NFL free agency begins Wednesday at 4 p.m. Eastern time. And if you’ve been off the NFL grid for two days, that official start will be more exciting than it really is. The NFL’s so-called legal tampering period started Monday and there was a frenzy to lock up the top free agents. By the time Wednesday rolled around, 17 of the 25 free agents from Yahoo Sports’ top 25 on Monday had agreed to deals. That doesn’t mean free agency is over. Teams will still be searching for veteran help and there… Source link

Google DeepMind unveiled SIMA, an AI agent training to learn gaming skills so it plays more like a human instead of an overpowered AI that does its own thing. SIMA, which stands for Scalable, Instructable, Multiworld Agent, is currently only in research. SIMA will eventually learn how to play any video game, even games with no linear path to end the game and open-world games. Though it’s not intended to replace existing game AI, think of it more as another player that meshes well with your… Source link

Kirk Cousins has been ridiculed and derided for his inability to win enough big games or take his teams on deep playoff runs. However, he still has a lot of value in the NFL as a productive, veteran quarterback. It just won’t be with the Minnesota Vikings anymore. The Atlanta Falcons are going to find out what Cousins has left. Cousins agreed to a deal with the Falcons, according to multiple media reports, including ESPN’s Adam Schefter. That move has been rumored for a few days, and now the… Source link

The EU decided on March 12 to lift sanctions against Arkady Volozh, the co-founder of Russia’s most popular search engine, Yandex. Volozh’s name was listed in an announcement on the EU’s website along with 11 other individuals who were removed from the sanctions list. The EU sanctioned Volozh in June 2022, arguing that Yandex promotes pro-government narratives and is complicit in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Volozh resigned as CEO of Yandex after being sanctioned. Volozh has publicly Source link

The EU decided on March 12 to lift sanctions against Arkady Volozh, the co-founder of Russia’s most popular search engine, Yandex. Volozh’s name was listed in an announcement on the EU’s website along with 11 other individuals who were removed from the sanctions list. The EU sanctioned Volozh in June 2022, arguing that Yandex promotes pro-government narratives and is complicit in Russia’s war against Ukraine. Volozh resigned as CEO of Yandex after being sanctioned. Volozh has publicly spoke out… Source link

This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: Even by the standards of bitcoin bulls, Michael Saylor stands out. The MicroStrategy executive chairman spends his days posting quasi-mystical bitcoin memes and prophet-like pronouncements (see his pinned post on X). His company now holds 205,000 bitcoins (~$14.5 billion right now) and he’s spearheaded MicroStrategy’s transition from a modest business software company… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Stocks struggled to maintain momentum in the wake of another record-breaking session on Wall Street, as a rally in Europe took a breather despite dovish comments from policy makers. Most Read from Bloomberg Futures on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 were little changed after the indexes clocked up gains of more than 1% in the wake of an inflation reading that did little to alter traders’ conviction that the Federal Reserve will shift to cutting interest rates this year. Treasury… Source link

The European Union has removed sanctions that were placed on Russian tech billionaire Arkady Volozh after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to a document published on Wednesday.  Volozh, who co-founded the Russian tech giant Yandex, announced his resignation as CEO of the company in mid-2022 after being targeted by EU sanctions. In August, his lawyers petitioned the EU for sanctions relief when he became one of the few members of the Russian elite to… Source link

OREANDA-NEWS The EU has excluded from the anti-Russian sanctions lists the ex-head of Yandex Arkady Volozh, the vice-president of AFK Sistema Sergey Mndoyants and the head of the Night Wolves club Josef Gambalek, according to a document published in the official journal of the EU. The document says that “commemorations of these persons are removed” from the sanctions lists, and “the decision comes into force the day after publication.” On Tuesday, the EU Council extended the current personal… Source link

Lara Trump, who is Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law and the new co-chair of the Republican National Committee, on Tuesday raised eyebrows with her claim about life in America under her father-in-law in 2020. “People look around and they say, ‘Am I better off now than I was four years ago?’” she said on Fox News. “The answer to that is, ‘No,’” claimed Lara Trump, who is married to the former president’s son Eric Trump. “You can compare very easily how much better your life… Source link