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Meet The Billionaires Behind A Food Empire Built On Dessert Topping

Meet The Billionaires Behind A Food Empire Built On Dessert Topping

W henever someone offers to acquire Rich Products—Buffalo, New York’s $5.8 billion (annual sales) food giant that you’ve probably never heard...

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Chloe Sorvino

Reddit’s CEO Debuts As A Billionaire 20 Years After Cofounding The Company

Reddit’s CEO Debuts As A Billionaire 20 Years After Cofounding The Company

R eddit has hit its stir After trudging through nearly two decades losing money, the platform recorded its first quarterly profit one year ago—and...

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Monica Hunter-Hart

Here Are The Two Billionaires Supporting Zohran Mamdani

Here Are The Two Billionaires Supporting Zohran Mamdani

Last week, Forbes combed through campaign finance records to find the billionaires spending to stop Zohran Mamdani, a self-described democratic...

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Kyle Khan-Mullins

The Government Shutdown Rolls On Edition

The Government Shutdown Rolls On Edition

Welcome to November! We’re entering the second month of the government shutdown. For taxpayers and tax professionals alike, that means that IRS...

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Kelly Phillips Erb

Malaysia’s IHH Healthcare Plans Expansion Across India, Seeks Majority Stake In Fortis

Malaysia’s IHH Healthcare Plans Expansion Across India, Seeks Majority Stake In Fortis

Kuala Lumpur-based IHH Healthcare —one of Asia’s biggest healthcare groups—is investing 13 billion rupees ($147 million) to expand its hospitals...

friday 5

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Yessar Rosendar

Forbes Daily: Meta’s Wall Street Woes Hit Mark Zuckerberg’s Fortune

Forbes Daily: Meta’s Wall Street Woes Hit Mark Zuckerberg’s Fortune

The newest billionaire faces of the AI revolution are the same age as a typical college senior. The trio of 22-year-old founders of AI recruiting...

friday 5

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Danielle Chemtob

SNAP Food Aid At Risk In Shutdown Has A Nearly Century Long History

SNAP Food Aid At Risk In Shutdown Has A Nearly Century Long History

Tens of millions of Americans who rely on government food assistance will not receive benefits beginning tomorrow. That’s according to a notice...

friday 5

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Kelly Phillips Erb

How To Transfer Your Skills To A Job In Healthcare

How To Transfer Your Skills To A Job In Healthcare

The healthcare sector is expected to add nearly 1.9 million new jobs a year until 2034, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts. These...

friday 3

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Leigh Cuen

Forbes Travel Guide’s Top London Hotels For Families, A Guide To Semi-Private Jets And More Travel News

Forbes Travel Guide’s Top London Hotels For Families, A Guide To Semi-Private Jets And More Travel News

When it comes to skiing in Europe, the best accommodations are found in luxury chalets. The word chalet might connote a rustic mountain lodge, but...

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Passport By Forbeslife

The Highest-Paid Dead Celebrities Of 2025

The Highest-Paid Dead Celebrities Of 2025

IN 2001, Elvis Presley topped Forbes’ first list tracking the highest-earning celebrity estates, and The King has appeared on every edition of the...

friday 3

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Matt Craig

Why Electric Cars May Soon Become Cheaper Than Gasoline Cars

Why Electric Cars May Soon Become Cheaper Than Gasoline Cars

For years, electric vehicles were the privilege of the few—high-tech, high-priced symbols of the future. But that future just hit an economic...

friday 10

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Peter Lyon

Why AI Models Suck At Investment Banking

Why AI Models Suck At Investment Banking

The AI spending spree continues apace with no end in sight. In earnings calls Wednesday, Meta, Google and Microsoft all said they would continue to...

friday 3

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Anna Tong

Nvidia Expands Into Quantum Computing And Fusion Power

Nvidia Expands Into Quantum Computing And Fusion Power

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at Nvidia’s moves in emerging tech, why AI models struggle with finance, a revolutionary...

friday 1

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Alex Knapp

Meet The Indian Heiress Taking On Ikea. Plus: Why You Need To “Kill” Your Company

Meet The Indian Heiress Taking On Ikea. Plus: Why You Need To “Kill” Your Company

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

friday 1

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Maggie Mcgrath

2025 WTA Finals: Top Players Blend Style And Branding

2025 WTA Finals: Top Players Blend Style And Branding

The 2025 WTA Finals get underway tomorrow in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. However, for top players, the branding game begins before the tournament starts....

friday 1

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Merlisa Lawrence Corbett

xAI Researcher, Early Googler In Talks To Raise $1 Billion At $5 Billion Valuation For New Frontier Lab

xAI Researcher, Early Googler In Talks To Raise $1 Billion At $5 Billion Valuation For New Frontier Lab

Former xAI researcher Eric Zelikman is raising $1 billion for a new startup called Humans&, that will train AI models to be better at collaborating...

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Anna Tong

Vietnamese Billionaire’s Vietjet Inks $29 Billion Deals To Buy Airbus A321neo Jets, Rolls-Royce Engines

Vietnamese Billionaire’s Vietjet Inks $29 Billion Deals To Buy Airbus A321neo Jets, Rolls-Royce Engines

Vietjet —controlled by Vietnamese billionaire Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao —has signed orders worth almost $29 billion for the purchase of 100 Airbus...

30.10.2025 1

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Yessar Rosendar

Forbes Daily: AI Mints The Most Valuable Company Ever—Again

Forbes Daily: AI Mints The Most Valuable Company Ever—Again

The longer the government shutdown drags on, the more people will feel its impacts—especially when it comes to healthcare and food assistance. Open...

