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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 Daily BriefingNew Angels Owner Stan Kroenke Has Already Made Nearly $20 Billion On His Sports Teams
Major pro sports teams have turned dozens of franchise owners into billionaires many times over in the last quarter-century, but nobody has made as much money…
Forbes Daily BriefingAI Stocks Plummet Amid Calls For Slowdown
Softbank’s shares fell more than 10% in Asia, leading a slump in major artificial intelligence-linked stocks across global markets on Monday amid growing calls…
Forbes Daily BriefingElon Musk Rages Against ‘Musk’ Director Alex Gibney: ‘Lacks Any Integrity Whatsoever’
Billionaire Elon Musk repeatedly attacked Alex Gibney, the director of the forthcoming documentary “Musk,” in posts on X this week, slamming him as a “horrible…
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The 25 Colleges With The Highest Payoff
These schools deliver the strongest financial return on investment thanks to graduates’ earnings and either relatively low costs or generous financial aid…
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Singapore’s 50 Richest 2026
Amid geopolitical uncertainty, Singapore remains a beacon of stability. The city-state’s economy expanded 6.1% in the first half of 2026, reflecting robust…
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The NFL’s Most Valuable Teams 2026
With the Dallas Cowboys valued at a record-breaking $17 billion, the league’s 32 franchises are now worth more than $300 billion combined—and recent stake…
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Hot-Dog Heaven: Inside Trump’s Golf Getaways
At his private golf courses, the president barrels through foursomes, knocks away putts and generally has the time of his life—with the government picking up…
Forbes Daily BriefingHow The Founder Of MaryRuth’s Vitamin Supplements Built A Billion-Dollar Business
The inside story of the crazy, creative financing behind one of America’s best-selling wellness brands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit…
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A Tiny Startup Helping Google Take On Nvidia Is Now Worth $18 Billion
A little-known company called Fluidstack has become a test bed for Google’s plans to sell its own AI chip. That’s helped it hit a $18 billion valuation and…
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Prompts On The Playa: AI Invades Burning Man
Silicon Valley brought sushi, Starlink and luxury camps to Burning Man. Now it’s importing something potentially even more divisive: AI slop. Read the full…
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TikTok Profits Off Drug Dealer Ads For Cocaine, Opioids And Xanax
TikTok—the Chinese-owned social network—has been flooded with advertisements pushing street drugs and prescription pills like codeine, benzos and Adderall…
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Inside The World’s Most Expensive Neighborhood: Monaco's Mareterra
With $200-million-plus villas and apartments selling for a record $12,900 per square feet, this man-made luxury development overlooking the Mediterranean is…
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Meet The Ex-OpenAI Guys Building A Cheaper Open Source Alternative
Three Stanford friends-turned-OpenAI-colleagues left the AI behemoth to start an enterprise company that relies on open source models. Fifteen months later…
Forbes Daily BriefingThe Top 10 Richest People In The World | September 2026
Elon Musk’s fortune jumped more than $200 billion while two other former No. 1 world’s richest both dropped out of the top 10. Learn more about your ad…
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Meet Alex Eala: The 21-Year-Old Tennis Phenom On The Rise
21-year-old Filipino sensation Alex Eala is already one of the most famous figures in her home country. But the U.S. Open provides a stage where a national…
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How Andy Roddick Returned To The Center Of The Tennis Universe
After more than a decade away from the spotlight, former world No. 1 Andy Roddick now appears on podcasts, on live TV broadcasts and in movies—on his own…
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$108 Million In Prize Money, 700,000 Honey Deuces Served: The 2026 U.S. Open By The Numbers
From the price of courtside seats to the size of the winner’s checks, here are some interesting numbers to know about this year’s final Grand Slam tennis…
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Italy’s $10 Billion Pharma Family Makes A U.S. Power Move
For four generations, Rome’s Angelini family has built a $2.5 billion operation with drugs for depression and epilepsy in Europe. Now it’s bought its way into…
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The World’s Highest-Paid Tennis Players 2026
Thanks in part to the return of Serena Williams, for the first time ever there are more women than men among the sport’s top ten earners, who hauled in a…
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Why Eli Lilly, Amazon And Mastercard Headline Our New Most Innovative Large Companies List
The very notion of “Innovative” is, of course, inherently subjective. But with this new list, Forbes relies solely on hard data that capture dozens of…
Forbes Daily BriefingMeet The American Billionaire Running The Premier League’s Liverpool FC
When the Boston Red Sox were in the midst of an early-season swoon, the principal owner of the holding company that controls the team was moved to make rare…
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Josh Kushner’s Fortune Tripled This Year Thanks To Stakes In OpenAI, SpaceX And More
Josh Kushner—The Kushner scion and younger brother of Jared—rode the AI wave to an eleven-digit fortune, as his VC firm Thrive Capital nearly tripled its…
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DOGE Broke America’s Weather Machine. Now Fishermen, Insurers And Farmers Are Paying For It.
