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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.

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.

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.

Philip Krajeck, of Rolf & Daughters and Folk, opens a calm New American bistro in a former Piggly Wiggly on Dickerson Pike.

The former Horton Plaza mall, which Stockdale Capital Partners spent years converting into a 700,000-square-foot office campus, went to lender AllianceBernstein on a $130 million credit bid after a foreclosure auction drew no other bidders. Stockdale owed $384.3 million.

Salesforce signed a deal for Regrello, an AI-native tool that turns documents and business data into agentic workflows, to add agentic process automation to Agentforce and Slack.

Private equity investor Bill Chisholm took control of the 18-time NBA champions from Wyc Grousbeck's group, which bought the team in 2002 for $360 million. The deal valued the Celtics at more than $6.1 billion, a record for an American pro sports team, with full control due by 2028.

The Konektadong Pinoy Act became law on 24 August 2025 without President Marcos's signature, letting new data-transmission players build and run networks without a congressional franchise. PLDT had urged a veto and said it may challenge the law's constitutionality in court.

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.

Glucose-monitor maker Dexcom told California it would lay off 319 workers at its Sequence Drive headquarters campus, effective 3 November 2025, as it keeps moving manufacturing from San Diego to Mesa, Arizona. The company said 196 of the jobs were in San Diego.

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.

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.

David and Anna Posey open a French bistro with a Chicago accent on West Randolph Street, run day to day by chef de cuisine Tayler Ploshehanski.

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.

Nestlé's board dismissed Laurent Freixe with immediate effect after an investigation found an undisclosed romantic relationship with a direct subordinate, one year into his tenure. Nespresso chief Philipp Navratil, a Nestlé lifer who joined as an internal auditor in 2001, took over as CEO.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.