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Toteme Spring 2026 Ready to Wear Runway, Fashion Show & Collection Review
Toteme’s Elin Kling and Karl Lindman once again touched down in New York with their understated and refined take on Swedish minimalism. Now based in Stockholm, the brand was actually founded in New York and once called it home.
“It feels very special and quite nostalgic,” Lindman said backstage. The husband and wife showed at The Pool in the landmarked Seagram Building, the go-to spot for a proper New York power lunch.
When the duo lived here it was the spot to which they came to celebrate moments in their lives. “We love this idea of Park Avenue, the modernism, obviously quite stylish,” he said. “The room is perfectly square, like our monograph.”
On the seats the collection notes spoke of distilling undone beauty, with Kling adding backstage that “bringing more raw elements in and lived-in textures that you can see,” like on a crinkled leather dress and loose knits. “It has quite an ease to it this season,” she added. The undone came via handbags left open, or little raw edges on the straps of wispy knit tanks — subtle ideas on letting go, but still utterly refined.
The lineup was in bright white and black, with a knit dress over transparent slips adding a bit of langour. Satin was a primary fabric, with its lustrous fluidity well explored in incredible cigarette pants and trenchcoats reimagined in the evening fabric with blouson sleeves. Undone as it may have been, there were moments of Scandinavian strictness. A compact knit V-neck sweater hugged a super-size striped men’s button-down, for instance. “I guess that lands in some sort of control still, a sharp control that is very much Toteme,” she said of the idea.
Toteme launched bags three years ago with their popular T-lock styles (many women in attendance were carrying one) and the runway showed their commitment to grow the category with a range of ideas — black and white leather envelope clutches, top-handle lady bags, and a couple of raffia styles in cream and white. They would be good companions for a day at the beach, and several models indeed carried towels with their handbags.
The finale took the beach vibe up a notch, with compact knits in bodysuit and one-piece swim silhouettes, the models cocooning in Swedish lace cover-ups. Not exactly swim, but Kling said it’s a category that she’s looking to bring to the market.
A noble simplicity but never rigid, the spring lineup spoke to why the brand has hit such a strong stride — opening a second store in New York last year, a second one in London this summer and a new flagship in Beijing.
Theirs is a study in modern ease. Toteme’s minimalism feels both exacting and undone — an urban wardrobe distilled to its purest form.
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xAI lays off 500 AI tutors working on Grok
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has laid off 500 workers from its data annotation team, which helps train its Grok chatbot.
The layoffs were earlier reported by Business Insider.
The AI company notified employees over email that it was planning to downsize its team of generalist AI tutors, according to messages viewed by the publication. The company said the “strategic pivot” meant prioritizing specialist AI tutors, while scaling back its focus on general AI tutor roles.
In response to the story, xAI directed reporters to a post on X, in which the company said it plans to expand its specialist AI tutor team by “10X” and intends to open roles on its careers page.
The human data annotator team at xAI plays a key role in teaching Grok to understand the world by labeling, contextualizing, and categorizing raw data used to train the chatbot. The email sent by xAI said that laid-off workers would be paid through either the end of their contract or Nov. 30, but their access to company systems would be terminated the day of the layoff notice.
Prior to the layoff, the xAI’s data annotation team was one of the largest, with 1,500 full-time and contract staff members, which included AI tutors. The reorganization of the data annotators team comes on the back of a leadership shake-up at the team that saw nine employees reportedly exit the firm last week.
As a sign of its changing approach to training Grok, xAI on Thursday asked some of the AI tutors to prepare for tests, Business Insider reported, that covered traditional domains such as STEM, coding, finance, and medicine, as well as quirkier specialties such as Grok’s “personality and model behavior” and doomscrollers.”
Musk launched xAI in 2023 to compete with OpenAI and Google DeepMind, which are racing to win the AI race. He introduced Grok as a safe and truthful alternative to what he accused competitors of building, “woke” chatbots prone to censorship.
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Beyond the Prostate: Expanding the Role of the Rectal Exam With Amy Stewart, NP
Rectal examinations are a routine yet often underutilized component of physical assessment across a wide range of clinical settings. While they are frequently associated with prostate evaluation, particularly in men, their scope is much broader and extends to the detection of multiple anorectal conditions.
