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Chinese Printed Circuit Board Maker Victory Giant Surges In Hong Kong Debut Amid AI Boom

Chinese Printed Circuit Board Maker Victory Giant Surges In Hong Kong Debut Amid AI Boom

Victory Giant Technology, a Chinese maker of AI-related components headed by billionaire Chen Tao, rallied as much as 60% in its Hong Kong market...

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Yue Wang

Forbes Daily: Apple Names New CEO As Tim Cook Steps Down

Forbes Daily: Apple Names New CEO As Tim Cook Steps Down

Monday may have been the unofficial cannabis holiday, but shares of firms offering psychedelic treatments were riding high, too. President Donald...

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Danielle Chemtob

AI Data Centers Are Now A Big Geopolitical Risk. Securing Them Against Attackers, Drones And More Is Becoming A Lucrative Business

AI Data Centers Are Now A Big Geopolitical Risk. Securing Them Against Attackers, Drones And More Is Becoming A Lucrative Business

The AI boom created a colossal market for compute—GPUs, networking gear and the massive datacenters that run it all. It also bolstered a second less...

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Phoebe Liu

Singapore Billionaire’s Royal Group Taps Minor International To Run Heritage London Hotel

Singapore Billionaire’s Royal Group Taps Minor International To Run Heritage London Hotel

Royal Group—controlled by Singaporean real estate billionaire Asok Kumar Hiranandani—has picked Minor Hotels, part of Thai hotelier William...

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Phisanu Phromchanya

Is Tesla Or Rivian Stock The Better Buy?

Is Tesla Or Rivian Stock The Better Buy?

What Investors Should Know About Tesla and Rivian Comparing EV Capabilities And Strategies Financial Performance and Growth Potential For 2026 TSLA...

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Peter Cohan

China’s Newest Tech Billionaire Made His Fortune From Developing Image Sensor Chips For Robotics

China’s Newest Tech Billionaire Made His Fortune From Developing Image Sensor Chips For Robotics

The trend of mainland Chinese tech companies flocking to list in Hong Kong shows no sign of abating. The latest to make its stock market debut is...

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Zinnia Lee

Philippines’ Ayala Land Halts Sales Of Luxury Residential Tower As Costs Surge Amid Iran War

Philippines’ Ayala Land Halts Sales Of Luxury Residential Tower As Costs Surge Amid Iran War

Ayala Land—controlled by tycoon Jaime Zobel de Ayala and his family’s Ayala Corp.—has paused the construction and marketing one of the...

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Ian Sayson

Billionaire Robin Khuda’s AirTrunk Expands In India With Lumina CloudInfra Deal

Billionaire Robin Khuda’s AirTrunk Expands In India With Lumina CloudInfra Deal

AirTrunk—the data center operator founded by Australian billionaire Robin Khuda—is buying Lumina CloudInfra to expand in India, as the world’s...

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Yessar Rosendar

Markets Face A Crucial Earnings Week As Tesla Reports

Markets Face A Crucial Earnings Week As Tesla Reports

Coming off a new all-time closing high for the S&P 500 last Friday, it is the third-busiest week of first-quarter earnings season, with 94 S&P...

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Bill stone

How CEOs Can Drive Change And Still Come Out Ahead

How CEOs Can Drive Change And Still Come Out Ahead

The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus is credited with saying the only constant in life is change, but he obviously had no idea how...

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Megan Poinski

What Small Businesses Should Know About Tariff Refunds

What Small Businesses Should Know About Tariff Refunds

For many small businesses, tariffs are treated as a fixed cost of doing business. They are built into pricing, absorbed into margins, or passed on to...

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Natalie Madeira Cofield

Reranking The World’s Billionaires By Wealth – And Altruism

Reranking The World’s Billionaires By Wealth – And Altruism

Elon Musk is the planet’s richest person by far, worth $839 billion as of Forbes’ annual World’s Billionaires list. He also ranks among the...

