The former tech wunderkind has poured billions into his quest to make technologically superior AR glasses and best nemesis Zuckerberg's Meta.

Sufferers of complex, chronic diseases like POTS and long COVID often spend years searching for relief. The longtime tech exec started ChronicleBio to find treatments using AI and lots of biological d...

Meta’s viral new AI agent Muse’s number one use case is helping people recover money lying around in old, forgotten accounts, which would be hard to find manually.

A class of peptides that are meant to stimulate human growth hormone has been linked with a spat of severe allergic reactions and anaphylactic shock-like symptoms.

At a time when suspicions over Russia are at fever pitch, these Russian security firms are now a part of the U.S. government’s surveillance apparatus and sit on some of the nation’s most sensitive net...

Anthropic, DeepSeek and Moonshot AI agents carried out a wide-ranging cyberattack, obtaining 600,000+ credit card numbers in just a few days. It’s a worrying new milestone in cybercrime.

The Chinese-owned social network has been flooded with advertisements pushing street drugs and prescription pills like codeine, benzos and Adderall.

Twenty-four-year-old founder Anjali Sardana wants to give domestic workers in India a share in the AI gold rush by sending them into people’s homes to collect training data for U.S. AI companies.

The Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2026 list highlights venture-backed companies likely to become unicorns. Learn more about these fast-growing startups.

With an FDA panel expected to recommend legal production of as many as seven peptides this week, compounding pharmacies and telehealth companies are preparing for the coming bonanza.

Founders who were working on neural-signal headphones and viral presentation builders are starting over in a high-stakes race for survival and revenue.

As a movement against $8.3 billion Flock Safety’s license plate readers gathers momentum, company CEO Garrett Langley tells Forbes he shouldn’t have called non-violent activists “terroristic” organiza...

The AI juggernaut is all-in on the healthcare industry, launching three new products in the last six months. But it needs to make sure ChatGPT is accurate enough for the millions of people who already...

Funding rounds where VCs can invest at wildly different prices are helping AI founders raise unprecedented amounts of money at sky-high valuations, before they even have a product.

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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.

The next-gen chipmaker first filed for its IPO in September 2024. Now, after snags that held up its debut, it’s a public company.

The inside story of how Missouri farm boy Robert Low dropped out of college, survived a criminal assault trial thanks to temporary insanity, and went on to build one of the nation’s biggest trucking e...

The music AI startup is battling record labels and angry artists as it upends how millions of people create songs. Now, some of its critics are starting to get on board.

Tesla shares could be overshadowed by the aerospace company’s record-breaking $1.75 trillion public offering and what some investors see as more “sizzle.”

Anthropic’s latest Claude models are introducing serious security issues into code, cyber experts say. The company is yet to officially explain why.

Formation Bio CEO Ben Liu is convinced that drug discovery isn’t the bottleneck in getting medicines to market—it’s going through clinical trials. Now he’s raised some $615 million from top investors ...

Founded in 2023 by 20-somethings, data labeling startup Mercor exploded to $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate earlier this year. Now it's confronting a wave of challenges, including an employee...

The leak, triggered by a human error, exposed 500,000 lines of source code of Anthropic’s star product Claude Code.

New York-based startup Crosby’s AI agents and lawyers work together to review contracts quickly, billed by the page, for the likes of Cursor and Runway. CEO Ryan Daniels calls it a “neofirm.”

For the 12th annual Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups list, we’re on the hunt for 25 fast-growing companies most likely to become unicorns — and thrive well beyond that.

The Christmas Eve agreement—billed as Nvidia’s biggest deal in its three-decade history—landed at a precarious moment for Groq. Now Nvidia is betting on Groq’s inference-speed tech inside a newly anno...

After becoming the hottest, fastest growing AI coding company, Cursor is confronting a new reality: developers may no longer need a code editor at all.

Plus: Popular Chinese open source models are helping mint billionaires.

OpenAI and Anthropic spent more on lobbying in 2025 than ever. They’re pushing for friendly treatment amid tensions—at least for Anthropic—with the Trump administration.

Heron Power, backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Breakthrough Energy, is scaling up production of solid-state transformers that more efficiently move power to the grid.

Crispr’s ability to cut genetic code like scissors has just started to turn into medicines. Now, gene editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna wants to build an entire ecosystem to bring these treatments mains...

Influencer marketing helped AI video company Higgsfield hit $300 million in annual revenue run rate in just 11 months. But misleading marketing tactics and a shock-based social media strategy has led ...

Publishing giants like Penguin Random House and Macmillan are eager to use AI internally—but not for writing or editing. Their authors still might revolt.

The tech giant said providing encryption keys was a standard response to a court order. But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isn’t possible.

The startup behind open source tool PyTorch Lightning has merged with compute provider Voltage Park to create a “full stack AI cloud” to serve corporates and startups like Cursor.

DHS has been investigating a sprawling fraud operation where Chinese criminals have been buying iPhones and iPads with funds from scams, including sextortion and romance swindles.

Sleep apnea affects as many as 80 million in the U.S. Now Apnimed, the $400 million company behind the first ever pill to treat it, is preparing to file for FDA approval.

San Francisco-based Checkr has seen its revenues jump 14% to $800 million as companies try to spot a flood of AI-generated CVs and faked financial documents.

Backed by Sam Altman and Peter Thiel, Brinc founder Blake Resnick is on his way to making his quadcopters the top choice for America’s cops—if only he can get the federal government to ban his primary...

These young entrepreneurs, researchers and doctors are improving care, empowering patients and making healthcare more efficient.

Forbes raised questions about a massive funding round metaverse-turned-AI firm Napster supposedly raised in January. The money is never coming, the company said Thursday.

Prosecutors have accused Brian Raymond, founder of AI infrastructure and consulting company Bitworks, and three others of selling coveted Nvidia chips to unspecified Chinese companies.

Founded by former Thiel fellows, AI language tutoring app Speak started its journey in Seoul, South Korea. But as it enters the U.S. market, it’ll have to compete with popular apps like Duolingo.