Posts by Amelia Frost
Cuba’s Power Grid Has Collapsed For the Third Time This Month, Deepening Island’s Energy Crisis
Cuba‘s national electric grid collapsed for the third time in just nine days on Tuesday, plunging millions of residents into darkness as authorities struggle to stabilize an aging power system amid severe fuel shortages. The Cuban Ministry of Energy and Mines said the country’s National Electric System suffered a “total disconnection” after a failure at…
Read MoreAlon Zaibert Is the Reason That the Best B2B Sales Teams Are Replacing Opportunity Chasing with Relationship Building
In many B2B companies, the account review has become a ritual of reassurance, where scheduled renewals, steady responsiveness, and a passable dashboard can make a relationship appear sturdier than it is. An account can look calm from a distance while the human connection inside it is already thinning: a client may attend meetings with less…
Read MoreThe Numbers Behind Pavan Agarwal’s Case That Fair Lending Can Actually Scale
The argument that fair lending and profitable business are fundamentally in tension has been around for as long as the mortgage industry has. Pavan Agarwal has been building the counterargument for years. The numbers behind that work are now public. Sun West Mortgage Company, the national lender Agarwal leads, operates with what it describes as…
Read MoreZealot Builds AI Infrastructure for Allied Cyber Operations
Zealot, a company building artificial intelligence infrastructure for cyber operations, announced today that it has raised $20 million in seed funding led by Khosla Ventures to help US and allied governments identify and address weaknesses in software and networks more efficiently. In the last twelve months, Anthropic and OpenAI have published threat reports documenting attempts…
Read MoreYou Can’t Lead Others If You Can’t Lead Yourself
The most successful leaders have something in common. They understand that they must inspire themselves if they hope to inspire others. But knowing something and achieving it are different things. Too often, leaders are so focused on motivating and supporting the well-being of their top teams, their employees, their customers, and their partners that they…
Read MoreSpaceX Surged After Its Stock Made Its Debut. Its Price Has Now Dropped Below The IPO Level
SpaceX’s stock briefly dropped below its IPO price on Wednesday, falling below $135 before rising over the level again. On June 16, SpaceX’s shares closed at $201.80, capping a blistering rally fueled by optimism surrounding the company’s leadership in commercial space launches, satellite communications, and emerging artificial intelligence initiatives. Since then, however, the stock has…
Read MoreAnother Housing Market Obstacle Just Got Steeper. Mortgage Rates Near One-Year High.
Mortgage rates have climbed to their highest level in nearly a year, cooling homebuyer demand at a time when elevated home prices and a shortage of affordable listings continue to weigh on the U.S. housing market. The average interest rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage increased to 6.65% last week, the highest level since August…
Read MoreChina’s Economy Just Posted Its Slowest Growth Since 2022. Experts Say Beijing May Need a Stimulus Push
China‘s economy grew at its slowest quarterly pace since late 2022 in the second quarter of 2026, missing expectations and intensifying pressure on Beijing to introduce new stimulus measures. According to data released Wednesday by China’s National Bureau of Statistics, gross domestic product expanded 4.3% between April and June compared with a year earlier. The…
Read MoreThe Fight Over AI Regulation Is Now Happening Inside The Industry Itself
OpenAI employees are using their own money to oppose a political organization supported by one of the company’s most senior executives, bringing the technology industry’s dispute over artificial intelligence regulation inside the maker of ChatGPT. Seven current OpenAI employees and one former worker have donated more than $215,000 to Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC supporting…
Read More7 Must-Have Webflow Apps to Turn a Website into a Revenue Engine
Webflow gives businesses a visual-first website builder and CMS that refuses to compromise on design, yet a stunning storefront alone doesn’t close sales. What happens between a landing-page visit and a completed checkout depends entirely on the apps connected behind the scenes, and the most impactful webflow apps never ask you to abandon the no-code…
Read MoreThe UK Says Social Media Is Too Addictive. It’s Taking Measures For Older Teens
The United Kingdom announced a digital curfew for older teens as the government continues its efforts to crack down on social media. The curfew for 16- and 17-year-olds will last from midnight to 6 a.m. and will impact features such as infinite scrolling and autoplay. The government said that those features will be “switched off…
Read MoreStripe Wants To Buy PayPal In A $53 Billion Deal, Sending Its Shares Soaring.
PayPal shares surged Wednesday after Stripe and private equity firm Advent International submitted a joint offer worth more than $53 billion for the company that helped bring digital payments into mainstream online commerce. The proposed acquisition would pair two companies associated with different periods of the internet economy. PayPal emerged in the late 1990s and…
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