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Hershey told retailers it would raise prices on many chocolate products by a low double-digit percentage, blaming the unprecedented cost of cocoa rather than tariffs. Halloween packs were spared, and it said 75% of its candy would still cost under $4.

OpenAI said Oracle will develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional Stargate data center capacity in the US, taking Stargate past 5 GW under development and over 2 million chips alongside the Abilene site.

Cloud-provider lobby CISPE asked the EU General Court (Case T-503/25) to annul the Commission's 12 July 2023 clearance of Broadcom's acquisition of VMware (Case M.10806). It argues the Commission failed to assess the deal's effects on server virtualisation software, bundling and innovation.

Wit Studio's My Melody & Kuromi begins streaming on Netflix, a Sanrio series following the two rival mascots as they open competing sweet shops in the town of Mariland.

Nestlé's first-half organic growth was 2.9%, almost all of it from pricing with real internal growth of just 0.2%, while reported sales fell 1.8% to CHF 44.2 billion on the strong franc. CEO Laurent Freixe kept 2025 guidance, including an underlying trading margin at or above 16.0%.

Four-time Olympic champion Léon Marchand, 23, joined Nike's global athlete roster, alongside fellow French Nike athletes Kylian Mbappé and Victor Wembanyama.

Ruling on Ferrero's suit against a Maharashtra maker of fake 'Nutella Ferrero' spread, Justice Saurabh Banerjee declared NUTELLA a well-known mark, barred the counterfeiter for good and awarded Rs 30 lakh in damages.

A gunman with an M4 rifle killed four people, including off-duty NYPD officer Didarul Islam, and wounded a fifth inside the Midtown office tower at 345 Park Avenue before killing himself on the 33rd floor.

Alo's third shoe, a slim suede sneaker named for Sunset Boulevard with a recovery-foam insole, went on sale for $225 in black and sand.

Hershey's second-quarter net sales jumped 26% to $2.61 billion on Easter timing and early Halloween shipments, but it cut its 2025 earnings outlook to a 36-38% adjusted EPS decline after putting full-year tariff costs at $170-180 million.

Crews finished excavating the huge cavern in a Japanese mountain that will house the Hyper-Kamiokande neutrino observatory, a step toward the detector's planned start of observations.

Chef Nick Goellner opens a Japanese izakaya in Kansas City built around a 20-seat bar that wraps the kitchen, with a deep sake list.

List prices for Enterprise and Unlimited Editions of Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Field Service and some Industries Clouds rose by an average of 6%, while Agentforce add-ons replaced the old Einstein ones.

Germany's competition authority cleared Salesforce's acquisition of sole control of Informatica, finding that rivals such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and IBM already hold similar data assets.

OpenAI releases two open-weight reasoning models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, for teams that want to run and customize models themselves.

Indonesian police named the president director, factory head and quality-control head of Wilmar's rice unit PT Padi Indonesia Maju suspects for selling premium rice under Fortune, Sania, Siip and Sovia that failed quality and weight standards.

Italy's government gave final approval to build a suspension bridge across the Strait of Messina, reviving a project that had stalled for over 50 years.

OpenAI's GPT-5 becomes ChatGPT's new flagship and default model, rolling out to Free, Plus, Pro and Team users.

Using OAuth tokens stolen from Salesloft's Drift chatbot, the UNC6395 crew exported data from hundreds of companies' Salesforce instances, hunting support cases for AWS keys, passwords and Snowflake tokens.

Vuori opened a store at 414 East Cooper Avenue in Aspen, Colorado, on 8 August 2025, the opening with which it said it had reached 100 owned retail locations, ahead of its goal of 100 by 2026.

Plantations and food products drove a 26% jump in pre-tax profit, but core net profit slipped 4% and Kuok Khoon Hong said the full year hinged on Indonesian authorities resolving issues with the group.

PLDT's first-half 2025 core income edged up to ₱17.6 billion on a ₱1.1 billion swing at Maya, while full-year capex guidance was cut to ₱63 billion from ₱68-73 billion and the board declared a ₱48 interim dividend.

WARN notices show Oracle laying off 161 people in Seattle plus staff at its Pleasanton, Redwood City and Santa Clara campuses, with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure teams hit.