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The NFL’s Highest-Paid Players 2025
ByBrett Knight,
Forbes Staff
Forbes' list of the highest-paid NFL players includes both playing contracts and endorsements. See how much Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and other stars are making.
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Rocket Mortgage Founder Dan Gilbert’s Soon-To-Be Ex-Wife Is Now A Billionaire
The Detroit power couple, married for 30 years, announced their split on Friday. Thanks to a corporate restructuring completed two months ago, Jennifer Gilbert is now a billionaire.
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Hundreds Of Anthropic Chatbot Transcripts Showed Up In Google Search
People’s conversations with Claude began popping up in Google search results — just like what happened with ChatGPT and Grok. They’ve now disappeared.
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The NFL’s Highest-Paid Players 2025
Forbes' list of the highest-paid NFL players includes both playing contracts and endorsements. See how much Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and other stars are making.
ByBrett Knight,
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McBillionaires: The Super Successful Entrepreneurs Who Got Their Starts At Fast-Food Chains
From McDonald’s to Wendy’s, early minimum wage jobs at these chains offered much more than a paycheck.
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This Billionaire’s AI Was Supposed To Speed Up Policing. It’s Not Going Well.
San Mateo County pumped $12 million into a grand AI surveillance system that was supposed to level up its police work. Three years later, it still hasn’t seen the benefits.
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This Thai Coconut Water Won Over China. The U.S. Could Be Next
Pongsakorn Pongsak built IF into China’s top coconut water brand—and a $700 million fortune—by bottling Thailand’s tropical taste.
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Waymo Is A Trillion-Dollar Opportunity. Google Just Needs To Seize It.
The self-driving tech unit is expanding but if Alphabet pushed harder, Waymo could dominate a new market with the potential to generate more revenue than its ad business.
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This Singapore Gaming Billionaire Is Betting AI Will Upend The Entire Industry
Razer, founded and run by Min-Liang Tan for two decades, is prepping to release cutting-edge AI tools to help game developers produce games faster and cheaper and to coach players to sharpen their skills.
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AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America
With more than 80,000 AI-powered cameras across the U.S., Flock Safety has become one of cops’ go-to surveillance tools. Now CEO Garrett Langley has both police tech giant Axon and Chinese drone maker DJI in his sights on the way to his goal: Preventing all crime in the U.S.
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AI’s Next Job? Recruiting People To Train More AI
Mercor, debuting on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, built an AI recruiter to interview job candidates. Then it discovered a cash cow: finding humans to train AI models.
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How An AI Notetaker Became One Of The Few Profitable AI Startups
Nathan Xu’s Plaud has sold more than 1 million AI recording devices that transcribe and summarize the busy days of doctors, lawyers and business people.
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This Startup Is Racing To Be The First To Mine Helium On The Moon
Interlune is developing robots to harvest a valuable gas on the lunar surface that could have a big impact on Earth.
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Chicago’s Hot Dog King Dick Portillo On Selling Out And Moving On
Dick Portillo built his hot dog chain Portillo's over 50 years and sold it for nearly $1 billion in 2014. Then he retired and assembled a new restaurant and real estate empire.
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The Top 10 Richest People In The World | September 2025
Google cofounders are the past month's biggest gainers while the world's richest person Elon Musk widens the gap between him and everyone else.
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