Derek Carr’s future as the New Orleans Saints starting quarterback seems secure. Saints general manager Mickey Loomis made that clear on Wednesday when he referred to the 11-year veteran as “a guy we can win with, and we’re excited about it.” Carr has two years remaining on the four-year, $150 million contract that brought him…
New Zealand’s foreign minister said he had raised concerns over China’s recent live-fire drills in the Tasman Sea during meetings with Chinese leaders on Wednesday. The issue was a lack of notice given to New Zealand over the military exercises off its coast, Winston Peters told reporters in Beijing after meetings with Chinese foreign minister…
Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., during a news conference in Taipei, Taiwan, on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Annabelle Chih | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said next-generation AI will need 100 times more compute than older models as a result of new reasoning approaches that think “about…
Phillies manager Rob Thomson said the team is “not really over-concerned at all” about Bryce Harper after the Philadelphia slugger left Wednesday’s exhibition game against Toronto when he was hit on an arm by a pitch. Thomson told reporters Harper had a bruise on his right arm after getting hit by the 92 mph from…
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams speaks during the Web Summit 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal, on Nov. 8, 2018. Pedro Fiúza | Nurphoto | Getty Images Obvious Ventures, the venture capital firm co-founded by Twitter’s Evan Williams, has filed to raise $400 million for its latest fund, according to a regulatory filing. The filing for Obvious Ventures…
Teladoc Health Inc. signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 31, 2024. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Teladoc Health shares fell in extended trading on Wednesday after the company reported a wider loss than analysts expected and issued disappointing quarterly guidance. Here’s how the company did, compared to…
Qantas has posted a bumper $1.39bn half-year pre-tax profit, fuelled by a 10% uptick in customers. The airline rewarded shareholders with hundreds of millions in dividend payments out of the windfall. The airline’s $1.39bn half-year underlying profit, announced on Thursday, is an 11% increase on the same period last year, and was driven by a…
The NFL is considering changing overtime rules in the regular season to decrease the advantage for teams who win the coin toss. “It’s time to rethink the overtime rule,” league executive Troy Vincent said Wednesday at the NFL Scouting Combine. Albert Breer on where Shedeur Sanders will get drafted Vincent said the competition committee agrees…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff appears at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2025. Halil Sagirkaya | Anadolu | Getty Images Salesforce reported weaker-than-expected quarterly revenue on Wednesday and issued a forecast that fell short of analysts’ estimates. The stock price slipped 4% in extended trading. Here’s how the company did in…
In what has quickly become a trend throughout college basketball this season, the University of New Orleans became the latest program to suspend and investigate a slew of its players for sports gambling. Four of the Privateers’ top five scorers were suspended on Jan. 27, according to a report Wednesday from the Field of 68’s…
