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NEW YORK (AP) — Zara Larsson is no stranger to packing dance floors around the world, boasting a catalog with several songs that have earned more than a billion streams. But despite possessing all the individual pieces a superstar career requires, her jigsaw has yet to be fully completed in the way she’s hoped.“I feel like it’s been a disconnect between what I’ve released and who I am,” said the 27-year-old. “I feel finally people are starting to piece the puzzle together.” (Sommer House/Epic Records via AP) (Sommer House/Epic Records via AP)Read More Larsson is betting that the image becomes…
Databricks said on Thursday that it is incorporating OpenAI’s models, including GPT-5, into its data platform as well as its AI product, Agent Bricks, as part of a $100 million multi-year deal that bets on the AI company’s ability to bring in enterprise customers. The deal highlights the accelerating race to bring generative AI into the enterprise stack, as companies foresee demand for AI tools that can tap into corporate data securely. Agent Bricks lets organizations build AI apps and agents on top of their enterprise data using a range of AI models. OpenAI’s latest models are now part of…
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Australian scientists tested the strength of bite-resistant wetsuits by allowing sharks to chomp the materials at sea and found that the suits can help keep swimmers safe.Fatal shark bites are vanishingly rare, with less than 50 unprovoked shark bites on humans worldwide in 2024, according to the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History. But increased sightings of large sharks in some parts of the world have swimmers, surfers and divers looking for new ways to stay safe.Scientists with Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, tested four bite-resistant materials and found they…
NEW YORK (AP) — Thirty-six years after he teamed up with Keanu Reeves to play a pair of well-intentioned dimwits on the big screen, Alex Winter finds himself beside the same guy on Broadway playing another set of sweet, low-bulbed guys. The two actors have had different trajectories in the years since they kicked off the “Bill & Ted” movie franchise — including Winter becoming a skilled indie director — but have remained close and are reteaming for the existential stage masterpiece “Waiting for Godot.”“That similarity is not lost on any of us,” says Winter. “We are inescapably Bill and…
A sign for the CDC sits outside of their facility at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Roybal campus in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., May 30, 2025. Megan Varner | ReutersMore than a dozen pages on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website related to sexual and gender identity, health equity, and other topics have been taken down, CNBC has learned. The CDC received a directive from the Health and Human Services Department, which oversees the agency, to remove certain webpages by the end of the day Sept. 19, according to an internal CDC email viewed by CNBC, which was…
by Brian Major Last updated: 1:15 PM ET, Thu September 25, 2025 Jet Blue will relaunch year-around flights from Fort Lauderdale to the Cayman Islands this winter, offering weekly departures on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The new route starts December 4. This new JetBlue service makes short getaways more realistic, while creating easier connections for longer vacations. Three weekly flights from Ft. Lauderdale mean more flexibility for travelers across Florida and beyond. For Cayman’s tourism sector, the flights represent resilience and growth. For visitors, they offer a chance to plan winter escapes with less hassle — and more time on…
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NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” isn’t part of the New York Film Festival’s lineup, but its agitated sense of inheritance and keeping a fighting spirit alive are all over this year’s cinematic convergence at Lincoln Center.The New York Film Festival kicks off Friday, the same day Anderson’s antic American epic lands in theaters. These aren’t completely separate events. Lincoln Center, which hosts the festival, last weekend screened “One Battle After Another” in 70mm. And several of Anderson’s most important colleagues — Daniel Day-Lewis, Martin Scorsese — will be prominent at this year’s festival.But more…
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are investigating after a United Express plane skidded off the runway upon landing at Virginia’s Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport on Wednesday night.The flight, which was being operated by CommuteAir and traveling from Washington Dulles International Airport, was carrying 50 passengers and three crew members when it ran off the runway around 9:18 p.m. local time, forcing the airport to temporarily shut down, according to local authorities. “Tail number N21129 was landing and did not provide enough braking distance to bring the plane to a stop and continued off the end…
On Thursday, the AI platform Clarifai announced a new reasoning engine that it claims will make running AI models twice as fast and 40% less expensive. Designed to be adaptable to a variety of models and cloud hosts, the system employs a range of optimizations to get more inference power out of the same hardware. “It’s a variety of different types of optimizations, all the way down to CUDA kernels to advanced speculative decoding techniques,” said CEO Matthew Zeiler. “You can get more out of the same cards, basically.” The results were verified by a string of benchmark tests by…