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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs are downplaying a pair of emotional on-field outbursts, including one that involved star tight end Travis Kelce, that marked their season-opening loss to the Los Angeles Chargers in Brazil last week.The first came when Kelce got into the face of right tackle Jawaan Taylor, who was penalized four times in the 27-21 loss. The second came late in the game, when Kansas City was trying to make a stop and get the ball back, and linebacker Drue Tranquill had words with defensive tackle Chris Jones, who had lost containment and allowed…
OREM, Utah (AP) — Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, was shot and killed Wednesday at a Utah college event in an act that drew renewed attention to the threat of political violence across the United States.The death was announced on social media by Trump, who praised the 31-year-old Kirk, the co-founder and CEO of the youth organization Turning Point USA, as “Great, and even Legendary.” “No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie,” Trump posted on his Truth Social account. People were…
Synthetic speech is no longer the stuff of science fiction. From audiobooks and dubbing to gaming and avatars, AI-generated voice is breaking into the mainstream — and Mati Staniszewski, CEO and co-founder of ElevenLabs, is helping lead the charge. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, he’ll take the stage to talk about what it takes to make voice AI truly human. Shaping the future of sound ElevenLabs has quickly become a key player in the generative AI space, known for pushing the boundaries of synthetic voice technology. In this session, Mati will explore how ElevenLabs built a platform that can replicate natural…
The pain, said Genevieve Gallagher, was “unbelievable.”The Florida woman nearly lost her life and her leg to the flesh-eating bacteria known as Vibrio vulnificus, or Vibrio, after swimming with her daughter in Santa Rosa Sound off Pensacola Beach on July 27.She’s not the only one struggling to recover from the devastating effects of the Vibrio infection. Cases have been reported elsewhere in Florida, as well as in Louisiana and as far north as Maryland. Warnings have been issued at beaches and bays along the Gulf Coast, and even in Massachusetts.Vibrio vulnificus, part of the Vibrio family of bacteria, can cause…
The co-founders who sold their last startup Anchor to Spotify are launching their next project: Oboe, an AI-powered educational app that enables anyone to create lightweight, flexible learning courses on nearly any topic they choose, simply by entering a prompt. These courses can span a variety of verticals, including topics like science, history, foreign language, news, pop culture, preparing for life changes, and more. At launch, Oboe — a name inspired by the root of the Japanese word meaning “to learn” — will offer nine different course formats. These allow users to learn in the way they prefer, Oboe co-founder…
Oracle’s stock is in uncharted territory.Shares of the software giant stock surged as much as 36% on Wednesday after the company issued a blockbuster outlook for its AI-driven cloud-computing business. It marked the company’s biggest single-day percentage gain since 1992.Oracle CEO Safra Catz said during an analyst call on Tuesday that the company signed four multi-billion-dollar contracts with three different customers during the fiscal first quarter. That brought a measure of bookings to $455 billion, quadruple where it was a year before.Catz added that the company expects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to see revenue increase 77% to $18 billion from the…
HOUSTON (AP) — A professor at Texas A&M University was fired and others were removed from their positions after a video surfaced in which a student confronted the instructor over her teaching of issues related to gender identity in a class on children’s literature.The firing of Melissa McCoul, who had been a senior lecturer in the English Department, came after political pressure from Republican lawmakers, including Gov. Greg Abbott, who had called for her termination.The incident prompted Glenn Hegar, the chancellor of the Texas A&M University System, to order an audit of courses at all 12 schools in the system.“It…
Klarna may be celebrating its IPO and $15 billion valuation, but employees seem focused on another matter: return-to-office plans.Klarna informed employees last week that it’s set to roll out a return-to-office policy later this month, citing the need to retain top talent that might otherwise leave for companies prioritizing in-person work, as Business Insider exclusively reported.Staff have reacted to the announcement with a wide range of emoji responses, according to a Slack post shared in a channel with roughly 3,000 workers and seen by Business Insider. Comments on the post were disabled, so employees expressed their reactions solely through emojis,…
NEW YORK (AP) — NBA players can now fire up those end-of-quarter heaves from deep without their shooting percentages being adversely affected.The league has approved a change in the way statistics on those shots are recorded, which could spur players to take more heaves from very, very deep with hopes of a miracle make. It was finalized at the league’s board of governors meeting on Wednesday.The rule change was tried out at Summer League in Las Vegas back in July, as well as the smaller leagues that month in Utah and California.For stat-keeping purposes, the NBA will tell teams that…
In the wake of Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement, the AI industry is coming to terms with its training data problem. There are as many as 40 other pending cases that seek damages for unlicensed data — including one that takes Midjourney to court for creating images of Superman. Without some kind of licensing system, AI companies could face an avalanche of copyright lawsuits that some worry will set the industry back permanently. Now, a group of technologists and web publishers has launched a system that would enable data licensing at massive scale — provided AI companies take them up…