The first Grasse Perfume Week celebrates diversity of the sector
By AFP Published July 4, 2025 The first Grasse Perfume Week opened on Thursday to…
Exclusive: Mira Murati’s Stealth AI Lab Launches Its First Product
Thinking Machines Lab, a heavily funded startup cofounded by prominent researchers from OpenAI, has revealed its first product—a tool called Tinker that automates the creation of custom frontier AI models. “We believe [Tinker] will help empower researchers and developers to experiment with models, and will make frontier capabilities much more accessible to all people,” says…
Federica Bonifaci opens Milan showroom, introduces occasionwear
Translated by Nicola Mira Published October 1, 2025 The eponymous luxury womenswear label by Roman designer Federica Bonifaci was set up in 2021. The collections are 100% made in Italy, and are available at some 20 high-end retailers in Italy, Greece, Norway, Monte Carlo and the USA. “The US is a growth market for us,”…
OpenAI’s New Sora App Lets You Deepfake Yourself for Entertainment
On Tuesday, OpenAI released an AI video app called Sora. The platform is powered by OpenAI’s latest video generation model, Sora 2, and revolves around a TikTok-like For You page of user-generated clips. This is the first product release from OpenAI that adds AI-generated sounds to videos. For now, it’s available only on iOS and…
How Hapag-Lloyd improved schedule reliability with ML-powered vessel schedule predictions using Amazon SageMaker
This post is cowritten with Thomas Voss and Bernhard Hersberger from Hapag-Lloyd. Hapag-Lloyd is one of the world’s leading shipping companies with more than 308 modern vessels, 11.9 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) transported per year, and 16,700 motivated employees in more than 400 offices in 139 countries. They connect continents, businesses, and people through…
David Beckham sees double-digit profits rise
Published October 1, 2025 DRJB Holdings — better known as David Beckham‘s company — has released its 2024 results and has seen what it said was “a record year of growth”. It added that the group’s growth momentum has continued into 2025. David Beckham – DR Last year it saw profits rising in double-digits as…
Dior: Jonathan Anderson debuts with a novel new look
Published October 1, 2025 In a season of debuts, the biggest so far was at Dior on Wednesday, where Jonathan Anderson debuted in women’s wear spectacularly with a novel new vision of the house’s famed New Look. Dior – Women’s Spring/Summer 2026 runway show – FashionNetwork.com Or new looks rather, as Anderson riffed on many…
Google DeepMind and Ross Lovegrove partner on design and AI
Our approach: distillation and dialogue We worked with the studio to curate a high-quality dataset of Ross’ personal sketches, using it to fine-tune our text-to-image model, Imagen. By training the model on the studio’s selected work, we were able to incorporate the core components of Ross’ design language — the specific curves, structural logic and…
NASA’s asteroid deflection test had unexpected and puzzling outcome
Illustration showing NASA’s DART probe, upper right, on course to strike the asteroid Dimorphos, left, which orbits Didymos Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA/AP/Alamy After NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, its orbit slowly but surely changed over the next month, and astronomers can’t explain why. In 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) flew a…
Pope Leo hits out at critics of global warming
Matt McGrathEnvironment correspondent Getty Images Pope Leo XIV speaking at the Raising Hope climate conference near Rome In his first major statement on climate change, Pope Leo XIV has hit out at those who minimise the “increasingly evident” impact of rising temperatures. Re-iterating the words of his predecessor Pope Francis, the new Pontiff lambasted critics…
Sale of La Perla’s Italian and UK units to Peter Kern’s La Perla Atelier now official
Translated by Nicola Mira Published October 1, 2025 Luxury lingerie label La Perla is now part of the portfolio of Luxury Holding’s La Perla Atelier, MIMIT, the Italian ministry of business and made-in-Italy has said. It indicated that “following the transfer of the Bologna production facility, the sale of La Perla Manufacturing, previously in extraordinary…
