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Netflix VP of Global Live Sports & Entertainment on WWE: "They’ve been great partners, and we’re thrilled with the results so far" - POST Wrestling | Podcasts, News, Reviews
Gabe Spitzer, a Vice President at Netflix, spoke with Richard Deitsch on the Sports Media podcast regarding their relationship with WWE.
Adley Rutschman's three-run HR off Pesky Pole carries Red Sox past Angels, 5-2
Adley Rutschman hit a three-run homer off the Pesky Pole in right field, Brayan Bello pitched five scoreless innings in his first start since early June and the hot-again Boston Red Sox beat the Los Angeles Angels 5-2 on Monday afternoon.
Technology Science Corporation and Integration Technologies Group Awarded NASA SEWP VI Contract in Category C
TSC and ITG continue their multi year partnership and win SEWP VI
Ian-credible Science: Pepper panic
Each week, we bring you a quick and easy experiment you can do at home to explore a concept in science. This week, we’re using surface tension to make some pepper panic!
Video Global report shows where US kids rank in reading, math and science
ABC News' Elizabeth Schulze has the results of a new report released this morning showing where U.S. students rank compared with students around the world.
Students avoiding AI for schoolwork outscore peers in science, bar one use: OECD
Fifteen-year-olds reporting they never or almost never used artificial intelligence (AI) for schoolwork outscored their AI-using peers in science on nearly every type of task, except for utilizing AI as a general study aid, according to the PISA result conducted by the OECD.
Matthew McConaughey Sends ‘Richter Scale’ Warning Before Texas-Ohio State
Matthew McConaughey believes Austin is about to become the center of the college football world when the Texas Longhorns take the field.The longtime Texas supporter appeared on ESPN’s “SportsCenter with Scott Van Pelt” late Monday night and was asked about the No. 5 Longhorns’ upcoming home showdown with No. 1 Ohio State. McConaughey made it […] The post Matthew McConaughey Sends ‘Richter Scale’ Warning Before Texas-Ohio State appeared first on HEAVY.
Craig Robinson reveals ‘The Office’ creator’s surprising feedback that made him panic during audition
Craig Robinson tells EW about the unprompted praise from ‘The Office’ creator Greg Daniels that sent him down an unexpected mental tailspin during his audition for ‘The Office.’
UCF Focused on Containing Pittsburgh QB Mason Heintschel
After a record-breaking seven-touchdown performance, Pitt's dual-threat star faces a violent UCF defense determined to cage the pocket and erase their road woes in this non-conference showdown.
ADHA shifts My Health Record to multi-supplier ops as Accenture signs new 3-year contract
ADHA moves My Health Record to a multi-supplier model as Accenture renews for three years. GPT‑6 Astra and HIMSS cyber warnings raise new governance work for CI
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation Introduces Flex Pay by Upgrade Allowing Guests to Purchase Season Passes and Qualifying Products Through Fixed Monthly Installments
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation introduced Flex Pay by Upgrade, a new payment option that allows eligible guests to purchase Season Passes and other qualifying products and pay over time through...
OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Healthcare is getting wired into Epic
OpenAI added a read-only Epic EHR integration and public health data connectors to ChatGPT for Healthcare. Here’s what hospital IT and ops teams must verify.
Sports venues are now being specced like IT projects
Athletic facilities are adding livestreaming, access apps, drones, and LED controls. A proposed $70M complex shows how ops and IT now share the spec.
The Early Scale: Dreamforce Focuses on AI, But Lacks Concrete ROI Data
Dreamforce emphasizes AI but lacks ROI data. SHRM pushes continuous benefits management, EU delays medtech MDR to 2028.
Clean & Science co., Ltd authorizes a Buyback Plan.
The Board of Directors of Clean & Science co., Ltd has authorized a buyback plan on September 7, 2026....
Clean & Science co., Ltd announces an Equity Buyback for 209,205 shares.
Clean & Science co., Ltd announces a share repurchase program. Under the program, the company will repurchase up to 209,205 shares. The purpose of the program is to stabilize stock price and enhance...
Science Snapshots: September 6, 2026
Discover three groundbreaking research advancements: Saturn's decagonal wave, a new Zika detection method, and insights into inner speech.
