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ATLANTA (AP) — Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred and players’ union head Tony Clark say plans are moving ahead exploring the possibility of using major leaguers in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, a tournament that could be played on an extended All-Star break.“I think it is a opportunity to market the game on a really global stage,” Manfred told the Baseball Writers’ Association of America on Tuesday. “Obviously the clubs are going to have to endorse this. I mean, it’s a big deal.”MLB met with Los Angeles organizers Monday in Atlanta ahead of the All-Star Game and Manfred said the Olympic…
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Recent college graduates who are fluent in AI tools could become some of the most valuable hires at major companies, according to Box CEO Aaron Levie.”Hire a bunch of these people,” he said in a Monday interview on the a16z podcast, “because they’re going to flip your company on its head in terms of how much faster the organization can run.””If you’re graduating, the thing I would be selling to any corporation some way or another is that if you’re AI-native right now coming out of college, the amount you can teach at a company is unbelievable,” Levie said.Levie, who…
NEW YORK (AP) — The WNBA players union and league officials have much to discuss when they sit down this week for their first in-person talks as a group since December about the new collective bargaining agreement.After sharing initial proposals, the two sides apparently are far apart in the early negotiations as they prepare for their first face-to-face meeting that includes the players executive council in Indianapolis on Thursday heading into All-Star weekend.“We got a proposal from the league, which was honestly a slap in the face,” Phoenix Mercury forward and union rep Satou Sabally said.Increased salaries, revenue sharing and…
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s WNBA team stepped back in time for its new name, reintroducing the Portland Fire.The expansion franchise, which begins play next next season along with the Toronto Tempo, announced its name and branding on Tuesday — reviving the moniker of the city’s previous WNBA team that played from 2000 to 2002.“Our feeling is that the fire never died,” interim Fire president Clare Hamill said. “Fans have been waiting for us to come back, and we’re back with the Portland Fire.”In addition to the name, the team has a new “Rose on Fire” logo and a color…
Neighborhood social app Nextdoor is launching a redesigned version of its service that it’s calling the “new Nextdoor.” The app is adding local news, real-time alerts, and an AI-powered feature called “Faves” that’s designed for discovering local businesses and spots. Nextdoor has also updated its overall design to look more contemporary. Launched 15 years ago, Nextdoor has long served as a popular platform for neighborhood conversations, helping users connect over things like recommendations for plumbers and suggestions for nearby places to eat. But eventually, its growth stalled and engagement declined as the platform became associated with posts containing misinformation and…
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland (AP) — Collin Morikawa can take solace in not being the only person to refer to golf’s oldest championship by its unofficial name.He delivered a victory speech as sterling as his performance at Royal St. George’s in 2021. As he held the precious claret jug, he paid tribute to the spectators and said, “To see some of the best fans I’ve ever seen out here, I look forward to making my trip every year to the British Open to see you guys cheer us on.”The R&A must have cringed. It had spent the past several years on…
Colin McDonald was 13 when he became hooked on the world-building computer game Minecraft. He never imagined his childhood hobby would become a viable career.Now 25, McDonald runs Moonsworth, a software development company that operates a popular Minecraft modpack and employs around 50 people — some of them fellow Minecraft devotees.” Almost every single person who’s ended up being a really good hire has been someone who was a kid playing Minecraft and wanted to teach themself how to program,” McDonald says — rather than someone with a traditional computer science education. “It’s just other kids who grew up and kept…
(Reuters) -Oracle will invest $3 billion in Germany and the Netherlands over the next five years to bolster its infrastructure powering artificial intelligence and cloud offerings in the European market, the company said on Tuesday.The Austin, Texas-based company joins a growing list of technology firms that have pledged tens of billions of dollars to meet robust cloud computing demand as businesses increasingly deploy AI workloads.Last year, Amazon said it would invest 10 billion euros in Germany, bringing its total planned investments in the European country to 17.8 billion euros.Together, big tech companies are expected to spend $320 billion on AI…
Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are in a hurry to build their superintelligence tech. The company has been poaching AI researchers, while Zuckerberg announced on Monday that Meta is building a 5-gigawatt data center called Hyperion. The urgency is palpable. As SemiAnalysis reported last week and Business Insider noted, Meta is so eager to boost its computing power that it’s literally erecting tents for temporary data center capacity while its facilities are still under construction. These are all signs that Meta wants to build up its AI capacity faster after falling behind competitors like OpenAI, xAI, and Google — and…