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The accusations include sex with underage girls and sexually explicit messages. The actor denied the allegations.

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Waymo paused highway operations in May after several robotaxis drove into sections that were closed for construction.

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Robots apparently don't need to be bipedal to be caught up in the FCC's new foreign-made robot ban.

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Broncos coach Sean Payton said the team is "staying the course'' as outside linebacker Jonathon Cooper participates in training camp.

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Patrick Clancy took the stand to testify during the trial of his ex-wife Lindsay Clancy.

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The Federal Reserve left its interest rate target unchanged Wednesday amid significant internal dissent from officials who preferred to raise rates.

The big picture: The central bank elected not to surprise markets with an interest rate hike, contrary to rampant speculation on Wall Street in recent days. But three members of the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee did favor raising the cost of borrowing.

• Cleveland Fed president Beth Hammack, Minneapolis Fed president Neel Kashkari, and Dallas Fed president Lorie Logan preferred a quarter-point rate hike, with the other nine officials, including chairman Kevin Warsh, voting to stand pat.

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Driving the news: The committee left its target range for the federal funds rate between 3.5% and 3.75%, where it has stood since December.

• "Economic activity is expanding at a solid pace despite elevated uncertainty that owes, in part, to the conflict in the Middle East," said the post-meeting policy statement, repeating language from the June meeting.
• Indeed, the statement was virtually unchanged from the last meeting, offering no clues as to whether or in what circumstances the committee might raise rates later this year.

State of play: While most Fed watchers anticipated the holding action and financial markets priced it in as the most likely result of the meeting, there were rumblings in the last 10 days that persistently high inflation combined with a resurgence in energy prices might prompt a rate hike.

• Before the meeting, markets put the odds at roughly 1 in 3 on that outcome, the most uncertainty around a Fed rate decision in years.
• Warsh, in his second meeting at the helm, has eschewed the kind of clear guidance about future rate moves that his predecessors tended to use — instead favoring that policy meetings feature a "good family fight," where the outcome isn't pre-ordained.

By the numbers: The Commerce Department releases June income and spending data Thursday. Analysts expect that it will show the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index, the Fed's go-to inflation gauge, was up 3.7% over the last 12 months.

• It has been above the Fed's 2% target every month since March 2021.
• Fed officials have chalked up a recent resurgence to one-off events like new tariffs and the Iran war, but several are losing patience and worry that the central bank's credibility as an inflation fighter is undermined by the sustained high inflation.
• "The Committee will deliver price stability," the statement said, repeating June language.

What's next: Warsh will take questions from the news media in a press conference at 2:30pm ET.

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OpenAI is launching a new program Wednesday that will provide 100,000 academic researchers with free access to its advanced AI models through 2027, the company told Axios ahead of the announcement.

Why it matters: The program could help scientists, mathematicians and engineers pursue the kind of breakthroughs that OpenAI and other AI companies say the technology could enable.

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Driving the news: Those selected will have access to OpenAI's most advanced models — including GPT-5.6 Sol Pro — and can invite four collaborators from their academic institution.

• The program is aimed at researchers across scientific and mathematical fields, including biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, mathematics and physics.

By the numbers: Participants will get a year of access roughly equivalent to its $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro account, OpenAI said.

• Data won't be used to train models and researchers will receive business-grade privacy and security protections similar to those available to business customers, OpenAI said.
• The first 10,000 researchers will begin receiving access this summer at institutions including the Institute for Advanced Study and France's École normale supérieure, with the broader rollout continuing through 2027.

What they're saying: "Our strategy is not to decide which scientific problems deserve attention or try to solve them all ourselves," OpenAI said in a statement. "It is to put capable tools in the hands of the research community and let researchers pursue the questions they know best."

The big picture: OpenAI said the new program is part of its commitment to invest more than $250 million through 2027 in support of external scientific research and discovery.

• The move comes as AI has started to show promise in various disciplines, from solving open math problems to identifying new drug candidates.

Yes, but: OpenAI's program is aimed broadly at the fields of math and sciences rather than those studying AI itself.

• The program does not address a central request from those in that field, who argue that their work requires access to model weights and the training data underlying them.
• OpenAI and Anthropic say restricting access to model weights helps prevent misuse.
• But researchers have argued that limited access can hamper independent evaluations of model behavior, reproducibility and safety.

The bottom line: OpenAI is expanding researchers' access to its most capable AI tools, while keeping the underlying systems largely closed.

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Michael B. Jordan co-signs the newest Black Panther cast and drops his first trailer for The Thomas Crown Affair. Watch the teaser inside.

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Fifa opens disciplinary proceedings against Argentina over their behaviour after their World Cup final loss to Spain and throughout the tournament.

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The Los Angeles Lakers came into this offseason knowing they needed to upgrade their center position. The team identified Walker Kessler as their top priority and traded a lot of draft capital to the Utah Jazz in order to bring him in via sign-and-trade. The Lakers did what was necessary to bring in their top […]

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Lionel Messi's third appearance in a FIFA World Cup final may have ended in disappointment after Argentina's defeat to Spain, but Ángel Di María believes the result should not signal the end of the legendary forward's international career. Instead, the former Argentina winger has urged Messi to ...

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Some banks are boosting yields as the Federal Reserve holds rates steady.