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Casablanca Spring 2027: Vai, Brasil!
The spring 2027 show was a real moment for Charaf Tajer, who worked the beats of his beloved Brazil into this high-energy collection, which took place near Paris’ Belleville...
Parkdale Takes Full Ownership of Ciclo, Eyes New Markets
Parkdale Mills is taking full ownership of Ciclo, with plans to push the technology beyond apparel and into more markets that depend on synthetic fibers. The Gastonia, N.C.-based manufacturer...
Dior Beverly Hills to Spotlight French Artist Louis Cane Ahead of Christie’s Sale
This fall, Dior Beverly Hills will become a showcase for the work of the late French artist Louis Cane. From Oct. 3 to 16, the French luxury fashion house...
Annabelle Wallis Embraces Her ‘Mischief’
“Mischief,” Annabelle Wallis says, “is my favorite word.” The English actress is reveling in the promotion of her new film “Unabomber,” in which she portrays psychoanalyst Christiana Morgan, the...
World
Justine Kurland’s Photographs Keep Us on Edge
For much of her career, the progressive artist Kelela has toyed with the idea of genre in an intuitive way, hardwiring electronic music into the DNA of an R....
Zoe Kazan’s Heady and Bighearted “East of Eden”
While Christopher Abbott and Mike Faist duke it out as John Steinbeck’s Trask brothers, Florence Pugh’s Cathy is a gothic villain you can’t help but root for. Source...
“Verity” Is a Criminal Waste of Talent
The melodramatic power of Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway is squandered in a romantic tale that’s ludicrously muddled by suspicions of monstrous misdeeds. Source link
The Humanism Driving the Anti-A.I. Movement
At the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., attendees talked less about jobs and policy, and more about their philosophy of life. Source link
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Casablanca Spring 2027: Vai, Brasil!
The spring 2027 show was a real moment for Charaf Tajer, who worked the beats of his beloved Brazil into this high-energy collection, which took place near Paris’ Belleville...
Jeremy Strong Is Not Quite Over It
Another aspect here is that there was another performance of Mark Zuckerberg, as a younger man, by Jesse Eisenberg, in an earlier film written by your director, Aaron Sorkin....
Spotify presses play on India’s regional music: MD Amarjit Singh Batra
What are the highlights of the Loud & Clear report? Royalties generated by Indian artistes on Spotify grew 29 per cent in 2025, with every major Indian language contributing...
The AI Industry Is Playing God, in the Weirdest Possible Way | National Review
Various AI company brass have become fully persuaded that they are giving birth to a new form of sentience. Source link
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How Worried Should Dems Be About the GOP’s Huge Cash Advantage?
You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the liberal ideas factory delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for free.Inside Washington Katie Hobbs...
Everyone Hates Private Equity. Trump Is Bailing It Out.
Private equity’s desperation for new markets is why it pushed Trump (largely, it appears, through Blackstone chief executive Steve Schwartzman, who gave Republicans $40 million in 2024) to give ordinary investors greater...
Two Men Spared From Border Patrol Arrest By Upstate NY Protesters
Collective action spared two men in Oswego, New York Wednesday following a multi-hour stand-off with federal immigration agents.For seven hours, two men were trapped on the roof of a...
Trump Is Spending Millions on America250 Repairs
“Well, it’s possible, I don’t know, it should help, because Iran will not have a nuclear weapon,” the president replied, shrugging. “When you say, ‘Is it OK for Iran...
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Spotify presses play on India’s regional music: MD Amarjit Singh Batra
What are the highlights of the Loud & Clear report? Royalties generated by Indian artistes on Spotify grew 29 per cent in 2025, with every major Indian language contributing...
Shyam Metalics signs deal to invest over $5 billion in Maharashtra
The move is part of the company's expansion beyond its eastern India stronghold, where it has also announced investments in states such as Odisha, West Bengal and Jharkhand1 min...
Putin lauds Modi’s peace push, says PM has ‘good ideas’ to end Ukraine war
Russian President Vladimir Putin lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to help end the Russia-Ukraine war, saying he repeatedly raises the need to stop the conflict and has “very...
Business Standard poll: RBI may hike repo rate by 25 bps in October meet
The last rate hike was in February 2023, when the policy repo rate was increased by 25 bps to 6.5 per cent. The panel has kept the repo rate...
