OpenAI has announced a series of new API updates at its Dev Day event. The highlights include the launch of GPT-5 Pro, the company’s latest language model, and Sora 2, an advanced video generation model. Continue reading OpenAI enhances developer tools with GPT-5 Pro and Sora models
WASHINGTON (AP) — The economic boom promised by President Donald Trump centers on a single number: $17 trillion. That’s the sum of new investments that Trump claims to have generated with his tariffs, income tax cuts and aggressive salesmanship of CEOs, financiers, tech titans, prime ministers, presidents and other rulers. The $17 trillion is supposed to fund new factories, Continue reading Trump says the US has secured $17 trillion in new investments. The real number is likely much less
MANILA, Philippines – The automotive financing and leasing arm of GT Capital Holdings Inc. will raise P2 billion from the debt market as it anticipates broad asset growth and aims for a wider investor base. In a regulatory filing on Monday, GT Capital said the maiden bond offer of Toyota Financial Services Philippines Corp. (TFSPH) Continue reading Toyota Financial offers P 2-B bonds at nearly 6% yield
From the groves of Corfu and Cephalonia to the orchards of Tiberias and Jaffa, the saga of the etrog under Ottoman rule reveals how a fruit became entangled in struggles of faith and trade. Continue reading The ‘etrog’ wars: How the Ottoman Empire turned a sacred fruit into a global commodity
Photo credits: Jonas Willingstorfer/rsm for Volkswagen Foundation Amid the European rush to attract disenchanted US researchers, the Volkswagen Foundation is experimenting with a different approach: grants for US researchers to split their time between the US and Germany. The funding scheme, due to open in. Continue reading US researchers: Choose Europe, but part-time
OpenAI could soon bring Disney, Marvel characters to Sora videos Continue reading OpenAI could soon bring Disney, Marvel characters to Sora videos
The Malayalam film Lokah: Chapter 1 – Chandra has set a new record by becoming the highest-grossing film of all time in Kerala. Continue reading Kalyani Priyadarshan’s ‘Lokah’ is now the highest-grossing film in Kerala
MANILA, Philippines – Yields on short-dated government debts went up during Monday’s sale of Treasury bills (T-bills) as investors await the inflation data and the central bank’s next policy decision this week. Auction results showed the Bureau of the Treasury was able to raise its target amount of P22 billion via T-bills. READ: Sept. inflation Continue reading T-bill rates up ahead of inflation data, BSP meet
Tokyo (Jiji Press) — Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average briefly surged more than 2,100 points in morning trading Monday to hit a record high above 47,000 on an intraday basis. The election of former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi, an advocate of expansionary fiscal policy, as president of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Continue reading Nikkei briefly soars over 2,100 points to hit record intraday high
WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins could soon be shown the door by the members of his faction. Continue reading 4 signs Seth Rollins will be kicked out of The Vision soon