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Prosecutors charged former TSMC engineer Chen Li-ming, by then at Tokyo Electron's Taiwan unit, and two serving TSMC engineers with stealing 2nm trade secrets, seeking 14, 9 and 7 years in Taiwan's first indictment for theft of a national core key technology.

A six-table counter-service Mexican spot in Escondido from chef Juan González and farmer Megan Strom, with most ingredients, including tortilla corn, grown 12 miles away.

Zak Pelaccio, of Manhattan's Fatty Crab, opens a Southeast Asian restaurant in a former Santa Fe furniture workshop, with 24-year-old Stella Achenbach running the kitchen.

Hines finished the 51-storey, 677-foot tower built on air rights over South Station, adding 680,000 square feet of offices, Ritz-Carlton branded residences on the upper floors and an expanded bus terminal beneath it. Construction ran five years from a start in January 2020, after the scheme had sat stalled since its 2008 approval.

Zaha Hadid Architects' 60,000-seat Xi'an International Football Center hosted its first official match, years after construction began in a city better known for ancient dynasties than football.

Cambodia's $1.2BN Techo International Airport, its jungle-inspired canopy roof designed by Foster + Partners, opened south of Phnom Penh as the government bets aviation can reshape the country's fortunes.

Babcock & Wilcox and Denham Capital's Sustainable Infrastructure arm will jointly convert existing coal-fired plants, largely to natural gas, to power data centres in the US and Europe. B&W supplies the engineering and technology; Denham leads development and financing. No plant is named yet, so the pin sits at B&W's Akron headquarters.

OpenAI adds GPT-5-Codex, a GPT-5 variant optimized for agentic coding, across Codex.

MAPPA's Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc opens in Japanese theaters, adapting the manga's Reze arc as Denji, now working as a Special Division 4 devil hunter, meets a mysterious café worker with a hidden connection to a Bomb Devil.

ROCK'N ROLL MOUNTAIN's 100 METERS releases in Japanese theaters, a sports drama following sprinter Togashi and his determined rival Komiya as their childhood rivalry on the track carries into adulthood.

OpenAI makes GPT-5-Codex available to developers in the Responses API, beyond the Codex surfaces.

Production company Infinite confirmed a second season of Re:Monster, the isekai tale of a man reborn as a goblin who eats his way up the monster ladder.

The Summer Hikaru Died used its first-season finale to confirm that a second season of the eerie rural horror series is in production.

Eight Bit's Blue Lock soccer anime was renewed for a third season adapting the Neo Egoist League arc, announced at the Blue Lock Egoist Fest 2025 alongside a live-action film.

Construction began on the Senna Tower, a supertall residential skyscraper in Balneário Camboriú, Brazil designed to become the tallest residential building on Earth.

Molly Mitchell turns her East Side diner into a dinner restaurant with a Polish-leaning menu of pierogi, kluski and kielbasa, keeping its sourdough burger.

Work began on a 190,000-square-foot addition that joins the South and West exhibit halls into one contiguous hall of more than 750,000 square feet, plus new meeting and multipurpose space. Construction pauses in 2028 so the centre can host Olympic fencing, taekwondo, wrestling and table tennis, with final completion in 2029.

Federal funding lapsed just after midnight on 1 October 2025 and stayed lapsed for 43 days, the longest shutdown ever, over a fight about expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies.

After two decades of false starts, Ireland's first metro line - linking Dublin city centre to the airport and Swords - was granted planning permission, with enabling works targeted to begin in 2027.

A chibi-style comedy spin-off inside the BanG Dream! multimedia franchise, bringing together characters from across its many in-universe bands for lighter, reunion-style skits rather than the mainline story's band drama. Animated by AtoriE, it leans on the franchise’s built-in cast recognition for quick comedic bits.