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A game between the Atlanta Braves and the Cincinnati Reds at Tennessee’s Bristol Motor Speedway sold more than 85,000 tickets to break MLB’s regular-season record, but was suspended in the first inning due to rain Continue reading…

Anthropic has revoked OpenAI’s access to its Claude family of AI models, according to a report in Wired. Sources told Wired that OpenAI was connecting Claude to internal tools that allowed the company to compare Claude’s performance to its own models in categories like coding, writing, and safety. In a statement provided to TechCrunch, Anthropic spokesperson said, “OpenAI’s own technical staff were also using our coding tools ahead of the launch of GPT-5,” which is apparently “a direct violation of our terms of service.” (Anthropic’s commercial terms forbid companies from using Claude to build competing services.) However, the company also…

377 The National Housing Enterprise (NHE) in Namibia has announced the release of 2,500 serviced plots across the country to support the National Informal Settlement Upgrading Project (ISUP), a government-backed initiative aimed at providing affordable and decent homes for low-income earners living in informal settlements. According to the Chief Executive Officer of NHE, Mr. Gisbertus Mukulu, the plots are in different phases of development and form part of the broader plan to deliver 2,000 new housing units by April 2026. Speaking to journalists in Windhoek, Mr. Mukulu explained that the plots were secured through ongoing partnerships with various local authorities,…

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Without evidence, Trump and his allies accuse former US special prosecutor of illegal political activity.Officials in the United States have launched an investigation into Jack Smith, the former special prosecutor who led two cases against Donald Trump, US media outlets are reporting.The Associated Press, NBC News and other US news outlets confirmed on Saturday that the Office of Special Counsel, an independent federal agency, has opened an investigation into Smith on allegations of illegal political activity.Without offering any evidence of wrongdoing, Trump and his Republican allies, including Senator Tom Cotton, have accused Smith of violating the Hatch Act, a federal law…

Blazes across several Canadian provinces and territories pose health risks to Canadians and their southern neighbours.Smoke from wildfires burning in Canada has triggered air quality alerts over the border in the United States.Several blazes continued to rage across Canada on Saturday, sending smoke wafting over several states in the US Midwest and bringing warnings of unhealthy air for at least the third day.Air quality alerts were in effect in the US states of Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, as well as eastern Nebraska and parts of Indiana and Illinois.Conditions were especially dire in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with the Switzerland-based air quality…

Asari Ndem (Lead writer) There is the quiet fear creeping into many Nigerian households, after the United States government passed a sweeping new economic reform bill that includes a 1% tax on all remittances sent abroad. While this may sound like a marginal policy change in America, its implications for health in low- and middle-income countries like Nigeria are profound. For years, remittances, the money Nigerians abroad send home, have functioned as an informal but critical health safety net for many. They help families pay for everything from routine health check-ups to life-saving surgeries, as well as basic needs like…

The future of the renewable energy sector is female and Electricity and Energy Deputy Minister, Samantha Graham-Maré, is doubling down to make it happen. In an exclusive interview with SAnews on the sidelines of the Empowering Women in Energy breakfast, Graham-Maré revealed plans to review the department’s gender strategy to make it better equipped to shatter barriers and catapult women into leadership roles across electricity, renewables and previously uncharted fields like green hydrogen. The event was held as part of the third G20 Energy Transitions Working Group (ETWG) in the North West. “[The review is] giving us an opportunity to…

“This could be the holy grail:” Watch the Rhisotope team prepare to inject a rhino’s horn with radioactive materialSouth African scientists have launched an anti-poaching campaign in which rhinos’ horns will be injected with a radioactive material.The group, from the University of the Witwatersrand, said the process is harmless to rhinos but will allow customs officers to detect smuggled horns as they’re transported across the world.South Africa has the largest rhino population in the world, and hundreds of the animals are poached there every year.The university’s venture, called the Rhisotope Project, cost around £220,000 ($290,000) and involved six years of…

Adam Lambert is championing Cynthia Erivo in Jesus Christ Superstar, despite backlash surrounding her casting as the titular role. In Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical, the Tony Award winner portrayed Jesus alongside the American Idol alum as Judas at the Hollywood Bowl for the first three nights of August.  When news of Erivo’s casting was announced, it was criticized because she is a Black queer woman. However, Lambert doesn’t share the same concerns, and admitted in an interview with Billboard that he was “excited by the challenge” of the Oscar nominee leading Jesus Christ Superstar.   “Cynthia’s brilliant. Her…