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☆ The Ashes: ‘Spirit of cricket’ called into question after fiery confrontation between Australian players and fans results in suspensions
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The incident, whilst not against the laws of cricket, divided many as to whether it went against the spirit of cricket, including many inside Lord’s. The Long Room is one of sport’s most unique settings; a room filled with MCC members through which players of both teams have to travel to reach the playing area from their respective dressing rooms. MCC members celebrate after a ball is hit for six over the head of Australia bowler Mitchell Starc. “MCC condemns the behavior witnessed and once again we re-iterate our apology to Cricket Australia. Khawaja walks through the MCC members gate at Lord's.

Persons: it’s, ”, Jonny Bairstow, Bairstow, Alex Carey, Carey, Ryan Pierse, “, Usman Khawaja, Matt Renshaw, unreservedly, Mitchell Starc, Matt Impey, Pat Cummins, Cummins, ” Lord’s, Khawaja Organizations: CNN, The Marylebone Cricket Club, MCC, England, Cricket Australia, Australian, ” Australia Locations: England, Australia, Edgbaston, Lord's

[1/6] Jan Gilpin poses with a bottle of the asthma and allergy drug Singulair, first prescribed to her son when he was three-years-old, at her home in Newton, Massachusetts, U.S., June 21, 2023. That team found in 2015 that the drug’s distribution into the brain was more significant than its label described. Lawsuits filed against Merck cite this 1996 patent as evidence of Merck’s knowledge of the drug’s potential brain impacts. Marschallinger and her colleagues in Austria came away with a different finding when they reviewed Merck’s original research and did some of their own. Marschallinger said it would have been logical for the FDA to require Merck to investigate the brain impacts more thoroughly once reports of mental-health problems emerged.

Persons: Jan Gilpin, Singulair, Brian Snyder, Merck, Julia Marschallinger, Marschallinger, ” Marschallinger, “ It’s, Robin Respaut, Dan Levine, Janet Roberts, Brian Thevenot Organizations: REUTERS, Brian Snyder Companies Merck, Co, FDA, Molecular Regenerative, Singulair, Merck, Thomson Locations: Newton , Massachusetts, U.S, Austria

☆ Founders and VCs are clamoring to get into this $68 million AI hacker house. Here's how the AGI House exploded into a community hub for the red-hot Bay Area AI scene.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Stephanie Palazzolo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

In February, the AGI House launched as a community hub for the buzzy Bay Area AI scene. Since launching in February this year, it's served as a hacker house and community hub for the Bay's exploding AI scene. Depending on the day, the residence houses between eight to ten AI founders and researchers, including a researcher from AI giant OpenAI. Stephanie PalazzoloFrom flying cars to fireside conversationsThe AGI House wasn't always the AGI House. "It's great to live in a community house where you're naturally connected to the AI founder community," she said.

Persons: Steve Jobs, Elon, it's, Demi Guo, Stephanie Palazzolo, wasn't, Andrej Karpathy, Rocky Yu, Karpathy, Sergey Brin, Kelly Peng, Yu, Jeremy Nixon, Tim Shi, Lerer Hippeau, Peng, Guo, There's, Greylock's, Corinne Riley AGI, they're Organizations: AGI, Technologies, Genesis, Foundation Capital Locations: buzzy, Hillsborough, Stanford, Alamo, LA, AGI, New York City, Stanford's

☆ Ezra Klein on ‘Her’ - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Ezra Klein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

commentary is missing: These systems are going to upend our relationships long before they remake our economies. That’s going to be a hurdle for anyone who wants to replace a lawyer or a researcher with an A.I. Conducting oversight for a system that’s more eloquent and knowledgeable than you are is going to be tough. America is, by any historical standard, unimaginably rich and powerful, and yet we’ve lost what matters most: community and connection. That’s the America these A.I.

