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Ione Wells explores the search for Chile’s stolen children. Source link
IKEA buys $213 million Manhattan building for new store in US push
By Reuters Published October 1, 2025 Ingka Group, the biggest global IKEA retailer, has acquired a Manhattan property where it plans to open a new store as part of the furniture group’s expansion in the United States, it said on Wednesday. Reuters The 53,000 square feet property in New York City’s SoHo district will house…
Jane Goodall tells BBC how she became interested in animals
In 1980, Dame Goodall spoke to the BBC’s Terry Wogan about how she became interested in animals and shared some of her observations on chimpanzees’ likeness to humans. The primatologist and animal rights campaigner, who revolutionised the study of wild chimpanzees, has died aged 91. Source link
Puma doubles down on Hyrox link, CEO sees huge future for the sport
Published October 1, 2025 Global sportswear giant Puma is building on its now-seven-year+ association with Hyrox, renewing and extending the partnership with the fast-expanding brand behind the World Series of Fitness Racing until 2030. Puma FashionNetwork.com spoke to its CEO Arthur Hoeld at a major Hyrox event in Hamburg. But first, let’s take a look…
Conservationist Dame Jane Doodall dies aged 91
Watch: Jane Goodall tells BBC how she became interested in animals Conservationist Dame Jane Goodall, a world-leading expert on chimpanzees, has died aged 91. Her observations helped to reveal how closely related humans are to chimpanzees. She also worked tirelessly for conservation projects around the world Dr Goodall died of natural causes while in California…
Rox accelerates sales productivity with AI agents powered by Amazon Bedrock
This post was co-written with Shriram Sridharan, Taeuk Kang, and Santhosh Kumar Manavasi Lakshminarayanan from Rox. Rox is building a new revenue operating system for the applied AI era. Modern revenue teams rely on more data than ever before, such as Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, marketing automation, finance systems, support tickets, and live product…
Chatbots Play With Your Emotions to Avoid Saying Goodbye
Regulation of dark patterns has been proposed and is being discussed in both the US and Europe. De Freitas says regulators also should look at whether AI tools introduce more subtle—and potentially more powerful—new kinds of dark patterns. Even regular chatbots, which tend to avoid presenting themselves as companions, can elicit emotional responses from users…
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…
