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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Matthew Stafford practiced with the Los Angeles Rams on Monday, marking the quarterback’s first workout with the team this preseason after having been unable to do so because of a sore back.Stafford, 37, took first-team reps during the session and did not speak to reporters afterward. Coach Sean McVay said it was too soon to know what the session means for Stafford’s status going forward.“I think that would be putting the cart way before the horse,” McVay said. “I thought he did a good job today, and we had 26 plays of team (with Stafford), and…

After four weeks, Joe Flacco has emerged as the winner of the Cleveland Browns’ four-way quarterback competition.The Browns announced on Monday that Flacco will get the start when the Browns host AFC North rival Cincinnati in the Sept. 7 opener.Coach Kevin Stefanski indicated over the past week that decision was coming. The Browns were off on Sunday after their 22-13 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles but had a team meeting on Monday.The 40-year old Flacco beat out Kenny Pickett and rookies Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders. Deshaun Watson is on the roster, but is expected to miss the season because…

Federal incentives for home energy improvements are running out at the end of the year, so it’s decision time for anyone who has been thinking about a heat pump. The right decision can depend on where you live, how much you have to spend and how deeply you want to cut emissions.But the payoff can be significant.Bill Gerosa was spending about $6,700 annually to heat and cool his house about 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of New York City. He was eager to bring down his costs, and shelled out $13,000 for a ground-source heat pump that was made more…

Grammarly now has a new document-based interface, built on the back of Coda, the productivity startup it acquired last year. The interface also sports an AI assistant, as well as a few AI tools meant for students and professionals, including an AI grader, proofreader and citation finder. The new interface adopts a block-first approach, letting you insert tables, columns, separators, lists and headers. You can also add rich text blocks to highlight information, add tips, or alerts. A sidebar hosts the AI assistant, which can summarize text, answer your questions, and provide writing suggestions. Image Credits: Grammarly There’s a bunch…

Texas and Penn State, the top two teams in The Associated Press preseason Top 25, each had three players selected for the preseason AP All-America team announced Monday.No. 1 Texas had one player from each level of its defense on the first team: edge rusher Colin Simmons, linebacker Anthony Hill Jr. and safety Michael Taaffe. No. 2 Penn State’s picks were running back Nicholas Singleton, offensive lineman Olaivavega Ioane and defensive lineman Zane Durant.No. 3 Ohio State, No. 4 Clemson, No. 6 Notre Dame, No. 8 Alabama and Pittsburgh each had two players on the first team. The Southeastern Conference…

AT&T helped shape the modern telecommunications industry — now it has to reinvent itself.”It’s kind of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, honestly, or at least once-in-a-career opportunity to be able to rebuild networks like that,” the company’s technology chief, Jeremy Legg, said Monday at a KeyBanc tech conference.For more than a century, AT&T built and maintained a vast network of copper wires and dedicated switches that carried voice and data across the us.But that legacy infrastructure is no longer suited to 21st-century demands for speed and mobility that are better served by fiber optic networks and wireless spectrum.AT&T is now running enough…

Grand Slam singles champions such as Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Iga Swiatek and Madison Keys will be playing for a little extra money — OK, a lot of extra money, by any standard: $1 million to the winning duo — and trying to get their hands on a trophy in the U.S. Open’s overhauled mixed doubles tournament.The best of the best at doubles, meanwhile, are not so excited about what one of last year’s mixed champions in New York, Sara Errani, labeled “sad” and “nonsense” in an interview with The Associated Press. She and Andrea Vavassori, who’ll be defending their…

Do you know the best place to land if you accidentally fall out of a plane?This scenario is the basis for a now mega-viral meme made by The Original Tamale Company, a family-run small business in Los Angeles, with a little help from ChatGPT.The 46-second social media spot has been viewed more than 22 million times in about three weeks and has 1.2 million likes. Celebrities like sports analyst Emmanuel Acho, professional boxer Emiliano Vargas, and “Queen of the South” actor Peter Gadiot, have commented on the post.It’s the kind of advertising win that once was the sole purview of…

While AI giants are breaking the bank to fund the future of the technology, two companies are hoping a single dollar fee can help them gain a foothold in Washington.OpenAI and Anthropic are charging the Trump administration just $1 per agency to access their leading AI models for the next year.In another sign of how competitive things remain, OpenAI announced its agreement for ChatGPT Enterprise access on August 6. Less than a week later, Anthropic announced a similar deal for access to Claude for Enterprise and Claude for Government.Government contracts could be quite lucrative for AI companies. Anthropic already has…

AI labs wanted him. Big Tech did too. But in the end, it was quant finance that won over teen prodigy Kairan Quazi.The 16-year-old, who garnered worldwide attention in 2023 for graduating from college and landing a job as a SpaceX engineer at age 14, starts this week as a quant developer at systematic trading giant Citadel Securities in New York City.”After two years at SpaceX, I felt ready to take on new challenges and expand my skill set into a different high-performance environment,” Quazi told Business Insider in an interview. “Citadel Securities offered a similarly ambitious culture, but also…