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NEW YORK (AP) — It was mother’s day at the NBA draft Wednesday night.The moms of the NBA draftees took centerstage, receiving hugs and wiping away tears as they heard their offspring’s names called.Kelly Flagg, whose son Cooper went first to the Dallas Mavericks, was a strong player in her own right. She starred for the University of Maine in the late 1990s. The 1998-99 team she was on made school history when it won the program’s first NCAA Tournament game, upsetting Stanford.Asked what she helped instill in her son, Kelly Flagg said: “I just hoped that he loved the…
Amazon is promoting rival streamers as it aims to make Prime Video a one-stop entertainment destination ahead of Netflix and YouTube.Amazon has built a big business by letting people easily subscribe to a wide array of streamers from HBO Max to Hallmark+ — via its “channels” program — and it’s leaning into it as it seeks to beat other tech giants in becoming the default destination for TV watching.Execs at Amazon underscored the point Wednesday at Prime Video Engage, an annual gathering it created last year to court its channel partners. Notably for the usually press-shy Amazon, it also invited…
An influential panel of CDC advisers is slated to vote on a little-used preservative called thimerosal — a move that has left many vaccine scientists scratching their heads.Thimerosal is an ingredient that helps keep vaccines pathogen free. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a noted vaccine skeptic, has falsely stated the ingredient is a contributing factor in causing autism. In recent decades, the preservative largely has been phased out of vaccines, even as autism rates continue to climb.On Thursday, a panel of eight CDC advisers hand-picked by Kennedy is slated to vote on whether the ingredient should…
From the moment OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stepped onstage, it was clear this was not going to be a normal interview. Altman and his chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, stood awkwardly toward the back of the stage at a jam-packed San Francisco venue that typically hosts jazz concerts. Hundreds of people filled steep theatre-style seating on Tuesday night to watch Kevin Roose, a columnist with The New York Times, and Platformer’s Casey Newton record a live episode of their popular technology podcast, Hard Fork. Altman and Lightcap were the main event, but they’d walked out too early. Roose explained that…
Question: Will you go to the theaters to see “F1,” the new Brad Pitt racing movie from Apple, this weekend?I might. Partly because I’m a big fan of air conditioning right now. And partly because the movie, directed by the same guy who made the “Top Gun” sequel, looks like it could have very cool racing sequences, at the very minimum.Bigger question, which isn’t a new one: Why is Apple making big-budget movies and putting them in theaters?Like I said, this isn’t a new query. Lots of people in media and tech have been trying to understand Apple’s approach to…
The players selected in the first round of the NBA draft Wednesday night in New York:___1. Dallas Mavericks — Cooper Flagg, forward, 6-8, 221, DukeScouting report: Only the fourth freshman named Associated Press men’s national player of the year. Led Final Four team in scoring (19.2), rebounding (7.5), assists (4.2), steals (1.4) and blocks (1.4). Shot 38.5% on 3-pointers and 84% on free throws. Ranked in 85th percentile or better in converting as the ballhandler in pick-and-rolls, post-ups and transition, according to Synergy’s analytics rankings. Set Atlantic Coast Conference freshman record with 42 points against Notre Dame. Turns 19 in…
2025-06-25T20:04:49Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Jeff Bezos’ wedding to Lauren Sánchez is set to take place this week in Venice. Power players in the business and political spheres have begun to arrive in Italy to celebrate. The wedding has also drawn unwelcome guests: protesters. Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s multiday wedding is kicking off this week, and…
Amazon is on a mission to cut red tape. The company’s grocery boss is going full beans on this goal.During an internal staff meeting for Amazon’s grocery business last week, an employee pressed leadership on how the company plans to speed things up, saying “multiple levels of approval” was slowing down decision-making, according to a recording of the meeting obtained by Business Insider.Amazon’s VP of Worldwide Grocery Jason Buechel, who’s also the CEO of Whole Foods, pounced on the question.He described certain aspects of the grocery business’s internal bureaucracy as “ridiculous” and blamed this for bogging down the business.Amazon has…
Nonprofit Creative Commons, which spearheaded the licensing movement that allows creators to share their works while retaining copyright, is now preparing for the AI era. On Wednesday, the organization announced the launch of a new project, CC signals, which will allow dataset holders to detail how their content can or cannot be reused by machines, as in the case of training AI models. The idea is meant to create a balance between the open nature of the internet and the demand for ever more data to fuel AI. As Creative Commons explains in a blog post, the continued data extraction…
Minnesota became the latest state Wednesday to face a lawsuit from the Trump administration seeking to force it to give its high school graduates who entered the U.S. illegally as immigrants the same lower tuition rates reserved for in-state citizens. The U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit also seeks to strike down a law that allows the same immigrant students to receive scholarships covering part or all of their tuition under the state’s North Star Promise program. The department filed its case in federal district court in Minnesota, naming Democratic Gov. Tim Walz and Democratic state Attorney General Keith Ellison as…