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Meta spent $14.3 billion to acquire nearly half of Scale AI and level up in the AI race — but the startup’s rivals spy an opportunity as well.Executives at five Scale AI competitors told Business Insider that they have seen a big uptick in client inquiries — but declined to provide numbers — and job interest since the Meta deal was announced on June 13.Meta now holds a 49% stake in a company handling AI training data for many of its competitors, like Google, OpenAI, and xAI. In response, those three companies paused at least some of their work with…

AP Mobile App CTA Get the AP News App WASHINGTON (AP) — Harvard University failed to protect Jewish students from harassment, the Trump administration concluded after an investigation, threatening to cut all federal funding from the Ivy League school if it fails to take action.A federal task force sent a letter to Harvard on Monday finding the university violated civil rights laws requiring colleges to protect students from discrimination based on race or national origin. It says investigators found Harvard was at times a “willful participant in anti-Semitic harassment of Jewish students, faculty, and staff” and that campus leaders allowed…

NEW YORK (AP) — The WNBA is expanding to 18 teams over the next five years, with Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia all set to join the league by 2030.Cleveland will begin play in 2028, Detroit in 2029 and Philadelphia the season after, assuming they get approval from the NBA and WNBA Board of Governors. Toronto and Portland will enter the league next year. “The demand for women’s basketball has never been higher, and we are thrilled to welcome Cleveland, Detroit, and Philadelphia to the WNBA family,” WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said. “This historic expansion is a powerful reflection of our…

GENEVA (AP) — The European Championship in women’s soccer has global ambitions.The 16-team tournament that opens Wednesday in Switzerland features 31 games in total and will be broadcast in the United States by Fox and across Latin America by Disney+.It will draw a tournament record attendance of more than 600,000 fans in the eight stadiums with ticket buyers from more than 120 countries, according to European soccer body UEFA.“We knew we needed to activate a bigger global fan base that travels (and) follows their team,” said Nadine Kessler, the managing director of women’s soccer at UEFA.She said 35% of the…

Windsurf’s head of product engineering believes proficiency in three key areas makes a successful software engineer — coding, research, and “metalearning.”Technical fundamentals are first and foremost, Windsurf’s Kevin Hou said in a presentation at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco.”If we zoom out and think about what makes you all software engineers successful, there are a couple of different categories. The first of which — coding-related. File reads, running terminal commands, seeing your history, even which tabs you have open inside of your editor. This all informs how to generate the correct code.”Following that, there’s knowing how to…

For decades, expectant women have talked about having “mommy brain” or “pregnancy brain,” a phenomenon where you’re more absent-minded than usual during pregnancy and the postpartum period. But despite this being commonly discussed, scientists haven’t really studied it. Liz Chrastil, an associate professor of neurobiology and behavior at the UC Irvine Center for the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory, sought to change that. She had her own brain scanned 26 times before, during and after pregnancy to document the physical changes in a way that had never been done before. Chrastil shares with writer Korin Miller the inspiration behind her…

Jack Altman has a lesson for early-stage founders: Pick the right board.On an episode of the “Sourcery” podcast published on Saturday, Altman, a founder-turned-venture capitalist, said that if he were to launch a startup again, he would focus on bringing on the right board members.”You’re really picking somebody who’s going to be with you as a throughline through the company,” he said. “It’s hard to see it when it happens because you’re just in a frenzied round.”Altman founded and led Lattice, a human-resources software startup last valued at $3 billion, for over eight years before stepping down as its CEO last…

LONDON (AP) — Wimbledon was preparing for the possibility of record-breaking Day 1 heat as the oldest Grand Slam tournament got started Monday.The temperature shortly before play was scheduled to begin in the first matches at 11 a.m. local time was 82 degrees Fahrenheit (28 Celsius) — not yet quite reaching the 85 F (29.3 C) measured during the first day of the 2001 fortnight.“I’ll spend the whole day going from one shady spot to another,” said Sally Bolton, the chief executive officer of the All England Club.“Obviously, it’s a very warm day. The first obvious point to make is…

For over 50 years, D. Wayne Lukas set the standard in horse racing. And the sport followed suit. Trainers wanted to be like Wayne. Owners wanted him handling their horses. He died Saturday at his home in Louisville, Kentucky, his family announced through Churchill Downs on Sunday. He was 89.Lukas’ death, mourned across the racing industry, came just days after his family said he would no longer train because of health issues. He was hospitalized with a severe MRSA infection and declined an aggressive treatment plan, instead choosing to return home.His stable of horses was transferred to his longtime assistant…

Chase Burns arrived in the big leagues with a flourish, striking out the first five hitters he faced for Cincinnati in his debut against the New York Yankees.He’s just the latest young pitcher in the NL Central to show his impressive potential.Pittsburgh’s Paul Skenes, of course, finished third in the National League Cy Young race as a rookie last year. More recently, Milwaukee’s Jacob Misiorowski threw 11 straight hitless innings to start his career and then beat Skenes in a head-to-head matchup Wednesday. Now Burns, the No. 2 pick in last year’s draft, has reached the majors, and Skenes could…