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NEW YORK (AP) — Aryna Sabalenka will be seeking her fourth Grand Slam title overall and second straight at the U.S. Open when she faces Amanda Anisimova in the women’s final at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Saturday.The No. 1-seeded Sabalenka is a 27-year-old from Belarus who will be playing in her third major title match of 2025 — each against an American opponent. She lost to Madison Keys at the Australian Open in January and to Coco Gauff at the French Open in June.Sabalenka also beat an American, Jessica Pegula, in last year’s final in New York and will be…

MONTREAL (AP) — Ken Dryden, the Hall of Fame goaltender who helped the Montreal Canadiens win six Stanley Cup titles in the 1970s, has died after a fight with cancer. He was 78. The Canadiens announced his death early Saturday, saying Dryden’s family asked for privacy. A team spokesperson said a close friend of Dryden’s appointed by the family contacted the organization, adding he died peacefully Friday at his home.“Ken Dryden was an exceptional athlete, but he was also an exceptional man,” Canadiens owner Geoff Molson said. “Behind the mask he was larger than life. We mourn today not only…

A Salmonella outbreak linked to certain home delivery meals from Metabolic Meals has sickened more than a dozen people across 10 states, and seven had to be hospitalized, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.The meals were made by and delivered by the Metabolic Meals company during the week of July 28 and included these varieties:Four cheese tortellini with pesto sauce and grilled chicken — Lot Code: 25199; Best By: 08/07/2025.Low carb chicken teriyaki and vegetables — Lot Code: 25202; Best By: 08/05/2025.Black garlic and ranch chicken tenders with roasted vegetables — Lot Code: 25205; Best By: 08/08/2025.Sliced top…

MIAMI (AP) — The Philadelphia Phillies invited a young fan to meet Harrison Bader following their 9-3 win over the Miami Marlins on Friday night after an apparent dispute over a home run ball hit by the center fielder during the game.Bader hit a solo home run into the left-field stands in the fourth inning at loanDepot Park. Several fans scrambled for the ball before a man came up with it and walked over and gave it to a boy and hugged him. Both were wearing Phillies gear, and it was the boy’s birthday.Moments later, a woman, also wearing Philadelphia…

To nab the jaw-dropping pay package that could make Elon Musk the first trillionaire, the Tesla CEO first has to find his successor — eventually, anyway.Succession planning is rarely easy and often gets harder when it involves replacing a high-profile exec. Whoever eventually steps in to replace Musk will have a big job to do, leadership experts told Business Insider.While Tesla’s regulatory filing said that its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee periodically reviews CEO succession planning, this is the first time Tesla’s Board has included this requirement in Musk’s pay package.”As a matter of best practice, and to ensure the resiliency…

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has in recent months teased a September announcement in which he would identify the cause of autism. This week, some close to the Trump administration and one major news outlet suggested Kennedy could point in the direction of acetaminophen use during pregnancy as one possible link.The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Kennedy was planning to announce a link between autism and Tylenol use by pregnant women, as well as autism and low levels of folate (an essential vitamin that helps the body produce cells), among other potential causes. NBC News has not confirmed…

Justin Herbert finished off the Los Angeles Chargers’ season-opening victory in style, sliding for a first down that effectively ended the game.The quarterback earned style points for his scramble and sideline slide that capped a 318-yard, three-touchdown performance in a 27-21 victory over the Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs on Friday night in Sao Paulo. Herbert had 32 yards rushing, too.Los Angeles’ first win over the Chiefs since Sept. 26, 2021, snapped a seven-game skid against the team that has dominated the AFC for nearly a decade.“It’s monumental,” Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh said. “September 5th will go down…

OpenAI is reorganizing its Model Behavior team, a small but influential group of researchers who shape how the company’s AI models interact with people, TechCrunch has learned. In an August memo to staff seen by TechCrunch, OpenAI’s chief research officer Mark Chen said the Model Behavior team — which consists of roughly 14 researchers — would be joining the Post Training team, a larger research group responsible for improving the company’s AI models after their initial pre-training. As part of the changes, the Model Behavior team will now report to OpenAI’s Post Training lead Max Schwarzer. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed…

There are some hard lessons to take from Tesla’s stunning new $1 trillion pay plan for Elon Musk.I’m not here to judge whether this compensation proposal is good or bad, or too high or too low. Tesla shareholders will decide that in November.As a journalist, my job is to report what happens and try to explain why, clearly and fairly.My conclusion is that it would probably have been better not to have meddled with Musk’s previous pay package from 2018.At the time, that original compensation plan was designed to pay Musk as much as $56 billion, but only if Tesla…

OpenAI researchers claim they’ve cracked one of the biggest obstacles to large language model performance — hallucinations.Hallucinations occur when a large language model generates inaccurate information that it presents as fact. They plague the most popular LLMs, from OpenAI’s GPT-5 to Anthropic’s Claude. OpenAI’s baseline finding, which it made public in a paper released on Thursday, is that large language models hallucinate because the methods they’re trained under reward guessing more than admitting uncertainty.In other words, LLMs are being told to fake it till they make it. Some are better than others, however. In a blog post last month, OpenAI said that…