Ex-military entrepreneurs are leveraging 21st-century technology to build better,... smarter weapons. This AI-powered defense tech revolution is backed by a record $32 billion in venture funding since 2022 and will create generational fortunes—and forever change how we wage war. Read more: Photo: Aaron Kotowski, Jamel Toppin, Ethan Pines for Forbesshow more

There has never been a better time to grow... older, or to dream bigger. The 2026 Forbes 50 Over 50 highlights 200 women doing some of their most ambitious, influential and powerful work after 50. Explore the list: 📸: Ethan Pines, Cody Pickens, Jamel Toppin, and Beth Galton for Forbes #ForbesOver50show more

Kim Rivers, CEO of Florida-based Trulieve, was instrumental in... getting the president to issue an executive order to reschedule marijuana. Now she is trying to build her $1.2 billion company into the Starbucks of weed. Full story: 📸: Jamel Toppin for Forbesshow more

Even astronauts do grunt work, including routine maintenance and... organizing cargo. It's a waste of precious space time, and taxpayer money -- it costs about $130,000 an hour to keep astronauts in orbit. Ethan Barajas' Icarus Robotics aims to delegate those menial tasks to robots. #ForbesUnder30 Read more: Photo: Sebastian Nevols for Forbesshow more

Coding the first version of Posh in their dorm... after meeting sophomore year, Avante Price and Eli Taylor-Lemire built out a platform anyone could use to scale their events. Launching in October 2020, the duo dropped out of college in May 2021 after raising $1.5M. Since then they have raised close to $40M in funding. #ForbesUnder30 Read more: Photo: Sebastian Nevols for Forbesshow more

After signing a lucrative new talk show contract with... Spotify and Netflix, Jay Shetty, the wellness-creator-turned-entertainment-mogul, has big business plans and Hollywood aspirations. “I’m not a monk anymore.” Full story: 📸: Ethan Pines for Forbes #HighestPaidPodcastersshow more

Forty percent of food is wasted before it's consumed... -- that troubling statistic inspired Katherine Sizov to found Strella, a biotech company that uses machine learning models and wireless sensing to monitor food supply chains and reduce waste. The company has raised $18.5 million and saved 40 million pounds of fruit from going to waste. #ForbesUnder30 Read more: Photo: Sebastian Nevols for Forbesshow more

In 2023, Kalyani Ramadurgam founded Kobalt Labs with former... Affirm software engineer Ashi Agrawal to bring compliance into the machine-learning age. Kobalt's AI models sort through mountains of documents to help banks vet their business partners, ensuring they're following the rules, like halting money transfers from sanctioned countries and promptly disclosing security breaches. #ForbesUnder30 Read more: Photo: Sebastian Nevols for Forbesshow more

Our 11th annual #Fintech50 features companies that continue to... innovate and grow rapidly even though industry valuations are decidedly sober compared with those of AI-focused startups, which are the newest darlings of the venture capitalist community. See the 2026 list: Julian Hespenheide For Forbes)show more

Claudia Sulewski is a beauty influencer with 6 million... online fans--which she knew was a powerful community on which to launch a product. In 2023 she started Cyklar, which sells body creams, oil-infused body washes and roll-on fragrances. Forbes estimates the startup generated $10 million in revenue over the last 12 months. Read more: 📸: Sebastian Nevols for Forbesshow more

Actress Lili Reinhart couldn’t find a solution to her... acne, so she launched her own skincare line, Personal Day. Thanks to her viral TikTok following, the #ForbesUnder30 alum is now cleaning up with $10 million in sales. Read more: 📸: Sebastian Nevols for Forbesshow more

Actress Lili Reinhart couldn’t find a solution to her... acne, so she launched her own skincare line, Personal Day. Thanks to her viral TikTok following, the #ForbesUnder30 alum is now cleaning up with $10 million in sales. Read more: 📸: Sebastian Nevols for Forbesshow more

Microsoft and Forbes gathered top marketing chiefs at Forbes... on Fifth to celebrate this year’s Forbes Entrepreneurial CMO 50 List honorees and leaders. Sponsored by Microsoft See full event highlights here:show more

