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Meta And YouTube Are Designed To Be Addictive, Jury Finds. Here’s How Parents Can Keep Kids Safe

Meta And YouTube Are Designed To Be Addictive, Jury Finds. Here’s How Parents Can Keep Kids Safe

Updated March 27, 2026: This story, originally published on Feb. 18, 2026, includes new information about Wednesday’s verdict in the lawsuit against...

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Brian Castrucci

NASA Is Planning A Nuclear-Powered Trip To Mars

NASA Is Planning A Nuclear-Powered Trip To Mars

Why nuclear makes sense for the Red Planet. Google’s new memory math for AI. Why video games help you sleep. All that and more in this week’s...

yesterday 0

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Alex Knapp

The Cost Of The Iran War And Why Single Mothers May Feel Inflation First. Plus: Inside The Secret Language Of Work

The Cost Of The Iran War And Why Single Mothers May Feel Inflation First. Plus: Inside The Secret Language Of Work

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

Intuit Wins Big In FTC Fight Over TurboTax “Free” Ads

Intuit Wins Big In FTC Fight Over TurboTax “Free” Ads

A federal appeals court has handed Intuit a significant procedural win in its long-running fight with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that could...

yesterday 0

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Kelly Phillips Erb

Memory Chip Boom Catapults Founder Of Korean Semiconductor Equipment Maker To Billionaire Ranks

Memory Chip Boom Catapults Founder Of Korean Semiconductor Equipment Maker To Billionaire Ranks

Surging demand for memory chips and related equipment amid the AI boom has boosted shares of EO Technics in South Korea by over 40% so far this year....

yesterday 0

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John Kang

We Trust AI Over Our Own Brains, Research Finds

We Trust AI Over Our Own Brains, Research Finds

Consulting AI for trip planning, medical advice or help writing a cover letter doesn’t just save time. It could be fundamentally reshaping how our...

yesterday 0

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Leslie Katz

This Crypto Billionaire Wants To Use The Human Brain As A Blueprint For AI

This Crypto Billionaire Wants To Use The Human Brain As A Blueprint For AI

In a two-story brick office building in Emeryville, neuroscientists are making plans to fit mice with diminutive brain-computer interfaces to record...

yesterday 0

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Anna Tong

$8.5 Million Fake Trust Tax Scheme Nets Prison Sentences For Texas Family

$8.5 Million Fake Trust Tax Scheme Nets Prison Sentences For Texas Family

A Texas family’s effort to turn fake trusts into legitimate tax refunds ended with federal prison sentences, concluding a multimillion-dollar fraud...

yesterday 0

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Kelly Phillips Erb

How This Meat Snack Company Devoured The Competition And Became A $1 Billion Business

How This Meat Snack Company Devoured The Competition And Became A $1 Billion Business

Over the past few years, Chomps has become the fastest-growing meat snack in America—despite the fact that it couldn’t keep up with its...

yesterday 0

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Chloe Sorvino

Forbes Daily: Iran War Will Likely To Extend Into April

Forbes Daily: Iran War Will Likely To Extend Into April

Filing your taxes isn’t typically fun, but getting a nice refund at the end certainly helps. This year, however, filers might have to wait a bit...

yesterday 1

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Chris Dobstaff

Philippine Gokongwei Family To Buyout Robinsons Retail In Deal Valuing Company At $850 Million

Philippine Gokongwei Family To Buyout Robinsons Retail In Deal Valuing Company At $850 Million

Philippine tycoon Lance Gokongwei and his family has offered to buyout the minority investors in Robinsons Retail Holdings Inc. (RRHI) in a deal...

yesterday 2

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Ian Sayson

How This Meat Snack Company Devoured The Competition And Became A $1 Billion Business

How This Meat Snack Company Devoured The Competition And Became A $1 Billion Business

Over the past few years, Chomps has become the fastest-growing meat snack in America—despite the fact that it couldn’t keep up with its...

yesterday 1

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Chloe Sorvino

The First Four Seasons Yacht Launches, The World’s Happiest Countries And More Travel News

The First Four Seasons Yacht Launches, The World’s Happiest Countries And More Travel News

How Sir Rocco Forte Built His Luxury Hotel Empire At 14 years old, Rocco Forte went to work at the family business, Trusthouse Forte—the world’s...

yesterday 2

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Passport By Forbeslife

Inside The Race To Sell OnlyFans

Inside The Race To Sell OnlyFans

The pitch was arguably taboo. But while investors blushed at OnlyFans’ NSFW content, they were undeniably turned on by its balance sheet. A deal...

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Iain Martin

These Hackers Launched A ‘Nightmare’ Attack On AI Developers

These Hackers Launched A ‘Nightmare’ Attack On AI Developers

On Tuesday, the FBI’s Cyber Division issued a critical alert that a hacker crew had breached two hugely-popular developer tools, creating a security...

