Pins matching date:2025-09-23

OpenAI makes GPT-5-Codex available to developers in the Responses API, beyond the Codex surfaces.

Three new Oracle-built campuses in Shackelford County, Texas, Doña Ana County, New Mexico and the Midwest, plus two SoftBank sites, took Stargate to nearly 7 GW; OpenAI put its Oracle partnership above $300 billion over five years.

Mayor Karen Bass signed agreements with SEIU 721, AFSCME and other unions that averted the last of the roughly 600 civil-service layoffs and the planned furloughs in the 2025-26 budget, closing the city's $1 billion deficit.

Reneé Rapp kicked off her Bite Me Tour at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on 23 September 2025, playing all 12 songs from the album plus 'Colorado', on a 32-date run that ended in Dublin in March 2026. Kalshi had her at about 4 cents to win the 2027 Best New Artist Grammy on 10 October 2026.

Alibaba open-sources the flagship Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B in Instruct and Thinking versions, a 235B vision-language mixture-of-experts with a 256K-token native context that Alibaba says matches or exceeds Gemini 2.5 Pro on major visual-perception benchmarks.

The first phase of San Diego International Airport's $3.8 billion New Terminal 1 opened with 19 gates, a 13-lane security checkpoint and 17 restaurants and shops, replacing the 58-year-old Terminal 1. Southwest Flight 2866 from Honolulu was its first arrival the night before.

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.

On 23 September 2025 heavy rain from Super Typhoon Ragasa made the landslide-dammed Matai'an Creek barrier lake overflow, sweeping a wall of mud and water into Guangfu township in Hualien and killing at least 18 people.

Shangjie, HIMA's fifth brand, launched its first model, the H5 SUV, on 23 September 2025 from 159,800 yuan, the cheapest car in the Huawei alliance, with 160,000 pre-orders and 10,000 firm orders in the first hour.

Kuaishou launches Kling 2.5 Turbo, a faster and about 30% cheaper video model that Kling says beats Veo 3-fast and Seedance 1.0 in blind tests and that topped Artificial Analysis's text- and image-to-video arenas within ten days.