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A sign hangs in a GAP Outlet store window on May 29, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty ImagesGap on Thursday announced it’s expanding into beauty starting with its Old Navy brand, a strategic shift by the apparel company.Its initial test will feature beauty and personal care products at 150 Old Navy stores, including dedicated beauty associates and some shop-in-shops. The company plans to scale the beauty business next year.It was unclear when the company eventually plans to put beauty products in Gap brand stores. The company said it plans to “launch brand-right expressions across the portfolio” next…

One of the fastest growing airports in the United States is about to get a major overhaul.Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) is set to undergo its largest-ever expansion project after construction plans recently got the green light from local officials. The project is expected to be completed by the early 2030s and will see the facility’s capacity double from 15 million passengers per year to 30 million annual travelers. AUS is already handling 20 million fliers per year, so is in dire need of expansion. The sweeping project includes plans to build a brand new concourse with 20 to 30 gates,…

French AI startup Mistral AI is finalizing a €2 billion investment at a post-money valuation of $14 billion, reports Bloomberg, positioning the company as one of Europe’s most valuable tech startups. The two-year-old OpenAI rival, founded by former DeepMind and Meta researchers, develops open source language models and Le Chat, its AI chatbot built for European audiences. Mistral isn’t commenting on the report, but the round would represent Mistral’s first major raise since June 2024, when it was valued at €5.8 billion. The company has previously raised over €1 billion from prominent investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst. The…

DENVER (AP) — Engineering student Tory Ridgeway buried his head.Just finished with his Lockheed Martin internship and weeks away from his final year at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the 22-year-old from Maryland found himself overwhelmed by the solidarity he felt at a neurodivergent leadership conference.Having autism and ADHD, Ridgeway already knew there were plenty of others like him. But he hadn’t realized they shared the same negative self-talk. He said he locked into focus when he heard The Neurodiversity Alliance President Jesse Sanchez describe overcoming feelings of being a “defective toy.” “They talking to me,” Ridgeway said. “I felt seen. I…

NEW YORK (AP) — When Kate Smith worked a 9-to-5 office job, she was burned-out, suffering from daily migraines and thinking, “I can’t do this for the rest of my life.” She didn’t have to. For her next role, Smith landed a remote, full-time marketing job that enabled her to travel the world.Her laptop lifestyle took her to Bali, where she lived and worked for a year-and-a-half. “Every day, I was riding my scooter through the rice fields and thinking, ‘I love my life, this is amazing,’” she said. “And that feeling never fades. … I feel so grateful for…

Francesco Cacciatore is a self-proclaimed skeptic. Yet after spending two decades in the European aerospace industry and hitting, as he put it, a “crisis,” he made an undeniably optimistic bet: he started a space company. “You ask yourself, ‘What am I doing?’” he said in a recent interview. “I got offered some interesting opportunities, but then I kind of collapsed and realized I wanted to try and build something myself.” That something turned out to be one of the most challenging problems in aerospace: reentry. Along with his cofounder Víctor Gómez García, Cacciatore founded Orbital Paradigm, a Madrid-based startup building…

Celebrity ambassadors are helping the nonprofit The Neurodiversity Alliance tell more robust narratives about people with differing brains. They are part of a growing peer-to-peer movement that is building its own more inclusive spaces and encouraging its members to speak for themselves.Alex Hackel, a professional skier and creative filmmakerAlex Hackel, a 29-year-old X Games medalist from the greater Boston area, credits his dyslexia with helping him think outside the box to develop his own street skiing video style. After a partially torn ACL sidelined his competitive skiing career, he realized he could combine his passion for the sport with his…

MILAN (AP) — Giorgio Armani, the Italian designer who turned the concept of understated elegance into a multibillion-dollar fashion empire, has died, his fashion house confirmed. He was 91.Armani died at home, the fashion house said. Armani, one of the most recognizable names and faces in the global fashion industry, missed Milan Fashion Week in June 2025 for the first time during the previews of Spring-Summer 2026 menswear to recover from an undisclosed condition. He was planning a major event to celebrate 50 years of his signature Giorgio Armani fashion house during Milan Fashion Week this month.Starting with an unlined…

Key PointsBillionaire family offices inked high-profile investments in an otherwise slow month for deal-making, according to Fintrx.Four billionaires’ private investment firms joined an $863 million fundraise for a nuclear fusion startup.Peter Thiel, a longtime investor in defense tech, backed a German drone maker as other high-net-worth investors flock to the sector.A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. For investment firms of the ultra wealthy, deal-making held steady in August. Family offices made 47…

The Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) appointed industry veteran David Uchiyama as chief administrative officer.With a background in Hawaii tourism, and airline, transportation and energy industries, Uchiyama “will oversee HTA’s administrative operations, helping ensure the agency runs efficiently and responsibly while supporting its mission to manage tourism in a way that benefits Hawai‘i’s residents, communities, culture and natural resources,” HTA said. He replaces Daniel Nāhoʻopiʻi, who left HTA in March.“David’s deep knowledge of Hawaii’s visitor industry and his proven ability to connect partners across government, business and the community make him an invaluable addition to our leadership team,” said Caroline Anderson,…