Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison is raising the stakes in the battle for Hollywood’s future, personally intervening to salvage his son David Ellison’s hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms, during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, Calif., Sept. 25, 2024. · Fortune · David Paul Morris—Bloomberg/Getty Images. For this story, Fortune used generative AI to help with an initial draft. An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing.
Threads, Meta’s X competitor that looked to capitalize on user discontent with billionaire Elon Musk’s acquisition and rebranding of Twitter, is inching closer to potentially overtaking X, but X still leads Threads in daily active users, though Threads is catching up. (Photo by Matt … MoreGetty Images
Mark Zuckerberg arrives before the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States takes place inside the Capitol Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. In finalizing a deal to invest $14 billion in Scale AI, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg is hiring its co-founder Alexandr Wang to help the social media company better execute on its AI ambitions. Kenny Holston | Via Reuters
Adewale Adeyipo, Group CEO, CWG Plc. Image Source: Technext. CWG Plc is quietly becoming one of Nigeria’s most profitable technology companies. Founded in 1992 and listed on the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) in 2013, the former hardware reseller has transformed into a full-stack IT company serving banks, telcos, and governments across Africa.
What does it really take to build a startup in Africa—from the first idea to the thousandth day? In Day 1–1000, we follow founders through the raw, unfiltered journey of company-building: the early scrambles, the quiet breakthroughs, the painful pivots, and the milestones that shape what a business becomes. In this inaugural edition, we sit with Tunde Akin-Moses, co-founder of Sycamore, to unpack how a simple lending idea grew into one of Nigeria’s quietly resilient fintech stories. Image source: Techcabal
“I’m ready to set more of an agenda here in the United States,” Melinda French Gates told Fortune. Good morning! Bumble makes new hires before a tough earnings, Penny Pritzker gets swept up in Harvard-Trump drama, and Fortune’s Alexa Mikhail talks to Melinda French Gates about gigantic news from the Gates Foundation.
The partner of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has raised millions of dollars for an artificial intelligence startup hoping to introduce a product that can be used in medical testing and other settings, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the endeavor who could not speak publicly because the company has not yet officially launched. Philip Pacheco/Getty Images
OpenAI has been embroiled in several public scandals that appeared to stem from internal disagreements over AI safety, including one incident in late 2023 that saw CEO Sam Altman (above) briefly removed from the company. Another OpenAI safety researcher has left the company. In a post on X, Steven Adler called the global race toward AGI a “very risky gamble.” JASON REDMOND—AFP via Getty Images
Collectively, the world’s 10 largest companies by revenue generate roughly $4.6 trillion in annual sales, exceeding the GDP of countries like Japan and Germany. Fortune included public and private companies that report financial data. The latest 2024 ranking is based on total revenues in companies’ fiscal years ending on or before March 31, 2024.
