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NoneFARGO — True freshman Jackson Williams delivered a second-quarter lightning bolt that got No. 2-seeded North Dakota State rolling Saturday at the Fargodome. With the Bison facing a two-touchdown deficit, Williams returned a kickoff 100 yards for a score. That big play sparked a 51-31 victory against No. 15-seeded Abilene Christian in the second round of the NCAA Division I FCS playoffs before 10,373 fans. The Bison (11-2) advanced to the FCS quarterfinals and are slated to host No. 7-seeded Mercer next weekend. NDSU improved to 36-1 in the Fargodome during the FCS playoffs. Abilene Christian built a 14-point lead at Gate City Bank Field before Williams' kickoff return started a string of 31 unanswered NDSU points. Bison quarterback Cam Miller completed 20 of 29 passes for 274 yards and three touchdowns with one interception. The Bison defense started the second half with a momentum-building play. Junior linebacker Logan Kopp had a strip sack and then returned the fumble to the ACU 28-yard line with 12 minutes, 12 seconds to play in the third quarter. Moments later, Miller scored on a 1-yard TD run for a 27-17 lead with 10:38 remaining in the third. The Bison scored the final 17 points of the opening half and that surge continued after halftime. Bison running back TK Marshall caught a 30-yard touchdown pass from Miller for a 34-17 lead with 6:08 remaining in the third quarter to end the run of 31 unanswered points. That capped a 60-yard drive in four plays. Abilene Christian running back Sam Hicks countered with a 3-yard TD run to cut the Bison lead to 34-24 with 3:23 to play in the third quarter and slow the NDSU momentum. Bison receiver Bryce Lance countered with a 36-yard TD catch for a 41-24 lead with 40 seconds to play in the third quarter. NDSU scored 21 points in the third quarter to build a double-digit cushion. ACU didn't relent. Running back Rovaughn Banks scored on a 2-yard TD run to cut the NDSU lead to 41-31 with 11:11 to play in the fourth quarter. Bison linebacker Marcus Gulley intercepted a pass he returned to the ACU 9-yard line. That set up a Griffin Crosa 23-yard field goal for a 44-31 lead with 3:34 remaining. Kopp slammed the door with a 31-yard interception return for a TD and a 51-31 lead with 3:24 to play in the fourth quarter. The Bison scored first. Crosa hit a 22-yard field goal to give the Bison a 3-0 lead with 8:52 remaining in the first quarter. NDSU had a first-and-goal at the ACU 6-yard line before the game's opening drive eventually stalled. The 72-yard drive took 12 plays. ACU answered with the next 17 points. J.J. Henry caught a 13-yard touchdown pass to give Abilene Christian a 7-3 lead with 2:45 remaining in the first quarter. The drive covered 75 yards in 12 plays. Hicks added a 90-yard touchdown run to give the Wildcats a 14-3 lead on the final play of the first quarter. ACU had 170 yards on 13 plays in the opening 15 minutes. Ritse Vaes hit a 29-yard field goal to give the Wildcats a 17-3 lead with 10:35 to play in the first half. That came after a Kaghen Roach interception gave the Wildcats the ball at the NDSU 13-yard line. Moments later, the 5-foot-11, 177-pound Williams delivered his 100-yard kickoff return for a TD to trim the ACU lead to 17-10 with 10:24 remaining in the second quarter. Crosa hit a 37-yard field goal to cut the ACU lead to 17-13 with 5:58 remaining in the first half. RaJa Nelson caught a 6-yard TD pass to give the Bison a 20-17 lead with 21 seconds to play in the second quarter. That capped a 66-yard drive in nine plays.
