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BISHOPVILLE, S.C. (AP) — When J.D. Stevens flips on the lights in the shed by his South Carolina home, he feels the presence of his dad, who died nearly a decade ago. He also sees hundreds of thousands of buttons.They are sewn onto the original button suit on the mannequin that started it all. Nearby is the Chevrolet Chevette covered in buttons of all colors, big and small. There’s a walk-in outhouse with a toilet covered in buttons and a piano with buttons everywhere but the keys. There’s a button-covered hearse not too far from the coffin where white buttons…
When you fly a luxury airline, you might expect impeccable service and flight attendants who are knowledgeable about everything from table-settings to wine pairings.Behind all of those details is weeks of work and training for cabin crew. To build on this important part of the passenger experience, Emirates has just opened an opulent new building in Dubai that’s focused on training its cabin crew for in-flight fine-dining. The swanky new training facility will be a dedicated space where flight attendants will learn all of the ins and outs of the airline’s exacting seven-star service standards. The new building, called The…
Oracle has fixed a zero-day vulnerability in one of its flagship business software products that a hacking group is currently abusing to steal personal information about corporate executives. In a brief post updated over the weekend, Oracle chief security officer Rob Duhart said the tech giant released a new patch to fix a vulnerability in its Oracle E-Business suite, and urged customers to install the update as soon as possible. The security advisory said the bug, tracked officially as CVE-2025-61882, can be “exploited over a network without the need for a username and password.” The advisory provided several so-called indicators…
Like every Big Tech company these days, Meta has its own flagship generative AI model, called Llama. Llama is somewhat unique among major models in that it’s “open,” meaning developers can download and use it however they please (with certain limitations). That’s in contrast to models like Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, xAI’s Grok, and most of OpenAI’s ChatGPT models, which can only be accessed via APIs. In the interest of giving developers choice, however, Meta has also partnered with vendors, including AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, to make cloud-hosted versions of Llama available. In addition, the company publishes tools, libraries, and recipes in its Llama cookbook to help developers fine-tune, evaluate, and adapt…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday that ChatGPT has reached 800 million weekly active users, marking an increase of adoption among consumers, developers, enterprises, and governments. ChatGPT’s impressive growth comes as OpenAI is on a race to secure as many AI chips and build as much AI infrastructure as possible. In August, OpenAI said it was on the cusp of reaching 700 million weekly active users, already an increase from 500 million weekly active users at the end of March. “Today, 4 million developers have built with OpenAI,” Altman said. “More than 800 million people use ChatGPT every week, and we process over 6 billion tokens per…
OpenAI is launching a new way for developers to build applications inside of ChatGPT. Starting Monday, users in ChatGPT will be able to access interactive applications from companies like Booking.com, Expedia, Spotify, Figma, Coursera, Zillow, and Canva. OpenAI is also launching a preview of the Apps SDK, the developer-facing toolkit to build these apps. OpenAI made the announcement at its annual developer conference, DevDay 2025. “We want ChatGPT to be a great way for people to make progress, to be more productive, more inventive, to learn faster, to do whatever they’re trying to do in their lives better,” said CEO…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday announced the launch of AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, at the firm’s Dev Day event. “AgentKit is a complete set of building blocks available in the open AI platform designed to help you take agents from prototype to production. It is everything you need to build, deploy, and optimize agent workflows with way less friction,” Altman said. The launch highlights OpenAI’s push to increase developer adoption by making agent building faster and easier. It also signals a competitive move against other AI platforms racing to offer integrated tools for building autonomous agents for enterprises…
Instagram announced on Monday that it’s launching an awards program, with 25 creators set to receive a gold ring next week. The company says the new awards program will recognize creators around the world who shift culture and break barriers. The judges panel for the new awards program includes Instagram head Adam Mosseri, director Spike Lee, designer Marc Jacobs, YouTuber Marques Brownlee, actress Yara Shahidi, makeup artist Pat McGrath, and more. Winners will receive a physical custom ring designed by English fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner, along with a digital golden ring around their Instagram profile. They’ll also be able…
Top YouTube creator MrBeast is worried about AI’s impact on creators’ livelihoods, despite having dabbled with using the technology himself. On Monday, the creator posted his concerns on social media, where he openly wondered how AI-generated videos could affect the “millions of creators currently making content for a living.” “Scary times,” he added. MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, is No. 1 on Forbes’ 2025 list of top creators, with $85 million in earnings and 634 million followers. What he says and does, as a result of his position, has an outsized influence across the industry. So if MrBeast…
One of the two promotions offers savings of up to $550 when bookings are paid in full. (Source: ALG Vacations)ALG Vacations unveiled two October sales promotions, both of which run from Oct. 3 to 23, 2025, and are “designed to help travel advisors close 2025 strong and position themselves for success in 2026,” the company said. The sales promotions apply to bookings made by Oct. 23, 2025, for travel through Dec. 15, 2026.“With an emphasis on both last-minute savings opportunities and strategic support for selling Europe, the promotions empower advisors to meet rising demand while offering their clients unmatched value,”…