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SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — It’s not an ice-cream cone. It’s not an Italian rainbow cookie. It’s the baseball bat being used at the Little League World Series.Easton’s 2026 Hype Fire USA Bat with the neon green grip and the pink-and-neon yellow barrel is hard to miss at the plate. And the players love them.“I left it up to them which bats they wanted to use, most of them went with the bat they gave us,” Pennsylvania manager Michael Shaw said. “You know, a great color for 12-year-old kids — sour gummy worms.”When Little League teams arrive in Williamsport, they…
This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Jigar Bhati, a member of technical staff at OpenAI. He’s worked at the company since 2023 and previously worked as a software engineer at Twitter. This story has been edited for length and clarity.I was working at Twitter for almost seven years and was looking for a change in general. Twitter was a big tech company, and it was handling millions of users already. I wanted to join a company that was a bit smaller scale and work in a startup-like environment.When ChatGPT launched, software engineers were in awe. So I…
ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — The Washington Commanders activated Terry McLaurin off the physically unable to perform list on Saturday amid lingering contract extension talks with the All-Pro wide receiver.McLaurin, who is entering the final year of a three-year, $68.2 million contract signed in 2022, reported to the team on July 27 after skipping the initial four days of training camp and June’s mandatory minicamp. That turned a holdout to a hold-in, but has not necessarily accelerated extension talks or returned McLaurin to practice. The team placed its top target on the PUP list with an ankle injury, and McLaurin requested…
AI guys aren’t only hot at Big Tech companies. They’re also just hot.Professional matchmakers in the Bay Area told Business Insider that AI engineers are newly desirable in the dating world, as their salaries balloon and all sectors rush to embrace the technology. Companies like Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI are offering top AI talent millions per year, and eligible singles in the country’s tech mecca are noticing.”The last couple of years, more women are saying they’re attracted to a nerd,” said Amber Lee, the CEO of Select Date Society. “They literally use the word nerd. So I think that’s kind…
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Kylan Darnell became an overnight celebrity in the TikTok niche that documents the glitzy, ritualistic recruitment process for sororities. As a 21-year-old rising senior four years later, she’s taking more of her sorority life offline.Darnell has until now been the embodiment of RushTok, a week-long marathon that has teens at schools around the country meticulously documenting their efforts to land a cherished spot in a sorority during the colorful, girly and enigmatic recruitment process known as rush week. Reactions to the content that once catapulted her to fame — depicting her life as a Zeta Tau…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Things sure have changed since the last time the San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers clashed, back in June.The Dodgers were running away in the NL West then with a nine-game lead. The Padres were in third place.Now, with 1 1/2 months left in the season, it’s all tied up.San Diego came into Dodger Stadium on Friday night with a one-game lead over the defending World Series champions. It’s the latest the Padres had led the division since September 2010 and the first time the Dodgers had been out of first this late in the…
HOUSTON (AP) — Baltimore Orioles rookie right-hander Brandon Young had to move past his last start.In dropping to 0-6, Young saw his ERA increase to 6.70 through the first 10 starts of his major league career after allowing six runs over three innings against the Athletics on Aug. 9.“Honestly, it’s easier said than done trying to flush bad outings like that,” Young said. “But just looking forward to the next (start) and trying to prepare myself. I think that’s what most of us look forward to, especially starters.”Young bounced back and nearly made history on Friday night. The 26-year old…
CINCINNATI (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers just keep streaking, and now they’ve matched the franchise record for consecutive wins at 13.The Brewers rallied from seven runs down through two innings Friday night by scoring nine unanswered runs in thumping the Cincinnati Reds 10-8. Milwaukee opened the 1987 season winning the first 13. “It’s just a special win,” said Christian Yelich, who had two homers among four hits driving in five runs. This latest streak in a season in which the Brewers just don’t lose very often or bash their way back to one big win after another has them atop…
I’m looking out at Alcatraz Island from a Mediterranean restaurant in San Francisco with hundred-dollar fish entrees on the menu. As I make small talk with other reporters, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman jumps through the door on my left. Altman’s looking down at his bare iPhone to show us all something, and an intrusive thought slips out of my mouth: “No phone case is a bold choice.” Of course, I immediately realize that the billionaire CEO of OpenAI, who employs Apple veteran Jony Ive, cares more about preserving the iPhone’s original design than the $1,000 it costs to replace one.…
Health officials are working to alert hundreds of people in dozens of states and several countries who may have been exposed to rabies in bat-infested cabins in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park over the past few months.As of Friday, none of the bats found in some of the eight linked cabins at Jackson Lake Lodge had tested positive for rabies.But the handful of dead bats found and sent to the Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory in Laramie for testing were probably only a small sample of the likely dozens that colonized the attic above the row of cabins, Wyoming State Health…