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ESPN shook up its FPI Top 25 rankings after a wild Week 2 of college football and there will surely be discussion once again. Plus, there’s a new No. 1 team! There were blowouts all over the place, so don’t get us wrong, some of these results could be seen coming from a mile away. But there were also upsets! …

NEW YORK (AP) — Armen Kirakosian remembers the frustrations of his first job as a call center agent nearly 10 years ago: the aggravated customers, the constant searching through menus for information and the notes he had to physically write for each call he handled. Thanks to artificial intelligence, the 29-year-old from Athens, Greece, is no longer writing notes or …

OpenAI announced in a blog post on Tuesday that it agreed to acquire the product testing startup Statsig, and bring on its founder and CEO, Vijaye Raji, as the company’s CTO of Applications. OpenAI is paying $1.1 billion for Statsig in an all-stock deal — one of the largest acquisitions ever for the ChatGPT maker — under the company’s current …

The Big Brother house just experienced one of its most dramatic Power of Veto ceremonies of the season. In Big Brother 27 Week 8, alliances were tested, strategies were exposed, and the game took a sharp turn as the veto holder made a bold decision that could completely change the trajectory of the competition. Power of Veto Ceremony Results The …

RFK Jr. shakes up COVID vaccine policy with new rules  Axios FDA Approves Updated Covid Vaccines With New Restrictions  The New York Times The latest COVID vaccines come with new FDA limits  NPR Pfizer and BioNTech’s COMIRNATY® Receives U.S. FDA Approval for Adults 65 and Older and Individuals Ages 5 through 64 at Increased Risk for Severe COVID-19  Business Wire Looking to get a …

HOUSTON (AP) — Just as Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Colin Allred was holding a town hall near the Mexican border as part of an “unrig Texas” campaign tour, the state’s Democratic fundraising powerhouse Beto O’Rourke rallied support in Austin for lawmakers who left the state to delay a redistricting plan led by President Donald Trump. The next morning, one of …

Donald Trump’s decision to let Nvidia and AMD export AI processors to China in exchange for a cut of their sales will have repercussions far beyond the U.S. The semiconductor supply chain is global, involving a wide array of non-U.S. companies, often based in countries that are U.S. allies. Nvidia’s chips may be designed and sold by a U.S. company, …

In 2022, Pokemon Legends: Arceus reimagined the long-running series’ catching mechanics. For the first time ever, capturing a wild Pokemon required you to sneak through tall grass, line up a throw, and chuck a Poke Ball. As fresh as the catching mechanics were, the battle system was largely untouched. Yes, there were the new Agile and Strong Style moves, but …

Stocks retreat after hot US inflation data shakes Fed rate cut hopes  Reuters Why hotter-than-expected wholesale prices make the Fed’s September rate cut decision harder  Yahoo Finance PPI report shows biggest surge in three years. Here’s what that says about inflation.  CBS News Businesses have been eating Trump’s tariffs. That’s starting to change  CNN Wholesale prices rose 0.9% in July, much more than expected  CNBC …

Trump Shakes Up Wall Street With Orders on 401(k)s, ‘Debanking’  The Wall Street Journal Bitcoin jumps as Trump is set to sign an order that allows cryptocurrencies in 401(k)s  CNBC Trump will sign an executive order that may make it easier for 401(k)s to offer private equity investments  CNN Trump opens US retirement plans to crypto and private equity investments  Financial Times Trump to …