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Elon Musk and Donald Trump have had something of an on-again-off-again relationship over the years.The world’s richest person and the two-time president of the United States weren’t always close, but have become singular political allies, with Musk calling himself “first buddy” following Trump’s 2024 victory and donating more than $200 million toward pro-Trump super PACs.At the beginning of Trump’s second term, Musk was frequently seen by the president’s side and served as the de-facto head of the White House DOGE office, the cost-cutting initiative that’s made waves throughout the federal government.In May, Musk started to separate himself somewhat from Trump,…
NEW YORK (AP) — New York education officials won’t rescind the state’s ban on Native American mascots and team names, despite threats from the Trump administration that it risks losing federal funding. Instead, New York officials suggested in a letter to the U.S. Department of Education on Thursday that they could broaden the state ban to include names and mascots derived from other racial or ethnic groups that the department deems offensive. The federal agency last week determined New York violated Title VI of the federal civil rights law by issuing a statewide ban on the use of Native American…
Google on Thursday announced an update to its Gemini 2.5 Pro preview model that the company claims is better at certain programming tasks. The company’s calling it an “updated preview,” building on the upgrade to Gemini 2.5 Pro that Google announced around a month ago. Google says the model will roll out in general availability in a “couple of weeks” and is available starting today in its AI developer platforms AI Studio and Vertex AI and the Gemini app. Image Credits:Google “[Gemini 2.5 Pro] continues to excel at coding, leading on difficult coding benchmarks,” Google wrote in a blog post.…
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark said she remains day-to-day with a left quadriceps strain but will be re-evaluated this weekend after the team’s game at the Chicago Sky on Saturday.Clark spoke to reporters Thursday for the first time since sustaining the injury during Indiana’s loss to the New York Liberty on May 24. She was expected to miss at least two weeks.“I feel like I’ve made a lot of progress,” Clark said, adding that she’s been able to get a different point of view watching games from the bench.“I’m not going to rush coming back,” the 2024…
2025-06-05T16:33:08Z 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. Nintendo launched the Switch 2 at midnight on June 5, drawing crowds that waited overnight for the release. The company said it expects to sell 15 million units in the current fiscal year. Nintendo didn’t increase the base cost of the console due to tariffs, but did boost the price of its…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. food agency is appealing for $46 million for the next six months to help about 2 million Haitians in dire need of food, including 8,500 at the worst catastrophic level of hunger.The appeal was issued by Lola Castro, the World Food Program’s regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean, who recently returned from Haiti, where escalating gang violence has displaced well over 1 million people and left half the population — 5.7 million people — in urgent need of food.Two million of them are in the two worst categories in the Integrated Food…
CNN — There was a time when Leah Remini and Jennifer Lopez seemed joined at the hip. Then, they appeared to no longer be friends. Remini gave some insight into where the two now stand in an interview with Us Weekly. “Right after the divorce, we’d text each other loving messages of support,” she told the publication. Remini filed for divorce from her husband of 21 years, Angelo Pagán, in August 2024. Lopez filed for divorce from Ben Affleck the same month. Speculation was stirred that the women had had a falling out after Remini did not attend Lopez’s wedding…
Some of the key people behind Google’s viral AI podcasting app NotebookLM have launched a new startup, and it just unveiled its first product.NotebookLM went viral last year for letting users create AI-generated podcasts about any topic they liked. Some even called it Google’s ChatGPT moment.NotebookLM team lead Raiza Martin, designer Jason Spielman, and engineer Stephen Hughes learned from building the app that a surprising number of people actually learn best through audio—not necessarily through text like ChatGPT. They also learned that building a product outside a tech giant like Google is much faster.So, in December 2024, they left Google…
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Aaron Rodgers and Mike Tomlin are taking their bromance to the next level.The four-time NFL MVP ended months of “will he or won’t he” speculation by informing Tomlin and the Pittsburgh Steelers he plans to join the team for the 2025 season, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press on Thursday. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because Rodgers has not yet signed a contract.The Steelers and the 41-year-old Rodgers had been circling each other for months. Rodgers even visited the team’s facility in late March, driving in undercover…
Winning admission to Harvard University fulfilled a longtime goal for Yonas Nuguse, a student in Ethiopia who endured the Tigray conflict, internet and phone shutdowns, and the COVID-19 pandemic — all of which made it impossible to finish high school on time.Now, it’s unclear if he will make it this fall to the Ivy League campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He and other admitted students around the world are anxiously tracking the school’s feud with the Trump administration, which is seeking to keep it from enrolling international students. The war in the country’s Tigray region forced schools to close in many…