Following the London premiere, Caitríona Balfe was spotted in New York on Monday, where she continued to promote her new films, Tenzing and Sense and Sensibility on The Today Show.
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The Irish actress, who is now working with Nicky Yates, was a walking masterclass in print mixing in Dries Van Noten.
The label is revered for its artistic approach to eclectic pattern mixing and vibrant visual storytelling, and we get to see that distinctive aesthetic in all its glory here. The silk wrap skirt alone is a masterclass in print mixing, combining oversized florals with panels of plaid and flashes of acid green.
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#thestewartofny #caitr #balfe

Paris Hilton turned up the drama for a glamorous night out in Paris. The socialite joined the fashion crowd for the BoF500 Gala, delivering another head-turning moment during Fashion Week. For the occasion, Hilton went all in on sheer dressing with an intricate all-black look.
Hilton wore Annie's Theodora Gown, a floor-length creation constructed almost entirely from delicate black lace. The braless sheer lace dress featured a high neckline, long sleeves, and strategically placed opaque lace panels that contrasted against the transparent fabric.
The gown's sheer construction put plenty of skin on display, with Hilton not wearing anything underneath. Scalloped lace and curved detailing framed her chest and midriff, while a more opaque section provided coverage through the center. Below the hips, the delicate floral lace became completely sheer again, extending all the way down to the floor.
The fitted silhouette hugged Hilton's figure before subtly flaring toward the hem. She kept the all-black theme going with pointed heels visible beneath the transparent skirt.
Paris Hilton's look also received a futuristic styling touch courtesy of narrow black sunglasses. She swept her blonde hair into a high, tousled updo, leaving curled strands loose around her face. Rather than loading up on jewelry, Hilton allowed the elaborate lacework to remain the focus.

#hilton #high

Ciara showcased her growing baby ******* p in a sheer black lace dress at the BoF 500 gala in Paris, following a surprise appearance on the runway earlier that day.
The singer, 40, chose a fitted design with a plunging neckline and delicate straps for the October 3 celebration, revealing her ******* p beneath the floral lace. Her evening appearance followed a turn modelling Junya Watanabe's spring/summer 2027 collection during Paris Fashion Week.
Ciara's dress featured black satin bra panels and matching briefs beneath its transparent fabric, with gathered detailing around the waist and hips.
Ciara stuns in naked lace dress (@ Getty Images for The Business of)
The lace skirt fell below her knees, leaving her pointed black patent heels on display. An oversized sparkling cross pendant, layered chains and a statement ring completed the look.

#lace #black #beneath #october

Black may be one of the safest colors in formal fashion, but the 2026 Venice Film Festival showed how unpredictable it can become in the right hands. Across premieres and ceremonies, stars embraced lace, velvet, satin, sculptural tailoring and elaborate draping. Instead of relying on color to create impact, designers used texture and silhouette to give each outfit a distinctive personality. Laura Dern, Susan Sarandon, Amal Clooney, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Rooney Mara all approached the classic shade differently. Together, their appearances demonstrated why black continues to have such staying power on major red carpets.
Laura Dern embraced intricate detailing for the premiere of Wild Horse Nine. Her sleeveless black Dior gown featured a V neckline, delicate lace and floral embroidery across the upper section. The design transitioned into a fuller shimmering skirt, giving the monochrome look depth through contrasting textures. Black Dior pumps maintained the restrained palette, while a Cartier necklace provided a polished finishing touch.
Susan Sarandon chose a more streamlined interpretation at the premiere of The Echo Chamber. Her black Fendi dress featured long sleeves and an off the shoulder neckline, with a fluid silhouette that followed the body without requiring elaborate embellishment. Statement jewelry, sunglasses and bright red lipstick added personality, demonstrating how accessories can completely change the mood of an otherwise minimalist black dress.
For the festival's opening ceremony, Amal Clooney turned to Tom Ford. Her floor length column gown used rippled fabric panels and subtle leather detailing to create movement and texture. Pointed pumps and a coordinating clutch continued the sleek approach. The result demonstrated how carefully constructed fabric can make a single color visually interesting without overwhelming the overall silhouette.
Maggie Gyllenhaal brought archival fashion into the conversation with an Armani Privé velvet gown originally created in 2015. The design combined sharply defined shoulders, long sleeves and a plunging embellished neckline. Its return more than a decade later also highlighted the growing red carpet practice of revisiting existing fashion rather than treating older couture as something that belongs permanently in an archive.