30.10.2025 3

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Danielle Chemtob

Fed Rate Cut Comes Amid Greater Unease About The Near Future

Fed Rate Cut Comes Amid Greater Unease About The Near Future

Wednesday’s actions during the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee’s meeting would have seemed like the beginning of better times...

30.10.2025 1

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Erik Sherman

Why VideoAmp Thinks It Can Bust Nielsen’s TV Ratings Monopoly

Why VideoAmp Thinks It Can Bust Nielsen’s TV Ratings Monopoly

P acing the stage at a conference in New York City in mid-September, VideoAmp CEO Peter Liguori made his pitch to a room full of advertising and...

30.10.2025 10

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Matt Craig

Trump’s Crypto Adviser’s Quixotic Quest To Build A Leading Bitcoin Bank

Trump’s Crypto Adviser’s Quixotic Quest To Build A Leading Bitcoin Bank

It’s been in David Bailey’s words, “a Saving Private Ryan-style combat.” Over the past six months, the 35-year-old CEO of Nakamoto Holdings, a...

30.10.2025 5

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Nina Bambysheva

What The Fed Rate Cut Means For Small Businesses

What The Fed Rate Cut Means For Small Businesses

Small business owners have faced significant uncertainty this year due to rising inflation and ongoing discussions about tariffs, which have...

30.10.2025 3

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Brock Blake

How Time And Space Could Be Used To Regulate AI

How Time And Space Could Be Used To Regulate AI

With almost every company using AI nowadays, integration is no longer a differentiator. But some companies are seeing more revenue growth than...

30.10.2025 4

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Megan Poinski

OpenAI Plans For IPO

OpenAI Plans For IPO

Welcome back to The Prompt, ChatGPT maker OpenAI is setting its eyes on an IPO as soon as late 2026, according to a Reuters report. The IPO could...

30.10.2025 3

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Rashi Shrivastava

The World’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaires Are A Trio Of 22-Year-Old AI Founders

The World’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaires Are A Trio Of 22-Year-Old AI Founders

M ercor, a recruiting startup that helps Silicon Valley’s biggest AI labs to train their models, has just minted the world’s youngest self-made...

30.10.2025 5

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Richard Nieva

Banpu Power Shares Jump To One-Year High In Bangkok After Parent’s $261 Million Buyout Offer

Banpu Power Shares Jump To One-Year High In Bangkok After Parent’s $261 Million Buyout Offer

Bangkok-based Banpu—the coal miner controlled by the Vongkusolkit family—has offered to buy the rest of unit Banpu Power for 8.5 billion baht ($261...

30.10.2025 3

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Phisanu Phromchanya

Smarter EV Charging May Save U.S. Households 10% On Electricity Bills

Smarter EV Charging May Save U.S. Households 10% On Electricity Bills

The race to electrify American transportation is on. Automakers are rolling out dozens of new electric models, public incentives are spurring...

30.10.2025 3

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Ken Silverstein

Nonprofits Face Double Crunch As Shutdown Follows Severe Funding Cuts

Nonprofits Face Double Crunch As Shutdown Follows Severe Funding Cuts

The United States is now deep into a government shutdown that has shuttered a wide range of federally supported programs, from early-childhood...

30.10.2025 1

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Alexander Puutio

AI Video Startup Synthesia Valued At $4 Billion In New $200 Million Raise

AI Video Startup Synthesia Valued At $4 Billion In New $200 Million Raise

London-based AI video generation startup Synthesia has closed a funding round that nearly doubles its valuation to $4 billion, three sources...

29.10.2025 6

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Rashi Shrivastava

Legal AI Startup Harvey Raises $150 Million At $8 Billion Valuation

Legal AI Startup Harvey Raises $150 Million At $8 Billion Valuation

Harvey has closed a new $150 million funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz valuing the San Francisco-based legal AI startup at over $8 billion,...

29.10.2025 2

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Iain Martin

Why More Brands Are Bringing Marketing In-House

Why More Brands Are Bringing Marketing In-House

Ads can have the power to influence decisions. In the last week, one ad in particular provoked seismic shifts in international relations and...

29.10.2025 3

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Megan Poinski

Forbes Daily: OpenAI Creates $500 Billion For-Profit Arm

Forbes Daily: OpenAI Creates $500 Billion For-Profit Arm

Apple is the newest member of the $4 trillion club, with shares rallying following the latest iPhone release. The company joined fellow tech giants...

29.10.2025 1

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Danielle Chemtob

The Big Changes To ACA Premiums At The Heart Of The Government Shutdown

The Big Changes To ACA Premiums At The Heart Of The Government Shutdown

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace Open Enrollment period begins November 1, 2025, in most states and it’s shaping up to be a tricky one....

29.10.2025 1

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Kelly Phillips Erb

What To Know About President Trump’s Cognitive Test

What To Know About President Trump’s Cognitive Test

In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at President Trump’s cognitive test, Nvidia’s collaborations in life sciences and drug development,...

29.10.2025 4

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Amy Feldman

Why Farmers Have A Lot Riding On Trump-Xi Meeting

Why Farmers Have A Lot Riding On Trump-Xi Meeting

Ahead of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping’s highly anticipated Thursday summit, Reuters is reporting that China’s state-owned agriculture firm COFCO...

29.10.2025 3

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Chloe Sorvino

In Shutdown, Each Controller ‘Has Their Own Story Of What They Can Stand’

In Shutdown, Each Controller ‘Has Their Own Story Of What They Can Stand’

The federal shutdown entered its fourth week Tuesday, bringing the first missed paycheck for air traffic controllers and triggering delays at many...

29.10.2025 2

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Ted Reed