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Patrick Mahomes is leading the Kansas City Chiefs into their third Super Bowl appearance in the last four seasons with a shot at a second ring firmly in reach – all coming before his 28th birthday.Mahomes is on par with Pro Football Hall of Famer Len Dawson through the first six seasons of his career. The Texas native has a ring, three conference championships, five Pro Bowl selections and two All-Pro nods. Dawson had a ring, three AFL championships, seven Pro Bowl selections and two All-Pro nods from 1957 to 1975.Former Chiefs star running back Jamaal Charles believes what Mahomes…

Microsoft may have ushered in a paradigm shift Tuesday with the release of new versions of its search engine, Bing, and web browser, Edge — both now powered by artificial intelligence. The new offerings, available in preview at Bing.com, combine browsing and chat into a unified experience that improves both tasks. When searching, for example, more relevant results are displayed, and for information like sports scores, stock prices, and weather forecasts, results may appear without leaving a search page. For more complex queries — such as “what can I substitute for eggs when baking a cake” — Bing can synthesize…

A heatwave is threatening further wildfires in Chile’s south-central region, authorities have warned, as more than two dozen people have been killed due to the devastating blazes. High temperatures are expected until Friday and could rise above 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) in the central Maule and Nuble regions, “creating a very complex situation in terms of weather”, the deputy interior minister, Manuel Monsalve, said on Tuesday. “A very complex climate situation can arise,” said Monsalve, urging teams to be “prepared for any eventuality”. Fires have ravaged more than 290,000 hectares (716,606 acres) across the South American nation so…

Move over ChatGPT – “Bard” is entering the chat. Google announced this week it was launching Bard, its own generative AI chatbot that would rival Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s extremely popular service.Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and parent company Alphabet, said in a Feb. 6 blog post that Bard would be available to the general public in the “coming weeks.”Google is joining other tech companies entering the generative AI realm given the rapid popularity of ChatGPT, which shows we’re entering a new era of technological development, said Mark Daley, chief digital information officer at Western University.“We’re entering a phase where there’s enormous…

Seth Klarman has told investors in his hedge fund that the Federal Reserve’s response to the 2008 financial crisis and the ensuing decade-plus of low interest rates had helped “erect a financial fantasyland”. “A consequence-free era of virtually unlimited low-cost capital had come to an end,” Klarman, the head of Baupost Group and a prominent figure in investing, declared in a year-end letter to clients seen by the Financial Times. “A boom based on easy-money policies will inevitably contain the seeds of its own destruction.”The downbeat outlook cuts against a rally that has sent major global stock benchmarks soaring this…

Meta Masters Guild is making headlines around the world. The ongoing presale hit a staggering $3.57m in a fund raising round sending shockwaves through GameFi.With strong traction in Web3 markets the presale has almost stage 6. The penultimate presale round sees network native MEMAG token flying off the shelves at $0.021 per MEMAG.The price is set to rise to $0.023 by the final stage 7. This marks a 228.6% increase from the initial presale stage.The huge funding round has been allocated a total of 350 million MEMAG – 35% of the total capped supply of 1 billion.Investors can participate in…

The FTX logo on a laptop screen.Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFTX’s top bankruptcy, legal, and financial advisors have billed the company more than $19.6 million in fees for work done in 2022, according to Tuesday bankruptcy court filings. More than $10 million of that was for work done in Nov. 2022, as Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire entered bankruptcy protection in Delaware.The firms will initially only be paid a little over $15.5 million, or 80% of the value of their work, under a court-ordered interim compensation plan.The law firms that billed FTX are Sullivan & Cromwell, Landis Rath &…

LOS ANGELES – Smaller subscriber losses and a beat on the top and bottom lines were the highlights of Disney’s fiscal first-quarter earnings report.While the company’s linear TV and direct-to-consumer units struggled during the period, its theme parks saw significant growth year-over-year.Shares of the company were up 5% after the bell.Here are the results, compared with estimates from Refinitiv and StreetAccount:Earnings per share: 99 cents per share, adj. vs 78 cents per share expected, according to a Refinitiv survey of analystsRevenue: $23.51 billion vs $23.37 billion expected, according to RefinitivDisney+ total subscriptions: 161.8 million vs 161.1 million expected, according to StreetAccountWith CEO…

Is Bachelor Nation living in 2015 or is it just Us? Nick Viall is responding after Kaitlyn Bristowe suggested Bachelorette producers manipulated her feelings about him when he joined season 11. The 37-year-old former lead raised eyebrows late last month when she opened up about Viall, 42, on the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast. “They really sexualized Nick to me. … One producer actually said to me, after I would kiss him, she’d come in and, like, wipe my lips and, like, lick her lips and be like, ‘Oh, I just want to know what that tastes like —…

The European Commission wants to help EU countries in the fight against drug trafficking by increasing cooperation between domestic police forces.During a trip to the Port of Antwerp on Tuesday, the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, pledged to step up data-sharing and also announced new EU anti-corruption proposals, to be unveiled at the end of April.A record 110 tonnes of cocaine were seized at the port of Antwerp last year.  Alongside her Belgian counterpart, Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden, Johansson described organised crime as being as much of a threat to European society as that posed by terrorism.Verlinden added that her…