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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Texas’ Arch Manning and Florida’s DJ Lagway opened the season as Heisman Trophy hopefuls, even considered front-runners by some.The highly touted quarterbacks with TV commercials, endorsement deals and probably as much name, image and likeness money as anyone in college were supposed to be the next great ones at their schools.Can’t-miss prospects? Sophomore superstars? Future first-round NFL draft picks?A month into the season, Manning and Lagway are two of the most disappointing players in the Southeastern Conference, prompting some to wonder if their performance will ever match their pedigree.Manning and Lagway will share the spotlight Saturday…

By Sneha S K(Reuters) -Bristol Myers Squibb, Takeda Pharmaceuticals and Astex Pharmaceuticals are coming together to share proprietary data for training an artificial intelligence model to assist drug discovery and development.The companies are joining a consortium that includes AbbVie and Johnson & Johnson , and will contribute data from several thousand experimentally determined protein–small molecule structures to train an AI model called OpenFold3, life sciences company Apheris said on Wednesday.The initiative is based on a federated data sharing model, which enables collaboration without exposing sensitive data.Germany-based Apheris’ computing platform enables the aggregation of diverse data sets from companies while ensuring…

Since the start of Breast Cancer Awareness initiatives in 1985, over 517,000 lives have been saved from better treatment and proactive screening, according to the American Cancer Society.”Today is a day to celebrate forty years of incredible progress in ending cancer as we know it, for everyone,” Dr. Shanti Sivendran, senior vice president of cancer care support at the American Cancer Society and medical oncologist at Penn Medicine, told ABC News.In the 1980s in the United States, only one in four women were getting screened for breast cancer, and access to screening technology was limited, Sivendran said.MORE: Amid a rise…

Breast cancer awareness campaigns often focus on mammograms and self-exams. But there’s another critical piece of the puzzle that has gotten far less attention until recently: breast density.A year after the FDA began requiring mammogram reports to tell women whether their breasts are dense, experts say it’s important to explain what that means and why it matters.”About 40% of women are being diagnosed with dense breasts,” Dr. Alpa Patel, senior vice president of population science at the American Cancer Society told ABC News. “You actually find out about your breast density from your first mammogram, and that will actually potentially…

CLEVELAND (AP) — Rookie Dillon Gabriel will get his first NFL start on Sunday when the Cleveland Browns face the Minnesota Vikings in London.The Browns announced on Wednesday that they were benching Joe Flacco after he struggled to lead the offense in the first four games.Cleveland is 1-3 and ranked next-to-last in scoring, averaging 14 points per game. The team has scored 17 points or fewer in nine straight games dating back to last season. Gabriel will be the fifth different starting QB in 10 games, joining Jameis Winston, Dorian Thompson-Robinson, Bailey Zappe and Flacco.Gabriel was selected in the third…

Oct.1 marks the beginning of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the American Cancer Society (ACS) is commemorating 40 years of spreading awareness about the condition.Breast cancer is the second most common cancer among women, with one in eight developing breast cancer in her lifetime, according to the ACS.MORE: At 34, I was nervous about my breast cancer risk. Here’s what I didHowever, the group also says that early detection can significantly improve treatment outcomes.ABC News has compiled resources to help you learn more about breast cancer diagnosis, treatments and support.Breast cancer statisticsBreast cancer is the second most common cancer among…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 18-year-old Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, the founder of AI coding agents startup Nozomio, who just completed Y Combinator and raised $6.2 million in funding. The following has been edited for length and clarity.When I was around 11 years old, my dad told me about Y Combinator for the first time. We were on a walk by the river in my hometown of Almaty, Kazakhstan, and I didn’t really understand the concept of a school for founders — but it captured my imagination.Both of my parents are entrepreneurs, and my own journey started young,…

Karishma Mandal wanted to be at the center of the tech world — working in AI at a big-name company in San Francisco. So she moved across the country — and tapped every job search strategy in her toolbox, hoping to land an offer.Mandal’s career journey — which would include interviews at Uber, Meta, Amazon, and Salesforce — began when she moved to the US from India in 2021 to pursue a master’s in engineering management at Northwestern University. After graduating in January 2023, she began working full-time in March of that year as a product manager at a consulting…

NEW YORK (AP) — A new report on book bans in U.S. schools finds Stephen King as the author most likely to be censored and the country divided between states actively restricting works and those attempting to limit or eliminate bans.PEN America’s “Banned in the USA,” released Wednesday, tracks more than 6,800 instances of books being temporarily or permanently pulled for the 2024-2025 school year. The new number is down from more than 10,000 in 2023-24, but still far above the levels of a few years ago, when PEN didn’t even see the need to compile a report.Some 80% of…

On Wednesday, Wikimedia Deutschland announced a new database that will make Wikipedia’s wealth of knowledge more accessible to AI models. Called the Wikidata Embedding Project, the system applies a vector-based semantic search — a technique that helps computers understand the meaning and relationships between words — to the existing data on Wikipedia and its sister platforms, consisting of nearly 120 million entries. Combined with new support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a standard that helps AI systems communicate with data sources, the project makes the data more accessible to natural language queries from LLMs. The project was undertaken by…