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Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Asos is leveraging traceability and compliance platform TrusTrace to gain real-time visibility into its supply chain, down to Tier 5, or the farm level, according to a Sept. 2 press release. The artificial intelligence-powered platform aims to streamline risk, compliance and impact management operations, using data to prompt proactive decision-making and due diligence, per the release. Asos will use TrusTrace’s technology for: Supply chain mapping to promote end-to-end visibility from Tier 1 to Tier 5 Product-level traceability to track verified material data…

Listen to the article 7 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. There’s no doubt that the hey-day of the mall — the sprawling enclosed center anchored by department stores that thrived for decades in the 20th century — is over. But is the American mall dead? Or is it evergreen? “Over the years as enclosed malls have evolved, it turns out that the A malls are doing extremely well, and C and D malls are accelerating to extinction,” said Chris Conlon, CEO of WPG, formerly known as Washington Prime Group. “We’re speaking about…

Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. J.C. Penney started the holiday season early with the launch of the third season of its “Really Big Deals” program on Thursday, per details shared with sister publication Marketing Dive. As it did last year, the retailer kicked off the campaign during “Thursday Night Football” on Amazon Prime Video, and a new deal will be revealed every Thursday on the streamer’s gameday programming through Christmas. The department store chain thinks its new deals are so laughably good that each promotion will debut…

As AI tools and hybrid law firms promise to perform complex legal work at a fraction of the usual cost, one question resounds: are we approaching peak Big Law, i.e. has the half-century old model finally entered its final days? What is Big Law? First, what is Big Law? Simply put, it’s not just that large firms do complex commercial legal work, it’s a business model based on: High leverage (i.e. a relatively small group of equity partner owners, and everyone else – the other fee earners), which has steadily grown since the 1980s when the model really came of…

In today’s Digest, we discuss Paramount-Skydance planning a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, the FTC investigating AI chatbots and France eyeing a TikTok inquiry. We also cover Microsoft endorsing OpenAI’s for-profit move.Paramount-Skydance plans Warner Bros. Discovery bidParamount Skydance is preparing a cash bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. According to people familiar with the situation, the Ellison family is backing the offer. The bid would take over the entire company including Warner’s cable networks and its movie studio.If the deal goes through, it will bring together two of Hollywood’s biggest studios. It could certainly bring about scrutiny from antitrust regulators. Protecting…

A Thames Valley Police officer from the Police force’s Specialist Search Unit, accompanied by police dog Jack, carries out security searches outside of Windsor Castle in Windsor, on September 12, 2025, ahead of the State Visit by US President Donald Trump.Jordan Pettitt | Afp | Getty ImagesThe U.S. and U.K are expected to sign a flurry of major new deals during U.S. President Donald Trump’s state visit to Britain this week, seeking to kickstart a “golden age” of nuclear power.Some of the multi-billion-pound agreements set to be inked include plans by U.S. and U.K. companies to build up to 12…

Cai Lin, Vice President of Technology and Head of AI Research Institute at 51TalkAround Teacher’s Day, educational companies are competing to showcase their strengths. The “first AI teacher to pass the teacher qualification exam” has gone viral. 51Talk also launched the world’s first hyper-humanized AI foreign teacher, “Koala AI,” just before Teacher’s Day.It is reported that “Koala AI” can recognize students’ focus and emotional changes in real-time, accurately pinpoint knowledge gaps, and create a relaxed and interactive atmosphere to stimulate interest in active expression.After the press conference, Sohu Technology had an exclusive conversation with Cai Lin, Vice President of Technology…

In an era where Google Chrome commands over 65% of the browser market, the decision to launch a new browser might seem risky and, dare I say, even foolish. Yet in July 2025, Perplexity AI did exactly that with Comet, an AI-powered browser that promised to transform how we interact with the web. At the time of its launch, Perplexity’s blog announcement encouraged users to ask Comet about sensitive decisions like insurance and investment plans.Its blog post read, “Accurate answers are the foundation of decision-making. This will compound in importance with agentic AI, when assistants make decisions for us, faster and…

Financial Associated Press, September 13 (Reporter Lu Tingting)The development momentum of the embodied intelligent robot industry is strong, with continued investment enthusiasm in the humanoid robot sector as an important branch. Ecological chain companies are keenly focusing on high-potential opportunities in vertical fields to accelerate new product launches.On September 12, Tuosda (300607.SZ), known as the ‘first robot stock in Guangdong,’ held a global open day event in Dongguan, showcasing the company’s key component testing and product matrix for robots, as well as the latest achievements in embodied intelligence development for industrial scenarios. The event featured the humanoid robot ‘Xiao Tuo,’…

Achieving results that make it to top journals like Science is never simple. This time, how did Google DeepMind leverage AI to upgrade gravitational wave detection, and what key breakthroughs are hidden within? It is important to note that the previous LIGO detections were often hindered by low-frequency noise, but with the intervention of AI, the observation range has been widened by 70%, breaking through the limitations of quantum noise.The DeepLoopShaping technology developed in collaboration between Google DeepMind and the LIGO team has significantly expanded the range of gravitational wave detection and has even been featured in Science. While this…