Elon Musk Wants $1 Trillion to Build a “Robot Army” at Tesla
The Take Back Tesla campaign is urging shareholders to reject Musk's proposed $1 trillion compensation package.| Articles – Truthout
Many Americans don’t realize it, but the decisions of billionaires shape every aspect of our lives. Here are just a few — and what we can do. The post Ten Ways You’re Being Burned By Billionaires appeared first on OtherWords.| OtherWords
America’s richest often push for shutdowns to dodge taxes, avoid regulation, and slash benefits for working people. The post How Billionaires Benefit from Government Shutdowns appeared first on OtherWords.| OtherWords
The Take Back Tesla campaign is urging shareholders to reject Musk's proposed $1 trillion compensation package.| Articles – Truthout
One of the largest health care worker unions is spearheading the push to get the proposal on the November 2026 ballot.| Articles – Truthout
Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, beginning with three restaurant openings. Plus, a billionaire family plans to make unprecedented donations, and a premier shopping destination gets a new owner. Catch up on our most popular stories below, then plan your weekend right here. 1. Veteran Houston chef claims Menil restaurant for new all-day cafe. The Menil Collection has found a new operator for its campus restaurant. Veteran Houston chef and restaurateur C...| CultureMap Houston
Houston billionaires Rich and Nancy Kinder told ABC13's Melanie Lawson they plan to donate an astounding 95% of their multi-billion-dollar wealth to charities. It comes as the Kinder Foundation announced an $18.5 million expansion project for Emancipation Park in the heart of Third Ward. That historic park was founded by slaves in 1872. While you may not know the Kinders, you've certainly seen the Kinder name on buildings and facilities around the city of Houston. They are one of the wealthie...| CultureMap Houston
The award recognizes a lifetime of achievement and is a celebration of the global business success bestowed upon an individual who embodies and exemplifies the ideals of entrepreneurship championed by the late Malcolm S. Forbes, the legendary publisher of Forbes. The post Uniqlo’s billionaire founder Tadashi Yanai receives the Malcolm S. Forbes Lifetime Achievement Award appeared first on Forbes Australia.| Forbes Australia
Branson made his first investments starting at age 13, gambling his pocket change on two ventures that failed miserably—but taught him priceless lessons. The post How failed Christmas tree and parrot breeding businesses helped make Richard Branson a billionaire appeared first on Forbes Australia.| Forbes Australia
Tour the outrageous backyard treehouse of America’s chicken finger king, featuring a bar, a bathroom—and Snoop Dogg. The post Inside a billionaire’s $400,000 treehouse appeared first on Forbes Australia.| Forbes Australia
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 were to distil David D. Halbert into a single fact of life, it’d be that with enough money, you can quite literally will desires into material reality. That’s basically the idea... The post The Billionaire Who Built His Family A $50 Million Private Golf Course “Nicer Than Augusta” appeared first on Boss Hunting.| Boss Hunting
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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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Antitrust pressure killed Adobe's $20 billion takeover for design startup Figma. Its cofounder Dylan Field floated the business on NYSE at nearly the same valuation.| Iain Martin
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
Major Wall Street donors have mounted a push to oust the FTC chair over her crackdowns on corporate power.| Truthout
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
