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PARIS (AP) — French fashion house Courrèges’ runway show Wednesday was a study in contrasts—minimal yet bold, structured yet fluid, restrained yet expressive. Staged on a pristine white runway at the Carreau du Temple in Paris, with its pillars wrapped in white sheaths, the setting underscored the brand’s sleek, futuristic aesthetic. Paillettes scattered across the floor swirled into the air with smoke machines, in a nod to nightclub energy. Since taking over Courrèges, Nicolas Di Felice has refined its 1960s space-age legacy, shaping it into something sharp and contemporary. The latest collection features a precise color palette of white, red…

Shortly after Trump began his marathon speech, the Representative from Texas stood up and shouted that the president did not have a mandate.Democratic Representative Al Green was not the first legislator to blurt out a shout of protest during a presidential address to the United States Congress. But he is perhaps the only one in recent memory to be ejected from the hall on Tuesday night by the speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. Shortly after Donald Trump began the longest-ever presidential speech to Congress in modern history, Green stood up, shaking his walking cane, and shouted: “You don’t have…

Car shoppers considering buying an electric vehicle in 2025 will have more factors to consider than buyers in previous years. Most of it is good news. For instance, automakers are continuing to introduce new EVs and improve their current models. Expanded charging options and very attractive used EV prices are also hot topics for this year. But there are also negative trends you need to watch out for. Edmunds’ auto experts break down what you can expect before heading out and buying an EV for 2025. Higher new vehicle prices are a distinct possibilityAccording to the NPR article ” Here’s…

In a lengthy speech before both houses of the United States Congress, President Donald Trump claimed that his return to office marked the “most successful era in the history of our country”. Addressing the House of Representatives and the Senate on Tuesday, Trump said his administration had “accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations accomplish in four years or eight years”. “And we are just getting started,” he said. His remarks touched on many familiar themes: calls for a massive crackdown on undocumented immigrants, whom he attacked as criminals and rapists, praise of “beautiful” tariffs that Trump says will…

EcoDataCenter, a Swedish company that builds eco-friendly data centers used by major compute providers to handle their AI traffic, has raised nearly half a billion dollars — $478 million (€450 million) to be exact — in anticipation of more demand.  The equity funding, which is coming from a group of unnamed institutional investors, will be used to continue developing new technologies for more “green” data centers and to build those structures.  The news comes just two days after one of EDC’s major customers, the AI compute giant CoreWeave, filed for an IPO in the United States. EDC has now raised…

Last October, Meta dipped its toe into the world of facial recognition with an international test of two new tools: one to stop scams based on likenesses of famous people, and a second feature to help people get back into compromised Facebook or Instagram accounts. Now, that test is expanding to one more notable country. After initially keeping its facial recognition test off in the United Kingdom, Meta on Wednesday began to roll both of the tools there, too. In other countries where the tools have already launched, the “celeb bait” protection is being extended to more people, the company…

British startup Quantexa has made a name for itself over the years with its enterprise platform that employs AI and data analytics to fight money laundering and fraud. Today, the company said it has raised a fresh $175 million to double down on that business and move deeper into another hot area: helping organizations understand and better use data across various silos to build and run AI services. The funding, a Series F, values Quantexa at $2.6 billion post-money — a significant jump from its last valuation of $1.8 billion in 2023. Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG), a division of the…

Development comes after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said the controversial influencers were not welcome in the state.Authorities in the United States have announced the launch of a criminal investigation into controversial social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate. James Uthmeier, the attorney general for the US state of Florida, said on Tuesday that he had instructed his office “to work with our law enforcement partners to conduct a preliminary inquiry” into the brothers. The Tate brothers – who arrived in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on February 27, after Romanian authorities lifted a travel ban against them – are facing trial in…

Alec Radford, a researcher who helped develop many of OpenAI’s key AI technologies, has been subpoenaed in a copyright case against the AI startup, according to a court filing Tuesday. The filing, submitted by an attorney for the plaintiffs to the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, indicated that Radford was served a subpoena on February 25. Radford, who left OpenAI late last year to pursue independent research, was the lead author of OpenAI’s seminal research paper on generative pre-trained transformers (GPTs). GPTs underpin OpenAI’s most popular products, including the company’s AI-powered chatbot platform, ChatGPT. Radford joined…

United States President Donald Trump has been true to his threats. On Tuesday, the Trump administration unleashed 25 percent blanket tariffs on Canadian imports, excluding energy, which was hit with 10 percent. Trump also slapped a 25 percent tariff on Mexico, and doubled China’s tariffs to 20 percent. Royal Bank of Canada economists Francis Donald and Cynthia Leach have called this the largest trade shock to Canada in nearly a hundred years. Vina Nadjibulla, vice president of research and strategy at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, referred to the tariffs as an “existential fight” for Canada. Whatever the impact,…