Seismic Shift in the Southwest, Huge Delta Sweet Spot, Premium Map Downgrades, and More (Weekly Review)
Hello from Chicago! I’m going to keep this intro short because this weekend the entire FrequentMiler team is at the Chicago Points Travel Festival, where we talked about our recent challenge, connecting casino to cruise, and much more. It’s…
Exclusive: Musk tells Isaacson that ‘AI and robots’ will have to fill the gap
Zoom: Musk said the urge to cut spending “does not exist in the presidency, the House, the Senate or the judiciary. Basically, no one in a position of authority in government – with a few rare exceptions (like) the Rand Pauls of the world…
IMF calls for support for poorer countries facing high inflation and fallout from war | News on poverty and development
Low-income countries spend up to 14% of their income on debt repayment, according to the IMF chief. Published on October 17, 2026October 17, 2026 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has a responsibility to help poorer countries struggling with growing…
Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
Autonomous agents are the new thing in AI. OpenAI, Meta, Google, Instinct and others promise that their agents can scour the internet on your behalf, from booking dinner to cleaning out your inbox to buying new shoes. But what happens when the rest of…
Taiwan Semiconductor is back to where it was a month ago: pull the trigger?
TSMC just posted its sixth consecutive record profit quarter and raised its growth outlook for the full year, but the stock has quietly returned to where it was trading a month ago. Something in the details makes investors think, and it goes further……
Menin trains Elon Musk’s SpaceX reps for ‘sexualized’ images created with Grok
Space-XXX. On Friday, City Council Speaker Julie Menin showed indecent AI-generated photos of herself peeking out of a tight, low-cut shirt while dressing a SpaceX representative for Elon Musk — accusing the company of prematurely launching the…
Bending Spoons wants to revive software scraps. Investing in Berkshire
Guests at the Bending Spoons IPO on the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, United States, on Wednesday, July 1, 2026. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images When it debuted on Nasdaq in July, Bending spoons was a little-known holding company in Italy that…
San Francisco retiree loses $500,000 in pork butcher scam, then falls for the same scam again
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — 7 On Your Side previously reported on a San Francisco retiree who lost his entire savings to a cruel scam known as “pig butchery.” The man, a retired municipal gardener, was thinking of starting a new life with a…
Rising fuel prices boost global sales of electric vehicles and sound the death knell for diesel in Europe
Unlock Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, editor-in-chief of the FT, selects her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter. Auto industry executives say soaring fuel prices are fueling a global surge in electric car sales and hastening the…
Wiretapping scandal triggers panic in Silicon Valley over espionage
Despite their apparent importance to national security, AI labs are not subject to the same rigorous vetting procedures as aerospace and defense companies. “The global race for AI has put Western technology companies on the front lines of state-sponsored…