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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Yu Darvish combined with three relievers on a three-hitter, and the San Diego Padres pulled even with the Los Angeles Dodgers atop the NL West once again with a 2-1 victory Friday night.Manny Machado had an RBI single and scored in the fourth inning for the Padres, who rebounded sharply after getting swept over three games last weekend in Chavez Ravine. The archrivals are even at 73-56 with 33 games left in the regular season.Alex Freeland hit his first major league homer for the defending champion Dodgers, who have lost three of five since last Sunday’s…
Kimbal Musk weighed in on his brother’s Tesla pay package and Tesla’s potential investment in xAI.”I think my brother deserves to be paid,” the younger Musk said Friday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “He has zero pay for the past six to eight years. I don’t think that’s right. I’ll let Tesla shareholders make that decision, but I believe that it does need to be. He needs to be paid.””Tesla can’t go without a deep, deep understanding of AI. We have a great business relationship with xAI,” Kimbal Musk, who sits on the Tesla board, added. “I will again let the…
Cassandra Smith has rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and knows all too well how debilitating the autoimmune condition can be. Her grandmother died of complications from RA, and in the last few months of her life, it was Smith who served as her caregiver, administering doses of methotrexate to treat her pain and inflammation. The drug, a form of chemotherapy also used to treat cancer, is so potent that Smith had to wear gloves to safely give it to her grandmother. So, when Smith’s doctor told her she too would probably have to take methotrexate long-term, her heart sank. “That was so…
The US government is officially investing in Intel, a remarkable development and a rare example of the government getting financially involved in a private company.Under the terms of the deal, the US is investing $8.9 billion into the chipmaker, “reflecting the confidence the Administration has in Intel to advance key national priorities and the critically important role the company plays in expanding the domestic semiconductor industry,” the chipmaker said in a Friday announcement.The agreement means the US government will hold a 9.9% stake in Intel.”The $8.9 billion investment is in addition to the $2.2 billion in CHIPS grants Intel has…
Meta is partnering with Midjourney to license the startup’s AI image and video generation technology, Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang announced Friday in a post on Threads. Wang says Meta’s research teams will collaborate with Midjourney to bring its technology into future AI models and products. “To ensure Meta is able to deliver the best possible products for people it will require taking an all-of-the-above approach,” Wang said. “This means world-class talent, ambitious compute roadmap, and working with the best players across the industry.” The Midjourney partnership could help Meta develop products that compete with industry-leading AI image and…
It’s hard to find programmers these days who aren’t using AI coding assistants in some capacity, especially to write the repetitive, mundane bits. But those who refused to try the tools when Coinbase bought enterprise licenses for GitHub Copilot and Cursor got promptly fired, CEO Brian Armstrong said this week on John Collison’s podcast “Cheeky Pint.” (Collison is the co-founder and president of the payments company Stripe.) After getting licenses to cover every engineer, some at the cryptocurrency exchange warned Armstrong that adoption would be slow, predicting it would take months to get even half the engineers using AI. Armstrong…
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Former NBA star Shawn Kemp was sentenced Friday to 30 days of electronic home monitoring for shooting at two men inside a vehicle in a Washington state mall parking lot. Kemp must begin home monitoring within two weeks, The Seattle Times reported. He must also serve one year of state Department of Corrections supervision and complete 240 hours of community service. Prosecutors had recommended the six-time NBA All-Star be sentenced to nine months in jail, a year of supervision and pay restitution. Judge Michael Schwartz of Pierce County Superior Court found the circumstances surrounding the crime…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Friday it will not defend a decades-old grant program for colleges with large numbers of Hispanic students that is being challenged in court, declaring the government believes the funding is unconstitutional.In a memo sent to Congress, the Justice Department said it agrees with a lawsuit attempting to strike down grants that are reserved for colleges and universities where at least a quarter of undergraduates are Hispanic. Congress created the program in 1998 after finding Latino students were attending college and graduating at far lower rates than white students.Justice Department officials argued the program…
As AI technology makes its way into the enterprise, Apple is rolling out new tools that will give businesses more granular control over where and how their employees can tap into artificial intelligence. With the release of Apple’s software updates arriving in September, the tech giant is adding another option for enterprise customers: the ability to configure the use of an enterprise version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Apple has already seen the demand for ChatGPT for Enterprise, which OpenAI says now has over 5 million business customers. These companies use the AI service to connect with their own internal data when…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mo’ne Davis admitted she was nervous ahead of her tryout for the Women’s Pro Baseball League. The former Little League sensation was among 600 players who arrived at the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy on Friday to compete for roster spots in the six-team circuit, which is set to launch next year.Davis, the first girl to earn a win as a pitcher in the Little League World Series, is no stranger to the spotlight. Now 24, she hasn’t played competitively in about five years, and she said her jitters subsided as soon as she reached the field.“I’ve…