Artificial intelligence dominates this year’s list of 25 venture-backed startups we think most likely to reach a $1 billion valuation. Edited by Amy Feldman, Forbes Staff Editorial Operations: Elisabeth Brier Reporters: Emily Baker-White, Jeremy Bogaisky, Moya Johnson, Richard Nieva and Rashi Shrivastava This is the 11th year we have partnered with TrueBridge Capital Partners to…
You must never replyNurPhoto via Getty Images Republished on August 11 with a new defense against text message attacks. American smartphones are under attack from malicious text messages. This industrial scale campaign is driven by organized criminal gangs in China, well beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement. If you do succumb to an unpaid…
The iPhone 16 Pro Max has been discounted ahead of the iPhone 17 launch. (Photo by Nic COURY / AFP) (Photo by NIC COURY/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images Unlike Samsung’s repeated Galaxy S25 promotions and Google’s constant Pixel 9 price drops, Apple discounts are rare, which is why Amazon’s latest iPhone 16 deal…
ToplineLauren Sánchez, who married billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in a star-studded Italian celebration in June, was spotted in Ibiza, Spain, this week wearing a diamond-studded Richard Mille watch that retails for close to $300,000. Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez Bezos on June 28, 2025. AFP via Getty ImagesKey FactsPaparazzi photos of Sánchez…
AGI — a theoretical AI that can do many of the same tasks as humans can — could come within a decade. College students, including from elite universities, are abandoning school now to work full-time on preventing it from turning on humanity. When Alice Blair enrolled in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a freshman…
Skilled tradespeople are emerging as the economy’s most recession-proof careers. getty For most of my career, when asked to speak to high school students or incoming first-year college students and give them career advice, I mostly steered them towards a career in technology. I would talk about how I saw tech jobs driving the future,…
ToplineTesla approved a stock award worth around $29 billion to Elon Musk, the company disclosed in an SEC filing, in a move that comes after a judge struck down an earlier multibillion-dollar pay package granted to the carmaker’s centibillionaire CEO. Tesla approved a stock award worth nearly $30 billion for its CEO Elon Musk. Associated…
ToplineOnline shoppers came out in full force to power 11% growth in Amazon online store sales, its largest reporting segment, and its second-largest, third-party seller services, advanced 11% in the second quarter ended June 30, all before the big Amazon Prime Day four-day sales event. Amazon Prime delivery person in van sorting packages, Queens, New…
Booming tech stocks lifted the fortunes of eight of the world’s top 10 wealthiest. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang hit a high mark. Last update: August 1, 2025, 12 A.M. EDT In a month where the biggest tech companies led U.S. stock market indices to successive new highs, the CEO of sizzling AI chip firm Nvidia also…
David Ellison, son of software centi-billionaire Larry Ellison, nurtured a relationship with Paramount over the past 15 years as a movie producer. His father’s fortune and political status also scored points. The Federal Communications Commission greenlit the $8 billion merger between Paramount and Skydance Media on Thursday, 383 days after the deal was first announced.…
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