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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.

After a three-day trial, Judge Charles Breyer found that the Trump administration used federalized Guard troops and Marines for civilian law enforcement in Los Angeles in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, and enjoined it across California.

Salesforce's fiscal second-quarter revenue rose 10% to $10.2 billion and it added $20 billion to its buyback, but a soft third-quarter outlook sent the stock down 4% after hours.

Judge Allison Burroughs ruled that freezing and terminating nearly $2.2 billion in federal research grants to Harvard violated the First Amendment and Title VI, and barred further retaliatory cuts.

Federal prosecutors sued Southern California Edison in Los Angeles federal court, alleging its equipment sparked the Eaton Fire and seeking more than $40 million for fighting it and restoring 8,000 acres of Angeles National Forest.

Verizon's board raised the quarterly dividend by 1.25 cents to 69 cents a share, its 19th annual increase in a row, payable on 3 November 2025.

Oracle said four multi-billion-dollar contracts lifted its contracted backlog 359% to $455 billion and forecast cloud infrastructure revenue rising to $144 billion in four years; the stock gained 36% the next day, its best since 1992.

On 10 September 2025 Zoox began free public rides on and around the Las Vegas Strip in its purpose-built robotaxi, which has no steering wheel or pedals - what Zoox called the first fully autonomous ride-hail service in a purpose-built robotaxi.

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.

Two days after losing the preliminary by 49 points, Josh Kraft suspended his campaign, the first Boston mayoral finalist to quit since preliminaries began in 1951, leaving Wu effectively unopposed.

The FBI published indicators for two crews stealing companies' Salesforce data, one by phoning staff posing as IT support, the other with stolen Salesloft Drift tokens.

Terence Crawford outboxed Canelo Alvarez over 12 rounds before 70,482 fans, a record crowd for Allegiant Stadium, to become undisputed champion in a third weight class.

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

Indonesia's Supreme Court found five Wilmar subsidiaries guilty in the cooking-oil export case, fining each Rp 1 billion and ordering Rp 11.88 trillion (about US$709 million) in compensation, which Wilmar said would push it to a third-quarter loss.

Justice Gregory Carro threw out the two terrorism-based murder counts against Luigi Mangione as legally insufficient but let the second-degree murder and weapons charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson stand.

JDK 25 shipped with 18 JEPs, from compact source files and scoped values to compact object headers, and Oracle will support it for at least eight years.

US District Judge Melissa Damian threw out a Florida class action claiming Reese's Peanut Butter Pumpkins lacked the carved eyes and mouths pictured on the pack, finding the buyers had shown no concrete injury.

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.

Oracle promoted cloud chief Clay Magouyrk and industries chief Mike Sicilia to joint chief executives, ending Safra Catz's 11 years as CEO; she became executive vice chair of the board.

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

Nevada's governor and NDOT cut the ribbon on the $382 million rebuild of the Interstate 15 and Tropicana Avenue interchange, the south-Strip gateway to Allegiant Stadium and T-Mobile Arena, after three and a half years of 'Dropicana' closures.

Oracle priced $18 billion of senior notes in six tranches from 2030 to 2065, one of the largest bond sales on record in the tech industry, to fund its AI cloud build-out.

Executive Order 14352 declared a framework deal a qualified divestiture: TikTok's US app goes to a new US-majority joint venture, with Oracle as the security provider holding all US user data.

MuleSoft Agent Fabric gives companies one place to register, orchestrate, govern and map every AI agent they run, whichever vendor built it.

WK Kellogg Co became a wholly owned Ferrero subsidiary and left the New York Stock Exchange, with shareholders paid $23 a share in cash a week after approving the deal.

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.

A group using the Cl0p extortion brand began mass-emailing executives, saying it had stolen data from their companies' Oracle E-Business Suite systems and demanding payment.

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.

Crusoe said the first two buildings of the flagship Stargate campus in Abilene, Texas are up and running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for OpenAI, with NVIDIA GB200 racks already running training and inference.

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.

Salesforce closed its $818 million purchase of Regrello, whose AI process-automation technology it later relaunched as Agentforce Operations for supply-chain and back-office work.