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  1. Soldier Charged After Using Classified Intel On Maduro Raid To Win $400,000 On Polymarket

    52 MIN AGO ·  BONUS

    Soldier Charged After Using Classified Intel On Maduro Raid To Win $400,000 On Polymarket

    A U.S. special forces soldier who participated in the raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been charged with using classified information about the operation to win more than $400,000 on the online betting platform Polymarket. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1 min
  2. Kalshi Bans And Fines Three Politicians For Placing Bets On Their Own Races

    9 HR AGO ·  BONUS

    Kalshi Bans And Fines Three Politicians For Placing Bets On Their Own Races

    Kalshi caught and suspended three political candidates who bet on the outcomes of their own elections, the prediction market company said in a statement on Wednesday, fining the three politicians and issuing five-year bans from their platform. Minnesota State Senator Matt Klein, a candidate running for the Democratic nomination for Minnesota’s second district in the House of Representatives, agreed to pay a $539.85 fine. Ezekiel Enriquez, a former candidate for the Republican primary for a congressional district in Texas, was fined $784.20. Enriquez lost this race after the primary elections in March. Both Klein and Enriquez bought less than $100 worth of contracts on their own elections, according to Kalshi’s filings, and both were also issued five-year suspensions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1 min
  3. Reranking The World’s Billionaires By Wealth – And Altruism

    1 DAY AGO

    Reranking The World’s Billionaires By Wealth – And Altruism

    Elon Musk is the planet’s richest person by far, worth $839 billion as of Forbes’ annual World’s Billionaires list. He also ranks among the least philanthropic billionaires. Sure, Musk has transferred $8.5 billion of Tesla stock to his charitable foundations (1% of his net worth)—but nearly all of it is still sitting there idle. Only an estimated $500 million, or 0.06% of Musk’s vast fortune, has ever been disbursed to those in need. His lack of giving raises a question: What would our billionaires ranking look like if the world’s most generous people—such as Warren Buffett (who has donated more than half of his Berkshire Hathaway stock so far) and Bill Gates (who has moved, alongside his ex-wife Melinda French Gates, more than $60 billion into the Gates Foundation)—had never donated a dollar to charity? To find the answer, we adjusted the net worths of the planet’s most generous billionaires, assuming they kept any shares they’ve given away and that cash gifts were instead invested at market rates of return. By Matt Durot, Forbes Staff Chase Peterson-Withorn, Assistant Managing Editor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    7 min
  4. How France’s Mistral Built A $14 Billion AI Empire By Not Being American

    2 DAYS AGO

    How France’s Mistral Built A $14 Billion AI Empire By Not Being American

    Arthur Mensch’s vision for Mistral, and AI itself, can be summed up in one word: independence. Unlike its black-box Silicon Valley rivals, most of Mistral’s AI models are what techies call “open weight.” In this sort of open-source model, customers are free to get under the hood, customize the AI using their own data or download it for free to run offline (or from a laptop).  The message resonates. Old-school execs are spooked by the world-consuming rhetoric of OpenAI and Anthropic and the emerging threat of Chinese AI companies. Mensch’s talk of control and sovereignty is soothing, as is his pitch that Mistral will deploy engineers to set up and run the tech for them. Your data doesn’t even need to leave the office, let alone the country. “We are really the only company that allows [building] core business automation and products on top of an open stack, and that is something that is valuable everywhere in the world,” says Mensch, 33, from Mistral’s offices in the trendy 10th arrondissement of Paris, as kids play soccer in the courtyard out back. By Iain Martin, Forbes Staff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    7 min
  5. How Rich Is Federal Reserve Chair Nominee Kevin Warsh?

    2 DAYS AGO

    How Rich Is Federal Reserve Chair Nominee Kevin Warsh?

    Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s pick for Federal Reserve chair, faced the Senate Banking Committee at a confirmation hearing Tuesday morning. While he addressed Senate Democrats’ concerns over Fed independence and pressure from the president, Warsh largely avoided discussing details about his fortune. Senator Elizabeth Warren had already taken particular issue with Warsh’s vague financial disclosure. In addition to accusing Warsh of mishandling the 2008 financial crisis while he was a Fed governor from 2006 to 2011 and calling him “[President Trump’s] chosen sock puppet,” Warren criticized Warsh’s disclosure for its “failure to disclose the full extent of his assets,” which in turn poses immediate issues. “One or more of his dozens of funds and entities could hold stock in a prohibited financial institution, and the public would never know,” stated an April 15 report by Warren’s Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. At yesterday’s hearing, Warren continued to press Warsh—whose father-in-law is Trump’s billionaire pal Ronald Lauder—asking whether his Juggernaut Fund L.P. invested in Chinese-controlled firms or any companies affiliated with President Trump and his family or with Jeffrey Epstein. Warsh simply responded that “those assets will be sold” if he’s confirmed. In his financial disclosure filed on April 10, he had written that the assets weren’t disclosed “due to pre-existing confidentiality agreements.” By Giacomo Tognini, Deputy Editor Simone Melvin, Forbes Staff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    8 min
  6. Texas Hotel Billionaire Set To Foreclose On Greenbrier Owner Senator Jim Justice

    3 DAYS AGO

    Texas Hotel Billionaire Set To Foreclose On Greenbrier Owner Senator Jim Justice

    In dueling court filings the Rowling and Justice families are at loggerheads. At stake is control of the Greenbrier Resort. Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2026/04/17/texas-hotel-billionaires-set-to-foreclose-on-greenbrier-owner-senator-jim-justice/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    7 min
  7. AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

    3 DAYS AGO

    AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

    Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data. Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/04/16/ais-new-training-data-your-old-work-slacks-and-emails/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    7 min
  8. Meet The Cannabis Industry’s Trump Whisperer

    4 DAYS AGO

    Meet The Cannabis Industry’s Trump Whisperer

    Kim Rivers, CEO of Florida-based Trulieve, was instrumental in getting the president to issue an executive order to reschedule marijuana. Now she is trying to build her $1.2 billion company into the Starbucks of weed. Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/willyakowicz/2026/04/17/meet-trulieve-ceo-kim-rivers-the-cannabis-industrys-trump-whisperer/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Forbes Daily Briefing shares the best of Forbes reporting on wealth, business, entrepreneurship, leadership and more. Tune in every day, seven days a week, to hear a new story. The Daily Briefing is edited, produced and hosted by Kieran Meadows.

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  • Creator
    Forbes
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    13
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    Clean
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    © Forbes Media LLC

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