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CBS Sports graphic Sixty-one people voted in Monday’s Associated Press Top 25 poll — and exactly 57 of them listed either Arizona or Michigan at No. 1.Question: Should Duke be offended?To be clear, I also have Michigan and Arizona in my top two, and Duke slotted third. So, I’m not complaining or criticizing. But it is interesting that the Blue Devils have largely been omitted from the No. 1 conversation even though they’re A) Duke, B) 10-0 with wins over Michigan State, Florida, Kansas and Arkansas, C) led by the best player in the sport (Cameron Boozer), and D) No.…

OpenAI has quietly reversed a major change to how hundreds of millions of people use ChatGPT.On a low-profile blog that tracks product changes, the company said that it rolled back ChatGPT’s model router—an automated system that sends complicated user questions to more advanced “reasoning” models—for users on its Free and $5-a-month Go tiers. Instead, those users will now default to GPT-5.2 Instant, the fastest and cheapest-to-serve version of OpenAI’s new model series. Free and Go users will still be able to access reasoning models, but they will have to select them manually.The model router launched just four months ago as…

OpenAI released a new flagship image generation model today as it moves to counter recent concerns that it is slipping behind rivals in the race to capture both consumer and business mindshare. The new image generation model allows for more precise image editing and can generate images up to four times faster than OpenAI’s previous image creation AI, the company said in a blog post. It said the new model, as well as a new images feature in ChatGPT are designed to make image generation “delightful.”According to an OpenAI blog post, the new ChatGPT Images is rolling out to all…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a Mexican Border Defense Medal presentation in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, in Washington. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP WASHINGTON — The U.S. military said Monday that it attacked three boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing a total of eight people as scrutiny over the boat strikes is intensifying in Congress. The military said in a statement on social media that the strikes targeted “designated terrorist organizations,” killing three people in the first vessel, two in the second boat and…

On a Wednesday in November, Niles Public Works Department mechanic Joe Pacelli and Michael Flournoy, a special education student at a Des Plaines school, raised the hood on a village fire department vehicle to make adjustments to an engine coolant sensor. It was a unique opportunity for them both that was made possible through a special partnership between the village of Niles and the school. Charles H. Walsh Sr. Academy and Career Tech High School, formerly the Maryville Jen School, located in Des Plaines, provides specialized vocational and academic education for students age 14 to 22 who have learning and…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: Senior Israeli intelligence officials say warnings delivered to Australia ahead of a deadly attack at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach were part of a much broader alert: an accelerating global rise in attempts to execute terror attacks across Western countries, increasingly aimed not only at Jewish targets, but also at Christians and large gatherings especially during religious holidays.According to a senior Israeli intelligence official, Israel’s foreign intelligence service has been tracking a sharp increase in attempted attacks worldwide, many of them low-tech, quickly mobilized and designed to…

We say this every year, but any list of the year’s best music books is even more of a losing proposition than best albums or songs, primarily because of the time investment — so any such list is doomed to being “some of the best music books.” With that inevitable caveat, although this year lacked a jaw-dropping must-read along the lines of Cher’s “The Memoir” or Elton John’s “Me” — which are arguably the most continually satisfying music memoirs of the last decade — there’s still plenty to dig into. What we music-memoir junkies are usually seeking is, if not the…

Dec 16, 2025, 11:41 AM ETESPN’s weekly PPR and IDP fantasy football rankings are an aggregate of our rankers (eight PPR, three IDP). They are Matt Bowen, Mike Clay, Tristan H. Cockcroft, Daniel Dopp, Eric Karabell, Liz Loza, Eric Moody and Field Yates. Karabell also provides his superflex rankings all season long.Rankings will be published every Tuesday and are updated throughout the week for news and emerging analysis.PPR rankings:Quarterbacks | Running backs | Wide receivers | Tight ends | Kickers | D/STIDP rankings:Top 40 DLs, LBs, DBs from Clay, Cockcroft and MoodyEric Karabell’s superflex rankings:Top 150 QBs, RBs, WRs and…

The first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s upcoming film Disclosure Day is here, and it will leave you with more questions than answers about what exactly is going on.There is no denying that something strange is happening to a Kansas City newscaster (Emily Blunt) who goes into a strange trance on-air in Disclosure Day’s new trailer. The odd clicks coming out of her mouth sound inhuman and leave everyone watching alarmed because it seems like she might be having a fit.But the woman seems much more…together in the presence of a mysterious man (Josh O’Connor) who says he knows the truth…

Databricks CEO, Ali Ghodsi speaks on CNBC’s Fast Money on Dec. 17, 2024. CNBCDatabricks is raising $4 billion in a funding round that would value the data analytics software company at $134 billion, the company announced Tuesday.The valuation is a 34% jump from the funding round announced in August, which valued the company at $100 billion. At the time, Databricks became one of a handful of private companies to surpass a $100 billion valuation, after SpaceX, ByteDance and OpenAI.Databricks said it plans to use the capital to support customer app building as artificial intelligence accelerates development. Tune in at 4:15…