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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…

For the past few days, my Bluesky feed has been increasingly filled with mysterious posts about waffles. The back-and-forth seems to have started with a tongue-in-cheek post by Jerry Chen lampooning a form of social media sanctimoniousness that’s become all too recognizable on Bluesky: “(bluesky user bursts into Waffle House) OH SO YOU HATE PANCAKES??” Bluesky CEO Jay Graber quoted this approvingly, adding, “Too real. We’re going to try to fix this. Social media doesn’t have to be this way.”  Another user then asked, “have y’all banned Jesse Singal yet or” to which Graber simply replied, “WAFFLES!” Singal’s presence on…

Although it was affected by the Rosh Hashanah holiday on September 23-24, the U.S. hotel industry reported negative year-over-year comparisons, according to data from CoStar Group running through 27 September. STR reported that occupancy from September 21-27 was at 65.6 percent, down 4.2 percent from the comparable week in 2024. Average daily rate was also down 2.5 percent, to $166.48. The largest declines in the country’s top 25 markets were Las Vegas (with occupancy down 23.0 percent to 66.1 percent and rate down 20.1 percent to $195.31) and New Orleans (with occupancy down 21.1 percent to 48.4 percent and rate down…

AI coding tools are getting better fast. If you don’t work in code, it can be hard to notice how much things are changing, but GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 have made a whole new set of developer tricks possible to automate, and last week Sonnet 4.5 did it again.   At the same time, other skills are progressing more slowly. If you are using AI to write emails, you’re probably getting the same value out of it you did a year ago. Even when the model gets better, the product doesn’t always benefit — particularly when the product is a chatbot…

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for all things “future of transportation.” To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! More than a month ago, I asked you, dear reader, how you thought EV sales would play out once the $7,500 federal tax credit expired on September 30. The majority of those who responded to the poll predicted that EV sales would fall off a cliff. Now, it’s too early to tell yet; we are just a few days past the end of the quarter. But the expiring tax credit did give…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — This weekend’s box office belonged to two undeniable draws: Taylor Swift and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.It might have looked like a heavyweight matchup, but Swift’s devoted fanbase once again proved unstoppable with her film “The Official Release Party of a Show Girl,” which debuted at No. 1 with $33 million in North America, according to Sunday estimates from Comscore. The AMC Theatres release — announced only two weeks ago with minimal promotion — served as a companion piece to Swift’s 12th studio album, packaging music videos, behind-the-scenes footage and profanity-free lyric visuals into an 89-minute experience.The…