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Spirit Airlines (SAVE) on the minds of both its exes. Past and potential mergers with the carrier came up during earnings calls at JetBlue Airways and Frontier Airlines.

Pfizer (PFE) wants to crash the GLP-1 party. The drug company is teasing a pill that might displace injectables like Ozempic.

Starbucks (SBUX) is going to start selling fewer drinks. Menu items like the olive-oily Oleato are getting cut as part of a return to a “standard course of business.”

OpenAI is getting into the chip business. It’s working on a product with TSMC and Broadcom in a bid to weaken its reliance on Nvidia (NVDA).

Bitcoin prices hit a new record. The digital currency traded for as much as $73,000-per-unit on Tuesday.

A phone call from the head of Google (GOOGL); a “general, hello-type thing,” from the CEO of Amazon (AMZN); a shoutout from the founder of Facebook (META). The tech industry thinks that Donald Trump might become president, and they’re trying to fluff up their relationships with him just in case.

Elon Musk, whose outreach is the most visible and controversial, has even gotten himself installed in a potential Trump cabinet. But he’s far from the only one putting out feelers.

Which tech leaders are cozying up to Donald Trump before Election Day? Quartz’s William Gavin points them out.

If Donald Trump wins the election, some investors think Bitcoin prices will shoot up. If Kamala Harris wins, some investors think Bitcoin prices will go down.

Their differing temperaments and telegraphed approaches to regulating cryptocurrency are weighing the way that people in the digital asset space picture the future of its most prominent vehicle. In the case of a contested election, though, volatility-riding traders might make out best of all.

How will the election affect Bitcoin? Quartz’s Vinamrata Chaturvedi spoke to Chandra Duggirala, co-founder and CEO of the interoperability-focused crypto platform Portal To Bitcoin, to find out.