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Elon Musk is now worth $500 billion. Image: Getty

Billionaires

Elon Musk just became the first person ever worth $500 billion

Musk is now half-way to becoming the first ever trillionaire.

Featured

The Top 10 Richest People In The World (October 2025)

The top 10 richest people in the world (October 2025)

The biohacker who wants to live to 180 says Australian men are already showing the way

Daniel Ek is stepping down as CEO of Spotify, the streaming company he cofounded in 2006, and moving to executive chairman. In his place, Spotify’s current presidents Alex Norström and Gustav Söderström will be elevated to co-CEOs. The transition will take place on January 1, 2026.

Why Spotify CEO Daniel Ek is stepping down after nearly two decades

Melinda French Gates (center) with her daughters Jennifer Gates Nassar (left) and Phoebe Gates (right) Paula Lobo/Getty Images for Gates Archive

Iconiq announces $100M Women’s Health Initiative with Melinda French Gates and other donors

What to know about the US government shutdown

Life

Diamonds are forever: 300 Cartier jewels coming to Melbourne’s NGV

Qantas Frequent flyers can now climb status tiers without getting on a plane

‘Dream come true’: Baker Boy’s yidaki moment with Snoop Dogg reaches 4 million viewers

‘One Battle After Another’ posts $22.4 million opening weekend

Another shot to his name as Gilchrist takes a swing at the tequila game

The most outrageous new hotel designs at the radical innovation awards

Magazine

Ben Thompson for Forbes Australia Issue 18.

From near bust to $2 billion: Inside the remarkable rise of Employment Hero

The cardless connection: Blinq’s $200 million bet on the future of networking

‘Inside, I was breaking’: Susannah George on perfectionism, parenthood and purpose

Empire state: How Lucy-Henry Hicks propelled DISSH into a $150 million business

Rajasthan’s warrior ways

Steve Baxter Beaten Zone

Inside Australia’s most controversial venture fund

Entrepreneurs

Alloy Robotics emerges from stealth with $4.5m pre-seed from Blackbird, Airtree and Skip Capital

Michelle Battersby

Motherhood is not a setback. It’s a superpower – and can drive the next femtech unicorn

Puralink dredges up $2.3m seed round for autonomous pipe robot

Andromeda’s animated approach to $100m Abi and AI

Trusting women’s intuition: How technology can narrow the gender health gap

Springboards CTO Kieran Browne with founders Amy Tucker and Pip Bingemann. Image: Springboards

21 Aussie startups will pitch it out at SXSW Sydney

Innovation

TIKTOK

The humble origins of TikTok’s almighty algorithm

bioreactor

$18m bioreactor upgrade in sugar country aims high, but scaling challenges loom

Tesla

Tesla’s full-self driving software is a mess. Should it be legal?

Nvidia/OpenAI deal: Chipmaker investing 100 billion in ChatGPT maker

AI will make ‘some of us become idiots, and some a lot smarter’, ex-Google exec says

Moderna

Bringing Moderna vax factory to Australia ‘worth $4.8 billion’

BrandVoice

Not all offices are created equal: Inside the sector’s diverging future

Blueprint for beauty – How Glenvill Group has changed the face of Australian housing

Glenfiddich and Aston Martin’s unexpected synergy

Billionaires

Elon Musk is now worth $500 billion. Image: Getty

Elon Musk just became the first person ever worth $500 billion

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that paves the way for the TikTok app to remain available in the United States.

The web of billionaire pals taking control of TikTok in the US

Threads finally passes X—Zuckerberg’s 2-year-old platform passes Musk’s in daily users

Here’s how much the Trump Kids have made because of the presidency

Are the Murdochs about to buy TikTok?

How this Google alum became a low-key AI billionaire

Investing

Crypto boom creates 69,000 new millionaires in the past 12 months

WiFi start-up Morse Micro banks $88 million Series C

Elon Musk’s xAI could be valued at $200 billion after $10 billion funding round, report says

Nvidia will invest $5 billion in rival chipmaker Intel

Planned new international gates as part of the T2 and T3 terminal expansion. Image: Sydney Airport

30 million more passengers? Inside Sydney Airport’s 2045 super terminal project

Tesla approves $30 billion stock award for Elon Musk

Elon Musk threatened to quit Tesla before $1 trillion compensation deal

Leadership

Catriona Wallace

Why this former ASX-listed founder says psychedelics create better leaders

5 ways to minimise distraction and maximise discipline

Top 20 companies young Australians most want to work for in 2025

Why critical thinking is so crucial in the AI era

Why non-profits can’t afford to get AI wrong

‘Make it Easy’ app honoured at 2025 TechDiversity Awards

Quote of the WEEK

“Motherhood is not a setback. It’s a superpower – and can drive the next femtech unicorn.”

Michelle Battersby

President, Peanut App