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How To Make Yourself Indispensable In An AI World

How To Make Yourself Indispensable In An AI World

Tracy Brower, PhD, is back for our guest-led series of Careers newsletters this week. Brower, a sociologist, is the author of the new book “Critical...

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Tracy Brower

Advanced Solar Technology Fuels Share Rally Of South Korea’s Jusung Engineering, Minting A New Billionaire

Advanced Solar Technology Fuels Share Rally Of South Korea’s Jusung Engineering, Minting A New Billionaire

Shares of Jusung Engineering, a little-known industrial equipment maker in South Korea, have soared roughly 80% since mid-April, following reports...

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John Kang

How AI Can Transform The CFO’s Office

How AI Can Transform The CFO’s Office

If you’ve always wanted an assistant but couldn’t justify the headcount, now you can create one (or more) with AI technology. Today’s tools can...

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Megan Poinski

This $1.4 Billion Startup’s AI Writes Code For Weeks At A Time

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Sofia Chierchio

Crypto Powerhouse A16z Raises $2.2 Billion For Fifth Fund

Crypto Powerhouse A16z Raises $2.2 Billion For Fifth Fund

Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto arm, A16z Crypto, has raised $2.2 billion for its fifth dedicated crypto fund, another large wager on an industry still...

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Nina Bambysheva

Forbes Daily: Spirit’s Collapse May Be A Warning For Budget Airlines

Forbes Daily: Spirit’s Collapse May Be A Warning For Budget Airlines

GameStop has been on a wild ride in recent years, and now the face of the meme stock movement wants to take over eBay. Economists are skeptical. In...

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Danielle Chemtob

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Venture Bets Would Have Made Him $100 Billion Richer Had He Stayed Out Of Prison

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Venture Bets Would Have Made Him $100 Billion Richer Had He Stayed Out Of Prison

Spend enough time on X these days and you may see a number of posts marveling at Sam Bankman-Fried’s venture “genius.” Had FTX not imploded, its...

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Nina Bambysheva

This 22 Year-Old Just Raised $60 Million To Automate This ‘Sneaky Big’ Enterprise Market

This 22 Year-Old Just Raised $60 Million To Automate This ‘Sneaky Big’ Enterprise Market

Kabir Nagrecha learned the enterprise software racket before he was old enough to drive. Raised in London and California, he spent his childhood as...

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Anna Tong

Singapore’s OCBC Expands Regional Footprint With Acquisition Of HSBC Indonesia’s Wealth And Retail Business

Singapore’s OCBC Expands Regional Footprint With Acquisition Of HSBC Indonesia’s Wealth And Retail Business

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp.—backed by Singapore’s billionaire Lee family—is buying the retail and wealth management business of HSBC in...

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Yessar Rosendar

Australian Billionaires’ Chemist Warehouse Drugstore Chain Expanding In The U.K.

Australian Billionaires’ Chemist Warehouse Drugstore Chain Expanding In The U.K.

Sigma Healthcare—which counts Australian billionaire brothers Jack and Sam Gance and their business partner Mario Verrochi its biggest...

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Ian Sayson

Li Ka-Shing’s CK Hutchison To Exit Vodafone Joint Venture In $5.8 Billion Deal

Li Ka-Shing’s CK Hutchison To Exit Vodafone Joint Venture In $5.8 Billion Deal

CK Hutchison Holdings, the Hong Kong-based conglomerate controlled by the city’s richest person Li Ka-shing, has agreed to sell its 49% stake in a...

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Zinnia Lee

Spirit Airlines Shuts Down While United Flies High

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Dan gingiss

How An Options Trade Underpins GameStop’s EBay Takeover Bid

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Brandon Kochkodin

Spanx Billionaire Sara Blakely To Grads: ‘What You Don’t Know Can Be Your Greatest Asset’

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Courtney connley-hampton

World Cup Tipping Practices Could Undercut ‘No Tax On Tips’ Break

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Kelly Phillips Erb

Anthropic’s $900 Billion Funding Round Set To Surpass OpenAI

Anthropic’s $900 Billion Funding Round Set To Surpass OpenAI

Anthropic isn’t just testing investor appetite with a reported $50 billion raise at a valuation north of $900 billion. It’s testing whether the...

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Jon Markman

Why This Third-Generation CEO Says Risk Taking Is Essential

Why This Third-Generation CEO Says Risk Taking Is Essential

When your family business is the Greatest Show on Earth, there is a lot of pressure to keep everything great—both for your family but also for...

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Megan Poinski

Key Takeaways From Berkshire Hathaway’s Annual Meeting

"Greg is doing everything I did and then some." – Warren Buffett at the 2026 Annual Meeting Berkshire Hathaway’s first annual meeting...

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Bill stone

3 Dead From Hantavirus On An Antarctic Cruise Ship. How Did They Get It?

3 Dead From Hantavirus On An Antarctic Cruise Ship. How Did They Get It?

Three passengers are dead and three more are seriously ill aboard the MV Hondius, a polar expedition ship now anchored off Cape Verde. The World...

