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OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) — Gary Woodland, the 2019 U.S. Open champion, waved the rules official over. Certainly, a ball buried that deep in the rough had to have embedded into the soft turf below when his off-line drive on the 12th hole landed with a thunk. No such luck, the official told him. The rough at Oakmont is just deep — and thick and hard to escape. Instead of taking a free drop for an embedded ball, Woodland had to replace it where he found it, get out his wedge, take a hack and pray.That resulted in Woodland’s first blemish…

For OpenAI, improving the programming capabilities of its AI is a self-reinforcing loop — as ChatGPT gets better at coding, its engineers get faster too.That’s according to Kevin Weil, the chief product officer of OpenAI, who was recently asked by podcaster Azeem Azhar why the company had focused so much on AI coding tools from a “commercial perspective.””It’s really important to us because if we can speed up coding, if we can make, you know, every engineer more effective, we also make ourselves more effective,” Weil said in the interview. “And so we can build even faster.”The AI company has…

Hundreds of thousands of cans of Dr Pepper Zero soda are being recalled because they’re incorrectly labeled as a zero-sugar product when it’s actually a “full sugar product,” according to a report from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).The recall affects 19,203 cases of 12 packs and 24 packs of Dr Pepper Zero Sugar 12-ounce cans that were distributed to Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.The voluntary recall was first initiated on May 23. On June 5, the FDA classified it as a Class II recall.PHOTO: Dr. Pepper, zero sugar can. (Dr. Pepper)According to the FDA, a product under a Class…

Roku is well known for its streaming devices, but the brand also sells its own line of smart TVs with its intuitive user interface built in. The Roku operating system (OS) stands out from rivals thanks to its streamlined homepage, which features large icons for all your favorite apps instead of cluttering the screen with content recommendations. The best Roku TVs combine ease of use with solid 4K high-dynamic-range (HDR) picture quality.I’ve been reviewing home entertainment products for over a decade, and I’ve used that experience to recommend the top Roku TVs you can buy. Based on my team’s hands-on…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Pacers aren’t celebrating. The Oklahoma City Thunder aren’t panicking.The NBA Finals scoreboard is what it is — Pacers 2, Thunder 1 — going into Game 4 of the best-of-seven title series on Friday night. Everybody can count to four, and everybody can see that Indiana is in a better position right now than Oklahoma City,But the Pacers know if they were to partake in such thinking, that would be dangerous.“There’s nothing to get excited about right now,” Indiana guard Tyrese Haliburton said. “We’re still a long way away.”An even-keeled approach, for certain. The Thunder are…

By Padmanabhan Ananthan and Kamal Choudhury(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved UroGen Pharma’s drug to treat a type of bladder cancer, providing an alternative treatment as opposed to traditional surgical procedures.U.S.-listed shares of the Israel-based company were up about 50% in afternoon trading.The approval follows a late-stage trial with 223 patients, in which 78% of the participants showed a complete response, meaning all signs of cancer disappeared in response to the treatment.The drug, branded Zusduri, will be the first to get approval to treat a type of bladder cancer that has not spread beyond the inner…

Barbie-maker Mattel and OpenAI have teamed up to bring generative AI to the toy-making and ever-expanding pipeline of IP repackaging. This partnership marks new territory for OpenAI, which has signed licensing deals with news publishers and enterprise players, but never a toymaker. However, it’s consistent with the AI giant’s overall strategy of embedding itself across industries, and it might give OpenAI a foothold in Mattel’s growing entertainment arm. The iconic toymaker delighted grown-up audiences in 2023 when it released the blockbuster “Barbie” movie. The company is currently working on films based on other toys like Hot Wheels, Polly Pocket, Barney,…

Selling software to companies is such a time-consuming process. Even after customers are convinced a product is right for their organization, they still need to ensure the software meets all their security requirements. Chas Ballew realized just how painfully slow and tedious the vendor security and compliance review process was when he was running Aptible, a hosting platform for healthcare companies that he co-founded in 2013. “What we saw was that every time one of our customers was trying to close a deal, they would have to explain all of their security and compliance practices over and over again to…

Accel, the storied venture firm that invested early in Facebook and Slack, is set to lead a new funding round in the Swedish “vibe coding” startup Lovable at a valuation of at least $1.5 billion, according to multiple sources familiar with the deal.Vibe coding, which allows novices with limited programming expertise to create code using AI, has been all the rage lately. Market leader Cursor’s parent company, Anysphere, which is also backed by Accel, is reportedly in talks for a $9.9 billion valuation and now could be deployed internally by Amazon, Business Insider previously reported.Other competitors include Cognition AI, Microsoft’s…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest effort by Congress to regulate college sports generated predictable partisan outrage on Thursday, with Democrats saying Republican-led draft legislation would claw back freedoms won by athletes through years of litigation against the NCAA.Three House committees are considering legislation that would create a national standard for name, image and likeness payments to athletes and protect the NCAA against future lawsuits. Last week, a federal judge approved a $2.8 billion settlement that will lead to schools paying athletes directly, and NCAA President Charlie Baker said now that his organization is implementing those major changes, Congress needs to…