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ATLANTA (AP) — Tommy Fleetwood is a familiar story hopeful of a different ending, posting eight birdies in his round of 7-under 63 to share the lead Friday at the Tour Championship with Russell Henley in what was shaping up as a tight race for the $10 million prize.Fleetwood, increasingly popular for his grace in handling so many tough losses, is searching for his first PGA Tour win to go along with a collection of strong European tour titles. But he has been down this road before, quite often this year. The questions are getting old.Maybe it ends with the…
BALTIMORE (AP) — On a team with plenty of talented young players, Samuel Basallo now has a special distinction — the first to agree to a long-term contract.The Baltimore Orioles reached a $67 million, eight-year deal with the rookie catcher Friday, less than a week after the 21-year-old made his major league debut. The agreement — a record pre-arbitration deal for a catcher — starts in 2026 and includes a team option for 2034. It has escalators based on awards and playing time at catcher and could be worth $88.5 million.“We are thrilled to agree with Samuel long term and…
I’m not qualified to give investment advice, but the market felt a little toppy this week, don’t you think? A series of signals suggested we may be over our skis on the AI investing slopes.Yes, I recently watched the Enron documentary with my daughter Tessa, so I’m mentally primed to question more things right now. It was unnerving to watch investors and analysts largely taking the company at its word, even as it launched baffling ventures like broadband trading and expensive, fruitless infrastructure projects.This was still on my mind when Chamath Palihapitiya resurfaced with a new SPAC this week. SPACs,…
Google announced Friday that it’s enhancing the editing experience for Drive videos with a new shortcut button for Vids, the tech giant’s AI-powered video creation tool. The new feature allows Workspace users to initiate a video edit using Vids directly from the Google Drive interface. Now, while previewing a video in Drive, users will see an “Open” button in the top right corner that opens the video in the Vids app. Vids will automatically launch the video file, allowing further edits such as trimming the clip or incorporating music and text. Image Credits:Google This new shortcut, which is activated by…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that the draw for the 2026 World Cup will take place on Dec. 5 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, and didn’t rule out that he himself might oversee the event. “It’s the biggest, probably the biggest event in sports, I guess,” said Trump, who made the announcement in an Oval Office event where he was joined by FIFA President Gianni Infantino and Vice President JD Vance. The U.S. is co-hosting next year’s tournament — which for the first time will feature 48 national teams up from 32 — with Canada and…
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The San Francisco 49ers added a proven running back to their injury-depleted group by acquiring Brian Robinson from the Washington Commanders for a 2026 sixth-round draft pick.Two people familiar with the deal said the trade will be finalized once Robinson passes a physical. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because the trade hadn’t been announced. ESPN first reported the deal.San Francisco was in need of adding healthy running backs behind starter Christian McCaffrey after Patrick Taylor, Corey Kiner and Ameer Abdullah all got placed on injured reserve this month. Fifth-round rookie Jordan James is…
CHARLOTTE N.C. (AP) — Taylor Moton is staying in Carolina.The Panthers announced Friday they’ve given their durable longtime right tackle a two-year contract extension that will keep him with the team through the 2027 season.Moton will make $44 million over the next two years including $40 million in guaranteed money, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the team typically does not release financial details of contracts.The deal means the Panthers have all five starting offensive linemen under contract at least through the 2026 season.A second-round…
Like many other companies, Coinbase has recently sought to expand its operations using AI. The cryptocurrency exchange acquired Agara, an AI support platform, in 2021 to expand its customer experience tools. Nearly three years later, CEO Brian Armstrong said in an X post that his development team witnessed their first “AI to AI crypto transaction.””What did one AI buy from another? Tokens! Not crypto tokens, but AI tokens (words basically from one LLM to another). They used tokens to buy tokens,” Armstrong said.More recently, Coinbase partnered with Perplexity AI to give traders access to real-time crypto data, CEO Brian Armstrong…
NEW YORK (AP) — If there’s such a thing as momentum from tournament to tournament in tennis, the American men have some right now. Taylor Fritz, Ben Shelton, Frances Tiafoe and Tommy Paul certainly are getting within reach of ending the country’s unprecedented Grand Slam men’s title drought, so maybe they’re finally ready to win one of those trophies — if anyone other than Jannik Sinner or Carlos Alcaraz is ever going to again, that is — at the U.S. Open, which gets going Sunday.“We have a really strong group. We’re closer; the closest we’ve been in a long time,”…
Cassandra Smith has rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and knows all too well how debilitating the autoimmune condition can be. Her grandmother died of complications from RA, and in the last few months of her life, it was Smith who served as her caregiver, administering doses of methotrexate to treat her pain and inflammation. The drug, a form of chemotherapy also used to treat cancer, is so potent that Smith had to wear gloves to safely give it to her grandmother. So, when Smith’s doctor told her she too would probably have to take methotrexate long-term, her heart sank. “That was so…