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No company has capitalized on the AI revolution more dramatically than Nvidia. Its revenue, profitability, and cash reserves have skyrocketed since the introduction of ChatGPT over two years ago — and the many competitive generative AI services that have launched since. And its stock price soared. During that period, the world’s leading high-performance GPU maker has used its ballooning fortunes to significantly increase investments in all sorts of startups but particularly in AI startups. The chip giant ramped up its venture capital activity in 2024, participating in 49 funding rounds for AI companies, a sharp increase from 34 in 2023,…
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NBA season could end on Thursday night.It’s Game 6 of the NBA Finals, with the Oklahoma City Thunder leading the Indiana Pacers 3-2 in the title series. Game 6 is in Indianapolis and Game 7, if necessary, will be Sunday.Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Thunder are one win away from becoming NBA champions. And Gilgeous-Alexander is on the cusp of a nearly unprecedented season when it comes to individual honors.He is the favorite, as of now, to win NBA Finals MVP. He already has won the NBA MVP award for this season, meaning he could be the…
MIAMI (AP) — Real Madrid forward Kylian Mbappe has been hospitalized with an acute case of gastroenteritis, the Spanish club said Thursday.World Cup winner Mbappe missed Madrid’s opening game at the Club World Cup against Saudi Arabian team Al Hilal in Miami on Wednesday because of a fever.Coach Xabi Alonso said he hoped the France international would be available for the team’s next game against Pachuca on Sunday. But his hospitalization casts doubt over what part he might be able to play in the monthlong tournament in the United States.Madrid said Mbappe would “undergo a series of tests and follow…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Elaine Ryan, a psychologist with two decades of experience. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I’m a psychologist. I don’t work with clients one-to-one anymore because I spend most of my days writing, but I still hear from people — past clients and readers.Over the past year, I’ve noticed a new kind of unease creeping into the conversations I have with people. They don’t come to me saying, “I have AI anxiety.” Just like no one used to say, “I have job anxiety” or “relationship anxiety.” They simply say,…
When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became health and human services secretary, advocates for raw milk were thrilled to have one of their own at the helm in Washington. A self-professed fan of the drink, Kennedy had included raw milk in a list of foods and drugs that he felt federal officials had unfairly suppressed.“FDA’s war on public health is about to end,” he wrote shortly after the November election.But Kennedy hasn’t actively taken up the cause yet — even amid his sweeping effort to upend federal health agencies and his Make America Healthy Again campaign to change how Americans eat,…
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Mark Zuckerberg is “world-class” at giving feedback, said one of his top execs.On Wednesday’s episode of the “Cheeky Pint” podcast hosted by Stripe cofounder John Collison, Meta’s chief financial officer, Susan Li said that Zuckerberg has refined his ability to give constructive feedback over the years they’ve worked together. The Meta CEO has also become a great public speaker, Li said.She said that the feedback Zuckerberg gives is timely, direct, and respectful.”But the sort of direct and respectful — it’s never mean, it’s never belaboring some point, but you could not be mistaken after you have received the feedback,” she…
LONDON (AP) — Students at English universities must prepare to confront ideas they find uncomfortable and shocking, the national regulator for higher education said as it released new guidelines governing free speech on campuses across the country.The Office for Students said Thursday that freedom of speech and academic freedom are crucial to higher education, so the guidelines are designed to ensure that universities don’t stifle any form of legal speech on their campuses or in their classrooms.Students must be allowed to freely share their opinions and be prepared to hear a range of views during their studies, Arif Ahmed, free…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Buss family’s decision to sell a controlling stake in the Los Angeles Lakers at an eye-popping franchise valuation of $10 billion marks the end of nearly a half-century when one of the most valuable properties in the sports world was run by an eccentric father and his sometimes squabbling children.With high-living playboy Jerry Buss and current team governor Jeanie Buss in charge, the glamorous Lakers essentially have been the professional sports equivalent of a quirky family business for two generations.Sports became increasingly corporate and monolithic in the 21st century while franchise values skyrocketed and ever-more-wealthy…
AQUEBOGUE, N.Y. (AP) — Doug Corwin knew there was a problem at his family’s commercial duck farm in Long Island when he spotted scores of dead or lethargic birds during a barn inspection in January.Within days, Crescent Duck Farm became a casualty of the global avian flu outbreak, one of many farms around the U.S. that had to cull their entire flock, sending the prices of eggs and other agricultural commodities soaring.Now the more than century-old farm — the last duck farm remaining in a New York region once synonymous with the culinary delicacy — is cautiously rebuilding.But for Corwin,…