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Barilla, the Italian pasta company, has agreed to acquire GOODLES, a boxed macaroni-and-cheese brand known for adding protein and fiber to its recipe. The brand launched a little over four years ago and has quickly built a reputation as one of the fastest-growing players in the category.
An NBA-commissioned investigation found that Steve Ballmer made false statements about a $28 million no-show endorsement deal benefiting Kawhi Leonard, leading to a one-year suspension for Ballmer and Clippers executive Gillian Zucker. The league also fined the Clippers $30 million and stripped the team of five future draft picks, while Leonard himself accepted a $700,000 fine and a ban for his business manager.
Fusion startup Realta Fusion signed a deal with utility Madison Gas and Electric to explore building a 200-megawatt fusion power plant in Wisconsin by the mid-2030s. The utility also made an undisclosed equity investment in Realta, which is converting a former Oscar Mayer factory in Madison into its research facility.
Three climbers attempting an 8-hour summit of Mount Shasta ended up stranded for three days after one was injured during the descent and the group got lost. Rescuers with the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office said the hikers had used Google's Gemini AI to plan their route and supplies, but the tool told them to pack far less food and water than they needed once the trip stretched into a multiday emergency. The group also lost phone battery power and had no offline maps, worsening their disorientation before being airlifted to safety.
Nolan Lawson notes that several prominent frontend web development educators—including Axel Rauschmayer, Salma Alam-Naylor, Josh W. Comeau, Kent C. Dodds, Addy Osmani, Rachel Nabors, and Lydia Hallie—have either scaled back their work or pivoted toward AI-related topics. To illustrate the shift, Lawson tested Claude Sonnet on a nuanced Chrome performance debugging scenario involving high 'Style Calculation' costs, a problem that has historically tripped up even experienced developers, and found the AI's answer impressively accurate.
A new English edition of Seicho Matsumoto's classic Japanese mystery novel, translated by Jesse Kirkwood, has been published by Modern Library. The book follows police investigating what appears to be a double suicide by lovers on a Kyushu beach, a death later complicated by a single suspicious receipt. The essay accompanying the release traces the novel's roots in Japan's shinjū tradition of lovers' suicide and its use as a plot device.
Epic Games introduced Epic Parties, a voice chat system that works across Fortnite, the Epic Games Store, and the Epic Games app, regardless of the hardware players use. Users can start a call in one app and carry it seamlessly into another, and the chat can keep running in the background while playing other titles or using mobile devices. Accepting an Epic Party invite also automatically groups friends into the same Fortnite lobby.
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the widely used open AI model distribution platform, for $12.93 billion. Hugging Face will keep its brand and remain open to third-party models, clouds, and hardware, according to Nvidia.
Apple is overhauling the Calendar app's interface in iOS 27, focusing on the event details view and the event creation/editing screens. The updated layouts add icons, group information under clearer headings, and reorganize content so more details fit on screen at once.
Nvidia has released PAIR, a free open-source beta tool that connects compatible devices on a home network to pool their unused processing power for local AI inference and agentic tasks. It works with GeForce RTX 20-series and newer GPUs, RTX Pro cards, DGX Spark systems, and Apple M4 or later chips, running on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
On the morning of Sept. 3, multiple leading AI chatbots—OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini and xAI's Grok—went down around the same time, roughly 9:30 a.m. ET. Anthropic confirmed an infrastructure issue affected Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork and its API, restoring service by about 12:16 p.m. ET, while other providers' services also returned to normal later that day.
TikTok is expanding its comment section beyond text, letting users reply with voice clips, photo carousels, and polls. The update aims to make comment threads more interactive and expressive, treating them as a richer space for engagement rather than a simple text feed.