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Semiconductor giant Intel continues to shake up its senior leadership since Lip-Bu Tan took the helm as CEO in March. Intel announced Monday that Michelle Johnston Holthaus will depart the company after more than three decades. Johnston Holthhaus was most recently chief executive officer of Intel products and will remain a strategic adviser. The company also announced the creation of a central engineering group that will build a new custom silicon business for outside customers, according to Intel. This group will be helmed by Srinivasan “Srini” Iyengar who joined Intel from Cadence Design Systems in July. Intel also said that…

X enthusiast and Reddit shareholder Sam Altman had an epiphany on Monday: Bots have made it impossible to determine whether social media posts are really written by humans, he posted. The realization came while reading (and sharing) some posts from the r/Claudecode subreddit, which were praising OpenAI Codex. OpenAI launched the software programming service that takes on Anthropic’s Claude Code in May. Lately, that subreddit has been so filled with posts from self-proclaimed Code users announcing that they moved to Codex that one Reddit user even joked: “Is it possible to switch to codex without posting a topic on Reddit?”…

CLEVELAND (AP) — Slade Cecconi took a bid to end Cleveland’s long no-hitter drought into the eighth inning, and the Guardians rolled to a 10-2 win over Kansas City on Monday night and leapfrogged the Royals in the AL wild-card race.Cecconi (6-6) was six outs from the first no-hitter in the majors this season — and Cleveland’s first since Len Barker’s perfect game in 1981 — when Kansas City’s Michael Massey singled leading off the eighth.On Cecconi’s 95th pitch, Massey lined a 2-1 fastball into left-center. The right-hander received a nice ovation from the crowd in Progressive Field before Cecconi…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — For decades, Kent Broussard had dreamed about joining Louisiana State University’s prestigious marching band. But, as dreams far too often go, it fell to the wayside. That is, until Broussard retired. After years of hard work — including taking up running with a weighted vest, marching through his neighborhood while hauling a 30 pound (14 kilograms) sousaphone, applying and getting accepted to LSU as a student and re-learning his instrument — the retired accountant made his debut on the field of Tiger Stadium during the football team’s home opener Saturday. The 66-year-old LSU freshman, is…

(Reuters) – The American Academy of Family Physicians said on Monday that it recommends all adults over the age of 18, children and pregnant women to receive COVID-19 vaccines, a contrast to the U.S. government’s narrowed approvals for the shots.Its suggested immunizations for COVID are in line with the pediatric physician’s group, The American Academy of Pediatrics’ recommendations from last month.They contrast with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration which two weeks ago approved the updated vaccines for people with health conditions and all people aged 65 and older.Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy said in May the U.S. no longer…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a food safety alert for a salmonella outbreak the agency said is linked to ready-to-eat, home delivery meals made by the company Metabolic Meals, the agency said Friday.”CDC and public health officials in several states are investigating a multistate outbreak of Salmonella infections linked to certain home delivery meals made by Metabolic Meals,” the CDC stated. “Do not eat affected Metabolic Meals products while the investigation is ongoing. Check your refrigerator and freezer for these products and throw them away or contact the company.”What to know about salmonella outbreak from delivery…

Scale AI, the data-labeling startup that Meta invested $14 billion in, has made cuts to a key team that helps the company test artificial intelligence models for potential harms.Twelve contractors working for Scale AI’s Red Team received emails terminating their work on Friday evening, according to multiple current and former workers who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.The email, which Business Insider viewed, read, “Your assignment is being terminated as your performance has fallen below the standards of the role.”Based in San Francisco, Scale AI helps tech companies improve their latest chatbots by doing things like rewriting…

CLEVELAND (AP) — Slade Cecconi didn’t need anyone in Cleveland’s dugout to tell him he was throwing a no-hitter. He found out on his own.Stealing a glance at Progressive Field’s giant scoreboard in the fourth inning, Cecconi noticed something unusual.“I was like, huh, a lot of zeros up there on our side,” he said.He kept it like that for a while.Cecconi took a no-hitter into the eighth before Kansas City’s Micheal Massey hit a leadoff single to spoil the right-hander’s bid to throw the majors’ first no-hitter this season and finally end Cleveland’s four-plus-decades-long drought without a no-hitter.But that hardly…

COVID-19 cases remained relatively steady week-over-week in late August, though data from states showed “very high” viral activity at the end of the month, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).Some regions of the United States are experiencing higher rates of positive COVID-19 tests than others, though reporting has slowed down enough nationwide that the CDC has begun allowing more time to pass between certain types of updates, such as those on variant prevalence.However, amid the confusion of new strains, changing vaccine guidelines and cuts to vaccine development funding, the CDC continues to track cases, hospitalizations and deaths on a weekly basis.Here’s…

Palmer Luckey just added a new vehicle to his collection — one that flies.Over the weekend, Luckey took the Jetson One for a spin. The electric VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft was first announced in 2021, spawning a flurry of news about the future of flying vehicles. Almost four years later, Jetson completed its first worldwide delivery to the Oculus and Anduril cofounder.In a video of his test flight, Luckey “christened” the vehicle by removing what appeared to be the protective plastic covering the aircraft’s control panel. Jetson founder and CTO Tomasz Patan and CEO Stéphan D’haene assisted in his…