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Silicon Valley is in the midst of a coding renaissance, according to Lovable CEO Anton Osika.While coding was once the domain of computer science whizzes and workers with serious technical chops, the advent of vibe-coding has made space for workers with no engineering expertise to unleash their creativity.”That characteristic — these super creative brains — are our most dedicated users,” he said.Vibe-coding, also known as AI-assisted coding, is the latest obsession among both tech giants and startups. The concept is simple: developers use natural language to instruct AI tools to generate code. Over the past several months, AI coding platforms…

BRANTFORD, Ontario (AP) — Wearing protective gloves and earplugs, a worker feeds lengths of wood into a machine that makes an earsplitting whine as it automatically cuts a groove into the end of each piece. Nearby, stacks of wooden wedges wait to be slotted into those grooves to form the beginnings of a hockey stick. Further down the Roustan Hockey production line, other workers are busy shaping, trimming, sanding, painting and screen printing as they turn lumber into a Canadian national symbol. It’s a typical day on the job for the 15 workers at Canada’s last major hockey stick factory,…

Olwyn Patterson was scrolling LinkedIn when she spotted the profile of someone she thought would be the perfect person to help promote an upcoming event put on by her company, a platform that connects startups with VCs.She typed up a quick introduction in her usual efficient staccato.”I run a biannual demo day that reaches 4,000 startups a year, one of which I noticed is also in your program. We also have a 15k-plus founder, VC, and angel investor newsletter. There seems to be a natural crossover between our communities. It’d be great to share opportunities with each other.”Moments later, her…

(Reuters) -AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s precision drug Datroway improved survival prospects in patients with an advanced form of breast cancer in a late-stage trial, the drugmakers said on Monday, paving the way for broader approvals.The trial was for patients with a type of aggressive and advanced breast cancer for whom immunotherapy was not an option, AstraZeneca said. The treatment was given early and compared with chemotherapy.The company added that Datroway was the first therapy to significantly improve overall survival in this group, and that it also significantly improved progression-free survival and met the dual main goal of the study.”We expect…

Sunday was filled with sloppy football, silly mistakes and head-scratching decisions.Another NFL player gave away a touchdown by carelessly dropping the ball before he crossed the goal line. A roughing-the-kicker penalty erased a touchdown return in a different game. The Super Bowl champions ignored their record-setting running back. The most egregious play of Week 5 occurred when Cardinals running back Emari Demercado turned a 72-yard touchdown run into a touchback by slowing down near the goal line and releasing the ball as Titans cornerback L’Jarius Sneed swiped at his arm. Officials initially ruled it a touchdown but a video review…

Experience can only take you so far in the world of AI, said Duolingo’s ex-head of product.In an episode of “Lenny’s Podcast” released on Sunday, Albert Cheng, the former head of product at Duolingo and Grammarly, said that top performers were not always the ones with vast experience.”I saw some of the highest performers just being people that had very high agency, had that clock speed, had that energy,” Cheng said. “They cared about the mission, but they didn’t necessarily need to have deep experience on that matter.”In fact, experience could even become a “crutch,” he said.”Especially in this world…

Two types of pasta salad bowls sold at Kroger and other stores across the U.S. have been recalled due to possible listeria contamination, the Food & Drug Administration announced Saturday.The Kroger Company voluntarily recalled “Basil Pesto Bowtie Salad” and “Smoked Mozzarella Penne Salad” following another FDA recall announcement last week involving products with pasta ingredients sold at Albertsons.The pasta manufactured in Roseville, California, by Nate’s Fine Foods is possibly contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections.Kroger’s recalled products were sold across 1,860 Kroger Family of Stores — including Baker’s, City Market, Dillons, Fred…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The plan started coming together inside a luxury box at MetLife Stadium.As the Premier League’s Chelsea was on its way to a shutout victory at the Club World Cup final in July, President Donald Trump and FIFA President Gianni Infantino were deep in discussion at the New Jersey sports complex outside New York City on another matter: where the draw for next year’s World Cup would be held.The high-drama spectacle decides which teams will face each other in the group stage of soccer’s most prestigious tournament, along with the schedule for competition. It was widely expected to…

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Receiver Stefon Diggs is quite comfortable putting on a show in Buffalo. The big difference on Sunday night was doing so for the Bills’ division rival New England Patriots.Diggs had 10 catches for 146 yards, with 119 coming in the second half, in a 23-20 win over the Bills sealed by Andy Borregales hitting a 52-yard field goal with 15 seconds remaining.In teaming up with quarterback Drake Maye and Rhamondre Stevenson, who scored two touchdowns rushing, the Patriots left the NFL without an undefeated team five weeks into the season.Diggs followed up his six-catch, 101-yard…

SEATTLE (AP) — Julio Rodríguez came through in a big moment for the Seattle Mariners.Rodríguez hit a tiebreaking RBI double in the eighth inning and the Mariners beat the Detroit Tigers 3-2 in Game 2 of their AL Division Series on Sunday to even the series. With the game knotted at 2-2 and one out in the bottom of the eighth inning, AL MVP candidate Cal Raleigh doubled with one out. Shortly after, Rodríguez doubled home Raleigh to put the Mariners in front for good. “In games like this, I feel like any situation is clutch,” said Rodríguez, who has…