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CHICAGO, IL – JUNE 14: Bellator president Scott Coker speaks to the media at the Bellator 297 pre-fight press conference on June 14, 2023, at the Willis Tower Sky Deck in Chicago, IL. (Photo by Amy Kaplan/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesScott Coker is a legend in the business of MMA promotion. Coker is the man behind the successful Strikeforce brand and he led Bellator up until the promotion was acquired by the Professional Fighters League. After taking some time away, Coker has decided to get back into MMA promotion.I spoke with Coker to discuss the plans…

A day after Pope Leo XIV released his much anticipated encyclical on AI, the response from the AI community has been mainly positive, with some quibbling over the nature and potential of the technology. The Vatican released the encyclical, titled Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence, in Vatican City on Monday. (An encyclical is a high-importance teaching document issued by the pope.) Broadly, the document aims to demarcate the fundamental differences between humans and machines and warn about the dangers of allowing AI to be controlled and distributed by a small group of…

Figure 03 humanoid robot. Screenshot from a Brett Adcock tweet.John KoetsierFigure got a job at dad’s company. Not literally, of course, because humanoid robots don’t have dads. Or moms. But figuratively (sorry) because a key investor in Figure’s series C investment round just decided to bring in Junior to help with distribution and logistics.The company is Catalyst Brands, a multi-brand retail holding company that owns JCPenney, Aéropostale, Brooks Brothers, Eddie Bauer, Lucky Brand and Nautica: about $9 billion in revenue and 60,000 employees across roughly 1,800 stores. It’s 50% owned by Brookfield, which was part of Figure’s $1 billion Series…

Most enterprise generative AI investments have yet to deliver the value companies envisioned, and every day, more leaders are recognizing that people lie at the heart of the struggle. In this year’s AI & Data Leadership Executive Benchmark Survey, 93% of executives leading AI and data efforts identified human issues around culture and change management as the primary obstacle to adoption. McKinsey Global Managing Partner Bob Sternfels put it plainly on HBR’s IdeaCast: “Half if not more of the secret sauce” in getting value from AI, he said, “is organizational change, as opposed to technology implementation.” As such, many leading…

The end of the month of May approaches ever so quickly, though it’s a long 31-day month, so we have another full weekend ahead of us before June arrives. Still time to finish up your May projects, in other words. And plenty of time to solve today’s Easy, Medium and Hard Pips! Shall we?Looking for Tuesday’s Pips? Read our guide right here.How To Play PipsIn Pips, you have a grid of multicolored boxes. Each colored area represents a different “condition” that you have to achieve. You have a select number of dominoes that you have to spend filling in the…

When a sudden rockslide pinned a climber near Timberline Lodge, it triggered a massive, highly coordinated response involving heavy rigging, a field surgical team flown in by helicopter, and nine rescue agencies.It took rescuers about two hours to lift the 16,000 pound boulder off of the climber (Photo: Clackamas Fire)Published May 26, 2026 05:56PMRescue personnel on Oregon’s Mount Hood successfully saved a climber who was pinned beneath a 16,000-pound boulder on May 24. According to officials involved in the rescue, the lifesaving mission involved air medical crews, a specialized surgical team, and a SAR squad with technical rescue abilities.Officials told Outside…

Last weekend, when Puck announced that the sustainable fashion startup Everlane had been acquired by the Chinese ultra fast fashion retailer Shein, it sent shockwaves throughout the fashion world. Michael Preysman, who founded Everlane in 2011, was just as shocked. “I found out the same time as everyone else,” he said in a LinkedIn post a week ago. “I’m not involved with the company anymore, and like many, am still digesting the news.” Well, Preysman is done digesting. And it seems that he’s ready to do something about it. Preysman just announced stillradical.com, a new venture that we know little…

Portrait of a man experiencing advanced facial recognition scanning, represented by geometric biometric gridlines and binary codes overlaying his face. The image creatively blends human features with pixelation and digital elements, symbolizing cybersecurity, data protection, and identity verification technologies. The conceptual portrayal captures the intersection between human identity and digital innovation.gettyArtificial intelligence can do a lot of things. It can generate reports, synthesize massive datasets, and produce polished communication. But it can’t replicate YOU.As we integrate tools like AI into our daily routines, a quiet fear takes root among many talented leaders and managers. If a machine can perform core…

Unlike some of his industry peers, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been surprisingly skeptical of the notion that AI is displacing workers. In an interview a few months ago, he argued that AI was a convenient scapegoat for some companies, echoing what some economists and experts have expressed about the narrative that AI is driving layoffs across corporate America. “I don’t know what the exact percentage is, but there’s some AI washing where people are blaming AI for layoffs that they would otherwise do. And then there’s some real displacement by AI of different kinds of jobs,” Altman said at…

The OpenAI logo appears on the screen of a smartphone placed on a laptop keyboard. NurPhoto via Getty ImagesOpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, reportedly may go public this year. Since launching the AI chatbot in November 2022, the San Francisco-based company has reached $20 billion in 2025 revenue. Despite huge losses, OpenAI is poised for one of the largest initial public offerings in history – expected to value the company as high as $1 trillion. Should you invest in the OpenAI IPO? Here are some things to consider before making that decision.OpenAI Key Stats to Know OpenAI’s IPO is…