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Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.1, an upgrade to Claude Opus 4 that raises its SWE-bench Verified coding score to 74.5% at the same price, on the day OpenAI released its first open-weight models since 2019.

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.

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.

Vuori opened a store at 414 East Cooper Avenue in Aspen, Colorado, on 8 August 2025, the opening with which it said it had reached 100 owned retail locations, ahead of its goal of 100 by 2026.

Kendall Jenner returned to Alo for its fall 2025 campaign, shot at Amangiri in Utah, with a 10-piece Core capsule she picked herself - the first of four drops.

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.

U.S. District Judge Rita Lin let California buyers of Tesla's Full Self-Driving package sue as a class, citing Tesla's inability to 'demonstrate a long-distance autonomous drive with any of its vehicles' and its claim that every car had the hardware for full self-driving.

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.

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.