VOD service screen. Man watching TV with remote control in hand. getty Disney and Hearst, the 50/50 owners of A+E Global Media, announced yesterday that after sharing control of the company and its networks for most of the last 40 years, they are putting it up for sale. Pardon me if this is beginning to…
Oklahoma City Thunder star and 2025 NBA champion Chet Holmgren has agreed to a fully guaranteed five-year maximum rookie contract extension that could reach $250 million, agent Bill Duffy of WME Basketball told ESPN on Wednesday morning. After missing three months during the season because of a hip injury, Holmgren returned in February and came…
Humans are wired to treat machines as social beings Abdillah Studio/Unsplash Think of what it feels like to be in love. What comes to your mind? The giddy excitement of first falling for someone or the everyday calm reassurance of someone at your side? For a handful of people, love is opening up their laptop…
Ben BabyJul 9, 2025, 06:00 AM ET Close Ben Baby covers the Cincinnati Bengals for ESPN. He joined the company in July 2019. Prior to ESPN, he worked for various newspapers in Texas, most recently at The Dallas Morning News where he covered college sports. He provides daily coverage of the Bengals for ESPN.com, while…
Recently, a new sentiment has emerged in AI security circles: “RAG is dead.” I’ve observed firsthand how organizations are increasingly abandoning Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures in favor of agent-based approaches. This shift represents not a temporary trend but a fundamental recognition of RAG’s inherent security and performance limitations. Sourabh Satish Social Links Navigation Co-Founder and…
Finding motivation to exercise can be the greatest challenge in working out. This might be part of the reason why less than a quarter of people achieve the activity goals recommended by the World Health Organization. But what if working out could be more enjoyable? One way of achieving this could be opting for types…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. British people “desperately” trying to get away from their gloomy day-to-day lives helped propel Jet2 to record passenger numbers and profits, the airline’s bosses have said. Steve Heapy, chief executive of Jet2, told the Financial…
Stephen HolderJul 9, 2025, 06:10 AM ET Close Stephen joined ESPN in 2022, covering the Indianapolis Colts and NFL at large. Stephen finished first place in column writing in the 2015 Indiana Associated Press Media Editors competition, and he is a previous top-10 winner in explanatory journalism in the Associated Press Sports Editors national contest….
Nvidia has become the first company in the world to reach a market value of $4tn. Shares in the chip-maker rose by as much as 2.4% to $164 on Wednesday, as the company continues to benefit from the ongoing surge in demand for the tech that powers artificial intelligence (AI). The US-based company reached a…
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK tax myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Sir Keir Starmer has refused to rule out prolonging a freeze on income tax thresholds for the rest of this parliament, as the UK Labour government battles to fill a fiscal hole some economists say…
