A sharp rebound in Tesla and SpaceX shares has lifted the world's richest person back toward record wealth, reviving talk of a possible return to trillionaire status.…
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A jump in Amazon shares lifted the founder's fortune by tens of billions, reclaiming a place near the very top of the billionaire list.…
The Oracle founder has dropped from second to eighth among the world's wealthiest people in a matter of months, as a slump in the software company's shares wiped tens of billions from his fortune.…
Follow the money at the top of the global wealth rankings and it leads, again and again, to artificial intelligence. The world’s billionaires, both those who made their fortunes in technology and those looking to protect wealth built elsewhere, have concentrated an…
The composition of the world’s great fortunes is shifting, and the direction of travel says a great deal about where value is being created. Technology continues to dominate the upper reaches of global wealth, with fortunes tied to computing and artificial intelligence…
The world’s wealthiest investors are spreading their fortunes more widely than ever, moving capital beyond the public markets into private companies, real estate, infrastructure, and the technologies expected to define the coming decades. The shift reflects a search for both returns and…
The annual Forbes ranking of the world’s billionaires remains the definitive scorecard of extreme wealth, and the 2026 edition has delivered its usual mix of the expected and the surprising. Movement at the very top of the list reflects the forces that…
The identity of the world’s richest people changes less from year to year than the sums attached to their names. As of August 2026, the top ten remains dominated by the founders and heirs of the technology companies that have reshaped the…
Follow the money at the top of the global wealth rankings and it leads, again and again, to artificial intelligence. The world’s billionaires, both those who made their fortunes in technology and those looking to protect wealth built elsewhere, have concentrated an…
Pavel Durov, the creator of Telegram—one of the world’s most widely used messaging platforms—has stirred global attention with a highly unconventional will. Durov, whose personal fortune is estimated at nearly $14 billion, has reportedly decided to leave a significant portion of his…
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