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Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> MLB reaches agreement with sportsbooks to cap bets on individual pitches at $200; news follows indictments of pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz (More) | Cristiano Ronaldo confirms 2026 World Cup will be his final tournament with Portugal (More)

> Sally Kirkland, Oscar-nominated actress best known for "Anna," dies at age 84 (More) | Four-time NBA All-Star Michael Ray Richardson, banned from league for drug use, dies at age 70 (More) | Jimmy Kimmel's bandleader Cleto Escobedo III dies at age 59 (More)

> "KPop Demon Hunters" ruled ineligible for British Academy Film Awards, or BAFTA Awards (More) | Pope Leo to host special Vatican audience Saturday with artists from across the film and TV industry (More)


Science & Technology
> Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, to depart company and launch his own AI startup; LeCun won the 2018 Turing Award, leaves amid Meta's push toward superintelligence (More) | What is superintelligence? (1440 Topics, w/video)

> Doctors demonstrate first remote, robot-assisted thrombectomy; a specialist in Scotland successfully removed a brain clot from a cadaver in Florida using a remotely guided robot (More)

> Use of GLP-1 weight loss drugs cuts risk of death in colon cancer patients by more than half over five years; drug may help reduce inflammation and other mechanisms that promote tumor growth (More) | The best resources we've found on semaglutides (1440 Topics)

Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 +0.2%, Dow +1.2%, Nasdaq -0.3%); Dow closes at record high as CoreWeave (-16.3%) pulls down Nasdaq (More)

> SoftBank sells entire stake in Nvidia for $5.83B and part of its stake in T-Mobile for $9.17B; sales of shares reportedly will be used to help fund the Japanese firm's expected $30B investment in OpenAI (More)

> Sonder to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy after Marriott International terminates licensing agreement with the short-term rentals and boutique hotel operator (More)


Politics & World Affairs
> US Navy's largest and most advanced aircraft carrier—the USS Gerald R. Ford—arrives in Caribbean amid tensions with Venezuela (More)

> Kansas county agrees to pay more than $3M over 2023 law enforcement raid on small-town weekly newspaper (More) | See previous write-up (More)

> At least 12 people killed, 27 wounded in Pakistan after suicide bombing attack outside a district court in Islamabad (More) | At least 20 dead in Turkish military plane crash in Georgia after taking off from Azerbaijan (More)

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