The Aaron Esh AllSaints collection lands internationally today, an autumn/winter 2026 debut that TheIndustry.fashion reports also introduces a new logo and graphic system, with the brand’s Ramskull repositioned across product, imagery, and editorial projects. If you’ve been following fashion’s ongoing experiment in pairing established designers with high-street muscle, this one has been circled on the calendar for a while. Fashion Network confirmed Esh’s title as chief creative officer, effective 3 November 2025, a notch above the ‘creative director’ label that initially circulated, and a hint at how seriously AllSaints is taking the mandate. How the Aaron Esh AllSaints Collection Came…
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Marcus Hale has been filing general news for the better part of fifteen years. He started at a regional evening paper, moved to a mid-sized digital outlet covering UK news, and spent three years as a general assignment reporter before going freelance. He has covered inquests, council elections, infrastructure announcements, and the kind of stories that sit on page five but matter on page one. He writes about public services, housing, local government, and the institutional stories that take six months to develop and thirty seconds to read. He prefers facts to angles and considers that unfashionable. Marcus lives in Bristol. He still reads the local paper and thinks that makes him an endangered species.
The SaaS News reported that the Blue Voice AI funding round, a $6 million seed led by SignalFire and Las Olas Venture Capital, closed on 31 August 2026, which is when most people outside of 225 county agencies across 25 states first heard the company existed. Blue Voice has been running in stealth for three years. The pitch is simple enough: officers make life-and-death calls from memory, working off thousands of pages of department policy, municipal ordinances, and state law they have internalised and carry in their heads. When recall fails in the field, the options have historically been grim:…
The rise of AI-powered vulnerability hunting is forcing a rethink of how AI government hacking tools fit into the broader tension between state surveillance and personal privacy. Johns Hopkins cryptography professor Matthew Green put it plainly in a blog post published on 14 August 2026: if AI makes software significantly more secure by eliminating the bugs governments currently exploit, law enforcement and intelligence agencies could soon find themselves locked out of the devices they are legally permitted to target. The argument, which spread quickly through the cybersecurity community, is less alarmist than it sounds once you understand the underlying deal…
US drone and robot restrictions are reshaping global competition in robotics, but industry analysts warn they may accelerate a fragmented world market rather than deliver a clean American victory. Washington has spent the past year methodically building a regulatory wall, and China has the manufacturing scale to simply route around it. What the US Drone and Robot Restrictions Actually Cover The scope of the restrictions is broader than most headlines suggest. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and their critical components to its FCC Covered List on 22 December 2025, covering data transmission devices, flight controllers,…
The Yoshiokubo Spring 2027 collection, titled ‘Natural Born Nomads,’ kicked off Rakuten Fashion Week Tokyo’s Spring/Summer 2027 edition with a desert-survival concept that felt less like a trend presentation and more like a production number with actual intellectual stakes. The show ran at 13:30 on Monday 31 August 2026, a by-invitation-only runway event, and set the tone for a week running through 5 September across Shibuya Hikarie and a spread of independent venues around the city. A Mongolian Ger in the Middle of Tokyo The centrepiece of the show was a real Mongolian ger, planted on the runway as a…
Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields festival landed at Great Park in Irvine, California on 29 August 2026, produced in partnership with Live Nation, and it landed with something most festivals quietly lack: a reason to exist beyond the line-up. Temperatures crept north of 103 degrees, the babydoll dresses were out in force, and thousands of attendees showed up anyway, buoyed by what one can only honestly describe as amazing vibes. Whether those vibes were born of the music, the feminist solidarity, or the sheer novelty of a major festival with an all-women bill, it was hard to separate the strands.…
The Liux Big microcar is Spain’s most audacious bet that a small European car built around genuine sustainability can hold its own against a flood of cheap Chinese EVs. That is a tall order for a 65-person startup based in Azuqueca de Henares, but Liux has spent four years quietly building the case. The company secured Europe-wide homologation for the Big in 2026 and expects to start selling it in the first half of next year. Pricing will come in below €18,000 (around $21,000) before any EV subsidies, sitting at the higher end of the microcar bracket. The waiting list…
London, UK – 14 Sept, 2026: a British sitcom pilot has gone live on YouTube without a camera, a crew or a location shoot behind it. No Big Deal, written by Andrew Dickinson and produced by the UK studio ModeLabs.ai, is believed to be the world’s first sitcom written by a human and produced entirely using AI. The episode is free to watch here. Traditional production ruled out early Dickinson, who worked as an angel investor and investment manager before turning to comedy, did not set out to make an AI production. The intention was a conventional television build, and…
Caterpillar AI deployment has a different origin story than most: instead of starting with a chatbot or a recommendation engine, it started with a haul truck in a mine. The industrial giant spent decades automating some of the most hazardous and remote worksites on earth before it ever tried to put a voice assistant in a field technician’s hands, and that sequencing matters. From Mining to Construction: The Logic of Caterpillar AI Deployment The company’s push into autonomy grew out of mining, where labour shortages and dangerous conditions made the case for automation almost self-evident. Today, Caterpillar sells automated haul…
The Sony Music Warner Anthropic lawsuit filed late on 28 August 2026 is the most expansive copyright action Anthropic has faced yet, accusing the AI company and its co-founders of a ‘brazen campaign of illegally torrenting, scraping, and downloading copyrighted works’ to train its Claude model. Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music are the lead plaintiffs, joined by numerous other publishers, in a case filed as 5:2026cv09217 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Anthropic co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann are named personally as defendants. A jury trial has been demanded. ‘We disagree with…