Deloitte expects the space economy to reach $2 trillion by 2035.

Jason Garzatus, CEO of Deloitte U.S., says that growth is fueled by data and its application

for businesses across industries.

What's exciting is that the data and the analytic and the commercial application of the data

will move to be more mainstream.

It will be something that organizations of any size can benefit from

the data that's being emitted from space that could be pertinent to their operation. Visit Deloitte.com

to learn how the space economy is creating new opportunities. Here's your morning brief for Thursday,

December 4th. I'm Daniel Bach for the Wall Street Journal.

Twelve former Food and Drug Administration commissioners have said the agency's new vaccine standards

threatened to put Americans' health at risk and upend the FDA's scientific integrity.

The comments came in a joint piece published yesterday by the New England Journal of Medicine.

The letter also takes aim at plans for new vaccine standards,

with the former FDA leaders saying it would create hurdles for vaccine development,

including requiring larger clinical trials before shots are approved.

The billionaire space race is heating up once again.

We are exclusively reporting

that OpenAI boss, Sam Altman, has explored acquiring or partnering with a rocket company.

Altman has been interested in the possibility of building data centers in space for some time.

Thinking that the energy needed to run AI systems might eventually become so large that it could strain Earth's resources.

The idea is that the orbital data centers would allow companies to harness the power of the sun to operate them.

And speaking of the ultra-wealthy, the world has more billionaires than ever.

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