Despite their importance, many clinicians report limited training or discomfort with performing rectal exams, which can contribute to underuse and misinterpretation of findings, some of the most common of which include hemorrhoids, anal fissures, perianal abscesses, fistulas, and skin tags. Beyond these, rectal exams can also reveal more serious conditions such as anal cancer or precancerous lesions related to human papillomavirus (HPV).
For further insight into her session at GHAPP and some of the key takeaways for NPs and PAs, the editorial team of HCPLive Gastroenterology spoke with Stewart for the following Q&A:
HCPLive: What are the goals of and take home messages from this session?
Stewart: My fun titled topic is “Everything Anal: What’s Going on Back There?”
I think in school for many of us NPs and PAs were taught how to do a very basic rectal exam, which usually focuses on the prostate. But that’s not our goal of a rectal exam in practice, right? So in practice, we need to distinguish between hemorrhoids, fissures, abscesses, fistula, HPV, and anal cancer without anyone ever really teaching us how to do this exam.
My talk is about all of the different kinds of common anal rectal conditions that you see and how to clinically examine for them, what you need specifically to do on your exam, what you’re looking for. It also includes a lot of pictures so people can really see what they might see in clinic. The goal is for participants to really leave that talk feeling much more confident about a rectal exam, which is a really key piece of our job as NPs and PAs.
HCPLive: What are the most common misconceptions or misdiagnoses you see when it comes to rectal exams?
Stewart: So I would say in general, less so from GI APPs, but certainly from my colleagues who work in urgent care and primary care, if you don’t do a lot of rectal exams, it can be hard to understand the pathology of what you’re looking for. I see many skin tags that are treated as active hemorrhoids, and you can put all the steroid cream you want on a skin tag, but it’s not going to change or go away. So a component of my talk is the difference between the two.
Anal fissures are also often really commonly misdiagnosed or missed on exam. You can see them, but you really have to get into all the nooks and crannies of that perianal skin in order to see them. There’s a lot of really good clinical pearls, if you will, in what you’re looking for and what you’re going to see on exam.
HCPLive: Are there any other key takeaways you would like to highlight?
Stewart: I think just some other things that sometimes GIs don’t recognize as often is HPV. So looking for condylomas or pre-cancerous changes from HPV, as they also specialize in anal HPV, but also herpes lesions are often misdiagnosed as fissures too. So I also have some information about that, and really kind of the clinical picture of how that presents for people as well.
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Villanueva Herrero JA, Abdussalam A, Kasi A. Rectal Exam. StatPearls. February 18, 2023. Accessed September 15, 2025.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537356/
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US banks borrow $1.5 bln from Fed's repo facility in sign of mild funding pressure – Reuters
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AMD Officially Confirms The End Of The AMDVLK Driver
To no real surprise given the happenings (or there the lack of) the past few months, AMD formally announced publicly today that their open-source AMDVLK driver has been discontinued in favor of the Mesa RADV driver for Vulkan needs on Linux.
Back in May AMD announced they would begin officially supporting the Mesa RADV driver as part of their packaged Radeon Software for Linux. In turn they would be dropping their proprietary OpenGL and Vulkan drivers from Radeon Software for Linux.
Since then there have not been any new AMDVLK releases. Earlier this month I called it dead within Four Months Have Passed Since The Last AMDVLK Driver Release. Today it’s been officially confirmed that the AMDVLK driver is discontinued.
Via the AMDVLK GitHub:
“In a move to streamline development and strengthen our commitment to the open-source community, AMD is unifying its Linux Vulkan driver strategy and has decided to discontinue the AMDVLK open-source project, throwing our full support behind the RADV driver as the officially supported open-source Vulkan driver for Radeon™ graphics adapters.
This consolidation allows us to focus our resources on a single, high-performance codebase that benefits from the incredible work of the entire open-source community. We invite developers and users alike to utilize the RADV driver and contribute to its future.”
This is a good but long overdue decision by AMD. RADV has long been more popular with gamers/enthusiasts on Linux than their own official driver. Thanks to Valve, Google, Red Hat, and others, RADV has evolved very nicely. More recently with the Vulkan ray-tracing maturing well and other remaining gaps addressed for workstation, compute, and other areas, it only makes sense now going all-in on RADV for AMD Vulkan support on Linux.
