Rich list 2016 vs. 2026: Who climbed, slipped, and disappeared from the world's 10 wealthiest people

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Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Jeff Bezos
Alphabet cofounders Sergey Brin (left) and Larry Page (middle), and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

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'Fire him': Elon Musk and the billionaire CEO of Europe's biggest airline trade insults over Starlink

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Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary said he wasn't interested in Elon Musk's Starlink.

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A leading European AI startup says its edge over Silicon Valley isn't better tech — it's not being American

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Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch at an IA summit at Imperial College London, in central London, in July 2025.
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch says its edge over Silicon Valley isn't smarter models, but being a European alternative built for control, sovereignty, and trust.

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Warren Buffett's 3 kids rule out a 'Succession'-style drama when they give their dad's fortune away

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Warren Buffett (right) and his daughter, Susan Buffett.
Warren Buffett (right) and his daughter, Susan Buffett.

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Passengers flying to Paris spent 21 hours stranded in the remote nation of Turkmenistan before a spare plane came to rescue them

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A view shows the Golden Horse Monument featuring former Turkmen leader Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov riding an Akhal-Teke, Turkmenistan's national horse, in Turkmenistan's capital of Ashgabat on June 28, 2023.
A monument of Turkmenistan's former president, in Ashgabat.

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Focusing on future AI doom lets companies dodge responsibility today, professor says

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Tobias Osborne, a Leibniz Universität Hannover physics professor, says AI apocalypse fears distract regulators and let companies evade accountability for real harms happening today.

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Elon Musk says retirement savings 'won't matter' in 20 years. We asked 7 personal finance and AI gurus what they think.

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The Tesla board has proposed a pay package for Elon Musk that could be worth up to $1 trillion.

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Dell tells staff to get ready for the 'biggest transformation in company history.' Read the memo.

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Michael Dell
Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell.

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'Big Short' investor Michael Burry explains why he's betting against Nvidia, not Meta or Microsoft

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Michael Burry
Michael Burry

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The AI boom is really a race to own the future of human labor, a safety pioneer says

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Iranian employees at the AI headquarters of the Resalat Qarz Al-Hasanah bank in Kerman, Iran, on May 4, 2025.
AI safety pioneer Roman Yampolskiy says the AI boom is really a race to control "free labor" — and the future of work itself.

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