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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Saquon Barkley has declined an invitation to join President Donald Trump’s council on sports, fitness, and nutrition, which is being revitalized under an executive order that also reestablishes the Presidential Fitness Test for American children.Barkley, the 2,000-yard rusher for the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles, was on a list of sports personalities that included golfers Bryson DeChambeau and Nelly Korda, WWE executive Paul “Triple H” Levesque, football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor and retired New York Yankees great Mariano Rivera.Barkley said Monday following Eagles’ practice that he had actually declined the invitation.“A couple months ago, it was…
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Customers at North Carolina’s Division of Motor Vehicles are waiting longer in lines that are often far away from home, while agency staffing fails to keep pace with the state’s surging population, according to agency reviews that also recommend major reforms.Elected Republican Auditor Dave Boliek on Monday released two audits totaling nearly 600 pages that scrutinize the DMV — the bane of motorists in many states. But long lines and frustrations are acute in the ninth-largest state. “Our DMV affects the economy. It affects people having to take off of work unnecessarily. It takes our students…
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — San Antonio Spurs guard De’Aaron Fox has agreed to a four-year, $228 million maximum contract extension, a person with knowledge of the situation said Monday.Fox is under contract this season for the final year of his five-year, $163 million deal. The extension starts in 2026-27, said the person, who spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the Spurs had not yet announced the deal. They did not provide specific terms when they did. ESPN first reported the deal.The move was expected after the Spurs made a big splash at the trade deadline last…
Updated 2025-08-04T15:55:34Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Many tech leaders tried to get close to Trump after the election, donating to his inaugural fund. One expert told BI that it’s been a “rocky road” since then for Silicon Valley leaders and Trump. Here’s where some of tech’s big names — and businesses — stand with Trump…
Amazon is breaking up its Wondery podcast studio as consumption of the medium shifts to video and personality-driven shows, according to a memo viewed by Business Insider.About 110 people are being let go as a result, a person familiar with the matter told BI. Also exiting is Wondery’s CEO Jen Sargent.Amazon made a big bet on podcasts when it acquired Wondery in 2021 for what The New York Times reported was $300 million. The studio has established a track record of producing strong narrative podcasts, some of which turned into TV shows like “Dirty John” and “Dr. Death.”But podcasting has…
AI startup Perplexity is crawling and scraping content from websites that have explicitly indicated they don’t want to be scraped, according to internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare. On Monday, Cloudflare published research saying it observed the AI startup ignore blocks and hide its crawling and scraping activities. The network infrastructure giant accused Perplexity of obscuring its identity when trying to scrape web pages “in an attempt to circumvent the website’s preferences,” Cloudflare’s researchers wrote. AI products like those offered by Perplexity rely on gobbling up large amounts of data from the internet, and AI startups have long scraped text, images, and…
ChatGPT’s impressive growth as a consumer app continues as the chatbot is on track to hit 700 million weekly active users this week, the company says. The app had earlier reached 500 million weekly active users as of the end of March, noted Nick Turley, OpenAI VP and head of ChatGPT’s app, in a post on X. He also said the app has grown 4x since last year. “Every day, people and teams are learning, creating, and solving harder problems. Big week ahead. Grateful to the team for making ChatGPT more useful and delivering on our mission so everyone can…
Elon Musk’s AI company has officially rolled out Grok Imagine, xAI’s image and video generator, to all SuperGrok and Premium+ X subscribers on its iOS app. And true to form for Musk, who positions Grok as an unfiltered, boundary-pushing AI, the generator allows users to make NSFW content. Grok Imagine, which promises to turn text or image prompts into a 15-second video featuring native audio, has a “spicy mode” that allows users to generate sexually explicit content, including partial female nudity . There are limits to how explicit one can get. Many of our spicier prompts — made in the…
The NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments will not expand beyond 68 teams in 2026, but future growth remains on the radar.“Expanding the tournament fields is no longer being contemplated for the 2026 men’s and women’s basketball championships,” Dan Gavitt, NCAA senior vice president of basketball, said in a statement on Monday. “However, the committees will continue conversations on whether to recommend expanding to 72 or 76 teams in advance of the 2027 championships.”NCAA President Charlie Baker has said adding teams could add value to the tournament, and he said the NCAA already has had “good conversations” with TV partners…
Mobile apps are easier to build than ever — but that doesn’t mean they’re safe.Late last month, Tea, a buzzy app where women anonymously share reviews of men, suffered a data breach that exposed thousands of images and private messages.As cybersecurity expert Michael Coates put it, the impact of Tea’s breach was that it exposed data “otherwise assumed to be private and sensitive” to anyone with the “technical acumen” to access that user data — and “ergo, the whole world.”Tea confirmed that about 72,000 images — including women’s selfies and driver’s licenses — had been accessed. Images from the app were then…