AI models may be a bit like humans, after all. A new study from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M, and Purdue University shows that large language models fed a diet of popular but low-quality social media content experience a kind of “brain rot” that may be familiar to anyone who has spent…
By AFP Published October 22, 2025 On Tuesday, OpenAI launched its own web browser, ‘ChatGPT Atlas”, built around its artificial intelligence (AI) model- the most widely used in the world- in a bid to supplant Google Chrome as the number one gateway to the web. “AI represents a rare, once-in-a-decade opportunity to rethink the very…
By Reuters Published October 22, 2025 Sales at Kering‘s flagship brand Gucci fell by 14% in the third quarter with overall group sales down 5% on a like-for-like basis, the French group said on Wednesday, beating market expectations. It was the seventh consecutive quarter that Gucci’s business shrank by double digits, reminding investors of the…
By Adnkronos Published October 22, 2025 The European luxury Tax Free Shopping market has grown by 7%, according to Global Blue’s study presented at the second edition of the Luxury Insight event. The increase suggests a degree of market stabilisation after years of double-digit growth, driven by a modest rise both in the number of…
This post was written with Audra Devoto, Owen Janson, and Christopher Brown of Metagenomi, and Adam Perry of Tennex. A promising strategy to augment the extensive natural diversity of high value enzymes is to use generative AI, specifically protein language models (pLMs), trained on known enzymes to create orders of magnitude more predicted examples of…
As debates over the safety of childhood vaccines and trust in public health guidance play out in the U.S., findings from the latest KFF/Washington Post Survey of Parents reveal how parents encounter health information on social media and how it may shape their decisions. One-third (34%) of parents say they have seen social media content related…
By Bloomberg Published October 22, 2025 French authorities have described it as priceless. But the last time the diamond-encrusted bow, which once belonged to Empress Eugenie, was sold, it reached a reported €6.72 million ($7.8 million). What it’s worth now, three days after it was stolen as part of a raid on the Louvre Museum in Paris is…
By Ansa Published October 22, 2025 Piquadro Group’s revenue for the first six months of the financial year, ended September 30, 2025, totalled €88.4 million, a slight increase of 0.7% compared to the same period last year, including the impact of exchange-rate movements. For the Piquadro brand alone, revenue came to €36.6 million, down 8.1%….
Shutterstock/Candice Bell If you’ve ever stepped outside to find your newly planted flowerbeds dug up or your vegetable patch ravaged, you will know my pain. From curious foxes to marauding squirrels, the destruction wrought by garden mammals on lovingly nurtured plants can be enough to test the patience of even the most mild-mannered gardener. Hence…
Published October 22, 2025 Has luxury finally come back down to earth? That’s the suggestion from a study conducted by Luxurynsight and LY Watch (Heuritech) for the first half of 2025. Spanning more than 100 brands and over 10,000 activations, the analysis highlights that luxury is facing its first global slowdown in several years, amid…
