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Meta just made the biggest reorganization of its artificial intelligence operations to date.Business Insider obtained the full email sent by 28-year-old Alexandr Wang, the leader of Meta Superintelligence Labs, or MSL, to all Meta employees who work on AI.As the AI arms race continues, Meta has been assembling an all-star team of talent, trying to poach researchers from rival AI labs with massive offers as it races to build “personal superintelligence.” Tensions have already emerged within the newly formed team between the lavishly compensated new hires and the existing researchers, some of whom have threatened to quit, Business Insider previously…

“It wasn’t one big lightbulb; it was death by a thousand cuts,” Edward Aryee said when asked what led him and his co-founder, Raj Kadiyala, to launch SRE.ai.  The company is offering natural language AI agents that can perform complex enterprise DevOps workflows like continuous integration and testing.  “Instead of stitching together different low-code tools for enterprise applications like Salesforce, compared to products built on AWS, GCP, or Azure, teams can now move faster with context-driven, chat-like experiences that work across all of them,” Kadiyala, who is the company’s CEO, told TechCrunch.  The duo thought of the product while working…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Baseball’s top pitching prospect is getting called up to the majors.The Pittsburgh Pirates have decided to promote 22-year-old right-hander Bubba Chandler ahead of their game Friday against the Colorado Rockies, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the roster move was not yet official.Chandler will join a staff that already includes 2024 NL Rookie of the Year Paul Skenes.The person told the AP that Chandler will initially work in a “bulk” bullpen role. Chandler got off to a hot start in…

ATLANTA (AP) — Tiger Woods is a major player in golf again, this time without clubs. He was appointed Wednesday to chair a new committee charged with taking a fresh look at the competitive model for how the PGA Tour runs its tournaments.Brian Rolapp, three weeks into his role as the tour’s first CEO, announced the nine-member “Future Competition Committee” and said it would have a clean sheet to consider changes that uphold traditions without being tied to them.“This is about shaping the next era of the PGA Tour,” Woods said in a social media post.Rolapp didn’t have details on…

Portable air cleaners aimed at curbing indoor spread of infections are rarely tested for how well they protect people – and very few studies evaluate their potentially harmful effects. That’s the upshot of a detailed review of nearly 700 studies that we co-authored in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.Many respiratory viruses, such as COVID-19 and influenza, can spread through indoor air. Technologies such as HEPA filters, ultraviolet light and special ventilation designs – collectively known as engineering infection controls – are intended to clean indoor air and prevent viruses and other disease-causing pathogens from spreading.Along with our colleagues across…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR in 2026 will race on a new street course in San Diego, return Chicagoland Speedway to the schedule, move the All-Star race to Dover, Delaware, and end its 38-race season back at Homestead-Miami Speedway.The schedule released Wednesday includes two off weekends on a calendar that stretches from February to November. It begins with the exhibition Clash on Feb. 1 at Bowman-Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem for the second consecutive year, with the season-opening Daytona 500 to follow on Feb. 15.The season ends Nov. 8 in Florida at Homestead, which hosted the championship-deciding finale for 18 consecutive…

Texas cannot require public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, a judge said Wednesday in a temporary ruling against the state’s new requirement, making it the third such state law to be blocked by a court.A group of Dallas-area families and faith leaders sought a preliminary injunction against the law, which goes into effect on Sept. 1. They say the requirement violates the First Amendment’s protections for the separation of church and state and the right to free religious exercise. Texas is the largest state to attempt such a requirement, and U.S. District Judge Fred Biery’s ruling…

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — The paint is finally dry on Plaster Stadium. The new turf has been laid, with its maroon end zones, the Missouri State logo across midfield and “C-USA” emblazoned at the 25-yard lines. All the technological upgrades are completed, ready for the Bears to play their home opener against SMU in less than a month.These are the tangible signposts ushering in a new era for the school’s football program.There are more, less obvious ones that are accompanying Missouri State’s move from the Football Championship Subdivision to the top-tier Football Bowl Subdivision, one that comes during perhaps the…

A survey of doctors released Wednesday showed how pervasive medical falsehoods have become — not only online, but also within the walls of medical exam rooms where doctors and patients talk.The survey from the Physicians Foundation, a nonprofit research group, found that 61% of doctors said they encountered patients influenced by misinformation or disinformation a moderate amount or a great deal of the time over the past year.An overwhelming majority of physicians, 86%, said the incidence of such falsehoods among patients had increased over the past five years, a period that includes most of the Covid pandemic, with 50% saying…

A new wave of flippable and foldable phones is shaking up the US smartphone market, long dominated by Apple’s iPhone.The iPhone remains king, but flip phones are spurring innovation and gaining momentum with consumers.”There is quite a bit of buzz around this,” Forrester analyst Dipanjan Chatterjee told Business Insider. Still, he said foldables remain niche, representing 1% to 2% of the smartphone market.Companies including Samsung, Motorola, and Google have ventured into foldable or flippable smartphones — Samsung with the Galaxy Z Fold and Galaxy Z Flip, Motorola with its Razr flip phones, and Google with its Pixel Fold models.In July,…