Salhan K Ahmad

Journalist. Maintains a healthy distrust of all forms of government. Writes Alak book series -- one of the best titles from Malaysia.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Delta's CEO said AI will boost profits by 50% by setting a different ticket price for every passenger in real time. The airline uses an AI system called Fetcherr that generates a unique price for each shopping request. Delta told Congress last year it was not using personal data for individualized pricing. Its investor presentation described building toward offers for "you, the individual." Airlines are exempt from FTC pricing oversight.

My Take
This is what AI does for a company like Delta. It doesn't make your flight better or your bag show up faster. It watches how you shop and figures out the most you'll pay before you close the tab. Consumer Reports found Uber and Lyft charging 42% different prices for the same ride at the same time, and the House Oversight Committee found one case where two people got quoted $76 and $24 for the same trip. Delta is building the airline version of that, and every carrier will follow because the economics are too good to pass up.

Walmart told us this week that families are choosing between gas and groceries at $4 a gallon. Delta's answer to those same families is an algorithm that squeezes them for every dollar they have left. Airlines are exempt from FTC pricing rules, state laws are preempted by federal deregulation, and the CEO told Congress one thing while telling investors another. When people ask me where the trillions going into AI actually end up, I think Delta just gave us one of the most honest answers we've gotten.

Hedgie🤗

[Salhan K Ahmad @salhank]

Thats your Merdeka PSA.

[Salhan K Ahmad @salhank]

Bath and plumbing fixture marketers should put up huge billboards along the airport approach. You are now leaving bidet country, towards the terminal. Welcome to bidet country, for arrivals.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

They don’t even hide their bias.

[Salhan K Ahmad @salhank]

What do you call a seemingly wealthy person who are actually drowning in debt.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Q: The national debt surpassed $40,000,000,000,000, have you been discussing what to do with that?

Trump: We have tremendous growth. We've never had growth like we have right now

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

“I don’t want Jews in positions of elected office and I don’t want Jews having financial ties to the Democratic Party. I don’t like Judaism. If I could wave a magic wand, I would round up Jews and deport them from America. Most Democratic voters agree with me.”

I don’t want to sound like a broken record on this but can you imagine if a top adviser to, and ally of, President Joe Biden had said this? It would be the *only* story in America. For days and weeks on end. Biden and Dem members of Congress would be asked about nothing else by rightly outraged reporters.

So every American political reporter, editor, anchor, executive producer, reading this right now: ask yourself, why aren’t you as outraged when it’s Muslims not Jews, and Trump’s ally not Biden’s?

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Turkey is seeking an Interpol Red Notice for war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel's deadly interception of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.

Rather than answer the case, Netanyahu's office branded President Erdogan an "antisemitic dictator" and threatened Turkey over its presence in Syria, warning Israel "will not tolerate" it.

The exchange comes days after Israel bombed a Syrian air base to stop Turkish forces from deploying there, part of an emerging Israeli doctrine that Turkey's NATO membership will not protect its troops on Syrian soil.

[Salhan K Ahmad @salhank]

Mat Jargon muncul semula sebagai Mat Yankee.

[SinarHarian @SinarOnline]

Isu Taiwan: PN ingatkan Anwar jangan jejaskan kepentingan ekonomi Malaysia

Kebimbangan timbul susulan kenyataan terbaharu Anwar mengenai status Taiwan itu mencetuskan respons rasmi daripada Kementerian Luar Taiwan (MOFA).

https://t.co/sgOeNECEjg

#sinarharian #beritaterkini

[Salhan K Ahmad @salhank]

Stadium tertutup Bukit Jalil ni kena kaji semua lampu sorot belakang pentas yang tembak penonton di baris atas. Mau buta kena tembak dengan lampu yang entah berapa juta lumens ni. No way to escape. Kalau tengok pentas, tentu kena tembak. Baik duduk rumah.

[Salhan K Ahmad @salhank]

Comms breakdown. DAP sudah tiada saluran cakap ikut saluran kerajaan, kena cakap melalui media. Mesej pada rakyat dan penyokong -- DAP tetaplah terpaling menekan-nekan dan terpaling buat kerja. Pada masa sama, trust deficit at all time high. Semua dalam pressure cooker. Masak.

[Malaysiakini (BM) @mkini_bm]

Gobind desak polis, SPRM jelas siasatan ‘mafia korporat’ https://t.co/kaX0KSbTRe

[Salhan K Ahmad @salhank]

Malaysia should do away with all the jiwa hamba philosophy and capitulations to the US. Takut sangat dengan persepsi dan momok.

[malaysiakini.com @malaysiakini]

Anwar's Taiwan remarks may test Malaysia's neutrality, warn analysts https://t.co/1OnytyEyk0

[Chen Weihua （陈卫华） @chenweihua]

@Reuters The U.S. has no right to dictate the trade of sovereign nations. No one should give it a damn. It’s disgusting 19th century imperialism.

[Salhan K Ahmad @salhank]

There is no issue about this, unless you are easily influenced, controlled and spooked by China's opponent. Anwar was just telling it how it is, the long-standing and strategic position of an independent, strong nation.

[Berita Harian @bharianmy]

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim menegaskan pendiriannya mengenai sokongan terhadap dasar Satu China bukan perkara baharu, sebaliknya sudah menjadi pendirian Malaysia sejak sekian lama.

https://t.co/uMSUQ2QWNx

[Salhan K Ahmad @salhank]

Previously https://t.co/6jYgt7LGyo

[Salhan K Ahmad @salhank]

Ada orang pinda pelan eksesais ke?

[The Star @staronline]

All parties involved in planning the development of the Regimen Gerak Khas (RGK) have been reminded not to alter decisions that have received the consent of His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, for the benefit of certain parties.

https://t.co/UzaqAHwqpz

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

U.S. Air Force Major Jason Watson has been detained after calling out Trump’s rampant corruption and his dangerous war on Iran. https://t.co/JSJEHIsfE7

[Salhan K Ahmad @salhank]

Pegawai menteri terpaling hazard light nak pergi sengih di acara tabur confetti pun tiada dalam senarai.

[Salhan K Ahmad @salhank]

Imigresen pun tiada dalam senarai. Kenderaan tunda, PBT, JPAM, Rela, Belia 4B, Unit Amal PAS, pasukan ronda kampung, persatuan kereta sport, RXZ, semua tak ada dalam senarai ini.

[Salhan K Ahmad @salhank]

Imigresen pun tiada dalam senarai. Kenderaan tunda, PBT, JPAM, Rela, Belia 4B, Unit Amal PAS, pasukan ronda kampung, persatuan kereta sport, RXZ, semua tak ada dalam senarai ini.

[Salhan K Ahmad @salhank]

Cuma 6 jenis kenderaan ini yang wajib diberi keutamaan jika bergegas dengan siren nenong-nenong dan lampu mata arah. Ambulan, polis, bomba, kastam, penjara, JPJ. Senarai ikut pindaan P.U (A) 310/2008 yang tambah "kenderaan JPJ". Kereta jenazah tak dak. Kalut pi mana?

[RT Intl @RT_on_X]

‘I see Taiwan as a part of China. Period’ — Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim

‘It is ONE China. It’s accepted by all’