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California better wake up to the DeepSeek threat.  Released last week, the Chinese company’s website claimed its new R1 artificial intelligence model sported “performance on par with OpenAI-o1.” OpenAI is the San Francisco-based company headed by Sam Altman. Its main product is ChatGPT. DeepSeek’s release touted that it included, “Fully open-source model & technical report.” I used DeepSeek for a generic explanation of what that means: “a machine learning model and its accompanying documentation that are made publicly available.” In other words, programmers can check it and play around with it. Unlike OpenAI and other proprietary AIs.  Notably, the New…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Lakers have made it clear with their words and recent actions that they want to be a great team.And for the first 12 minutes of their 112-107 victory over the lowly Charlotte Hornets on Monday night, they played like one.Anthony Davis dominated early with a 21-point, 11-rebound first quarter double-double to go with a pair of blocked shots as the Lakers sprinted to a 29-6 lead.Davis outscored and outrebounded the Hornets by himself in the opening quarter, with the Lakers’ smothering defense holding Charlotte to just 19 first-quarter points, allowing the Lakers to take a 20-point…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Starting forward Rui Hachimura and backup gaurd Gabe Vincent weren’t available for the Lakers’ game against the Charlotte Hornets on Monday night, but the team expects them to play again before the six-game “Grammy” trip concludes.Hachimura missed his second consecutive game because of left calf soreness while Vincent sat out because of left knee soreness.Vincent bumped knees with Golden State Warriors forward Andrew Wiggins during the third quarter of Saturday’s win to kick off the trip.Hachimura missed Saturday’s game because of the calf ailment.Monday’s game was the first night of a back-to-back for the Lakers, who face…

I love the Sparks’ trade for Kelsey Plum.Let’s start here: It’s a freakin’ trade!Remember those, NBA fans? When it didn’t take a miracle for teams to actually make a deal? That pre-apron world, before new collective bargaining agreement’s onerous rules didn’t go so far to infringe on the types of trades high-spending teams were allowed to make?When fans were – for better or worse – hooked on transactions, and every season the trade deadline was guaranteed to be a breathless, dramatic affair? When the game beside the game was doing more to capture the public’s interest than the basketball itself?You…

LOS ANGELES  — A Rancho Cucamonga woman was sentenced Monday to more than 3 years in prison in a long-running case over a business that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the United States to deliver babies who automatically became American citizens.U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner gave Phoebe Dong a 41-month sentence and ordered her immediately taken into custody from his federal court in Los Angeles. Dong and her husband were convicted in September of conspiracy and money laundering through their company, USA Happy Baby.The sentencing came as birthright citizenship has been thrust into the spotlight in the United States with the return of…

Seeking to build off a pair of complete performances at home, the Ducks journeyed to Seattle to try to tame the Kraken on Tuesday night.The Ducks won their last two games and scored five goals in consecutive contests for the first time in two years. Still the lowest-scoring team in the NHL overall, they’ve crossed the five-goal threshold in only seven matches this season, though one of them was a 5-2 win in Seattle on Nov. 27. That game bucked another trend by snapping a head-to-head win streak of eight games for the Kraken.That was also the last multipoint game…

Humanoid robots are no longer a distant vision of the future — they’re quickly becoming a reality, and some of the world’s most ambitious companies are leading the charge. Nvidia, Tesla, and Amazon aren’t simply experimenting with humanoid robotics; they’re shaping the foundation of a future where these robots are as ubiquitous as smartphones.Nvidia is planning to expand past AI in 2025 and launch Jetson Thor, a computing platform for humanoid robots. In 2024, Tesla gave a sneak peek at its Optimus robot, which Elon Musk described as potentially more valuable than Tesla’s entire car business. And Amazon’s deployment of…

Roosevelt High boys basketball standout Brayden Burries and Etiwanda girls basketball stars Grace Knox and Aliyahna “Puff” Morris were among the 48 high school players across the nation chosen to participate in the 2025 McDonald’s All-American Games.Grace Knox #23 of Etiwanda Shoots against Archbishop Mitty in the first half of a CIF State Open Division girls basketball game at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento on Saturday, March 9, 2024. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)The McDonald’s All-American Games are the most prestigious high school basketball all-star events. This year’s games will be played April 1 at Barclays Center…

Last Monday was a big day for presidential clemency, but that does not mean it was a good day. Both outgoing President Joe Biden and incoming President Donald Trump used that power in self-interested, shortsighted ways, sacrificing the public interest to benefit political allies and, in Biden’s case, family members.Biden granted preemptive pardons to five relatives, former COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci, former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley and the members of the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Those pardons were necessary, he argued, to prevent his successor from pursuing…

A Redlands High School team has again captured the county’s mock trial crown.Team Blue won the San Bernardino County Mock Trial on Saturday, Jan. 25, emerging from a field of 23 teams to claim victory at the San Bernardino Justice Center.It was the second year in a row that the the school’s blue team earned the county title — and the 17th time a Redlands High team won the contest.The 17-member Team Blue defeated crosstown rival Redlands East Valley High School, which finished in second place. The Redlands High team will now head to state competition in March.Markus Calip, a…