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One in 6 Parents in US Delay or Skip Routine Vaccination for Children
A large majority of parents in the US view long-standing childhood vaccines, such as those for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) and polio, as safe and important. However, investigators found that about 1 in 6 respondents said they had delayed or skipped at least 1 vaccine for children—other than flu and COVID-19. The survey from KFF and the Washington Post showed that parents are less confident in seasonal flu and COVID-19 vaccines.1
However, a large majority of parents in the US believe routine childhood vaccines, such as the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and polio vaccine, are safe and important. | Image Credit: pingpao – stock.adobe.com
The poll was conducted from July 18 to August 4, 2025, and included 2716 parents and guardians of children under 18 years in the US. Children resided at the parents’/guardians’ household, and respondents conducted online and phone interviews. The Margin of sampling error included was plus or minus 2 percentage points, according to the survey methodology.2
In total, 90% and 88% of parents said the MMR and polio vaccines, respectively, were important for children in their community and 84% and 85%, respectively, said they were confident of the vaccines’ safety. However, seasonal vaccines were more divided, with 65% and 43% of parents saying the flu and COVID-19 vaccines, respectively, are safe for children. For importance, only 56% and 43%, respectively, believed these vaccines were important for children.1,3
Approximately 4% of parents skipped the MMR vaccine, and 5% delayed it; 4% skipped and 5% delayed the diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis vaccine; 5% skipped and 4% delayed the hepatitis B vaccine; 4% skipped and delayed the chickenpox vaccine; and 3% skipped and 4% delayed the polio vaccine. Among those who skipped or delayed the vaccines, the most common reasons included concern about adverse effects, a lack of trust in vaccine safety, and belief that not all that are recommended are necessary. A vast majority (81%) of parents said that public schools should require measles and polio vaccines, with exceptions for medical and religious reasons, and 8% of parents said they requested an exemption from vaccine requirements for their child.1,3
Additionally, parents under the age of 35 years had greater concerns about vaccine safety compared with parents over 35 years, including 29% of younger parents saying vaccines do not go through enough safety testing before being recommended compared with 35% for those 35 to 49 years and 26% for those 50 years and older. Younger parents were also more likely to have skipped or delayed at least 1 childhood vaccine (19%) compared with parents 50 years and older (12%).3
For measles specifically, investigators also asked parents about false claims regarding vaccination and the disease in general. Many respondents were uncertain about what to believe, with 9% of parents believing that the MMR vaccines can cause autism spectrum disorder, rising to 16% for parents who have a child with autism. Approximately 48% of parents said they do not have enough information to make a determination.3
Approximately 14% of parents also said that they have a lot of confidence in government agencies such as the CDC and the FDA, with 29% having little confidence and 22% having none at all. Further, 26% of parents said that the CDC recommends too many vaccines, and 52% of parents said the CDC recommendations have the right amount of childhood vaccines.1,3
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1. New KFF-Washington Post survey explores parents’ trust in, and confusion about, childhood vaccines as the Trump Administration revamps federal policies. News release. KFF. September 15, 2025. Accessed September 15, 2025. https://www.kff.org/public-opinion/new-kff-washington-post-survey-explores-parents-trust-in-and-confusion-about-childhood-vaccines-as-the-trump-administration-revamps-federal-policies/
2. KFF, Washington Post. Survey of parents. September 15, 2025. Accessed September 15, 2025. https://files.kff.org/attachment/topline-kff-washington-post-survey-of-parents.pdf
3. Kearney A, Montero A, Valdes I, Hamel L, Kirzinger A. KFF/The Washington Post survey of parents. KFF. September 15, 2025. Accessed September 15, 2025. https://www.kff.org/public-opinion/kff-the-washington-post-survey-of-parents/#c1001c76-8dd1-4230-8b89-58d04f9f1cba
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Calvin Harris Accuses Financial Adviser of Stealing Millions to Fund ‘Boondoggle’ Real Estate Project
Calvin Harris, the Scottish music producer and DJ, has accused his financial adviser of stealing $22.5 million to fund a “boondoggle” real estate project in Hollywood.
Harris alleges that his adviser, Thomas St. John, induced him to invest in CMNTY Culture Campus, a 460,000 square foot development that was to include recording studios, office space and artists’ lounges.