Presidio’s Resonate uses agentic AI to turn sports archives into searchable inventory
Presidio is pairing Captivate and Resonate to automate tagging, retrieval, and clip creation on AWS Media Lake, aiming to speed monetization and production work
The Early Scale: EU's MDR delay shifts medtech timelines to 2028
EU extends MDR deadline to 2028. Medtech must prioritize digital commissioning. AI adoption universal but ROI low; CMOs face surprise AI bills.
UConn topples Lafayette, 56-7
UConn football was incredibly impressive in Jason Candle’s debut, destroying the FCS Lafayette Leopards, 56-7, at Rentschler Field on Saturday afternoon. The Huskies were dominant on both sides of the ball as they took a 35-0 lead into halftime and got a lot of rotation players in across the second half. Starting QB Kalieb Osborne […]
Apollo’s €3bn Bayer deal shows ‘non-control’ financing is spreading to operators
Apollo’s €3bn Bayer LARC investment and a $35bn Broadcom financing highlight how private credit is funding AI and industrial capex without operators giving up c
Cosm’s 700-seat domes make NFL rights run like venue operations
Cosm’s NFL deal brings Thursday, Sunday, and Monday games into 700-seat 12K domes, changing staffing, AV ops, and ticketing playbooks.
Art & Science Combine in Digital Art Exhibition in Portland in October
Unlikely Universes is an exhibition of Ann Tracy's digital works on canvas, metal and paper; the show opens with an artist's reception from 5:00 to 8:00
Fired by Turner Sports, Erin Andrews Doesn’t Hold Back on ‘Terrible’ Stint as MLB Reporter Before ESPN & FOX Roles
Sportscaster and journalist Erin Andrews’ path to becoming one of the most recognizable faces in sports television was not nearly as smooth as it looks in hindsight. Before ESPN, FOX Sports, Super Bowls, and years on the NFL sideline, Andrews had a short stretch at Turner Sports that ended with the network letting her go.
Fastbreak AI is quietly becoming the scheduling engine for 50-plus pro leagues
Fastbreak AI says it schedules 50+ pro leagues. The ops implication: scheduling is now a multi-constraint optimization problem tied to travel, venues, and media
Adley Rutschman’s return to Baltimore is pure cinema
This is the type of stuff you only see in movies.
Fiber optic cables reveal ‘icequakes’ in endangered glaciers
The technology could help create an early-warning system for changes in ice stability.
Moment of Science: New study finds humans and animals share certain sound preferences
Answering the call of the wild! Here's how our sound preferences stack up against other animals, from birdsong to baboon barks. 🐦🔊
Tech parties are becoming major players in the sports ownership industry: Sportscorp's Marc Ganis
Marc Ganis, Sportscorp founder and CEO, joins 'Closing Bell' to discuss the recent spate of sports team sales, the role private equity has played and much more.
NASA’s Hubble Tracks New Decagon Encircling Saturn’s South Pole
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope observes a giant, evolving, 10-sided atmospheric wave encircling Saturn's south pole.
Decagon on Saturn’s South Pole (Color)
Recent NASA Hubble Space Telescope images show the gas giant Saturn and its southern pole, where astronomers have discovered a 10-sided atmospheric wave. Observations show the decagon extends through multiple layers of Saturn’s atmosphere.
Decagon on Saturn’s South Pole (Single Filter)
A single filter from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope distinctly shows a 10-sided wave encircling Saturn’s south pole, labeled “decagon”.An “X” denotes where data was not captured.
Junior Livestock Show hosts meat science webinar series
The Junior Livestock Show of Spokane will host a webinar series about meat science and beef industry opportunities, led by Texas Tech University professors. Blake Foraker will speak about meat […]
DEAG Reports Stable Business For First Half Of 2026
Deutsche Entertainment AG (DEAG) performed well in the first half of financial year 2026, after consistently pursuing its buy-and-build strategy and
Eight-Player Splitscreen Added to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Nintendo has conjured up an eight-player splitscreen mode for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, available now in a free update on Switch 2.
Opinion | The Political Power of Christian Kitsch
Precious Moments figurines and Christian romance novels aren’t overtly political, but they shape how Christian women see themselves and the world.
