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by Lacey Pfalz Last updated: 8:00 AM ET, Fri September 26, 2025 There’s been a lot of great hotel and resort news recently, but also some insights into the latest cooling of the U.S. hospitality industry. As all-inclusive resorts regain popularity, hotel giants are continuing expanding their all-inclusive offerings from the Caribbean to the Red Sea. One such opening is the Dreams Playa Esmeralda Resort & Spa, part of the Inclusive Collection.  Beyond global growth, new reports have found that U.S. hoteliers are more hesitant to invest and develop than last year, with 30 percent reporting declines in leisure stays, and…

The idea of hiring your “first critical engineer” is getting a serious reality check at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, October 27–29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. Join Lauri Moore, partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, and David Cramer, co-founder and chief product officer at Sentry, and Zach Lloyd, founder and CEO of Warp, on the Builders Stage for a candid conversation about how developer tools are reshaping early product development. Moore brings deep expertise in AI, infrastructure, and developer tooling from both the investor and founder perspectives. Cramer, who launched Sentry as an open source side project in 2012 and scaled it…

Olivia Dean, the rising British soul pop singer-songwriter, has returned with a confident sophomore album, “The Art of Loving.” Across 12 tracks, Dean cements her spot in a growing class of talented young U.K.-born vocalists — think Raye and Lola Young — as she embraces her role as a traditionalist and a romantic. The album lands Friday, on the heels of Dean’s late summer hit, “Man I Need,” which has continued to rise on the Billboard Hot 100 and U.K. charts since its August debut. It also caps an expansive two-year period since Dean’s buzzy 2023 debut “Messy,” that saw…

On Tuesday, May 13, 2025 at North Javits in New York City, an incredible roster of all-star talent will tout their connections to storytelling, Disney, and each other while showcasing their latest projects for the upcoming year.Michael Le Brecht | Disney General Entertainment Content | Getty ImagesSinclair is returning “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” to its ABC affiliate broadcast stations beginning Friday, the company said in a statement.The announcement comes three days after Disney’s ABC broadcast network returned the late night program to its air after a nearly week-long suspension. Disney had temporarily suspended the late night show following comments Kimmel made…

by Sarah Kuta Last updated: 8:00 AM ET, Fri September 26, 2025 American Cruise Lines is launching three new Great Lakes itineraries in 2026, no passport required.Offered aboard the 130-guest American Patriot from May through August, the cruises will only visit destinations in the United States. All sailings include a pre-cruise hotel stay, free domestic airfare and excursions in small towns. “Guests have long asked for our style of cruising on the Great Lakes,” says Charles B. Robertson, president and chief executive officer of American Cruise Lines. “We are now proud to offer these cruises as only American can, aboard…

CLEVELAND, Ga. (AP) — A Baptist college in northeast Georgia won’t reinstate its president after an investigation into whether he ignored claims that a former administrator was abusing students.Trustees at Truett McConnell University in Cleveland announced Friday that Emir Caner won’t return. Caner had been on leave since June, when trustees hired an investigator to examine claims that a former administrator and professor sexually assaulted a woman who was a student and later a university employee. She claims she was repeatedly assaulted when she went to the man’s home for Bible study. John Yarbrough, the director of alumni and public…

NEW YORK (AP) — Zara Larsson is no stranger to packing dance floors around the world, boasting a catalog with several songs that have earned more than a billion streams. But despite possessing all the individual pieces a superstar career requires, her jigsaw has yet to be fully completed in the way she’s hoped.“I feel like it’s been a disconnect between what I’ve released and who I am,” said the 27-year-old. “I feel finally people are starting to piece the puzzle together.” (Sommer House/Epic Records via AP) (Sommer House/Epic Records via AP)Read More Larsson is betting that the image becomes…

Databricks said on Thursday that it is incorporating OpenAI’s models, including GPT-5, into its data platform as well as its AI product, Agent Bricks, as part of a $100 million multi-year deal that bets on the AI company’s ability to bring in enterprise customers. The deal highlights the accelerating race to bring generative AI into the enterprise stack, as companies foresee demand for AI tools that can tap into corporate data securely. Agent Bricks lets organizations build AI apps and agents on top of their enterprise data using a range of AI models. OpenAI’s latest models are now part of…

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Australian scientists tested the strength of bite-resistant wetsuits by allowing sharks to chomp the materials at sea and found that the suits can help keep swimmers safe.Fatal shark bites are vanishingly rare, with less than 50 unprovoked shark bites on humans worldwide in 2024, according to the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History. But increased sightings of large sharks in some parts of the world have swimmers, surfers and divers looking for new ways to stay safe.Scientists with Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, tested four bite-resistant materials and found they…

NEW YORK (AP) — Thirty-six years after he teamed up with Keanu Reeves to play a pair of well-intentioned dimwits on the big screen, Alex Winter finds himself beside the same guy on Broadway playing another set of sweet, low-bulbed guys. The two actors have had different trajectories in the years since they kicked off the “Bill & Ted” movie franchise — including Winter becoming a skilled indie director — but have remained close and are reteaming for the existential stage masterpiece “Waiting for Godot.”“That similarity is not lost on any of us,” says Winter. “We are inescapably Bill and…