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Buffett Delays Annual Gift To Gates Foundation Amid Scrutiny Over Epstein Ties, Report Says
Billionaire Warren Buffett will not make a midyear donation to the Gates Foundation for the first time in 20 years, the Wall Street Journal reported, as he awaits more details about the philanthropic group’s links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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How Taylor Swift’s Net Worth Has More Than Doubled Since She Became A Billionaire
The world’s biggest pop star was on the doorstep of the three-comma club when she met Travis Kelce in 2023. Three years later, both of their fortunes have risen.
Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattcraig/2026/07/01/how-taylor-swifts-net-worth-has-more-than-doubled-since-she-became-a-billionaire/
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OpenAI Reportedly Pitches Granting U.S. Government 5% Stake
OpenAI is in talks to potentially give the Trump administration a 5% stake in the company, according to the Financial Times, as calls for the American public to benefit from AI companies’ financial windfall finds bipartisan support.
Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/07/02/openai-reportedly-pitches-granting-us-government-5-stake/
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The Numbers Behind The 2026 World Cup
Twenty-five teams—and two billionaire players—are still competing for a $713,000 trophy and $50 million in prize money. Here are more figures to know about soccer’s biggest spectacle.
Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brettknight/2026/07/01/the-numbers-behind-the-2026-world-cup/
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Inside This SpaceX Billionaire’s Mission To Build A Fleet Of Outer Space Taxis
Tom Mueller is driving his candy green Porsche Taycan Turbo S the way he builds rocket engines: with a terrifying amount of instantaneous thrust and little regard for the local speed limits of El Segundo. He is headed west on Marine Avenue, cutting through the smog-tinted sunlight of Los Angeles’ South Bay aerospace corridor, talking about Earth’s limitations.
“If we continue to grow like we hav
Legendary Texas Wildcatter’s Granddaughter Makes Energy’s Riskiest Bet
It’s almost 8 a.m. when Gloria Moncrief arrives at her oil firm’s hangar at Meacham Airport in Fort Worth, Texas. She climbs into an eight-seater Cessna Citation, explaining that her Boeing 737, Lucky Liz, is in the shop. The flight to a small airfield in southern Louisiana takes about an hour. Then it’s a 45-minute drive along the levee into the Atchafalaya river basin, the largest swamp in North
The World’s Highest-Paid Golfers 2026
After news broke that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund would cease backing LIV Golf beyond this season, putting its future in doubt, Jon Rahm was asked in May about the status of his contract with the tour. “I don’t see many ways out,” the 31-year-old Spaniard answered pragmatically.
Rahm’s next steps appear dependent on whether LIV can secure external funding to continue operating beyond th
SpaceX IPO Lines Up $230 Billion Windfall For Peter Thiel And Other Musk Backers
In 2008, just days before one of SpaceX’s early rocket launches failed to reach orbit, Peter Thiel’s fund wrote the first institutional check into the nascent, six-year-old startup.
Now, as Elon Musk’s rocket and AI company goes public today at a nearly $2 trillion valuation, the fund’s stake is worth a staggering $67 billion — making that first check, and the additional $600 million Founders Fu
James Dolan’s Knicks Just Won The NBA Title. Here’s How He Made His Fortune.
For most of James Dolan’s tenure in charge of the New York Knicks since he became Madison Square Garden’s chairman in 1999, he has been an easy punching bag for Knicks fans—and much of the damage was self-inflicted. But now, after one magical spring, that turbulent past might be water under the bridge. The Knicks are NBA champions for the first time in 53 years, a moment many fans never thought wo
Larry Ellison, A Saudi Prince And The Other Unexpected Winners From The SpaceX IPO
SpaceX priced its IPO at $135 per share Thursday, implying a $1.8 trillion market cap for the company. That boosted Musk’s net worth by $188 billion to an estimated $982 billion, according to Forbes’ calculations. Then on Friday, the rocketmaker’s stock started trading at $150 per share and closed the day at $160.95 per share, implying a valuation of $2.2 trillion for the company. That easily made
The Nerdy Escorts Cashing In On Silicon Valley’s AI Boom
In 2024, Meida Marek (her online pseudonym), was a recent college graduate working an entry-level finance job when she started doing the mental math that’s fast becoming a rite of passage in such industries: What happens when AI can do this better than I can?
So Marek took inventory. She was intelligent and naturally supportive. She was good at talking to people. She likes futurist rabbit holes:
The Highest-Paid Players At The 2026 World Cup
There are many firsts at this year’s FIFA World Cup. For the first time in the tournament’s 96-year history, there will be 48 teams. It’s also the first World Cup to be held across three countries (the United States, Canada and Mexico), in a record 16 cities. And it will be the first to feature a billionaire player—actually two—with 41-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo captaining Portugal and 38-year-old
America's Richest Self-Made Women 2026
Rocket ships. AI chips. Chinese food. Clothing. Construction. Chatbots. America’s self-made women billionaires have found dozens of ways to prosper. In our first listing focusing just on those with 10-figure fortunes, Forbes found 43 self-made queens of capitalism, up from 38 a year ago as many of their businesses hit new highs. That’s despite the passing of two legendary women, Gap cofounder Dori
