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Google puts Gemini 2.5 Flash in preview, its first fully hybrid reasoning model, where developers can switch thinking off or cap it with a thinking budget of up to 24,576 tokens.

LVMH shareholders approved raising the company's chairman-and-CEO age limit from 80 to 85 with 99.18% of the vote, clearing Bernard Arnault, then 76, to keep running the group without having named a successor.

Sharon Lokedi of Kenya won the women's race in 2:17:22, breaking the 2014 course record of 2:19:59, and John Korir won the men's race in 2:04:45 after falling in the opening meters. Marcel Hug took his eighth wheelchair title on the 250th anniversary of Patriots' Day.

Shareholders passed every resolution at Wilmar's Biopolis headquarters; in written answers before the meeting, the company told a shareholder urging Kuok Khoon Hong to quit as CEO that he would hand over to a good successor.

Tesla's first-quarter 2025 revenue fell 9% to $19.3 billion and automotive revenue 20%, with adjusted EPS of $0.27 against $0.39 expected; Tesla held back on 2025 growth and said it would revisit guidance in its Q2 update.

Kering reports first-quarter 2025 group revenue of €3.9 billion, down 14%, as Gucci's sales fall 25% on a comparable basis to €1.6 billion amid low store traffic and a 33% wholesale decline.

President Marcos and PLDT chairman Manuel Pangilinan inaugurated VITRO Sta. Rosa, a 50-megawatt hyperscale data centre in Laguna with NVIDIA-powered GPU servers for AI workloads.

Nevada gaming regulators unanimously fined MGM Resorts $8.5 million for letting illegal bookmakers Wayne Nix and Mathew Bowyer gamble with illicit cash at MGM Grand and The Cosmopolitan, where the Grand alone took $4,079,830 of Nix's proceeds by 2020.

Mytheresa closed its purchase of YOOX Net-a-Porter from Richemont, giving Richemont a 33% stake in Mytheresa in exchange, after signing the binding agreement in October 2024; the combined company was renamed LuxExperience.

Vuori welcomed Michigan tight end Colston Loveland, a 2023 national champion from Idaho, as a Vuori Athlete as the Chicago Bears took him 10th overall in the 2025 NFL Draft.

Vuori opened a 3,412 sq ft, two-floor store at 18-21 Duke of York Square on Chelsea's King's Road on 25 April 2025, with a studio and events space on the lower floor.

In the first dispute under the post-Brexit Trade and Cooperation Agreement, an arbitration tribunal upheld the science behind the UK's North Sea sandeel closures and the Scottish ban, but found the English ban disproportionate to EU vessels' access rights.

OpenAI reverts the latest GPT-4o update in ChatGPT because it made responses overly agreeable.

Cindy Crawford, Rande Gerber and their children Kaia and Presley became Vuori ambassadors and creative, strategic and financial partners, starring in and art-directing its Spring/Summer 2025 campaign.

Shenman Entertainment releases Shen Yin Wangzuo Movie: Yi Lai Ke Si Chuanqi, a spinoff film in the Throne of Seal donghua franchise retelling the legend of the Holy Necromancer God Yi Lai Ke Si and his war against the undead.

Chef Isao Yamada opens a minimalist kaiseki counter on Elizabeth Street, serving the seasonal Japanese multi-course form without spectacle.

LVMH's wine and spirits arm Moët Hennessy plans to cut about 1,200 of its roughly 9,400 jobs, back to 2019 staffing, through departures that will not be replaced rather than layoffs, as cognac and champagne sales slide.

Hershey's first-quarter net sales fell 13.8% to $2.81 billion and adjusted EPS 32% to $2.09 as it lapped last year's pre-ERP stock build and a later Easter; it held its 2025 outlook and put Q2 tariff costs at $15-20 million.

President Trump ended duty-free de minimis treatment for shipments worth $800 or less from China and Hong Kong at 12:01 a.m. EDT on 2 May 2025. The change subjected packages from platforms such as Shein and Temu to full customs duties and formal entry.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on 2 May 2025 that employers added 177,000 jobs in April, with unemployment at 4.2% and February and March revised down by 58,000.