Scammers and spies 🥸— Big banks and telecoms roll out anti-fraud platform, OpenAI roots out a spy.
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Scammers and spies 🥸— Big banks and telecoms roll out anti-fraud platform, OpenAI roots out a spy.

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 15, 20267 min
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Big banks and telecom giants are joining forces on a new anti-fraud platform to tackle rising scam losses across Canada. Plus, an OpenAI engineer was arrested by the FBI for allegedly placing bugging devices in executive boardrooms. And in the big picture, US regulators accuse banks of debanking political figures, Netflix plans workforce cuts, and SpaceX restricts Starlink access for Ukrainian military drones. The Peak Daily is produced in partnership with reframevid.com

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Hey, big pals, I'm Alex Blumenstein and I am Jay Rosenbaum. And what is this, Jay? This is your Peak Daily for Thursday, October 15, 2026, where we cover the biggest stories in Canadian and global business finance and tech all in less than 10 minutes.

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Jay, do you have any vacations planned this year? Vacations? Yes. Where are you going?

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Somewhere warm. I'm not telling you. You're not going to tell me. tell me or you don't want to tell the listeners?

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