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INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Kawhi Leonard said Monday he didn’t receive all of the money he was owed from a California company he had an endorsement deal with in a business relationship that is under investigation by the NBA, but he insisted there was no wrongdoing.The Los Angeles Clippers superstar spoke for the first time publicly on the matter at the team’s media day after a report earlier this month by journalist Pablo Torre alleged the team violated the NBA’s salary cap rules involving a $28 million endorsement contract between Leonard and the now-bankrupt California-based sustainability services company called Aspiration…

Amazon Web Services wants its AI applications to gain more traction organically, without leaning heavily on sales teams.Rivals such as Cursor and Windsurf have seen better grassroots adoption than AWS’s coding assistant Q Developer, while larger enterprise customers tend to favor Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot, according to an internal Amazon document obtained by Business Insider.Q Developer did manage to see “occasional successes” selling directly to senior executives, but such wins required intensive sales involvement, the document explained.To close the gap, AWS recently launched Kiro, an AI coding assistant designed to attract more self-serve developers.”Until recently, AWS did not have a compelling…

On Monday, Anthropic launched a new frontier model called Claude Sonnet 4.5, which it claims to offer state-of-the-art performance on coding benchmarks. The company says Claude Sonnet 4.5 is capable of building “production-ready” applications, rather than just prototypes, representing a leap in reliability from previous AI models. Claude Sonnet 4.5 will be available via the Claude API and in the Claude chatbot. The pricing for developers is the same as Claude Sonnet 4: $3 per million input tokens (roughly 750,000 words, or more than the entire Lord of The Rings series) and $15 per million output tokens. In the last…

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5, its latest model, on Monday. The company positioned it as the world’s best AI coding system and a leap forward in applied artificial intelligence.The upgrade arrives just four months after its predecessor, Sonnet 4, underscoring the startup’s rapid product cadence in the generative AI arms race.Anthropic said Sonnet 4.5 delivers state-of-the-art results on SWE-Bench Verified, a standard for evaluating software engineering performance. The model also leaped ahead in its ability to use a computer in similar ways to humans. These gains confirm that AI model performance continues to improve from scaling inputs such as computing…

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Twins fired manager Rocco Baldelli on Monday, ending his seven-year tenure that included three AL Central titles but only one playoff appearance over his final five seasons.Baldelli’s dismissal came after a second straight dispiriting finish by the Twins, this one marked by a major selloff leading up to the trade deadline. The Twins went 70-92, including just 19-35 after the July 31 deadline passed following the departure of 10 players from their major league roster, with only the Colorado Rockies faring worse over the final two months.The Twins finished with the fourth-worst record in the…

Browser maker and Google Search alternative Brave announced on Monday that it’s adding a new feature to its AI-powered search suite, Ask Brave, to provide detailed answers on a topic based on the query. The search company said that this new feature will co-exist next to its AI Answers feature, which was introduced last year to give summarized responses to search queries. The company said that people are getting more than 15 million answers every day. You don’t need to switch to a special mode to use Ask Brave. The search engine will automatically recognize what kind of query you…

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WASHINGTON (AP) — An experimental medication made from marijuana successfully reduced back pain in a new study, offering further support for the drug’s potential in treating one of the most common forms of chronic pain.The 800-patient study by a German drugmaker is the latest evidence of the therapeutic properties of cannabis, which remains illegal under U.S. federal law even as most states have made it available for medical or recreational use.Health officials in Canada and Europe have previously approved a pharmaceutical-grade form of cannabis for several types of pain, including nerve pain due to multiple sclerosis. In the U.S., the…

Albertsons Companies is recalling several store-made deli products due to potential listeria contamination, which can lead to serious illness.In a statement shared Saturday, the Idaho-based supermarket said it was pulling five items because they contain a recalled bowtie pasta manufactured by Nate’s Fine Foods. The items include various pasta salads and pasta dishes.More info on the recalled products, including UPC codes, best by dates and label photos, can be seen in the company’s statement.According to the statement, no injuries or adverse reactions have been reported, but customers are urged not to consume these products and to dispose of them or…

OpenAI began testing a new safety routing system in ChatGPT over the weekend, and on Monday introduced parental controls to the chatbot — drawing mixed reactions from users. The safety features come in response to numerous incidents of certain ChatGPT models validating users’ delusional thinking instead of redirecting harmful conversations. OpenAI is facing a wrongful death lawsuit tied to one such incident, after a teenage boy died by suicide after months of interactions with ChatGPT.  The routing system is designed to detect emotionally sensitive conversations and automatically switch mid-chat to GPT-5-thinking, which the company sees as the best equipped model for high-stakes safety work. In particular, the GPT-5 models were trained with a new…