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News.com.au
20-07-2025
- Business
- News.com.au
Harley Reid's contract demand revealed as rumours swirl
Harley Reid's future may remain in the West after his management approached the Eagles to discuss potential contract extensions beyond 2026. The 20-year-old has been linked with a move back to Victoria once his rookie contract expires, but new details on his future have emerged. FOX FOOTY, available on Kayo Sports, is the only place to watch every match of every round in the 2025 Toyota AFL Premiership Season LIVE in 4K, with no ad-breaks during play. New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1. Journalist Ryan Daniels reported on Triple M a number of options had been presented to the club about what a new deal could look like. One contract stipulation is reportedly a 'long-term commitment', news that would be music to the ears of the fan base. 'There's been a bit of a twist in this one because nothing has happened for quite a while and I can tell you the latest with this one is a bit of a strange one because my understanding is Harley's management have put some options to the West Coast Eagles to stay,' Daniels said on Triple M. 'One of them in particular is a very long deal, I don't know the specific number of years but it was described to me as very long as I think you could imagine would be nine or 10-year range. 'It would have to be between 15 and 20 million, and I would say we're heading closer to the 20 million … if you're talking 10 years into the future (salaries will go up in that time). 'I found this fascinating, the West Coast Eagles have had these presented to them weeks ago, and they haven't necessarily done anything with it just yet. 'I just found it fascinating that instead of the Eagles putting the offer on the table to consider all these options … we've now had a conversation 'well what about this?' 'And it's got a potential for Harley to have a look at a very long-term deal that will keep him at the West Coast Eagles and clearly there is some interest from Harley's side. 'That is a pretty significant update on that situation and I know there is going to be a meeting in the next few days between West Coast and Harley's management to discuss the specifics.' Eagles coach Andrew McQualter, speaking after the club's loss to Richmond, conceded too much was being asked of Reid, at a time where his future remains unclear after next year. 'We're aware we've got a 20-year-old carrying our midfield,' McQualter said. 'It's not an easy position for him. 'I thought Harley was by far our best player … I love the way he went about it. 'I loved his team first approach, the way he attacked the ball. He was inspirational to his teammates. 'As a team, we have to find more people and players and ways to not rely on one person. There's no AFL team ever that relies on one player to be good. 'He's absolutely in (at West Coast) – he is a competitor. He's wanting to do everything to get this club out of this position.'
West Australian
04-07-2025
- Sport
- West Australian
Ryan Daniels: Why retiring Fremantle great Michael Walters will go down as one of most-loved Dockers
opinion Ryan Daniels: Why retiring Fremantle great Michael Walters will go down as one of most-loved Dockers
Time of India
29-06-2025
- Business
- Time of India
The ‘Big' reason why you must carefully read Facebook and Instagram's terms and conditions
After years of training its generative AI models on billions of public images from Facebook and Instagram , Meta is reportedly seeking access to billions of photos users haven't publicly uploaded, sparking fresh privacy debates. While the social media giant explicitly states it is not currently training its AI models on these private photos, the company has declined to clarify whether it might do so in the future or what rights it will hold over these images, a report has said. The new initiative, first reported by TechCrunch on Friday (June 27) sees Facebook users encountering pop-up messages when attempting to post to Stories. These prompts ask users to opt into "cloud processing," which would allow Facebook to "select media from your camera roll and upload it to our cloud on a regular basis." The stated purpose is to generate "ideas like collages, recaps, AI restyling or themes like birthdays or graduations." The report notes that by agreeing to this feature, users also consent to Meta's AI terms, which permit the analysis of "media and facial features" from these unpublished photos, alongside metadata like creation dates and the presence of other people or objects. Users also grant Meta the right to "retain and use" this personal information. