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Just six seconds into the new NFL season, Jalen Carter was already on his way out.The kickoff game in Philadelphia started with a real mouth-watering moment.Carter left the defending champion Eagles hanging on Thursday night when he was ejected for spitting at Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, a saliva-driven dismissal from the field that became the latest addition to an infamous list of the ultimate displays of disrespect in sports. The Pro Bowl defensive tackle was tossed for unsportsmanlike conduct, part of the league’s push to crack down on taunting.Carter, who could receive further discipline from the NFL, was contrite…
Michelle Newmark has tried — and failed — a couple times to get an updated COVID-19 vaccine.First, she was told she needed a prescription. Then she learned that her local CVS drugstore won’t have shots for a couple more weeks. The Reston, Virginia, resident was considering a drive to Maryland to get vaccinated before a friend told her of a closer CVS that was booking appointments.What was once a simple process has become “a whole different beast this year,” Newmark said.“It’s very frustrating that I can’t get a vaccine that I feel should be widely available like it always has…
Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Andy Reid’s Kansas City Chiefs face Justin Herbert and Jim Harbaugh’s Los Angeles Chargers in the most accessible game to viewers on Friday night in Brazil.It’s the first NFL game streamed on YouTube and there will be plenty of unique elements surrounding the broadcast.The league and YouTube have assembled a lineup of content creators to enhance the viewing experience.Cam Newton, Brandon Marshall, Derek Carr and Tyrann Mathieu will be part of a pre-game and post-game shows hosted by Kay Adams.Donald De La Haye, known as “Deestroying” to millions of social media followers, will serve as…
There’s a wide divide in finances between Major League Baseball’s big-market and small-market teams.As for the win column? Not so much.The 2025 season has produced a surprising show of parity through the first five months of the regular season. While most of the league’s big spenders — teams like the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees and New York Mets — are in good position to make the playoffs and do damage in October, they haven’t been as dominant as many expected.In fact, there’s a good chance that this will be the second season in a row no MLB franchise…
Anthropic’s meteoric rise is rewriting the playbook for startup pay.Just 14 months ago, a senior software engineer accepted a $571,000 package that included roughly $250,000 in stock options, according to tech industry compensation platform Levels.fyi.That equity award was worth about $1 million on paper at the time. Now, it would be valued at an eye-popping $23 million, according to estimates from Hakeem Shibly, a data guru at Levels.fyi.That’s because Anthropic has seen its valuation soar from about $12.5 billion in early 2024 to a staggering $183 billion.Anthropic is cementing itself as one of the fastest-growing startups ever, and its engineers…
Isotopes AI came out of stealth on Thursday with a healthy $20 million seed round. It offers an AI agent to solve a problem that data analytics products have struggled with for decades: The people who know how to run the big data infrastructure are not the ones who actually need to use the data. With LLMs, business managers can ask questions of their data in natural language. Isotopes’ agent, Aidnn, can provide answers and draft complex planning documents, gathering data from wherever it’s stored, like finance apps, ERP, CRM, and cloud storage. There are countless agentic business analytics offerings…
Acqui-hires feel like they’re here to stay: The team behind Alex, a popular tool that lets developers use AI models within Apple’s development suite Xcode, is joining OpenAI. In a post on X, Alex’s founder Daniel Edrisian said the startup’s team is joining OpenAI’s Codex division, which is building the company’s AI coding agent. Y Combinator-backed Alex was founded in 2024 and sought to integrate AI models into Xcode. Apple, however, earlier this year updated Xcode to let users tap ChatGPT and other AI models without needing external tools. Edrisian didn’t mention if this was a reason his startup’s team…
Tesla shareholders will soon vote whether to let the electric vehicle maker invest in Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI, a proposal pitched as a way to strengthen Tesla’s ambitions in AI, robotics, and energy. Listed in Tesla’s proxy statement alongside a company-backed push to raise Musk’s 10-year pay package to $1 trillion, the proposal comes from Stephen Hawk, a Florida shareholder with a $2,000 stake of common stock. His supporting statement reads: Tesla’s integration of Grok into its vehicles demonstrates the tangible benefits of collaboration with xAI. As Tesla pivots toward AI-driven technologies, including Full Self-Driving and robotics, a strategic…
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization no longer considers the mpox outbreak in Africa to be an international health emergency, the U.N. agency’s director said Friday.The new form of mpox emerged in early 2024 in Congo and neighboring African countries, spread through close contact including sex. WHO declared it a global health emergency in August of last year.WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters Friday that an emergency panel created after the outbreak has advised that the situation is no longer an international emergency, and “I have accepted that advice.”The international emergency declaration, the agency’s highest level of warning…
If you’re a founder who planned to wait until the last minute … this is it. Today is the final day to secure your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. If you want to get in front of more than 10,000 startup and VC leaders, connect with media, and generate a nonstop pipeline this October, you need to act now. There are only a few tables left. Once they’re gone, they’re gone. Don’t let your competitor take the last table with your startup’s name on it. Book yours now. Image Credits:Halo Creative Here’s what you get when you exhibit at Disrupt…