‘Most’ of Star Wars Zero Company studio Bit Reactor was furloughed ahead of launch
Last week was meant to be a moment of triumph for Bit Reactor, the Maryland-based game studio founded in 2021 with ambitions to create a great new tactical combat game. On Thursday, August 27, Bit Reactor’s debut title, Star Wars Zero Company, released to stellar reviews. And, from the Gamescom show in Cologne, Germany, studio co-founder Greg Foertsch was giving interviews discussing what the studio’s next game may be. But for many developers on the game, launch has been bittersweet. Fans love it. Critics prefer it to most recent Star Wars games. Zero Company, which is out for PS5, Xbox Series consoles and PC, is the top-selling game on Steam. Much of the team that made it, however, is currently going without pay. They were furloughed, just weeks ahead of the game’s launch. A rep for Bit Reactor confirmed to Game File today that the studio had furloughed many of its workers prior to the game’s release. They said it was a difficult decision and one that had been made before it was clear how launch would go. The rep emphasized that the call to do this was Bit Reactor’s alone (meaning not from publisher EA nor Star Wars license holder Disney). While the rep declined to comment on the scale of the furloughs, a previously unreported lawsuit brought by studio co-founder Alison Kelly in 2024 noted in a filing from August 12 of this year that Bit Reactor “has furloughed most of its employees and terminated contractors…” One source told Game File the furloughs impacted 80% of the team; another referred to there only being a skeleton crew left on Bit Reactor’s active payroll, ready to address any of Zero Company’s post-launch bugs. The issue is that Bit Reactor, a studio formed in 2021, had run out of most of its money just ahead of the launch of its first game. Over the weekend, Zachariah Scott, a senior technical artist who worked at Bit Reactor from early 2023 until an acrimonious exit this past May, said on LinkedIn that the studio was “concealing the fact that the team was Furloughed weeks ago.” Reached by phone today, Scott told Game File that he spoke to nearly a dozen Bit Reactor workers over the weekend. “Everybody has essentially the same story, which is, ‘Yeah, I got furloughed three weeks ago.” The Bit Reactor rep told Game File that the studio hoped to bring furloughed workers back, suggesting that a successful launch of the game could be impactful. Scott told Game File that workers he spoke to were less confident that even if there were returns, that all who were furloughed would get their old jobs again. A heated dispute Bit Reactor’s mid-2026 was almost even more tumultuous. The lawsuit by co-founder Alison Kelly that first revealed the furloughs was initially slated to go to trial in June. The suit is a she-said/he-said about whether Kelly, until 2024 the chief operating officer of Bit Reactor, was a co-owner of the studio or whether it was solely owned by Greg Foertsch. In July 2024, Kelly sued, saying she was pushed out by Foertsch. She first sued in federal court and later refiled in Maryland’s Baltimore County, alleging breach of contract and that Foertsch had unjustly enriched himself. Kelly cited damages of over $20 million, on the basis of Bit Reactor allegedly being worth more than double that. Foertsch’s side has said Kelly was never a co-owner and has countered with claims about her job performance (which she has denied). The June trial was postponed until early 2027, as both sides have been deposing witnesses and filing more claims and denials along the way. Amid all of that, filings in the lawsuit reviewed by Game File paint a picture about Bit Reactor’s origins, early aspirations around tactics games, the team’s breakthrough in drawing the attention of Electronic Arts with the help of a pitch tied to one of EA’s non-Star Wars franchises, and early fractures among its co-founders. The real story about the company behind Zero Company
Bessent on trade war with Canada: Carney ‘chose to walk away’ from a deal
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday took aim at Prime Minister Mark Carney, claiming that the Canadian leader “chose to walk away” from a trade deal. “And then he started this. And it’s unfo…
Hanover volleyball looks to build defense after losing key seniors
Hanover Coach: Avery Kretschmar (1) League: NHIAA Division II Last Year: 12-5; loss in the quarterfinals Top Returners: Seniors — Sage Fargher (Setter), Bella Poisson (Outside), Casey Wilkinson (Libero), Esther Skogerboe (Middle) Newcomers: Juniors — Nour Tannous (Outside), Laila Sundred (Defensive Specialist), Amelia McGinnis (Right Side) Coach’s Analysis: “With the matriculation of seasoned front row […]
24th Annual BioBlitz at Seacoast Science Center
Join Seacoast Science Center on Sunday, September 20, 2026 for the 24th BioBlitz, the non-profits annual community science event in Odiorne Point State Park. Families and nature enthusiasts team up with SSC naturalists and guest experts to explore the Park’s habitats to find and identify as many different species as possible in just one day! BioBlitz is a great way to get kids (and adults!) excited about science, learn about the park’s biodiversity, and discover how you can help protect our natural world.Like an extreme nature scavenger hunt, BioBlitz offers many opportunities for all ages to gain knowledge and hone skills in their favorite areas of nature! Habitat, plant, and animal explorations are scheduled throughout the day, allowing participants to choose among activities that interest them the most. With seven distinct natural habitats to survey, there’s something for everyone! Explorations include tide pools, mammals, seine netting, salt marsh, mushrooms, and more (see full schedule online, subject to change). Find all the details on the BioBlitz web page, and get your tickets to explore with SSC: https://www.seacoastsciencecenter.org/events-overview/bioblitz
Like Lindsay Clancy, I begged for help. Doctors didn't listen.
