In observance of World Press Freedom Day on May 4, the One Free Press Coalition relaunches its “10 Most Urgent” list to bring global attention to journalists whose press freedoms are being suppressed or whose cases are seeking justice.

Scoop: Lukas Walton's climate investment-focused firm, S2G, has raised $600 million in funding. This is the first time the billionaire Walmart heir has opened up his firm to outside investors.

Amy Feldman got the filing and the story:
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Rubrik's IPO today is a rare recent public win for Silicon Valley.

But it's just the latest for the 'IIT Mafia,' a small group of Indian immigrant engineers who've since started software standouts like Nutanix, Rubrik and Glean.

My story in @forbes: forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…

The Biden admin says it wants a divestment of TikTok, not a ban. But here's why separating TikTok from ByteDance may be all but impossible.

Plus: What TikTok leadership has been telling employees over the last few days.

New in Forbes with Emily Baker-White: forbes.com/sites/alexandr…

The 2nd edition of The Prompt includes Tome's pivot to enterprise, Meta's and Microsoft's new AI models (and Mark Zuckerberg's viral fake beard) and Pearson's AI study tool that's already in 30 e-textbooks. Sign up for The Prompt: forbes.com/newsletter/the…
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Tonight, Jewish families around the world will begin the celebration of Passover with the traditional seder meal. Michelle and I loved the seders we held in the White House, and the story of Passover – with its focus on resilience, redemption, and renewal in the face of…

We Forbes have a new weekly AI newsletter, The Prompt ✨

Edited by Rashi Shrivastava, it's free and will be a great place to keep tabs on big AI stories of the week, AI product launches and our whole team's coverage 📝

Check out the 1st edition here 👀
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Thank you Forbes for featuring us on this year's AI50.

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The #ForbesAI50 is a massive team effort, from ops lead Elisabeth Brier to reporters Rashi Shrivastava Leah Rosenbaum Lauren Orsini + our data partners Sequoia Capital Meritech Capital and dozens of industry expert panelists.

See here for our full methodology:

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AI-powered search engine Perplexity is backed by tech VIPs like Jeff Bezos and counts billionaires like Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang among its 15 million users. I spoke to CEO Aravind Srinivas about how the company
became a Silicon Valley darling.
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The sixth annual Forbes AI 50 list is now live.

There were many impressive companies that didn't make this year's top 50. We had over 1,900 applicants for just 50 slots.

The process from 1,900 to top 100 is fully algorithmic based on metrics like revenue scale, revenue growth,…

Finally, I took a dive into the data.

One interesting find: while all returnees (companies that made the list in 2023 and 2024) grew in employees, the average headcount across #ForbesAI50 decreased.

For more:

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For #ForbesAI50 , I profiled Ivan Zhao, CEO of Notion, the $10 billion company that has moved ultra fast to adopt AI advances into its own productivity software.

AI, Zhao hopes, is the key to challenging the office suite duopoly of Microsoft/Google:

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Meet the newest #ForbesUnder30 Europe class! Those on our 2024 list have collectively raised $1 billion in funding...and the youngest is 14.
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News: CEO Sam Altman has said he holds no shares in OpenAI. Startup bets like Helion, Stripe and Reddit have now made him a billionaire.

Phoebe Liu (she/her) and I poured through filings and spoke to a dozen-plus people for the closest accounting yet, in Forbes:

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.BEYONCÉ, you are a record-breaker and history-maker. With Cowboy Carter, you have changed the game once again by helping redefine a music genre and transform our culture. I am so proud of you!

Amazing read from my brilliant colleagues Kenrick Cai and Iain Martin 👏

#CowboyCarter just altered my brain chemistry. wow👑