Persons: topick, rewatching “, Spike, Theodore Twombley, Joaquin Phoenix, Samantha, Scarlett Johansson, Peter Drucker, Ian McEwan, It’ll, Jonze, Vivek Murthy, we’ve, machina Locations: America, U.S

☆ Zeynep Tufekci on ‘Breaking Bad’ - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Zeynep Tufekci | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

The TV drama “Breaking Bad” does an exceptional job of capturing America’s other exceptionalisms. So Walter turns to yet another American institution that stands out among the nation’s peers: a vast and violent drug trade. Walter worries about his family’s future — especially that of his son, Walt Jr., who has cerebral palsy. But Walter Jr. is talented: In an episode that aired one year before the crowdfunding site GoFundMe was founded, Walt Jr. designs a website to solicit donations to help pay for his dad’s cancer treatment. 1 cause of bankruptcy in the United States.

Persons: topick, Alexis de Tocqueville, Barack Obama, “, Ronald Reagan, Walter White, Walter, —, Walt Jr, Walter Jr, Walt, Jr, ”, don’t Organizations: Caltech, National Rifle Association Locations: America, United States, GoFundMe, Covid

☆ Gail Collins on ‘The Most of Nora Ephron’ - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Gail Collins | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Enter writers like Nora Ephron, a fighter for the cause who was a genius at using wit to handle any woe. “The Most of Nora Ephron” is a tome that includes so much of what she published, from current affairs journalism to food blogging to Broadway plays. “I hope that you choose not to be a lady,” she told the 1996 graduates at her alma mater, Wellesley. “I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. Pointing out how ridiculous the status quo is breaks its spell and gives us the freedom to dream up something better.

Persons: topick, Nora Ephron, Nora Ephron ”, Nora, “, Carl Bernstein, Gail Collins, ”, ” Doris Lessing’s, Miss, Nick Pileggi, Clarence Thomas, it’s Organizations: Broadway, White, Disney Locations: America, Washington, mater, Wellesley, “

All six advisers on the panel voted in favor of Leqembi for treatment of the mind-wasting illness. That approval would also make Leqembi the first disease-modifying drug ever to achieve the regulatory milestone. Leqembi won accelerated approval by the FDA in January based on its ability to remove sticky amyloid plaques from the brain. Most U.S. Alzheimer's patients are Medicare-eligible. “We are in full agreement with the FDA Advisory Committee that Leqembi provides clinical benefit and that this benefit outweighs the risks."

Persons: Eisai, Leqembi, Tanya Simuni, Robert Alexander, Joanne Pike, Leroy Leo, Khushi, Julie Steenhuysen, Bill Berkrot Organizations: Food and Drug Administration, Alzheimer's Association, FDA, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Banner Alzheimer's Institute, CAA, Medicare, Wall Street, Analysts, Alzheimer's, Thomson Locations: Leqembi, U.S, Bengaluru, Chicago

☆ Scientists document how space travel messes with the human brain
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Will Dunham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/2] The International Space Station (ISS) photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking, October 4, 2018. Age-related ventricular enlargement - caused not by microgravity but by brain atrophy - can be associated with cognitive decline. This headward fluid shift likely results in ventricular expansion, and the brain sits higher within the skull." The study involved 23 male and seven female astronauts - average age around 47 - from the U.S., Canadian and European space agencies. Microgravity conditions also cause other physiological effects due to the reduced physical load on the human body.

Persons: Heather McGregor, Rachael Seidler, Seidler, McGregor, Will Dunham, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: Space, Expedition, Soyuz, NASA, REUTERS, WASHINGTON, of Florida, University of, Thomson Locations: Handout, University of Florida, U.S

☆ They Fled San Francisco. The A.I. Boom Pulled Them Back.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Erin Griffith | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

And tech workers have been among the most vocal groups to criticize the city for its worsening problems with drugs, housing and crime. technology — known as generative A.I., which produces text, images and video in response to prompts — there’s too much at stake to miss out. Investors have already announced $10.7 billion in funding for generative A.I. Tens of thousands of tech workers recently laid off by big tech companies are now eager to join the next big thing. “Hacker houses,” where people create start-ups, are springing up in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley neighborhood, known as “Cerebral Valley” because it is the center of the A.I.

