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Clash at Morowali Nickel Mine Forces Evacuations

Six people were injured and 75 foreign workers evacuated after fighting at one of Indonesia's biggest nickel complexes.

A clash at the Morowali nickel mine has left six people injured, and 75 foreign workers were evacuated from the site, the Jakarta Post reported on Tuesday. Morowali is home to one of Indonesia's largest nickel processing and industrial complexes, so any trouble there is watched closely.

This is not the first conflict in the region, the Post notes, so it reads less like a single bad day at one mine and more like part of a pattern. The evacuation of 75 foreign workers shows how seriously the situation was taken, and what happens at the complex next is worth watching.

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Thirty years after its first website, Gap lets shoppers get recommendations from AI platforms, with Banana Republic and Old Navy following.

Gap unveiled AI-assisted shopping on Monday, October 5, three decades after the company's first website went up, Retail Dive reports. Customers can now get recommendations from the Alta Daily and Daydream platforms, and Banana Republic and Old Navy are also launching conversational options of their own.

The timing makes for a neat bookend: a retailer that went online three decades ago is now asking shoppers to talk to the store rather than simply browse it. The announcement reaches Banana Republic and Old Navy too, so it will be worth watching how shoppers respond, and how far other retailers follow.

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Alessandro Michele's spring 2027 collection treats clothes as imaginative relics rather than things made simply to be sold.

Alessandro Michele's Valentino spring/summer 2027 show, titled "Antilibrary," was reviewed by Hypebeast under the line "brought the noise to the library." The collection frames garments as imaginative relics, objects that transcend standard commercial functionality instead of simply answering what a customer might want to buy.

The name does the arguing. A library suggests quiet, order and things kept on shelves; an antilibrary suggests the opposite, and Michele seems happy to let the clothes make that point loudly. It is a reminder that a runway collection can be an idea first and a product second, and that some designers still treat fashion as a place for imagination.

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WIRED says interviews with Justine Wilson and Ashley St. Clair are the most damning part of the nearly four-hour film.

WIRED's take on Musk, a documentary running nearly four hours, finds its most damning material in the interviews with Justine Wilson and Ashley St. Clair, who appear as Elon Musk's exes. Together, WIRED says, they help paint the world's richest man as capricious and cruel.

It is telling that in a film of nearly four hours, WIRED singles out the voices of people who knew him personally. Accounts from those who were close to the powerful tend to cut through public image, which is why this one lands. Whether the documentary changes how anyone sees Musk is another matter.