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DELAND, Fla. (AP) — Luke Bailey threw for 204 yards and three touchdowns with only five incompletions and Drake eased by Stetson 49-10 on Saturday to secure a second straight outright Pioneer Football League title. Davion Cherwin rushed for 161 yards on 11 carries and scored two times for Drake. Jun Ahn and Luke Woodson also had rushing scores. Cherwin scored a 91-yard touchdown, the longest run in the PFL this season, to make it 21-7 early in the second quarter. Kemani Wilson made a diving interception at the Drake 25-yard line with just over two minutes left in the first half and seven plays later, Bailey found Hunter Johnson for a 24-yard touchdown to make it 28-10 at halftime. Drake defensive lineman Finn Claypool forced a fumble on the third play of the second half and his teammate recovered it. Then Bailey lofted a pass to Jaxon Laminack for a touchdown and a 35-10 lead. Drake (8-2, 7-1) was coming off a 29-20 loss to Morehead State to end a 17-game PFL winning streak — the longest active conference winning streak in the FCS. Stetson (2-9, 0-7) quarterback Brady Meitz was intercepted three times and Matt O’Connor had one of his four pass attempts intercepted. Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-footballI'm A Celeb favourite Coleen Rooney just wants Rebekah Vardy to 'shut up and leave her alone'
The explosive growth of the artificial intelligence (AI) market has minted a lot of millionaires. For example, a modest $3,000 investment in the AI chipmaker Nvidia just 10 years ago would be worth nearly $1.5 million today. But with a market cap of $3.6 trillion, it could be tough for Nvidia to replicate those millionaire-making gains over the next decade. Therefore, investors looking for those kinds of life-changing returns should seek out smaller companies that have more room to grow. I believe these three companies -- Symbotic ( SYM 6.93% ) , Serve Robotics ( SERV -1.54% ) , and Lemonade ( LMND -2.15% ) -- might just make the cut. 1. Symbotic Symbotic produces fully autonomous robots for processing pallets in warehouses. It claims a $50 million investment in just one of its modules (which includes its robots and software) can generate $250 million in lifetime savings over 25 years. Its top customer is Walmart , which tasked the company with automating all of its U.S. regional distribution centers over the next decade. That deal accounted for 88% of Symbotic's revenue in fiscal 2023 (which ended last September). Walmart is also one of Symbotic's leading investors. Symbotic is overwhelmingly dependent on Walmart, but it's been gaining additional major customers like Target , Albertsons , and C&S Wholesale. It's also providing more robots to GreenBox, a new warehouse-as-a-service joint venture it launched with its big backer SoftBank last year. Symbotic's revenue jumped 55% in fiscal 2024, and analysts expect its top line to keep growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 32% over the next two years as it continues to fulfill its long-term deal with Walmart and lock in new customers. Analysts also expect it to turn profitable on a generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP ) basis in 2025. With an enterprise value of $3.1 billion, Symbotic's stock still looks cheap at 1.3 times this year's sales. It faces some near-term macro and competitive headwinds in the warehouse automation space, but it might just become a millionaire-maker stock over the next few years. 2. Serve Robotics Serve Robotics develops autonomous sidewalk delivery robots. It was originally created as a unit of Postmates, which was acquired by Uber Technologies in 2020. Uber spun off Serve in 2021, but it still uses its robots to fulfill some of Uber Eats' orders in Los Angeles. Serve still generates all of its revenue from Uber, and it only operated 59 active robots across the Los Angeles area in the third quarter of 2024. But in 2025, it plans to deploy up to 2,000 robots for Uber Eats across the L.A. and Dallas-Fort Worth metro areas. For 2024, analysts expect Serve to generate less than $2 million in revenue as it racks up a net loss of $34 million. But in 2025, they expect its revenue to jump to $13 million as it narrows its net loss to $31 million. In 2026, they see its revenue more than quadrupling to nearly $60 million as it narrows its net loss to $25 million. We should take those estimates with a grain of salt, but Serve's business could start gaining momentum as more businesses use its robots to make short-range deliveries. That growth could help it attract more customers to reduce its dependence on Uber. With an enterprise value of $379 million, Serve doesn't seem terribly expensive at 6 times its 2026 sales. It remains a highly speculative stock, but it could still have plenty of upside potential and counts Nvidia as one of its top investors. 3. Lemonade Lemonade is an online insurance company that simplifies the onboarding and claims process with its AI-powered chatbots. That simple digital-first approach made it popular with younger and first-time insurance buyers, and more than 70% of its customers were under the age of 35 at the time of its initial public offering in 2020. It initially only offered renters and homeowners insurance, but it now offers term life, pet health, and auto insurance policies. It ended its latest quarter with 2.31 million customers, compared to just over 1 million customers at the end of 2020. For 2024, Lemonade expects its in-force premiums to rise 26%, its gross earned premiums to grow 22%-23%, and its total revenue to increase 21%-22%. It also sees its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) improving from negative $173 million in 2023 to negative $151 million-$155 million in 2024. Lemonade hasn't proven its business model is sustainable yet, but it's growing much faster than its larger competitors. With an enterprise value of $2.9 billion, it trades at just 4 times next year's sales -- so it might generate millionaire-maker gains if it scales up its business, narrows its losses, and widens its moat.Daniel Grizelj As a market technical analyst for 44 years (3/4 of my life), when asked to predict things like where the S&P 500 will be a year from now, I embrace the challenge. 