Persons: —, Hacker Locations: San, ”, San Francisco’s Hayes Valley

CNN —The recovery of wreckage from a private plane that crashed Sunday in Virginia, killing all four people onboard, after its pilot became unresponsive is expected to begin Tuesday. The unresponsive aircraft prompted the deployment of six fighter jets as it flew near Washington, DC, officials said. Six F-16s were launched from three bases and raced to intercept the private plane, White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said Monday. Investigators are now examining the private plane’s autopilot function in the Virginia crash, a source familiar with the investigation said. Correction: An earlier version of this story gave the wrong source for information about the course taken by the private plane.

Persons: there’s, ” Adam Gerhardt, Gerhardt, John Rumpel, Barbara, Adina Azarian, Aria Azarian, Adina Azarian's, Facebook Rumpel, Rumpel, Jeff Hefner, Strategic Communications John Kirby, Randall K, Payne Stewart, Stewart, ”, Keller Williams, Lakhinder, Azarian, ” “ Adina, ” Keller Williams, Dan Newlin Hefner, Hefner, “, Dan Newlin, ” Hefner, Newlin Organizations: CNN, National Transportation Safety, Cessna, NTSB, Encore Motors, Washington Post, FAA, MacArthur, NORAD, National Security, Strategic Communications, Authorities, Washington, Southwest Airlines, Network, Continental, American Aerospace Defense Command, US Capitol Police Locations: Virginia, Washington, DC, Waynesboro , Virginia, Delaware, East Hampton , New York, Tennessee, Elizabethton , Tennessee, Aberdeen , South Dakota, Florida, Texas, NYC, ” Keller Williams ’, York, Continental US

☆ The Exclusive, Elusive World of Real Tennis
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( James Hill | Photographs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Today, the sport is played competitively in the four countries that also make up tennis’s Grand Slam: France, where the game is known as jeu de paume; Britain and Australia, where it goes by real tennis; and the United States, home of the current men’s world champion, Camden Riviere. There are just over 50 courts in the world, and the prohibitive cost of constructing new courts is a major issue. Whatever they might lack in numbers, court tennis players make up for with enthusiasm. 10 in the world and is a 13-time French amateur champion. “You really have to master the tactics because there are so many options on the court.”

Persons: Camden Riviere, Matthieu Sarlangue, ”, “ Organizations: Camden Locations: Versailles, France, paume, Britain, Australia, United States

What had started as a diary of hair styles and piercings grew into a conceptual art project as Echeverri evolved as an artist. “I don’t want to overburden the work,” says Tillmans, who prefers to see it as Echeverri was: sly, cerebral and self-deprecating. The exhibit in New York also includes “Identidad Payasa” (2017), a series of double portraits where the artist shared the lens with street clowns in Mexico City. First, Echeverri would take their photos in full costume, then ask the clowns to recreate the look on him, a way of embodying their position. Tillmans says the photos show how much Echeverri empathized with the clowns — they were both artists, putting on a visual performance and wearing masks.

Persons: Juan Pablo Echeverri, James Fuentes, Wolfgang Tillmans, ”, Tillmans, Echeverri, Miss Fotojapón, ” yokes, —, “ Organizations: Miss Locations: Manhattan, Bridges, Berlin, León, Mexico, Colombia, New York, Mexico City

☆ Opinion: The ultimate ‘Succession’ lesson
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. Walt Handlesman/Tribune Content AgencyIn a much more ominous vein, the theme of survival dominates the HBO show “Succession,” which is coming to an end Sunday. She’s so caught up in beating her brothers at the succession game that she can’t see this baby as anything but an obstacle.”“Ultimately, this storyline is a perfect encapsulation of the larger tragedy that is ‘Succession,’” Bodenheimer added. The contest for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination heated up last week with the official entry of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former President Donald Trump’s strongest challenger in the polls.

