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OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) — Sam Burns is a birdie machine at Oakmont, a label not many expected at this U.S. Open. By avoiding another sloppy finish, Burns posted a 5-under 65 on Friday and set the target for the late starters — and let Scottie Scheffler know the mountain he faced.Burns has made 11 birdies through two rounds, joining Viktor Hovland for most sup-par holes through 36 holes in the three U.S. Opens at Oakmont since it switched to a par 70 in 2007.Burns needed them to make up for Thursday’s rough ending, when he was one shot out of…

Meta just made a $14.3 billion bet on data-labeling company Scale AI, but it’s not a traditional takeover: Meta’s taking a 49% stake in the company and adding Scale’s co-founder Alexandr Wang to its team. The move signals Meta’s growing urgency to keep up in the AI race, even if its strategy for competing with heavyweights like OpenAI and Google is still a little confusing. Today, on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Max Zeff, and Anthony Ha break down the deal, dig up an interview from Kirsten’s archives featuring Wang’s early predictions for AI, and ask whether Meta’s really…

DETROIT (AP) — Two Chinese scientists accused of smuggling or shipping biological material into the United States for use at the University of Michigan will remain in custody after waiving their right to a hearing Friday in federal court.Yunqing Jian and Chengxuan Han said in separate court appearances in Detroit that they would not challenge the government’s request to keep them locked up while their cases move forward.“This is a constantly evolving situation involving a large number of factors,” Han’s attorney, Sara Garber, told a judge. She didn’t elaborate and later declined to comment.Han was arrested Sunday at Detroit Metropolitan…

In March, Teddy Solomon said goodbye to Silicon Valley and moved across the country to New York City.The 23-year-old founder of the Gen Z social app Fizz had spent most of his life in the Bay Area, but he was eager to move to what he saw as a buzzy hub for consumer tech.”We realized over the years that New York was becoming hotter than the Bay Area,” Solomon told Business Insider.He took the company with him.Fizz moved its 20-plus staffers from Palo Alto to Manhattan’s bustling SoHo neighborhood. Around the corner, on one of SoHo’s cobblestone streets, is the…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Caitlin Clark ended practice Friday by making a halfcourt shot and winning a little bit of lunch money in the process.And with that, the Indiana Fever star is ready to play again.Clark — barring any unforeseen setbacks — is expected to be in the lineup when the Fever play host to the reigning WNBA champion New York Liberty on Saturday afternoon. She missed the last five Indiana games with a quadriceps injury.“As long as we don’t have any regressions, she’s going to be ready to roll,” Fever coach Stephanie White said.Clark returned to practice this week, and…

AI tools can lower the barrier to launching a startup, but scaling them still requires technical expertise, GitHub’s CEO has said.Speaking on the sidelines of VivaTech in Paris, Thomas Dohmke said over the last two years, he’s observed companies go from needing convincing to use AI to “a lot of FOMO” in the market.AI coding assistants can now help non-technical founders create a startup with a small team and no external funding, he said during a Q&A at Station F, a startup campus. But as more startups use vibe coding tools to build products using natural language prompts, it’s harder…

Complications from a Covid infection can harm the heart, brain, lungs and kidneys. A new study finds that patients hospitalized for Covid were less likely to suffer severe kidney damage if they were vaccinated.Researchers at UCLA Health analyzed electronic medical records at a large academic hospital between March 1, 2020, and March 30, 2022, of approximately 3,500 hospitalized patients, ages 18 and older, and compared hospitalized patients who got at least two primary doses of the Moderna or Pfizer mRNA vaccine or one dose of Johnson & Johnson Janssen vaccine for Covid with hospitalized patients who had not been vaccinated.The…

Former “Grey’s Anatomy” star Eric Dane is speaking out for the first time in a television interview about his battle with ALS, a degenerative neurological disorder.”I wake up every day and I’m immediately reminded that this is happening,” Dane said of his ALS battle in an interview with Diane Sawyer airing Monday on “Good Morning America.” “It’s not a dream.”Dane, a father of two, first publicly revealed he had been diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, in April.Tune into “Good Morning America” on Monday, June 16, from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. EDT, for more of Diane…

Former NFL player Antonio Brown is facing an attempted murder charge stemming from a shooting that took place during an altercation outside an amateur boxing event in Miami, according to an arrest warrant.Brown, 36, is accused of grabbing a handgun from a security staffer and firing two shots at a man he had gotten into a fistfight with earlier. The victim, Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, told investigators one of the bullets grazed his neck.The warrant does not list an attorney for Brown, an All-Pro wide receiver who last played in the NFL in 2021 for Tampa Bay but spent most of…

(Reuters) -Moderna’s shares fell 2.5% before the bell on Friday, on concerns whether a new CDC advisory panel would back the use of the company’s respiratory syncytial virus vaccine in a broader age group.The RSV shot, mRESVIA, secured U.S. approval on Thursday for expanded use in at-risk adults aged 18 to 59 years, but needs the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendation before it is made available for the age group. It is already approved for use in adults aged 60 or older.The biotech’s stock extended its decline into the second session, following the appointment of the new…