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Google’s New AI Tools Are Crushing News Sites - WSJ — Massive changes coming for news sites.
Google is shifting from being a search engine to an answer engine,” Thompson said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “We have to develop new strategies.”
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Jamie Petrone’s $40M scheme at Yale uncovered after tip, documents show — Ah, the alma mater has a bit of trouble.
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Tennis Was Supposed to Get Boring. Nobody Told Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner. - WSJ
How close was Sinner to winning Sunday? Let me put it this way: with three match points in the fourth set, I was so certain he was going to do it, I began pestering my Paris-side Journal colleague Joshua Robinson over whether or not Sinner now had a shot at next winning Wimbledon—and the U.S. Open—to complete a calendar Grand Slam, becoming the first since Rocket Rod Laver to achieve that crazytown feat.
After winning at Roland-Garros, Sinner, his game soaring, would roll into Wimbledon with maximum confidence…and he’d won the U.S. Open final just last year…
Then Alcaraz woke up.
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The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America’s UFO Mythology - WSJ
But the colonel was on a mission—of disinformation. The photos were doctored, the now-retired officer confessed to the Pentagon investigators in 2023. The whole exercise was a ruse to protect what was really going on at Area 51: The Air Force was using the site to develop top-secret stealth fighters, viewed as a critical edge against the Soviet Union. Military leaders were worried that the programs might get exposed if locals somehow glimpsed a test flight of, say, the F-117 stealth fighter, an aircraft that truly did look out of this world. Better that they believe it came from Andromeda.
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Aaron Rodgers plans to sign with Steelers, sources say - ESPN — Nope, not a championship winning signing.
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Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet | Lex Fridman Podcast #471 - YouTube – Great interview. Compare and contrast with Satya Nadella and Tim Cook.
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Supreme Court Makes It Easier to Pursue Reverse Discrimination Claims - WSJ — unanimous decision
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Trump Orders Investigation of Biden and His Aides - The New York Times
President Trump ordered his White House counsel and the attorney general on Wednesday to investigate former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his staff in Mr. Trump’s latest attempt to stoke outlandish conspiracy theories about his predecessor.
Trump plays the opening move. It’ll be a long chess match. And, the New York Times is wrong. Something very bad was happening in the White House during the last few months of the Biden Presidency. It’s time for a full accounting.
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The Biggest Misconception in Football - YouTube — I remember once a football coach told me, “it’s all about the RPMs.”
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Love him or hate him, you got to admit that he has a lot of style. The new official presidential portrait.
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Why Boys Are Behind in School From the Start - The New York Times
Taken together, these changes set boys on a disadvantaged path throughout school. Jayanti Owens, who studies inequality in schools at the Yale School of Management, has found that boys’ behavior at ages 4 and 5 predicted the amount of schooling they finished by their mid-20s.