Pentagon's 2027 budget request includes more than $73 billion for missile programs. The Pentagon expects deliveries of more than 2,100 air and missile defense interceptors in calendar year 2027, a 70% increase from nearly 1,300 in 2021. The current constraints reflect years of consolidation and a shift in the space industry.
Companies in Germany are cutting an average of 15,000 industrial jobs per month. The German economy has grown by 0.3 percent since 2019. Germany spends 5,414 euros per capita on health per year, more than any other EU country. The average life expectancy in Germany is 81.5 years.
Satya Nadella believes the success of the artificial intelligence economy will depend less on individual frontier models and more on ecosystems that organisations build around them. He argues that the rise of AI should not reduce the importance of human expertise. Businesses should build a ‘learning loop’ in which human knowledge and AI systems continuously reinforce one another.
As of market close Friday, SpaceX has a market cap of $2.1 trillion, rocketing past Musk’s other publicly traded company, Tesla. Waymo acquired a massive 5,500-acre proving ground in Arizona owned by Route 14 Investment Partners LLC, a Delaware shell company associated with Apple.