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American Airlines Maintains Same Frequent Flyer Status Requirements

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 7, 2026

Joe Raedle | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesAmerican airlines said Wednesday it will maintain the spending requirements to achieve…

Business & Money

Here’s what changes for elite status

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 8, 2025

A traveler speaks to an agent at the United Airlines office at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, November 25,…

Technology

China is aggressively deploying AI and robotics to maintain its status as a global manufacturing hub, and major companies are pioneering AI ‘dark factories’ (Brian Spegele/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 25, 2025

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: The interview: how Wikipedia responds to the culture wars The future is already here. Each week,…

Technology

India’s November 21 labor law granted legal status to millions of gig workers, but benefits are unclear and access to social security remains elusive (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 25, 2025

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: India’s November 21 labor law granted legal status to millions of gig workers, but benefits are…

Technology

Switzerland offers regulations forcing service providers to collect user identifiers and deactivate encryption, threatening its paradise status for privacy technology companies (Suzanne Smalley / The Record)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 12, 2025

Featured podcasts BG2 POD: Inside Openai Enterprise: engineering deployed forward, GPT-5, and more Podcast Open Source on all that concerns…

Technology

Docs: XAI ended its status as a public service company on May 9, 2024; XAI Holdings, which houses XAI and X, does not have a PBC (Lora Kolodny / CNBC) designation either)

By Stacey D. WallsAugust 25, 2025

Lora Kolodny / CNBC:: Docs: XAI ended its status as a public service company on May 9, 2024; XAI Holdings,…

Asia

South Africa retrograde Taiwan's status, signaling a greater influence from China, say the experts – Radio Free Asia

By Frank M. EverettMay 20, 2025

In a sign of the expansion international influence of China, South Africa has downgraded the status of the Taiwan liaison…

China imposes new prices on American products after Trump overthrew the status quo of the world trade

By Frank M. EverettApril 4, 2025

Updated on March 4, 2025, at 1:08 p.m. he.Bangkok – China imposes prices for reprisals on American products one day…

North Korean agents use fake identities to apply for tech jobs – Radio Free Asia

Award-winning Burmese journalist Shin Daewe released from prison – Radio Free Asia

RFA welcomes release of Shin Daewe, RFA contributor in Myanmar – Radio Free Asia

Soft power ‘wins’ Beijing as Chinese medical ship treats 5,400 people in PNG for free – Radio Free Asia

US to establish fuel depot in Philippines to support operations in South China Sea – Radio Free Asia

Amazon launches GLP-1 weight loss program

UPS and FedEx have started requesting certain fare refunds

UnitedHealth Group (UNH) First Quarter 2026 Results

Trump’s executive order on psychedelics and what it means for cannabis

Disturbances in Hormuz hit China’s capital of Christmas and holiday spending

Trump and Mike Johnson desperately try to save the House before Virginia votes on a new map

Democrats turn up pressure, force another vote to end Trump’s Iran war

Trump collapses mentally as his lying superpower abandons him

Troops warned they would be prosecuted for war crimes if they followed Trump’s illegal orders

Inflation and Cost of Living Are Expected to End Trump’s Presidency

How opposition to data centers, over concerns such as electricity demand, pollution and water needs, became a voting issue for many in the 2026 U.S. midterm elections (NPR)

OpenAI enables cost-per-click ads in ChatGPT, setting bids between $3 and $5 per click, in addition to CPMs (Digiday)

Tim Cook has had an extraordinary run and impeccable timing in stepping down, with Apple in a better position than ever as AI becomes its next big test (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Longtime colleagues say John Ternus will bring back the decisiveness of the Jobs era, moving away from the Cook era where decisions were made collectively by top executives (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Tim Cook has reshaped Apple in his own image and is stepping down as CEO on his own terms, apparently choosing the right successor in John Ternus, much like Jobs did with Cook (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

Browsing: status

A look at “tokenmaxxing,” a status game in which employees from multiple companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they use (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

Several Apple services, including Apple TV, the App Store and iCloud, have been experiencing outages since 6:48 p.m. ET, according to Apple’s system status page (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

American Airlines Maintains Same Frequent Flyer Status Requirements

Here’s what changes for elite status

China is aggressively deploying AI and robotics to maintain its status as a global manufacturing hub, and major companies are pioneering AI ‘dark factories’ (Brian Spegele/Wall Street Journal)

India’s November 21 labor law granted legal status to millions of gig workers, but benefits are unclear and access to social security remains elusive (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Switzerland offers regulations forcing service providers to collect user identifiers and deactivate encryption, threatening its paradise status for privacy technology companies (Suzanne Smalley / The Record)

Docs: XAI ended its status as a public service company on May 9, 2024; XAI Holdings, which houses XAI and X, does not have a PBC (Lora Kolodny / CNBC) designation either)

South Africa retrograde Taiwan's status, signaling a greater influence from China, say the experts – Radio Free Asia

China imposes new prices on American products after Trump overthrew the status quo of the world trade