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Thomas Brewster

ER Boarding Raises Risk Of Poorer Patient Outcomes, Study Finds

ER Boarding Raises Risk Of Poorer Patient Outcomes, Study Finds

Patients admitted through the ER are getting measurably sicker while they board in ERs waiting for a hospital bed, according to a new study published...

previous day 1

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Jesse Pines

Hormuz Disruption Set To Hit Fertilizers, Metals And Plastics Worldwide

Hormuz Disruption Set To Hit Fertilizers, Metals And Plastics Worldwide

As the showdown over the Strait of Hormuz drags on, most of the world’s attention has focused on the most visible shock: the loss of vital oil and...

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Afshin Molavi

Trump’s Latest Entry Into The AI Policy Battle

Trump’s Latest Entry Into The AI Policy Battle

When it comes to federal AI regulation, President Donald Trump seems to be dialing back the antagonism and trying to get what he wants through a more...

previous day 1

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Megan Poinski

Fab 5 To CEO: Inside The Business Portfolio Of Jalen Rose

Fab 5 To CEO: Inside The Business Portfolio Of Jalen Rose

Former NBA forward Jalen Rose joins Forbes senior writer Jabari Young on The Enterprise Zone at Nasdaq MarketSite. Rose, who earned more than $100...

previous day 1

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Jabari Young

When Will Your Tax Refund Arrive? What To Know This Tax Filing Season

When Will Your Tax Refund Arrive? What To Know This Tax Filing Season

Tax refunds are a bright spot for many filers. This year, they’re also a bit of a puzzle. Early IRS data show tax refunds are running higher than...

previous day 2

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Kelly Phillips Erb

Rising Import Costs, Oil Prices And Yields Point To Inflation Risk

Rising Import Costs, Oil Prices And Yields Point To Inflation Risk

A cluster of key economic indicators is signaling that inflation pressures may be building again — even as consumers hope for relief. Recently, four...

previous day 1

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Erik Sherman

CZ-Owned Trust Wallet Now Offers Crypto Trading AI Agents To Its 220 Million Global Users

CZ-Owned Trust Wallet Now Offers Crypto Trading AI Agents To Its 220 Million Global Users

Trust Wallet, one of the largest self-custody crypto wallet providers with 220 million users globally, is launching a toolkit that enables AI agents...

previous day 3

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Nina Bambysheva

Binance-Owned Trust Wallet Now Offers Crypto Trading AI Agents To Its 220 Million Global Users

previous day 3

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Nina Bambysheva

Forbes Daily: Meta And Google Face A Landmark Social Media Verdict

Forbes Daily: Meta And Google Face A Landmark Social Media Verdict

A landmark court decision against two social media giants on Wednesday is the latest chapter in the growing backlash over the platforms’ addictive...

previous day 0

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Danielle Chemtob

Meet The Billionaire Dentist That Other Docs Want To Punch In The Teeth

Meet The Billionaire Dentist That Other Docs Want To Punch In The Teeth

Dr. Rick Workman sits in his wood-paneled home office in a gated golf community outside Orlando, Florida. The room has a clubby old-money vibe....

previous day 2

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Brandon Kochkodin

How The Presidency Made Mar-A-Lago Trump’s Most Valuable Property By Far

How The Presidency Made Mar-A-Lago Trump’s Most Valuable Property By Far

Donald Trump just couldn’t resist a low-stakes flex in a high-attention zip code. On Monday, the president waded into Tuesday’s special election...

previous day 2

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Kyle Khan-Mullins

Tennis Superstar Carlos Alcaraz On His New 88-Foot Sunreef Catamaran

Tennis Superstar Carlos Alcaraz On His New 88-Foot Sunreef Catamaran

One of the many perks that comes with writing about yachts is getting to share my love of the sea with some of the most successful people in the...

wednesday 4

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Bill Springer

Why AI Creators Can Go Viral But Fail To Generate Sales

Why AI Creators Can Go Viral But Fail To Generate Sales

She is 82 years old. She gives relationship advice, flaunts a lavish lifestyle, and has 1.5 million followers invested in her world. Her name is...

wednesday 4

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Katie Salcius

Global Air Quality Declines As Wildfires Surge Across Continents

Global Air Quality Declines As Wildfires Surge Across Continents

Wildfires exacerbated by climate change played a major role in degrading global air quality last year, according to a new analysis. The annual World...

wednesday 4

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Jamie Hailstone

Global Air Quality Declines As Wildfires Surge Across Continents

wednesday 4

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Jamie Hailstone

How AI Agents Define Your Brand’s Image

How AI Agents Define Your Brand’s Image

Anecdotally, everyone knows there are a plethora of AI agents out there, and they’re browsing the web a lot more often these days. BrightEdge...

wednesday 3

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Megan Poinski

SpaceX May File For A June IPO As Valuation Estimates Soar

SpaceX May File For A June IPO As Valuation Estimates Soar

SpaceX could be on the verge of one of the biggest IPOs in history. According to a new report from Investor’s Business Daily, the company might file...

wednesday 4

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Dan Irvine

The Iran War Could Make Your Next MRI More Expensive

The Iran War Could Make Your Next MRI More Expensive

In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at why the Iran war could make your MRI more expensive, a serial entrepreneur’s effort to build an...

