The five richest people in the world are worth nearly a combined $46 billion less Thursday afternoon due to a market sell-off spurred by dumping of artificial intelligence stocks, mixed fourth quarter results from Disney and general economic uncertainty as the longest government shutdown in American history comes to an end. The post World’s 5 richest people lose nearly $50 billion combined in broad market sell-off appeared first on Forbes Australia.| Forbes Australia
Nick Mowbray still describes ZURU’s early years in three words: eat, survive, repeat.| Forbes Australia
It feels like everyone’s mad at billionaires right now. Maybe it’s the disconnect between Americans struggling with grocery prices and health care premiums and the ultrarich sailing on their super yachts and flying on their private jets. Maybe it’s that Elon Musk is on course to become the world’s first trillionaire. Maybe it’s that billionaires […]| Vox
If there was ever a symbol of decadence, greed, and heartlessness in 2025, it must be the “Great Gatsby” party that Trump provided for his uber-rich friends at Mar-a-Lago in the midst of the government shutdown. At the same time, 42 million Americans were wondering if their food stamps (SNAP) would be available for the […]| Diane Ravitch's blog
Josh Cowen is a prominent scholar of education policy. He spent 20 years as a voucher researcher and eventually concluded that vouchers are a failure. In every state that adopted and expanded vouchers, he found, the overwhelming majority of vouchers were claimed by parents whose children were already enrolled in private and religious schools or […]| Diane Ravitch's blog
“If you can own our most famous football club – you can pay tax. Obviously." The post Campaign launched calling on Sir Jim Ratcliffe to pay more tax appeared first on Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate.| Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Mercor allegedly canned an AI training project with thousands of contractors just weeks after hitting a $10 billion valuation.| Iain Martin
Bending Spoon's four cofounders have become billionaires after a takeover of AOL and other deals landed the Milan startup with a $11 billion valuation.| Iain Martin
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill) October 24, 2025 Bernie Sanders said: “Billionaires should not exist.” Source: Zohran Mamdani said: “I don’t think that we should have billionaires.” So…| Dan from Squirrel Hill's Blog
Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor had leadership roles at the world's biggest tech companies. Now they’re in the startup trenches, using AI agents to help companies interact with their customers.| Richard Nieva
With a new $10 billion valuation for their AI recruiting startup Mercor, the founders are the youngest tech billionaires ever.| Forbes
On stage at SXSW Sydney, Lars Rasmussen and Bill Tai reveal that building billion dollar companies requires the power of a 'human web.'| Forbes Australia
A proposed ballot initiative would tax California’s billionaires’ wealth to stabilize Medicaid amid sharp federal cuts.| capitalandmain.com
CAN WEALTH AND ORDER SURVIVE? Foreword According to a recent BBC report, some of America’s wealthiest men are, or might be, investing in bunkers, or, as the article’s headline puts it, “doom preppi…| Surplus Energy Economics
If you read only one article about what happened to the students, teachers and schools in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this is the one. Ashana Bigard is a parent of students in New Orleans. …| Diane Ravitch's blog
Elon Musk hypes the AI-enabled system, and getting more people to buy it is key to his new Tesla pay package. But does it work?| Forbes Australia
Two of Europe’s wealthiest tech billionaires, brothers Igor and Dmitri Bukhman, have quietly set up a charitable foundation.| Forbes
In their zeal to catalyze entrepreneur-friendly innovations, are the richest donors chasing utopia and passing up the chance to save and improve lives right now?| www.insidephilanthropy.com
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has filed a lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI, making good on the threats to sue.| Forbes Australia
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Do you remember the show “Hoarders”? The hosts would enter a home filled with things – a lifetime supply of newspapers or magazines in a mountainous stack, clothing piled high, ra…| The Zero Journey
The successful IPO of Caris Life Sciences makes its founder David Dean Halbert worth an estimated $3.3 billion.| Forbes
This Republican administration is both modeling and facilitating high-level corruption.| Insight
Introduction For the past 35 years, various governments have claimed to have variations on a similar set of goals for the UK economy: decarbonise; spread more wealth and growth out of London; end the housing crisis; encourage the growth of new (and frequently greener) industries; and to encourage stronger communities. It’s proved seemingly impossible for […]| Equality Trust
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The CEO, who is all-in on AI agents, said he’s part of the last generation of executives who will manage an only-human workforce.| The San Francisco Standard
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January 27, 2025 Dear Friends, We have a billionaire problem. Back in 1995, when I published When Corporations Rule the World, there was an awakening to the dangers of transnational corporations. Right now, in 2025, there is an awakening to the dangers of oligarchy—when a few billionaires rule the world. In his farewell speech, outgoing President Biden left us| David Korten
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The world looks set to see five trillionaires by the end of the decade — and more billionaires are now being created through inheritance than entrepreneurialism. Anjela Taneja and Harry Bignell introduce Oxfam’s 2025 Davos report, which reveals the scale of unearned wealth — and how those riches are built on a colonial legacy of exploitative global systems.| Views & Voices
Are we just going to lick our wounds and cry into our pillows over the Election? Nope. The battle for survival is on.| Greg Palast
Billionaires are giving away most of their wealth.| Alain Guillot
As news of the Trump 2024 Campaign hacking breaks, here’s an explanation of what happened, who the hackers were and how they succeeded.| Forbes
Hackers tried to interfere with the 2016 and 2024 presidential election campaigns, but now the Trump 2024 campaign has been hacked and a confidential Vance dossier stolen.| Forbes
Victoria Secret's billionaire Les Wexner has made a $800 million windfall from a seed check into the AI cloud startup CoreWeave which is now valued at $19 billion.| Forbes
Support for Kamala Harris is rapidly gaining traction, and an unlikely group is now throwing their weight behind her: hackers.| Forbes
The Anduril founder has sued the construction company who led a $2.5 million project to turn the property next to his Newport Beach, California, home into a giant garage.| Forbes
If these Silicon Valley plutocrats have their way, a swath of Solano County will be transformed into their own nation-state.| The New Republic
Musk claimed OpenAI and Altman elected to use the company’s technology “to maximize profits” for Microsoft rather than for the benefit of humanity, adding that its entire line of development “is now veiled in secrecy.”| Forbes