0501 Today in History
0501 Today in History
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Yahoo SportsBest and worst NFL offseasons with the Ringer's Steven Ruiz | The Exempt List
Charles McDonald is joined by Steven Ruiz of The Ringer to break down which teams had the best and worst offseasons in the NFL
- Yahoo Finance
Stock market today: Nasdaq, S&P pop to records as Wall Street waits for Nvidia earnings
Investors biding their time for Nvidia results looked to retail earnings and Fedspeak for clues to the economy.
- Engadget
The Sonos Roam 2 fixes the original speaker’s confusing button setup
Sonos refreshed its cheapest portable speaker, the Roam. The Roam 2 has the same audio as its 2021 predecessor but adds more streamlined controls and a quicker setup.
- TechCrunch
Alchemist's latest batch puts AI to work as accelerator expands to Tokyo, Doha
Alchemist Accelerator has a new pile of AI-forward companies demoing their wares today, if you care to watch, and the program itself is making some international moves into Tokyo and Doha. Chatting with Alchemist CEO and founder Ravi Belani ahead of demo day (today at 10:30 a.m. Pacific) about this cohort, it was clear that ambitions for AI startups have contracted, and that's not a bad thing. No early-stage startup today is at all likely to become the next OpenAI or Anthropic — their lead is too huge right now in the domain of foundational large language models.
- Autoblog
REI Anniversary Sale 2024 is on now: Explore these deals through May 27, while supplies last
Gear up for adventure this summer with REI's much-anticipated Anniversary Sale, happening now
- TechCrunch
Stack AI wants to make it easier to build AI-fueled workflows
Stack AI’s co-founders, Antoni Rosinol and Bernardo Aceituno, were PhD students at MIT wrapping up their degrees in 2022 just as large language models were becoming more mainstream. After graduating, they moved to San Francisco and joined the Winter 23 cohort at Y Combinator, where they launched Stack and refined their idea. Today, the company has built a low-code workflow automation tool designed to help companies build AI-driven workflows including chatbots and AI assistants, for example.
- Yahoo Personal Finance
Savings interest rates today, May 21, 2024 (top rate at 5.15%)
Savings interest rates available today are well above historical norms. Find out where to get the best cd rates.
- Engadget
Sonos Ace headphones hands-on: Joining your home theater setup with the push of a button
Sonos' first headphones are finally here, offering premium design, solid features and home theater chops.
- Yahoo Personal Finance
CD rates today, May 21, 2024 (top rate at 5.15% APY)
CD rates available today are well above historical norms. Find out where to get the best cd rates.
- TechCrunch
Data-labeling startup Scale AI raises $1B as valuation doubles to $13.8B
Scale AI, which provides data-labeling services to companies that want to train machine learning models, has raised a $1 billion Series F round from a slew of big-name institutional and corporate investors that include Amazon and Meta. The fundraise is a mix of primary and secondary funding, and is the latest in a slew of big venture capital investments in AI. Amazon recently closed a $4 billion investment in OpenAI rival Anthropic, and the likes of Mistral AI and Perplexity are also in the process of raising more billion-dollar rounds at lofty valuations.
- Yahoo Finance
Interest rate cuts have a complicated history with the stock market: Morning Brief
Lower interest rates, in theory, are good for stocks. But history says rate cuts from the Fed this year might not warrant an enthusiastic response.
- Engadget
Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs will be available this fall
A gaggle of PC makers rolled out their first Copilot+ PCs on Monday, but they all run on Qualcomm silicon. Intel said today its first chips to support Copilot+ AI features, will arrive in the fall.
- Engadget
Microsoft's redesigned Surface Laptop is a Copilot+ PC with over 22 hours of battery life
The new Surface Laptop 6 is a redesigned PC with thinner bezels, a haptic trackpad, better port selection and plenty of AI.
- Yahoo Sports
Cubs' Shota Imanaga shrinks ERA to 0.84, the lowest mark through first 9 career starts in MLB history
Shota Imanaga already looks like an ace and the bargain of the offseason.
- Autoblog
Junkyard Gem: 1994 Volvo 850 Turbo Wagon
A 1994 Volvo 850 Turbo station wagon, found in a Colorado Springs junkyard.
- Yahoo Sports
LPGA monitoring after 10 golfers, including Rose Zhang, withdraw from Mizuho Americas Open
Rose Zhang was one of seven golfers who withdrew from the tournament due to an illness.
- Yahoo Sports
Caitlin Clark's next WNBA game: How to watch the Indiana Fever vs. New York Liberty today
Are you ready to watch Caitlin Clark's next WNBA game? The Fever face the Liberty again this afternoon.
- Yahoo Personal Finance
Mortgage rates today, May 18, 2024: Rates are still over 7%
These are today's mortgage rates. Mortgage rates have started trending downward, and they should keep decreasing this year. Lock in your rate today.
- Yahoo News
Courtroom sketch artists capture history at Trump's hush money trial. Here are some of the best.
Since it’s not being televised, — the only images of testimony from inside the courtroom are portraits being done by sketch artists like Jane Rosenberg, whose sketches depict Trump and other key figures in various states and moods.
- Yahoo Personal Finance
CD rates today, May 17, 2024 (up to 5.15% return)
CD rates are the highest they’ve been in over a decade. Here’s where you can find the best CD rates today.