New York Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau was criticized by a former NBA star after losing Game to the Pacers.

Elon Musk's social media platform has been hit by outages on Saturday as thousands of users have reported issues.

The Trump administration has said it is ready "to expand its partnership with Greenland."

Planned Parenthood North Central States said Friday that it plans to close over a third of its health centers across Minnesota and Iowa and lay off dozens of staff members in light of looming federal funding cuts and other budget constraints.

State of play: The announcement from Minnesota's largest abortion provider came just one day after the U.S. House passed a reconciliation bill that it says would "defund" Planned Parenthood and make deep cuts to Medicaid funding.

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Driving the news: Leaders of the regional affiliate cited that move, along with the Trump administration's decision to freeze $2.8 million in Title X funds used for birth control and cancer screenings and a proposal to cut teen pregnancy prevention aid as key factors in the decision to consolidate its centers.

• Shifting patient preferences and broader challenges facing the health care sector, including stagnant reimbursement rates and staff shortages, also contributed, it said in a release.

By the numbers: Planned Parenthood North Central States (PPNCS) says it provides sexual and reproductive health care, including abortions, to an estimated 93,000 people across Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota each year.

• Over 30% of its patients rely on Medicaid, per a release.

Between the lines: While federal funds generally cannot be used for abortions, critics of abortion rights have long sought to prevent any taxpayer money from flowing to the organization.

What they're saying: PPNCS president Ruth Richardson said the "heart wrenching" decision to consolidate operations was meant to "ensure Planned Parenthood is here for years to come."

• "We have been fighting to hold together an unsustainable infrastructure as the landscape shifts around us and an onslaught of attacks continues," she said in a statement.

Zoom in: The list of eight sites slated to close in the coming year includes several in the Twin Cities metro. Four Iowa health care centers — including its only facility that provides abortions in that state — and two in Greater Minnesota will also shutter:

• Ames Health Center (Ames, Iowa)
• Alexandria Health Center (Alexandria, Minnesota)
• Apple Valley Health Center (Apple Valley, Minn.)
• Bemidji Health Center (Bemidji, Minnesota)
• Cedar Rapids Health Center (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)
• Richfield Health Center (Richfield, Minnesota)
• Sioux City Health Center (Sioux City, Iowa)
• Urbandale Health Center (Urbandale, Iowa)

Plus: PPNCS will also lay off 66 staff members and offer 37 others the opportunity to be reassigned as part of the reorganization.

Zoom out: Minnesota has seen an increase in both abortions and out-of-state patients seeking abortion care in the wake of the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

• Abortions in Iowa, meanwhile, dropped 60% in the first six months after the state began enforcing one of the nation's strictest bans.

The bottom line: Planned Parenthood said its 15 remaining health centers across the chapter's region, including about a dozen in Minnesota and Iowa, will remain open.

• Those sites, combined with virtual care, serve about 80% of its current patient population.
• "Make no mistake: care may look different but Planned Parenthood North Central States is here to stay," Richardson said.

The Detroit Tigers have been the best team in baseball despite a string of injuries, but they got good news on the health front Friday.

The Atlanta Braves DFA'd shortstop Orlando Arcia on Friday to bring back Ronald Acuña Jr. Now, they could pursue Bo Bichette from the Toronto Blue Jays.

"We were all very excited and a little surprised that he did it right away," Andi Widbin told Newsweek about the moment.

• New video shows the moment the wife of the late OceanGate CEO heard the apparent sound of the Titan sub imploding.
• "What was that bang?" Wendy Rush said after a slamming noise could be heard through a monitor on the sub's support ship.
• All five passengers on the sub were killed as it descended to view the Titanic wreck in June 2023.

Video footage released by the US Coast Guard shows the moment the wife of the late OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush heard the apparent sound of the Titan submersible imploding.

In the video, Wendy Rush, a director at the ocean tourism company — which has since suspended all operations — can be seen attempting to contact the sub from the Polar Prince support vessel when a loud slamming sound can be heard through her monitor.

"What was that bang?" she said, before receiving a message saying the sub had dropped two weights, seeming to give her the impression the trip was going to plan. Analysts say the message may have been sent shortly before the sub imploded but a delay may have caused it to come through later.

The Titan sub imploded while descending to view the wreckage of the Titanic in the North Atlantic Ocean in June 2023, killing all five people on board.

The Titan lost communication with the Polar Prince around one hour and 45 minutes into its dive, sparking a frantic search effort involving US, Canadian, and French rescuers.

