The Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2026 list highlights venture-backed companies likely to become unicorns. Learn more about these fast-growing startups.
An army of newly wealthy AI workers is searching for causes worthy of its money. Animal advocates think they may also be sitting on the future of philanthropy.
Exclusive LinkedIn data shows engineering majors have been hit hard in today’s weak, AI-affected job market. Here’s what specialties are hurting the most.
America’s biggest oil field produces lots of dirty water and cheap natural gas. That makes West Texas a perfect location for data centers, says David Capobianco.
Marc Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard dreamed up Tesla, then convinced Elon Musk to fund it. Two decades later, they’re backing TELO, a maker of pint-sized electric trucks.
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.
More than 600,000 police reports have been written with help from Axon’s AI tools. Public records obtained by Forbes show that they can introduce errors that cops have to spend time editing out.
Chinese open-source models like Kimi and Deepseek are now dominant AI tools. American startups like Thinking Machines, Reflection AI and now Poolside are trying to challenge that.
Some analysts warn that the U.S. market is too competitive. But David Vélez has built a $13 billion fortune proving the naysayers wrong.
Founders who were working on neural-signal headphones and viral presentation builders are starting over in a high-stakes race for survival and revenue.