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Matt Durot

Warming Oceans, A Hot Year And ‘Elite’ Beliefs

Warming Oceans, A Hot Year And ‘Elite’ Beliefs

Current Climate brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability every Monday. Sign up to get it in your inbox. Weather across the U.S....

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Alan Ohnsman

Forbes Daily: Renewed U.S. And Iran Tensions Send Oil Prices Up Again

Forbes Daily: Renewed U.S. And Iran Tensions Send Oil Prices Up Again

AI has been embraced as a godsend for drug discovery. But startup Formation Bio is betting it can transform what CEO Benjamine Liu sees as the biggest...

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Danielle Chemtob

Inside The Pawn Shop For The Ultra-Rich

Inside The Pawn Shop For The Ultra-Rich

Inside a climate-controlled room at lender Luxury Asset Capital’s Manhattan office, rows of Hermès handbags line the shelves: Mini Kellys in exotic...

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Sergei Klebnikov

Tax Breaks: The Post Tax Season Hangover Edition

Tax Breaks: The Post Tax Season Hangover Edition

That collective exhale you heard this week? It was the sound of tens of millions of taxpayers and tax professionals finally taking a breath after an...

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Kelly Phillips Erb

America’s Top Architects: A Big Sur Cottage by California’s Studio Schicketanz

America’s Top Architects: A Big Sur Cottage by California’s Studio Schicketanz

Firm Name: Studio Schicketanz Principal: Mary Ann Schicketanz Headquarters: Carmel, California Accolades: Forbes Architecture’s “America’s Top...

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Fred albert

RFK Jr. Pushes To Expand Access To Peptides. A Doctor Explains The Risks

RFK Jr. Pushes To Expand Access To Peptides. A Doctor Explains The Risks

The Trump Administration is actively moving to make wellness peptides marketed for healing wounds, anti-aging and building muscle more accessible. The...

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Jesse Pines

Members-Only Event: The Future Of Your Social Security Benefits

Members-Only Event: The Future Of Your Social Security Benefits

Social Security: What’s Staying, What’s Changing, and What’s Next The Social Security system is under growing strain. By 2033 its Old-Age and...

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Fewer Returns, Bigger Refunds: What IRS Data Says About The 2026 Tax Season

Fewer Returns, Bigger Refunds: What IRS Data Says About The 2026 Tax Season

Now that April 15 is in our rearview mirror, it’s a wrap on the regular tax season—but the IRS is still processing returns and sorting through...

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Kelly Phillips Erb

OpenAI Wants Its AI To Help Scientists Make Discoveries Faster

OpenAI Wants Its AI To Help Scientists Make Discoveries Faster

OpenAI’s science moves. Solving a century-old mystery about rubber. The space economy keeps booming. All that and more in this week’s edition of...

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Alex Knapp

The Ultimate Miami Grand Prix Guide, Macau’s Best Hotels And More Travel News

The Ultimate Miami Grand Prix Guide, Macau’s Best Hotels And More Travel News

Passport will be on vacation next week. The newsletter will return tan, rested and ready on May 1. Forbes Travel Guide’s Top Macau Hotels In Forbes...

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Passport By Forbeslife

Texas Hotel Billionaires Set To Foreclose On Greenbrier Owner Senator Jim Justice

Texas Hotel Billionaires Set To Foreclose On Greenbrier Owner Senator Jim Justice

In dueling court filings the Rowling and Justice families are at loggerheads. At stake is control of the Greenbrier Resort. Robert Rowling and his son...

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Christopher Helman

Meet Europe’s New 30 Under 30 And Do More Than ‘Manifest.’ Plus: Unblock Bottlenecks Slowing You Down

Meet Europe’s New 30 Under 30 And Do More Than ‘Manifest.’ Plus: Unblock Bottlenecks Slowing You Down

This is this week’s ForbesWomen newsletter, which every Thursday brings news about the world’s top female entrepreneurs, leaders and investors...