Like Lindsay Clancy, I knew something was wrong, but my words weren't enough to receive the health care I so desperately needed.
Fast and Furious Star Formation in Starburst Galaxies
While our Sun was born almost five billion years ago, there are brand new stars forming today. Within our Milky Way galaxy, the vibrant glowing regions such as the Orion, Eagle, and Carina Nebulas are places where stars are currently being born. In some galaxies, such as many ell...
Porsche Unveils 911 Challenge as New Entry-Level Race Car
Race car largely based around road-going Porsche 911 GT3 to debut in single-make Challenge, Trophy series next year...
NASA’s Pandora Mission Begins Study of Exoplanets, Host Stars
Pandora, NASA’s newest exoplanet mission and the first satellite to launch through the agency's Astrophysics Pioneers program, is now making unique
9th GTA 6 leak teases Lucia gameplay after prior Cyberleek videos focus on Jason
The ninth Cyberleek video shows Jason stealing a truck from an NPC at a gas station. An explosion follows, along with a cutscene teasing gameplay with his partner. If Rockstar is unable to stop the clips, the next GTA 6 leak could include Jason and Lucia completing a mission.
When scientists announced Webb’s first definitive detection of Neptune’s auroras in March 2025, they revealed another surprise: observations taken in 2023 showed that the planet’s upper atmosphere had cooled by several hundred degrees since Voyager 2 visited in 1989—and scientists still don’t know exactly why.
Webb's 2023 H3+ spectrum measured Neptune's upper atmosphere at 358 plus or minus 8 kelvin, far below Voyager 2's 1989 estimate, but two snapshots cannot yet explain what drove the change.
Hayden Panettiere's ex Wladimir Klitschko marks her birthday with emotional tribute
Wladimir Klitschko is remembering Hayden Panettiere on what would have been her 37th birthday.The former heavyweight boxing champion shared an emotional tribute to his former fiancée on Aug. 21, five
How Taylor Kitsch returns in 'Terminal List' Season 2 first trailer
"The Terminal List" Season 2 is dropping its first teaser trailer, with Chris Pratt returning as former Navy SEAL commander James Reece – and revealing a big surprise.
ESPN founder Bill Rasmussen dies at 93
William F. Rasmussen, the sports fan-turned broadcaster and entrepreneur whose out-of-the-box idea of a 24-hour cable sports network, ESPN, changed forever
Hubble Solves Merger Mystery From Milky Way’s Early Years
New Hubble data shows definitive evidence of a dwarf galaxy merging with the young Milky Way in the earliest phases of its evolution.
MLK Observance Day Association holds annual Business and Community Unity Luncheon
The annual MLK Business and Community Unity Luncheon was held in Savannah Saturday.
LARC uplifts communities through education on heat safety
Sources: California Environmental Protection Agency CalHeatScore data and Los Angeles County ZIP Codes. Graphic reporting by Charlie Hamilton, Science and Health editor. Interactive by Bianca Peralta, Data editor.
