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by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 10:55 AM ET, Wed October 1, 2025 Holland America Line will have a float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade this year.The float will celebrate the cruise line’s 80th anniversary of sailing to Alaska, with animated, kinetic design elements that spotlight the state’s glaciers, wildlife and landscapes. The float will also showcase the cruise line’s Global Fresh Fish Program. The parade, which is in its 99th year, will take place in New York City on Thursday, November 27, 2025. The Alaska-inspired float will travel along the parade’s 2.5-mile route before arriving at Macy’s Herald Square…

Exit planning is no longer optional — it’s an essential conversation on the Going Public Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. Whether you’re already eyeing a liquidity event or just starting to scale, this is your chance to hear what top VCs and operators are looking for and how to set up your company for long-term success. Three of the best in the business — Roseanne Wincek of Renegade Partners; Jai Das of Sapphire Ventures; and Dan Springer, CEO of Ironclad, former CEO of DocuSign, and long-time Silicon Valley operator — will break…

It is often said of our greatest actors that they could compellingly recite the phone book.There’s no doubt, just to continue that thought for a moment, that Daniel Day-Lewis is one of our greatest living actors — perhaps truly the best of them all. And so the first and most important thing to say about “Anemone,” a bleak, somber, absorbing but also sometimes frustratingly opaque collaboration with his director son Ronan, is that it’s brought Day-Lewis back. He told us eight years ago that he was done with acting, and we hoped he was exaggerating. At least for now, it…

by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 11:05 AM ET, Wed October 1, 2025 Carnival Cruise Line is sending Carnival Venezia to Miami starting in May 2027, where it will offer a series of six- and eight-day Caribbean cruises.Bookings are now open for 2027-28 sailings aboard Carnival Venezia, as well as Carnival Magic and Carnival Vista. Carnival Venezia—the line’s “Fun Italian Style” ship—will head to Miami after a seasonal stay in Port Canaveral. It will stay in South Florida through April 2028, taking travelers to Celebration Key and popular destinations like Ocho Rios, Montego Bay, Grand Cayman, Grand Turk, Amber Cove, Aruba,…

In a video on OpenAI’s new TikTok-like social media app Sora, a never-ending factory farm of pink pigs are grunting and snorting in their pens — each is equipped with a feeding trough and a smartphone screen, which plays a feed of vertical videos. A terrifyingly realistic Sam Altman stares directly at the camera, as though he’s making direct eye contact with the viewer. The AI-generated Altman asks, “Are my piggies enjoying their slop?” This is what it’s like using the Sora app, less than 24 hours after it was launched to the public in an invite-only early access period.…

One of the most iconic ultra-low-cost airlines in the United States has announced “significant progress” in its ongoing Chapter 11 debt restructuring. Spirit Airlines said on September 30 that it has secured $475 million in funding from existing bondholders to support its normal business operations while the carrier continues its second bankruptcy proceeding within one year. The funding will be an essential lifeline for the carrier and is subject to approval from federal bankruptcy court, with a hearing scheduled for October 10. Once the court clears the funds, Spirit expects to receive $200 million immediately.Receiving the cash liquidity means the low-cost…

The footage was striking: A food delivery worker scrambles with his e-bike across a bridge in Chicago, chased by a cadre of armed, masked federal agents. “Get him!” one yells, before the worker ultimately slips away. The viral clip became a rallying point this week for critics of President Donald Trump’s deportation machine, which has spread to multiple U.S. cities and swept up citizens in the process. For Mike Peregudov, the co-founder of e-bike subscription service Whizz, it was a visceral representation of the abject fear delivery workers have described to his team for weeks in Chicago. That’s because the…

Filmmaker Raoul Peck uses George Orwell’s writings to weave together a biographical portrait of the author and a dispiriting picture of power and truth in the modern world in “Orwell: 2+2=5.”He’s hardly the first to connect the dots between Orwell’s prophetic writings and the current state of things — remember, sales for “Nineteen Eighty-Four” soared in the months following Donald Trump’s first election when phrases like “alternative facts” were being used with no irony. Knowing that, Peck draws heavily on what has come before. The film is packed with clips from film adaptations of “1984,” including Michael Anderson’s black and…

Character.AI received a cease-and-desist letter from Disney, urging the chatbot company to remove Disney characters from among the millions of AI companions on its platform, Variety reports. The company allows users to generate AI chatbots that can range from real people like Elon Musk to fictional characters like Hermione Granger, plus users’ own original creations. These chatbots can be quite unfiltered — in one particularly horrific case, a family sued Character.AI after a chatbot inspired by a Game of Thrones character allegedly encouraged their teenage son to commit suicide. “Character.ai is freeriding off the goodwill of Disney’s famous marks and…

If a U.S. government shutdown goes on long enough, it could throw a wrench in travel plans, potentially leading to longer airport wait times, flight delays and even cancellations.The shutdown began Wednesday after President Donald Trump and Congress failed to reach a deal to continue funding government services and operations. That means a vast majority of employees who keep U.S. airports and air travel running are working without pay until the government reopens.“The longer a shutdown drags on, the more likely we are to see longer TSA lines, flight delays and cancellations, national parks in disrepair and unnecessary delays in…