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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The late British golf writer Peter Dobereiner never liked the idea of continental Europe being invited to take part in the Ryder Cup, regardless of the Americans winning all but one time over the previous 30 years.He no doubt would feel the same if that were to happen with the Walker Cup.“So the Ryder Cup is dead. It was quietly put down to prevent further suffering and the body was interred in an unmarked grave,” Dobereiner wrote for The Observer after the June 1978 decision that Great Britain & Ireland needed help.That much was true,…

ByteDance believes it is worth more than Chevron, General Electric, and Coca-Cola. One of the world’s biggest investors thinks it’s even more valuable than that.Fidelity, which invested in TikTok’s parent company in 2020 through its massive Contrafund, valued the company at more than $385 billion at the end of July, filings show. That is nearly 17% more than ByteDance’s self-valuation of $330 billion.According to reports in late August, ByteDance is offering a share buyback program for employees looking for liquidity and valued itself at more than $330 billion, a 5.5% increase from earlier this year, when the company marked itself…

Leah Pruett will return to NHRA competition next season, a little over a year after welcoming a son with NASCAR Hall of Famer Tony Stewart.Stewart has been driving the Top Fuel Dragster for Tony Stewart Racing since Pruett stepped aside ahead of the 2024 season to focus on starting a family. Their son, Dominic, was born in November of that year.Pruett has spent the last two seasons still involved in the day-to-day operations at TSR, where she worked with partners on marketing initiatives and assisted the crew chiefs with technical projects.“I’d first like to thank Tony, the team, and our…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Grace Leung, a digital growth consultant based in Vancouver. It’s been edited for length and clarity.Most business owners who hire me to integrate AI into their workflow are aware of AI trends like agents and automation, but they’re completely overwhelmed by it and have no idea where to begin. Their employees tend to have even less AI knowledge and just think of it as a basic chatbot.Other clients want to jump right into complicated AI tools without learning any of the building blocks. They’re trying to learn to fly before they…

The hepatitis B vaccine has emerged as the latest flashpoint as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues to cast doubt on the safety of vaccines.The vaccine is routinely given to babies shortly after birth because hepatitis B — an incurable infection that can lead to liver disease, cancer and death — can be transmitted from mother to child during delivery.At a Senate Finance Committee hearing with Kennedy on Thursday, Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., said that providing the hepatitis B vaccine to all newborns “makes no sense to me,” especially if the mother tests negative for the virus.Marshall, an OB-GYN…

The AI boom has lit a fuse under San Francisco’s housing market, with prices and rents inflamed by a tech workforce increasingly returning to the office, and as the AI talent wars push salaries to dizzying highs.Tech workers are flocking to the Bay Area to work at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia after the region was dealt a massive blow during the COVID-19 pandemic. Real estate agents say RTO is fueling the resurgence, with AI being particularly synonymous with in-person work and hardcore culture. What’s more, tech workers, especially those working in AI, are commanding massive salaries, including multimillion-dollar compensation packages.The…

New web standards could limit AI’s access to websites in profound ways, and Big Tech companies including Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI are trying to halt or water down the effort.The battle is being quietly waged inside the Internet Engineering Task Force, an important industry group that creates standards such as TCP/IP, HTML, and robots.txt that underpin much of what happens online.The IETF is now tackling one of the thorniest issues it’s ever encountered: How to keep the web thriving in the era of chatbots and AI answer engines.For 25 years, search engines like Google and Microsoft’s Bing crawled and indexed websites,…

Gagan Biyani, the cofounder of Udemy, said on Monday that AI tools have allowed his new online learning platform, Maven, to rely less on interns to chew through grunt work.Biyani said in a LinkedIn post that he used to rely on a team of six interns to look for potential instructors they could add to Udemy.”Back then, our interns would manually scour YouTube and blogs to find potential instructors. They’d write custom outreach messages that I had to approve one by one,” Biyani wrote.”It was painful and inefficient. I spent as much time training the interns as I got value…

DENVER (AP) — Brian Callahan stands corrected — unlike the call he failed to challenge.The Titans’ second-year coach acknowledged Monday that he didn’t know the NFL catch rule Sunday when he didn’t throw his red challenge flag in Tennessee’s 20-12 loss at Denver after his rookie receiver made an acrobatic catch but was ruled to have come down out of bounds.On first-and-20 with the Titans trailing by a point late in the third quarter, Elic Ayomanor raced down the Tennessee sideline, leaped over cornerback Riley Moss and hauled in a 21-yard pass from Cam Ward. Ayomanor appeared to get his…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Saints first-year defensive backs coach Terry Joseph used to love working in college football, having spent the last 19 years at some of the biggest brands in the game.His stops included LSU, Notre Dame, Texas A&M, Tennessee and most recently, Texas.Earlier this year, Joseph joined the ranks of new NFL coaches who’ve seized opportunities to leave the college game behind, disillusioned by the effects of recent rule changes liberalizing player movement and payments.Recruiting, an area where Joseph once thrived, isn’t what it used to be. It’s become an almost 24-7 grind that is more centered around…