As Hollywood wobbles, social media star Dhar Mann shoots... scripted content built for digital distribution, drawing billions of views—and tens of millions of advertising dollars. Read more: #ForbesTopCreators 📸: Sebastian Nevols for Forbesshow more

After a decade of tracking the top companies in... cloud computing, one thing is certain: Artificial intelligence has taken over. Generative AI’s fingerprints are all over this year’s #Cloud100 list. (Illustration by Daniel Savage for Forbes)show more

Abridge raises $300M Series E funding round led by... a16z, and joined by Khosla Ventures to pioneer a new paradigm of care with intelligence at the point of conversation. 🚀 David George, 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗶𝘁𝘇: “Abridge eliminates inefficiencies at their source, directly in the clinical conversation, with a platform that has demonstrated tremendous traction and impact in the market. This is a company with truly rare ingredients: world-class clinical and technical leadership, deep scientific credibility, and AI technology that is years ahead of the field. Abridge has both the vision and velocity to create lasting, systemic change, and we are thrilled to be part of their journey.” Abridge is now deployed at 𝟭𝟱𝟬 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 and will support more than 𝟱𝟬 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 this year alone, across specialties, care settings from outpatient to ERs to inpatient workflows—all with 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝟵𝟬%. This is a new standard for delivering impact at scale for enterprise-grade AI in healthcare, and it’s just the beginning. Read more here:show more

Innovation: Ukraine Shows a Coming Global Generational Conflict Protests... have broken out in Ukraine against the firing of the young Defense Minister, Mykhailo Fedorov. He is a 35-year-old entrepreneur from the technology sector. He stayed in the job for only six months. In that short time, he modernized Ukraine’s drone warfare and carried out important reforms in the Ministry of Defense. However, he faced strong internal conflicts with the country’s top military leaders, including Commander-in-Chief Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi. This is not about bribes or corruption, problems that always exist in wars, specially at this one. The real issue is a clash between the old and the new. Ukraine’s senior officers were trained in the Soviet era. Their way of thinking is very different from that of a young tech entrepreneur. The conflict is about how to manage resources and prioritize innovation. This is not just a Ukrainian problem. We are living through a global technological revolution. Generational conflicts like this will happen in many areas, both civilian and military. In Ukraine, groups like Azov have strong influence in politics, including alliances with traditional old political factions, especially in defense, sports, and culture. This makes it even harder for a young reformer to succeed. Even so, Fedorov represents the kind of renewal that Ukrainian society wants, not just in defense, but in the whole country. That is why people are protesting in his support.show more

FLORA is growing our founding team. We're hiring Design... Engineers, Full-stack Engineers, and a Head of Growth, all based in NYC. Founded out of a creative technology graduate program at NYU ITP, FLORA is an applied HCI company with a mission to make it possible to speak your ideas into existence. We started FLORA because we believe AI creative tools should be more than toys for generating AI slop. We are obsessed with building a power tool that will profoundly shape the future of creative work. We’re backed by A16Z GAMES, Long Journey, Menlo Ventures, Comma Capital, Matt Hartman, Coho Deeptech, Embedding VC, and angels from Midjourney, Stability, Facebook AI Research Lab, Together AI and more. FLORA is a team of designers, researchers, engineers, creative technologists, and musicians pushing the boundaries of generative media. We host art & tech events and are are deeply rooted in the NYC art & tech scene (such as our launch party in this tweet's video). If you're interested in joining us, see the link below or comment/DM.show more

Massive news from AI and biotech: Google DeepMind co-founder... Demis Hassabis has just raised $2.1 billion for Isomorphic Labs. For years, Hassabis and his team have been building powerful AI that can predict protein structures, design brand new molecules, and dramatically speed up drug discovery. Now Isomorphic Labs is turning that technology into a full scale effort to tackle what traditional medicine has struggled with for decades. $2.1 billion. One clear mission: use AI to transform how we fight disease and ultimately cure what was once thought incurable. This is one of the biggest bets yet that the future of medicine will be powered by code. Clinical trials, expanded pipelines, and real world impact are coming. Extremely exciting times ahead for humanity.show more