#susan

CorpGov is pleased to share the final agenda for the 2nd LA CorpGov Forum, to be held on Friday, Sept. 18, 2026 at The Huntington Library in San Marino, California. The conference registration will begin at 1:00pm and feature an afternoon of panels, firesides and networking, followed by a reception at 5:00pm with ***** tails and hors d'oeuvres in the Garden Court.
This event will bring together members of the financial community from both LA and beyond to join panels focused on the finance of entertainment and media, sports, along with capital markets and shareholder activism.
We invite institutional investors and corporate executives to attend and they may register at the link below. For more information, please email EditorCorpGov.com.
2:00PM: Best Practices in Sports Investing
Thomas W. Hulick, CEO, Managing Partner, Strategy ***** et Managers

#sports #Friday #library #california

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#beach #corpgov #watch

Amal Clooney's opening-night look at the Venice Film Festival combined custom Tom Ford, hundreds of thousands of dollars in Cartier jewelry and the kind of polished beauty expected from a major red carpet. One part of the finished look was considerably easier to copy.
For the Sept. 2 opening ceremony, hairstylist and makeup artist Dimitris Giannetos used Charlotte Tilbury products on Clooney, including the brand's Hot Lips 2 lipstick in Dancefloor Princess. A new PEOPLE breakdown lists the pink-nude lipstick at $39 alongside products for her complexion, eyes and cheeks ranging from $28 to $52.
Clooney paired the makeup with a custom black Tom Ford gown by Haider Ackermann and Cartier jewelry worth approximately $375,000. She was in Venice with husband George Clooney, who received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement during the festival's opening ceremony.
Giannetos kept the beauty considerably softer than the architecture of the dress. He described the overall effect as "soft and ethereal," pairing warm skin and defined eyes with a muted lip and long brunette waves that he had shifted into a richer "blurred brown" shade for fall.
Vogue Italia identified Clooney's gown as a custom Tom Ford design in black silk taffeta. The column silhouette was shaped by narrow sculptural panels and irregular razor-sharp pleats, while sheer black georgette panels ran along the sides.

#venice #look

On August 5, Cytek Biosciences (NASDAQ:CTKB) reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, and the report reads like two different companies at once. Revenue climbed, margins widened, and the installed base of instruments kept expanding. At the same time, the net loss more than doubled from a year earlier and adjusted EBITDA swung negative. For a company selling hardware into cell ***** ysis labs, that split between growing revenue and growing losses is the story investors need to untangle.
Total revenue reached $48.1 million in the second quarter of 2026, up 6% from the second quarter of 2025, and the growth came from more than one source. Cytek expanded its installed base to 3,933 instruments as of June 30, 2026, adding 142 units in the quarter, and each new machine tends to pull in service and reagent sales over time. That dynamic already shows up in the numbers: recurring revenue from service and reagents hit $18.5 million in the quarter, and on a trailing 12-month basis it now makes up 35% of total revenue, up from 32% a year earlier.
Gross profit told a similar story, climbing 19% to $28.3 million, with GAAP gross margin rising to 59% from 52% and adjusted gross margin reaching 61% from 56%. Some of that lift came from a one-time tariff refund, but even stripped of it, adjusted gross margin still improved to 56%. Cytek also launched the Borealis, a 7-laser flow cytometer built for 60-color panels, and rolled out more automated configurations of its Aurora Evo line, giving the sales team new hardware to sell into the rest of 2026. Full-year revenue guidance moved up to a range of $207 million to $212 million, raising the midpoint by $1 million.
The same quarter that grew revenue also widened the losses. Operating expenses rose 15% year over year to $39.7 million, with general and administrative costs jumping 24% to $16.8 million because of litigation-related expenses, severance, and other personnel costs. R&D spending grew 10% to $9.7 million, and sales and marketing rose 9% to $13.2 million, so the increase was not confined to one line item. The loss from operations widened to $11.4 million from $10.6 million a year earlier, and net loss more than doubled to $12.2 million from $5.6 million.
Adjusted EBITDA, which strips out stock-based compensation and currency swings, swung to a $1.5 million loss from a positive $1.3 million a year earlier, after also adjusting for a write-off tied to an early-stage technology investment. The tariff refund that boosted this quarter's headline gross margin also means the underlying figures, 53% GAAP and 56% adjusted, are the more honest baseline going forward. Cash and marketable securities held roughly flat at $262.0 million as of June 30, 2026, down only slightly from $262.2 million three months earlier, so the balance sheet has not yet felt the strain.

#quarter #adjusted

Natsuki Deguchi brought two completely different fashion stories to the Venice Film Festival while promoting Hirokazu Kore-eda's Look Back.
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Natsuki started the day in a Maison Margiela Co-Ed Fall 2026 look that was far removed from the simple, clean elegance we are used to seeing at Venice photocalls.
The floral-print dress was overlaid with fused and spliced tapestry panels, arranged to create the impression of a Stockman dressmaker's dummy. With the tapestry appearing almost pinned onto the floral base and its raw edges left exposed, there was an unfinished quality that made the construction the most interesting part of the look.
It's the kind of Margiela design that makes more sense the longer you look at it. Yes, there is a lot happening between the contrasting prints, textures and deconstructed finish but she sold it too me.

