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LeBron Passes to Bronny for a 3-Pointer and the NBA’s First Father-Son Assist, League Says

LeBron Passes to Bronny for a 3-Pointer and the NBA’s First Father-Son Assist, League Says

LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James literally passed it on to the next generation Friday night. The top scorer in NBA history recorded the league’s first father-son assist when he passed to Bronny James for a 3-pointer in the second quarter of the Los Angeles Lakers ‘ game against Brooklyn. “That was a special moment for us two, and a lot more to come down the road,” Bronny said after the Lakers beat the Nets 116-99. The Lakers’ father-and-son duo played meaningful minutes together for the second straight game when the Lakers returned from a successful road trip to host the struggling Nets. Bronny James was on court with his father for nearly 4 1/2 minutes after they checked in together to start the second quarter. Both generations scored during their sequence together, with LeBron making a driving layup before he exchanged passes on the next possession with Bronny, who hit his 3-pointer from a step behind the line. “Not taking it for granted, just being in the moment of us being on the floor …

Nyne, founded by a father-son duo, gives AI agents the human context they’re missing

Nyne, founded by a father-son duo, gives AI agents the human context they’re missing

AI agents are expected to soon start making autonomous purchasing and scheduling decisions on behalf of humans. But Michael Fanous, a UC Berkeley computer science graduate and former machine learning engineer at CareRev, argues that these agents are currently missing a critical piece of the puzzle: the full context required to truly understand the people they are programmed to serve. Fanous claims that machines currently struggle to discern whether a person’s professional profile on LinkedIn, their activity on Instagram, and their public government records all belong to the same human being. To solve this, he teamed up with his father, Emad Fanous, a veteran CTO, to build Nyne, a startup aiming to become the intelligence layer that helps agents understand humans across their entire digital footprint. On Friday, Nyne announced it raised $5.3 million in seed funding led by Wischoff Ventures and South Park Commons, with participation from several angel investors, including Gil Elbaz, the co-founder of Applied Semantics and a pioneer of Google AdSense. While it may seem that Nyne is tackling an issue …