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There are many routes to making the billionaires list. Some are more likely than others.

The price of bitcoin surged to an all-time-high in March this year – and it’s expected to rise again as the cryptocurrency approaches its halving event in April.

Amazon hit a new record share price Thursday for the first time since July 2021, completing its dramatic recovery from its 2022 doldrums as investors seemingly can’t get enough of big technology stocks.

Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine, is backed by tech VIPs like Jeff Bezos, and counts billionaires like Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang among its frequent users.

This year’s AI 50 list shows that artificial intelligence is helping companies achieve more with less: the median headcount for an AI 50 startup was 89 employees, down from 150 last year.

Google parent Alphabet registered its highest share price ever on Tuesday, as the search engine titan rides the artificial intelligence wave to a historic valuation.

Disney+ was the third most popular video-on-demand platform in the country last year, according to Telsyte. In March the company increased the cost of its subscription by 30%. Now, Disney confirms it is putting an end to password sharing.

Canva is using it. Woolworths is too. So is unicorn Culture Amp. Some of Australia’s most successful companies are utilising Google Cloud’s generative AI capabilities. Google Sydney opened its doors to Forbes Australia to show us the multimodal power of Gemini Pro.

CEO Sam Altman famously has no equity in OpenAI, but startup bets like Reddit, Stripe and Helion have made him a billionaire anyway, a Forbes investigation found.

A total of $703 million flowed into startups across 66 deals in the first quarter of 2024, Cut Through Venture data shows, with all-female founding teams hitting an all-time high in funding share. Startup funding in Q1 marginally outpaced this same period last year, but lagged significantly on the lively end to 2023, the data […]