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Pickleball facility franchisor The Picklr has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the company seeks to reorganize after what its founder acknowledged was a costly business mistake tied to early lease guarantees. The indoor pickleball company filed late Friday in the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas, according to a public statement from the company. The Picklr said an investor group led by one of its franchisees has committed $4.5 million in financing, subject to court approval, while Sports Business Journal reported the group has committed $4.8 million to sponsor the reorganization. Founder and CEO Jorge Barragan told SBJ the bankruptcy filing stems in part from The Picklr agreeing to serve as a guarantor for facility lease payments for some early franchisees. Barragan said about 40 locations had those arrangements, which became an untenable burden for the parent company. "We signed, unfortunately, too many corporate guarantees that landed on the holding company, and that’s on us. I own it," Barragan said. "Utilizing [Chapter 11 bankruptcy] is going to allow all of us to work with these landlords to figure out how to create profitable businesses.

Meta says it's launching the biggest and best AI models it has ever built Meta has launched a new series of AI models, Muse Wonder, that it says has caught up to labs like Anthropic and OpenAI. "Muse Wonder is a much larger and more advanced class of models that brings us to the frontier," CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on X on Monday. It’s the latest sign that Meta’s big bet on AI — which has raised questions from investors — is paying off after the launch of its personal AI assistant, Muse. Meta is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on AI, prompting some investor doubts earlier this year. The Wonder series comes in two versions: Muse Wonder, a smaller, fast model Meta expects people to use for daily work, and Wonder Full, a larger and more capable version, the company said in a statement. Meta built its new AI models to complete complex multi-step tasks, such as disputing an insurance claim. To handle that, the AIs have features such as memory and the ability to try alternative approaches. The Muse Wonder series was internally codenamed Watermelon, according to a person familiar with the matter.

A Cessna 680A Citation Latitude operated by NetJets Europe takes off from Cascais Municipal Aerodrome on June 15, 2026 in Cascais, Portugal. Manufacturers delivered 318 new business jets and turboprops during the third quarter of 2026, compared with 301 during the same period a year earlier, led by small jets and single-engine turboprops, according to Aviation Week's Fleet Discovery data. Deliveries include 219 business jets and 99...

As a former flight attendant, I've learned ways to make long-haul economy flights more bearable. Before I stepped away from my flight attendant job after nearly 10 years in the sky, I picked up a lot of tricks for making long-haul travel more bearable. Now, as a passenger who regularly flies economy, I stick to the same system every time. From packing multiple outfits to deplaning last, here are my 6 dos and don'ts for long flights. I get to the airport extra early — and I switch outfits twice.

Reading time: 2 minutesCybersecurity Lab Small business owners and sole proprietors across Hawaiʻi are invited to learn how autonomous AI tools can streamline operations, save time and stretch limited resources in an upcoming free webinar offered by University of Hawaiʻi Maui College.

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Tiny chips help AI data centers harness power from the energy grid and advancements in these chips could help data centers use less power. CNN got a rare look at how these chips are made.

Canadian currency on a table. (CNW Group/Unifor) Only 7% of small businesses plan to grow or diversify significantly over the next 12 months, according to the latest research from the Canadian Federation of Independent business. A third of small businesses (31%) say they aren’t growing because of cost and economic pressures, and of those, over half (59%) cite the tax burden as the biggest barrier preventing their business from expanding.

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IREN Limited‘s IREN transformation into an AI infrastructure provider could give it a more durable source of demand than Bitcoin (CRYPTO:$BTC) mining, but the transition comes with a different set of financial pressures. The company is trading cryptocurrency-linked revenue for long-term computing contracts, while taking on the challenge of financing, building and operating infrastructure that AI customers increasingly need. From Bitcoin to AI CloudThe shift is already visible in IREN’s financial results. In fiscal 2026, ended June 30, the company generated $578.2 million in Bitcoin mining revenue, compared with $128.8 million from AI Cloud Services, according to its annual results. AI Cloud revenue increased nearly eightfold from $16.4 million in fiscal 2025, while total revenue rose to $707 million from $501 million. IREN is reallocating electricity and data-center capacity from mining equipment toward computing infrastructure used for AI training and inference, the process of running trained models to generate responses. In its 2026 annual filing, the company said it aims to substantially complete this transition by Dec. 31, 2026.

South Bruce OPP say they received reports about a physical confrontation at a Queen Street business on Sept. 30 Two teenagers have now been charged following a disturbance at a Kincardine business late last month.

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After visiting over 100 countries on my own, Italy is one of my favorites. On my 36th birthday, I crossed the border from Uganda into Rwanda, commemorating my 100th country visited as a solo traveler. It was a gift — literally — to have this happen on my birthday, but also a huge feat for me. I took my first solo trip when I was a 25-year-old bartender in New York City. Since then, I've been all over — from popular tourist destinations to off-the-beaten-path destinations like rural Madagascar and tiny islands like Jeju and Nevis — documenting my ventures on my blog, No Man Nomad, along the way. After being privileged enough to see so many corners of the world, I can say with confidence that destinations are simply better suited for new solo travelers. If I had to start this wild, wacky journey all over again, here are five destinations I'd consider for a first-time solo trip.

New research links CEO personality to diversification into unrelated businesses and pay arrangements that may favor executives over shareholders. Ahead of Boss's Day, a new study suggests there may be more to leadership decisions than strategy and incentives — personality matters, too.

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I'm glad I moved my family from the United States to the Netherlands, but we've run into a few issues and missteps while adjusting to our new lives. The day my son burst into tears at our kitchen table in Utrecht, I realized my meticulous spreadsheets and research hadn't prepared us for everything. "Mom, I'm the only one who doesn't understand anything," he said, pushing away his untouched dinner. "Everyone else is so far ahead, and I can't follow anything. "That moment, hearing him talk about feeling behind in school, crystallized my first major mistake in our move from Atlanta to the Netherlands in May 2024. Although our relocation has transformed our lives in incredible ways — offering everything from better healthcare to true work-life balance — there were several costly missteps I wish someone had warned me about. For one, I hadn't anticipated how challenging it would be for my kids in the first six months as they adjusted to everything in their lives being new. Here's what I learned the hard way, hoping to save other American families from the same expensive and stressful situations. Assuming we didn't need to rush learning Dutch was a mistake