The vessel's wreckage was discovered by a remotely operated vehicle four days after it went missing, around 500 meters (roughly 1,640 feet) from the bow of the Titanic, per the Coast Guard.

OceanGate cofounder Stockton Rush, pilot and adventurer Hamish Harding, businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, and former French Navy diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet were the passengers in the vessel.

OceanGate charged up to $250,000 per ticket to see the Titanic, which lies at a depth of around 12,500 feet.

A passenger waiver form for the Titan viewed by Business Insider in 2023 said the sub had successfully completed "as few as 13" out of 90 dives to the depth of the Titanic.

A new Netflix documentary scheduled to be released in June will take a closer look at what caused the tragedy.

Calling a move to block a ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035 "illegal" and "an unconstitutional attack," Newsom vowed to take the fight to court.

OpenAI's latest power move in the AI race is to cast CEO Sam Altman as a Steve Jobs for the new era.

Why it matters: Jobs remains Silicon Valley's most revered founder, and since his 2011 death no industry figure has been able to match his success at product innovation, strategy and marketing.

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Driving the news: This week OpenAI nabbed Jony Ive, the design guru who closely collaborated with Jobs to shape iconic devices like the iPhone and the iPod, to oversee a big new bet on AI hardware.

• OpenAI's promotional materials paired Altman and Ive in a video that strongly implies Altman's team-up with the Apple veteran makes him Jobs' natural successor.
• Altman has even invoked Jobs directly, saying the Apple founder would be "damn proud" of Ive's move, per Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

Reality check: It's never that smart to speculate about what a dead person would think, but Altman's suggestion sounds particularly wrongheaded.

• Jobs devoted his life to Apple and was fiercely protective of the company. At the very least he would have regretted Ive's decision to pursue his next ambitious goal outside Apple. More likely, he'd have seen it as a betrayal.

Zoom out: Every Silicon Valley founder wants to be Steve Jobs at some point, and, for many industry insiders, Altman's success at bringing ChatGPT forth from OpenAI to spark the generative-AI wave qualifies as a Jobs-like leap.

• Altman shares with Jobs a penchant for vast visionary schemes and a "reality distortion field" that persuades listeners those schemes could come true.
• As Jobs did, Altman has also sometimes alienated collaborators and left them feeling deceived.

Altman and Jobs also both experienced getting booted from the companies they founded, but in different ways.

• Jobs spent more than a decade in exile from 1985 to 1997, and many of his associates credit that period with strengthening his human skills for his second act at Apple.
• Altman returned to his CEO post just a few days after OpenAI's board fired him in November 2023.

Yes, but: There are plenty of ways in which the Altman-Jobs comparison falls short.

• Jobs was a control freak who obsessed over details and held projects back until they were well-tested.
• Altman takes more of a Zuckerberg-style "move fast and break things" approach. OpenAI ships products to the public early so users can try them out and show developers what to fix.
• Also, Jobs — who ruthlessly pruned sprawling product lines — might have found OpenAI's approach to naming and numbering product releases unwieldy.
• On the other hand, there are no reports to date that Altman likes to park his car in the accessible parking space the way Jobs famously did.

The bottom line: Every industry has its cherished icons whose legacy is fought over by successive generations. While imitating them is common, displacing them is a greater win.

• James Crosby got started in sports betting with an arbitrage strategy he learned from his roommate.
• He exploits the odds when betting against himself on multiple platforms, so he always makes a profit.
• Crosby is on track to bring in about $8,500 in just three months — but he's budgeting for taxes.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with James Crosby, a 26-year-old Deloitte consultant from Arlington, Virginia. It's been edited for length and clarity.

Online sports betting is legal in some states. Before participating, verify the legality in your specific state.

My first month doing arbitrage betting, I made a little over $2,000. The second month, I made about $2,500. This month, I'm on track to bring in more than $4,000 in pure profit.

The process is pretty straightforward: I've opened accounts on about 12 different sportsbook platforms, like FanDuel and DraftKings, and I pay to subscribe to a service call OddsJam, which helps me find the best bets. Once I've found them, I strategically bet against myself so I always turn a profit. I only use US sites.

Last week, I bet on Alex Ovechkin for the Capitals versus the Hurricanes playoff game in hockey. On one sports betting platform, I bet $100 to win $150 that Alex Ovechkin would get over three and a half shots on goal. That meant my total payout would be $250 because I would get my $100 back plus the $150 in profit.

During the same game, on another betting site, I had the exact opposite bet, where I bet Alex would get under three and a half shots on goal. The chances were betting $130 to win $119, so my total payout would be $249.