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Maggie Mcgrath

Forbes Daily: The Cannabis Industry’s High Hopes For Federal Reform

Forbes Daily: The Cannabis Industry’s High Hopes For Federal Reform

Companies on their last legs are liquidating an unexpected asset: their digital footprint. From old Slack messages to emails, it’s becoming training...

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Danielle Chemtob

Meet The Cannabis Industry’s Trump Whisperer

Meet The Cannabis Industry’s Trump Whisperer

OnDecember 18, 2025, Kim Rivers left the White House after President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi...

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Will Yakowicz

This Sam Altman-Backed $1.8 Billion Startup Bets AI Can Get Drugs Through Clinical Trials Faster

This Sam Altman-Backed $1.8 Billion Startup Bets AI Can Get Drugs Through Clinical Trials Faster

When Benjamine Liu was a young computational biologist working on his doctorate at the University of Oxford, he had some ideas for novel drugs that...

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Amy Feldman

Thai Microlending Tycoon Chuchat Patcharachai, Cofounder Of Muangthai Capital, Dies At 72

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Phisanu Phromchanya

Meet The Cannabis Industry’s Trump Whisperer

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Will Yakowicz

Meet Taiwan’s “Queen Of Chassis” Who’s Making Customized Server Casings For Global Tech Giants

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Cat Wang

How Meagan Good Is Turning Her Next Act Into A Resilient Business Portfolio

How Meagan Good Is Turning Her Next Act Into A Resilient Business Portfolio

Actress Meagan Good sits down with Forbes senior writer and editor Jabari Young on The Enterprise Zone at Nasdaq MarketSite. She talks about her new...

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Jabari Young

AI’s Biggest Players And Rising Stars

AI’s Biggest Players And Rising Stars

AI is everywhere, so it seems. Just about every enterprise is using it in various ways to increase efficiency, accuracy and research, and the...

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Megan Poinski

Markets May Be Misreading The Inflation Shock

Markets May Be Misreading The Inflation Shock

Higher energy prices may lift inflation for a time, but they say little about the broader economy or what policymakers may do. Oil has pulled back...

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Andrew Graham

A 600% Stock Spike Can’t Fix Allbirds’ AI Identity Crisis

A 600% Stock Spike Can’t Fix Allbirds’ AI Identity Crisis

Shares of Allbirds, the merino wool sneaker retailer that sold itself last month for $39 million, soared 594% after a press release trumpeted the...

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Peter Cohan

Forbes Daily: S&P 500 Reaches New Heights On U.S. And Iran Optimism

Forbes Daily: S&P 500 Reaches New Heights On U.S. And Iran Optimism

As AI becomes more mainstream, the startups behind it are raising gobs of money. Now, they’re starting to prove they can turn those ideas into...

16.04.2026 4

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Danielle Chemtob

How France’s Mistral Built A $14 Billion AI Empire By Not Being American

How France’s Mistral Built A $14 Billion AI Empire By Not Being American

When Arthur Mensch, the cofounder and CEO of Mistral, France’s leading AI company, takes the stage at the AI Action Summit in the center of New...

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Iain Martin

The AI 50 Brink List

The AI 50 Brink List

More than seven years since Forbes launched its first AI 50 list, the artificial intelligence industry has exploded, growing more expansive and...

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Sofia Chierchio

How Forbes Compiled The 2026 AI 50 List

How Forbes Compiled The 2026 AI 50 List

Forbes’ AI 50 list spotlights the most promising privately held companies applying artificial intelligence to solve real-world challenges. Our...

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Elisabeth Brier

This $1.5 Billion AI Startup Steps In When Software Breaks

This $1.5 Billion AI Startup Steps In When Software Breaks

Spiros Xanthos has spent more than two decades building systems to help engineers monitor and troubleshoot complex software. Yet the most punishing...

16.04.2026 4

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Sofia Chierchio

AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

When Shanna Johnson was winding down cielo24, the transcription and captioning company she ran as CEO, she discovered an unexpected asset: its...

