The growth architects deploying AI at scale

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

The world’s celebrity billionaires

Paramount merger could create streaming behemoth with 200 million subscribers

Mark Zuckerberg closes on record-setting $170 million Miami mansion

Elon Musk’s net worth has surged past $800 billion, setting yet another record and widening the gap between him and the next richest to more than $500 billion.

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

Bill Gates admits to affairs, says he never did anything ‘illicit’ with Epstein

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

Investing

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

OpenAI raises $110 billion in latest round, valuing firm at US$730 billion

Netflix allowed the legacy media company to reopen talks with Paramount.

Warner Bros. Discovery says Paramount’s new bid might top Netflix’s

IBM shares plummet 13% – worst day since 2000 – after Anthropic launches programming AI tool

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

Leadership

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

50 over 50 global: 2026

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