☆ Opinion: A cerebral rock star is dead
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( Opinion John Avlon | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

He is the author of “Lincoln and the Fight for Peace.” The views expressed in this essay are his own. These celebrated writers were the subject of long-form profiles and occasional tabloid scandals, treated as cerebral rock stars and voices of their generation. They were a post-punk crew that migrated from the UK to the US, including Hitchens, Tina Brown and Salman Rushdie. In his final book, “Inside Story,” part memoir and part novel, Amis returned to his friendship with Hitchens in the 1970s, prior to their becoming famous. It chronicles a doomed affair, flashing forward at times to the decline of their friend Saul Bellows from dementia, as well as Hitchens’ death.

☆ The pharmacy that quietly powered top startups in the hottest part of healthcare is trying to reinvent itself after losing customers and closing facilities
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | Blake Dodge | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

"We were shocked," a former employee in Truepill's business development division said of the layoffs. Insider spoke with five former and two current Truepill employees about the challenges the company is confronting after a tumultuous year. Truepill was hiring employees rapidly, accumulating about 1,800 employees by the spring of 2022, according to one former employee in Truepill's business division. Since then, there's been a companywide push to inch closer to profitability, one of the current employees told Insider. It's also downsizing its Miami pharmacy, the current employee said.

☆ AI startup founders from Y Combinator's latest class reveal the top 3 things they learned from the accelerator
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Madeline Renbarger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Several AI startup founders who participated said the program had many more in person events. And they also said it was a huge benefit and made a difference being in San Francisco. For its winter 2023 cohort, Y Combinator accepted founders from 282 startups for its coveted startup accelerator program. Insider spoke with the founders of four AI startups that went through this latest batch and asked them to share what they learned most from the experience. "It feels like the next platform shift, and San Francisco is definitely the heart of it."

☆ Tech's hottest trends: what's cool and what's not among Silicon Valley's elite
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

San FranciscoThe AI boom is helping to bring San Francisco back after the pandemic. Dan Kurtzman/Getty ImagesDuring the pandemic, the San Francisco metro area ceded some of its dominance over the tech industry to growing hubs in cities like Miami and Austin. The neighborhood of Hayes Valley, in particular, has become such a hotspot for new AI startups that it's jokingly been renamed "Cerebral Valley." Their overall consensus is that working from home is on its way out and working from the office is back in. Security card swipe data also shows that office occupancy in the San Francisco metro area has increased since the beginning of the year.

☆ Paralympics TikTok account uses 'edgy and unique content' but has been critiqued by some for lack of sensitivity
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —Social media is awash with memes and GIFs and, at times, ‘edginess,’ but it can be a difficult balancing act as the official Paralympics TikTok account is discovering. The account is run by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), the organization which organizes and manages the Paralympic Games. In the comments, the official Paralympic account replied: “This is Brad Snyder. Mixed reactionsAs a result, the videos posted on the official account have received a mixed reaction, with commentators on many of them left disbelieving that the content published there is permitted. “Looking through that whole account, I might have seen one or two [videos] where the athlete actually does something successfully.

☆ TikTok is looking more and more like a record label. It’s annoyed many in the music industry.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Allbirds is one of the brands I'm looking at. TikTok is looking more and more like a record label. When TikTok launched SoundOn, a song-distribution and artist-services platform, some in the industry wondered whether it was trying to muscle its way into record labels' territory. TikTok is now looking to hire people who will "identify, sign, and develop new artists" as well as "design live show and merchandise strategies for artists globally." Get a front-row seat to TikTok's transformation into a record label here.

