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Associated Press
06-05-2025
- General
- Associated Press
Caitlin Clark's return to Iowa for Fever preseason game draws average ESPN viewership of 1.3 million
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Associated Press
06-05-2025
- General
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Florida raises basketball coach Todd Golden's salary to $6M annually after national title
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Time of India
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
'The Diplomat' season 3 set for 2025 release with new cast and longer episodes
twitter OTT has officially announced that filming for Season 3 of 'The Diplomat' has been completed, and the new season is expected to premiere sometime in 2025. According to OTT 2025 lineup announcement, the political drama series will return with eight episodes, bringing back the same number of episodes as Season 1 after a shorter six-episode Season 2. Filming for Season 3 began during the summer of 2024 and later moved to New York City. The production quietly wrapped up ahead of schedule in March 2025, even though filming was initially planned to go until March 20. Crew members reportedly confirmed the early wrap on social media, but an official statement was made on January 30, 2025, "Next on Netflix" presentation, where fans also got a sneak peek at the upcoming season. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Launching 2 & 3 BHK homes at Meluha in Goregaon at 1.68Cr CR REALITY Learn More Undo OTT had already quietly renewed the series for Season 3 before making it official, showing that the platform had confidence in the show's continuation. However, there is still no confirmation about a fourth season, especially since Season 2 didn't receive the same level of response as the first season. Season 3 will feature some new cast members, including Bradley Whitford, who is known for his role in The West Wing. He will reunite with Allison Janney, another veteran from the same series. In addition to them, Nathan Wiley and Mercer Boffey are expected to appear, likely taking on the roles of Agent Crocker and the Deputy Chief of Staff, respectively. Behind the scenes, the writing team includes several familiar names from previous seasons. Debora Cahn, the series creator, has written the first and final episodes (301 and 308). Other writers contributing include Anna Hagen, Eli Attie, Jessica Brickman, Peter Noah, Peter Ackerman, and Julianna Dudley Meagher. Alex Graves will return as a director for the new season. While fans are happy to know that Season 3 is coming soon, they are still waiting to hear whether Netflix will give the green light for more seasons in the future. For now, excitement is building for the release of eight new episodes filled with drama, politics, and diplomacy when 'The Diplomat' returns in 2025.
The Guardian
11-04-2025
- Business
- The Guardian
OpenAI countersues Elon Musk over ‘unlawful harassment' of company
The ChatGPT developer OpenAI has countersued Elon Musk, accusing the billionaire of harassment and asking a US federal judge to stop him from 'any further unlawful and unfair action' against the company. OpenAI was co-founded by Musk and its chief executive, Sam Altman, in 2015. However, the two men have been at loggerheads for years over its direction as it transitions from a complex non-profit structure into a more traditional for-profit business. Musk sued OpenAI over its restructuring plans about a year ago, accusing it of betraying its foundational mission by putting the pursuit of profit ahead of the benefit of humanity. He dropped the suit in June, but then filed a fresh one in August. In February this year he led a consortium of investors in a surprise $97.4bn bid for the company. Altman quickly rejected the bid, writing on X: 'no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.' Musk bought Twitter, since rebranded as X, in 2022 for $44bn. In documents filed at a district court in California this week, OpenAI said: 'Through press attacks, malicious campaigns broadcast to Musk's more than 200 million followers on the social media platform he controls, a pretextual demand for corporate records, harassing legal claims, and a sham bid for OpenAI's assets, Musk has tried every tool available to harm OpenAI.' The company asked the judge to stop Musk from any further attacks, as well as 'be held responsible for the damage he has already caused'. A jury trial is expected to begin in spring 2026. Musk left OpenAI in 2018 and the world's richest man started his own company called xAI. The bid for OpenAI this year was backed by xAI and several investment firms, including one run by Jon Lonsdale, who co-founded the spy technology company Palantir. The Tesla boss has openly accused OpenAI of abandoning its original charitable mission by establishing a for-profit subsidiary to raise money from investors, such as Microsoft. OpenAI, which was founded as a non-profit with the aim of safely building futuristic AI that helped humanity, has argued the new model is necessary to develop the best AI models. Last month OpenAI raised $40bn in a funding round from SoftBank and other investors which valued the company at $300bn. The company has said it plans to use the money to 'push the frontiers of AI research even further' and develop its computer infrastructure to deliver more powerful tools for the estimated 500 million people who use ChatGPT every week. Sign up to Business Today Get set for the working day – we'll point you to all the business news and analysis you need every morning after newsletter promotion OpenAI has had several corporate dramas since ChatGPT went viral in 2022. In 2023 the board sacked Altman over an alleged failure to be 'candid in his communications'. He was reinstated less than a week later after many at the company threatened to resign unless he returned to his role.
CNN
18-02-2025
- Business
- CNN
OpenAI board rejects Elon Musk-led $97 billion purchase offer
OpenAI's board of directors has formally rejected a $97.4 billion bid by Elon Musk and other investors to purchase the company. 'OpenAI is not for sale, and the board has unanimously rejected Mr. Musk's latest attempt to disrupt his competition,' OpenAI Board Chair Bret Taylor said in a statement posted to X on Friday. The statement marks the latest twist in a long-running feud between OpenAI and Musk over the ChatGPT maker's planned restructuring. OpenAI was founded — by a group that included Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — as a non-profit research lab with a for-profit entity, but it is aiming to restructure in a way that could make fundraising easier and increase returns for investors and employees. Musk has criticized that plan as an abdication of OpenAI's non-profit mission, and on Monday, a Musk-led group of investors offered to buy the company to return it to an 'open-source, safety-focused force.' The bid could have led to a monumental shake-up in the AI industry and made Musk, owner of OpenAI competitor xAI, an even more powerful force in tech. But OpenAI quickly rebuffed the offer, with Altman posting to X on Monday: 'no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.' Taylor, who also happened to lead the board of X (then Twitter) when Musk began his takeover bid for that company, said in his Friday statement on behalf of OpenAI's board: 'Any potential reorganization of OpenAI will strengthen our nonprofit and its mission to ensure (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity.' Marc Toberoff, an attorney for the Musk-led investor group, said in a statement that the rejection was 'no surprise' given Altman's earlier statement, and disputed Altman's claim that OpenAI is not for sale. However, he added the group was surprised to see the action coming from the board, 'which has strict fiduciary duties to carefully consider the bid in good faith on behalf of the charity.' 'They're just selling it to themselves at a fraction of what Musk has offered,' Toberoff said. 'Will someone please explain how that benefits 'all of humanity?'' It's not the first time Musk has tried to put up hurdles to OpenAI's restructuring plan. Musk sued OpenAI in June 2024 but dropped that initial lawsuit after the company published a blog post that included several of Musk's emails from OpenAI's early days. The emails appeared to show Musk acknowledging the need for the company to make large sums of money to fund the computing resources needed to power its AI ambitions, which stood in contrast to the claims in his lawsuit that OpenAI was wrongly pursuing profit. Musk filed a new lawsuit in August 2024 and accused OpenAI of racing to develop powerful 'artificial general intelligence' technology to 'maximize profits.' Musk also accused the company of engaging in racketeering. OpenAI, meanwhile, has accused Musk of essentially being jealous that he was no longer involved in the startup, after he left OpenAI in 2018 following an unsuccessful bid to convince his fellow co-founders to let Tesla acquire it. In an interview with Bloomberg TV at the AI Summit in Paris on Tuesday, Altman said of Musk: 'I wish he would just compete by building a better product.' CNN's David Goldman contributed to this report.
