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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Suspended Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco, who was found guilty earlier this year of sexually abusing a minor, was detained by police on Tuesday and admitted into a clinic in the Dominican Republic for mental health issues, according to authorities.The request to have him detained and admitted came from his family, police spokesman Col. Diego Pesqueira told The Associated Press. He noted that Franco’s admittance into a private clinic in his hometown of Baní is not linked to any legal issues.Last weekend, the 24-year-old player took to social media to denounce that $16,000…
Mistral AI, the French company that develops the AI chatbot, Le Chat, and several foundational large language models, is considered one of France’s most promising tech startups, and is arguably the only European company that could compete with OpenAI. “Go and download Le Chat, which is made by Mistral, rather than ChatGPT by OpenAI — or something else,” French president Emmanuel Macron said in a TV interview ahead of the AI Action Summit in Paris in February 2025. In a significant step up from its June 2024 valuation of $6 billion, Mistral is now valued at €11.7 billion (approximately $13.8…
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sidney Crosby is well aware of the trade talk swirling around him, now that he and the Pittsburgh Penguins have gone three seasons without making the playoffs.Going into another at age 38 with little realistic hope of the team contending, the three-time Stanley Cup champion acknowledged the rumors are now part of his reality, even if he’d rather they not be.“I understand it,” Crosby said Monday night at the NHL player media tour on the Las Vegas Strip. “That’s the hard part about losing. Everybody thinks that the losing is the buzzer goes (off), you lose…
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Liberty are finally healthy heading into the playoffs and the defending champions have confidence they can win another title.The road won’t be easy as the team is a No. 5 seed and will most likely have to start the postseason on the road in Phoenix.Since the WNBA changed its playoff format in 2016 to the top eight teams regardless of conference making the postseason, no five seed has ever won a championship. The only team not in the top two to do it was Chicago in 2021, which was a six seed.“There’s no…
French AI startup Mistral has secured a massive investment from Dutch chip company ASML.Mistral, which is seen as Europe’s answer to OpenAI, received a 1.3 billion euros, or $1.5 billion, investment from ASML as part of a wider $2 billion funding round, the companies said Tuesday.ASML, which has a market capitalization of $308 billion, has taken a roughly 11% stake in Mistral, making it the startup’s largest shareholder. The Dutch company sells specialized machinery essential for chip manufacturing,The funding roughly doubles Mistral’s post-money valuation to nearly $13.8 billion, cementing its place as Europe’s most valuable AI startup.Mistral’s funding is dwarfed…
(Reuters) – Drugmaker Eli Lilly said on Tuesday it is launching an artificial intelligence and machine learning platform that provides biotech companies access to drug discovery models trained on years of its research data.Drug developers are increasing adoption of AI technologies for discovery and safety testing to get faster and cheaper results, in line with an FDA push to reduce animal testing in the near future.Lilly’s platform, TuneLab, consists of AI models which include proprietary data obtained at a cost of over $1 billion.”Lilly TuneLab was created to be an equalizer so that smaller companies can access some of the…
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The late British golf writer Peter Dobereiner never liked the idea of continental Europe being invited to take part in the Ryder Cup, regardless of the Americans winning all but one time over the previous 30 years.He no doubt would feel the same if that were to happen with the Walker Cup.“So the Ryder Cup is dead. It was quietly put down to prevent further suffering and the body was interred in an unmarked grave,” Dobereiner wrote for The Observer after the June 1978 decision that Great Britain & Ireland needed help.That much was true,…
ByteDance believes it is worth more than Chevron, General Electric, and Coca-Cola. One of the world’s biggest investors thinks it’s even more valuable than that.Fidelity, which invested in TikTok’s parent company in 2020 through its massive Contrafund, valued the company at more than $385 billion at the end of July, filings show. That is nearly 17% more than ByteDance’s self-valuation of $330 billion.According to reports in late August, ByteDance is offering a share buyback program for employees looking for liquidity and valued itself at more than $330 billion, a 5.5% increase from earlier this year, when the company marked itself…
Leah Pruett will return to NHRA competition next season, a little over a year after welcoming a son with NASCAR Hall of Famer Tony Stewart.Stewart has been driving the Top Fuel Dragster for Tony Stewart Racing since Pruett stepped aside ahead of the 2024 season to focus on starting a family. Their son, Dominic, was born in November of that year.Pruett has spent the last two seasons still involved in the day-to-day operations at TSR, where she worked with partners on marketing initiatives and assisted the crew chiefs with technical projects.“I’d first like to thank Tony, the team, and our…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Grace Leung, a digital growth consultant based in Vancouver. It’s been edited for length and clarity.Most business owners who hire me to integrate AI into their workflow are aware of AI trends like agents and automation, but they’re completely overwhelmed by it and have no idea where to begin. Their employees tend to have even less AI knowledge and just think of it as a basic chatbot.Other clients want to jump right into complicated AI tools without learning any of the building blocks. They’re trying to learn to fly before they…