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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Grand Canyon University announced Tuesday its move to the Mountain West Conference will begin immediately.The school in Phoenix was initially scheduled to transition from the Western Athletic Conference to its new league on July 1, 2026. The Mountain West offered an earlier transition, however, allowing the school to compete for conference championships this fall.“The addition of Grand Canyon for the 2025-26 academic year is a significant win for the student-athletes at GCU and in the Mountain West,” conference commissioner Gloria Nevarez said in a statement.Grand Canyon will be one of 14 schools competing in the…

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — João Pedro scored twice against his boyhood team in his first start for Chelsea, leading the Blues over Fluminense 2-0 Tuesday to assure an all-European Club World Cup final.A 23-year-old who had been at Fluminense from about age 10 until leaving for Watford in 2020, João Pedro scored in the 18th and 56th minutes and refused to celebrate either goal in a sign of respect for his former club. He joined Chelsea from Brighton on July 2.Seeking its second world championship, Chelsea advanced to Sunday’s title match against the winner of Wednesday’s game between European…

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s fundraising organization, ALSAC, promoted Ike Anand Tuesday to become its new president and chief executive officer.The leadership change comes as ALSAC — which raised more than $2.5 billion for the Memphis-based hospital in 2024, according to tax filings – navigates a global expansion and an increasingly complicated funding landscape in the United States.“My role is to make sure that ALSAC is able to deliver on its promises to St. Jude so that St. Jude can continue to dream big,” said Anand, who had been ALSAC’s chief operating officer since 2020. “And ALSAC has a lot…

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark is doubling down on his preference to stay with only five automatic qualifiers if the College Football Playoff does expand from 12 to 16 teams as many expect after this season, instead of each of the four power conferences being guaranteed multiple bids.“We have the responsibility to do what’s right for college football … not what’s right for one or two or more conferences,” Yormark said Tuesday at Big 12 football media days. “I think 5-11 is fair. Earn it on the field, assuming we want to expand. I love the…

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 hits Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27–29, bringing together more than 10,000 startup and VC leaders for a deep dive into the future of technology. One of the most compelling conversations on one of the AI Stages will feature a panel of innovators redefining what intelligent systems can do. Among them is Alex Kendall, co-founder and CEO of Wayve. From research breakthrough to real-world autonomy Kendall founded Wayve in 2017 with a bold vision: to unlock autonomous mobility, not through handcrafted rules but through embodied intelligence. His pioneering research at the University of Cambridge laid…

We’re excited to welcome Mati Staniszewski, co-founder and CEO of ElevenLabs, to the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27–29 in San Francisco. In a featured fireside chat, Staniszewski will dive into how AI-powered voice technology is transforming digital communication and interaction. Takeaways that blend technical depth with business impact ElevenLabs is leading innovation in audio AI, building tools that make synthetic voices more natural, expressive, and accessible. As generative AI becomes central to product development, Staniszewski’s insights will offer a valuable look into the future of voice, personalization, and human-AI interaction. Before founding ElevenLabs, Staniszewski served…

The team at Moonvalley, a Los Angeles-based AI video-generation startup, doesn’t think you can prompt your way to making a movie. That’s why the company on Tuesday opened up its “3D-aware” model to the public, promising a “hybrid” approach that gives filmmakers more control than other standard text-to-video models.  Moonvalley first launched its model, named Marey, in beta in March and has now released it as a monthly credits-based subscription. Users can pay $14.99 for 100 credits, $34.99 for 250 credits, and $149.99 for 1,000 credits. Users can generate clips up to five seconds long, which is in line with…

GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s medical products authority has granted the first approval for a malaria medicine designed for small infants, touted as an advance against a disease that takes hundreds of thousands of lives — nearly all in Africa — each year.Swissmedic gave a green light Tuesday for the medicine from Basel-based pharmaceutical company Novartis for treatment of babies with body weights between 2 and 5 kilograms (nearly 4½ to 11 pounds), which could pave the way for hard-hit African nations to follow suit in coming months.The agency said that the decision is significant in part because it’s only the…

AI can help your team move faster — but only if your team knows how to move together. Join Jeff Chow, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Miro, for a roundtable sessions at TechCrunch All Stage on July 15 in Boston’s SoWa Power Station, where he’ll break down how product-led innovation can supercharge collaborative problem-solving. This session, titled “Building Team Intelligence: How Product-Led Innovation Transforms Collaborative Problem-Solving,” and is built for founders, product leaders, and startup teams looking to work smarter in the age of AI. From startups to scaleups, how your team thinks together may be more important than…

Grok, Elon Musk’s self-described “anti-woke” chatbot, has made a string of inflammatory or “glitch” posts days before a major upgrade.Since Saturday, xAI’s chatbot has blamed DOGE cuts for the deadly Texas floods and shared antisemitic tropes about Hollywood executives. Grok also appeared to answer questions about Jeffrey Epstein from the perspective of Musk.The posts, which were in response to questions from X users, came after xAI added new lines to Grok 3’s public system prompts on Sunday that instruct the bot to treat media viewpoints as biased and not to shy away from “politically incorrect” claims, “as long as they…