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LONDON (AP) — Aryna Sabalenka was just two points from dropping the opening set of her second-round Wimbledon match three times on Wednesday before asserting herself for a 7-6 (4), 6-4 victory over Marie Bouzkova to avoid the sort of surprise that has sent a group of seeded players home.Four of the top 10 women’s seeds failed to make it out of the first round: No. 2 Coco Gauff, No. 3 Jessica Pegula, No. 5 Zheng Qinwen and No. 9 Paula Badosa. In all, a record-tying 23 seeded players — 10 women, 13 men — were gone by the end…
Joie Armstrong asked her doctor about taking a GLP-1 medication to help her lose weight six times before she got a prescription, and then was denied coverage by her insurance company. Adrian, a systems engineer, had a choice between paying out of pocket for a GLP-1 medication or feeding his family. Chanel Robinson spent months fighting with her insurance company via certified snail mail over coverage for the medication. Gabriela Pena wanted to take a name-brand GLP-1, but high costs drove her to get her medication from an online telehealth provider and compounding pharmacy that seemed, at first, shady to…
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills first-round draft pick Maxwell Hairston was accused in a lawsuit of sexually assaulting a woman in 2021 at the University of Kentucky.The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in federal court in Kentucky by a woman who claims Hairston entered her dorm room without being invited, ignored her when she said didn’t want to have sexual intercourse, forcibly removed her bottoms and sexually assaulted her. The Associated Press does not typically name alleged victims of sexual assault.Texts seeking comment Wednesday were sent to agents for Hairston.The Bills had no comment and referred to statements made by…
When OpenAI leaders Nick Turley and Mark Chen talk about hiring, they don’t rattle off Ivy League credentials or AI competition wins.Instead, they value something far more human: curiosity and initiative.In a Tuesday episode of OpenAI’s podcast, Turley, the head of ChatGPT, said the single most important trait he looks for isn’t technical prowess, but curiosity.”It’s the number one thing that I’ve looked for,” Turley said. “And it’s actually my advice to students when they ask me, ‘What do I do in this world where everything’s changing?'””There’s so much we don’t know,” he said. “There’s a certain amount of humility…
In Silicon Valley, it is the summer of compensation FOMO.Startup employees and venture investors have been swapping stories about eye-popping salary and equity packages as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has rushed to pay top dollar to poach elite AI and machine-learning talent. While some people are getting offers in the tens of millions of dollars, others who aren’t getting such rich packages thrown their way are feeling left out.”There’s a ton of ripple effects I’m hearing in the Valley,” said Deedy Das, an AI investor at Anthropic backer Menlo Ventures. “There is a sense of jealousy, envy, and helplessness, and…
Canva’s cofounder and chief operating officer says it’s foolish for creatives not to embrace AI.Cliff Obrecht, who cofounded the design software company with his wife Melanie Perkins, said designers are reacting to AI like they did to Canva in its early days.”So at Canva, when we launched, a lot of designers said, ‘Canva, we hate you. You are ruining our industry. You are like letting everyone design,'” Obrecht said on a Tuesday podcast episode of Masters of Scale.”And so over time, it didn’t take long, within four years, designers didn’t feel threatened by Canva,” he said, adding that Canva’s tools…
LONDON (AP) — Before Wimbledon began, Coco Gauff reflected on the significance of her breakthrough performance at the place six years ago — a run to the fourth round at age 15 — and what aspirations she harbored as she prepared to return.“Even when I see videos of me during that time, it just doesn’t feel like it’s me. It felt like a dream. I’ll always have special memories from that run and, I guess, it definitely fueled the belief that I can be on tour and live out my dream,” she told The Associated Press.“It’s something that always holds…
Nikolaj Ehlers could choose his destination as soon as Wednesday after letting the start of NHL free agency pass without signing a contract.Ehlers became one of the rare top players available not to sign on the first day of free agency, opting instead to sit back and consider his options. Carolina, Tampa Bay and Washington were considered among the teams interested in pursuing the 29-year-old from Denmark who played his first nine seasons with Winnipeg.“We’ve had talks with his agent,” Hurricanes general manager Eric Tulsky said. “He’s taking his time to field offers. He’s obviously a very popular person right…
TikTok and ByteDance employees are bracing for possible layoffs after the company informed staff it would announce “organizational and personnel changes” early Wednesday morning, according to a memo viewed by Business Insider.The changes would impact workers in the company’s global e-commerce business, TikTok Shop, which has had several rounds of layoffs this year.”Over the past month, we have assessed how we can best support our evolving Global E-commerce business in alignment with our mission and evolving goals in the market,” the company wrote in the memo.These changes come from “careful analysis of how to create more efficient operating models for…
The détente between two of the world’s most powerful men did not hold.After their very public fallout over President Donald Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill in early June, Elon Musk, the former face of DOGE, softened his tone on the president. Musk deleted several posts on X, and Trump also simmered the war of words.The Tesla CEO restarted his posting spree on X, however, after the Senate narrowly cleared a procedural vote on the spending bill over the weekend. By Tuesday, when the Senate ultimately passed its version of the Big, Beautiful Bill, the feud was back in full swing.From the…