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Nike Basketball named Caitlin Clark its newest signature athlete and revealed her interlocking-C logo, with logo apparel from 1 September and her first signature shoe promised for 2026.

Vuori by Kaia, a six-piece capsule Kaia Gerber co-designed from ’90s workout videos and her mother Cindy Crawford's paparazzi looks, went on sale in BlissBlend fabric at $64 to $118.

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.

Nike and StockX filed a stipulation on 29 August 2025 dismissing Nike's 2022 trademark suit over StockX's Vault NFTs and fake sneakers, about six weeks before a Manhattan jury trial was due to start; the terms were not disclosed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nike's first big Just Do It campaign in years: a 60-second anthem film with LeBron James, Caitlin Clark, Carlos Alcaraz, Vini Jr. and others, voiced by Tyler, the Creator, telling young athletes that trying still counts.

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.

Vuori added Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff to its athlete roster, featuring him across its 2025 campaigns in pieces like the Kore Short and Strato Tech Tee.

At Nike's virtual 2025 annual meeting, shareholders elected former LEGO chief executive Jørgen Vig Knudstorp to the board and approved 45,000,000 more Class B shares for the Stock Incentive Plan, while director John Rogers Jr. drew 301.8 million withheld votes.

Mayor Michelle Wu took 71.9% to Josh Kraft's 23.1% and won every ward; both advanced to November, but the 49-point margin ended Kraft's run two days later.

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.

Alo Yoga and the shoppers who accused it of hiding paid influencer deals told a Chicago magistrate judge they had resolved the case; it was dismissed two months later with no class relief and no ruling on the merits.

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.

Andrew Campion, Nike's former chief operating officer and chief financial officer and now CEO of Unrivaled Sports, joined Vuori's board of directors and its audit committee.

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.

District 4 voters removed Supervisor Joel Engardio 62.7% to 37.3% in a special recall election, after he backed Prop K, which closed part of the Great Highway to make Sunset Dunes park.

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.