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Mike returned home to Philadelphia after a 15-year prison sentence and suffered an emotional breakdown.“I just couldn’t stop crying … I don’t know. It was the anxiety. It was just a lot,” he said. “I was under a lot of pressure and it just came crashing down.”Mike, who was in his late 40s when we spoke, told me about his childhood filled with abuse, his first arrest at age 14, and the over 20 years of his life that he spent behind bars.As a registered nurse and nurse scientist who studies how incarceration affects mental health, I know Mike’s experience…

Alabama hasn’t looked the same since coach Nick Saban’s retirement. It raises speculation about the future of his replacement, Kalen DeBoer.The eighth-ranked Crimson Tide have dropped three of their last four games following a 31-17 loss at Florida State on Saturday, a game in which the Seminoles bullied Alabama on both of the ball. The Tide are now 2-5 away from home during DeBoer’s 14-game tenure — with four of those losses coming as a double-digit favorite.“Not going to live in regret,” DeBoer said. “We got to go fix it and be better because of it and evaluate the film…

CLEVELAND (AP) — Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz had their paid leaves extended indefinitely on Sunday as Major League Baseball continues an investigation to gauge their possible involvement in gambling during games.Clase and Ortiz were initially set to sidelined until at least Aug. 31. MLB and the players’ union said in a news release they have agreed to extend the nondisciplinary paid leave “until further notice.”The Guardians are not commenting until the investigation is completed.It’s possible the pitchers will be out at least until the end of the regular season, which concludes Sept. 28. The Guardians recently cleared…

NEW YORK (AP) — Daniil Medvedev has split with longtime coach Gilles Cervara after a disappointing year in the Grand Slam tournaments ended with his meltdown in a first-round loss at the U.S. Open.Medvedev, the 2021 U.S. Open champion, and Cervara both posted messages Sunday on Instagram, thanking each other for a successful partnership that included the Russian reaching No. 1 in the ATP rankings.“I am grateful to you for guiding me through all these years and let’s see what life brings us in the future,” Medvedev wrote about their “amazing 8-10 years together” in the caption of a photo…

Brighton came from behind to beat Manchester City 2-1 on Sunday in the Premier League for the second straight season, highlighting the vulnerabilities still present in Pep Guardiola’s once-dominant team.Brajan Gruda surged through an open defense, rounded the goalkeeper and slotted into an empty net for an 89th-minute winner for Brighton, which trailed to Erling Haaland’s first-half strike — his 88th goal in 100 Premier League appearances since moving to England in 2022.City conceded an equalizer in the 67th minute after Matheus Nunes raised his arm in the area to block a shot, with James Milner converting the penalty for…

There’s at least one AI-related topic that Google’s chief scientist tries to avoid. Jeff Dean, who focused on AI advances for Google DeepMind and Google Research, explained why he steers clear of the conversations about artificial general intelligence, or AGI, during an episode of “The Moonshot Podcast” released earlier this month.”The reason I tend to steer away from AGI conversations is lots of people have very different definitions of it, and the difficulty of the problem varies by like factors of a trillion,” he said.He said AI models today are “probably already” better than the average person at most non-physical…

Grindr may be an “AI-first company” these days, but its CEO remains skeptical of the amount of money being thrown at certain AI companies.The debate over whether an AI bubble is forming has reached a fever pitch in the past few months. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently told reporters that “overexcited” investors were practicing bubble-like behavior around the industry.Business Insider asked the LGBTQ+ dating app’s CEO George Arison about Altman’s comments. Arison said that a “VC bubble” was forming — but that the AI incumbents have an incentive to advise against investment.”This is how venture always works,” Arison told Business Insider.…

TikTok’s US plans are up in the air due to a divest-or-ban law that puts its future in jeopardy. But it’s still offering six-figure salaries to workers this year in key areas like e-commerce and artificial intelligence.It’s sought to hire data scientists to sharpen its search algorithm, court workers to grow its e-commerce platform TikTok Shop, and bring in machine learning engineers to improve its content feed and recommendations.The company’s jobs portal lists over 1,800 open roles in the US in cities like Austin, San Jose, Seattle, and New York.Like other Big Tech firms, work expectations at TikTok and its owner, ByteDance,…

Hello, Yahoo readers! My name is Kaitlin Reilly, and I’m here to share the best health and wellness tips from around the internet. It’s all about simple changes you can make to improve your life — but if you’re up for a major overhaul, consider the wellness home trend.As Kerry Justich reports for Yahoo, more and more people are looking for spaces that align with their health goals — whether that means putting a cold plunge in the garage, building a new house from scratch with toxin-free paint and a reverse-osmosis water filter or moving into a “wellness community” with…

There’s never been more money in legal software — or more ways to burn it.Ask LexisNexis. Founded in 1973, the company sells a legal research platform that lawyers use to draft and analyze documents. Its parent company, Relx, posted $1.2 billion in revenue for the legal segment in the first half of this year, buoyed 9% year-over-year by firms paying up for its “intelligent” new tools.”Law firms are spending more money on technology than they ever have,” said Sean Fitzpatrick, chief executive of LexisNexis’ North American group. The question is where those dollars go next.The duopoly LexisNexis shares with Thomson…