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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 22, 2020.Fabrice COFFRINI | AFP | Getty ImagesGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai told employees last week that “the stakes are high” for 2025, as the company faces increased competition and regulatory hurdles and contends with rapid advancements in artificial intelligence.At a 2025 strategy meeting on Dec. 18, Pichai and other Google leaders, dawning ugly holiday sweaters, hyped up the coming year, most notably as it pertains to what’s coming in AI, according to audio obtained by CNBC.”I think 2025 will be…

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CBS This Morning, a CBS News television program. Pictured is Greg Gumbel on set. Image dated January 1, 1990. CBS Photo Archive | Getty ImagesGreg Gumbel, a longtime CBS Sports broadcaster, has died of cancer, his family said Friday. He was 78.Gumbel, a play-by-play announcer and studio host who previously worked for NBC Sports, “passed away peacefully surrounded by much love after a courageous battle with cancer,” his family said in a statement released by CBS Sports.The statement was signed by his wife, Michelle, and daughter, Marcy.”Greg approached his illness like one would expect he would, with stoicism, grace and positivity,”…

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Throughout 2024, CNBC’s Jim Cramer discussed the seemingly boundless rise of artificial intelligence with dozens of CEOs across the tech world. Here is how five top enterprise leaders characterized AI’s meteoric rise this year.Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the “AI computing ramp” is only beginning and will last years.Huang in March painted a picture of the AI landscape, saying investments in the new technology remain in the early innings. He predicted years of growth ahead and suggested that AI can drive innovation in a variety of fields, including science and healthcare. Nvidia is a titan of the AI revolution, as…

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If you want some long-term relationship advice, I offer you this: Find someone who loves you as much as news outlets love end-of-the-year content.The New Yorker did a piece 11 years ago on why our brains love lists, and it holds up today. Among other reasons: It spatially organizes information and promises a story that’s finite.The NFL story will, of course, continue in 2025 and beyond, but in the space below, we offer eight NFL media stories that captured our interest in 2024.1. Tom Brady begins his NFL broadcasting journeyFox has the broadcast rights to the Super Bowl this year,…

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump attends Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., December 22, 2024. Cheney Orr | ReutersPresident-elect Donald Trump on Friday asked the Supreme Court to pause implementation of a law that would ban TikTok in the U.S. on Jan. 19 if the app is not sold by its Chinese parent company.The court is due to hear arguments in the case on Jan. 10.”President Trump takes no position on the underlying merits of this dispute,” wrote D. John Sauer, Trump’s lawyer who is also the president-elect’s pick for U.S. solicitor general. “Instead, he respectfully requests that the Court consider staying the Act’s…

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CHICAGO — With two minutes and 14 seconds remaining in a horrendous game against the Seattle Seahawks, the fans seated in the United Club of Soldier Field started to chant.“Sell the team!”“Sell the team!”“Sell the team!”The Chicago Bears decided to punt after fourth-and-inches from their own 39 turned into fourth-and-5 following offensive lineman fill-in Jake Curhan’s false start.“Sell the team!”“Sell the team!”But wait … the Bears called a timeout. They changed their mind. They wanted to go for it.After all, what did the Bears have to lose but another game in another lost season for the NFL’s charter franchise?GO DEEPERGreenberg:…

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Vials containing the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are displayed before being used at a mobile vaccine clinic, in Valparaiso, Chile, January 3, 2022.Rodrigo Garrido | ReutersBioNTech has entered into two separate settlement agreements with the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the University of Pennsylvania over the payment of royalties related to its COVID-19 vaccine, the company said in filings.The German company, which partners with U.S. drugmaker Pfizer for its COVID-19 vaccine, said on Friday it would pay $791.5 million to the U.S. agency to resolve a default notice.Separately, the company will pay $467 million to the…

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