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ATLANTA (AP) — How to win the FedEx Cup has never been more clear.Scottie Scheffler leads a 30-man field at the Tour Championship. They play 72 holes at East Lake and whoever has the lowest score gets $10 million in official prize money, an official victory and world ranking points.Except for the big boost in prize money, it’s no different from how the Tour Championship was before words like “points” and “playoffs” entered the golf vernacular.And that’s why the significance of winning the FedEx Cup has never been more confusing.Scheffler has had the best season. He has twice as many…

NEW YORK (AP) — Jannik Sinner pulled out of the U.S. Open mixed doubles tournament shortly before it began on Tuesday, a day after he quit in the first set of the Cincinnati Open final because he was feeling ill.The No. 1-ranked Sinner, the defending champion in singles at Flushing Meadows, was supposed to compete in mixed doubles with Katerina Siniakova.Sinner and Siniakova will be replaced by Americans Danielle Collins and Christian Harrison.Collins and Harrison received entry because they had the highest singles and doubles rankings combined among the teams on the alternate list. Collins is ranked 59th in singles,…

NEW YORK (AP) — Summer can be a time of big transitions for kids. It’s often the season for moving to a new home or preparing for a different school. And that brings worry and stress.Parents and families can help make things feel more manageable. If kids feel supported, they might even look forward to some of the changes and gain confidence, experts say.“When routines, familiar places and even knowing where things are in the house are suddenly gone, it forces youth to relearn their daily lives from scratch,” which can be stressful, says Victoria Kress, a professional counselor and…

Roughly one in three adults in the U.S. regularly gets insufficient sleep, driving demand for tools that can monitor, analyze, and enhance rest. Eight Sleep, founded in 2014, offers AI-powered sleep tech products that promise to transform your bed into a preventive health device. The New York-based startup announced Tuesday that it raised a fresh $100 million round from investors such as HSG, Valor Equity Partners, Founders Fund, Y Combinator and athletes including Ferrari F1 driver Charles Leclerc, and Zak Brown, who is the CEO of McLaren F1. With this round, Eight Sleep has raised roughly $260 million total, Pitchbook…

BOSTON (AP) — The sale of the Boston Celtics was finalized on Tuesday, with private equity mogul Bill Chisholm taking over control of the NBA’s most-decorated franchise from a group led by Wyc Grousbeck that had owned them for more than two decades.The team was put on the market last summer, soon after it won its record 18th NBA championship. Chisholm won the bidding in March with an offer that valued the franchise at more than $6.1 billion — a record price paid for an American professional sports team.The NBA approved the deal unanimously last week, and the money changed…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Annie Lu, a 32-year-old former product marketing manager at Atlassian based in Bellevue, Washington. It’s been edited for length and clarity.When I got hired at Atlassian as a product marketing manager in late 2022, it was a dream come true.For the first few months, I was working on projects that leveraged my interests and skill set. I also loved the culture, the hybrid work schedule, and my colleagues. It was exactly what I was looking for.After a while, I noticed Atlassian following the growing trend in Big Tech of increasing structural…

If you wanted a signal that we’ve truly entered the AI era and left mobile behind, this is it: iPhones are no longer Foxconn’s most important business.For investors and industry watchers, this is a pivotal moment. The company best known as Apple’s factory floor has become an AI-first manufacturer. If Foxconn was once the backbone of the smartphone era, it’s now building the infrastructure of the AI age.For the first time, Foxconn’s Cloud & Networking Products division has overtaken Smart Consumer Electronics, which runs the iPhone assembly operation. In the second quarter of 2025, Cloud & Networking revenue jumped 47%…

Little Mix’s Jade Thirlwall says she often receives negative comments about her gaining weight.”I have a daily battle with myself not to go on Ozempic,” Thirlwall said.She said she has a history of eating disorders and doesn’t know “where taking something like that would end for me.”Little Mix’s Jade Thirlwall says she is resisting Ozempic despite the public scrutiny around her body.In an interview with The Guardian published Saturday, the singer said that many of the negative comments she receives are about weight gain.”I have a daily battle with myself not to go on Ozempic,” Thirlwall told The Guardian. “I…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said China’s open-source models drove the company to release its open-weight models earlier this month.”It was clear that if we didn’t do it, the world was gonna be mostly built on Chinese open-source models,” Altman said during a media briefing CNBC reported on Monday.”That was a factor in our decision, for sure. Wasn’t the only one, but that loomed large,” he added.OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.OpenAI released two open-weight models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, on August 5. The former is designed for high-end computers, while the latter is meant to…

NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time in 30 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics is substantially diverging from U.S. government vaccine recommendations.The group’s new COVID-19 recommendations — released Tuesday — come amid a tumultuous year for public health, as vaccine skeptics have come into power in the new Trump administration and government guidance has become increasingly confusing.This isn’t going to help, acknowledged Dr. James Campbell, vice chair of the AAP infectious disease committee.“It is going to be somewhat confusing. But our opinion is we need to make the right choices for children to protect them,” he added.The AAP…