#deguchi

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman's support for Elon Musk's idea to put AI data centers in **** e and power them with solar panels did not occur in a vacuum. It comes not just against a background of rising, bipartisan opposition to ground-based data centers but also the recent announcement of an immense, **** eX Starbase to be built in Louisiana.
Many people oppose data centers out of the same kind of "NIMBY" emotion that fueled opposition to nuclear power plants and hydraulic fracking. They view them as big, noisy eyesores that will consume a lot of electricity and water to the detriment of local communities.
Opposition to ground-based AI data centers is not universal. Trade unions, which foresee lots of jobs being created in their construction and operation, are warmly supporting them. On the other hand, if Meta's experiments with using robots at data centers pans out, those jobs may be fewer than many expect.
The reason that many people are opposed to AI data centers in their communities may have less to do with objective facts than a Chinese disinformation campaign to turn them against such facilities. Engadget reports that X uncovered a Chinese bot farm with 200,000 accounts, 200 of which were used to manipulate the debate about data centers.
It should be noted that the Chinese are going pedal to the metal to create their own data centers. As a totalitarian country, China is not concerned with public opinion one way or the other. Beijing is determined to dominate AI according to its ideology and interests.

#centers #opposition #people #communities

Amal Clooney infused her sartorial agenda with a dose of flapper-girl charm as she stepped out for an evening in Venice, Italy.
The international human rights lawyer was photographed exiting her private boat with her husband, George Clooney, on September 3. The 48-year-old looked incredible in an archival Prada mini dress adorned with turquoise fringed sequins and silver gems. The garment featured a strapless design with a bandeau neckline and a figure-hugging silhouette. The look was styled with silver pumps and a pair of matching diamond-encrusted drop earrings.
Amal's luscious brunette locks were left down in soft waves while her makeup oozed glam, courtesy of a bronze eye and a nude lip. Meanwhile, George looked suave in a navy suit layered over a simple black T-shirt.
Amal Clooney wore a vintage Prada dress (@ GC Images)
The evening came after Amal graced the red carpet alongside her husband at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival. For the event, she slipped into a chic Tom Ford number by Haider Ackermann. The custom-made black gown was crafted in black silk taffeta and featured sculptural panels with delicate pleating. The square neckline was adorned in patent leather while the dress fell into a figure-hugging silhouette that looked so sleek.

#dress #black #george

Model Emily Ratajkowski is taking fashion lovers back in time with a spectacular archival cover shoot. Starring on the cover of EE72 magazine's Fall 2026 issue, the supermodel embraced full '90s nostalgia. Styled by chief creative officer Edward Enninful, Emily wore legendary runway pieces straight from Vivienne Westwood's iconic Fall/Winter 1993 collection. Photographed by Craig McDean, her daring tartan ensemble proved that true vintage fashion never goes out of style.
For the dramatic "Made in the 90s" cover story, Emily stepped into a museum-worthy plaid creation. The colorful tartan micro minidress featured a dangerously high hemline that showcased her long legs. The outfit combined rich red, green, and blue tartan fabrics. It was artfully layered with a fuzzy wool wrap, a fitted waist belt, and pleated side panels. Across her hips, she wore a traditional fur-trimmed sporran bag hanging from a delicate silver chain.
Stylist Edward Enninful carefully curated every detail to match Westwood's famous punk-meets-royalty aesthetic. On her head, Emily wore a matching tartan beret topped with a dramatic sweeping feather. Down below, she wore bright, colorful argyle socks pulled up her calves. She paired the socks with sky-high black lace-up platform heels. In behind-the-scenes video footage, Enninful admired the rare footwear and hat, calling the entire look a true museum piece.
During the photoshoot, Emily posed against a bold red studio backdrop while photographer Craig McDean directed her movements. He guided her to place her hands firmly on her hips and turn into a dramatic side profile. Emily worked the camera effortlessly, bringing moody, smoldering energy to every frame.
Meanwhile, her beauty team created a quintessential '90s grunge-glam look. Hairstylist Karim Belghiran gave her textured, messy waves with long fringe bangs. Makeup artist ***** Page finished the look with intense plum-smoky eyeshadow, sharp eyeliner, and a nude lip. Ultimately, Emily Ratajkowski brought a legendary fashion moment back to life with unmatchable supermodel poise.

#ratajkowski

Intuitive Machines (NASDAQ: LUNR), a developer of lunar landers and exploration vehicles, doesn't usually get as much attention as bigger ***** e stocks like ***** eX (NASDAQ: SPCX). But over the past two years, Intuitive's stock has nearly tripled.
Most of that rally was driven by the expansion of its partnership with NASA, which now includes seven lunar, orbital satellite, and science missions. Let's take a closer look at that manifest -- and see if its stock is still worth chasing after its astronomical gains.
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Intuitive Machines' manifest for NASA includes five lunar surface delivery missions (IM-1 to IM-5) and the production of two satellite buses (IM 300 and IM 500) for orbital science missions.
It has launched two lunar lander missions for NASA so far: IM-1 in 2024 and IM-2 in 2025. Both landers tipped over after arriving on the moon, but they successfully transmitted some data back to NASA before their solar panels ran out of power. Though imperfect, IM-1 marked NASA's first successful moon landing since 1972, and it strengthened Intuitive's relationship with NASA.

