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Meet the ex-OpenAI guys building a cheaper open source alternative

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Brandon Capital’s $60m taypayer-funded biotech bets

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

Australia's Real Time Rich List: Top 50 Billionaires Ranked. See the full Forbes Rich List.

Live: Australia’s Real-Time Rich List

AfterQuery founders Carlos Georgescu, 22, and Spencer Mateega, 23, pose for a photo in San Francisco.

AfterQuery becomes YC’s fastest unicorn at US$3.2 billion

Australia’s most expensive property sales (August, 2026)

Life

Lürssen launched unprecedented 6 new superyachts in 2026

Morris of Rutherglen whisky

Casella’s whisky bet gets down to a single barrel

Forbes Travel Guide’s 8 best Sydney hotels

Jaeger-LeCoultre names actor Robert Pattinson global ambassador

Ranked: The World's Highest-Paid Tennis Players 2026

The World’s Highest-Paid Tennis Players 2026

This $22 million Melbourne penthouse comes with its own office one floor down

Issue 24

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

Sam Kennard, CEO of Kennards Self Storage.

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

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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

Billionaires—including Jeff Bezos and Rihanna—billed for unpaid private jet taxes

Mareterra is Monaco's newest neighbourhood, where $550 million apartments draw F1 stars, superyacht owners and the world's billionaires.

Inside the world’s most expensive neighbourhood: $550 million apartments, F1 stars and billionaires

Billionaire Tim Draper Selling His Private Island In Tanzania—Wants Offers By Email

Jensen Huang passes Zuckerberg and Ellison in billionaire ranks as Nvidia pops 9%

How Josh Kushner’s fortune tripled this year

Why international banking hub Switzerland is also a billionaire haven

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

The metering reflex: When an AI budget becomes the strategy

Meet the ex-OpenAI guys building a cheaper open source alternative

OpenAI to launch its competitor to Anthropic’s Mythos ‘soon’

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy

Xero investors protest CEO’s new $25.5m pay pack

Blackbird general partner Samantha Wong. Image: Supplied

Blackbird closes record $1 billion fund, but turns ‘cautious’ on AI

The 8 Australian startups on Forbes Asia’s 100 To Watch list

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

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

Malaysian Energy Tycoon Lim Hang Weng In Talks To Take Yinson Holdings Private In $1.7 Billion Deal

PayPal plunges 15% after reports that Advent, Stripe abandon $53 billion bid

Qantas takes a corporate travel hit – but luxury flyers are booming

VCs are so obsessed with this AI assistant that its valuation jumped fivefold in weeks

Anthropic overtakes SpaceX in betting odds for 2026’s biggest IPO

Leadership

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?

SafetyCulture has a new name – and an insurance bet to match

Why you don’t want to be the smartest person in the room

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