BREAKING: Netflix to shut down two more game studios
Netflix is sticking with video games but once again reducing the number of studios it owns making games. The streaming giant is closing Los Angeles-based Night School studio, which it acquired in 2021 and plans to close Helsinki-based Moonloot, which was founded in 2022. Just six weeks ago, Night School had released Unhinged, a novel 30-minute first-person horror game, streamable on TVs to Netflix users. The game was hailed by Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters in a call with investors. Six weeks later, Night School is closing. Prior to its Netflix tenure, Night School had developed the award-winning supernatural thriller Oxenfree. A second Oxenfree game followed after the purchase, as well as a mobile game designed to tie in to an episode of the Netflix show Black Mirror. Netflix attributed the studio closures to a prioritization around kids gaming, party games, story-driven fare and games with mainstream hooks, such as a recently released FIFA game. “We see an opportunity to be more focused in our execution, so we are making organizational changes to the business to match those priorities,” a Netflix spokesperson told Game File. Netflix is also cutting jobs from its internal games team. A rep declined to say how many jobs were being lost by these cutbacks. “We are incredibly grateful to the talented colleagues we’re saying goodbye to today. We thank them for all their contributions to Netflix, and wish them the best,” the rep said. Netflix started releasing video games, initially on mobile as a free bonus to subscribers, in 2021. By 2023, Mike Verdu, then the head of Netflix’s game operations, was telling me that the company was committed to growing carefully, as it offered more games and built up internal game studios. At the time, it hadn’t made any gaming job cuts. Since then, Netflix has altered its approach. In 2024, it shut down Team Blue, a start-up studio led by ex-Call of Duty and Halo developers that was exploring making a high-end first-person game for the service. Last October, Netflix shut down another studio, Boss Fight, shortly after Peters praised the team’s Squid Game game to investors. (One of Boss Fight’s main developers now works on the Netflix FIFA game for outside studio Delphi.) And in December, Netflix sold cozy game studio Spry Fox back to its founders. Amid all of this, Netflix has shifted from emphasizing mobile games to offering games through TVs and PCs, via streamed connections, with phones used as controllers. That’s how Night School’s Unhinged worked, along with games such as Boggle and Party Crashers that have collectively helped the Netflix game controller app chart well on mobile app stores. The studio cuts leave Netflix with a central gaming team that works with external developers, and a dedicated first party studio in, Helsinki-based Next Games, which produced many of the company’s couch-centric party games. The move away from having a roster of internal game studios aligns with Netflix’s own approach to shows and movies, which are largely produced externally. The company owns few TV/film production studios of its own. The gaming industry overall is seeing large holders of multiple studios cut back, with Sony, Ubisoft, Embracer, Microsoft and other giants closing or selling off studios. Cuts in California-based studios, where costs often run relatively high, have been particularly acute. Netflix has faced skepticism about its gaming plans for years. The moves today are likely to fuel them, and the company has few upcoming projects to counter the narrative. Among the few hinted, acclaimed independent studio Don’t Nod said last year it was working on a game tied to a major Netflix franchise.
NEW: Arab AI Slop and the Precarious Politics of Digital Kitsch
Dear Friends and Comrades, If you spend any time on social media, you’ve seen the uncannily rendered videos and memes known colloquially as AI slop, crudely generated videos playing on stereotypes meant to generate viral outrage. In our upcoming summer issue of Middle East Report, Nermin Elsherif looks at
Real Estate Fund Set to Lose Boston Life Science Investment
A small US commercial real estate fund run by Deutsche Finance Group, the asset manager tied to many of the soured deals at German pension fund BVK, plans to file for insolvency after its investment in a Boston life sciences complex soured.
All-Star catcher Adley Rutschman makes his debut for Red Sox
Three-time All-Star catcher Adley Rutschman went 1 for 3 and walked twice in his Red Sox debut as Boston lost its fourth straight, 5-3 to Toronto.
Arab AI Slop and the Precarious Politics of Digital Kitsch
As Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the subsequent regional war reshape the Arab internet, AI-generated slop has emerged as a new form of digital kitsch and political fantasy fueled by precarious labor.
Greektown 'open for business' after $20M streetscape project
As the historic district welcomes back visitors after a year-and-a-half-long redevelopment project, there’s a question of whether Greektown should remain pedestrian-only.
