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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket takes off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 2024 carrying four satellites for the Space Development Agency.U.S. Space Force If President Donald Trump wants his Iron Dome–the space-based missile defense shield for the United States he proposed last month–it’s going to require tens of billions of dollars and a lot of new satellites. For the last six years, the Pentagon’s Space Development Agency has been working on a key part of what’s needed: a first-of-its-kind constellation of over 1,000 small satellites in low-Earth orbit designed to detect hypersonic missile launches and keep tabs 24/7 on mobile…

Tajín founder Horacio Fernández turned his authentic Mexican seasoning into a $1.5 billion spice giant—by selling to Americans. By Chloe Sorvino, Forbes Staff Surrounded by the mountains of Jalisco, Mexico, the entrance to the 20-acre manufacturing headquarters of chili spice maker Industrias Tajín features a half-mile-long driveway lined with Montezuma Bald Cypress trees. Halfway there, it wraps around a massive molcajete, a mortar and pestle weighing 70,000 pounds made from a single piece of volcanic rock. Three giant flags, 26 feet long by 13 feet tall, fly over the glass headquarters. One has the Tajín logo with its signature chili…

Hours before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the White House, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would levy reciprocal tariffs on its trading partners. It could hardly have come at a tougher time for India, which is already pressed by a slowing economy and sluggish demand. At a joint news conference, Trump said India would buy F-35 fighter jets and oil and gas from the US. The two countries would also begin negotiations on the US trade deficit with India. India runs a large trade surplus with the US and such negotiations and military and oil…

Herbie and Nicole Wertheim were married for more than half a century. Now Nicole claims in a lawsuit that her optometrist-turned-investor ex forged her signature, made foundation pledges without her approval and removed her access to $250 million in charitable funds. By Kerry A. Dolan, Forbes Staff The 2023 Prostate Cancer Foundation’s gala dinner in Palm Beach was a high profile affair. Held at the Cox Science Center and Aquarium with a performance by The Beach Boys, the event attracted at least half a dozen billionaires including Mike Milken, Jeff Greene and Bill Koch. Also among them was Florida billionaire…

After 10 seasons with the Milwaukee Bucks, Junior Bridgeman finally started to make the big bucks—really big—with fast-food franchises and a Coca-Cola bottling company. He’s now in rare air alongside Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and LeBron James as the only NBA players with 10-figure fortunes. Oh, and he also owns a piece of his old team. By Jabari Young, Forbes Staff On a Friday afternoon in November, Junior Bridgeman is reminiscing about his time in the NBA. Once traded to the Milwaukee Bucks for the great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bridgeman, now 71, scans his Louisville, Kentucky office filled with photographs, art…

PARIS — Vice President JD Vance warned European allies Tuesday that the White House would not accept international regulations on artificial intelligence if they held back U.S. ambitions to be the world’s dominant power in the revolutionary new technology. “The United States of America is the leader in AI, and our administration plans to keep it that way,” Vance told an international AI summit in Paris. “We need international regulatory regimes that fosters the creation of AI technology rather than strangles it.”In his first international speech since taking office, Vance said the U.S. was open to cooperating with other countries to harness…

This will be a defining year for AI,” said Mark Zuckerberg on his Facebook blog last month, hyping his plan to invest $65 billion in 2025, most of it in support of growing Meta’s AI capabilities and building upon its Llama 4 model. The locus of these efforts appears to be on 2,250 acres of flat farmland in northeast Louisiana, where Meta has begun work on a $10 billion data center project. This grandest of Meta’s 20 worldwide data centers will be called Sucré (i.e. sweet) and cover 4 million square feet of floor space on 2,250 acres To power…

3 things ultra successful people refuse to do getty Most people spend their life making concessions. They play small to avoid rocking the boat. They stay within the limits others set. But ultra successful people operate differently. They create their own rules and live by them without apology. And you can join them. Your path to success means demanding more. Breaking free from patterns that hold you back. Surrounding yourself with excellence. Here’s how ultra successful people protect their standards and time, with ideas for your next moves. Smart standards for huge success They don’t negotiate Beyoncé Knowles states her…

The Chinese artificial intelligence assistant from DeepSeek is holding its own against all the major players in the field, having dethroned ChatGPT to become No. 1 in the Apple App Store this week.In hands-on tests Tuesday, NBC News found that DeepSeek presents a friendly, helpful demeanor and is capable of highly sophisticated reasoning — until it flounders when it faces a subject it appears unable to talk about freely.The tests found that in many cases, DeepSeek seems trained to censor itself (and, at times, demonstrate specific political leanings) about topics deemed sensitive in China. Its answers tend to align with what is…

President Donald Trump said Monday that the sudden rise of the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek “should be a wake-up call” for America’s tech companies as the runaway popularity of yet another Chinese app presented new questions for the administration and congressional leaders. Trump said he still expected U.S. tech companies to dominate artificial intelligence, but he acknowledged the challenge posed by DeepSeek, a low-cost AI assistant that rose to No. 1 on the Apple app store over the weekend. “The release of DeepSeek AI from a Chinese company should be a wake-up call for our industries that we need to be…