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Miami probably was one win away from getting into the College Football Playoff. Iowa State definitely was one win away. Their consolation prize of sorts: playing one another. The Hurricanes and Cyclones — a meteorological matchup — have accepted bids to the Pop-Tarts Bowl, to be played Dec. 28 in Orlando, Florida. Iowa State (10-3) is looking for its first 11-win season in the program's 133-year history, and Miami (10-2) is seeking its first 11-win season since 2003. Miami's loss at Syracuse to close the regular season wound up being the game the Hurricanes could point to as the reason they missed out on the CFP. Iowa State could have played its way in and lost the Big 12 title game to CFP-bound Arizona State on Saturday. “I think everyone that doesn't get in feels disappointment,” Miami coach Mario Cristobal said. “We feel the onus of just doing better. Just do better, go forward, have an opportunity to get better.” It's essentially the same task for both teams: regrouping after seeing the playoff slip away. “I think that’s what’s made Iowa State football really special is our ability to have great resiliency," Cyclones coach Matt Campbell said. "And I know our kids are super-excited about the opportunity to finish off. Obviously (Saturday) was disappointing. But this group and this football team has the opportunity to just continue to fight.” A big question for Miami: whether quarterback Cam Ward will play. The likely Heisman Trophy finalist has thrown for 155 touchdown passes in his career at Incarnate Word, Washington State and Miami. That’s tied for the most by anyone in Division I (FBS and FCS) history; Case Keenum threw 155 in his career at Houston. Many draft-bound players not in the playoff will be opting out of bowl games over the coming weeks. There's been no indication from Miami yet that Ward or any other draft-bound player has made a decision. “I think it’s important that our guys, anyone playing and closing out the season, understands the importance of that next step for a program like ours," Cristobal said. "And I think our guys do.” 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-footballWhat's next for Matt Gaetz: 5 possibilities
American Airlines: Left Far BehindThe question sounds so basic and friendly. But it’s actually loaded, as many mothers can attest. “Do you just love getting to be home with him all the time?” asks the younger, more put-together woman in the supermarket. “Must be so wonderful.” Wonderful, of course — and sometimes brain-numbing and soul-draining too, some exhausted fulltime moms might reply. Especially if, like in Marielle Heller’s they’d left their prized art gallery job to this other woman. And so Adams responds, twice, showing in this very opening scene exactly why her typically brave, brutally frank performance lifts this movie from an oddly uneven script to something unequivocally worth seeing. First we get the honest answer, the one no one really gives until later in the shower: she feels “stuck inside of a prison of my own creation,” where she torments herself and ends up binge-eating Fig Newtons to keep from crying. She is angry all the time. Oh and, she has gotten dumber. Then we rewind and director-writer Heller has Adams give her real answer: “I do, I love it! I love being a Mom.” There we are, two minutes and 13 seconds into “Nightbitch” and you may already find yourself wowed by Adams. If not, just wait until her Mother is sitting at a chic restaurant with a bunch of colleagues from the art world, and her fangs come out. And we don’t mean figuratively. We mean literally. Let’s go back to the beginning, shall we? “Nightbitch” is based on the 2021 novel by Rachel Yoder, a feminist fable that the author has said came from her own malaise when pausing work for child-rearing. She sets her tale in an unidentified suburb of an unidentified city. Mother (characters all have generic names), formerly an admired installation artist, spends her weekdays alone with her adorable, blond 2-year old Son. Husband has a job that seems to bring him home only on weekends. The early scenes depicting Mother’s life are tight and impactful, a contrast to the confused havoc that will come toward the end of the film. Life revolves around the playground and the home, with occasional trips to storytime at the library where she notes, in narration, that she has no interest in the company of other moms — why should they be friends just because they’re moms? In fact, Mother lives in solitude, and director Heller does a nice job illustrating how that feels. You can almost feel the weight of the afternoon coming around, at this comfortable but hardly ostentatious home, when it’s too early for dinner and you’ve done all the activities already and you wonder if you can make it through the day. Then things start to get weird. In the bathroom mirror, Mother starts noticing things. Her teeth are getting sharper. There’s something weird coming out of an apparent cyst at the bottom of her spine. She finds extra nipples. And that’s before she starts eating rare meat. (Also, if you love cats, you may want to close your eyes at one point.) Somehow Adams, who also produces here, makes these things seem, if not quite natural, then logical. What’s happening is that Mother’s frustration is becoming ferocious. Dangerously ferocious. But also — empowering. At night, or so she thinks, she is a wild dog. Aspects of the film work wonderfully. Mother’s relationship with Son (twins Arleigh and Emmett Snowden) is lovely, largely due to a decision to let the young boys talk freely, with the adult actors reacting to their words. It lends a grounding realism to a film that quickly veers surreal. Less successful is the relationship between Mother and Husband (Scoot McNairy), which takes on too much importance as the film goes on, in a baffling way. (Also, just asking, has anyone in this movie ever heard of a babysitter?) More importantly, a story that posits itself on such a tantalizing idea — that by transforming into a dog, Mother discovers her true nature and power — resorts late in the game to a safer story about a marriage that never seemed appealing enough for us to care about anyway. It doesn’t help that it’s hard to grasp the distracting subplot about Mother’s own mother. None of this takes away from the strength of Adams’ performance. You believe her love for her child as much as you believe her resentment for what he is taking away from her. And Adams can make almost any line work, including one about a walnut. But we digress. It’s an irony that for reasons of storytelling, characters have generic names — because Adams is such a singular and particular talent. The journey she embarks upon is bizarre indeed, but you won’t regret taking it with her. “Nightbitch,” a Searchlight Pictures release, has been rated R by the Motion Picture Association “for language and some sexuality. “ Running time: 98 minutes. Two stars out of four.