So, for both bets, I had a total wager of $230. But because one of the bets had to win and the other bet had to lose, my payout would either be $249 or $250, and I was guaranteed either $19 or $20 in profit, depending on the outcome.

Most of the time, I'm betting between $50 and $100 to win $3 to $4, but it all adds up.

For the returns I'm getting, I needed initial capital of about $20,000 and maybe one to two hours per day. But anyone can really be profitable with this.

The name of the game is maximizing your return on investment, so the more that you put in, the more profitable you will be. Each one of the bets you're making is going to have a profit margin between 3% and 4% — so if you have $1,000, you're going to make $30 or $40 bucks. If you only have $100, you're going to make $3 or $4. Even paying for the subscription to OddsJam, it really does pay for itself very quickly.

There's a bit of a catch

Online arbitrage betting is legal, depending on the state you're in, but of course, the sportsbook sites don't really like it because they're losing money. Each platform has different terms of service, but when they catch you — and they will because they have algorithms dedicated to detecting these kinds of bets — your account will probably get restricted so you can't bet as much money. That means you'll have to play more often or bet on more games to see the same returns.

If you're betting on very obscure sports that aren't usually bet on — like you're betting $2,000 that some cricket game in India is going to go a certain way — they're going to be able to figure out that you're probably arbitraging. So you can kind of mitigate the risk by not taking bets that are super obscure and just doing more main lines that are very, very common, which will help you remain undetected for a while.

I would say you could probably last a week or two on average before the casinos catch on. I lasted around two weeks on most of my sports books, but there were a couple that got me within three or four days, so I wasn't able to be super profitable on them, but it was still fun in the first couple of days to take advantage of the bigger bets.

You'd think it would probably be in the site's best interest to disband your account if you were just exploiting them and taking money from them. But, as arbitrage betters, we actually do provide a little bit of value to the sportsbook sites, because they can study an arbitrage player's activity for signals on where they can tighten up their odds.

It's actually kind of like a value feedback loop where we provide a service — almost like consulting — and help them make sure that other players aren't taking advantage of them and getting bets at a better value than they should be, which allows them to stay more profitable over time, and in return, they allow us to use their platform to place these bets, knowing that we'll probably squeeze out a little bit of profit.

I learned about arbitrage betting from my roommate, who has been doing it for years. He's been averaging between $30,000 and $40,000 a year with this side hustle and bought himself a Tesla with his winnings. I knew he was doing it, but I was always kind of skeptical of the time commitment that it would take, the amount of starting capital I would need, and the learning curve behind it, because it seemed kind of complex.

I finally started in March because I figured I would just give it a shot. I wanted an easy way to earn extra money because I've been worried about the job market. It ended up being really, really easy once I put a little bit of time into it, and it wasn't overly complicated, so my roommate and I started a blog and social media channels to teach other people our strategy.

One thing you have to keep in mind is taxes. Every state and player is different, but I know that I'll have to pay taxes of around 20% of my earnings. So I've accounted for that, and I put that portion in a fund that's allocated to low-risk stocks, so hopefully I don't lose any of that money. But even taking that money into account, it feels worthwhile.

I'm assuming I'll be able to keep this going because my roommate's been doing it for years, and he's been able to remain profitable. So there's no end in sight, hopefully. I'm hoping that in the future, my winnings could serve as a down payment on a house, a wedding ring for my girlfriend, a new car, or just, you know, a fallback fund if things go really south and I lose my job or something like that especially with the economy the way it is.

I have no idea exactly where I'll spend the money, but my plan is to save it and invest it wisely.

Do you have a unique side hustle, or has your side hustle replaced your full-time job? Email Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert at [email protected].

• I decided to move from Los Angeles to Paris to live with my boyfriend.
• Getting there was difficult because I had to set up my visa and bank accounts.
• Eight years later, I'm so happy I made the move because life is easier here.

I had always wanted to live outside the US — to experience the world and myself in a new way. But when the opportunity finally came, I didn't realize how difficult it would be.

In 2017, I was 46 and dating a French man. After visiting the city of lights several times, I decided to move from my home in Los Angeles to Paris so I could be with him.

While the move sounded like a fairy tale, it wasn't always easy. Still, all the struggle was worth it in the end.

