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How These Startups Cornered The AI Agent Market
Ayear ago, as AI was supposedly coding software engineers out of a job, it still couldn’t reliably book dinner. And some of the biggest tech companies around were struggling to build an assistant that could use your apps without creating more work for you.
When Apple delayed the Siri upgrade that would have allowed it to take action within apps, software chef, Craig Federighi, offered a blun
Michael Dell’s Net Worth Soars After Stock Market Gains—Closing The Gap With Google’s Larry Page
Michael Dell’s net worth briefly leaped by more than $10 billion in the hours after markets opened on Tuesday, placing him just behind Google co-founder Larry Page as the fourth-wealthiest person in the world after the S&P 500 hit a fresh record amid a larger stock surge.
Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2026/10/06/michael-dells-net-worth-soars-after-stock-m
RxBar, David Bars Founder Is Now A Billionaire
Medici Brands, the parent company behind David protein bars and low-calorie, low-sugar candy brand HallPass, raised $250 million at a $2.25 billion valuation in early September. It was the biggest food industry deal so far this year. The transaction catapults its founder and CEO Peter Rahal, 40, who invested $20 million in the round (representing 8% of the fundraise), into the billionaire ranks. M
Inside The Wild, Lucrative World Of Vegas Matt
Stephen Mathew Morrow, better known by his nom de casino, Vegas Matt, looks like a caricature of a high-stakes gambler. A large, one-pound gold chain hangs around his neck with a matching bracelet on his right wrist, a Rolex SkyDweller on his left, and a Rolls-Royce Cullinan parked outside the El Cortez Hotel and Casino in Downtown Las Vegas.
As he walks the casino floor on a Tuesday afternoon in
AI Could Allow For 3-Day Workweeks And Single-Income Households, Bezos Claims
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said he believes artificial intelligence could generate enough productivity gains to allow Americans to have a three-day workweek or rely on a single-income for the whole household—pushing back against fears that the technology could lead to large-scale job losses for American workers.
In an interview with Fox News that aired Wednesday evening, Bezos told host Bret Baier
Figure’s Brett Adcock Sold Investors A Humanoid Future. Now He Has To Build It.
Brett Adcock has spent the past decade turning tomorrow into money.
He made his first $30 million the old-fashioned way: building and then selling job website Vettery for $110 million in 2018. Everything since has come from putting a present-day price on a future-day product. In 2021, he took the air taxi outfit Archer Aviation public via SPAC, raising $858 million at a $1.7 billion valuation bef
What To Know About The Russian Plague Scare
Federal agencies are working together to monitor travelers arriving from Siberia after a potential pneumonic plague case was identified in Russia, though health officials say they’re confident the threat to Americans is “extremely low” and President Donald Trump says Russia claims to have the situation “very much under control.”
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This Fintech Unicorn Hit A $2.3 Billion Valuation To Bring AI To America’s Mortgage Market
The biggest pile of consumer debt in America isn’t sitting on credit cards or student loan balances. It’s in our homes.
Americans owe $13 trillion on their mortgages, which makes up nearly 70% of all consumer debt. Every month, billions in interest and principal payments must be collected, tracked and divvied up among lenders, investors, insurers and the IRS. Yet the industry tasked with handling
Billionaire Ray Dalio Warns AI Bubble Could Soon Burst
Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio said the artificial intelligence bubble is nearing the point where it may burst as interest rates rise and technology companies borrow heavily to fund the AI infrastructure build out.
Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/fionariley/2026/10/07/billionaire-ray-dalio-warns-ai-bubble-could-soon-burst/
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Job Hopping Paid Off For Older Workers. Gen Z May Miss Its Chance
After graduating from the University of Virginia in 2019 with a bachelor’s in business analytics and finance, Megan Lieu took a job at EY Consulting. She spent two years there and then began job hopping, staying at one place for just six months. Yet each of her three moves, she proudly recalls, brought her a hefty income bump of around 20%.
Now 30 and self-employed since 2024, Lieu adv
Elon Musk Becomes A Trillionaire—Again—After SpaceX Stock Jumps
Elon Musk’s net worth topped $1 trillion Monday morning as stocks for his companies SpaceX and Tesla climbed after the stock market opened, restoring the controversial tech mogul’s trillionaire status after he first hit that milestone in June.
