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Emma Roth

Do Kwon will be extradited to the US to face charges over Terra’s $40 billion crypto crash

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Do Kwon, the co-founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency firm Terraform Labs, will be extradited to the US to face federal fraud charges, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The Montenegro Ministry of Justice announced the decision on Friday, which comes more than one year after the authorities arrested Kwon in the country.

Kwon faces charges in the US and South Korea after the TerraUSD stablecoin and its sister token Luna crashed in 2022, causing investors to lose $40...

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Mark Schofield

Jalen Hurts injury status: Eagles QB’s availability in doubt ahead of pivotal Week 17

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The Eagles might be without Jalen Hurts when they take on the Cowboys Sunday

The Philadelphia Eagles entered Week 16 of the NFL season with a chance to lock up the NFC East with a win over the Washington Commanders.

However, Washington’s dramatic 36-33 win — led by five touchdown passes from Jayden Daniels — kept the Commanders alive in the NFC East title race. Now with Week 17 upon us, and Philadelphia and Washington facing pivotal games, the...

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James Dator

The Hornets have become the NBA’s most pathetic team

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The Hornets’ rebuild hasn’t gone as planned.

The Charlotte Hornets outdid themselves on Thursday night. In the midst of 2-14 run between the regular season and NBA Cup the team headed to Washington on a night where there were no excuses. Charlotte’s core players were all healthy at once after being injures sporadically throughout the season, and the Hornets were coming off a couple of days rest. Now was the time to get things back on track.

They...

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OpenAI reveals how it will transform into a for-profit company

OpenAI is getting a corporate makeover.

The ChatGPT maker revealed in a company blog post (via The New York Times) that it plans to undergo some changes at the structural level soon. Specifically, OpenAI will become a Public Benefit Corporation, or PBC, a type of corporation in U.S. corporate law that explicitly exists to generate profits and benefit society in some way.

It still has "ordinary shares of stock," per OpenAI. Still, this new structure will incentivize the company to "balance...

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Tim McManus

Eagles prepare Pickett with Hurts still in protocol

Eagles coach Nick Sirianni said Friday that quarterback Jalen Hurts is still in concussion protocol, meaning Kenny Pickett will likely start against the Cowboys.

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Dickerson cheering on Saquon? 'Absolutely not'

One person not pulling for Eagles running back Saquon Barkley to set the single-season rushing mark: current record-holder Eric Dickerson.

The Verge

Emma Roth

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has survived the closest-ever Sun flyby

An artist’s rendering of the Parker Solar Probe. | Image: NASA

NASA sent its Parker Solar Probe just 3.8 million miles from the surface of the Sun — and it survived. The probe transmitted a signal back to Earth on the night of December 26th, “indicating it’s in good health and operating normally,” according to NASA.

The mission marks the closest the Parker Solar Probe — or any human-man object at all — has ever gotten to the Sun. The probe set off on its mission on...

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Sheena Vasani

The Beats Fit Pro, our favorite fitness-centric earbuds, are matching their best price

The Beats Fit Pro offer built-in wing tips and excellent noise cancellation, making them a great pair of gym-friendly earbuds. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge

If you need help shedding pounds from all the junk food you indulged in over Christmas, music is a great activity motivator — which is why wireless earbuds are a useful investment. Luckily, today the Beats Fit Pro — our favorite pair of earbuds for working out — are matching their all-time low price of about $149 ($50...

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Adi Robertson

Elon Musk riles up Trump’s far-right base by praising immigrants

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Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and other members of President-elect Donald Trump’s Silicon Valley coalition are clashing with the MAGA movement’s hardline anti-immigrant faction, and it’s allegedly resulted in Musk stripping far-right critics’ verification badges on X.

The conflict centers on Musk and Ramaswamy’s recent praise for foreign tech workers, beginning soon after Indian immigrant Sriram Krishnan joined the team of...

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Mark Schofield James Dator Joseph Acosta

Cam Newton looks like Andre 3000 in witness protection, and more notes on his ‘First Take’ outfit

Former QB Cam Newton’s outfit on ‘First Take’ offered some inspiration

Former NFL quarterback Cam Newton was back on First Take Friday morning, weighing in on a number of topics in the football world. Newton opined on whether Lamar Jackson was under appreciated, as well as rookie quarterback Caleb Williams’ struggles with the Chicago Bears in his first NFL season.

But social media was ready to weigh in on something else.

What the former quarterback was wearing:

So we came up...

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Ricky O'Donnell

Caleb Williams has a major flaw, and the Bears better find a way to fix it

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The numbers behind Caleb Williams’ deep ball inaccuracy are startling.

Caleb Williams was supposed to be the franchise quarterback the Chicago Bears literally waited 100 years for when team selected him with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft. Williams’ mere arrival in Chicago was miraculous by itself: the pick was acquired via a trade with the Carolina Panthers a year earlier, and seemed to set up Chicago for a long run of contention...

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Jason DeParle

Migrants and End of Covid Restrictions Fuel Jump in U.S. Homelessness

The number of people experiencing homelessness topped 770,000, an increase of more than 18 percent over last year.

Fast Company

Tracy Brown Hamilton

OpenAI pivots to for-profit model to secure massive AI funding

OpenAI’s $157 billion worth and rising AI development costs pushed it toward a structure that can tap into deeper capital.

OpenAI, one of the world’s most valuable startups, originally began in 2015 as a nonprofit focused on AI research. But as the cost of achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI)—AI that could surpass human intelligence—soars, the company is shifting gears to attract more funding. On December 26, OpenAI announced in a blog post that it plans to set up a...

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