Month: October 2025
ChatGPT just became a shopping channel
OpenAI just announced that consumers can now buy products directly inside ChatGPT. At the same time, big-box retailers like Walmart are already seeing one in five referral clicks come from ChatGPT. In a matter of months, AI agents have gone from a fun novelty to a business necessity, marking one of the fastest shifts in
Trump call for frontline freeze in Ukraine
European leaders have joined Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky in insisting that any talks on ending the war in Ukraine should start with freezing the current front line, and warned that Russia is not serious about peace.But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday dismissed the idea of halting the conflict at the current contact line.Trump, who
deployment of National Guard troops to San Francisco,
President Donald Trump is doubling down on his intention to deploy National Guard troops to San Francisco, claiming that people in the city “want” it. The President has deployed or suggested deploying federal troops to several other cities since returning to office in January. He hasn’t yet sent troops to San Francisco during either of
iPhone targeted by a spyware
Earlier this year, a developer was shocked by a message that appeared on his personal phone: “Apple detected a targeted mercenary spyware attack against your iPhone.” The targeting of Gibson’s iPhone shows that the proliferation of zero-days and spyware is starting to ensnare more types of victims. Spyware and zero-day makers have historically claimed their
China imports no US soy in September
China has worked hard to curb its reliance on U.S. soy imports, especially after the trade conflict of Trump’s first term ended in 2020 when Beijing agreed to buy $200 billion in American products, including soybeans (although it bought far less than it promised.) Brazil arrivals last month jumped 29.9% year-on-year to 10.96 million tons,
Amazon AWS Outage
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform that powers much of the internet, went down for several hours Monday, making several major websites and apps inoperable.The latest outage serves as a reminder of how fragile the internet’s backbone can be, even if the disruption is brief, and how reliant the world has become on
Crude Oil prices drop
0721 GMT – Oil continues last week’s downwards trajectory as investors assess a looming supply glut and a challenging macroeconomic backdrop.Brent crude falls 0.8% to $60.78 a barrel and WTI slides 0.9% to $56.65 a barrel. Assessing the impact of the glut is complicated by the fluctuating trade tensions between the U.S. and China, they
Trump ends aid to Colombia
President Donald Trump said the US will no longer offer subsidies to Colombia, one of the country’s closest South American allies. The US president announced the decision in a Truth Social post on Sunday, labelling Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro as “an illegal drug leader” who has “strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big
Israel Strikes Lebanon after cease
As a tenuous ceasefire took hold in Gaza this month, Israel launched more airstrikes on southern Lebanon — 11 months into a ceasefire there. The bombardment of a construction equipment business killed a Syrian passerby, wounded seven people including two women, and destroyed millions of dollars worth of bulldozers and excavators.Some see a likely blueprint
US Government shutdown
The government shutdown hit Day 19 on Sunday, Oct. 19, with no end in sight, after senators failed for the 10th time to resolve the impasse in votes on Thursday.The shutdown is now the third-longest funding lapse in modern history, eclipsed only by the shutdowns of 1995 and 2018-19. Shutdowns are a relatively recent phenomenon,