Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Tuesday, August 5th.

Today on Forbes, the top 10 richest people in the world, August 2025.

In a month where the biggest tech companies led U.S. stock market indices to success of new highs,

the CEO of Sizzling AI-chip firm, NVIDIA, also joined the upward march.

Jensen Huang begins August as the sixth richest person in the world, per Forbes's estimates,

up from number 10 at the start of July. His fortune expanded by $17 billion in the past month

to $154.8 billion, as NVIDIA became the first company

with a market capitalization of $4 trillion. Its shares rose about 14% during July.

Our top 10 richest people on Earth list is as of August 1st, 2025 at 12 a.m. Eastern Time.

As a reminder, stock prices fluctuate routinely, so the net worths on our list may change on a daily

basis. Forbes tracks the daily changes on our real-time list of billionaires. Forbes has been

keeping track of the world's billionaires since 1987.

In April 2025, we found 3,028 of them for our annual list.

Jensen Huang wasn't even the biggest gainer among the top 10 wealthiest in the past month,

in dollar terms.

That prize went to the world's number two richest, Larry Ellison, who remained second

richest for the second month in a row.

Shares of Ellison's software and cloud computing firm, Oracle, also surged 14% during

July, and added $37 billion to Ellison's net worth.

It's now just shy of $300 billion at $299.6 billion.

In late July, his son David Ellison's firm Skydance sealed a deal to acquire Paramount,

owner of CBS, MTV, Nickelodeon, and more, for $8 billion, helped along by Larry Ellison's fortune and his warm ties with President

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