#NVIDIA #intuitive #landers

On August 26, JinkoSolar (NASDAQ:JKS) reported a quarter that looked rough on the surface but revealed a company quietly rebuilding itself underneath. Revenue fell 31.3% year over year to $1.82 billion, and the net loss widened to RMB 697.3 million from RMB 463.5 million in the prior quarter. Yet the same earnings call showed a business leaning harder into storage, high-efficiency manufacturing and a growing side portfolio of outside investments, all while its core panel business absorbs a brutal pricing environment.
Module shipments climbed 16.7% sequentially to 15,961 megawatts, and overseas markets made up more than 70% of first-half 2026 volume. Its Tiger Neo 3.0 line still commands roughly a $0.10 per watt premium over conventional panels, and the newer Tiger Neo 5.0 modules reached 25.91% mass-production efficiency with output topping 700 watts. JinkoSolar expects 40 gigawatts of TOPCon 3.0 capacity by year-end, built to clear the toughest efficiency tier under China's new national standard taking effect in January 2027, a rule under which underperforming products "will not be permitted for production or sales," according to CEO Du.
Energy storage is scaling too. Shipments hit 3.1 gigawatt-hours in the first half of 2026, a sharp increase from a year earlier, with 1.5 gigawatt-hours already recognized as revenue, including more than 1 gigawatt-hour in the second quarter alone. Beyond the core business, JinkoSolar's strategic investment arm now holds stakes in more than 40 companies spanning solar, storage and artificial intelligence, worth RMB 1.99 billion in fair value and generating RMB 490 million in first-half gains. That included a divestment of its LAPLACE Renewable Energy Technology stake for more than RMB 300 million in cash and a ***** ulative realized gain topping RMB 250 million, plus a sale of its U.S. subsidiary that brought in RMB 1.31 billion in cash. The board still declared a $1.50 per ADS dividend in June 2026.
The core problem is that panels are getting cheaper to sell and more expensive to make. Gross margin slid to 4.2% from 8.3% in the first quarter of 2026 as average selling prices dropped, while the cost of ramping up high-efficiency production stayed elevated. Operating loss margin widened to 11.6% from 4.8% a quarter earlier, and total operating expenses rose 21.3% sequentially to $287.3 million on higher expected credit losses. Cash on hand fell to $2.5 billion from $3.3 billion in a single quarter, and JinkoSolar cut its full-year shipment guidance to a range of 60 to 70 gigawatts.

#efficiency

Amal Clooney and George Clooney attended the premiere of Ink, which opens the 2026 Venice Film Festival this evening, before George receives the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.
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George chose a classic Giorgio Armani tuxedo for his big night, while Amal delivered something I certainly wasn't expecting.
One thing I did not have on my bingo card for this festival was Amal in a black dress. She is the queen of summery colour in Venice, so I was surprised to see her take to the red carpet in this custom Tom Ford by Haider Ackermann gown. Perhaps we should have taken the hint when she arrived in olive green earlier today.
Of course, this black gown is far from plain. The fitted silhouette features razor-sharp pleating, transparent georgette side panels and a geometric leather neckline, giving us plenty to take in despite the monochrome palette.

#gown

Tesla (TSLA) has apparently ended sales of its Solar Roof tiles, nearly a decade after CEO Elon Musk unveiled the product as a sleek alternative to conventional solar panels. Tesla now only offers customers its standard solar panels, with reports from installers indicating the company is no longer supplying new Solar Roof tiles.
The move marks a major retreat from one of Musk's most ambitious clean-energy concepts. Yet it does not mean Tesla is abandoning solar. Instead, the company appears to be shifting toward a simpler and potentially more scalable model centered on traditional panels, while continuing to expand its much larger energy-storage business.
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#panels #roof #elon #musk

Hilary Duff showed off her athleticism in Reebok micro shorts as the brand's new ambassador. The Authentic Brands Group-owned brand announced her appointment as an ambassador on Monday, August 31. The pop star and actress will appear in Reebok's "Unfiltered and Unstoppable" campaign.
Hilary Duff donned a monochrome Reebok ensemble in the new photos shared on social media on August 31. The upper half featured a fitted matte-black performance jacket defined by architectural paneling. The Reebok Women's Reflex Cropped Full Zip Performance Jacket featured a raised mock neck collar and a full-length exposed center-front zip with dual pullers.
The jacket's raglan sleeves accentuated the shoulder line before transitioning into extended cuffs. Meanwhile, the thumbholes in the cuffs secured the sleeves during movement. Understated contour stitching swept across the torso, giving it dynamic shape while maintaining a minimal, hardware-light aesthetic.
Below, Duff wore ribbed black shorts that sat high on her waist. The mid-thigh hemline created a clean cut that contrasted with the long-sleeved jacket. Functional side drop-in pockets lined the thigh panels, adding utility while maintaining flat-seam construction to avoid unnecessary bulk against the body. She completed the look with black socks. However, her shoes were not visible in the photos.
The "What Dreams Are Made Of" singer's dirty blonde hair was pulled back into a high ponytail, with loose strands that beautifully framed her face. Further, her makeup was warm and natural, featuring defined brows, a smoky eye in neutral tones, and a muted rose-berry lip. She only wore small, minimalist silver hoop earrings as jewelry, keeping the focus entirely on the all-black activewear.

