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Dallas Wings star Paige Bueckers was a runaway choice for WNBA Rookie of the Year after one of the best debut seasons in league history.Bueckers received 70 of the 72 votes from sports writers and broadcasters in balloting announced by the league on Tuesday. The other two went to Washington Mystics guard Sonia Citron.Bueckers, who in a whirlwind week last spring went from leading UConn to its 12th national championship to being drafted with the No. 1 overall pick, was a bright spot on a team that tied the Chicago Sky with a league-worst 10-34 record. The AP Rookie of…
Y Combinator-alum Rulebase is betting that the next wave of automation in financial services won’t be about flashy AI interfaces, but the unglamorous back-office tasks like compliance. The startup, founded by Gideon Ebose and Chidi Williams, two Nigerian engineers who met in London, just raised a $2.1 million pre-seed round led by Bowery Capital, with participation from Y Combinator, Commerce Ventures, Transpose Platform VC, alongside several angels. Financial services firms spend enormous amounts of effort on support tickets, resolving disputes, ensuring quality assurance, and regulatory compliance. Rulebase’s software, which it calls an agent coworker, replaces much of the manual grunt…
Y Combinator-alum Rulebase is betting that the next wave of automation in financial services won’t be about flashy AI interfaces but rather the unglamorous back-office tasks like compliance. The startup, founded in 2024 by Gideon Ebose and Chidi Williams, two Nigerian engineers who met in London, just raised a $2.1 million pre-seed round led by Bowery Capital, with participation from Y Combinator, Commerce Ventures, Transpose Platform VC, and several angels. Financial services firms spend enormous amounts of effort on support tickets, resolving disputes, ensuring quality assurance, and regulatory compliance. Rulebase’s software, which it calls an agent co-worker, replaces much of…
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court temporarily put on hold proposed new social studies standards for K-12 public school students that include conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. The state’s high court issued a temporary stay on Monday while a lawsuit challenging the new standards is being litigated. The court’s order directs the State Department of Education to keep the previous social studies standards in place while the case is being decided.At the direction of state Superintendent Ryan Walters, the standards were revised to include new language about the 2020 election and that the source of the COVID-19…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Amy Ma, who is in her 30s and from New Jersey. The following has been edited for length and clarity.Getting laid off broke my heart.In May 2023, I got called into a meeting with a HR representative who told me I was losing my data scientist job at the company where I’d worked since February 2022. I couldn’t stop myself from crying.I was five months pregnant, so felt I couldn’t immediately get back into the job market.When I started looking for jobs again a month after giving birth, joining a job-seekers’…
TOKYO (AP) — One record down, and maybe one more to go for Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.McLaughlin-Levrone finished her 400-meter semifinal at the world championships Tuesday in 48.29 seconds, shattering a 19-year-old American mark held by Sanya Richards-Ross by .41 seconds.It was the fastest time of 2025, the seventh fastest time ever, and it makes the thought of breaking the 40-year-old record of 47.60 seem totally possible in the final Thursday.“Honored, for sure,” McLaughlin-Levrone said about breaking the U.S. record she’s been targeting since she moved over from the hurdles. “I definitely wasn’t expecting that time. It just shows the fitness is…
TOKYO (AP) — Faith Kipyegon pulled away from the pack for a win everyone expected and a record-tying fourth world championship at 1,500 meters Tuesday. Kipyegon finished in 3 minutes, 52.15 seconds, nearly three seconds ahead of her Kenyan teammate Dorcus Ewoi but about three seconds behind the world record she set earlier this year.Running in front throughout the near four-lap journey, Kipyegon coasted into the finish to join Hicham El Guerrouj as only the second runner to win four world titles in the metric mile. She flashed four fingers after crossing the finish line.“I’m so happy to represent my…
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Rangers named J.T. Miller captain on Tuesday, putting him in the key leadership position three weeks before the start of the NHL season.The Rangers announced Miller would be getting the “C” on the eve of the start of training camp and ahead of his first full season back with the team that drafted him. They did not have a captain for much of last season after trading Jacob Trouba to Anaheim in December.New York reacquired Miller in late January in a deal with Vancouver. Miller was one of the Rangers’ leading scorers and…
On your first day at a new tech company, you can probably expect one thing: a hefty package of company swag waiting at your desk.This merch — hats, T-shirts, the branded Patagonia vest of Wall Street’s past — usually comes in drab navy, with an embroidered sans serif logo. As defense tech has risen in favor among venture capitalists and job seekers alike, some companies are pushing the concept further, designing cheeky swag that blurs the line between marketing and meme.Allen Control Systems, a defense tech startup, printed its core product, an AI-automated weapon station that shoots down drones, onto…
The race for AI dominance has fueled a global chip frenzy — but Morningstar warns the industry’s next cyclical downturn may be on the horizon.”Foundries and memory makers are exposed to the intense cyclicality of the semiconductor sector,” equity analysts at Morningstar cautioned in a report released on Tuesday.The firm said a typical semiconductor cycle lasts about four years, with AI demand prolonging the current rally.”We believe strong AI-related sales and investments are helping the sector to stretch the limits of an upcycle,” the analysts wrote.Since ChatGPT’s breakout moment in late 2022, AI investments have surged, sending chipmaker valuations soaring.While…