Slumping Red Sox Drop New Star's Impressive Debut
Boston lost again in Adley Rutschman's debut
WEBTOON Entertainment Announces Participation in Upcoming Investor Conferences
WEBTOON Entertainment will participate in two upcoming investor conferences in August and September 2026.Quiver AI SummaryWEBTOON Entertainment Inc. has announced its participation in two upcoming investor conferences: the Deutsche Bank 2026 Technology Conference on August 26 in Dana Point, CA, and the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference on September 10 in San Francisco, where it will present at 4:25 PM PT. The Goldman Sachs presen
WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. to Participate in Upcoming Investor Conferences
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. (Nasdaq: WBTN) (“WEBTOON Entertainment” or “the Company”), a leading global entertainment company and home to some of the world’s largest storytelling platforms, today announced it will participate in the following upcoming investor conferences: Deutsche Bank 2026 Technology ConferenceAugust 26, 2026Location: Dana Point, CA Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology ConferenceSeptember 10, 2026Presentation Time: 4:25 PM PTLoc
Lion Nebula Roars to Life With NASA’s Webb
Observing across the starry “plains” of space, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken new images of NGC 2392, nicknamed the Lion Nebula. NASA’s Hubble
Red Sox's Adley Rutschman: Traveling with team
Red Sox's Adley Rutschman: Traveling with team
Red Sox Make Adley Rutschman Announcement as Debut Nears
Boston Red Sox catcher Adley Rutschman will be making a rehab start in Worcester on Saturday as he nears his debut. The post Red Sox Make Adley Rutschman Announcement as Debut Nears appeared first on HEAVY.
Klein ISD outscores state STAAR in science exam scores
Klein ISD students in fifth and eighth grade outscored state averages in the spring 2026 State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness science exams according to new state data.
NASA’s IXPE May Have Proven 90-Year-Old Theory
Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) conducted more than 140 hours of observations of the magnetar 1E 1547-5408, between March
HotSchedules streamlines restaurant workforce management tools
Restaurants benefit from HotSchedules' AI-driven platform, simplifying labor management, reducing errors, and enhancing employee satisfaction.
BDA Names Kristin Massoth To Lead Sports & Entertainment Licensing
/PRNewswire/ -- Bensussen Deutsch & Associates, LLC (BDA), the Merchandise Agency™ trusted by iconic brands, today announced Kristin Massoth has been named its...
Exploring Ohio youth sports culture as Sandusky becomes tournament hotspot
With Sandusky, Ohio becoming a destination for youth sports tournaments, we look at the industry's benefits, costs and implications on athletic aspirations for student athletes.
Cardinals Outhit Yankees, But Yankees Outscore Cardinals Tuesday Night
The St. Louis Cardinals were hoping for an encore performance after a slugfest Monday night that they came out on top of against the New York Yankees. Tuesday night’s game was a completely different type of game as Hunter Dobbins for the Cardinals and Ryan Weathers were in a bit of a pitcher’s duel. The […]
Last chance! Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8 preorder deal could get you the foldable for as little as $699.99, but you're running out of time
The clock is ticking on this early Galaxy Z Fold 8 deal.
Ubisoft Fixes Black Flag Resynced 30fps Cutscene PC Bug, PSSR Issue on PS5 Pro
Here's what version 1.06 changes.
Orioles news: Still reeling from the Rutschman trade
Yesterday was a busy and traumatic day for the Orioles and their fans
Yankees news: Lombard Jr. called up after quiet Trade Deadline
Lombard Jr. promoted as Volpe gets demoted; Yanks kicked tires on Skubal and Rutschman; Judge still expected back, timeline unclear; Mantle’s sons throw out first pitch.
Red Sox Land Adley Rutschman in Stunning Al East Blockbuster
The Red Sox just acquired catcher Adley Rutschman from the Baltimore Orioles, per Jeff Passan. The 28-year-old switch-hitting catcher was the first overall draft pick of the 2019 draft. Multiple outlets confirmed the rare AL East Blockbuster with multiple prospects traded in return for Rutschman. The Orioles will receive C Carlos Narváez. Other names include MLB’s No. […] The post Red Sox Land Adley Rutschman in Stunning Al East Blockbuster appeared first on The Lead.
Southwest Boulevard streetscape project brings new barriers, restaurants see business rebound
A new set of concrete barriers installed as part of a road diet near Southwest Boulevard and West 25th Street is creating confusion for some drivers.
Yankees news: Adley Rutschman and Jo Adell could be targets
Trade deadline targets and needs; Schlittler building Cy case; Judge wants team to be aggressive.
Lindsay Clancy was having 'one of her best days,' ex-husband says. Then everything changed.
Patrick Clancy testified his ex-wife Lindsay was having "one of her best days." But psychosis can change suddenly.