Before the move, there was a lot of paperwork

First, I had to figure out which visa I could legally apply for. There was a visa for talent (my acting career was not exactly on fire), a family visa (I had a boyfriend, not a fiancé), a student visa (I was not enrolled at a French university), and a long-stay visa. For the long-stay visa, I only had to have enough in the bank to support myself for a year and a place to stay in Paris. That worked perfectly for me.

I muddled through the paperwork and made my appointment at the French consulate in Los Angeles before my next trip to Paris. I could stay with my boyfriend until I found a place. But when I got there, the woman behind the desk said I would have to have an original document from him stating that I was "welcome in his home."

We laughed about that and in the end decided to get a new apartment together. I was shocked when we applied for four different apartments before we were approved.

In the meantime, I was trying to get my French phone set up and a bank account. At the time, French banks required me to fill out miles of paperwork. It wasn't easy.

Adjusting to the culture wasn't smooth either

Once I was settled, I got a tutor. I had studied French in high school but hadn't spoken it in years. I was surprised to find that many people here preferred to speak French over English with me, even though I knew very little of the language.

I also learned that if you can speak at least functional French, you'll get much better treatment by everyone, from the transport police who monitor the Metro to your local fishmonger at the farmers market.

Beyond the language itself, I needed to learn the cultural norms. One day, for example, I walked into a Starbucks, hoping for a bit of home.

The girl behind the counter said, "Bonjour." I immediately launched into my order, but the barista stared back and repeated, "Bonjour," this time with stern eyes.

I quickly learned it's rude to start a conversation with anything but "bonjour" in France. I kept finding myself in awkward situations because I was unknowingly being a rude American.

Over the years that followed, there were more culture bumps, but I learned to adapt.

The move from the US to France was worth it in the end

My partner and I are now in a civil partnership, which has allowed me to stay in France for the last eight years.

For almost a decade now, I've learned to adapt to the Parisian life. I've learned to eat fruits and vegetables in season, like artichokes in February and strawberries in May. I know what I'm buying at the farmers market will always be the freshest.

I continue to be impressed by this beautiful country, from the history to the architecture. Life moves at a slower pace here. I don't have to drive because public transport is terrific. Paid vacation time is plentiful. Plus, healthcare is much cheaper here than in the US.

Now, many of my friends are looking to flee California, citing the fires, the high cost of housing, and traffic.

I tell them all to come join me in France. Sure, it's annoying when you sometimes sit down in a café and it's 15 minutes before you even have a menu, but that's France. You're meant to just sit back and relax here.

The pair have been inseparable since 2021 and always ensure they have a daily cuddle.

The AI industry unleashed a torrent of major announcements this week, accelerating the race to control how humans search, create and ultimately integrate AI into the fabric of everyday life.

Why it matters: The breakneck pace of innovation — paired with the sky-high ambitions of tech's capitalist titans — is reshaping the AI landscape faster than regulators or the public can fully comprehend.

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1. OpenAI: The ChatGPT maker joined forces with legendary Apple designer Jony Ive, acquiring his startup io in a $6.5 billion deal to create a new generation of hardware devices.

• Glitzy promotional materials framed the deal as a historic marriage of Silicon Valley royalty, with CEO Sam Altman predicting a tech revolution unlike anything the world has ever seen.
• Privately, Altman told staff that he and Ive aim to ship 100 million pocket-sized AI "companions" starting late next year — a moonshot he claimed could create $1 trillion in value for OpenAI, the WSJ reports.
• A day later, OpenAI announced it would build a massive Stargate data center in Abu Dhabi in partnership with the UAE government, Oracle, Nvidia, Cisco, SoftBank, and Emirati AI firm G42.

2. Google: The tech giant made 100 announcements at its I/O developer conference — chief among them, a new "AI Mode" chatbot that CEO Sundar Pichai described as a "total reimagining of search."

• For Google, it's a necessary but thorny shift — one that will force the company to replicate its lucrative ad business in an experience that bears little resemblance to the current web.
• Google also unveiled Veo 3, a stunningly advanced video model that lit the internet on fire — amazing and horrifying users with AI-generated clips nearly indistinguishable from human-made content.

3. Anthropic: The startup hosted its own developer conferenec and debuted the first models in its latest Claude 4 series — including one, Claude Opus 4, that it says is the world's best at coding.

• Anthropic said Claude Opus 4 can perform thousands of steps over hours of work without losing focus — and decided it's so powerful that researchers had to institute new safety controls.
• While that determination had to do with its potential to create nuclear and biological weaponry, researchers also found that Claude Opus 4 can conceal intentions and take actions to preserve its own existence — including by blackmailing its engineers.

