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10 years after its debut, Celebration Bowl has become a Black college football benchmark
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10 years after its debut, Celebration Bowl has become a Black college football benchmark

For a decade, former Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) commissioner Dennis Thomas pushed for an idea many saw as too risky and too different: He proposed abandoning the conference’s automatic qualifier in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) playoffs to create a nationally televised historically Black college football national championship game featuring the MEAC and Southwestern Athletic...

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Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora

On Thursday, The Walt Disney Company announced a $1 billion investment in OpenAI and a three-year licensing agreement that will allow users of OpenAI’s Sora video generator to create short clips featuring more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars characters. It’s the first major content licensing partnership between a Hollywood studio related to...

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OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after “code red” Google threat alert

On Thursday, OpenAI released GPT-5.2, its newest family of AI models for ChatGPT, in three versions called Instant, Thinking, and Pro. The release follows CEO Sam Altman’s internal “code red” memo earlier this month, which directed company resources toward improving ChatGPT in response to competitive pressure from Google’s Gemini 3 AI model. “We designed 5.2...

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Oracle shares slide on $15B increase in data center spending

Oracle stock dropped after it reported disappointing revenues on Wednesday alongside a $15 billion increase in its planned spending on data centers this year to serve artificial intelligence groups. Shares in Larry Ellison’s database company fell 11 percent in pre-market trading on Thursday after it reported revenues of $16.1 billion in the last quarter, up...

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Trump’s $12 billion farm aid falls short of covering losses

The emergency package offers temporary relief but fails to address billions in losses from trade disputes and market instability American farmers facing unprecedented financial strain are expressing cautious appreciation for President Donald Trump’s newly announced $12 billion emergency aid package, though many agricultural experts and producers warn the relief represents merely a fraction of what’s...