Jeremy Bogaisky

When my son and his friends decided to dress up as Mamdani, Cuomo and Sliwa for Halloween, I thought, what are the odds they run into one of those guys. Well …

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A Gonzo Plan To Beat China With Giant Robot Boats Autonomous speedboat designer Saronic aims to use its fat warchest to build America’s largest shipyard and help the US to dominate commercial and military shipbuilding.

Until this year, the richly funded defense tech startup Saronic Technologies had only built small autonomous speedboats. Now it has an audacious plan to go big -- and enable the U.S. to wrest dominance in commercial and military shipbuilding from China. www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...

Sweet potato gone wild

Our fearless colleagues were outside the
@forbes.com Power Women’s Summit in the rain ☔ this morning with an important gut check.

SpaceX's $17 Billion EchoStar Deal Won’t Work Without Starship The spectrum SpaceX is buying could let it beam full 5G service from space to cell phones. But that depends on it launching more powerful satellites with a rocket still in development.

Elon Musk's mammoth $17 billion purchase of spectrum from EchoStar will only pay off if SpaceX can launch a new generation of satellites on its mega-rocket Starship.
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Trump Jumps 118 Spots On The Forbes 400 List Thanks To Presidency Donald Trump lost money during his first term. Out of office, he found a formula for profiting off politics—now he’s piling up billions.

No president in U.S. history has used his position of power to profit as immensely as Trump, whose net worth is up $3 billion in the last year. That vaults Trump 118 spots higher on The Forbes 400, out this morning. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

How ICE Is Using Fake Cell Towers To Spy On People’s Phones ICE is using a controversial spy tool to locate smartphones, court records show.

ICE is using a controversial spy tool to locate smartphones, court records show.

Sticky Spy Drone Glues Itself To Walls, And Leaves Without A Trace A new British quadcopter attaches itself to vertical surfaces for spying missions, recharges itself with solar power, then flies away leaving no traces of an incursion.

A new spy drone can stick itself to walls with glue and carry out covert surveillance, then detach itself and fly away, leaving no sign that the targets were being bugged. www.forbes.com/sites/davidh...

NEW - Here's my magazine profile on Flock Safety, the $7.5bn surveillance juggernaut that local and federal cops have been using to monitor Americans.

I got a look at its car surveillance tech in action, as well as its new drones, and Nova, its police intelligence platform that's caused a stir.

This Startup Is Racing To Be The First To Mine Helium On The Moon Interlune is developing robots to harvest a valuable gas on the lunar surface that could have a big impact on Earth.

A bevy of startups are dreaming of mining the moon and asteroids for valuable minerals. Interlune may be among those that have the best shot of building a business soonest by targeting a rare form of helium.
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How Much Tax Do US Billionaires Pay? Evidence from Administrative Data Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Really important new study on the tax rate of billionaires from @gabrielzucman.bsky.social et al

Upshot:

The top 400 ultrabillionaires: 23.8%

Avg Americans: 30.2%

Yes, the superrich pay far less in taxes than the rest of us.

www.nber.org/papers/w34170

Trump Grab For Defense Firms Could Be Nightmare For Musk's SpaceX The billionaire would never agree to it — and he may have enough leverage to avoid a similar deal as Intel if Trump were to pursue it.

Commerce Secretary Lutnick said there's a "monstrous discussion" under way in the Trump administration about taking stakes in defense contractors. That might be particularly repellant for Elon Musk's SpaceX. He may have stronger leverage than anyone to prevent it. www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...

This Airborne Robot Pickup Truck Could Be A Lifeline For U.S. Troops In War With China Grid Aero wants to build fleets of low-cost, long-range autonomous cargo planes that could foil Chinese defenses designed to choke off U.S. forces.

As the DoD preps for war with China, it’s grappling with a tough problem: how to get supplies across thousands of miles of water against an enemy with an arsenal of missiles designed to destroy U.S. cargo planes and ships. Startup Grid Aero believes it has a solution.
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Apex Wants To Bring Henry Ford-Style Mass Production To Satellites Low-Earth orbit has become a battleground for companies and militaries. Apex Technology wants to provide standardized satellites for all of them.

At Apex’s HQ in L.A., meeting spaces are named after predators: eagle, caiman, orca. It’s an expression of the richly funded startup’s ambitions to claw its way to the top of the food chain in satellite manufacturing. Trump's Golden Dome could be its big opportunity. www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...