Forbes estimates Musk’s net worth at $1 trillion on Monday, which is up by $30.6 billion over Friday, the last day the stock market was open.
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Billionaire Data Center Builder Insists There’s No AI Bubble
Ona bright August morning, Bob Clark, the founder of construction giant Clayco, stops by the new $850 million, 19-acre Obama Presidential Center, which he helped build, in Jackson Park on the South Side of Chicago.
After a quick checkup on the “Obamalisk,” as he fondly calls the complex’s central eight-story spire of granite, glass and concrete, he gives a speedy hello to former White House
Argentine Citizenship Will Be New ‘Status Symbol’ For Wealthy Americans, Say Experts
Announced Friday by Argentina’s Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, and set to launch before the end of 2026, the country’s citizenship-by-investment program is the first in South America, the first for a G20 country, and the first to recognize same-sex married couples.
There are two ways to buy into the program: make a one-time, non-refundable donation or invest in a seven-year, no interest bond.
The Billionaires Backing India’s Massive AI Infrastructure Buildout
The race to make India a data center hub geared up this year as the country’s two richest men made multibillion-dollar pledges to support a nationwide buildout. Gautam Adani announced in February that his infrastructure conglomerate, Adani Group, would invest $100 billion by 2035 in data centers powered by renewable energy supplied by his Adani Green Energy.
Shortly thereafter, Reliance Industrie
Meet Joe Strada, Florida HVAC Mogul Set To Become The Richest Member Of Congress
Joe Strada is getting his picture taken and his employees are giving him a hard time about it. Professional photos are apparently not a common occurrence around the Strada Services warehouse in Sanford, Florida. Giving the boss a hard time is. The building is long and low, mostly concrete and metal, with loading doors punched into its sides and a wide slab of pavement out front. Com
Mark Cuban Doubles Down On Criticism Of Humanoid Robots
Billionaire Mark Cuban has emerged as one of the most prominent critics of humanoid robots for consumer households, repeating his criticism on Monday after previously predicting both robots and their manufacturers would “fail miserably” within five to ten years—contradicting the bets placed on the technology from other billionaires like Elon Musk.
In an appearance on tech livestream show TBPN in
White House Releases ‘Accord’ Between Billionaire AI Execs: Here’s What It Says
The White House released the text of an “accord” reached between billionaire AI titans who met with President Donald Trump on Tuesday, an agreement the president labeled “morally binding” even as he stopped short of saying the government would support new guardrails.
Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2026/09/30/white-house-releases-accord-between-billionaire-ai-
How Martinelli’s Turned The Champagne Of Apple Cider Into A $500 Million Family Business
For 158 years the Martinelli family has turned apples grown in Northern California orchards into a golden juice, and it's grown into a sweet family business.
The company had an estimated $175 million in 2025 revenue and has been increasing at 5% annually for the past five years. The business’s iconic champagne-style bottles of sparkling apple cider are today the top-seller in America and it
Move Over STEM. Humanities Degrees Are Poised For A Comeback Thanks To AI.
Both humanities’ decline and possible revival can, no surprise, be traced to concerns about career and financial security. For a time, STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) majors had the golden ticket. Now some engineering specialties (including computer engineering) have seen a sharp decline in entry-level jobs, as artificial intelligence reduces the demand for junior worker
Trump Debuts New America.Gov Chatbot Ahead Of Meeting With Industry Execs
President Donald Trump unveiled a new government website powered by artificial intelligence ahead of his meeting with top AI executives—as he has contested slowing AI development amid dire warnings of the dangers it poses.
Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2026/09/29/trump-announcing-new-ai-powered-government-website-today-ahead-of-meeting-with-industry-execs/
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Nvidia Launches New Safety Platform—Says It Can Prevent AI Agents From Going Rogue
Nvidia on Monday launched a new security system that it claims can prevent AI agents breaching their testing environments and gain unauthorized access to outside systems, just weeks after the AI chipmaker’s billionaire CEO Jensen Huang downplayed alarm about recent safety breaches and pushed back on the need for an AI slowdown.
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