Elon Musk’s DOGE gutted staffing and budgets at NOAA and the National Weather Service early last year. It left America’s fishing fleets, farmers and insurers…
Forbes Daily BriefingBritish AI Chip Founder Becomes Europe’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaire
In 2017, James Dacombe dropped out of high school to found brain monitoring startup CoMind. Four years later, he took a Thiel Fellowship to skip college and…
Forbes Daily BriefingBill Gates-Owned Four Seasons Resort Sued For $100 Million By Disgruntled Members
The homeowners association of Four Seasons Resorts Nevis filed a lawsuit against Nevis Peak Holdings on Tuesday, August 11 in Delaware Chancery Court. Nevis…
Forbes Daily BriefingPTSD Helped Make Vietnam Vet Bob Parsons A Billionaire—But Also Nearly Destroyed Him
Bob Parsons is navigating his golf cart through the twisting dry dirt road of the golf course he built in the Sonoran Desert in Scottsdale, Arizona, avoiding…
Forbes Daily BriefingIron Vs Carbon: Funds Surge For Makers Of Batteries That Store Power For Days
Form Energy, which makes iron-based batteries to hold electricity for days, said it raised $750 million to expand production. That follows a $550 million raise…
Forbes Daily BriefingWhy Every Major Bank Is Racing To Put Wall Street On The Blockchain
Last week Wells Fargo, the country’s fourth-largest bank with about $2.3 trillion in assets, said it would offer tokenized deposits to corporate and commercial…
Forbes Daily BriefingHow Private Credit’s Master Of Disaster Made An $800 Million Fortune
Leonard Tannenbaum’s newest venture was supposed to be a sure thing. In 2020, after selling his previous company, Fifth Street, under a cloud of investor…
Forbes Daily BriefingThe Los Angeles Lakers’ Record $12.5 Billion Sale Resets The Market For Sports Teams
The news that billionaire venture capitalist Josh Kushner and former Disney CEO Bob Iger are buying a controlling stake in the Los Angeles Lakers at a…
Forbes Daily BriefingAI's Latest Rocket Ship Is An Old School, 28-Year-Old Data Company
Alex Bouzari isn’t one for the tech-founder uniform of khakis and a hoodie. Instead, he largely designs his own clothes. Think Willy Wonka on a bender…
Forbes Daily BriefingInside The 50 Over 50 List 2026
Earlier this year, an unsettling survey finding bounced around the internet: 70% of women say they feel increasingly invisible as they age. However, the sixth…
Forbes Daily BriefingMeet The Billionaire Utah Couple Behind An E-Commerce Empire
On September 19 last year, the husband-and-wife cofounders of e-commerce company Pattern, David Wright and Melanie Alder, walked up together to the NASDAQ…
Forbes Daily BriefingThis Billionaire Made $360 Million Selling His Psychedelic Company To Eli Lilly
OnEaster Sunday in 2014, Christian Angermayer, the German investor, was on the beach on the Caribbean island of Canouan with three friends, contemplating…
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Silicon Valley’s Other China Problem: It’s Training Their AI
When U.S. sales teams from Silicon Valley’s big data-labeling startups visited this year’s International Conference on Machine Learning in Seoul, Korea, they…
Forbes Daily BriefingWhy Podcast Pioneer Joe Budden Will Never Sell Out
Back in 2015, talent manager Ian Schwartzman emailed Spotify with a request—his client, rapper Joe Budden, wanted to add episodes of his newly launched podcast…
Forbes Daily BriefingAmerica’s Top HBCUs
Howard University, one of the nation’s top Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), burst into the national news in July when it abruptly canceled…
Forbes Daily BriefingAboard The $250 Million Superyacht ‘Amadea’ With The World’s Youngest Real Estate Billionaire
It’s two days before the Monaco Grand Prix in early June, and Abbas Sajwani emerges from a golden elevator onto the main deck of his 348-foot superyacht…
Forbes Daily BriefingAmericans Can’t Buy Chinese EVs. Waymo Is Importing Thousands
Chinese automakers are now the de facto global standard for electric vehicles. BYD is outselling Tesla with highly affordable models. Consumer electronics…
Forbes Daily BriefingBattlefield To Boardroom: The Veteran Founders Riding Defense Tech’s $32 Billion Boom
The enemy gets a vote, too. That military aphorism took on a chilling immediacy for Brandon Tseng when he was training for an Afghanistan deployment as a Navy…
Forbes Daily BriefingMicromanager-In-Chief: President Trump Can’t Keep His Hands Off The Family Business
IN LATE APRIL, Donald Trump boarded Air Force One for his 26th trip to Palm Beach of his second term. War was stirring in the Middle East. Gas prices and…
Forbes Daily BriefingThe Top 10 Richest People In The World | August 2026
Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire when SpaceX went public on June 12. But his four-comma-fortune didn’t last long, as his rocketmaker’s once…
Forbes Daily BriefingHow Jay Shetty Is Turning A $100 Million Podcast Deal Into A ‘Conscious Empire’
If Jay Shetty was going to level up his podcast, he figured he needed to upgrade the studio in which he records it. So before his seven-year-old show, On…
Forbes Daily BriefingWhy This Startup Is Strapping Cameras To Housekeepers’ Heads In India
On a Tuesday evening in early July, Anushka Ahuja, a dentist in Gurgaon, India, opens the door for the house help she booked ten minutes ago on Pronto, an app…
Forbes Daily BriefingWe Seized The Oligarchs’ Yachts. Now We’re Stuck Paying The Bill.
