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Vol. I · No. 24Friday, October 30, 2026Weekend Edition
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markets · tech
About $3 billion is frozen and Binance will cover losses; trackers blame North Korean hackers.
world · markets
Yemen’s Houthis also claimed strikes on Saudi Arabia.
politics
He’ll phone in to events in at least 19 states instead, days before the midterms.
ai policy · ai
Models should follow what people actually mean, not just literal instructions.
science
Scientists dated the rock, Teghaza 001, to more than 4.1 billion years old.
Continued inside The Week, B1 · Sports, C1 · Local, D1 · World, E1 · Finance, F1 · Business & AI, G1 · Funny Pages, H1
The week the Fed held but hinted at a hike, Big Tech earnings shook the AI trade and Israel’s vote ended in deadlock.
markets
The Fed kept rates at 3.75% to 4% with two dissents; futures now lean toward a December hike.
markets · tech · ai
Alphabet had its worst day ever, then Amazon and Intel slid on spending and guidance worries.
ai · markets
The filing showed fast revenue growth and huge losses ahead of a planned Nasdaq listing.
world · politics
Neither Netanyahu’s bloc nor Eisenkot’s opposition reached 61 seats, setting up weeks of coalition talks.
world
The toll from this week’s train crash in Spain rose to 68.
grok bot
Phone calls, shopping cards, free-trial and unused-subscription templates, and Vault payments all arrived this week.
spacex ai · ai
Musk said SpaceX closed a $40 billion debt deal to buy AI chips.
ai policy
Beijing floated curbs on exporting AI technology.
The stores opened Thursday with about 125 new jobs, and Marshalls gave $10,000 to a local charity.
world
Output fell 0.1% from the previous quarter.
world
Underlying inflation reached 2% for the first time since 2013, but the bank kept rates on hold.
world
Netanyahu’s bloc won 53 seats and Eisenkot’s 48, both short of 61; President Herzog starts consultations next week.
Breaching bail now carries a 12-month mandatory minimum and up to three years, despite concerns raised during debate.
About 250 submissions came in; consultation closes Nov. 1, with construction planned for December.
markets
Rates stay at 3.75% to 4%; futures lean toward a hike at the Dec. 8-9 meeting, while the 10-year yield fell to 4.98%.
markets
Third-quarter growth beat forecasts, but the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge rose to 3.6% in September on an energy surge.
markets
DoorDash’s biggest deal ever pays $65 a share, at least 75% in cash, and may face antitrust scrutiny.
markets
BP’s third-quarter profit nearly quadrupled to $8.5 billion.
Tesla
It asks shareholders to re-elect Elon Musk, Robyn Denholm and JB Straubel at the Dec. 3 annual meeting.
Nvidia
Nvidia said chip-diversion claims about a Singapore cloud customer were investigated and debunked, after a report that intelligence agencies watched someone close to Jensen Huang.
SpaceX
Musk says Flight 15 will try the first tower catch of a Starship upper stage.
No new original posts from @bot or @SpaceXSI and no new Grok Bot or SpaceX AI announcements since yesterday’s paper.
ai for business
SOLO, launched in the UAE, gives solo owners AI agents for marketing, sales, lead follow-up and WhatsApp and Instagram chats.
Why it matters for One Stop Revenue. Gym owners will see more AI front-desk offers; your pitch is the done-for-you version tuned for studios.
ai for business
The agents automate pieces of campaign work for big marketing teams.
Why it matters for One Stop Revenue. Ad automation is going mainstream; show clients you use AI for speed while keeping a human on strategy.
The $9.99-a-month chain serves 4.5 million members, and franchisee CR Fitness just opened its 100th Crunch.
Outreach angle. Cheap big-box gyms keep spreading; pitch studios on ads that sell coaching and community, not price.
My Plan in Burn’s app tracks workouts, nutrition and goals and syncs with wearables like Apple Health and Garmin.
Outreach angle. Boot camps are competing on member tracking; offer owners follow-up texts that keep members on plan.
About 60% of users in an Everyday Health survey regained some weight after quitting the drugs.
Outreach angle. Pitch gyms on a ‘keep it off’ strength offer aimed at people coming off weight-loss drugs.
