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From AI Founders to a Walmart Heir: Forbes’ 10 Youngest Billionaires

Cognition co-founder Steven Hao, 30, tops Forbes’ youngest billionaire list as AI startups produce seven new billionaires under 40.

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Forbes 400 2026 names 10 billionaires under 40, with AI founders dominating the list. Cognition’s Steven Hao, 30, is the youngest, while Walmart heir Lukas Walton tops it by wealth.

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At the age of 30, software engineer Steven Hao entered the billionaire list of Forbes magazine and was named by the magazine as the youngest in the United States among the Forbes 400 members of 2026. With an estimated worth of $5.8 billion (about R$29.6 billion), he appears in the 293rd position of the general ranking of the richest 400 Americans. Fortune originates in Cognition, an artificial intelligence company of which Hao is a co-founder an…

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There is no better way to glimpse the future than to look at young people. This is especially true in the Forbes 400 list of the richest people in the United States, where the artificial intelligence revolution (IA) is turning the ranks, catapulting very young tycoons to the most exclusive club of [...] La entrada The 10 youngest billionaires on the Forbes 400 list of 2026 aparece primero en Forbes España.

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Globo broke the news in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Thursday, September 17, 2026.
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