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A non-binding MoU for Aramco to explore industrial AI built on Microsoft Azure, a sovereign-cloud roadmap meeting Saudi data-residency rules and a global marketplace for co-developed energy AI, alongside AI, cybersecurity and data skills programmes in the Kingdom.

Hermès' 2025 consolidated revenue reached €16.0 billion, up 9% at constant exchange rates, with recurring operating income up 7% to €6.6 billion and an operating margin of 41%.

Tic Tac packs Dr Pepper's 23-flavour blend into its pocket mint, a limited-time US collaboration arriving at select retailers before a nationwide roll-out.

Bandai Namco Pictures revisits the Yoshiwara Arc for the big screen as part of Gintama's 20th-anniversary project, following Gintoki and friends into the pleasure district to help a young pickpocket find his long-lost mother.

Which? and Qualcomm signed a 'drop hands' settlement ending its UK class action, valued at about GBP 482.5 million, with no money for consumers, and jointly asked the Competition Appeal Tribunal to approve it.

eBay announced a deal to buy resale marketplace Depop from Etsy for about $1.2 billion in cash, aiming to accelerate its push into younger, Gen Z-heavy fashion resale.

Host Hotels & Resorts sold the 444-room Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World and the 125-room Four Seasons Resort and Residences Jackson Hole for a combined $1.1 billion, ending its ownership of both properties.

Nestlé grew 3.5% organically in 2025 on sales of CHF 89.5 billion, proposed a dividend of CHF 3.10 a share, up 5 centimes, and set out a focus on four businesses: Coffee, Petcare, Nutrition and Food & Snacks. It guided to around 3% to 4% organic growth in 2026.

Taylor Swift's 'Opalite' jumped seven places to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 168,000 US sales in a week, her 14th No. 1, tying Rihanna for the third-most, and the second chart-topper from The Life of a Showgirl.

Four months after presenting Blue Jay as its newest warehouse system - a single workspace where several robotic arms pick, stow and consolidate about 75% of the item types Amazon stocks - Amazon said it was no longer using it in operations, keeping only the underlying technology.

BART's board initially approved an Alternative Service Plan to close a $376 million deficit if no new money arrives: three lines and 30% higher fares from January 2027 and 1,200 layoffs, then up to 15 stations closed and trains stopping at 9pm.

Aldi Polska cut the ribbon on a 43,000 m2 distribution centre at Emilianów near Warsaw, its third in Poland after Chorzów and Lisi Ogon, supplying about 120 stores in central and north-eastern Poland.

Demna stages his first live runway collection for Gucci, Primavera, at Milan's Palazzo delle Scintille on 27 February 2026, drawing on Botticelli and the Uffizi galleries after his September 2025 lookbook debut.

A Santa Barbara Superior Court upheld its July preliminary injunction blocking Sable Offshore Corp. from restarting the Las Flores onshore pipeline system that ruptured at Refugio State Beach in 2015, requiring 10 court days' notice before any restart. The ruling also clarifies that the Trump administration's December move to seize control of the system and issue an emergency special permit does not affect the court's prior decision.

Sadie Mae Burns and Anthony Ha, of Ha's Snack Bar, open a French bistro seasoned by Ha's Vietnamese heritage on Eldridge Street.