HAVE YOU SEEN HIM? We were out searching this past weekend for @randalllane.bsky.social, who we hear likes to watch the horses at Saratoga Racecourse. 🏇
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Lithium Battery Fire Forced Delta Emergency Landing Devices powered by lithium-ion batteries—including cell phones, laptops, vape pens and portable chargers—cause smoke or fire on U.S. flights several times per month.

Good news: FAA seeing fewer lithium battery incidents than last year. ✈️

Bad news: we are still averaging about six per month! 🚨

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This Secretive Company Built An Empire By Hawking Bad Financial And Health Advice On Facebook The Agora Companies, sued by the SEC, FTC, and two state AGs, reach hundreds of millions of people across social media with misleading promises of wealth and wellness.

New from me! An investigation into the "1.5bn+ company" known as The Agora, which sells misleading health and investing advice to seniors, and which was one of Meta's largest political advertisers this year (until many of their pages went down after this story).

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Elon Musk Has Fired Omead Afshar, Tesla’s North America And Europe Chief Omead Afshar, a long-time Musk lieutenant, was tasked with improving the company’s business in those regions late last year, but sales continue to drop in both.

BREAKING: Elon Musk fired one of his top lieutenants.

Omead Afshar was tasked with improving the electric vehicle company’s business in North America and Europe late last year, but sales continue to drop in both #Tesla www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

Why The U.S. Needs To Privatize Air Traffic Control The FAA is a mess. Annexing our neighbors to the north, as Trump favors, looks like a longshot. But we should copy its privatized air traffic control system.

“An air traffic controller shouldn’t have to worry, are these tiles over my head going to fall down and is it going to pour water on me while I'm around all this electrical equipment?” Here’s how Canada's overhaul of its ATC system offers a blueprint for the U.S. www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...

Total Obliteration? Voids, J-Hooks And Damage At Iran’s Nuclear Sites The operation to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities has been hailed as a success. How much damage as actually been inflicted and how do we know?

Satellite images of Fordow suggest U.S. bunker buster bombs hit their aim points on the surface. But among the unknowns as to the strike's effectiveness are whether they continued true as they plowed deep into the complex, and whether they blew up in the right places.
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That bird is probably getting every cable channel for free

The U.S. Government Is Stuck With SpaceX. But Trump Can Still Hurt It. SpaceX has made itself indispensable to the government, but some contracts could be vulnerable.

Elon Musk probably doesn't have much to fear from President Trump's threat to cancel SpaceX contracts. The company has made itself indispensable to the government. But there are still ways the administration could hurt it.
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Fiber Optic Bird’s Nest Heralds A Fiber Drone Summer In Ukraine Both sides are now using large numbers of attack drones controlled via fiber optic cables which are immune to radio jamming making them effectiveley unstoppable.

A bird’s nest incorporating fiber-optic cable is a striking sign of how much debris from fiber-guided FPVs now litters the landscape in Ukraine.
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NASA Missions Could Be The Biggest Casualty Of The Trump/Musk Feud The space agency relies on Elon Musk’s rockets for crucial missions to the International Space Station. Who will replace them when competitors are still playing catch up?

Why NASA might end up paying the biggest price for the Trump-Musk feud -- by my colleague @thealexknapp.bsky.social
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Trump-Musk Blowup Could Be Good News For Boeing From space exploration to defense, the end of the billionaire bromance could pay dividends for America’s largest aerospace company.

The end of the billionaire bromance between President Trump and Elon Musk could have lucrative ramifications for many aerospace and defense companies. Not least of them, Boeing.
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Flock’s AI Cameras Are Watching Cars All Over America. They’re About To Get A Lot More Powerful. Amid fears it’s created a mass surveillance system, Flock is turning its license plate readers into fully-fledged surveillance cameras, taking on what it claims is a monopoly on police tech by Axon.

🚨 NEW 🚨 Flock Safety, a $7.5 billion police contractor, has announced a significant expansion of its AI camera network.

It'll allow police to turn their license plate readers into fully-fledged surveillance cameras, with live access and multiple camera angles.

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How Trump’s Aviation Company Earned $18 Million From His Campaign Apparatus—After It Received $13 Million From The Secret Service Unlike other presidential campaigns, Trump’s operation appears to have turned Secret Service travel into business income.

🚨 NEW: The Secret Service has paid Trump’s campaign entities $13M for travel.

His campaign entities then paid his own jet company $18M.

Nothing illegal here. Just taxpayer dollars and campaign contributions flowing to a company Trump completely owns.

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Who Is To Blame For The FAA’s Recent Failures? President Trump has blamed former President Biden for air traffic control system failures, when multiple administrations, including his own, failed to fix the FAA’s problems.

TBH, there’s a lot of blame to go around.

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