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John Drake

Can GameStop Pull Off A $55.5 Billion Takeover? Markets Aren’t Convinced

Can GameStop Pull Off A $55.5 Billion Takeover? Markets Aren’t Convinced

GameStop’s surprise $55.5 billion bid for eBay — an offer more than triple its own market value — has immediately run into market skepticism,...

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Peter Cohan

Education Department Will Restrict Student Loan Forgiveness Credit Under New Repayment Plan

Education Department Will Restrict Student Loan Forgiveness Credit Under New Repayment Plan

The Education Department released final regulations governing student loan repayment last week. The new rules set the framework for how federal...

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Adam S. Minsky

Planning For The End Of The Oil Age

Planning For The End Of The Oil Age

Current Climate brings you the latest news about the business of sustainability every Monday. Sign up to get it in your inbox. Welcome back to Current...

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Alan Ohnsman

Forbes Daily: Spirit Airlines Shuts Down After Bailout Falls Through

Forbes Daily: Spirit Airlines Shuts Down After Bailout Falls Through

Spirit Airlines shut down over the weekend after a White House bailout plan fell through. The airline had been banking on a $500 million lifeline that...

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Danielle Chemtob

How A Chicago Accountant Quietly Built A Billion-Dollar Fortune Amassing Humdrum Businesses

How A Chicago Accountant Quietly Built A Billion-Dollar Fortune Amassing Humdrum Businesses

In the wake of its blockbuster $2.2 billion IPO, Larry Geis’ Madison Industries is proving that even the most unglamorous companies can deliver...

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Kirk Ogunrinde

The Billionaire Donors Behind Trump’s Midterm Superweapon

The Billionaire Donors Behind Trump’s Midterm Superweapon

Last year, the GOP’s legacy donor class and its newer crop of tech and finance billionaires found common cause: writing enormous checks to support...

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Kyle Khan-Mullins

Indian Tycoons Mittal, Poonawalla To Buy Rajasthan Royals For $1.65 Billion

Indian Tycoons Mittal, Poonawalla To Buy Rajasthan Royals For $1.65 Billion

Two Indian tycoons, steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal and Adar Poonawalla, son of vaccine billionaire Cyrus Poonawalla, have teamed up to buy the Rajasthan...

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Yessar Rosendar

Billionaire Lin Chen-Hai Buys Hotel, Retail Complex In Australia For $250 Million

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Ian Sayson

The Best (And Biggest) Hats At The 2026 Kentucky Derby

The Best (And Biggest) Hats At The 2026 Kentucky Derby

Most horse racing fans head to Louisville’s Churchill Downs on the first Saturday in May watch the annual Run for the Roses. But plenty of show...

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Michael Solomon

Tax Breaks: The Fight Over Pandemic ERC Credits Goes Into Overtime Edition

Tax Breaks: The Fight Over Pandemic ERC Credits Goes Into Overtime Edition

There’s finally some good news for taxpayers who have been waiting to hear from the IRS. Years after the Employee Retention Credit (ERC) program...

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Kelly Phillips Erb

How This Entrepreneur Found Her Voice In Finance

How This Entrepreneur Found Her Voice In Finance

Nicole Valentine, Senior Director of Fintech at the Milken Institute, discusses her transition from entrepreneurship to shaping financial policy, and...

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Jabari Young

Seven Ways Social Security Benefits Are Unfair

Seven Ways Social Security Benefits Are Unfair

They say that a camel is a horse designed by a committee. Social Security is a retirement plan designed by politicians. Here is a survey of the...

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William Baldwin

America’s Top Architects: A Prairie House By Wisconsin’s Johnsen Schmaling Architects

America’s Top Architects: A Prairie House By Wisconsin’s Johnsen Schmaling Architects

Firm Name: Johnsen Schmaling Architects Principal: Brian Johnsen, Sebastian Schmaling Headquarters: Milwaukee, Wisconsin Accolades: Forbes...

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Fred albert

The OpenAI Trial That Could Rewrite How AI Companies Are Built

The OpenAI Trial That Could Rewrite How AI Companies Are Built

A federal courtroom in Oakland is quietly deciding the most important question in the AI industry: whether the business model behind today’s leading...

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Jon Markman

Global ‘10 Most Urgent’ List For 2026 Focuses On ‘Anti-State’ Charges Against Journalists

Global ‘10 Most Urgent’ List For 2026 Focuses On ‘Anti-State’ Charges Against Journalists

Ahead of World Press Freedom Day (May 3), more than 40 global media outlets are coming together as the One Free Press Coalition to bring attention to...