#jacket #hilary #august #full

Jarrett Bell has been covering the NFL for USA TODAY since 1993 and is a recipient of the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Bill Nunn Memorial Award for career achievement. He's been a member of Hall of Fame selection committee since 1997 and has voted on AP awards and Super Bowl MVP panels for more than 25 years. Each Monday during the 2026 season, he'll take you around the league as only he can to uncover what mattered most and what it means. This story is from his latest column.
Ultimately, the legacy of O.J. Brigance went so far beyond football. Sure, as the leader of the Ravens special teams units, he fittingly made the first tackle of Super Bowl 35 on the opening kickoff. He had the distinction, too, of being the only player to win a Super Bowl and a Grey Cup while representing the same city, Baltimore.
Yet his defining legacy comes in more human terms, wrapped in the determined spirit Brigance demonstrated for so many years as he battled ALS – and remained active with the Ravens despite limited physical abilities.
The team announced the death of Brigance, 56, last Monday.
After being diagnosed with ALS in 2007, Brigance, who worked as the player development director following his playing days, kept an office at the team's headquarters and continued connecting with those relationships. He regularly attended practices, too.

#super #since #only

Christie Brinkley and her model daughter Sailor Brinkley Cook put their own twist on peekaboo cutouts for a Project Zero brunch.
The lookalike pair showed off their outfits in a video shared on August 24.
Brinkley shares the 28-year-old with ex-husband Peter Cook.
It's no secret that Christie Brinkley's youngest daughter, Sailor Brinkley Cook, looks like a carbon copy of her supermodel mom— and the 28-year-old is happily embracing the "mini-me" claims with lookalike style moments. Just days after twinning in red-hot looks at a Michael Kors dinner in the Hamptons, Brinkley and Cook posed in flowy summer dresses that both featured peekaboo sheer details.
The 72-year-old runway star had fans seeing double as she teamed up with Cook to promote a global initiative to help save coral reefs from extinction. In a video shared on August 24, Brinkley— who shares Cook with ex-husband Peter Cook—stepped out on screen in a dreamy white Zimmermann dress that was completely covered in sheer panels.

#brinkley #august #peter #daughter

"I think of what we do at Gallery Dept. as more than just a clothing brand," Josué Thomas, Gallery Dept. founder, told Complex. "We just happen to make clothes."
That line says a lot about how the Gallery Dept. founder sees himself and the world he has built in Los Angeles and beyond. Ask him whether he is a designer or an artist and there is no hesitation. "Artist-first. 100% artist-first," he says. It is a distinction that has defined Gallery Dept. since the beginning, long before the brand became a fixture in closets and on red carpets around the world.
We caught up with Thomas at Le Bar, his private café and creative **** e located just a few blocks from the Gallery Dept. store on Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles. The room doubles as a gathering spot for artists and creatives to make music, host listening parties, and trade ideas, and it is lined with posters, artwork, and pieces pulled from Thomas's personal archive. On the day of our shoot, the team was setting up for a private listening party later that evening, the **** e being used exactly as it was meant to be.
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Gallery Dept. started through Thomas' desire for the vintage pieces in his parents' closet and digging through thrift stores before it was a widespread phenomenon with a full resell economy. He began altering what he found, most famously deconstructing Carhartt workwear pants into his now-signature Flair jeans, adding panels cut from scraps of other pairs and exposing the faded contrast under a double knee. "I've always made clothes for myself, even now," he says. "I do collections of just literally stuff I want to wear." The items have become a piece of the modern hip-hip uniform. Major artists and athletes like Drake, Migos, and LeBron James have all supported the brand.