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According to an arbitration demand, St. John, who served as Harris’ financial adviser for 13 years, began developing the project around 2020. Harris’ lawyers allege that the project ran low on cash in 2023, and that St. John turned to Harris to for an emergency cash infusion.
Harris’ attorneys allege that St. John gave him no information about the project, but just handed over documents for him to sign. According to the demand, Harris — whose legal name is Adam Wiles — made a $10 million loan to the project and a $12.5 million equity investment.
“To this day, Claimants do not know where Claimants’ investment has gone or what it has been used for,” Harris’ attorneys alleged. “In any event, Respondents had no intention of Mr. Wiles actually receiving back the full value of his investment, through distributions or otherwise.”
Shortly after the investment was made, Harris alleges that St. John caused the company to distribute $11.7 million to an entity that St. John controls. (St. John, through his attorneys, has denied this allegation.)
Harris’ attorneys allege that the real estate investment “has been, at best, a complete boondoggle, and, at worst, a complete fraud.”
In 2024, the developers announced that due to “shifting market dynamics,” they had opted to pursue a residential project on the site, which is at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Highland Avenue.
St. John’s attorney, Sasha Frid, said in a statement to Variety that Harris is one of several investors in the project, which will include 750 apartments in two towers of 34 and 38 stories. Frid said the project will include 90 low-income units as well as outdoor, creative and retail spaces.
Harris “actively pursued this development opportunity,” Frid said. “Unhappy with the pace of the project, he chose to pursue private arbitration to assert his discontent. It’s no secret that due to interest rates and other market factors real estate projects are taking longer to build. But the development is very much viable and expected to have a $900+ million valuation when completed. Mr. St. John denies any wrongdoing.”
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Early Release – Emergence and Polyclonal Dissemination of blaNDM-7–Carrying InX3 Plasmid in Enterobacter cloacae Complex, France, 2021–2023 – Volume 31, Number 10—October 2025 – Emerging Infectious Diseases journal
Emergence and Polyclonal Dissemination of blaNDM-7–Carrying InX3 Plasmid in Enterobacter cloacae Complex, France, 2021–2023
Volume 31, Number 10—October 2025
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‘Charlie Harper’ Movie Acquired By Row K Entertainment Out Of TIFF
Row K Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Charlie Harper, the indie romance starring Nick Robinson (The Kings of Summer) and Emilia Jones (CODA) that’s coming off its world premiere in the Special Presentations section of the Toronto Film Festival.
A new U.S. distributor launched last month, Row K has really come out swinging on the festival this fall. This new deal comes on the heels of their first — also at TIFF — for rights to Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire starring Bill Skarsgård, Dacre Montgomery, Cary Elwes, Myha’la, Colman Domingo, and Al Pacino.
Directed by Tom Dean and Mac Eldridge, Charlie Harper is billed as a complicated love story of Charlie (Robinson) and Harper (Jones), two young adults who fall in love while navigating their early 20s, discovering themselves both as individuals and as a couple.
Producers include Wyck Godfrey, Isaac Klausner, Laura Quicksilver, Patrick Wachsberger, Ashley Stern, and Mallory Edens. Wesley R. Edens, Pascal Breton, Lionel Uzan, Marty Bowen, and Ashley Farrell served as EPs.
In a statement on the acquisition, Row K Co-Chairman Christopher Woodrow and Raj Singh, who are Principals at the distributor’s parent company MCT, said, “Tom and Mac have crafted a captivating feature with Charlie Harper, brought to life by powerful performances from Nick Robinson and Emilia Jones. On the heels of our first acquisition out of TIFF, this second pickup reflects the momentum we’re building at Row K and our commitment to bringing daring, filmmaker-driven stories to audiences. We’re especially excited to be championing a film that captures the exhilaration of early adulthood in a way that is both timeless and deeply resonant.”
Built to meet the growing demands of the modern distribution marketplace, Row K focuses on wide release, star-driven, and prestige filmmaker-driven movies with global appeal. CAA Media Finance helped ideate the company and serves as an advisory partner.
UTA Independent Film Group, which repped U.S. rights to Charlie Harper, negotiated the deal for the filmmakers alongside Picture Perfect Federation, which is repping worldwide rights, and Little Ray Media. Andrew Kramer of Willkie Farr & Gallagher repped Row K on the transaction.
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