NASA Webb Explores Family Tree of Newly Discovered Distant Objects
Since their discovery by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in 2022, little red dots (LRDs) have been the subject of great interest to astronomers.
Tentpole Xbox release Halo: Campaign Evolved performs better on the PlayStation 5, with the PS5 Pro providing the best experience
According to a new Digital Foundry article, the PS5 version of the game meets Xbox Series X quality, without cutscene stuttering.
The Science Behind the AI Panic Is Shakier Than You Think
A column by Sascha Lobo Is AI making us dumb? So asked DER SPIEGEL on its cover a while ago. After a few weeks of recovery and a therapeutic intervention with the help of my AI, I feel able to respond. That’s a bit unfair, of course; the article itself is more nuanced than the loud cover, the image of a schoolkid with dull prompt questions, or the subtitle: “AI is conquering the schools, and educators fear a disaster.” The short answer to “Is AI making us dumb?” is: no. The long answer is more interesting, and even carries a preliminary glimmer of the spectacular. Unfortunately, it requires a detour into the sphere of artificial intelligence, into the mogul-field terrain of technology assessment, the attention economy, and the destructive virus of cultural pessimism. Along with narrowing the scope to AI’s effects on education and work rather than on intelligence. Because the honest version of the question would be: Does AI help us learn and work, or not? Generative AI, which set off the still-ongoing hype with ChatGPT, has only existed in relevant distribution since late 2022, early 2023. For a technology-driven transformation of people and society, that is extremely short. For that reason alone, research is still in its infancy. And technology assessment is not a fast discipline anyway. Prominent voices from Elizabeth Eisenstein to RAND to Tom Wheeler say we still cannot conclusively judge the consequences of the printing press. Its invention is a mere 580 years back, and some scholars would rather not circulate assessments that might have to be retracted in two or three hundred years. We’re Going Through Growing Pains A phenomenon that already caused upheaval in social media research makes serious assessment of AI’s consequences even harder: the “moving target” problem of LLM-ology, as the linguist Sean Trott called it in 2025. AI develops so quickly and so unpredictably that researchers often end up studying snapshots of the past. There are concepts, from morphological analysis to anticipatory governance, for keeping research, planning, and regulation halfway meaningful anyway. But even with those, universally valid statements are rare. DER SPIEGEL - The German View is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe We should therefore treat findings about the interplay between humans and AI as far more procedural and situational. Unfortunately, this challenge comes at the worst possible time. We are going through growing pains: AI’s everyday impact has grown very large very fast, and with it the longing for guidance. Annoyingly, the body of solid knowledge has not exploded along with it. Experts cannot be moved to broad consensus on even banal statements about AI. Sascha Lobo, born in 1975, is an author and strategy consultant focusing on the internet and digital technologies. Together with Jule Lobo, he explores the debates of the day in the podcast “Feel the News – Was Deutschland bewegt” (”What Moves Germany”). Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says software developers are dying out. Bill Gates considers coders one of only three professions that will survive the AI tsunami. Top tech economists find virtually irrefutable arguments both for and against an AI bubble. The same naturally applies to the structurally youth-hostile debate over whether AI is good or bad for young people. The gap between the demand for insight and the supply of solid knowledge creates an orientation vacuum. This vacuum of AI cluelessness is filled, as the attention economy described by Georg Franck in 1998 would have it, with half-knowledge (funnily enough, often AI-generated), marketing, and self-marketing. After all, infinite money is at stake, along with academia’s best current shot at global fame. But this iridescent froth of interpretation operates more by the algorithmic principles of the digital public sphere than by seriously earned insight. That is why dramatized, fear-feeding claims about AI are so promising. It tempts parts of academia into distorted drivel, and parts of the media then sensationalize the published drivel once more. Was the Research Aimed at a Desired Result? How badly this can influence academia and public perception is demonstrated by one of the most-discussed studies on AI’s effects: “Your Brain on ChatGPT.” The MIT study by Nataliya Kosmyna also gets plenty of space in the SPIEGEL cover story. What was measured and interpreted: lower brain activity in people who write with AI assistance, compared to people who only google or write without any tools. As is common with preprints, the study has not yet been peer-reviewed, and it contains substantial weaknesses that experts have sharply criticized. The first round had 54 participants in three groups, the second only 18, who reportedly also came from MIT’s own orbit. There was no preregistration (committing in advance to what you want to find out with