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DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Mavericks CEO Rick Welts wasn’t thinking even for a second about Cooper Flagg when he started a staff meeting before the draft lottery by saying the club was entering the most important offseason in franchise history.The longtime NBA executive and relatively new leader on the business side of the Mavs was thinking about the lingering fallout of the widely reviled Luka Doncic trade, not the club turning a 1.8% chance into winning the rights to draft the teenaged star from Duke. Dallas is set to make that pick Wednesday night.“Never, ever did anybody in our organization…
The venture capitalist and former tech executive Peter Deng says he looks for self-starters when hiring.Deng, a general partner at the venture capital firm Felicis, spent over a decade at Meta, where he served as the head of product at Facebook and Instagram. Deng joined OpenAI in May 2023 as its vice president of consumer product. He left the ChatGPT maker in July.”There’s a saying that I have, which is what I really optimize for everyone that I support and everyone I hire, which is in six months, if I’m telling you what to do, I’ve hired the wrong person,”…
Last week I flew to Connecticut to visit my family. I was excited about New England oysters, seeing my niece’s dance recital, taking my son to visit my old summer camp and one oddball mission: a trip to IKEA. Where I live in Nashville, Tenn., the closest IKEA is a three-hour drive away, in Memphis. So I was psyched to traipse through the New Haven location with my 9-year-old and stock up on everything from art supplies to striped pillowcases — and, of course, brilliant home reorganization ideas thanks to the IKEA showroom.Two hours and 2,100 steps later, I walked…
Americans are fed a lot of information about what counts as healthy food. We wanted to know if these nutritional values are really as important to Americans as the headlines suggest, so, with the help of YouGov, we polled more than 1,500 U.S. adults in April 2025.The results: Most people agree that protein is important, and food dyes should be banned. And yet, a much smaller share of Americans are checking food labels for these ingredients. So what gives? We spoke to experts about whether Americans really value the nutritional concerns that make headlines, and what you can do to…
CHICAGO (AP) — Three dozen police captains pair off in a Chicago conference room to play a game: They must start a sentence with the last word their partner used.Many exchanges are nonsensical, full of one-upmanship using difficult words and laughter. But the improvisation game eventually makes sense.“What we are trying to do, is get you to listen to the end of the sentence,” says Kelly Leonard, wrapping up the improvisational exercise. “If my arm was a sentence, when do most people stop listening? Always the elbow! But then you’re missing everything that goes after… and sometimes that’s critical information.”The…
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The first female and first African president of the IOC, Kirsty Coventry, was inaugurated in the role Monday on the organization’s 131st birthday with praise that the Olympic movement was “in the best of hands.”Coventry, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in swimming for Zimbabwe, finally and formally takes office Tuesday aged just 41 after decisively winning a seven-candidate election in March to succeed Thomas Bach.Coventry cited her family including her two young daughters as “my rocks, my inspiration” to lead the International Olympic Committee through the next eight years including the 2028 Summer Games in Los…
BOLOGNA, Italy (AP) — Formula 1 rookie Kimi Antonelli passed his final exams to graduate from high school back home in Italy just like he’s been passing other cars on tracks around the world: without trouble.The 18-year-old Mercedes driver made the announcement in an Instagram story Monday, saying “promosso” — “passed” — with a photo of himself wearing a laurel wreath.After claiming his first podium result with a third-place finish at the Canadian Grand Prix, Antonelli returned home to Casalecchio di Reno, near Bologna, to take his exams.“I was fairly stressed, because I didn’t have much time to study. But…
OpenAI’s cofounder said vibe coding has left human engineers to do quality control.On an episode of Stripe’s “Cheeky Pint” podcast uploaded last week, OpenAI’s cofounder and president, Greg Brockman, said that AI coding will only get better. But until then, it’s taking away some parts of software engineering that he said are enjoyable.”What we’re going to see is AIs taking more and more of the drudgery, more of this like pain, more of the parts that are not very fun for humans,” Brockman said. He added, “So far, the vibe coding has actually taken a lot of code that is…
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The promise came three years ago from Oklahoma City general manager Sam Presti. It might have been overlooked for a couple of reasons. One, the Thunder were awful at the time. Two, he was speaking Latin.“Labor omnia vincit,” Presti said after the 2021-22 season, quoting a motto of Oklahoma. Depending on how Presti was translating it, it could have been “hard work conquers all” or “slow work conquers all.”Either way, it applies to the Thunder. They did hard work. They did slow work.They conquered all.The Thunder — three years removed from winning 24 games — won…
VACAVILLE, Calif. (AP) — One day last fall, Ray Woodfork found himself being challenged to a fight by a fellow inmate half his age on the grounds of Solano State Prison.Woodfork would have been tempted not so long ago. The Golden State Warriors have helped turn him toward a different way of thinking.This time, the once-aspiring college basketball player, who was serving as referee for the prison football league that day, immediately made it clear he had no interest in an altercation. Woodfork said he chose to walk away and return to his dorm.He acknowledges had he fought there’s no…