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Chef Nick Goellner opens a Japanese izakaya in Kansas City built around a 20-seat bar that wraps the kitchen, with a deep sake list.

Chef-owner Kari Shaughnessy opens a polished, seasonal restaurant in Carlton, a town of about 2,100 in Oregon's wine country.

List prices for Enterprise and Unlimited Editions of Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Field Service and some Industries Clouds rose by an average of 6%, while Agentforce add-ons replaced the old Einstein ones.

A federal jury in Miami found Tesla 33% responsible for a 2019 Key Largo crash in which a Model S on Enhanced Autopilot killed Naibel Benavides Leon, leaving Tesla owing about $242.5 million including $200 million in punitive damages.

Germany's competition authority cleared Salesforce's acquisition of sole control of Informatica, finding that rivals such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and IBM already hold similar data assets.

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.

A 15% US baseline tariff on European Union goods, covering most EU-made fashion and leather goods among other categories, took effect under an executive order implementing the Trump administration's trade framework with the EU.

A 39% US tariff on Swiss goods took effect under Executive Order 14308, hitting Switzerland's watch industry harder than almost any other sector; Swatch Group CEO Nick Hayek warned prices would have to rise, and FH figures later showed Swiss watch exports to the US falling 55.6% year-on-year by September.

Using OAuth tokens stolen from Salesloft's Drift chatbot, the UNC6395 crew exported data from hundreds of companies' Salesforce instances, hunting support cases for AWS keys, passwords and Snowflake tokens.

Saks Global settled an exchange offer that raised roughly $600 million in new secured financing and swapped $2.2 billion of senior secured notes for new debt, after about 98% of eligible bondholders agreed to the terms, as the retailer worked to ease the strain from its Neiman Marcus acquisition.

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.

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.

Oracle Health's all-new electronic health record, built on OCI with AI agents in every workflow, became available to US ambulatory providers, with acute-care functionality planned for 2026.

Gallup's annual Consumption Habits poll finds 54% of US adults drink, the lowest in its trend back to 1939, and for the first time a majority, 53%, say moderate drinking is bad for health.

Vans named SZA its first-ever Artistic Director in a multi-year partnership to reimagine its campaigns and co-create product collections, opening with a brand anthem film starring her go-to Knu Skool.

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

Donald Trump hosted Vladimir Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage for their first summit since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine; the talks ended without a ceasefire or any agreement being announced.

Former Wendy's and PepsiCo executive Kirk Tanner became Hershey's President and CEO and joined its board, while Michele Buck stepped down. Maria Kraus, who also chairs the Hershey Trust, replaced Buck as chairman.

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.

Tesla put a stretched six-seat Model Y, about 180 mm longer, with captain's chairs and a third row, on sale in China from 339,000 yuan with 751 km of CLTC range, its answer to local three-row SUVs.

Vuori signed world No. 5 Jack Draper, Britain's top men's tennis player, as a global ambassador who would leave Nike, debut Vuori at the US Open and design a signature line.

New York's Appellate Division, First Department, threw out the roughly $464.6 million disgorgement award against Donald Trump and his company as an excessive fine, while leaving the fraud liability and business restrictions in place.

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.

Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow starred in Alo's Conquer campaign for its men's high-intensity training line, which went live on Alo's site for a run through 19 September.

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.

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.

Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce announced their engagement in a joint Instagram post, 'Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married', which passed 1 million reposts in six hours, an Instagram record.

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.

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.

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.