wednesday 4

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Alex Knapp

How The Strait Of Hormuz Blockade Could Drive Up U.S. Beef Prices

How The Strait Of Hormuz Blockade Could Drive Up U.S. Beef Prices

The most-purchased protein in America was already under siege from the smallest cattle herd in 75 years. Now fuel prices, fertilizer costs, and corn...

wednesday 5

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Phil lempert

Why World Is On Verge Of Bigger Oil Shock Than 1973

Why World Is On Verge Of Bigger Oil Shock Than 1973

This has been a dangerous month to be an oil refinery. On Monday night a fire hit Valero Energy’s 435,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Port Arthur,...

wednesday 7

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Christopher Helman

Forbes Daily: Delta Pulls A Major Travel Perk For Members Of Congress

Forbes Daily: Delta Pulls A Major Travel Perk For Members Of Congress

Amazon is coming for Waymo’s robotaxi dominance—but first it must clear regulatory hurdles. The company’s self-driving vehicle unit Zoox is...

wednesday 5

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Danielle Chemtob

Why Crypto Is Obsessed With AI Agents

Why Crypto Is Obsessed With AI Agents

Crypto has spent the better part of the last 15 years asking ordinary people to put up with an absurd amount of hassle just to move money around....

wednesday 4

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Nina Bambysheva

Indian Pharma Billionaires Pile Into Generic Weight-Loss Drugs, Sparking Regulatory Scrutiny

Indian Pharma Billionaires Pile Into Generic Weight-Loss Drugs, Sparking Regulatory Scrutiny

Last week’s expiry of the patent for semaglutide—the active ingredient in Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster drugs that are used to treat both diabetes...

wednesday 4

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Gloria Haraito

Billionaire Kumar Birla, Blackstone To Buy Royal Challengers For $1.8 Billion Amid Bidding Frenzy For Indian Cricket Teams

Billionaire Kumar Birla, Blackstone To Buy Royal Challengers For $1.8 Billion Amid Bidding Frenzy For Indian Cricket Teams

Billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla and U.S. private equity giant Blackstone teamed up with other investors to buy the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB)...

wednesday 20

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Yessar Rosendar

Toy Mogul Wang Ning Loses Almost $3 Billion As Shares Of Labubu Maker Pop Mart Drop On Overseas Slowdown

Toy Mogul Wang Ning Loses Almost $3 Billion As Shares Of Labubu Maker Pop Mart Drop On Overseas Slowdown

Shares of Chinese toymaker Pop Mart International Group sank over 22% in Hong Kong on Wednesday after the company released full year results for 2025....

wednesday 5

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Yue Wang

This VC Invested In AI Pre-ChatGPT. Now He’s Raised $230 Million To Double Down

24.03.2026 5

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Rashi Shrivastava

Court Strikes Down New Treasury Residential Real Estate Reporting Rule

Court Strikes Down New Treasury Residential Real Estate Reporting Rule

A lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of Texas has upended another Treasury reporting rule—this time targeting residential real estate...

24.03.2026 5

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Kelly Phillips Erb

How Cops Use Google’s Cookies To Unmask Anonymous Users

How Cops Use Google’s Cookies To Unmask Anonymous Users

This is the online edition of The Wiretap newsletter, your weekly digest of cybersecurity, internet privacy and surveillance news. To get it in your...

24.03.2026 5

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Thomas Brewster

A Successful Career Needs A Strong Network—Here’s How To Build One

A Successful Career Needs A Strong Network—Here’s How To Build One

If you want to advance your career, you’ll need to build a strong network. The statistics make the case: 54% of people report getting their job...

24.03.2026 3

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Tracy Brower

How CFOs Can Unlock Hidden Revenue

How CFOs Can Unlock Hidden Revenue

As the war in Iran continues, economic optimism is falling—at least for the first half of 2026. Forbes senior contributor Bill Conerly breaks down...

24.03.2026 3

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Megan Poinski

What Founders Can Learn From Anthropic’s Split With The Pentagon

Anthropic’s recent dispute with the U.S. federal government represents an early test of how far an AI company is willing to go to control how its...

24.03.2026 5

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Dasha Shunina

Forbes Daily: Airport Nightmare Continues After Deadly LaGuardia Crash

Forbes Daily: Airport Nightmare Continues After Deadly LaGuardia Crash

Millions are already turning to AI for medical questions. But what if the technology could also diagnose your condition, and write you a prescription?...

24.03.2026 4

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Danielle Chemtob

The Highest-Paid MLB Players 2026

The Highest-Paid MLB Players 2026

After solidifying his status as the Babe Ruth of the 21st century with a second straight World Series ring and yet another MVP—becoming only the...

24.03.2026 4

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Hank Tucker

Grab Buys Foodpanda Operations In Taiwan For $600 Million

23.03.2026 2

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Ian Sayson

Paramount And Warner Bros. Discovery Combined Will Control 40% Of Acquired TV Viewing On Streaming

23.03.2026 3

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Ted linhart