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Free P2,000 GCash eGift UnionBank Credit Card Apply Now Undo Meta used public, not private, data train its generative AI models According to The Verge, Meta recently acknowledged that it used data from all public content published on Facebook and Instagram since 2007 to train its generative AI models. Although the company stated it only used public posts from adult users over 18, it has remained vague about the precise definition of 'public' and what constituted an 'adult user' in 2007. Meta public affairs manager , Ryan Daniels, has reiterated to the publication that this new 'cloud processing' feature is not currently used for training its AI models, a, told The Verge, "[The story by the publication] implies we are currently training our AI models with these photos, which we aren't. This test doesn't use people's photos to improve or train our AI models," Maria Cubeta, a Meta comms manager, was quoted as saying. Cubeta also described the feature as 'very early,' innocuous, and entirely opt-in, stating, "Camera roll media may be used to improve these suggestions, but are not used to improve AI models in this test." Furthermore, while Meta also said that opting in grants permission to retrieve only 30 days' worth of camera roll data at a time, Meta's own terms suggest some data retention may be longer. 'Camera roll suggestions based on themes, such as pets, weddings and graduations, may include media that is older than 30 days,' Meta's says. Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold After 1 Year: Is It STILL My Daily Driver? (Long-Term Review) AI Masterclass for Students. Upskill Young Ones Today!– Join Now
West Australian
20-06-2025
- Sport
- West Australian
Ryan Daniels: The new names on my third annual Platinum Players list and why two will be on their for a decade
opinion Ryan Daniels: The new names on my third annual Platinum Players list and why two will be on their for a decade
Yahoo
18-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Sequoia-backed Crosby launches a new kind of AI-powered law firm
The tech industry talks a lot about how AI is going to transform work. Legal startup Crosby, which just came out of stealth with a $5.8 million seed round led by Sequoia, is perhaps the most extreme example of what's coming that we've seen to date. Crosby isn't just making AI software for lawyers – although it is doing that. Crosby is an actual law firm using AI to provide legal services at a speed never before possible. Rather than selling tech to lawyers, Crosby has hired lawyers who use its internally developed AI software. It sells contract-review legal services, largely to startups. The company is currently promising that its AI software, with human overseers, can review a new client contract in under an hour. And it hopes to get that down even faster – perhaps to just minutes, according to its co-founder CTO John Sarihan, who spoke with TechCrunch. Ryan Daniels, Crosby's co-founder and CEO, is a lawyer himself and the son of two law professors. He cut his teeth at Cooley, one of the biggest firms that represents the tech industry. He then spent the better part of a decade doing general counsel work for startups. 'My last company, where I was the only legal person, grew from about 10 to 100 people, and I found that most of the time that I was spending on legal was for our contracts, sales agreements, [and] MSAs,' Daniels said, referring to the part of a customer contract known as a master service agreement. Contract negotiations and legal review were such a bottleneck at the company that they were the 'reason why we weren't growing as fast as we wanted to.' Today, contract negotiation remains a human-to-human process, which can take weeks or months. While there are a growing number of AI tools that help lawyers speed up parts of their work, Crosby's founders believed that the only way to use AI to really change the legal industry, was by 'building our own law firm in order to own the entire process, end to end,' said Daniels. Sarihan, who was an early employee at Ramp, set about hiring software engineers from the startup world, while Daniels began hiring lawyers. Today the startup employs about 19 people, including the founders. 'The innovation here is in the tech and in the people,' Sarihan said. The firm soft launched in January, the co-founders said, and it has already reviewed over 1,000 customer contracts — like MSAs, data processing agreements, and non-disclosure agreements — for fast-growing startups like Cursor and the sales automation startups Clay and UnifyGTM. Sequoia's Josephine Chen and Alfred Lin led the seed round along with Bain Capital Ventures with participation from a bunch of angels like Ramp co-founders Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh, Opendoor co-founder Eric Wu, Casetext co-founder Jake Heller, Instacart co-founder Max Mullen, and the co-founders of Flatiron Health, Zach Weinberg and Gil Shlarski. The stars aligned for Crosby to land Sequoia as an investor. Chen knew Sarihan from Ramp. She had previously met him through the co-founder of Venue, an AI procurement startup she had backed and that was acquired by Ramp last year. When the co-founders pitched their idea to Chen, she asked Sequoia's in-house lawyer about the idea, and that lawyer, Cindy Lee, knew Daniels from her time at Cooley. 'When we think about seed investing, for us, it's probably 70% around the team and 30% around the market, market dynamics, and the insight that the founders have there,' Chen explained. Given all the connections she already had to the founding team and that legal work is a $300 billion industry, Chen was down to disrupt it with Crosby. 'We had seen, even in our own portfolio [companies], how negotiating contracts can be a bottleneck for growth,' Chen said. Legal, in her view, is 'a bull's-eye case for the use of LLMs.'
