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SEATTLE (AP) — Pete Carroll played a new role in familiar territory Thursday night, with his first preseason game as coach of the Las Vegas Raiders coming against the Seattle Seahawks.The former Seattle coach clearly felt at home before the 23-23 tie, talking with many Seahawks players on the field during warmups and generally being his outgoing, energetic self.“It was cool to be here. I loved it here,” Carroll said. “But it didn’t translate to something crazy for me. It was just an opportunity to play in a great setting. Thanks to the league for putting us in this game.…
Lots of people scroll TikTok to plan their next vacation — or dream of when they can next escape the grind. Now, they can book a hotel directly in the app.TikTok has launched an integration with Booking.com that lets users enter check-in and check-out dates and book available rooms at specific hotels. Each hotel has a dedicated landing page with information about prices, amenities, reviews, things to do nearby, and related TikTok videos about the property. Users can also tag the hotel in videos, according to several posts viewed by Business Insider.The company is separately rolling out a creator monetization program…
Tesla is breaking up the team behind its Dojo supercomputer, ending the automaker’s play at developing in-house chips for driverless technology, according to Bloomberg. Dojo’s lead, Peter Bannon, is leaving the company, and the remaining team members will be reassigned to other data center and compute projects within Tesla, per Bloomberg’s reporting, which cited anonymous sources. The disbanding of Tesla’s Dojo efforts follows the departure of around 20 workers, who left the automaker to start their own AI company called DensityAI. The new startup is reportedly coming out of stealth soon and is building chips, hardware, and software that will…
BALTIMORE (AP) — With Lamar Jackson sitting this one out, Baltimore’s passing game sputtered for 60 minutes.The Ravens needed a few big plays on special teams to pull through.LaJohntay Wester scored on an 87-yard punt return, fellow rookie Tyler Loop kicked a 52-yard field goal and Rasheen Ali added a long kickoff return to lift Baltimore to a 24-16 victory over the Indianapolis Colts on Thursday night.“Obviously, what LaJohntay did was awesome,” coach John Harbaugh said. “You see Rasheen hit that kick return was good. That was big field position for us.”Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson exited on their second offensive…
In February, AI coding startup Windsurf was in talks to raise a big new round at a $2.85 billion valuation led by Kleiner Perkins, at double the valuation it hit six months earlier, sources told TechCrunch at the time. That deal didn’t happen, according to a source familiar with the matter. Instead, news broke in April that the startup planned to sell itself to OpenAI for roughly the same valuation: $3 billion. While that deal famously fell apart, one bigger question remains: If the startup was growing that fast and attracting VC interest, why would it sell at all? Insiders tell…
As David Ellison takes over the newly formed Paramount Skydance, he has a clear message for Hollywood grappling with AI’s encroachment: don’t fear it.”We’re not going to be afraid of tech, we’re going to embrace it,” Ellison said at a press event Thursday, where he fielded questions on his plans for the newly formed company. “I don’t think AI is a replacement for creativity.”Hollywood has a split personality when it comes to AI. Some like Lionsgate and AMC have publicly acknowledged recent deals with prominent AI company Runway, and Netflix has shared how it’s used AI in the content creation process.…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The tush push is still legal in the NFL — and about as unstoppable as it was in an ill-fated push to ban it for the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles.Even with Super Bowl MVP quarterback Jalen Hurts and the bulk of the Philadelphia starters sitting out the preseason opener on Thursday night against Cincinnati, the Eagles went straight to their favorite short-yardage play on the opening drive.Tanner McKee, the backup QB in the regular season, was indeed pushed in for the score on a fourth-and-goal from the Bengals 1-yard line late in the first quarter. The…
MONTREAL (AP) — Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko completed a dream run to the National Bank Open title Thursday night, overcoming a slow start and swollen right wrist to beat Japanese star Naomi Osaka 2-6, 6-4, 6-1.The 18-year-old Mboko — who will jump from 85th to 25th in the world — won her first WTA Tour title and joined Faye Urban in 1969 and Bianca Andreescu in 2019 as the only Canadians to win the home event in the open era.Mboko dropped to her knees after Osaka fired a shot into the net as a raucous packed house burst into cheers…
The term “ultra-processed foods” has become common when discussing how healthy — or unhealthy — American diets are.A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published early Thursday found that U.S. children and adults are getting more than 50% of their total calories from ultra-processed foods.Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has warned about the dangers of ultra-processed foods, saying they are one of the reasons behind the rise of chronic diseases in the U.S.NOVA Classification; Yale Medicine – PHOTO: Types of Unprocessed and Processed FoodsMORE: How eating ultra-processed foods could lead to increased risk…
BALTIMORE (AP) — The plan was for Indianapolis Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson to play about 1 1/2 quarters. Then Daniel Jones would play half a quarter.Instead, those figures ended up reversed after Richardson took a crunching sack from David Ojabo.Richardson had to leave Indianapolis’ preseason opener Thursday night with a dislocated pinky on his throwing hand, and Jones replaced him earlier than expected in a 24-16 loss to Baltimore. Richardson was confident afterward that this wouldn’t be a serious injury — but the Colts announced another one. Rookie cornerback Justin Walley didn’t play Thursday because of a torn ACL.Richardson started…