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A Boeing 777-9 prepares to land at Al-Maktoum International Airport during the Dubai Airshow 2025 in Dubai on November 17, 2025. Giuseppe Cacace | Afp | Getty ImagesBoeing is continuing to express optimism about its business as the company wraps up the year and looks at 2026.Chief Financial Officer Jay Malave said Tuesday at a UBS conference that the company expects deliveries for both its 737 jets and 787 jets to be up next year.”When you now fast forward to 2026, we’re going to be increasing our deliveries,” Malave said. Boeing stock rose more than 7% in early trading Tuesday…

by Mia Taylor Last updated: 2:35 PM ET, Mon December 1, 2025 Las Vegas is joining in on the Cyber Week specials being offered throughout the travel industry with sales on everything from hotel rooms to entertainment in Sin City.The sale prices being offered are only available for a limited time however, so if a visit to Las Vegas is on your to-do list, now is the time to act. Here’s a rundown of some of the offers available.Hotel & Resort OffersFontainebleau Las Vegas: Fontainebleau Las Vegas is offering 20 percent off rates plus complimentary resort fees on all future…

In a carefully worded announcement on Monday, Apple said John Giannandrea, who has been the company’s AI chief since 2018, is “stepping down” to, well, not work at Apple anymore. He’ll stick around through spring as an adviser. His replacement is Amar Subramanya, a highly regarded Microsoft executive who spent 16 years at Google, most recently leading engineering for the Gemini Assistant. It’s a savvy hire, given that Subramanya knows the competition intimately. The move is being characterized as a shake-up. It was seemingly inevitable in retrospect. Apple Intelligence, the company’s answer to the ChatGPT moment, has been stumbling since…

Instead of hiring a florist for her October wedding, Emily Day decided to grow her own flowers in her front yard in Calgary, Canada — a creative challenge that turned into a lesson on the hidden climate costs of the global flower industry. She said her homegrown arrangements were just as beautiful as store-bought ones and cost a fraction of the price.Day and her fiance built garden boxes out of wooden shipping containers in March and filled them with blooms like yarrow, feverfew, strawflowers and statice. They harvested and dried them in midsummer ahead of fall frosts. On her wedding…

The Trump administration has agreed to inject up to $150 million into xLight, a semiconductor startup developing advanced chip-making technology, marking the third time the U.S. government has taken an equity position in a private startup and further expanding a controversial strategy that has put Washington on the cap tables of American companies. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that the Commerce Department will provide the funding to xLight in exchange for an equity stake that will likely make the government the startup’s largest shareholder. The deal uses funding from the 2022 Chips and Science Act and represents the first…

Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, speaking at the Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, Spain, on Feb. 27, 2024.Joan Cros | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesMichael and Susan Dell announced Tuesday that they have committed $6.25 billion to fund investment accounts for some 25 million American children. The couple’s donation will be the largest ever devoted to American children, according to Invest America, a nonprofit advocacy group partnered with the Dells.”It’s designed to help families feel supported from the start and encourage them to keep saving as their children grow,” Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell Technologies,…

A new study from Upgraded Points reveals that 62 percent of travelers prefer hotels to short-term rentals such as Airbnb or Vrbo when traveling for the holidays. Amenities (73 percent), no cleaning rules or surprise fees (62 percent) and easy booking/cancellation policies (52 percent) were the top reasons why travelers preferred hotels. The study surveyed over 2,000 U.S. travelers and explored how price, convenience and ethical considerations such as housing affordability influence where Americans stay during the holidays. “Travelers are thinking beyond price this year,” said Keri Stooksbury, editor in chief at Upgraded Points. “Convenience, transparency, and even community impact are…

Gradium, a startup spun out of French AI lab Kyutai (backed by French telecom billionaire Xavier Niel), launched out of stealth on Tuesday with a $70 million seed round from a who’s who of investors.  The round was led by FirstMark Capital and Eurazeo, with participation from Niel, DST Global Partners, billionaire Eric Schmidt and other investors.  Gradium has developed audio language AI models designed to deliver voice at scale with ultra-low latency — essentially, AI voices that respond almost instantly. It was founded just a few months ago, in September, 2025, by Kyutai founding member Neil Zeghidour, who cut his…

MILAN (AP) — The Prada Group announced Tuesday that it has officially purchased Milan fashion rival Versace in a 1.25 billion euro (nearly $1.4 billion) deal that puts the fashion house known for its sexy silhouettes under the same roof as Prada’s “ugly chic” aesthetic and Miu Miu’s youth-driven appeal.The highly anticipated deal is expected to relaunch Versace’s fortunes, after middling post-pandemic performance as part of the U.S. luxury group Capri Holdings.Prada said in a one-line statement that the acquisition had been completed after receiving all regulatory clearances. Versace’s futurePrada heir Lorenzo Bertelli will steer Versace’s next phase as executive…

If you want to bring a bit of holiday cheer to the screen you use the most, you’ll get a kick out of the newly updated Festivitas app for Apple devices. Originally designed to add holiday lights to your Mac’s desktop, this popular indie app has been updated this year with several new features, most notably a version of the app that brings its sparkling, colorful lights to iOS devices for the first time. With the new Festivitas app for iPhone and iPad, you can add and customize a string of holiday lights on your device’s Home Screen using iOS…