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Former OptumLabs CEO and Amazon AI Services general manager Ranju Das takes a newly created role running Lululemon's technology and AI strategy from 2 September 2025, reporting to CEO Calvin McDonald. Chief Information Officer Julie Averill leaves in September.

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 Farmers Insurance customer sued Salesforce in San Francisco federal court, calling it the 'hub' of a breach that exposed the data of its corporate clients' customers.

The border plant that treats Tijuana sewage went from 25 to 35 million gallons a day, a 40% jump finished in 100 days instead of the two years first planned.

Nike confirmed on 28 August 2025 that it would lay off less than 1% of its corporate staff as CEO Elliott Hill reorganised teams around sports rather than men's, women's and kids', with affected staff told by 8 September.

On a podcast Marc Benioff said Salesforce had cut its support staff from about 9,000 to 5,000 because AI agents now handle half of customer conversations.

The United States ended duty-free de minimis treatment for low-value shipments from every country at 12:01 a.m. EDT on 29 August 2025. The change extended to the rest of the world an exemption's end that had applied only to China and Hong Kong since May, subjecting packages worth $800 or less from retailers such as Shein and Temu to ordinary customs duties.

A software issue knocked Verizon Wireless customers from California to Florida into SOS mode for much of Saturday afternoon, with Downdetector reports peaking near 23,000 before service was restored by midnight.

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.

Carlos Salgado and Emilie Coulson Salgado, of Orange County's Taco María, open a 22-seat Mexican tasting-menu restaurant in Door County, Wisconsin.

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.

Rosewood opened its flagship London hotel inside the former US Embassy on Grosvenor Square, a 144-suite, all-suite property restored by Sir David Chipperfield that keeps the building's gilded Theodore Roszak eagle sculpture on the roofline.

Salesforce told California it would permanently cut 262 jobs at Salesforce Tower, days after Marc Benioff said AI had let him shrink customer support from 9,000 people to about 5,000.

Salesforce told Washington state it was permanently laying off 93 workers across its Seattle and Bellevue offices from 3 November 2025, the same week it noticed 262 cuts in San Francisco.

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.

Alo rebrands its Alo Moves streaming platform as Alo Wellness Club, tying the app of more than 3,000 on-demand classes to its in-person Wellness Clubs in Los Angeles, New York and Seoul.