Sebi keeps Inox Clean Energy’s IPO papers to raise ₹10K cr in abeyance
Markets regulator Sebi has kept in 'abeyance' the draft offer documents of Inox Clean Energy Ltd, which is looking to raise up to Rs 10,000 crore through an initial...
GPT-Synopsys: OpenAI, Synopsys team up to build GPT model for AI-powered chip design
OpenAI and semiconductor engineering company Synopsys on Wednesday announced a strategic partnership to develop GPT-Synopsys, a specialised AI model designed to perform semiconductor design workflows using Synopsys’ electronic design...
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Slew of corrections dent largecap funds’ long-term return picture
The case in point is largecap mutual fund schemes, the five-year performance of which has taken a toll. This is owing to the prolonged time correction post September 2024...
Chatbots to always-on AI: Why OpenAI, Meta, Google want persistent agents
The launch of OpenAI’s Dots points to a change in how consumer AI assistants are being built. Instead of using separate artificial intelligence tools for writing, research, coding or...
PM Modi pays homage to Mahatma Gandhi on birth anniversary, recalls legacy
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi on his birth anniversary, and said his timeless message will keep guiding everyone towards a better society and...
No fuel supply restrictions imposed across retail network: Nayara Energy
Nayara Energy has denied capping petrol and diesel sales at its retail outlets, saying it was taking measures to ensure adequate fuel availability for customers. The statement comes after...
Culture
Wall Street opens higher as softer payrolls data, lower yields lift sentiment
Published Fri, Oct 2, 2026 · 10:07 PMWALL Street’s main indexes opened higher on Friday (Oct 2), as a softer-than-expected jobs report deepened prospects of an unchanged US rate...
Indonesia launches pilot commodity export monitoring platform
National Data Intelligence will be rolled out gradually after starting with a selected groupPublished Fri, Oct 2, 2026 · 07:06 PM[JAKARTA] Danantara Sumberdaya Indonesia (DSI), a company established by...
Japan does not need excessively loose monetary policy, economy minister says
Published Fri, Oct 2, 2026 · 12:03 PM[TOKYO] Japan is no longer experiencing deflation so does not need excessively loose monetary policy for the pursuit of a higher inflation...
Google wins dismissal of Chegg, Penske Media lawsuits over AI overviews
The companies allege the search engine giant unlawfully used their content in AI-generated summariesPublished Thu, Oct 1, 2026 · 10:57 PM[WASHINGTON] Alphabet’s Google has persuaded a US federal judge...
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Jeremy Strong Is Not Quite Over It
Another aspect here is that there was another performance of Mark Zuckerberg, as a younger man, by Jesse Eisenberg, in an earlier film written by your director, Aaron Sorkin....
Will A.I. Still Take Our Jobs?
“If every team can generate better AI-based analysis to support their arguments, then the demand for conflict resolution and authority-based decisions will increase dramatically,” the economists Luis Garicano, Jin...
AI Voice Agents Get Faster and More Human With ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs released two new speech models on Monday, named v4 and v4 Turbo. Aimed at AI voice agents, they speak 90 languages, answer with less delay, and copy a...
AI Agents for Small Business Arrive Free Through Meta Muse
Meta rolled out Muse for Small Businesses on Tuesday, opening a free door to AI agents for small business that plug into software owners already pay for. It connects...
Fashion
G7 to release 100 million barrels of diesel and other reserves as prices soar
Published Fri, Oct 2, 2026 · 11:28 PM[LONDON] The world’s wealthiest industrial nations agreed on Friday (Oct 2) to release diesel from their reserve stockpiles, to help ease a...
World food prices near four-year high in September: UN
Published Fri, Oct 2, 2026 · 06:45 PM[PARIS] World food prices rose in September to their highest in nearly four years as logistics disruptions and weather concerns affected crop...
DFI Retail’s Starbucks deal offers ‘earnings stability’ despite near-term hit: analysts
[SINGAPORE] Although DFI Retail Group’s earnings are expected to take a near-term hit from its full acquisition of the Starbucks licence, the deal should provide the Asian retailer with...
US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban, sources say
Published Fri, Oct 2, 2026 · 06:53 AM[WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS/PARIS] The Trump administration has told Germany and France to draw down emergency diesel inventories to help ease soaring global fuel prices...
