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Head coach Dusty May and players of the Michigan Wolverines celebrate after defeating the Wisconsin Badgers in the Big Ten men’s basketball tournament championship game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on March 16, 2025 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Aaron J. Thornton | Getty ImagesGlobal payment company PayPal announced on Thursday that it has inked a deal with the Big Ten and Big 12 conferences to allow student-athletes to receive compensation through the fintech company’s platform.The announcement comes just weeks after a court settlement in the House v. NCAA case, which dramatically shifts the college sports landscape by allowing schools to compensate student-athletes for…

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One thing has been true about both the Republican and Democratic parties on Capitol Hill in recent decades — even as the partisan divide has widened. No matter how much they may talk about the deficit and reining in spending, that’s never stopped either party in power from passing bills that don’t exactly add up when it comes to balancing the books of the federal government.Will this time be different?Chief financial officers are betting it won’t when it comes to President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.”A majority (86%) of CFOs at companies across the economy surveyed by CNBC say there…

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AI reasoning models were supposed to be the industry’s next leap, promising smarter systems able to tackle more complex problems and a path to superintelligence.The latest releases from the major players in artificial intelligence, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Alphabet and DeepSeek, have been models with reasoning capabilities. Those reasoning models can execute on tougher tasks by “thinking,” or breaking problems into logical steps and showing their work. Now, a string of recent research is calling that into question.In June, a team of Apple researchers released a white paper titled “The Illusion of Thinking,” which found that “state-of-the-art [large reasoning models] still fail…

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