David Vélez entra em lista da Forbes ao lado de Elon Musk, Warren Buffett e Taylor Swift

O fundador e CEO do Nubank, David Vélez, foi incluído na nova lista Iconoclast 50, da revista Forbes, que reúne 50 personalidades de destaque dos setores de negócios, tecnologia, finanças, mídia, entretenimento e filantropia que vêm transformando suas áreas de atuação. A seleção coloca o executivo ao lado de nomes como Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, […]

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Collate, whose AI tools automate paperwork for life sciences companies, raised $95M led by Redpoint at a ~$1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $125M (Amy Feldman/Forbes)

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Collate, whose AI tools automate paperwork for life sciences companies, raised $95M led by Redpoint at a ~$1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $125M — In this week's edition of InnovationRx, we look at cancer breakthroughs from the ASCO conference, Clear's move into healthcare, Harrison.ai's U.S. expansion, and more.

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Apple plans to open an Apple Developer Center in Berlin in 2026, its first center in Europe and fifth globally, offering in-person developer access and sessions (David Phelan/Forbes)

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Apple plans to open an Apple Developer Center in Berlin in 2026, its first center in Europe and fifth globally, offering in-person developer access and sessions — In an announcement that is characteristically well-timed before the upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference which kicks off on Monday …

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Thrive Holdings, a spinoff of Thrive Capital, commits $1B to acquire local accounting firms through its subsidiary, Current, and use AI to automate them (Anna Tong/Forbes)

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Thrive Holdings, a spinoff of Thrive Capital, commits $1B to acquire local accounting firms through its subsidiary, Current, and use AI to automate them — In Thrive Holdings' live-fire testing ground, self-improving AI models are achieving up to 98% data-entry accuracy …

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Pittsburgh-based Gray Swan, which stress-tests AI models for top frontier AI labs, raised a $40M Series A at a $200M valuation co-led by Wing VC and Madrona (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

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Pittsburgh-based Gray Swan, which stress-tests AI models for top frontier AI labs, raised a $40M Series A at a $200M valuation co-led by Wing VC and Madrona — Gray Swan works with every major frontier AI lab. Now it's raised $40 million as it expands to sell security tools to enterprises building AI agents.

What Blake Moore said about the future of F-35s in Utah

Janicki Industries hosted an interactive cockpit demonstrator event near Hill Air Force Base in Layton on Thursday, highlighting the importance of the F-35 program to national security as well as an ongoing boost to Utah’s economy.

Speaking over the “sound of freedom” as aircraft would fly over, the event featured remarks from Utah Rep. Blake Moore; Chauncey McIntosh, vice president and general…

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NYC-based Pace, whose AI agents automate back-office operations for insurance companies, raised a $46M series B led by Thrive and Sequoia at a $375M valuation (Anna Tong/Forbes)

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NYC-based Pace, whose AI agents automate back-office operations for insurance companies, raised a $46M series B led by Thrive and Sequoia at a $375M valuation — The startup says its AI agents can handle the dull work insurers have long shipped to offshore operators.

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Opendoor Co-Founder Eric Wu's NavigateAI, which is building an expert AI coach for construction workers, raised a $25M seed led by Elad Gil at a $225M valuation (Anna Tong/Forbes)

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Opendoor Co-Founder Eric Wu's NavigateAI, which is building an expert AI coach for construction workers, raised a $25M seed led by Elad Gil at a $225M valuation — After pioneering automated home buying, the serial real estate tech entrepreneur is shifting focus from buying physical assets to empowering the workers who build them.

Polémica en Bungie: el estudio no informó a sus trabajadores de que Destiny 2 había sido cancelado

Afirman que Bungie tomó la decisión de cancelar Destiny 2 a principios de 2026, pero no informó a la mayoría de sus trabajadores.

Según informan desde Forbes, la mayoría de trabajadores de Bungie desconocían que la compañía había tomado la decisión de cancelar la producción de nuevos contenidos para este exitoso juego de acción, lo que ha generado mucha incertidumbre y malestar a nivel interno,…

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Disney’s Ahsoka Season 2 Cost Reportedly 30% Less Than The Acolyte

Disney and Lucasfilm may finally be trying to rein in the ballooning costs attached to modern Star Wars streaming productions. According to reporting from Forbes contributor Caroline Reid, pre-production spending on Season 2 of Ahsoka cost roughly 30% less than what Disney spent on The Acolyte during a comparable stage of development. That's a massive […]

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Vinicius Júnior é o único brasileiro entre os atletas mais bem pagos do mundo; veja valores

O atacante Vinicius Júnior passou a ser o único brasileiro entre os atletas mais bem pagos do planeta em 2026, segundo ranking divulgado pela revista Forbes. O jogador do Real Madrid aparece na 34ª posição da lista, com ganhos estimados em US$ 60 milhões ao longo do ano, cerca de R$ 300 milhões na cotação […]

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Sources: Zyphra, which trains and runs inference for its open-weight models on AMD hardware, is raising a $500M Series B at a valuation of at least $5B (Anna Tong/Forbes)

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Sources: Zyphra, which trains and runs inference for its open-weight models on AMD hardware, is raising a $500M Series B at a valuation of at least $5B — The Series B round, which chipmaker AMD is participating in, is expected to value the startup at least $5 billion.

