Mango appoints Eva Gallego to lead its women’s division
Translated by Nazia BIBI KEENOO Published July 9, 2025 As part of its ongoing leadership…
USA Today Enters Its Gen AI Era With a Chatbot
The publishing company behind USA Today and 220 other publications is today rolling out a chatbot-like tool called DeeperDive that can converse with readers, summarize insights from its journalism, and suggest new content from across its sites. “Visitors now have a trusted AI answer engine on our platform for anything they want to engage with,…
Retailers lose online momentum as Shein, Temu and Vinted rise
Translated by Nazia BIBI KEENOO Published September 15, 2025 As the price gap widens between the mid-market and entry-level segments, fashion retailers have seen their online sales decline since the start of the year, according to the retailer panel and consumer barometer published by the Institut Français de la Mode, which coincides with the release…
Google AI Release Notes podcast about AI and science
In the latest episode of the Google AI: Release Notes podcast, host Logan Kilpatrick chats with Pushmeet Kohli, who leads Google DeepMind’s science and strategic initiatives team. Learn how the team’s unique problem-solving framework led to innovations like AlphaFold and AlphaEvolve, and how new tools like AI co-scientist aim to enable these types of breakthroughs…
Houbigant opens first flagship stores in Paris and Cannes
Published September 15, 2025 French perfume house Houbigant is celebrating its 250th anniversary with the opening of its first standalone flagships in Paris and Cannes. Houbigant marks 250th anniversary with first flagship stores in Paris and Cannes. – Houbigant Founded in 1775, Houbigant is one of the world’s oldest perfume houses, with illustrious clients such…
How msg enhanced HR workforce transformation with Amazon Bedrock and msg.ProfileMap
This post is co-written with Stefan Walter from msg. With more than 10,000 experts in 34 countries, msg is both an independent software vendor and a system integrator operating in highly regulated industries, with over 40 years of domain-specific expertise. msg.ProfileMap is a software as a service (SaaS) solution for skill and competency management. It’s…
Darren Shooter appointed vice president of design at Tommy Jeans
Translated by Nazia BIBI KEENOO Published September 15, 2025 Darren Shooter has returned to Amsterdam. After eight years as senior design director for The North Face in Europe—based in Stabio, Switzerland, and overseeing performance and lifestyle lines across men’s, women’s and youth—he has recently taken up the role of vice president of global design for…
Lectra promotes John Brearley to Americas president
Published September 15, 2025 Lectra on Monday announced the promotion of John Brearley to the role of president, Americas, effective October 1. He also becomes a member of the group’s executive committee. Lectra With a career that spans four decades, Brearley cut his teeth at Investronica, where he managed the business in the UK, before…
Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions
More than 200 contractors who worked on evaluating and improving Google’s AI products have been laid off without warning in at least two rounds of layoffs last month. The move comes amid an ongoing fight over pay and working conditions, according to workers who spoke to WIRED. In the past few years, Google has outsourced…
Tag Heuer becomes title sponsor of the 2026 Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix
Translated by Nazia BIBI KEENOO Published September 15, 2025 The Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix is revving up with a new sponsor. Swiss luxury watchmaker Tag Heuer was announced as the event’s title sponsor on Saturday, 13 September, during a countdown event at Madrid’s Puerta del Sol. At 3 p.m.—the scheduled start time for the…
Schedule topology-aware workloads using Amazon SageMaker HyperPod task governance
Today, we are excited to announce a new capability of Amazon SageMaker HyperPod task governance to help you optimize training efficiency and network latency of your AI workloads. SageMaker HyperPod task governance streamlines resource allocation and facilitates efficient compute resource utilization across teams and projects on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters. Administrators can…
