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AXIOS (Kerry Flynn) - Exclusive: Yahoo launches AI tools for NBA fans and investors

Yahoo is launching two products powered by its AI answer engine Yahoo Scout for its sports and finance verticals, CEO Jim Lanzone announced Wednesday at Axios' AI+ NY Summit. Why it matters: As more people turn to ChatGPT, Gemini and other AI assistants for information, Yahoo is betting on its trust and expertise, and building new experiences to make it more accessible. What they're saying: "Today, we're announcing two new products that are the first in what we'll call Scout as a service, which is where we're taking the Scout answer engine technology and then bringing it to every Yahoo property," Lanzone told Axios' Madison Mills onstage. - "We're not just building a technology to give great answers," he said. "Ours is very different.…

AXIOS (Josephine Walker) - Exclusive: GLAAD's CEO says AI bias puts LGBTQ+ people at risk

AI has been trained on biased data that can reinforce harmful stereotypes and spread misinformation about LGBTQ+ people, GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said Wednesday at the Axios AI+ NY summit. Why it matters: AI is increasingly embedded across platforms, and companies must ensure it is trained responsibly because the harm can extend far beyond digital communications. What they're saying: "I think you'd have to be asleep at the wheel to not see the attacks that are happening against the LGBTQ community, mostly the trans and non-binary community, but it's all happening together," Ellis told Axios' Ina Fried on Wednesday. - "What that means, though, is that as these AI models are learning, they're learning with this information…

YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - He tried to get inside Epstein's ranch–and the cops were called | Unreported

Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch, a sprawling 10,000-acre compound in the New Mexico desert, 30 miles south of Santa Fe, has never been the subject of a thorough, public federal search. So what exactly happened behind its gates, and why does it still feel like an active crime scene? In this episode of ‘Unreported’, Meagan Medick sits down with Colin Browen, host of the popular YouTube channel ‘The Paranormal Files’, who traveled to Zorro Ranch as the first wave of unsealed FBI and DOJ documents became public earlier this year. Together they examine what the newly released files reveal about alleged activity at the ranch, including a reported incinerator tip that was never investigated, survivor accounts of medical experimentation, and…

JUSTTHENEWS (Ian Maile) - Ex Alabama football coach Saban tells Congress NCAA 'needs fixing,' limit eligibility, compensation

NCAA athletes were not allowed until 2021 to make money off their athletic ability, until the governing body changed rules to allow students to profit from their NIL.

THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - Justice Department Unveils Expanded Indictment Against SPLC.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) faces updated allegations from the Department of Justice (DOJ), accusing it of misusing millions of dollars in tax-exempt funds to pay informants inside extremist groups.

PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: The Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), alleging that $4.1 million in tax-exempt funds were improperly used to pay supposed informants embedded in extremist organizations. These informants allegedly engaged in activities such as recruiting members and purchasing materials for cross burnings and Ku Klux Klan robes, raising significant legal and ethical questions. DETAIL: The indictment accuses the SPLC of defrauding donors and banks by funneling funds through shell accounts to insiders who were members of the same extremist groups the organization claimed to be fighting. While the SPLC pleaded not guilty to the original charges, this…Open