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Jim Furyk has been named Team USA captain for the 2027 Ryder Cup to be held at Adare Manor, Ireland.The 55-year-old becomes one of only four American captains to lead the European team more than once since 1979, when it was founded as a team. Tiger Woods was the front-runner to succeed Keegan Bradley as team captain for the 2027 World Cup, but he has chosen to resign out of consideration following his decision to take a break from golf following a car accident in March. image: Jim Furyk becomes one of only four people to serve as Team USA…
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang gestures at the NVIDIA GTC Global AI Conference on March 17, 2026 in San Jose, California, USA. Carlos Barria | ReutersNvidia Shares closed at their highest level on Friday for the first time since October as investors rushed into AI chip deals ahead of the tech giant’s hyperscaler’s earnings next week, pushing the company’s market capitalization above $5 trillion. The stock rose 4.3% to close at $208.27. Nvidia has risen more than 14x since the end of 2022, driven by a surge in demand for its artificial intelligence services and models. Nvidia’s graphics processing units are…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (left) and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.Getty Images | ReutersPossible layoffs of more than 20,000 people Meta and microsoft It was revealed several months later on Thursday. Amazon The company has announced the most sweeping layoffs in its history, but this may be just the beginning.The same companies that collectively spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year building out artificial intelligence infrastructure to meet the surge in demand for AI services are pursuing AI-driven efficiencies by reducing their workforces. They’re also still trying to right-size from the overemployment caused by the pandemic.Given the rapid infiltration of…
Millwall moved back into the Championship’s automatic promotion range, but could only manage a late 1-1 draw with relegated Leicester.Substitute Macaulay Langstaff’s first goal since February canceled out Harry Souter’s opener for the Foxes, playing in his first game since rupturing his Achilles tendon 16 months ago. This moves Alex Neil’s visiting side into second place, one point ahead of Ipswich, but the Tractor Boys now have two games in hand. Ipswich face West Brom on Saturday and Southampton on Tuesday, both of which will be broadcast live on Sky Sports, so the Millwall manager must hope automatic promotion remains…
ComfyUI, a startup that helps creators control image, video, and audio output from viral models using node-based workflows, has raised a $30 million funding round at a $500 million valuation. The round was led by Craft Ventures, with participation from other investors including Pace Capital, Chemistry, and TruArrow. ComfyUI was started as an open source project in 2023, shortly after the introduction of the diffusion model. At the time, models like Midjourney and OpenAI’s DALL-E were barely functional and often made big mistakes like adding extra fingers to the hand. To address these limitations, the project founders developed a modular…
google The companies confirmed Friday that they plan to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, as the technology giant ramps up its strategic investments in the artificial intelligence leader. The deal includes an initial $10 billion from Google, based on Anthropic’s latest valuation of $380 billion. The remaining $30 billion will depend on certain performance milestones. Bloomberg first reported the deal. Anthropic said the deal expands on the long-standing partnership between the two companies. Earlier this month, Anthropic secured 5 gigawatts worth of computing capacity as part of an announcement with Google. broadcom It will start being offered online…
Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during a press conference at the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building on April 7, 2026 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty ImagesThe U.S. government should add firing, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as methods of execution for people convicted of the most serious federal crimes, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday in a report that cited difficulties in obtaining lethal injection drugs.The report was a fulfillment of President Donald Trump’s promise to reinstate the death penalty during his second term. During his first term, which ended in 2021 and resumed…
The move is part of a broader U.S. effort to rein in politically sensitive fuel price hikes ahead of November’s midterm elections, although its impact on lowering fuel prices is questionable.Published April 24, 2026April 24, 2026President Donald Trump has granted a 90-day extension to shipping waivers that make it easier to transport oil, fuel and fertilizer within the United States, in the latest effort to curb rising energy costs related to the war with Iran, the White House announced.Although its impact on lowering prices is questionable, Friday’s action reflects a broader push by the White House to rein in politically…
Nottingham Forest moved to eight points clear of the relegation zone with an impressive 5-0 win at Sunderland after a riot that saw them score four goals in the first half.Trey Hume’s own goal in the 17th minute infuriated Forest and put them well behind Tottenham. Tottenham occupy the final spot in the bottom three and visit relegated Wolves on Saturday. “This is the result of the season,” said Sky Sports’ Jamie Redknapp. “To go there in the predicament they’re in, it’s an unbelievable result. I can only imagine what (Roberto) De Zerbi and Nuno (Espirito Santo) are thinking right…
Weiyao Wang spent eight years at Meta, his first job out of college, where he helped build multimodal perception systems and contributed to open-world segmentation projects, including SAM3D. His last day at Meta was last week, and he has since joined the Thinking Machines Lab (TML). His move to TML comes as the AI startup expands across multiple areas. The company just signed a multibillion-dollar cloud deal with Google, giving it access to Nvidia’s latest GB300 chip, making it one of the first startups to run on this hardware. The deal, announced at Google Cloud Next this Tuesday, follows a…