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B. Metzler seel. Sohn & Co. Holding AG acquired a new position in The Clorox Company ( NYSE:CLX – Free Report ) in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm acquired 9,691 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,579,000. Several other large investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Prospera Financial Services Inc increased its holdings in Clorox by 3.1% in the 3rd quarter. Prospera Financial Services Inc now owns 4,549 shares of the company’s stock worth $742,000 after acquiring an additional 135 shares during the last quarter. Caprock Group LLC increased its holdings in Clorox by 9.2% in the 3rd quarter. Caprock Group LLC now owns 2,841 shares of the company’s stock worth $463,000 after acquiring an additional 239 shares during the last quarter. Aviance Capital Partners LLC increased its holdings in Clorox by 2.7% in the 3rd quarter. Aviance Capital Partners LLC now owns 3,080 shares of the company’s stock worth $502,000 after acquiring an additional 80 shares during the last quarter. Baron Wealth Management LLC purchased a new stake in Clorox in the 3rd quarter worth about $250,000. Finally, Cassaday & Co Wealth Management LLC purchased a new position in Clorox during the 3rd quarter valued at about $231,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 78.53% of the company’s stock. Analysts Set New Price Targets A number of research analysts have weighed in on CLX shares. Evercore ISI reduced their target price on Clorox from $140.00 to $139.00 and set an “underperform” rating for the company in a report on Monday, October 14th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft lifted their target price on Clorox from $144.00 to $151.00 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, August 2nd. Citigroup lifted their target price on Clorox from $165.00 to $170.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Friday, September 6th. Jefferies Financial Group raised Clorox from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and lifted their target price for the company from $174.00 to $187.00 in a report on Tuesday, October 1st. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted their target price on Clorox from $148.00 to $174.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Friday, October 11th. Five research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, ten have issued a hold rating and one has assigned a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $155.00. Insider Activity In other news, EVP Angela C. Hilt sold 1,733 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, September 6th. The stock was sold at an average price of $165.52, for a total transaction of $286,846.16. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president now owns 13,471 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,229,719.92. This represents a 11.40 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink . Insiders own 0.57% of the company’s stock. Clorox Stock Up 0.1 % Shares of CLX opened at $169.31 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of $20.96 billion, a P/E ratio of 58.99, a P/E/G ratio of 3.11 and a beta of 0.41. The stock has a 50 day simple moving average of $162.78 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $148.43. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 11.08, a current ratio of 1.00 and a quick ratio of 0.62. The Clorox Company has a 1 year low of $127.60 and a 1 year high of $171.35. Clorox ( NYSE:CLX – Get Free Report ) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, October 30th. The company reported $1.86 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.36 by $0.50. The business had revenue of $1.76 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.64 billion. Clorox had a return on equity of 316.08% and a net margin of 4.78%. Clorox’s revenue for the quarter was up 27.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.49 earnings per share. On average, analysts forecast that The Clorox Company will post 6.85 earnings per share for the current fiscal year. Clorox Dividend Announcement The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, February 14th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, January 29th will be paid a dividend of $1.22 per share. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.88%. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, January 29th. Clorox’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 170.03%. Clorox Profile ( Free Report ) The Clorox Company manufactures and markets consumer and professional products worldwide. It operates through four segments: Health and Wellness, Household, Lifestyle, and International. The Health and Wellness segment offers cleaning products, such as laundry additives and home care products primarily under the Clorox, Clorox2, Scentiva, Pine-Sol, Liquid-Plumr, Tilex, and Formula 409 brands; professional cleaning and disinfecting products under the CloroxPro and Clorox Healthcare brands; professional food service products under the Hidden Valley brand; and vitamins, minerals and supplement products under the RenewLife, Natural Vitality, NeoCell, and Rainbow Light brands in the United States. Featured Articles Want to see what other hedge funds are holding CLX? 