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A profile of SAS CEO Jim Goodnight, the 83-year-old who co-founded the 50-year-old analytics firm and holds a ~67% stake worth $13.3B, as AI tests SAS' strategy (Phoebe Liu/Forbes)

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A profile of SAS CEO Jim Goodnight, the 83-year-old who co-founded the 50-year-old analytics firm and holds a ~67% stake worth $13.3B, as AI tests SAS' strategy — Unlike most of today's biggest AI companies, SAS—once America's largest privately held software company—has always operated slowly, steadily and profitably.

Forbes: DOJ is Demanding Apple and Google Identify Users of this Car App

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The DOJ Is Demanding Apple And Google Identify Over 100,000 Users Of This Car...

The government argues it needs user data to prosecute EZ Lynk for allegedly willfully helping users break emissions laws (which the company denies). But it looks like unnecessary overreach.

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Sources: xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin plans to raise up to $1B at an up to $5B valuation for a new AI research startup, with General Catalyst possibly leading (Forbes)

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Sources: xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin plans to raise up to $1B at an up to $5B valuation for a new AI research startup, with General Catalyst possibly leading — He's the latest superstar AI researcher to take advantage of the wave of investment dollars going into so-called ‘neolabs,’ which have no product or revenue.

‘Never been happier’: e.l.f Cosmetics co-founder leaves fortune behind for Catholic priesthood

Scott-Vincent Borba, co-founder of e.l.f. Cosmetics, has given up his fortune to become a Catholic priest.

The former cosmetics executive is set to be ordained as a Catholic priest on May 23 in his hometown of Visalia, California, by the Diocese of Fresno, concluding a decade-long return to the church.

“I have never been happier in my life,” Borba told ABC 7. “Once I started to reorient myself,…

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Política: Áudio de Flávio gera reação entre empresários Elite empresarial reunida em Nova York avalia desgaste político e passa a discutir alternativas da direita para 2026

14 de maio de 2026 – O vazamento do áudio do senador Flávio Bolsonaro pedindo recursos ao banqueiro Daniel Vorcaro repercutiu fortemente entre empresários brasileiros reunidos em Nova York durante a Brasil Week. Segundo relatos obtidos […]

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Havoc, which offers autonomous boats and software to control thousands of vessels at once, raised a $100M Series A led by Cobalt and Boardman Bay (Monica Hunter-Hart/Forbes)

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Havoc, which offers autonomous boats and software to control thousands of vessels at once, raised a $100M Series A led by Cobalt and Boardman Bay — Interest in drone boats is surging as the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz drags on. Havoc, which just closed a $100 million funding round …

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A look at Janitor AI, a romantic fantasy roleplay chatbot site run by three men that claims 2.5M DAUs and 15M total users, with 70% to 80% identifying as women (Anna Tong/Forbes)

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A look at Janitor AI, a romantic fantasy roleplay chatbot site run by three men that claims 2.5M DAUs and 15M total users, with 70% to 80% identifying as women — Despite its name, Janitor AI isn't selling productivity agents or enterprise copilots; it's serving up interactive erotic content …

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Corgi, which provides insurance for startups and uses AI to generate quotes, manage claims, and more, raised a $160M Series B led by TCV at a $1.3B valuation (Richard Nieva/Forbes)

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Corgi, which provides insurance for startups and uses AI to generate quotes, manage claims, and more, raised a $160M Series B led by TCV at a $1.3B valuation — Named after the company-owned dog, Corgi embodies the sometimes-absurd San Francisco startup scene. Now it's worth $1.3 billion, after raising $160 million.

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New York-based Actively, which offers AI sales agents for account management, raised a $45M Series B co-led by TCV and First Harmonic at a $250M valuation (Sofia Chierchio/Forbes)

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New York-based Actively, which offers AI sales agents for account management, raised a $45M Series B co-led by TCV and First Harmonic at a $250M valuation — Actively AI has raised $45 million to scale up its AI sales agents, which can automate a chunk of the work reps typically do manually.

These airlines are asking Trump for billions

The Association of Value Airlines is requesting $2.5 billion from the Trump administration to offset surging fuel costs due to the war in Iran, which the group says has significantly affected low-cost carriers, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The trade group, which represents Allegiant Air, Avelo Airlines, Frontier Airlines and Sun Country Airlines, estimated that jet fuel prices will average…

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AI startup Cursor with Pakistani co-founder set for $60bn deal with SpaceX

Cursor, an AI code-generation startup co-founded by Pakistani-born Sualeh Asif, has secured a $60 billion acquisition deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, according to multiple reports on Thursday.

Along with OpenAI and Anthropic, Cursor is one of several Silicon Valley startups that have drawn waves of developers by using ​artificial intelligence to automate coding, a business where AI companies ​have…

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