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by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 2:20 PM ET, Wed October 15, 2025 Oceania Cruises has launched an updated, enhanced and rebranded training platform for travel advisors.Oceania Insiders University, formerly Oceania Cruises University, offers free self-guided modules that highlight the brand’s key features and elements. Travel advisors can work their way through three levels of coursework, Core, Bachelors and Masters, with newly streamlined modules covering topics like food and drink, itineraries and Oceania’s loyalty program.After completing all three levels and then making three bookings, advisors can earn up to $750 in gift card rewards.  The line also offers its Oceania Cruises…

Apple on Wednesday announced its new M5 chip along with the new iPad Pro, MacBook Pro, and Vision Pro, all powered by the new chip. These devices are now available for preorder, with shipping and in-store availability expected on October 22. The M5 chip will allow the new devices to run faster than their predecessors. Apple says the chip has over four times the peak GPU compute performance compared to the M4. Johny Srouji, Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware Technologies, added in a statement that it “ushers in the next big leap in AI performance for Apple silicon.”  Image…

NEW YORK (AP) — With the U.S. experiencing a significant hiring slowdown, it’s a daunting time to be looking for a job. Many workers are staying put instead of changing jobs to secure better pay. Artificial intelligence tools increasingly screen the resumes of applicants. Now may seem like an inappropriate time to request a raise.But sticking around doesn’t mean wages and salaries have to stagnate. Career experts say it’s not wrong, even in a shaky economy, to ask to be paid what you’re worth. Raises aren’t even necessarily off the table at organizations that are downsizing, according to some experts.“A…

Marriott International’s Moxy Hotels brand opened Moxy Tulum—its first property in the Mexican destination—in tandem with a global Marriott Bonvoy promotion.The 122-room hotel is set across from the National Jaguar Park, a stone’s throw away from the Tulum archaeological site, shopping areas, beaches and galleries. “Guestrooms are cleverly designed to balance function and fun, featuring modular furniture and smart layouts, including 55 Double–Double Rooms with two Queen Beds, and rooms equipped with Twin bunks ideal for friends and families,” Marriott said.Moxy Tulum features a number of high-tech elements, including motion-activated LED lighting, keyless entry, and free Wi-Fi. “Expanding our global footprint with…

As AI makes it easier to create bots that act ever more human-like, Elon Musk’s X is developing a new feature that would expose more information about the users behind an X profile in an effort to help people better understand who they’re talking to on the platform. According to a new post by X’s head of product Nikita Bier, the social network will begin experimenting with displaying more information on user profiles, including details such as the date the account was created, its location, the number of username changes it has undergone, and how it’s utilizing X’s service. When…

Drazen_ | E+ | Getty ImagesA 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.Over the next 25 years, more than $120 trillion in wealth will be passed down to inheritors, according to Cerulli Associates.Only 27% of these future beneficiaries — primarily widows and children — plan to keep their benefactor’s wealth advisor, per Cerulli’s survey of investors with at least $250,000 in financial assets. The share drops to 20% for those who have already inherited their riches,…

Cybersecurity firm F5 Networks says government-backed hackers had “long-term, persistent access” to its network, which allowed them to steal the company’s source code and customer information. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday, F5 said it now “believes its containment actions have been successful,” after first discovering the hackers in its network on August 9. The Seattle, Washington-based company, which specializes in providing application security and cybersecurity defenses for large companies and governments, said the hackers had access to its BIG-IP product development environment and its knowledge management systems, which included source code and publicly…

Google is announcing new privacy and recovery tools to combat spam across multiple products related to Android, including suspicious link detection in messages, sign-in with phone number, and recovery contacts. Google is adding new ways to recover Google accounts without losing any information in case you lose your device or if your account is compromised through a hack. The company is adding a new feature called Recovery Contacts, which lets you add your trusted friends or family members as contacts to initiate your recovery and verify your identity. When you are locked out of your account because you lost your…

AI hyperscaler startup Nscale has signed a sizable deal with Microsoft to bring Nvidia AI hardware to multiple data centers. The AI cloud provider announced on Wednesday that it signed a deal with Microsoft to bring approximately 200,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs to three data centers in Europe and one in the U.S. These GPUs will be delivered through Nscale-owned operations and through a joint venture with investment company Aker, one of Nscale’s investors. About half of these GPUs, 104,000, will head to a data center in Texas leased by Ionic Digital, over the next 12 to 18 months. Nscale plans…

Semiconductor design company Arm is partnering up with Meta to enhance the social media giant’s AI systems amid an unprecedented infrastructure buildout. Under the partnership, Meta’s ranking and recommendation systems will move to Arm’s Neoverse platform, which was recently optimized for AI systems in the cloud, among other implementations. “AI is transforming how people connect and create,” Santosh Janardhan, Meta’s head of infrastructure, said in a statement. “Partnering with Arm enables us to efficiently scale that innovation to the more than 3 billion people who use Meta’s apps and technologies.” Best known for its mobile CPU architecture, Arm’s GPU offerings…