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Geordie Shore star Charlotte Crosby said she has been admitted to hospital but her baby is “all fine” after masked men attempted to rob her home this week. Her fiance Jake Ankers announced on social media that a group of men carrying a machete entered their home on Thursday evening while they were in the house with their two-year-old daughter. Crosby, who is nearly eight months pregnant, thanked those who have sent their support to the couple in an Instagram Story post on Saturday. The reality TV star, 34, wrote: “I’m typing this I’m laid in hospital. Baby is all fine, thank you for all the messages!” She added: “This month has had misfortune after misfortune. I want to thank you all for your kind messages about the break-in the other night. “Still something I’m really struggling to come to terms with.” Ankers also posted a photo of Crosby lying in a hospital bed to his Instagram Story, saying she had been “rushed in to hospital” as the TV star had been experiencing “serious pains in her stomach”. The businessman thanked their followers for reaching out and their local community for being “fantastic” since the burglary attempt. Ankers, who appeared with the reality star on BBC Three reality show Charlotte In Sunderland, previously said the thieves “tried to rob my house with my two-year-old and my partner who is nearly eight months pregnant, armed with a machete”. He said one of the four men “had a red balaclava on” and was carrying the weapon at the top of the stairs. Durham Constabulary were alerted at 7pm on Thursday to reports of an aggravated burglary in Houghton-le-Spring, a town in the Sunderland area. A spokeswoman for the force said: “Officers attended the area however the suspects left the scene before their arrival. “Nobody was injured in the incident and no items are believed to have been taken.” She added that an investigation is under way and anyone with information is asked to contact police. Crosby is best known for appearing in the MTV reality series Geordie Shore and winning the 12th series of Celebrity Big Brother in 2013. She and Ankers got engaged in October 2023 after she gave birth to their first child in 2022.
Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski spoke about AI and the workforce. Siemiatkowski said AI "can already do all of the jobs" humans do. He said Klarna stopped hiring a year ago despite the company advertising jobs online. Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski is all-in on artificial intelligence at the fintech company. In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Siemiatkowski said he's "of the opinion that AI can already do all of the jobs that we as humans do." "It's just a question of how we apply it and use it," he said. Klarna is a payment service that offers consumers "buy now, pay later" options. According to its website, the company is connected with more than 575,000 retailers. The increased attention around AI has raised concerns about how it will affect careers and the workplace. A 2023 report by McKinsey & Company estimated that 12 million American workers will have to change occupations by 2030 as AI technology develops. During the interview, Siemiatkowski said Klarna stopped hiring last year. "I think what we've done internally hasn't been reported as widely. We stopped hiring about a year ago, so we were 4,500 and now we're 3,500," Siemiatkowski said. "We have a natural attrition like every tech company. People stay about five years, so 20% leave every year. By not hiring, we're simply shrinking, right?" Siemiatkowski said his company has told employees that "what's going to happen is the total salary cost of Klarna is going to shrink, but part of the gain of that is going to be seen in your paycheck." Although Klarna's website is advertising open positions at the time of writing, a spokesperson told Business Insider the company is not "actively recruiting" to expand its workforce. Rather, Klarna is backfilling "some essential roles," primarily in engineering.Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More My, how quickly the tables turn in the tech world. Just two years ago, AI was lauded as the “next transformational technology to rule them all.” Now, instead of reaching Skynet levels and taking over the world, AI is, ironically, degrading. Once the harbinger of a new era of intelligence, AI is now tripping over its own code, struggling to live up to the brilliance it promised. But why exactly? The simple fact is that we’re starving AI of the one thing that makes it truly smart: human-generated data. To feed these data-hungry models, researchers and organizations have increasingly turned to synthetic data. While this practice has long been a staple in AI development , we’re now crossing into dangerous territory by over-relying on it, causing a gradual degradation of AI models. And this isn’t just a minor concern about ChatGPT producing sub-par results — the consequences are far more dangerous. When AI models are trained on outputs generated by previous iterations, they tend to propagate errors and introduce noise, leading to a decline in output quality. This recursive process turns the familiar cycle of “garbage in, garbage out” into a self-perpetuating problem, significantly reducing the effectiveness of the system. As AI drifts further from human-like understanding and accuracy, it not only undermines performance but also raises critical concerns about the long-term viability of relying on self-generated data for continued AI development. But this isn’t just a degradation of technology; it’s