Meta shares spike after tech giant launches Muse Spark – Its AI bid against OpenAI
Meta’s first large language model under AI chief Alexandr Wang rolled out Wednesday, to eventually reach Instagram and Facebook.
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Sydney uni dropout behind $432M startup teams up with Beckham to outsmart aging
An Australian law school dropout is leveraging a $43 million Series A round, and an alignment with David Beckham’s supplement company, to scale preventative longevity.
Meet the women of AI filmmaking
The 50 filmmakers featured in this year’s Power List represent the early leaders of this movement. Filmmaking no longer belongs to the few, instead to those bold enough to try something new. Watch them now.
Abu Dhabi’s hidden stake in one of venture capital’s biggest players
A workplace lawsuit has opened the lid on the little-known ownership structure of Insight Partners, an investor in OpenAI and Anthropic: It is now partially owned by the government of Abu Dhabi.
Why Rosella is re-engineering insurance from the ground up
An Australian marathoner’s brush with sepsis in the U.S. sparked a mission to dismantle legacy insurance brokerage models with an AI-native tech stack. VC investment soon flowed.
The top 10 richest people in the world (April 2026)
The gap between the planet’s two wealthiest people has never been larger heading into the New Year.
Billionaire Jack Dorsey thinks AI will kill middle management
Billionaire Jack Dorsey says AI could replace middle managers. After cutting 4,000 jobs at Block, he may already be putting that idea to work.
OpenAI valuation reaches $852 billion after massive funding round
The record-breaking funding round comes as the AI company reportedly lays the groundwork for going public.
The wearable banned at the Australian Open is now worth $14.7 billion
It made a controversial splash at this year’s AO, and now supports Aussie AFL and NRL athletes. Whoop wearables are making their mark in Australia, as the Boston-based company reaches decacorn status.
The $100 billion club: The 20 people with 12-figure fortunes
The small group of people worth a dozen digits has hit a record high, just as Elon Musk approaches trillionaire territory.