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Lando Norris is the favorite to win his first F1 world title, but how can all three drivers achieve it when Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri could snatch the championship at this weekend’s final race of the season, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix?F1 Drivers Championship F1 Drivers Championship – Top 3 Driver team points 1) Lando Norris McLaren 408 2) Max Verstappen Red Bull 396 3) Oscar Piastri McLaren 392 data wrapper This content is provided by data wrappercookies and other technologies may be used. To view this content, you must allow cookies. You can change the settings and enable…
Amazon Web Services’ annual technology conference, AWS re:Invent, has come to a close. And among the flurry of product news and keynotes, the one message was AI for enterprise. This year has been all about upgrades that allow customers to further customize their AI agents, including one that AWS claims can learn from users and work independently for days. Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels concluded the night with a keynote aimed at energizing developers and allaying fears that AI will take engineering jobs. AWS re:Invent 2025, which runs through December 5, kicked off with a keynote address from AWS CEO…
Thana Prasongsingh | Moments | Getty ImagesNewly unemployed workers are entering a tough job market this year with the worst layoffs since the pandemic began, according to a new report. Unemployment can leave workers struggling to pay things like mortgages and children’s college tuition, but experts say there’s one important thing to do before you rethink your spending or talk to a lender: apply for unemployment benefits.It can take several weeks for your benefits to arrive, and minimizing that wait time can improve your financial situation. “Workers should apply for unemployment benefits immediately after being laid off to cover essential…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the southern state of Texas may move forward with using controversial congressional district maps designed to favor Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections.Thursday’s ruling was divided along ideological lines, with the court’s six conservative justices giving the green light to the new map and three liberal justices dissenting together.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe ruling lifts a lower court’s November order blocking Texas from using the new congressional map. A lower court found that Texas had “racially gerrymandered” its districts in violation of the U.S. Constitution.But Texas filed an emergency appeal…
George Russell said it was “unacceptable and unreasonable” for Oscar Piastri to be asked to help McLaren teammate Lando Norris win the world championship at the final race of the F1 season in Abu Dhabi.Norris leads Red Bull’s Max Verstappen with 12 points, with Piastri heading into the final a further four points behind, meaning all three can still claim the title. For Sunday’s race, the most likely scenario would be for Verstappen to take the lead, which would all but annihilate Piastri’s own championship hopes, but if Piastri were running behind him on track, he might be able to…
The Chicago Tribune filed a lawsuit against AI search engine Perplexity on Thursday, alleging copyright infringement. The lawsuit, seen by TechCrunch, was filed in federal court in New York. According to the complaint, the Tribune alleges that lawyers contacted Perplexity in mid-October to ask whether the AI search engine was using the company’s content. Perplexity’s lawyers responded that it did not train the model on the Tribune article, but “it may receive a non-verbatim summary of the facts,” the lawsuit alleges. But Tribune’s lawyers argue that Perplexity is distributing Tribune’s content verbatim. Interestingly, the newspaper’s lawyers also named Perplexity’s Retrieval…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang appeared on an episode of the podcast The Joe Rogan Experience on Wednesday.Ezra Akayan | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesNvidia CEO Jensen Huang is more optimistic than those predicting that AI will disrupt people’s jobs, and he uses a prediction from nine years ago to demonstrate why.In a wide-ranging conversation about AI on The Joe Rogan Experience, Huang referenced a prediction made in 2016 by Jeffrey Hinton, a computer scientist and former Google vice president known as the “Godfather of AI.” At the time, Hinton said that in five years, AI would be better at…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday reinstated Texas’ electoral map that had been redrawn to add more Republicans to the House of Representatives, giving a boost to President Donald Trump’s quest to keep Republicans in control of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections.The justices granted a request by Texas officials to lift a lower court ruling that blocked the state from using a map favored by President Trump, potentially shifting up to five House seats currently held by Democrats to Republicans. Lower courts concluded that the map was likely racially discriminatory, violating U.S. Constitutional protections.Republicans currently hold slim majorities in…
Manchester United once again found themselves behind at home as Sungtu Magassa’s late goal drew them 1-1 with West Ham at Old Trafford.Diogo Dalot’s smart goal in the closing stages looked set to earn Ruben Amorim’s side the three points that would move them into fifth place, but United were denied a point by Magassa’s sublime finish to deny West Ham a point. United lost at home to 10-man Everton in their last home game, moving them above Liverpool into eighth place, but it was a missed opportunity. Nuno Espirito Santo picked up the point and his team are still…
When Scott Tannen posted on LinkedIn last week that the company was looking for interns for summer 2026, he received hundreds of applications from eager students and some of their parents.Tannen, founder and CEO of bedding company Boll & Branch, said he has fielded messages from strangers asking him to talk to his college-age children about the internship program. This internship program is aimed at up-and-coming juniors and seniors. “It was so shocking that parents thought it was a good look for their kids,” Tannen, 48, told CNBC Make It, adding that things like this happen every year.It’s another thing…