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NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Knicks have offered their coaching job to Mike Brown and are working to finalize a deal with the two-time NBA Coach of the Year, a person with knowledge of the details said Wednesday.Brown would replace Tom Thibodeau, who was fired last month despite leading the Knicks to the Eastern Conference finals for the first time in 25 years.Brown had his second interview with the Knicks on Tuesday before the job was offered, the person told The Associated Press.The person spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the search were to remain private.The…
Wyoming is reporting its first measles case in 15 years as the infectious disease continues to spread across the United States.The state’s Department of Health said on Tuesday that it had confirmed a case in an unvaccinated child in Natrona County, which is located in the central part of the state and includes the town of Casper.The pediatric case is the first reported in Wyoming since 2010, according to the WDH.MORE: US measles cases nearing 30-year highIt’s unclear how the child became sick, and no other identifying details were provided including name, age or sex.A release from the WDH said…
Tesla’s delivery numbers are in — and they’re as bad as Wall Street expected.The electric automaker delivered 384,000 EVs in the second quarter, narrowly missing analysts’ grim expectations.Wall Street had prepared for disaster, with analysts on average expecting 389,400 vehicles delivered in the quarter, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The actual number represents a year-over-year decrease of 13.5% from the roughly 444,000 vehicles it delivered in the second quarter of 2024.This is the biggest quarterly decline in pure numbers in Tesla’s history, representing a drop of 60,000 deliveries compared to Q2 2024.The latest report follows a bruising first quarter…
LONDON (AP) — Aryna Sabalenka was just two points from dropping the opening set of her second-round Wimbledon match three times on Wednesday before asserting herself for a 7-6 (4), 6-4 victory over Marie Bouzkova to avoid the sort of surprise that has sent a group of seeded players home.Four of the top 10 women’s seeds failed to make it out of the first round: No. 2 Coco Gauff, No. 3 Jessica Pegula, No. 5 Zheng Qinwen and No. 9 Paula Badosa. In all, a record-tying 23 seeded players — 10 women, 13 men — were gone by the end…
Joie Armstrong asked her doctor about taking a GLP-1 medication to help her lose weight six times before she got a prescription, and then was denied coverage by her insurance company. Adrian, a systems engineer, had a choice between paying out of pocket for a GLP-1 medication or feeding his family. Chanel Robinson spent months fighting with her insurance company via certified snail mail over coverage for the medication. Gabriela Pena wanted to take a name-brand GLP-1, but high costs drove her to get her medication from an online telehealth provider and compounding pharmacy that seemed, at first, shady to…
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills first-round draft pick Maxwell Hairston was accused in a lawsuit of sexually assaulting a woman in 2021 at the University of Kentucky.The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in federal court in Kentucky by a woman who claims Hairston entered her dorm room without being invited, ignored her when she said didn’t want to have sexual intercourse, forcibly removed her bottoms and sexually assaulted her. The Associated Press does not typically name alleged victims of sexual assault.Texts seeking comment Wednesday were sent to agents for Hairston.The Bills had no comment and referred to statements made by…
When OpenAI leaders Nick Turley and Mark Chen talk about hiring, they don’t rattle off Ivy League credentials or AI competition wins.Instead, they value something far more human: curiosity and initiative.In a Tuesday episode of OpenAI’s podcast, Turley, the head of ChatGPT, said the single most important trait he looks for isn’t technical prowess, but curiosity.”It’s the number one thing that I’ve looked for,” Turley said. “And it’s actually my advice to students when they ask me, ‘What do I do in this world where everything’s changing?'””There’s so much we don’t know,” he said. “There’s a certain amount of humility…
In Silicon Valley, it is the summer of compensation FOMO.Startup employees and venture investors have been swapping stories about eye-popping salary and equity packages as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has rushed to pay top dollar to poach elite AI and machine-learning talent. While some people are getting offers in the tens of millions of dollars, others who aren’t getting such rich packages thrown their way are feeling left out.”There’s a ton of ripple effects I’m hearing in the Valley,” said Deedy Das, an AI investor at Anthropic backer Menlo Ventures. “There is a sense of jealousy, envy, and helplessness, and…
Canva’s cofounder and chief operating officer says it’s foolish for creatives not to embrace AI.Cliff Obrecht, who cofounded the design software company with his wife Melanie Perkins, said designers are reacting to AI like they did to Canva in its early days.”So at Canva, when we launched, a lot of designers said, ‘Canva, we hate you. You are ruining our industry. You are like letting everyone design,'” Obrecht said on a Tuesday podcast episode of Masters of Scale.”And so over time, it didn’t take long, within four years, designers didn’t feel threatened by Canva,” he said, adding that Canva’s tools…
LONDON (AP) — Before Wimbledon began, Coco Gauff reflected on the significance of her breakthrough performance at the place six years ago — a run to the fourth round at age 15 — and what aspirations she harbored as she prepared to return.“Even when I see videos of me during that time, it just doesn’t feel like it’s me. It felt like a dream. I’ll always have special memories from that run and, I guess, it definitely fueled the belief that I can be on tour and live out my dream,” she told The Associated Press.“It’s something that always holds…