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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…

Access to real-time critical data is key in any crisisgetty Emergencies are unpredictable and rapidly changing events that require the coordinated efforts of professional responders with victims on the ground. When disaster strikes, emergency management services need access to real-time critical data to quickly identify the scale, scope, location, and people affected and mobilize the required resources for the best possible outcome. Many tech entrepreneurs are stepping up to provide them with just that. The RapidSOS platform delivers critical emergency data from millions of connected devices and connected sources, including schools, enterprises, vehicles, and IoT devices to 911. Founded in…

The 30 second test to find out if you’re a digital nomad at heart getty Your office job feels wrong. Deep down you suspect there’s more to life than commuting to the same building, sitting at the same desk, and staring at the same four walls. Working for someone else’s dream is stopping you from chasing yours, but you don’t know how to escape. Even if you mostly work from home, it’s still the same house. Surely there’s more to life. In 2013 I read the 4-Hour Workweek and started traveling for one month every quarter while running my business.…

getty Your perfect customer is searching for someone just like you. They want exactly what you offer. They need your skills, expertise and solutions. But if your LinkedIn profile isn’t set up to grab their attention, they’ll find someone else. When I started taking LinkedIn seriously, my business exploded. In one year my account grew from 7k to 30k followers, with a high proportion being my dream customers. This isn’t random, and it’s not luck. You can do it too. With intention, a process, and commitment to keep going, you can grow your business with help from LinkedIn. You have…

Indigenous researchers are up against a ticking clock: Of the 4,000 Indigenous languages worldwide, one dies every two weeks with its last speaker. “Within the next five to 10 years, we’ll lose most of the Native American languages in the U.S.,” Michael Running Wolf, founder of Indigenous in AI, an international community of Native, Aboriginal and First Nations engineers, said. Running Wolf has dedicated his career to preventing this loss. He leads First Languages AI Reality, an initiative of the Mila-Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, where researchers are building speech recognition models for over 200 endangered Indigenous languages in North America.However, first,…