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Tela Mange, a spokesperson for the Texas commission, told ESPN that officials evaluated Tyson's fitness to compete during a sparring session. She said MVP first proposed the bout as an exhibition, and the commission responded that it would require two-minute rounds and 14-ounce gloves.

"Women fight under two minutes most times," Bidarian said. "So there's no reason that the men can't fight two-minute rounds for a championship fight or a pro fight. There's zero difference. If you actually think about equality, there should be zero difference. ... And so for someone to say, 'This is only two-minute rounds' is like saying, 'Ooh, then women's fights aren't pro fights because they're two-minute rounds.'"

If you think it's kind of fucked up for a 60 year old man with severe brain damage to fight someone half his age, it's because you hate women's equality.

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Governments should urgently take action on AI policy in the next eighteen months. The window for proactive risk prevention is closing fast.

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She is the third generation of her family to have been featured on SNL. She is the second generation of her family to be hired as a cast member, and her tenure on the show was longer than both her father and grandfather.

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Nonalcoholic beer sales in U.S. grocery, convenience and liquor stores have nearly tripled since 2019, and its market share in groceries specifically has grown from 0.8% to 2.2%, according to Bump Williams. But in Whole Foods, it is already 10%.

It is more popular across the globe, especially Western Europe, where nonalcoholic and low-alcohol beers account for almost 8% of beer consumption, according to Euromonitor. It is even big in places where dressing up in lederhosen to celebrate the glory of beer is a national pastime. In Germany, 10% of beers will soon be brewed without alcohol, according to the German Brewers’ Association, and Oktoberfest attendees can hardly taste the difference between a Pilsner and a Pilsner Alkoholfrei.

https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/athletic-brewing-non-alcoholic-beer-864caa20

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The company said it would spend an additional $50 billion on repurchasing its own shares. In the quarter ending in July, it spent $15.4 billion on share repurchases and dividends.

Nvidia now supplies more than 90 percent of the chips essential to building A.I. It is raking in sales as bigger companies such as Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Alphabet, the parent company of Google, pour more than $50 billion into building A.I. data centers to support endeavors as varied as chatbots like ChatGPT and pharmaceutical companies using the technology to develop new drugs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/technology/nvidia-earnings-ai-stocks.html

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None of this will happen rapidly. As of February 2024, only about 5 percent of businesses in the United States have reported using A.I., and the technology itself is far from perfect (Google’s A.I. struggled initially with questions about whether it’s smart to eat rocks). Its spread in the economy will be slow, and its true impact won’t be felt until the mid-2030s. The nature of that impact will depend on the readiness of corporations and workers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/opinion/economy-us-aging-work-force-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.S04.a9dj.GYc6qEzZocnA&smid=url-share

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Sales growth of about 25% in 2025 looks feasible, based on our calculations, supported by TSMC’s leadership in 3- and 5-nm nodes, and its advanced CoWoS proprietary semiconductor packaging technology.

Yet even before ASML, some investors have grown cautious about the trajectory of global AI spending. They question whether big tech firms like Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc. will continue to splash out on chips and data centers without a truly killer application.

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AI subscriptions are, so far, the tech industry’s favorite idea for making money from AI. This is conceptually simple — your customers are paying you for access to a new product. The problem is that compute-heavy cloud services like ChatGPT and Copilot remain extremely expensive to run, meaning that in some cases even paying customers might be costing them money. Computing costs are likely to fall, and AI-model efficiency could improve, but, much like the basic assumption that there’s a huge market for these things just waiting to be tapped, these are bets and not particularly safe ones.

Maybe customers flock to new AI features, in which case Microsoft will have shifted computing expenses back to its billions of customers, improving margins on subscription products and selling lots of Windows licenses in the process.

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“I don’t believe that Ozempic is the drug that caused this problem. I think it’s just reduced your ability to use the drug you were using to soothe yourself for so long — food. You can stop taking the Ozempic, sure. Stop if you want to. But these issues will still be driving you. Use this as an opportunity to figure out why you ate in the way you did and change it.”

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Lots of people use food primarily to manage their emotions. When a group of scientists was investigating comfort eating, one person said, “Food is like a sedative to me. It knocks me out, almost like a drug. When I feel any little bit of sadness or anger, I eat. It’s almost like being fed as a baby. I will eat and eat until I can’t move.”

Le Roux believes that for some patients, overeating has performed a psychological function, and afterwards there’s “this hole, this space, left in their reward areas that’s not filled any more”.

In addition, some people believe that losing weight will solve all their problems and set them free to become who they really want to be, but when they actually lose weight, many of them, he said, then realise, “I have the same job and I drive the same car and I live in the same house and I have the same partner. Actually, it wasn’t the disease of obesity that made my life terrible. It was all this other stuff.”

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It's moving faster than any of us ever imagined it would. It's moving fast...

What did you mean, "get left behind"?

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guy who thinks he's a nepo baby because his dad is the Gruffalo

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A polarized light micrograph of glycine. Glycine is one of the building blocks of proteins, but it can also form outside cells in a few chemical reactions.