🚨🇸🇦 NEW: A Sri Lankan family is pleading with Saudi Arabia to spare their son, Anojan Sivarasa, after he was sentenced to death for blasphemy He was convicted after allegedly insulting Prophet Muhammad online following a dispute over a video of a Muslim man kicking a dog

Europe’s biggest spy scandal of the century has just broken out.

None of this means the Irkutsk pathogen will cause a pandemic. But the response clearly indicates that Russia believes an epidemic is possible – and that the responsible agent is likely a pandemic weapon or otherwise embarrassing for the government. 3/4

JUST IN: Nearly 4 in 10 workers earning over $300,000 reportedly say they’re still living paycheck to paycheck

A personal-finance editor discovers how messy his own personal finances are once he starts working with a fee-only adviser. on.wsj.com/4AIga6F

President Stubb: I want to remind everyone is that the Russian military was not capable of modern warfare when this war began, but now they are. So they are also gonna be much stronger when they regroup after the war. Our relationship with Russia will be very different.

Good Morning from #Germany, where all listed stocks combined are now worth just 52% of Nvidia, a fresh relative low, down from roughly 9 times in 2020. All German stocks combined are worth <$3tn, vs $5.64tn for Nvidia alone. Germany’s stock market is missing the AI dream.

An AI model downloaded over 3 billion times and used by U.S. firms like Airbnb and Uber is embedded with China-friendly narratives and programmed for censorship, new research shows. cbsn.ws/4AMc51h

Les jeunes mettent le feu à un pompier. Puis ils le filment dans le joie et la bonne humeur. Surtout, personne n’intervient. Le pays va bien. (Marseille, 1er octobre)

France's Credit Default Swaps soar to highest level in 13 years 🚨 Dear God 🤯 🤯

Most people don’t yet grasp what is happening in France. Markets are pricing French sovereign debt as junk, rating agencies will eventually have to follow. This will have two major impacts: 1. Most French banks are already rated at or just below the sovereign, so a move toward junk would likely drag domestically focused lenders with it. Credit to households and firms would slow sharply, hurting the economy and widening the fiscal deficit even further, a vicious cycle. 2. For the ECB, the constraint is legal as well as financial. A fall below investment grade would force sales by ratings-bound investors while making any backstop harder to justify under current rules. The next euro crisis will begin in France. The first, which began in Greece, will feel like a walk in the park compared with what comes next.

What an extraordinary week for SpaceX! We launched our quiver of space vehicles: Starship, Dragon, Falcon 9, and Falcon Heavy. We delivered operational next-gen V3 Starlink satellites to orbit for the first time, a plethora of customer payloads, and critical national security payloads that will defend our country. Most importantly, side by side with the incomparable @NASA, we safely flew Crew-13 to the International Space Station. This week is a powerful reminder of what rocket reusability unlocks and what the SpaceX team can accomplish when we stay relentlessly focused and consistently execute at the highest level. Congrats to the entire @SpaceX team and our customers for making the future something to be excited about every single day.