📰 From the Digest

Semafor reports CBS News editor Bari Weiss has pushed her newsroom to pursue stories on Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed's purported Muslim Brotherhood links.

Cost-of-living and school protests turned into France's largest riots in years, with 1,500 shops damaged or looted and curfews in Paris, Nice and Lille.

Saudi Arabia postponed in-person attendance at its flagship FII conference after Wall Street executives privately raised safety concerns over Houthi attacks.

Fujairah has become a waystation for oil and metals as Gulf states build routes around the Strait of Hormuz.

Iranian officials say Tehran is trying to hurt Trump in the midterms by keeping oil prices painful.

The Trump–Zelensky feud is escalating as Trump waives Russia sanctions over objections from his own party.

The State Department is updating its China travel advisory to warn of a higher risk of wrongful detention, tied to two detained Americans.

Anthropic pledged 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund, with more added as its value rises, pending stockholder approval.

Elon Musk pledged one SpaceX share to every American child next year, a gift The Information values at nearly $11 billion.

DBS CEO Tan Su Shan warned the AI buildout will face capital shortages as lenders demand returns, giving the supply chain perhaps two more good years.

Margin debt is growing at a pace seen only before major corrections, raising fears that a tech sell-off could force selling.

Replit, a top-five Anthropic customer, moved its default model to OpenAI, citing cost first, a sign big agentic buyers now have leverage over AI labs.

Anthropic surveyed 1,334 employees, who are more convinced than most that AI will take over jobs.

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says transformer-based robotics is advancing far faster than expected and that most factory jobs could eventually be automated.

The Economist's Bartleby tells the story of an AI agent that canceled its boss's board meeting and booked him a flight to Kathmandu.