#thomas #shop #make

On August 13, Stratasys (NASDAQ:SSYS) held its second-quarter earnings call, and the headline number was consumables revenue hitting a record $66.3 million. For a company trying to prove it has moved beyond selling prototyping machines into recurring, production-grade manufacturing, that record matters more than the top line itself. But underneath the record sat a cash flow warning that investors will want to weigh carefully.
Aerospace and defense is Stratasys's largest business, and it grew 17% year over year in the second quarter. Management pointed to expanding adoption across the U.S. Air Force, where the company's F900 system is certified for flightworthy production parts, describing the orders as increasing in volume across the Air Force's sustainment enterprise rather than one-time purchases. Once a part is qualified on a Stratasys platform, switching suppliers becomes costly, which is the basis for calling this demand structural. Stratasys Direct, the company's parts manufacturing arm, grew 12.1% year over year, fueled by defense technology customers building drones and munitions.
The quarter also delivered two large multiyear systems deals. Quickparts expanded its relationship with Stratasys by purchasing 12 Neo 800-plus systems on top of six units it already owned, with three of the new systems placed in Europe. FAW Group, one of China's largest auto manufacturers, signed for 12 F900 systems by year-end, with two shipped in the second quarter, adding to five F900s and eight other Stratasys machines it already runs to make interior parts like armrests and panels. Stratasys was also awarded a two-year, $7.8 million program through the 2026 America Makes OIB Modernization Challenge to develop monitoring technology for its F900 and F3300 platforms. Layered on top is the pending $42.5 million cash acquisition of MarkForged, whose continuous carbon fiber technology generated about $70 million in revenue in 2025 and which management expects to add positively to EBITDA within a year of closing.
System revenue fell to $26.4 million from $30.6 million a year earlier, meaning machine sales are shrinking even as the recurring materials business grows. Gross margin slipped too, with non-GAAP gross margin at 47.2% versus 47.7% a year ago, which the company attributed largely to a stronger Israeli shekel raising costs incurred in that currency. GAAP net loss widened slightly to $16.9 million, compared to $16.7 million a year ago, though GAAP loss per diluted share improved slightly to $0.19 from $0.20.

#stratasys #gaap

On the hottest of summer days, a natural gas "peaker" usually kicks in to support the wave of air conditioning units turning on at once. It's the electrical grid's lifesaver, a turbine built only for the highest-demand hours of the year, and also one of the most expensive to run. It's what made 7 p.m. electricity so expensive in different parts of the U.S in the first place.
But a shift is taking place. California and Texas are now turning to batteries to power their grids. Power units that were typically used simply to store energy are now being deployed as power sources themselves. California's grid operator has at least 13,000 megawatts of battery capacity, enough to serve several million homes through evening peak hours, and Texas' batteries already power up to 10% of the state's grid at peak.
Electricity customers see the benefits. When batteries set the marginal price instead of gas turbines that cost two to three times as much to run, wholesale power gets cheaper during the hours it used to be most expensive. Gas peakers that already sat idle for more than 86% of the year will eventually lose the few remaining hours that kept them viable, and utilities will likely choose batteries over new gas plants long term.
Unlike gas turbines, batteries don't generate electricity on their own. They move it from the hours when it's cheapest to the hours when it's most valuable. Solar panels flood the grid with power in the middle of the day, pushing wholesale prices close to zero and sometimes below it. Batteries absorb that cheap surplus. When the sun sets and demand surges past what the remaining generation can deliver, they discharge into the gap that gas peakers once filled, offering to do it at a lower price.
In California, the cycle has run at a scale large enough to reshape the wholesale market. In 2024, across the California Independent System Operator's territory, batteries provided an average of 8.6% of all electricity consumed during the highest-demand evening hours, keeping the lights on in roughly three million homes. By 2025, they were regularly delivering more than 6,000 megawatts at peak, six times the roughly 1,000 megawatts they managed three years earlier.

#hours #electricity

China flooded the world with cheap solar panels a decade ago, driving Western competitors out of business. It did the same with electric vehicles, prompting tariffs from Washington and Brussels. In 2025, the pattern repeated with batteries. Chinese manufacturers who had built twice as many factories as the world needed slashed prices to keep them running, pushing stationary storage packs down to $70 per kilowatt-hour, 45% cheaper than the year before. The decline was steep enough to reshape what power companies pay for electricity during the most expensive hours of the day.
Chinese overbuilding was the biggest single force behind the price collapse, but it wasn't the only one. A shift toward cheaper battery chemistry, a crash in lithium prices, and a decades-long accumulation of manufacturing improvements all hit at the same time, each amplifying the others. On its own, any one of those forces would have pushed prices down gradually. Their convergence is what turned a steady decline into a collapse.
Cheaper batteries are good news for electricity costs and for the climate. But the conditions that made them possible are unwinding. Lithium prices have already rebounded, and the tariffs designed to counter China's trade practices are adding new costs of their own.
Chinese battery manufacturers spent the early 2020s building factories at a pace that ***** umed electric vehicle demand would keep surging. It worked for a while. By 2024, China produced enough battery cells — the basic units that store electricity and power electric vehicles — for every car sold on the planet that year. But global manufacturing capacity far outstripped what anyone needed. At roughly 2,600 gigawatt-hours, the world's factories could supply every battery the market demanded and still have enough idle capacity to outfit nearly every home in America with its own storage system.
Even as the surplus became apparent, manufacturers kept adding capacity through 2025. The world's battery factories nearly doubled their capacity to more than 4,000 gigawatt-hours of cells a year — more than four times what the market actually bought — with China accounting for more than 80% of the total.

