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Forbes Daily Briefing
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 BriefingHow Christopher Nolan Became The Biggest Movie Star In Hollywood
AtThe Odyssey premiere in Mumbai on Saturday, director Christopher Nolan joked about its prospects as an international summer blockbuster. “It's wonderful how…
Forbes Daily BriefingAI Data Centers Are Set To Electrify This $13 Billion Family’s 76-Year-Old Company
For the citizens of Carrollton–a small city in west Georgia covered in lush trees and flanked by the Little Tallapoosa River–the name Richards, or at least…
Forbes Daily BriefingThe Rise Of The Blue-Chip Tortilla Chip
In 2022, hungover one morning on New Year’s trip to Miami Beach, Meta engineer Steven Rofrano saw his friend Seth Goldstein, then working in private equity…
Forbes Daily BriefingMeet ‘Pepper’ Baumer, The Man With Hot Sauce In His Blood
Every week at the Crystal Hot Sauce factory, just north of New Orleans in Reserve, Louisiana, two train cars full of mashed cayenne peppers arrive on the…
Forbes Daily BriefingSeed Giant Burpee Wants Americans To Garden Like It’s 1776
To celebrate the country’s 250th birthday, the 150-year-old seed giant Burpee has been selling seed collections inspired by the gardens of Thomas Jefferson and…
Forbes Daily BriefingInside Donald Trump’s Billion-Dollar Golf Empire
Donald Trump has a long history of embellishment around his success as a businessman, for years lobbying Forbes to pump up its estimates of his net…
Forbes Daily BriefingForget 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…
Forbes Daily BriefingAI 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…
Forbes Daily BriefingThe 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…
Forbes Daily BriefingAmerica’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…
Forbes Daily BriefingBuffett 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…
Forbes Daily BriefingHow 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…
Forbes Daily BriefingOpenAI 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…
Forbes Daily BriefingThe 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…