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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…

NEW YORK (AP) — An Ohio man was arrested for the throwing of a sex toy at a WNBA game in New York, police said Thursday.It’s the latest development in a string of disturbances where similar toys were tossed at WNBA games across the country, resulting in at least three arrests.Charles Burgess, 32, from Dayton, Ohio, was arrested Wednesday and charged with two counts of assault for allegedly throwing an object at the Dallas Wings vs. New York Liberty game on Aug. 5, hitting a 12-year-old girl, according to New York City police.Burgess pleaded not guilty after driving from Ohio…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Humpy Wheeler, a pioneering motorsports promoter and former president and general manager of Charlotte Motor Speedway, has died, NASCAR said. He was 86.Charlotte Motor Speedway said Wheeler died of natural causes Wednesday in Charlotte, surrounded by his family.“Humpy Wheeler was a visionary whose name became synonymous with promotion and innovation in our sport,” said NASCAR chairman Jim France. “During his decades leading Charlotte Motor Speedway, Humpy transformed the fan experience through his creativity, bold ideas and tireless passion. His efforts helped expand NASCAR’s national footprint, cement Charlotte as a must-visit racing and entertainment complex.”Howard Augustine Wheeler…

Health is an investment. At Love.Life, the new wellness center cofounded by former Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey, it’s a pricy one — between $7,500 and $25,000 per year, to be specific. So, when I was invited to check out the facility and get a complimentary Love.Life health assessment as part of a press visit, I felt like I was getting a taste of how the wealthy do wellness — all without spending a dime.Love.Life is just one of many wellness-focused facilities popping up around the country, and it comes at a time when preventive care is a major…

Hundreds of women will flock to Washington on Friday to take their first swings at turning pro baseball dreams into reality.Some at the historic tryout will be seasoned veterans and trailblazers in the women’s game. Plenty others are beginners chasing a shot at the pros.They’ll meet on the same field in a camp organized by the Women’s Pro Baseball League. Set to debut next year, the league is holding the first pro women’s baseball tryouts in more than 80 years this weekend in partnership with Major League Baseball’s Washington Nationals. The U.S. hasn’t had a pro women’s league since the…