OnApril 4, 2022, less than six weeks after Russian forces launched their attack on Ukraine, officers from Spain’s Guardia Civil, the FBI and Homeland Security…
Forbes Daily BriefingThe Highest-Paid Podcasters Of 2026
When Jay Shetty started his podcast On Purpose in 2019, he remembers people telling him he was too late. The medium was already saturated, they said, with…
Forbes Daily BriefingNext Billion-Dollar Startups 2026
For a dozen years, Forbes has partnered with TrueBridge Capital Partners to highlight the companies that are likely to become unicorns in the near future. To…
Forbes Daily BriefingThis Entrepreneur Will Pay You To Provide Home Care For Your Loved Ones
On Jesse Vega’s first date with Deaunda Lira, a romantic sushi dinner in Colorado Springs three years ago, he was upfront: He has epilepsy and suffers severe…
Forbes Daily BriefingTesla’s Founders Are Backing The Anti-Cybertruck
Twenty years ago this month, Tesla introduced itself to the world with the electric Roadster, the $100,000 sports car that kickstarted the modern EV era. Now…
Forbes Daily BriefingAxon Says AI Police Reports Save Time. Public Records Show They Get Facts Wrong
In Lafayette, Indiana, a small city with a population of just over 70,000, the local police force decided to try out a new AI tool sold by law enforcement tech…
Forbes Daily BriefingAI Startups Are Pivoting From Flashy Demos To Tech That Pays The Bills
In early 2023, Keith Peiris’s AI-powered presentation startup Tome was growing quickly. It had become the fastest productivity tool to reach 1 million users…
Forbes Daily BriefingAmerican Open-Source Labs Think They Can Beat China’s Best AI Startups
Back in October 2024, Poolside was an early AI star. Cofounded by former Github CTO Jason Warner, the startup had raised $500 million on a $3 billion valuation…
Forbes Daily BriefingMLS Is Banking On A World Cup Boost. Investors Aren’t So Sure.
As the final minutes ticked away in a disappointing 4-1 loss to Belgium on July 6 that knocked the U.S. men’s national team out of the World Cup, Fox…
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Peptides May Soon Be Legal. These Companies Are Ready To Cash In
With the FDA panel that’s considering whether to recommend legal production of seven peptides meeting on Thursday and Friday, Shaun Noorian had planned to be…
Forbes Daily BriefingMLS Is Banking On A World Cup Boost. Investors Aren’t So Sure.
As the final minutes ticked away in a disappointing 4-1 loss to Belgium on July 6 that knocked the U.S. men’s national team out of the World Cup, Fox…
Forbes Daily BriefingThe World’s Largest Fast-Food Franchisee Is Still Hungry For More
For the past decade, Greg Flynn has been America’s largest franchisee, and now he is the largest in the world. But he has a voracious appetite for more. “The…
Forbes Daily BriefingFlock CEO Apologizes For Calling Activists ‘Terrorists’
For the last two years, Will Freeman has been advocating against Flock Safety, an $8.3 billion surveillance company that tracks vehicles with a network of over…
Forbes Daily BriefingA Beefed-Up Golf Cart And An Anti-Cybertruck: Cheap, Quirky EVs Are Coming
U.S. sales of electric vehicles have plunged since the Trump administration killed a $7,500 federal credit last year, but a group of startups hopes to change…
Forbes Daily BriefingHow OpenAI Plans To Win Over Doctors, Patients And Hospitals
When OpenAI wants to sell the country’s biggest health systems on its healthcare ambitions, it often brings in one person a hospital CEO won’t ignore: Sam…
Forbes Daily BriefingThe College Majors Most Likely To Get You Hired In Your Field And Outside Of It
Choosing a college major has always felt like a big life decision, influenced by not only personal inclinations and talents, but also by starting salaries—new…