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Firefly Aerospace on Sunday said it had agreed to buy defense analytics firm SciTec for about $855 million in cash and stock, paving the path to its goal of becoming a significant player in the national security market. Firefly will pay around $300 million in cash and $555 million in new shares, and the deal is expected to close by the end of 2025. Princeton-based SciTec sells missile-warning and tracking systems, space domain awareness tools, and analytics to defense and intelligence customers. Earlier this year, Space Force awarded the company a $259 million contract to develop a ground system for…
LONDON (AP) — British author Jilly Cooper, known for her bestselling risqué novels including “Rivals” and “Riders,” has died at age 88, her agent and family said Monday.A statement from her family said that the author’s “unexpected death has come as a complete shock.”Cooper was best known for her books in “The Rutshire Chronicles,” which portrayed the sex lives and excesses of the well-off, horse-riding set in 1980s England. The books sold millions of copies in the U.K. alone.One of the books, “Rivals,” was turned into a hit Disney+ TV series last year starring David Tennant and Alex Hassell.“The privilege…
CHONBURI, Thailand (AP) — It was 5-year-old Tod’s first time competing in a beauty pageant and the bright red interior of his ears turned out and popped against his black fur.The main stud for his owner, food vendor and farmer Thawatchai Daeng-Ngam, Tod was one of the competitors Monday at the annual water buffalo racing festival in Chonburi, a city about an hour drive from Bangkok.Formerly considered humble draft animals, water buffaloes have become prized show animals in Thailand. They are celebrated at the festival, held at the end of the 11th lunar month to celebrate the beginning of the…
Dr. Tom Kelly is a trauma surgeon, and everywhere, he sees doctors drowning in administrative work. He wanted change, so he set out to build it. “We wanted to build an AI care partner that would stand alongside clinicians and take care of the admin so that individual providers, like me, can feel empowered to deliver the care which we dedicated our lives to,” he told TechCrunch. Dr. Kelly teamed up with Waleed Mussa, with whom he had worked at a previous startup, and founded Heidi Health in 2021. The company began launching products in early 2024. In just 18…
Documentaries on comedian John Candy and pop artist-turned-fashion designer Victoria Beckham as well as a “Family Guy” Halloween special are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists: Keira Knightley stars as a journalist in “The Woman in Cabin 10,” Electronic Arts is ready to get back in the fight with the game Battlefield 6 and hip-hop group Mobb Deep will release “Infinite,” their ninth and final album. New movies to stream from Oct. 6-12— More…
Lexington, Ky. has long billed itself as the Horse Capital of the World, and Fall racing at the historic Keeneland track is kicking off this weekend. VisitLEX is capitalizing on the opportunity with an AI-meets-equine promotion called Neigh-I , where travelers can ask questions of Oliver, a 17-year-old Paint/Shire from the Kentucky Horse Park’s Mounted Police Unit. Oliver will then respond with what VisitLEX is calling his “horse instinct.”Travelers answer a few quick questions online, and Oliver makes choices by picking treats like carrots, apples, peppermints, and horse cookies, each of which is tied to a local experience. VisitLEX says…
SB 53, the AI safety and transparency bill that California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law this week, is proof that state regulation doesn’t have to hinder AI progress. So says Adam Billen, vice president of public policy at youth-led advocacy group Encode AI, on today’s episode of Equity. “The reality is that policy makers themselves know that we have to do something, and they know from working on a million other issues that there is a way to pass legislation that genuinely does protect innovation — which I do care about — while making sure that these products are safe,” Billen told TechCrunch. At its core, SB 53 is a first-in-the-nation bill that requires large AI labs…
Police say they have arrested a suspect allegedly connected to multiple online threats that led TikTok to evacuate its headquarters near Los Angeles on Friday. A press release from the Culver City Police Department says that TikTok employees reported receiving multiple threats, across various social media platforms, from 33-year-old Hawthorne resident Joseph Mayuyo. After an additional message threatened TikTok’s Culver City headquarters, police say company security evacuated the office “out of an abundance of caution.” Police then investigated Mayuyo’s home, according to the press release. During the investigation, he allegedly posted additional threatening statements, including one declaring that he would…
PARIS (AP) — Chemena Kamali said it with flower prints. A good old-style collection that set a few themes on the table and spent the rest of the Paris Fashion Week Sunday show refining them — proof that focus can still feel new.Kamali, now in her third stint at Chloé, knows the house from the inside. German-born like Karl Lagerfeld, she worked here under both Phoebe Philo and Clare Waight Keller before returning as creative director last year.Chloé was founded in 1952 by Gaby Aghion and is widely credited with inventing Parisian ready-to-wear — a freer, more feminine alternative to…
It’s fall in the Florida Keys, and while much of the country is celebrating with pumpkin-flavored treats and warm jackets, The Keys are enjoying warm, salty breezes and flavors of key lime, coconut and mango. Getting to The Keys has gotten easier with a new airline service and more added routes on others. New attractions include a newly branded Dolphin Life Hospital in Islamorada and the historic Elizabeth Bishop House & Garden opening to the public in Key West in November. But there are plenty of other options for those visiting the tropical island paradise this fall.Airport & Airlines At…