The NCAA announced Thursday that it will expand its two March Madness tournaments by eight teams each next season, a long-expected move that will drop more games into the first week of the highly popular and lucrative showcase without substantially changing its overall form. The new, 76-team brackets will jam eight extra games — for … Read more
p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> State Sen. Ben Allen (D, El Segundo) addresses the crowd during the California Democratic Convention in San Francisco. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Ben Allen, 48, is a third-term Democratic state senator who represents the Palisades fire zone and, since the blazes, has authored bills that provide tax relief to fire victims … Read more
Kevin O’Leary makes a great villain. Loading audio narration… The celebrity investor spent decades honing his image as the least likable rich guy on “Shark Tank,” reveling in what he calls brutal honesty. Last year riffed on that persona in “Marty Supreme,” highlighted by a scene where he spanks Timothée Chalamet with a ping pong … Read more
Tesla is recalling 173 Cybertrucks because cracking in the rotor could cause the wheel stud to separate from the wheel hub, increasing the risk of a crash and injury. The recall includes Cybertrucks from model years 2024 to 2026 with 18-inch steel wheels. In its report, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that rough … Read more
Actor A. Russell Andrews, whose credits include “Straight Outta Compton,” “Insecure” and “Better Call Saul,” says he is living with ALS, the same disease that claimed the life of actor Eric Dane in February. Andrews initially thought he had a stroke during the COVID-19 lockdowns, he told Elex Michaelson of CNN on “The Story Is,” … Read more
Matthew Stafford, the reigning NFL most valuable player, was in a tower at the starting line. Ty Simpson — the 13th pick in the draft — and the rest of the Rams’ rookie class were at the finish. The Rams present and presumably heir-apparent quarterback bookended Saturday’s WalkUnitedLA fundraising event at Hollywood Park. On Monday, … Read more
Ukraine has built its first-ever glide bomb after almost a year and a half of development. The new weapon is much cheaper than US-made alternatives, according to DG Industry information shared exclusively with Business Insider. Loading audio narration… The new glide bomb, called the “Vyrivniuvach” in Ukrainian or “Equalizer” in English, is designed to be … Read more
A federal jury has sided with OpenAI and its top executives Monday in a feud with Elon Musk, who accused them of betraying a shared vision for it to guide artificial intelligence’s development as a nonprofit. The nine-person jury unanimously found that Musk waited too long to file his lawsuit and missed the deadline for … Read more
Elon Musk’s claim that he was mistreated by his OpenAI cofounders failed after nine California jurors decided in a unanimous verdict that his lawsuits had been filed too late. Musk took Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI and Microsoft to of “stealing a charity” by creating a for-profit affiliate to the frontier AI lab. Jurors, however, … Read more
Anderson Cooper has signed off from “60 Minutes” for the last time. After two decades as a correspondent on the CBS’ news magazine, he officially ended his run Sunday night. Cooper, who also hosts a news program on CNN, announced in February his plans to leave CBS, months after an internal shake-up that followed the … Read more
Six months after one of college football’s most storied rivalries stalled, USC and Notre Dame are in active discussions to resume play, The Times has learned. It’s not clear yet when the rivalry series will return or what the terms will be. A person familiar with the discussions not authorized to talk about them publicly … Read more
Ahead of Nvidia earnings later this week, I suggest you check out an Amazon AI project. The codename is Titus and it reveals Nvidia’s true power. Loading audio narration… The cloud giant says it’s named after the Roman Emperor Titus Flavius Vespasianus, who completed the Colosseum, one of history’s earliest examples of gigantic modular architecture. … Read more
Proponents say the Trump accounts will be better than Social Security. Don’t believe them. Here’s a riddle for you: A conservative Republican senator, a top economic advisor to the Trump White House and a venture capitalist walk into a conference room at a financial forum and claim a new government program will be a boon … Read more
When I read all the hype being heaped on Kamala Harris’ lead in early polls for the 2028 Democratic nomination, I have to chuckle to myself. The release of a Rasmussen Reports poll in February was titled, “Kamala Harris Still Leads 2028 Field for Democrats.” One headline in the Hill predicted, “Kamala Harris may yet … Read more
A lot has changed since Jacori Perry attended Morningside High School. Perry is now a renowned artist who goes by the names Mr. Ace and AiseBorn. The school is now known as Inglewood High School United. And the lecture hall on that campus now features a large, ornate mural of a soccer ball being grasped … Read more