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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Daniel Jones chose the Indianapolis Colts because he wanted a chance to prove he could still be a starting NFL quarterback.The gamble paid off Tuesday when coach Shane Steichen announced that Jones would start the Sept. 7 season opener against Miami, beating out Anthony Richardson, who just two years ago was dubbed the franchise’s quarterback of the future.The reason: consistency and accuracy.“The operation at the line, discernment, checks, the protection, the ball placement, I think all of that played a factor in it,” Steichen said. “I think Daniel did a great job doing that.”Steichen hinted a decision…
Firecrawl’s co-founder and CEO Caleb Peffer knew the exact moment he found the investor to lead his Series A. He was in a coffee meeting with Nexus Venture Partner’s Abhishek Sharma at the Blue Bottle in San Francisco’s South Park (a favorite VC haunt). While describing the future of the company, he was gesturing so animatedly that his chair tipped over. “I actually fell out of my chair. And Abhishek, as a great Investor does, caught the chair and me as I was falling,” Peffer described with a laugh. That felt like a symbol for how the founder/investor relationship is…
ATLANTA (AP) — How to win the FedEx Cup has never been more clear.Scottie Scheffler leads a 30-man field at the Tour Championship. They play 72 holes at East Lake and whoever has the lowest score gets $10 million in official prize money, an official victory and world ranking points.Except for the big boost in prize money, it’s no different from how the Tour Championship was before words like “points” and “playoffs” entered the golf vernacular.And that’s why the significance of winning the FedEx Cup has never been more confusing.Scheffler has had the best season. He has twice as many…
NEW YORK (AP) — Jannik Sinner pulled out of the U.S. Open mixed doubles tournament shortly before it began on Tuesday, a day after he quit in the first set of the Cincinnati Open final because he was feeling ill.The No. 1-ranked Sinner, the defending champion in singles at Flushing Meadows, was supposed to compete in mixed doubles with Katerina Siniakova.Sinner and Siniakova will be replaced by Americans Danielle Collins and Christian Harrison.Collins and Harrison received entry because they had the highest singles and doubles rankings combined among the teams on the alternate list. Collins is ranked 59th in singles,…
NEW YORK (AP) — Summer can be a time of big transitions for kids. It’s often the season for moving to a new home or preparing for a different school. And that brings worry and stress.Parents and families can help make things feel more manageable. If kids feel supported, they might even look forward to some of the changes and gain confidence, experts say.“When routines, familiar places and even knowing where things are in the house are suddenly gone, it forces youth to relearn their daily lives from scratch,” which can be stressful, says Victoria Kress, a professional counselor and…
Roughly one in three adults in the U.S. regularly gets insufficient sleep, driving demand for tools that can monitor, analyze, and enhance rest. Eight Sleep, founded in 2014, offers AI-powered sleep tech products that promise to transform your bed into a preventive health device. The New York-based startup announced Tuesday that it raised a fresh $100 million round from investors such as HSG, Valor Equity Partners, Founders Fund, Y Combinator and athletes including Ferrari F1 driver Charles Leclerc, and Zak Brown, who is the CEO of McLaren F1. With this round, Eight Sleep has raised roughly $260 million total, Pitchbook…
BOSTON (AP) — The sale of the Boston Celtics was finalized on Tuesday, with private equity mogul Bill Chisholm taking over control of the NBA’s most-decorated franchise from a group led by Wyc Grousbeck that had owned them for more than two decades.The team was put on the market last summer, soon after it won its record 18th NBA championship. Chisholm won the bidding in March with an offer that valued the franchise at more than $6.1 billion — a record price paid for an American professional sports team.The NBA approved the deal unanimously last week, and the money changed…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Annie Lu, a 32-year-old former product marketing manager at Atlassian based in Bellevue, Washington. It’s been edited for length and clarity.When I got hired at Atlassian as a product marketing manager in late 2022, it was a dream come true.For the first few months, I was working on projects that leveraged my interests and skill set. I also loved the culture, the hybrid work schedule, and my colleagues. It was exactly what I was looking for.After a while, I noticed Atlassian following the growing trend in Big Tech of increasing structural…
If you wanted a signal that we’ve truly entered the AI era and left mobile behind, this is it: iPhones are no longer Foxconn’s most important business.For investors and industry watchers, this is a pivotal moment. The company best known as Apple’s factory floor has become an AI-first manufacturer. If Foxconn was once the backbone of the smartphone era, it’s now building the infrastructure of the AI age.For the first time, Foxconn’s Cloud & Networking Products division has overtaken Smart Consumer Electronics, which runs the iPhone assembly operation. In the second quarter of 2025, Cloud & Networking revenue jumped 47%…
Little Mix’s Jade Thirlwall says she often receives negative comments about her gaining weight.”I have a daily battle with myself not to go on Ozempic,” Thirlwall said.She said she has a history of eating disorders and doesn’t know “where taking something like that would end for me.”Little Mix’s Jade Thirlwall says she is resisting Ozempic despite the public scrutiny around her body.In an interview with The Guardian published Saturday, the singer said that many of the negative comments she receives are about weight gain.”I have a daily battle with myself not to go on Ozempic,” Thirlwall told The Guardian. “I…