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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressing crowd of demonstrators outside the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.Francis Miller/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty ImagesOpenAI halted artificial intelligence-generated videos of Martin Luther King Jr. on Sora after it said users utilized its short-form video tool to create “disrespectful depictions” of the civil rights leader.At the request of the Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc., “OpenAI has paused generations depicting Dr. King,” OpenAI said in a post to social media platform X on Thursday.”While there are strong free speech interests in depicting historical figures, OpenAI believes…

“Where are you from?””What do you do?”We’ve all experienced the ritualized exchange of personal facts when getting to know someone. We present curated versions of ourselves: job titles, hometowns, badges of busy-ness.The thing is, most small talk feels like a polite but boring game of ping-pong. You serve a fact about yourself, they return with one of theirs, and you go back and forth without forming a real connection. As social scientists studying what makes people click with each other, we’ve found that meaningful bonds form not simply through trading facts or even discovering that you have similar backgrounds, but by…

People should be more excited and less dispirited about artificial intelligence, according to billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.”I don’t see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive,” said Bezos, 61, during a panel at Italian Tech Week 2025 on October 3. “[AI will make every business’] quality go up and their productivity go up … Every manufacturing company, every hotel, every consumer products company … That’s hard to fathom, but it’s real.”Bezos said he didn’t have a timeline prediction, because different industries will likely embrace AI at different rates. Currently, AI is in an “industrial bubble,” with inflated stock…

Max Verstappen of the Netherlands driving the (1) Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 leads Carlos Sainz of Spain driving (55) the Ferrari SF-24 and Lando Norris of Great Britain driving the (4) McLaren MCL38 Mercedes into turn 1 at the start during the F1 Grand Prix of Mexico at Autodromo Hermanos RodriguezPeter Fox – Formula 1 | Formula 1 | Getty ImagesApple and Formula 1 announced a five-year media rights deal Friday that will bring every F1 race to Apple TV beginning in 2026.Apple TV will provide coverage of all Formula 1 events, including practice, qualifying and Sprint sessions, as…

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMeta on Friday announced new safety features that will allow parents to see and manage how their teenagers are interacting with artificial intelligence characters on the company’s platforms.Parents will have the option to turn off one-on-one chats with AI characters completely, Meta said. They will also be able to block specific AI characters, get insight into the topics their children are discussing with them.Meta is still building the controls,…

Bill ConnellyCloseBill ConnellyESPN Staff WriterBill Connelly is a writer for ESPN. He covers college football, soccer and tennis. He has been at ESPN since 2019.Ryan O’HanlonCloseRyan O’HanlonESPN.com writerRyan O’Hanlon is a staff writer for ESPN.com. He’s also the author of “Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution.”Oct 17, 2025, 08:57 AM ETAmong soccer nerds, it’s generally accepted that we can start making confident statements about team performance once we hit the 10-game mark of the Premier League season.It’s a random, low-scoring sport where conversion rates fluctuate massively from game to game, and the same is true for individual and…

Despite worries over bad loans at midsize U.S. banks, there’s little evidence of a systemic problem, according to a senior analyst at Moody’s Ratings.Marc Pinto, the agency’s head of global private credit, acknowledged in a interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that there are concerns over loose lending standards and some slack in the conditions that institutions attach to loans.However, he said when looking at the system as a whole, contagion the likes that could trigger a broader financial crisis is not evident.”When we dig deeper here and look to see if there’s a turn in the credit cycle, which is…

Barcelona coach Hansi Flick has slammed a report he was forced to pick Lamine Yamal in the Champions League defeat to Paris Saint-Germain this month, calling it “bulls—.”Yamal, 18, allegedly arrived late for an activation session ahead of the game, with Flick dropping Raphinha and Marcus Rashford already this season, as well as others last year, for committing the same offence.However, a report claimed that the board intervened, obliging the German coach to pick the teenager when he had decided to start him from the bench.”I am sorry about the word, but it’s totally bulls—,” Flick said in a news…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will speak by phone on Friday with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng to discuss the ongoing trade negotiations between the United States and China, a senior Trump administration official told CNBC’s Eamon Javers.Additional details about the call, including the specific time it would take place or the next steps to be discussed, were not immediately clear.But the scheduled conversation could signal progress in the U.S.-China relationship, which hit a rocky patch this past week after President Donald Trump reacted to Beijing’s new export controls by threatening an additional 100% tariff on Chinese imports.Trump, asked in a…

MANCHESTER, England — Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim has said he appreciates the backing of Sir Jim Ratcliffe, but admits it will mean nothing if he cannot turn results around.Ratcliffe suggested during the international break that he’s willing to give the Portuguese coach “three years” despite a rocky start to his reign at Old Trafford.Amorim said it’s “good” to hear support from the club’s co-owner.But ahead of a tough trip to Liverpool on Sunday, he hinted he’s unlikely to get time at the helm if United’s form does not pick up.”He [Ratcliffe] tells me all the time, sometimes with a…