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BOSTON (AP) — The father of Boston Celtics All-Star Jaylen Brown was arrested in Las Vegas and charged with attempted murder after reportedly stabbing another man in a parking lot.According to TMZ, Quenton Marselles Brown admitted dinging the victim’s car with his door when he got out of his Lincoln Navigator. An argument ensued and Brown stabbed the victim in the back and stomach, the website reported.Court documents listed Brown as an inmate in the Clark County Detention Center on attempted murder charges. A person with knowledge of the incident, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not…
CHICAGO (AP) — Northwestern University has reached a settlement with former longtime football coach Pat Fitzgerald two years after he sued the prestigious school amid a team hazing scandal, attorneys and the school announced Thursday. “Though I maintain Northwestern had no legal basis to terminate my employment for cause under the terms of my Employment Agreement, in the interest of resolving this matter and, in particular, to relieve my family from the stress of ongoing litigation, Northwestern and I have agreed to a settlement,” Fitzgerald said in a statement through his attorneys. Details of the settlement weren’t made public. The…
Serena Williams is sharing how she took a swing at weight loss drugs.The tennis legend, 43, explained she “hit a wall” she had never encountered before after having her kids in a campaign video for telehealth company Ro.”I was doing everything right — working out, eating clean, following the plan. But my body wasn’t responded the way it used to. I knew my body was missing something it needed,” she said in the ad.The answer for her, she continued, was GLP-1s.According to the campaign, Williams has lost 31 pounds in 8 months using GLP-1s, though it is unclear which drug she has…
NEW YORK (AP) — A coalition of more than 30 privacy and civil rights groups called on U.S. universities Thursday to dismantle campus surveillance and data collection, to protect student protesters and others from government retaliation.The demands, issued in a letter sent to leaders of 60 major universities and colleges, come as President Donald Trump has pressed schools to crack down on alleged antisemitism and take a harder line on demonstrations.But the groups said it is essential that universities resist that pressure, including threats to millions of dollars in federal research grants, to preserve the academic freedom and rights to…
The NFL has increased security at its offices following a shooting last month at a Manhattan building by a gunman authorities say was targeting league headquarters.“We are working with the building and the other tenants within the building on building security,” NFL executive Jeff Miller said Thursday.The league previously recommended enhanced security measures at team and league facilities. The recommendations will be reviewed at a special league meeting on Aug. 26.NFL employees are back in their offices after working remotely in the weeks following the shooting that killed four people and injured a league employee. Investigators believe Shane Tamura, 27,…
Good morning. I couldn’t assemble flat-pack furniture if my life depended on it. Sometimes, it feels like it actually does. That’s why I’m thrilled about this startup’s mission: Make US manufacturing easier than following an Ikea manual.In today’s big story, BI’s Hugh Langley exclusively reports on Google ramping up the pressure on workers to use AI for everything — or risk falling behind. Googlers told Hugh how they feel about it.What’s on deck:Markets: Infamous market bear Michael Burry appears to have flipped his stance on stocks.Tech: Hundreds of Microsoft employees are comparing compensation in a giant spreadsheet, BI exclusively reports.Business:…
Google is launching a global expansion of AI Mode, its experimental feature that allows users to ask complex questions and follow-ups to dig deeper on a topic directly within Search, the company announced on Thursday. The tech giant is also bringing new agentic and personalized capabilities to the feature. As part of the expansion, Google is bringing AI Mode to 180 new countries in English. Up until now, it’s only been available to users in the U.S., U.K., and India. Google plans to bring the feature to more languages and regions soon. In terms of the new agentic features, users…
A New Jersey-based company, Sabrositos Hondurenos, LLC, is recalling about 32,000 pounds of various meat products with a false USDA mark of inspection, meaning the meats didn’t go through proper federal examination, according to federal officials.In an alert shared Thursday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said the recalled products are falsely labeled with establishment number “EST. 1785,” which “does not exist,” they said.The items, which include chorizo (sausage), pork chops and ribs, were shipped to retail locations and restaurants nationwide and were produced with various dates before Aug. 20, 2025.The recall includes the following:Homestyle chorizo labeled…
The head of Amazon’s bid to create artificial general intelligence has shared how junior staffers can get ahead in AI, as talent wars create fierce competition for a select few.Companies like Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic have spent the summer jostling for AI talent, in some cases offering compensation packages worth tens of millions.David Luan told The Verge’s “Decoder” podcast that he would put fewer than 1,000 people in the world into the top AI talent bracket and trust fewer than 150 people with a “giant dollar amount of compute” for a frontier AI lab.But Luan said that some junior people…
Meta has frozen hiring in its AI organization after restructuring the unit earlier this week, reports The Wall Street Journal. The hiring freeze follows weeks of poaching more than 50 AI researchers and engineers from competitors. The freeze went into effect last week, and it’s not clear how long it will last. Meta is still likely working through its reorg, which split its AI unit, Meta Superintelligence Labs, into four new groups: TBD Labs, run by former Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, and three groups focused on research, product integration, and infrastructure, respectively. Meta confirmed the hiring freeze with The…