Billionaires

The Golden State’s billionaires might have to hand over anywhere from $50 million to $13 billion apiece, depending on their individual net worths.

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The number of self-made billionaires aged 39 or younger has soared amid the AI boom, tying the all-time record set in 2021. Here are the 40 wealthiest.

A bold pivot to country music led to the most successful concert tour in the genre’s history and helped Cowboy Carter lasso a 10-figure fortune—becoming just the fifth musician to do so.

The late Bob Oatley purchased Hamilton Island in 2003. Twenty-two years later, the Oatley family have sold the largest island in the Whitsundays archipelago in a deal said to be worth $1.2 billion.

Fuelled by AI, prediction markets and online gambling, there are more self-made billionaires under 30 than ever before, 13 up from a previous record of 7.

The photos come before the Friday deadline for the Trump administration to release its full Epstein files.

Heavyweights from Wall Street and the music industry have joined thousands of everyday Australians raising funds for Ahmed al Ahmed, the hero who tackled and disarmed a terrorist on Bondi Beach.

The new law ‘delaying’ social media accounts for minors under 16 is now in effect. Ten tech companies are impacted by the first ‘blanket ban’ in the world. Other countries may now follow suit.