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  • Texans S Jalen Pitre Avoids Full Pectoral Tear, To Miss Time

    A chest injury drove Jalen Pitre out of the Texans’ Week 12 loss to the Titans, and the ascending defender will be set to miss more time. But Pitre looks to have dodged the worst-case scenario here. Pitre suffered a pectoral injury, but KPRC2’s Aaron Wilson notes he avoided a full tear. No surgery is…

  • Jameson Williams Will Not Face Gun Charge

    Jameson Williams has run into several early-career hurdles, among them suspensions under the NFL’s gambling and PED policies. While a third suspension may come under the personal conduct policy, the third-year wide receiver is not set to be charged in connection with an October incident. The Wayne County (Mich.) Prosecutor’s Office said Monday (h/t ESPN.com’s…

  • 49ers OL Jon Feliciano To Land On Season-Ending IR; Dre Greenlaw To Practice

    The 49ers expected Jon Feliciano back around the midseason point and had designated the veteran offensive lineman for return from IR earlier this month. No activation will take place, however. Feliciano’s knee has not responded well upon a return to practice, Kyle Shanahan said, and ESPN.com’s Nick Wagoner notes the O-lineman will miss the rest…

  • Dolphins Activate G Isaiah Wynn From PUP List

    Isaiah Wynn will make a return to an NFL active roster for the first time in 13 months. Down for over a year due to a quad injury, the Dolphins guard is back on the team’s 53-man squad. Miami is activating Wynn from IR and waiving offensive lineman Lester Cotton. Wynn had worked as the…

  • Prosecutor drops federal criminal cases against Trump

    Special counsel Jack Smith has asked judges to dismiss a federal election interference case and a classified documents case against Donald Trump as he is set to become the next US president. In new documents filed on Monday, Smith told the judges the cases should be closed because of a Justice Department policy that bans…

  • PlayAI clones voices on command

    Back in 2016, Hammad Syed and Mahmoud Felfel, an ex-WhatsApp engineer, thought it’d be neat to build a text-to-speech Chrome extension for Medium articles. The extension, which could read any Medium story aloud, was featured on Product Hunt. A year later, it spawned an entire business. “We saw a bigger opportunity in helping individuals and…

  • Pestle recipe app can now save dishes from TikTok

    Recipe app Pestle is rolling out a new feature that can automatically turn your favorite TikTok recipe videos into detailed, step-by-step instructions, using AI. The new feature processes the video’s caption, where creators tend to document their ingredient list and instructions, but is powered by on-device machine learning instead of using a third-party AI provider.…

  • Anthropic proposes a new way to connect data to AI chatbots

    Anthropic is proposing a new standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data resides. Called the Model Context Protocol, or MCP for short, Anthropic says the standard, which it open sourced today, could help AI models produce better, more relevant responses to queries. MCP lets models — any models, not just Anthropic’s —…

  • Instagram takes on Snapchat with new location-sharing feature

    Instagram is introducing the ability for users to share their locations with their friends via DMs (direct messages), the company announced on Monday. The feature indicates that the Meta-owned social network is looking to challenge services like Apple’s Find My and Snapchat’s Snap Map, both of which are popular ways for users to see their…

  • Apple again snubs AI in its ‘iPhone App of the Year’ finalists

    On Monday, Apple’s list of finalists for its coveted “iPhone App of the Year” award once again reveals how the iPhone maker is downplaying the impact of AI technology on the mobile app ecosystem. As it did last year, Apple’s 2024 list of top iPhone finalists favors more traditional iOS apps, including those that help…