Technology

Whisper cofounder Michael Heyward’s second company made a $1.1 billion business out of acquiring floundering startups like Imgur, Genius and Kik. Then came the lawsuits.

CEO Phillippa Watson has been at the helm of ubank for three years. Forbes Australia sits down with the banking dynamo to find out what a Gen Z banking customer is looking for, and what she is doing to give it to them.

Forbes released its list of the 200 Best companies currently valued under a Billion. Of 18 Australian companies on the list, just one is led by a woman. Meet the CEO at the helm of an innovative Melbourne-headquartered education firm.

Collapsed crypto exchange FTX and its sister trading firm Alameda Research must pay $12.7 billion, a New York-based federal court ruled on Thursday.

The global stock market slide wiped out billions of dollars from the net worths of the world’s richest people.

Musk withdrew an original lawsuit earlier this year, after claiming OpenAI and its founders were developing AI to “maximize profits” instead of benefiting humanity.

Can Generative AI be used to create an actual advertising film from scratch? 

The ad, which sparked controversy from its first airing, features a father using Google’s Gemini AI tool to write a fan letter from his daughter to American hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is more than three times richer than he was in late 2022 as Meta stock bounced back.

Australian venture capital firm Foxglove Capital says fusion energy is the “ultimate energy source” – and its backed US fusion energy company Type One to prove it.