#battery #capacity #manufacturers

CAIRO (AP) — Palestinians face inflated prices for groceries and batteries, hospitals have turned to smugglers for medicine and equipment, Israeli soldiers and other middlemen are accused of pocketing millions of dollars, and the Hamas-led government takes a cut as the smuggling of goods restricted by Israel into the Gaza Strip has boomed, according to an ******* ociated Press investigation based on court documents and interviews with traders, truckers and officials.
Cigarettes and tobacco — banned from entry to Gaza since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023 — rake in the biggest profits for smugglers and merchants, officials and residents say. But everything from iPhones and solar panels to fuel and anesthetics are also brought into the tiny coastal territory illegally. Israel restricts quantities of some goods and bans others outright. It defines many as "dual use" — including concrete, vehicle parts and X-ray machines — ******* erting they could be repurposed by Hamas militants for military functions.
To build a picture of the illicit trade, The ******* ociated Press ******* yzed Israeli court documents and spoke to five major traders who import smuggled goods, three merchants who sell them, and two truckers — all on condition of anonymity because of their roles in the illegal smuggling business and concerns about their safety in Gaza. AP also interviewed four Palestinian officials, two on condition of anonymity because of worries about retribution from Israel, Hamas or merchants; two U.N. officials, on condition of anonymity over concern for their jobs; and a dozen Palestinian residents, who spoke about how they get everyday items and their skyrocketing costs.
AP found a rush from all sides to profit off the tight restrictions imposed by Israel on Gaza and its 2 million residents, most of whom have been displaced by the war. Smuggling rings — which have long flourished, circumventing two decades of Israeli blockades and building a network of businessmen and collaborators — pull in millions of dollars. Payoffs go to Israeli troops, drivers, warehouse workers and others on both sides of the border, according to traders and court documents.
"The occupation has left no other option before us. Smuggling has become routine," one trader said, noting that some in Israel's military are willing to help — for a price. "We benefit, they benefit and the people in Gaza benefit because we provide goods, including food, to the market."

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Bessent doubled Treasury's long-bond buybacks to $4B per operation, dropping the 30-year yield 10 basis points and sending silver surging 6%.
Silver outpaced gold because industrial demand from solar panels and green tech gives it higher sensitivity when yields fall and risk-on conditions emerge.
The buybacks are a rounding error against a $28T Treasury market, and the metals rally is a narrative response to fiscal concern rather than monetary easing.
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The bond market has been sending distress signals for months. With public debt surpassing $40 trillion and the 30-year Treasury yield touching levels last seen in 2007, Washington has had a buyer's strike problem on its hands. Long-dated debt kept cheapening as investors demanded more compensation for holding it, and that selloff was starting to ripple into everything from mortgage rates to gold.

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On August 6, 10x Genomics (NASDAQ:TXG) reported second-quarter revenue of $151 million, boosted by a $1.6 million settlement payment from Takara. Strip that out and revenue grew just 3% year-over-year to $149.4 million, a modest number next to the real headline of the quarter: a brand-new instrument platform called Atera, where booked orders have exceeded full-year planned shipments.
By the end of the second quarter, booked orders for Atera already exceeded the roughly 40 units 10x had planned to ship for all of 2026. Demand also showed up in Catalyst Research Services, the program that lets customers run samples on Atera in 10x's own lab before committing to buy a unit. Away from Atera, the existing consumables business kept growing, up 7% overall, with spatial consumables climbing 16% on continued strength in the Xenium platform. During the quarter, 10x acquired Proteintech Genomics, adding single-cell protein panels that management says will let Atera measure proteins alongside gene expression from the same cell.
The balance sheet backed up the story. Cash and marketable securities rose to $552 million, up $105 million from a year earlier, and gross margin expanded to 74% from 72%. Management raised full-year revenue guidance to a range of $610 million to $630 million. New research partnerships with Cleveland Clinic and Lausanne University Hospital, aimed at finding biomarkers of treatment response in oncology, point to where 10x hopes this technology eventually leads: clinical diagnostics.
The flip side of Atera's launch showed up in the instrument line. Total instrument revenue fell 47% year over year, with Chromium instruments down 46% and spatial instruments down 48%, as customers held off on buying older spatial systems while waiting for the new platform. Management expects that pause to continue, guiding for a sequential revenue step down in the third quarter before a bigger jump in the fourth. Even though booked Atera orders already exceed the year's full production plan, 10x kept its shipment target at about 40 units, weighted mostly toward the fourth quarter, a sign the company is still constrained on how fast it can build the machine.
Regionally, APAC revenue fell 19%, partly because customers in China had pulled purchases forward a year earlier ahead of anticipated tariffs. Operating expenses rose to $132.1 million from $95 million, though the comparison is skewed by a $40.7 million patent settlement gain booked in the prior year versus $3.4 million this year.

