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  1. Forget Elon’s Data Centers In Space. This Startup Wants To Float Them At Sea

    9 hr ago

    Forget Elon’s Data Centers In Space. This Startup Wants To Float Them At Sea

    Among big future businesses Elon Musk is selling investors in newly public SpaceX is his plan to put data centers in space: solar-powered satellites, spread across a vast network, processing information in space and beaming it back to Earth. As pitches go, it has the clean geometry of a Musk bull case. It’s the kind of “I want to die on Mars, just not on impact” sci-fi idea the newly minted trillionaire is famous for. And it’s particularly well timed: the AI feeding frenzy is in overdrive, but the terrestrial data centers they require are becoming an unwanted menace in many communities, raising utility rates, creating noise and pollution, and generating few local economic benefits.  SpaceX hopes to begin launching orbital data centers in 2028, though its IPO filinggives no cost estimates for such a system. It does, however, include the kind of caveat that sits in a securities filing like a flare on the runway: The plan involves “significant technical complexity, unproven technologies, or technologies that do not exist or may require significant advancement, and such initiatives may not achieve commercial viability.” By Alan Ohnsman, Senior Editor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    7 min
  2. AI Startups With No Revenue Are Using This Tactic To Supersize Their Valuations

    1 day ago

    AI Startups With No Revenue Are Using This Tactic To Supersize Their Valuations

    Earlier this year, David Silver, the renowned former scientist at Google DeepMind, dialed into a Zoom meeting with a venture capital firm to pitch his new startup Ineffable Intelligence. Silver, who spent over a decade at Google, believed the current approach to training AI models wouldn’t work long term. He spoke for 30 minutes about creating digital environments where AI systems could learn on their own, without any human data or input.  Eventually, he told the investors on the call, AI will get so good that it will learn to use things in the physical world. “We can put AI in our toasters,” an investor recalls him saying.  That seemed like a stretch. “I was so excited for that pitch and it was just so absurd,” the investor says. “He just rambled, no deck, no memo.”  By the end of the pitch, the VC wasn’t convinced. “We left that pitch with more questions than answers. And it's so jarring to hear that from somebody with such merit and stature in the industry,” they say. ByRashi Shrivastava, Forbes Staff Iain Martin, Forbes Staff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    7 min
  3. The Top 10 Richest People In The World | July 2026

    3 days ago

    The Top 10 Richest People In The World | July 2026

    Only two of the world’s ten wealthiest people got richer over the past month amid a broad sell-off of tech stocks. One of them is the world’s first trillionaire. Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeswealthteam/article/the-top-ten-richest-people-in-the-world/ Subscribe to FORBES: https://www.youtube.com/user/Forbes?sub_confirmation=1 Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more: https://account.forbes.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=growth_non-sub_paid_subscribe_ytdescript Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes: http://forbes.com Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    7 min
  4. America’s Richest Families: From Waltons To Rockefellers, These Are The 54 Richest

    4 days ago

    America’s Richest Families: From Waltons To Rockefellers, These Are The 54 Richest

    Inside Forbes’ definitive ranking of the wealthiest families in the U.S. including a record number of multi-generational clans with 11-figure or 12-figure fortunes. Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2026/06/29/americas-richest-families-from-waltons-to-rockefellers--these-are-the-54-richest/ Subscribe to FORBES: https://www.youtube.com/user/Forbes?sub_confirmation=1 Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more: https://account.forbes.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=growth_non-sub_paid_subscribe_ytdescript Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes: http://forbes.com Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    7 min
  5. Buffett Delays Annual Gift To Gates Foundation Amid Scrutiny Over Epstein Ties, Report Says

    4 days ago

    Buffett Delays Annual Gift To Gates Foundation Amid Scrutiny Over Epstein Ties, Report Says

    Billionaire Warren Buffett will not make a midyear donation to the Gates Foundation for the first time in 20 years, the Wall Street Journal reported, as he awaits more details about the philanthropic group’s links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    3 min
  6. How Taylor Swift’s Net Worth Has More Than Doubled Since She Became A Billionaire

    5 days ago

    How Taylor Swift’s Net Worth Has More Than Doubled Since She Became A Billionaire

    The world’s biggest pop star was on the doorstep of the three-comma club when she met Travis Kelce in 2023. Three years later, both of their fortunes have risen. Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattcraig/2026/07/01/how-taylor-swifts-net-worth-has-more-than-doubled-since-she-became-a-billionaire/ Subscribe to FORBES: https://www.youtube.com/user/Forbes?sub_confirmation=1 Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more: https://account.forbes.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=growth_non-sub_paid_subscribe_ytdescript Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes: http://forbes.com Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    7 min
  7. OpenAI Reportedly Pitches Granting U.S. Government 5% Stake

    5 days ago

    OpenAI Reportedly Pitches Granting U.S. Government 5% Stake

    OpenAI is in talks to potentially give the Trump administration a 5% stake in the company, according to the Financial Times, as calls for the American public to benefit from AI companies’ financial windfall finds bipartisan support. Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/07/02/openai-reportedly-pitches-granting-us-government-5-stake/ Subscribe to FORBES: https://www.youtube.com/user/Forbes?sub_confirmation=1 Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more: https://account.forbes.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=growth_non-sub_paid_subscribe_ytdescript Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes: http://forbes.com Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    3 min
  8. The Numbers Behind The 2026 World Cup

    6 days ago

    The Numbers Behind The 2026 World Cup

    Twenty-five teams—and two billionaire players—are still competing for a $713,000 trophy and $50 million in prize money. Here are more figures to know about soccer’s biggest spectacle. Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brettknight/2026/07/01/the-numbers-behind-the-2026-world-cup/ Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more: https://account.forbes.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=growth_non-sub_paid_subscribe_ytdescript Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes: http://forbes.com Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success. 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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    Forbes
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
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