The top 10 richest people in the world (October 2025)
After a volatile April for U.S. stocks, a guide to which of the world’s top ten richest came out ahead–and whose fortunes fell.
Technology
Forget search, Perplexity VP says answers, trust, and subscriptions are paramount
Ryan Foutty articulated Perplexity’s vision for the digital economy at SXSW Sydney. The economic structure of the internet is fundamentally realigning to prioritise quality, brand, and user efficiency over click revenue, he says
How Bill Fairies bootstrapped a $12.5m ‘conscious gifting’ model
Sitting atop the Ritz-Carlton in Melbourne, Bill Fairies co-founders Jenny Ghabrial and Sophia Symeou explain how a moment of financial struggle led to a bootstrapped tech company that turns gift-giving into practical financial support.
Why so few women get funded in Australia: the founder experience is broken
Opinion: Two per cent of global funding goes to women-only teams. Brittany Fox is an outlier, having raised a $1.2m seed round for her startup Neevam last month. Here’s why she still believes the fundraising journey is broken.
Apple tops Microsoft as world’s second-most valuable company after stock rally
The surge in shares was fueled by the iPhone 17 outselling the iPhone 16 in China and the U.S., according to a report from Counterpoint Research.
Venture Studio Nakatomi pulls in $3.5m to ‘back and build’ Aussie startups
The founders of Leonardo.AI and Active Hotels chipped in on the raise, which will help to launch up to 4 new ventures a year.
How can AI impact population-level mental wellbeing? Significantly.
If organisations and governments don’t prepare for coming changes, we risk AI giving us more time but less belonging, leaving societies lonelier, less trusting, and less resilient, writes Greta Bradman.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT now connects with third-party apps like Spotify: Here’s the latest in the AI arms race
Artificial intelligence products are launching at a rapid pace as the sector’s largest companies battle for supremacy and secure increasingly large valuations worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
Australia’s innovation crisis: The case for a national tech scale-up ecosystem
Australia ranks below Botswana for economic complexity, writes Greg Miller. Our only hope for remaining internationally competitive is to grow the things we invent to a size that matters on the world stage.
Why Australia must build its own GenAI storytelling culture
When Sundance vaulted indie filmmakers into the spotlight in the late 1980s, it reshaped cinema and the business around it.