which data). In their analysis, Stanković et al. even discovered an opposite effect that the study does not further explain. Some measurement data has not (yet) been published. And the EEG analysis method used is considered too imprecise to support such far-reaching conclusions. The biggest criticism, though, is the suspicion of an activism-driven study. In an interview with Time, lead author Kosmyna said she published the study immediately, rather than after full peer review, because she feared politicians might otherwise decide to put ChatGPT in kindergartens. She considers that absolutely harmful. It is legitimate to hold such a view. It just seems unscientific to approach a study with it, and then to design the setup so that the chance of a fitting desired result remains as high as possible. Ideologies Collide It is not easy to separate genuine AI insights from studies that trivialize and weaken well-founded AI criticism. The same goes for the opposing, AI-enthusiastic narratives, because the pro-AI side works against it with billions in resources. Ideologies collide, fed by egos, PR strategies, moral posturing, and once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Doomsday marketing makes the search even harder: AI companies can profit from warnings about the dangers of AI, whether through the notoriety of apocalypse narratives or because, in some target groups, danger translates into power. Some seemingly negative findings are therefore quite welcome in the AI industry. If you try to get at the findings presumably less influenced by interest groups, the picture in education seems relatively clear: AI can improve educational outcomes when the right AI is used the right way, namely pedagogically. Simply dumping an AI chatbot into a classroom, by contrast, accomplishes little. Huge surprise. But something else is also obvious: whether they are allowed to or not, kids use AI for school, which is why the controlled integration of AI tools into education is, in the medium term, entirely without alternative. In the world of work, the landscape of findings is more complex and requires more differentiation. A series of serious studies points to an AI effect that suits neither the alarmists, regulation fetishists, and AI opponents, nor the trillion-dollar corporations with their armada of paid scientists, PR professionals, and ecosystems: working with AI helps the inexperienced (at least for now) considerably more than it helps the pros, in certain fields of work, and provided they know how to use it correctly. Missing Domain Knowledge Among the experienced, the professionals, and the high flyers, by contrast, despite frequent time savings, partially negative effects and new problems are emerging. Take the jagged frontier problem: AI solves task A brilliantly and fails completely at task B, even though both look similar even to professionals. Or the verification-cost problem, in which AI’s greater productivity gets eaten up by the enormous effort of checking its output. Or the illusion of competence, because AI makes new domains seem easily penetrable, until you painfully discover that deep domain knowledge is missing. Taken as a whole, the effects of working with AI do lean positive. But the promise that AI works as a turbocharger for everyone and boosts practically everything simply refuses to materialize. The AI magic the world has been feeling since ChatGPT arrived in late 2022 has so far barely shown up in most companies’ numbers. The consulting firm McKinsey has coined a term for this, the “gen AI paradox,” and believes that work processes and corporate structures would have to be rebuilt quite fundamentally to realize AI’s benefits at scale. Reuters just reported that only 3.3 percent of Microsoft’s customers have subscribed to the AI package Copilot. That may be down to the product; in other areas we continue to see soaring successes and new AI triumphs. But after the first quarter of 2026, disillusionment is the word for all too many AI projects at traditional companies: because the promised revolution of AI agents has so far failed to arrive or been postponed, and because of the leveling effect that many of the studies cited here suggest. Against Inequality The societal effects, on the other hand, appear rather encouraging. Many previous technologies operated on the Matthew principle, named for the Gospel verse about giving to those who already have: they tended to reward the more competent and more privileged. AI, however, seems more often to have an equalizing effect once a threshold of access and education is crossed. Some anecdotal insights point in this direction, for example, how an unemployed man in Leipzig successfully defended himself in court in 2025 against fraud accusations from Germany’s federal employment agency — without a lawyer, armed only with ChatGPT. The AI made mistakes and cited invented court rulings, but in the end the man walked away unpunished. And a key capability of artificial intelligence is its capacity to learn: set up correctly and fed with data, it can keep getting better. It is a question of time, or more precisely of AI innovations and training data, until even free AI chatbots write better legal briefs than law graduates with perfect exam scores. Whether that will make anyone dumb is something the world’s press will surely inform us of in due time. Subscribe Leave a comment
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