Author: IQ TIMES MEDIA
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…
Donald Trump says the new owners of Paramount have promised him that they’ll give him $20 million in free ads. Is that true?Up until now, reporters haven’t been able to directly ask the new owner of Paramount.But when they got the chance on Thursday, at a press conference at Paramount’s Manhattan headquarters, David Ellison wouldn’t confirm or deny Trump’s assertion.”We are not going to politicize anything today,” he said, pointing reporters to a previous non-denial of Trump’s claim that his Skydance Media had previously supplied to US lawmakers.OK. How about this one: Brendan Carr, the Trump-appointed head of the Federal…
Sam Altman says OpenAI has yet to crack AGI.The OpenAI CEO said that while the highly anticipated GPT-5, which launched Thursday, is a major advancement, it isn’t what he considers artificial general intelligence, a still theoretical threshold where AI can reason like humans.Developing AGI that benefits all of humanity is OpenAI’s core mission.”This is clearly a model that is generally intelligent, although I think in the way that most of us define AGI, we’re still missing something quite important, or many things quite important,” Altman told reporters during a press call on Wednesday before the release of GPT-5.One of those missing…
OpenAI has launched GPT-5, a new flagship AI model that will power the company’s next generation of ChatGPT. GPT-5, which was released Thursday, is OpenAI’s first “unified” AI model and combines the reasoning abilities of its o-series of models with the fast responses of its GPT series. The next-generation model signals a new era for ChatGPT — and its creator, OpenAI — pointing to OpenAI’s broader ambitions to develop AI systems that are more like agents than chatbots. While GPT-4 enabled AI chatbots to offer smart responses on a wide variety of questions, GPT-5 allows ChatGPT to complete a wide…
NEW YORK (AP) — Jen Pawol was in her hotel room in Nashville, Tennessee, when she got the call she had awaited for a decade.She was going to make her major league debut this weekend, becoming the first female umpire in a century and a half of big league baseball.“I was overcome with emotion,” Pawol recalled Thursday, two days before she breaks a gender barrier when she works the bases during Miami’s doubleheader at Atlanta. “It was super emotional to finally be living that phone call that I’d been hoping for and working towards for quite a while, and I…
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va. (AP) — Houston safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson appeared to suffer a significant leg injury Thursday as the Texans practiced at the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia.According to reports, Gardner-Johnson tried to tackle receiver John Metchie and after making contact fell to ground and began writhing in pain. The medical staff tended to him as the team and coaches surrounded him. He was eventually helped by the medical staff to a cart while it appeared that he couldn’t put any pressure on his right leg.Coach DeMeco Ryans told reporters that he didn’t have any update on his…
The WNBA is still struggling with a string of sex toy disturbances. In the past week and a half, sex toys have been thrown on court during games in Atlanta on July 29, Chicago on Aug. 1 and Los Angeles on Aug. 5, with the most recent object nearly hitting Fever guard Sophie Cunningham during Indiana’s game against the Sparks. Sex toys were also thrown at games in New York and Phoenix last Tuesday but didn’t reach the court. Police say another toy was thrown at a game in Atlanta on Aug. 1, although it’s unclear if that one reached…
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles Chargers tackle Rashawn Slater was carted off the practice field Thursday after apparently injuring his left leg.There was no immediate update provided by the Chargers. Defensive coordinator Jesse Minter said he didn’t see Slater get hurt and he declined to speculate on the injury.“I was in on the play, so I turned around and he was down. I didn’t know what happened,” newly signed wide receiver Keenan Allen said.Slater’s teammates came up to hug him before he was taken away.“We’re praying for him, man. We hope he’s doing well,” outside linebacker Tuli Tuipulotu…