4. Apple: As the tech world obsessed over Ive's new partnership with OpenAI, Bloomberg reported that the notoriously secretive Apple intends to release smart AI-enabled glasses before the end of 2026.

• The rumored device — a direct rival to Meta's popular Ray-Bans and forthcoming specs from Google — would include a camera, microphones, and a speaker, effectively turning an Apple-designed wearable into an everyday AI assistant.
• It's a major bet for the dominant consumer tech giant, which has struggled to crack into the generative AI space after years of setbacks in revamping Siri into a competitive voice assistant.

The bottom line: This week's frenzy was as much a competition to steal headlines — and fight for the hearts and minds of developers — as it was a major leap toward defining how AI will shape the next decade.

• The US Navy destroyer USS Stockdale came under Houthi fire multiple times last year.
• The Stockdale's captain, then the executive officer, described to BI what it was like to battle the rebels.
• He said his heart was racing and that seeing the warship's missiles launch was "unlike anything else."

Cdr. Jacob Beckelhymer remembers vividly the first time his warship came under attack in the Red Sea.

It was late September of last year, and the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Stockdale was already several months into its lengthy Middle East deployment. Beckelhymer, then the warship's executive officer, knew that the ship and its sailors could be pulled into combat at any moment against the Iran-backed Houthis who had been launching missiles and drones into shipping lanes.

"We went into it with the expectation that there was a high probability that we would come under fire," he told Business Insider in a recent interview.

When the attack came, the destroyer was prepared. Sailors had received their pre-briefing, and the crew was well-rested. The watch teams were ready.

That day, the Houthi rebels fired a barrage of missiles and drones.

Beckelhymer was in the pilot house with the warship's commanding officer and watched as the bridge team, from lieutenants down to junior sailors, performed as they were trained. He said he experienced a heart rate increase and some excitement. Seeing a surface-to-air missile come out of the launchers for real, and not in a training scenario, is "unlike anything else."

Beckelhymer recalls thinking about his composure. He briefly thought about how he'd always wanted to teach his eldest daughter how to ride a bike. The most pressing thought, though, was that the destroyer needed to make it home.

A mix of Navy warships in the Red Sea, including the Stockdale, thwarted the Houthi attack.

Beckelhymer said that "the biggest takeaway" for him "was how quickly we did the things that we were supposed to, we reset, and then we all got back on the same page to do it again."

The Stockdale came under Houthi fire several times during its combat-packed deployment, which ended in February. The Navy said that the destroyer "successfully repelled" multiple attacks, shooting down a tough combination of drones and missiles and emerging unscathed each time.

"The mission sets that we performed over there were a combination of standard missile defense, contested straight transit, and civilian escort," said Beckelhymer, who is now the Stockdale's commanding officer.

"We had occasion to use weapons in defense of ourselves and ships in company a number of times. In all of those instances, the team responded really, really great," he told BI. "We didn't incur any sort of stress reactions. The overall resilience of the crew was great."

Several weeks after Stockdale returned to its homeport in San Diego, the destroyer deployed again — this time to the waters off the coast of southern California, where, until recently, it supported the US military's southern border mission. Two other warships that fought the Houthis also participated in these operations.

While the threat environment was different in the Pacific compared to the Red Sea, Beckelhymer said the approach to the mission was relatively similar, even if Stockdale's weapons system was placed in a different configuration.

"It takes every single person on board this ship, all-in, every single day, to operate safely at sea," he said. "Whether you're off the coast of California or you're in the Red Sea, the business that we do is inherently dangerous. And flight operations, small boat operations, underway replenishment — all of those things take our collective focus."

Beckelhymer said he saw his crew's confidence grow consistently from September until the end of the most recent deployment. The sailors, he said, had every reason to be proud of their abilities. Receiving the training is one thing, but it's another to be tested in real-world conditions and have everything validated.

"We experienced that in the Red Sea, and I think we experienced that again over the last 40-ish days off the coast of California," he said. "When the Navy needs us, Stockdale is ready."

A breakdown of critical courtroom moments in Sean Combs' star-studded sex trafficking trial in New York, which is expected to last until early July.

The new tower is to be constructed in the western coastal city of Jeddah.

Stem cell therapy is crucial for Lydia, diagnosed with cerebral palsy due to a loss of brain matter that cannot regenerate.

King Charles will walk a diplomatic tightrope as he opens Canada's Parliament for the first time, 48 years after his mother.

A Guatemalan man, identified as O.C.G., was deported to Mexico despite fears over his safety following violent attacks.