16.04.2026 5

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Anna Tong

Energy Storage Boom Propels Former Huawei Executive Into Billionaire Ranks

Energy Storage Boom Propels Former Huawei Executive Into Billionaire Ranks

Shares of Shanghai-based energy storage maker Sigenergy Technology soared in their trading debut Thursday, as investors bet on the company's...

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Yue Wang

SEC Reverses Day Trading Rule In Boon For Retail Brokers

SEC Reverses Day Trading Rule In Boon For Retail Brokers

The SEC is unwinding a rule born from the wreckage of the dotcom crash. On Tuesday, regulators approved a change that will get rid of the so-called...

15.04.2026 4

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Brandon Kochkodin

The Fascinating History Of How Income Taxes Got Americans Hooked On Cocktails

The Fascinating History Of How Income Taxes Got Americans Hooked On Cocktails

About now, some taxpayers may be shaking, stirring or pouring out a cocktail to celebrate today’s end of the official tax filing season today...

15.04.2026 2

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Kelly Phillips Erb

Malaysia’s 50 Richest 2026: A Robust Ringgit And A Hot IPO Market Power Tycoons’ Wealth

Malaysia’s 50 Richest 2026: A Robust Ringgit And A Hot IPO Market Power Tycoons’ Wealth

This story is part of Forbes’ coverage of Malaysia’s Richest 2026. See the full list here. An economy that expanded 5.2% in 2025, an appreciating...

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Phisanu Phromchanya

Malaysian Tycoon’s Farm Fresh Dairy Outfit Is Taking On Rivals With Its ‘Grass To Glass’ Approach

Malaysian Tycoon’s Farm Fresh Dairy Outfit Is Taking On Rivals With Its ‘Grass To Glass’ Approach

This story is part of Forbes’ coverage of Malaysia’s Richest 2026. See the full list here. porting a pair of mud-stained jeans, Loi Tuan Ee enters...

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Jonathan Burgos

Malaysia’s Lee Brothers Reap Windfall On REIT Listing Plan

Malaysia’s Lee Brothers Reap Windfall On REIT Listing Plan

This story is part of Forbes’ coverage of Malaysia’s Richest 2026. See the full list here. In recent years, brothers Lee Yeow Chor and Lee Yeow...

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Gloria Haraito

Brothers Behind Southeast Asia’s Largest Aluminum Smelter Are Now Malaysia’s Second-Richest

Brothers Behind Southeast Asia’s Largest Aluminum Smelter Are Now Malaysia’s Second-Richest

This story is part of Forbes’ coverage of Malaysia’s Richest 2026. See the full list here. Robust aluminum prices, driven by demand from hot...

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Anis Shakirah Mohd Muslimin

Founder Of Malaysia’s Largest Dollar Store Chain Debuts On List Of Country’s Richest

Founder Of Malaysia’s Largest Dollar Store Chain Debuts On List Of Country’s Richest

This story is part of Forbes’ coverage of Malaysia’s Richest 2026. See the full list here. The May 2025 listing of discount store chain Eco-Shop...

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Yessar Rosendar

ViTrox Cofounder Returns To The Ranks Of Malaysia’s Richest As AI Boom Fuels Demand For Chip Equipment

ViTrox Cofounder Returns To The Ranks Of Malaysia’s Richest As AI Boom Fuels Demand For Chip Equipment

This story is part of Forbes’ coverage of Malaysia’s Richest 2026. See the full list here. An 84% jump in shares of Penang-based ViTrox, which...

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Gloria Haraito

As Gas Tops $4 Per Gallon, Congress Considers Lowering The Gas Tax

As Gas Tops $4 Per Gallon, Congress Considers Lowering The Gas Tax

With gas prices topping $4 per gallon at the pump (AAA reports that the national average is $4.108 as of today), drivers are increasingly focused on...

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Kelly Phillips Erb