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Each bank will now prepare an individual action plan including problem statements and the timeline and construct of these events," a bank executive said on condition of anonymity. Another banker said some lenders have already taken such initiatives at their own level. " Bank of Baroda held an online hackathon on generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in collaboration with Microsoft. State Bank of India has its own innovation hub, but now, as per the government suggestion, this will be a collaborative effort," the executive said, adding that banks are also looking to set up a committee to identify issues in these sectors. 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Geoffrey Hinton says he doesn’t regret the work he did that laid the foundations of artificial intelligence, but wishes he thought of safety sooner. The British-Canadian computer scientist often called the godfather of AI said over the weekend that he doesn’t have any guilty regret, which he said is when someone has done something when they know they shouldn’t have at the time. “In the same circumstances, I would do the same again,” he said of his research, which dates back to the 1980s and has formed the underpinnings of AI. “However, I think it might have been unfortunate in that we're going to get superintelligence faster than I thought, and I wish I'd thought about safety earlier.” Superintelligence surpasses the abilities of even the smartest humans. Hinton thinks it could arrive in the next five to 20 years and humanity may have to “worry seriously about how we stay in control.” Hinton made his prediction during a press conference in Stockholm, where he is due to a receive the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday. Hinton, a University of Toronto professor emeritus, and co-laureate John Hopfield, a Princeton University professor, are being given the prize because they developed some of the foundations of machine learning, a computer science that helps AI mimic how humans learn. Hinton kicked off his Nobel week on Saturday with the press conference, where he appeared with laureates in chemistry and economics and was asked about AI safety and regulation. Hinton left a job at Google last year to speak more freely about the technology's dangers, which he has said could include job losses, bias and discrimination, echo chambers, fake news, battle robots and even the end of humanity. On Saturday, he said he considers lethal autonomous weapons to be a short-term danger. "There isn't going to be any regulation there," he said, pointing out that European regulations have a specific clause exempting military use of AI from restrictions. "Governments are unwilling to regulate themselves, when it comes to lethal autonomous weapon, and there is an arms race going on between all the major arms suppliers like the United States, China, Russia, Britain, Israel and possibly even Sweden, though I don't know." A day later, Hinton put his concerns about AI aside to deliver a lecture with Hopfield explaining the research that earned them their Nobel. "Today I am going to do something very foolish." Hinton said in introducing his portion of the pair's hour-long speech. "I am going to try and describe a complicated technical idea for a general audience without using any equations." The audience chuckled. The talk began with Hopfield describing a network he invented that could store and reconstruct images in data. It led Hinton to later create the Boltzmann machine, which learns from examples, rather than instructions, and when trained, can recognize familiar characteristics in information, even if it has not seen that data before. Hinton said students in his lab and others run by fellow AI pioneers Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun were using Boltzmann machines to pre-train neural networks — machine learning models that make decisions in a manner similar to the human brain — between 2006 and 2011. By 2009, two of Hinton's students had showed the technique "worked a little bit better than the best existing techniques for recognizing fragments of phonemes in speech and that then changed the speech recognition community," Hinton said. Phonemes are small units of sound that can change the meaning of a word. Google later began working on technology based on Hinton's discoveries and "suddenly the speech recognition on the Android got a lot better." Even though the kind of Boltzmann machines Hinton was working with back then are no longer used in the same ways as he used them, he said "they allowed us to make the transition from thinking that deep neural networks would never work to seeing that deep neural networks actually could be made to work." Nobel Week will continue Monday with a discussion about the future of health before an awards ceremony and banquet is held Tuesday. Hinton has said he will donate a portion of the prize money — equivalent to about C$1.45 million — he and Hopfield will be given to Water First, which is working to boost Indigenous access to water, and a charity supporting neurodiverse young adults. He is also reportedly due to donate an early Boltzmann chip to the Nobel Prize Museum. The Nobel is not the only prize Hinton scooped up this month. On Friday, he, Bengio, LeCun, Chinese-American computer scientist Fei-Fei Li and Nvidia founder Jensen Huang, were awarded the Vin Future Prize, a US$3 million prize for science breakthroughs in a ceremony in Vietnam. Hinton, Bengio and LeCun previously won the A.M. Turing Award, known as the Nobel Prize of computing, together in 2018. This report by The Canadian Press was first published on Dec. 8, 2024. Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press'Squid Game' Season 2 Sparks Backlash After Normal Man Cast as TransgenderLeslies stock plunges to 52-week low at $2.24 amid market challenges