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Katherine Love

KPMG Cuts Jobs As Advisory Demand Slows And Federal Audit Work Winds Down

KPMG Cuts Jobs As Advisory Demand Slows And Federal Audit Work Winds Down

KPMG is shaking up its practice with announcements that it is laying off 4% of its staff in its US advisory business, shuttering its federal audit...

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Kelly Phillips Erb

It’s 10PM. Do You Know Where Your AI Agents Are?

It’s 10PM. Do You Know Where Your AI Agents Are?

AI agents run amok. Hints at sparkling new physics. How Adobe is using vibe coding. Why you should feed a cold. All that and more in this week’s...

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Alex Knapp

When Global Disruptions Trickle Down To Local Favorites

When Global Disruptions Trickle Down To Local Favorites

While America celebrates its 250th birthday, many legacy businesses and brands are winding down operations in light of increasing costs and the...

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Dawn Thilmany

What Taylor Swift’s Voice Trademark Applications Say About AI Threats. Plus: Is ‘Ambition Guilt’ Costing You Money?

What Taylor Swift’s Voice Trademark Applications Say About AI Threats. Plus: Is ‘Ambition Guilt’ Costing You Money?

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: Alphabet Stock Soars On Strong Cloud Revenue

Forbes Daily: Alphabet Stock Soars On Strong Cloud Revenue

The biggest tech companies in the world aren’t hitting the brakes on AI spending anytime soon. Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta all reported...

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Chris Dobstaff

Meet The Wily Billionaire Trucking Boss Behind Kentucky Derby Favorite Renegade

Meet The Wily Billionaire Trucking Boss Behind Kentucky Derby Favorite Renegade

It’s a week before the 152nd Kentucky Derby and trucking tycoon Robert Low is tracking a different kind of shipment. Renegade, a 3-year-old colt...

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John Hyatt

All-Star Astrotourism Hotels, A Golfer’s Guide To Las Vegas And More Travel News

All-Star Astrotourism Hotels, A Golfer’s Guide To Las Vegas And More Travel News

Anantara To Open First U.S. Hotel Anantara, the Thailand-based hospitality empire founded by billionaire Bill Heinecke, recently announced it will...

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Passport By Forbeslife

Here’s How To Prevent Intimate Partner Violence Deaths

Here’s How To Prevent Intimate Partner Violence Deaths

Eight children and three adults were killed and two adults were seriously injured in two high-profile shootings earlier this month. Yet experts in...

30.04.2026 5

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Arthur L. Kellermann

Record $125 Million Gift To Case Western Boosts Humanities In Age Of AI

Record $125 Million Gift To Case Western Boosts Humanities In Age Of AI

Over the last two decades, the humanities and social sciences have been in retreat on many college campuses, as debt-burdened students have sought...

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Alicia Park

Why Brands Are Ditching One-Time Influencer Campaigns For Long-Term Partnerships

Why Brands Are Ditching One-Time Influencer Campaigns For Long-Term Partnerships

Consumers Need Repeated Exposure What “Trust Compounding” Actually Looks Like How To Structure A Recurring Partnership That Actually Performs Well...

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Kristen Bousquet

Why CIOs Must ‘Suck It Up’ And Budget For AI Security

Why CIOs Must ‘Suck It Up’ And Budget For AI Security

AI and quantum technologies present both opportunity and risk: they can dramatically improve companies' capabilities and accuracy, but they also...

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Megan Poinski

Earnings Reveal The First Real Winners And Losers Of The AI Arms Race

Earnings Reveal The First Real Winners And Losers Of The AI Arms Race

A single night of Big Tech earnings made one thing unmistakably clear: investors are no longer rewarding AI spending — only AI payoffs. Alphabet...

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Peter Cohan

Cigna To Exit Obamacare In 2027, Affecting Coverage For 369,000

Cigna To Exit Obamacare In 2027, Affecting Coverage For 369,000

The Cigna Group disclosed plans to exit the individual health insurance business under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, leaving about...

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Bruce Japsen

Trump’s Beautiful Bill Puts 446 Hospitals At Risk Of Closing. Here’s The Full List

Trump’s Beautiful Bill Puts 446 Hospitals At Risk Of Closing. Here’s The Full List

Most Americans don’t think about where their nearest hospital is until they need it. Sometimes it’s a car accident. Other times it’s a child...

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Jesse Pines

What The Fed’s Most Divided Vote In Decades Means For Rates, Markets And Powell’s Future

What The Fed’s Most Divided Vote In Decades Means For Rates, Markets And Powell’s Future

The Federal Reserve just delivered its most divided vote since 1992 — four dissents on a single decision — signaling a central bank entering a...

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Erik Sherman

Taxpayers Fighting The IRS Over Pandemic Era Tax Credit Get A New Option

Taxpayers Fighting The IRS Over Pandemic Era Tax Credit Get A New Option

Years after the COVID-19 pandemic era Employee Retention Credit (ERC) program officially ended, the fight over who qualified for it drags on. Now, the...

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Kelly Phillips Erb