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NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge didn’t just become the fastest player to hit 350 home runs, he did it in 192 fewer games than Mark McGwire.“I just think he’s playing in a different league,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said after Judge’s ninth-inning drive in Saturday’s 5-2 loss to the Chicago Cubs.Judge homered to right-center on a high 0-2 fastball from Brad Keller, a two-run shot a couple of rows into the right-center field seats.He reached 350 in his 1,088th game. McGwire hit No. 350 in his 1,280th game, against Detroit’s Brian Moehler on June 2, 1997, bettering Harmon Killebrew…
Have you ever taken a personality test? If you’re like me, you’ve consulted BuzzFeed and you know exactly which Taylor Swift song “perfectly matches your vibe.”It might be obvious that internet quizzes are not scientific, but many of the seemingly serious personality tests used to guide educational and career choices are also not supported by research. Despite being a billion-dollar industry, commercial personality testing used by schools and corporations to funnel people into their ideal roles do not predict career success.Beyond their lack of scientific support, the most popular approaches to understanding personality are problematic because they assume your traits…
LONDON (AP) — Amanda Anisimova kept apologizing to the spectators at Centre Court — for her performance in a 6-0, 6-0 loss to Iga Swiatek in the Wimbledon final and for the emotions that made it hard to deliver a speech afterward.Through it all, Anisimova, a 23-year-old American in her first major title match, made sure to thank her mother for making a rare trip to watch her daughter play in person.“My mom is the most selfless person I know, and she’s done everything to get me to this point in my life,” said Anisimova, whose father died in 2019…
xAI has apologized for Grok’s “horrific behavior” and said that new instructions caused the AI chatbot to prioritize engagement, even if that meant reflecting “extremist views” from user posts on X.Elon Musk’s AI company said in a Saturday X post, using the official Grok account, that it had removed the “deprecated” code and “refactored the entire system to prevent further abuse.”On Saturday morning, Elon Musk reposted the statement on his X account.During a 16-hour rant starting at about 11 p.m. Pacific Time on July 7, Grok made inflammatory comments on X that included antisemitic jokes and praising Adolf Hitler.Grok is…
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BOSTON (AP) — Red Sox right-hander Hunter Dobbins said on Saturday he knew his season was probably over when he felt a familiar feeling in his knee.He was right. Dobbins was diagnosed with a torn anterior cruciate ligament, his second ACL tear in his right knee. “Yeah. I’ve torn my ACL in this knee before and it was the same feeling,” he said, standing in the middle of Boston’s clubhouse with a red sleeve on his right leg. “Kind of some denial went into it, tried to go through that warm-up pitch, felt the same sensation again so, at that…
When Dr. Brittany Clayborne’s 13-year-old son Micah came home from school in December 2023, she asked him if he wanted to play football outside. It was one of his favorite hobbies. But Micah said he couldn’t.”He said, ‘My chest hurts,'” Clayborne recalled. “I was like, ‘What do you mean your chest hurts?'”The words were terrifying to Clayborne, who had a long history of cardiac issues. She gave birth to Micah in 2010. He was born premature, at 34 weeks, and during the delivery, Clayborne had a heart attack. She spent weeks in the cardiac intensive care unit and was diagnosed…
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Chelsea midfielder Enzo Fernández heads into Sunday’s Club World Cup final wary of the weather, along with Paris Saint-Germain.“Honestly, the heat is incredible,” Fernandez said Friday. “The other day I got a little dizzy during a play. I had to lie down on the ground because I was really dizzy. Playing in this temperature in very dangerous.”FIFA slashed ticket prices again ahead of the final, as it has throughout the tournament.Chelsea and PSG play starting at 3 p.m. EDT in MetLife Stadium, also site of next year’s World Cup final. Because of the heat, Fernandez…
Big Tech companies are soon going to let investors know if all the hype is still worth it.Amid tariff turmoil and market uncertainty, the tech trade continues to power the S&P 500 higher. With mega-cap tech earnings due to kick off later this month, investors are looking for clues to know if the AI-fueled momentum can keep powering stocks higher.The launch of DeepSeek—a cost-efficient AI model from a startup in China—was an “existential moment” for the AI trade, according to Eric Sheridan, co-business unit leader of the TMT group at Goldman Sachs.”There’s an increasing focus on the payoff or the…
LONDON (AP) — Kate, the Princess of Wales, is set to present the trophy to the winner of the women’s singles final at Wimbledon on Saturday after opting not to attend the match last year while she was recovering from cancer.The All England Club said Kate, the wife of Prince William, will be back in the Royal Box on Centre Court for the match between eighth-seeded Iga Swiatek and No. 13 Amanda Anisimova. She will then take part in the on-court trophy presentation.Kate has been the patron of the All England Club since 2016 and has regularly attended the men’s…