a degradation of reality, identity, and data authenticity — posing serious risks to humanity and society. The ripple effects could be profound, leading to a rise in critical errors. As these models lose accuracy and reliability, the consequences could be dire — think medical misdiagnosis, financial losses and even life-threatening accidents. Another major implication is that AI development could completely stall, leaving AI systems unable to ingest new data and essentially becoming “stuck in time.” This stagnation would not only hinder progress but also trap AI in a cycle of diminishing returns, with potentially catastrophic effects on technology and society. But, practically speaking, what can enterprises do to ensure the safety of their customers and users? Before we answer that question, we need to understand how this all works. When a model collapses, reliability goes out the window The more AI-generated content spreads online, the faster it will infiltrate datasets and, subsequently, the models themselves. And it’s happening at an accelerated rate, making it increasingly difficult for developers to filter out anything that is not pure, human-created training data. The fact is, using synthetic content in training can trigger a detrimental phenomenon known as “model collapse” or “ model autophagy disorder (MAD).” Model collapse is the degenerative process in which AI systems progressively lose their grasp on the true underlying data distribution they’re meant to model. This often occurs when AI is trained recursively on content it generated, leading to a number of issues: A case in point: A study published in Nature highlighted the rapid degeneration of language models trained recursively on AI-generated text. By the ninth iteration, these models were found to be producing entirely irrelevant and nonsensical content, demonstrating the rapid decline in data quality and model utility. Safeguarding AI’s future: Steps enterprises can take today Enterprise organizations are in a unique position to shape the future of AI responsibly, and there are clear, actionable steps they can take to keep AI systems accurate and trustworthy: The future of AI depends on responsible action. Enterprises have a real opportunity to keep AI grounded in accuracy and integrity. By choosing real, human-sourced data over shortcuts, prioritizing tools that catch and filter out low-quality content, and encouraging awareness around digital authenticity, organizations can set AI on a safer, smarter path. Let’s focus on building a future where AI is both powerful and genuinely beneficial to society. Rick Song is the CEO and co-founder of Persona . DataDecisionMakers Welcome to the VentureBeat community! DataDecisionMakers is where experts, including the technical people doing data work, can share data-related insights and innovation. 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Elon Musk said retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman “has committed treason against the United States” by being “on the payroll of Ukrainian oligarchs,” and will “pay the appropriate penalty.” Musk’s comments came in response to Vindman accusing him of conspiring with Russian president Vladimir Putin. “Vindman is on the payroll of Ukrainian oligarchs and has committed treason against the United States, for which he will pay the appropriate penalty,” Musk said in a Wednesday X post. Musk was reacting to a post by another X account that shared a video of Vindman accusing the Tesla CEO of having ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and claiming Musk only supported President-elect Donald Trump in the 2024 election because Putin told him to. “We are under attack,” Vindman said in the video. “Russia has been using different levers, whether that’s corruption networks — in this case, it’s influencers like Donald Trump, like Elon Musk, to really, kind of, sow discord.” “It’s particularly troubling with Elon Musk in this case, because Elon Musk has access to State secrets. He has top secret security clearance. It’s possible that some of that is seeping through,” Vindman continued. The former Director for European Affairs went on to claim, “Putin has been very effective in playing both Trump and Elon, and he’s been using the richest man in the world to do his bidding.” “In some cases that’s encouraging him probably to support Donald Trump. That’s not speculation. We see how far in Elon has gone,” Vindman asserted. Vindman also accused Musk of using X “as a disinformation platform, adding, “This is not some sort of far off distant threat. This is going to impact our elections, it’s a national security threat.” This is not the first time Vindman has publicly attacked Musk. In August, Vindman issued a warning to Musk following the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, saying he “should be nervous” about being next. “While Durov holds French citizenship, is arrested for violating French law, this has broader implications for other social media, including Twitter,” Vindman wrote at the time. “There’s a growing intolerance for platforming disinfo & malign influence & a growing appetite for accountability,” he added. “Musk should be nervous.” Notably, Vindman testified against then-President Trump during the November 2019 House impeachment hearings, claiming the 45th president was withholding military aid to Ukraine in exchange for dirt on then-presidential candidate Joe Biden. In September, Vindman’s wife, Rachel Vindman, mocked the second assassination attempt on Trump’s life. Alana Mastrangelo is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her on Facebook and X at @ARmastrangelo , and on Instagram .Bethlehem marks a second subdued Christmas Eve during the war in Gaza