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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is asking nine major universities to commit to President Donald Trump’s political priorities in exchange for more favorable access to federal money.Universities were asked to sign a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” committing them to adopt the White House’s vision for America’s campuses. It asks the schools to accept the government’s priorities on admissions, women’s sports, free speech, student discipline and college affordability, among other topics.Signing on would give universities priority access to some federal grants, but government money would not be limited solely to those schools, according to a White House…
GENEVA (AP) — Facing growing global calls to suspend Israeli teams from soccer, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said on Thursday the governing body must promote peace and unity and could not solve political issues.In a febrile period for soccer politics, Infantino led a meeting of FIFA’s ruling council in Zurich which did not have Israel formally on the agenda before 2026 World Cup qualifying games resume next week.He later met privately at FIFA headquarters with the leader of the Palestinian soccer federation, Jibril Rajoub, and praised his organization “for their resilience at this time.”The strongest push against Israeli teams by…
LONDON (AP) — The NFL plans to launch women’s and men’s professional flag football leagues “in the next couple of years,” Commissioner Roger Goodell said Thursday.The timeline outlined by Goodell at a sports conference in London would see the leagues created ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, which will feature flag football for the first time.“We’re committed to creating a women’s professional league, and a men’s professional flag league. We’ve had a great deal of interest in that and I expect that we’ll be able to do that, launch that, in the next couple of years,” Goodell said at…
By Nancy Lapid(Reuters) -Novo Nordisk’s and Eli Lilly’s blockbuster weight-loss drugs should be the first medicines doctors reach for to treat obesity and its complications, a major European medical association advised on Thursday.Semaglutide, the active ingredient in Novo’s Wegovy and Ozempic, and tirzepatide, sold as Zepbound and Mounjaro by Lilly, are so effective that they should be the first choice in almost all cases when substantial weight loss is necessary, according to a new guideline from the European Association for the Study of Obesity published in Nature Medicine.When a lesser degree of weight loss is required, other medications can be…
Even without a Neuralink implant, Elon Musk has a lot going on in his head. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the way Musk’s brain works makes him capable of accomplishing “unique” feats.Musk plays a pivotal role in at least five companies and is building tech from robots to self-driving cars to AI companions. On top of all that, he’s also building Colossus II, which he said was “the world’s first Gigawatt AI training cluster.”On the “BG2 podcast,” Huang said that Musk kept scores of information within his head — making him similar to one of Nvidia’s chips.”These AI supercomputers are…
Move over, Amazon. It looks like there’s a new industry-disrupting company in town.That would be OpenAI, which unveiled a new arsenal of internal AI-powered software-as-a-service tools this week, causing a mass stock sell-off in the space.If it sounds like something Amazon might do, that’s because the retail and cloud-computing titan has been having the same on a wide range of industries for years. It even picked up a nickname over time: “getting Amazon’d.” Just ask the pharmaceutical, insurance, and grocery industries about their experiences seeing market value wiped out.While “getting OpenAI’ed” doesn’t have the same ring to it, the company’s…
HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Pete Carroll could be just about anywhere, doing nearly anything that comes to mind, after accomplishing so much as a championship-winning coach in college and the NFL, the multimillion-dollar contracts he received as reward for such efforts.But after a year away from the NFL, the 74-year-old Carroll chose to return to take on the challenge of turning around a Las Vegas Raiders franchise that has gone more than two decades since coming close to the Super Bowl.“It isn’t about accomplishing things to say you were worthy,” Carroll said at his introductory news conference in January. “It’s…
LONDON (AP) — In the mid-80s, Matt Chambers typed up letters to every NFL team and mailed them from Towcester, England. The youngster expressed his love of American football.One team wrote back.“Two or three months later, I got a big package from the Cleveland Browns,” Chambers said. “There was an old cap, which I’ve still got, signed photos, there were yearbooks, all types of memorabilia. That was it, I was basically a Browns fans for life.“Here I am 40 years later, almost.”While there are sexier NFL teams to support, Browns fans in Britain say they’re drawn to Cleveland’s ethos of…
BEIJING (AP) — Defending champion Coco Gauff reached the semifinals of the China Open for the third straight year after beating hard-hitting Eva Lys 6-3, 6-4 on Thursday.The second-seeded American was troubled on her serve and conceded seven break-point chances in Beijing. But Lys, a German player seeking her first career WTA title, could convert only three of them and dropped her own serve five times against the French Open champion.“She’s a tough opponent, she hit some incredible shots on the run,” said Gauff, who is seeking her 11th career title. “I was trying my best to stay aggressive. Just…
The meteoric rise of artificial intelligence may appear unstoppable — but it’s facing a shortage of training data.”We’ve already run out of data,” Neema Raphael, Goldman Sachs’ chief data officer and head of data engineering, said on the bank’s “Exchanges” podcast published on Tuesday.Raphael said that this shortage may already be influencing how new AI systems are built.He pointed to China’s DeepSeek as an example, saying one hypothesis for its purported development costs came from training on the outputs of existing models rather than entirely new data.”I think the real interesting thing is going to be how previous models then…