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On Saturday, Hannah Einbinder attended the Hacks FYC Presentation during the Television Academy's 2026 Televerse Festival in Los Angeles.
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The actress, who is now working with celebrity stylist Karla Welch, wore a Meryll Rogge Spring 2026 dress.
I usually like dresses like this, where an eclectic mix of lace, sequins, ribbons, tulle, sheer panels and contrasting colours comes together in an unexpected way. But as much as I appreciate the dress itself, this style of design doesn't feel suited to Hannah.
And this is becoming something of a running theme. I was hopeful that Hannah had turned a corner, but this look has me right back to thinking that she's yet to find a style direction that really suits her.

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Qiagen (NYSE:QGEN) walked into its second quarter of 2026 bracing investors for a roughly 2% sales decline. Instead, net sales came in flat at $535 million on August 6, and adjusted diluted EPS hit $0.62, both ahead of the company's own outlook. For a diagnostics and life sciences supplier still working through the loss of discontinued product lines, beating a cautious bar is one thing. What happens next, as management leans on a stack of new launches to carry the back half of the year, is the more interesting question.
The company's so-called growth pillars, the businesses management is counting on to outpace the broader market, expanded 5% at constant exchange rates in the quarter. Sample Technologies led with 9% CER growth, driven by automated consumables and higher instrument sales. QIAcuity, the digital PCR platform, posted double-digit consumables growth even as weaker OEM demand offset some of that strength. QuantiFERON, the tuberculosis test that had flagged a sharp drop in US immigration testing demand back in the first quarter, still managed to return to growth as demand across other testing groups more than made up the difference.
Behind those numbers sits a wave of product activity. QIAsymphony Connect launched commercially, QIAsprint Connect placements are drawing what management called strong pharma customer acceptance, and two new bloodstream infection panels for QIAstat launched in Europe, detecting 33 pathogens and 28 resistance markers in about an hour, with US FDA approval targeted by year-end. Parse, the single-cell ****** ysis business, is running ahead of its roughly $40 million 2026 sales target and was selected for a NASA-supported research program aboard the International ****** e Station. Qiagen also completed a $500 million share repurchase in January and raised its annual dividend 40% to $0.35 per share.
The flat top line masks uneven performance underneath. Diagnostic solutions overall declined 2% at constant currency, and PCR and nucleic acid amplification sales fell 8%, with QIAstat-Dx down 7% as a tough prior-year comparison in respiratory testing outweighed gains in gastrointestinal and meningitis panels. Profitability also gave ground. Adjusted operating income fell 2% to $157 million, with the margin slipping to 29.4% from 29.9% a year earlier, and adjusted gross margin declined to 66.2% from 66.7% on product mix shifts.
Regionally, EMEA sales fell 2% CER as declines in Germany, France, and Italy outweighed gains elsewhere, and Asia Pacific sales fell 2% CER as China dropped in the low teens, even though it improved sequentially. Inventory days outstanding also climbed to 153 from 149, tied to stockpiling ahead of new launches. The company is now guiding to a jump from roughly negative 1% CER sales growth in the first half to 3% to 4% in the second half, a swing that leans heavily on new products, easier comparisons and the fading drag from discontinued lines all landing on schedule.

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Brittany Mahomes brought her signature sporty style to a family day out, enjoying some quality time with husband Patrick Mahomes and their three children. The 30-year-old shared a carousel of heartwarming snaps from the outing on Instagram, with the family proudly showing off their Kansas City Chiefs spirit as they spent time together outdoors.
While the occasion was casual, Brittany still found a way to turn heads with a standout fashion moment, incorporating an Adidas touch and a stylish micro mini skirt into her sporty-inspired look.
For the outing, Mahomes slipped into a fitted white Adidas crop top featuring the brand's signature three black stripes along the sleeves. She teamed it with the Adidas Originals "Reconstructed Adibreak Mini Skirt," which retails for $70.
The black micro miniskirt put Mahomes' toned legs firmly on display, sitting high on her thighs as she posed alongside her family. Rather than a traditional straight-cut mini, the reconstructed design features an asymmetrical finish made up of overlapping panels. White three-stripe detailing runs vertically across the skirt, while Adidas logo patches add to its sporty, streetwear-inspired feel.
According to the product description, the skirt takes inspiration from the "energy and style of Mexico and New York" and combines a flexible elastic waistband. The unconventional construction gave Mahomes' simple game-day look more edge.

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Angel Reese's signature Barbie sneaker just got the VIP treatment.
Before the Atlanta Dream's Barbie Day matchup against the Las Vegas Aces, Reese was surprised with a one-of-one crystal-covered version of her Reebok x Barbie Angel Reese 1, custom-designed and hand-delivered by celebrity jeweler Erica "Ms. Diggs" Diggs.
Even in Atlanta's 109-87 loss, Reese stuffed the stat sheet with 23 points and 16 rebounds, recording her 20th double-double of the season while debuting the Barbie-inspired colorway.
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Diggs, whose clients include Chris Brown, Odell Beckham Jr., Snoop Dogg, Tyrese, Akon, Jim Jones, and Raekwon, spent two days hand-setting Austrian crystals into the shoe's aqua panels, creating a one-of-one collectible without altering its performance design.

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