☆ The creepy secret behind online therapy
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Tanmoy Goswami | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

Crisis Text Line, now in its 10th year of operations, uses artificial intelligence to respond to people experiencing emotional abuse, self-harm, and suicidal thoughts. 'The vast majority of mental-health apps are exceptionally creepy'BetterHelp, a poster child of online therapy founded in 2013, calls itself "the world's largest therapy platform" and says it has over 2 million users. One of the first popular mental-health apps, PTSD Coach, was launched by the US Department of Veteran Affairs in 2011. But for mental-health companies these practices can undermine the very foundations of mental-health care: dignity, trust, and psychological safety. As Crisis Text Line wrote on its website extolling its deal with Loris: "Why sell T-shirts when you can sell what your organization does best?"

☆ How Anthropic cofounder and former journalist Jack Clark turned a chance meeting into an AI newsletter with over 34,000 subscribers
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Stephanie Palazzolo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Jack Clark was a Bloomberg tech journalist in 2015 when he came across OpenAI for the first time. He was so inspired that he quit his job and dove into the world of AI, later cofounding Anthropic. Now, he writes Import AI, a weekly AI-focused newsletter that reaches over 34,000 subscribers. A "weird" newsletterA weekly newsletter, Import AI features detailed analyses on AI research papers, Clark's thoughts on current events, and AI-focused short fiction stories. He estimates that he's read around 4,000 research papers while writing Import AI — and more importantly, he jokes, spent over $6,000 in lattes due to his persistent habit of drinking multiple caffeinated beverages while writing each week.

☆ Scientists identify mind-body nexus in human brain
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Will Dunham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The researchers called this system the somato-cognitive action network, or SCAN, and documented its connections to brain regions known to help set goals and plan actions. "Basically, we now have shown that the human motor system is not unitary. A second system, the SCAN, is more important for integrated, whole body movements, and is more connected to high-level planning regions of your brain," Gordon said. I'm not a philosopher, but one succinct statement I like is saying, 'The mind is what the brain does.' "Some neuroscientists think of the brain as an organ intended primarily to perceive and interpret the world around us.

☆ ChatGPT and pickleball are in. Crypto and Meta are out: What's hot in tech this year
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-09 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

San FranciscoThe AI boom is helping to bring San Francisco back after the pandemic. Dan Kurtzman/Getty ImagesDuring the pandemic, the San Francisco metro area ceded some of its dominance over the tech industry to growing hubs in cities like Miami and Austin. The neighborhood of Hayes Valley, in particular, has become such a hotspot for new AI startups that it's jokingly been renamed "Cerebral Valley." Four Bay Area-based tech workers told Insider that they're going in to meet colleagues, grab coffees, or just get out of their apartments. Security card swipe data also shows that office occupancy in the San Francisco metro area has increased since the beginning of the year.

☆ Picasso: Love Him or Hate Him?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Deborah Solomon | April | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +14 min

It is not hugely cool to profess a love for Picasso these days. This is what Picasso’s detractors — like Hannah Gadsby, the Australian comedian and Picasso basher, who will help curate a Picasso show at the Brooklyn Museum opening on June 2 — often miss. Picasso, by contrast, brought the weight of lived experience into his work, even when he was tethered to archetypal subjects. “The Mother” (1901), an early painting by Picasso, shows a view of motherhood purged of Renaissance idealization. The conventional view of the painting holds that the women are “dolled-up cocottes,” as John Richardson glibly put it in his biography of Picasso.

☆ Big tech companies continue cost cutting
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Paayal Zaveri | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Tech companies have chased short-term fads in a desperate attempt to win the favor of Wall Street investors — and it's making the online experience worse. As tech companies continue to focus on efficiency, it's clear that one metric is the most important: revenue per employee. After years of over-hiring, tech companies are now looking to squeeze the most efficient performance from each worker, my colleague Hasan Chowdhury reports. But it's another sign that tech companies are drifting away from pro-remote work policies. Google, Meta, and Microsoft have all failed to make their AR and VR devices into mainstream successes.

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