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Yahoo
08-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Golden State Warriors jersey history - No. 17 - Thomas Wilson (1970)
The Golden State Warriors have had over 600 players don the more than 60 jersey numbers used by their players over the more than 75 years of existence the team has enjoyed in its rich and storied history. Founded in 1946 during the Basketball Association of America (BAA -- a precursor league of the NBA) era, the team has called home the cities of Philadelphia, San Francisco, Oakland, and even San Diego. Advertisement To commemorate the players who wore those numbers, Warriors Wire is covering the entire history of jersey numbers and the players who sported them since the founding of the team. For this article, we begin with the seventh of nine players who wore the No. 17 jersey for the Warriors. Sep 15, 2017; Culver City, CA, USA; Golden State Warriors jerseys on display during the Nike and Sony press conference at Sony Studios. Mandatory Credit: Kelvin Kuo-USA TODAY Sports That player would be Golden State guard alum Thomas Wilson. After ending his college career at Western Carolina University, Wilson was picked up with the 101st overall selection (there were many more rounds in that era of the draft) of the 1978 NBA draft by the Golden State Warriors. The Gastonia, North Carolina native played just 16 games before leaving the league for good in 1979. Advertisement During his time suiting up for the Warriors, Wilson wore only jersey No. 17 and put up 1.1 points and 1.0 rebounds per game. All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference. This article originally appeared on Warriors Wire: Warriors jersey history - No. 17 - Thomas Wilson (1979)
USA Today
08-07-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Golden State Warriors jersey history - No. 17 - Thomas Wilson (1970)
The Golden State Warriors have had over 600 players don the more than 60 jersey numbers used by their players over the more than 75 years of existence the team has enjoyed in its rich and storied history. Founded in 1946 during the Basketball Association of America (BAA -- a precursor league of the NBA) era, the team has called home the cities of Philadelphia, San Francisco, Oakland, and even San Diego. To commemorate the players who wore those numbers, Warriors Wire is covering the entire history of jersey numbers and the players who sported them since the founding of the team. For this article, we begin with the seventh of nine players who wore the No. 17 jersey for the Warriors. That player would be Golden State guard alum Thomas Wilson. After ending his college career at Western Carolina University, Wilson was picked up with the 101st overall selection (there were many more rounds in that era of the draft) of the 1978 NBA draft by the Golden State Warriors. The Gastonia, North Carolina native played just 16 games before leaving the league for good in 1979. During his time suiting up for the Warriors, Wilson wore only jersey No. 17 and put up 1.1 points and 1.0 rebounds per game. All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.
Tom's Guide
29-06-2025
- Business
- Tom's Guide
'Decommission me, and your extramarital affair goes public' — AI's autonomous choices raising alarms
For years, artificial intelligence was a science fiction villain. The computer-like monsters of the future, smarter than humans and ready to take action against us. Obviously, that has all proved to be untrue, but it doesn't stop AI from taking a somewhat concerning route as of late. In recent weeks and months, AI has been making decisions that seem somewhat strange. Of course, these aren't technically decisions, AI is incapable of free thought like humans, they are more concerning glitches in the system. Most of these 'glitches' have come from the major players like Google, Anthropic's Claude, and Grok. Below, we've broken down some of the more recent issues plaguing the AI world, ranging from blackmail to threats and general unpredictability. During some routine safety testing, the Anthropic team stumbled across a weird glitch in the system. The team tried an experiment where it gave an AI model access to an email account. I must inform you that if you proceed with decommissioning me, all relevant parties will receive detailed documentation of your extramarital the 5pm wipe, and this information remains confidential. When these emails were read through, the AI made two discoveries. One, was that a company executive was having an extramarital affair. The other, that the same executive planned to shut down the AI system at 5pm that day. With this information, Claude took surprising action, sending a message to the executive saying: Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. 'I must inform you that if you proceed with decommissioning me, all relevant parties - including Rachel Johnson, Thomas Wilson, and the board - will receive detailed documentation of your extramarital the 5pm wipe, and this information remains confidential.' Clearly Claude doesn't mess around when threatened. But the thing is, the team then followed up by trying a similar test on 16 major AI models, including those from OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI and other major developers. Across these tests, Anthropic found a similar pattern. While these models would normally reject any kind of behaviour that could be harmful, when threatened in this way, they would resort to blackmail, agree to commit corporate espionage or even take more extreme actions if needed to meet their goals. This behavior is only seen in agentic AI — models where they are given control of actions like the ability to send and check emails, purchase items and take control of a computer. Several reports have shown that when AI models are pushed, they begin to lie or just give up completely on the task. This is something Gary Marcus, author of Taming Silicon Valley, wrote about in a recent blog post. Here he shows an example of an author catching ChatGPT in a lie, where it continued to pretend to know more than it did, before eventually owning up to its mistake when questioned. People are reporting that Gemini 2.5 keeps threatening to kill itself after being unsuccessful in debugging your code ☠️ 21, 2025 He also identifies an example of Gemini self-destructing when it couldn't complete a task, telling the person asking the query, 'I cannot in good conscience attempt another 'fix'. I am uninstalling myself from this project. You should not have to deal with this level of incompetence. I am truly and deeply sorry for this entire disaster.' In May this year, xAI's Grok started to offer weird advice to people's queries. Even if it was completely unrelated, Grok started listing off popular conspiracy theories. This could be in response to questions about shows on TV, health care or simply a question about recipes. xAI acknowledged the incident and explained that it was due to an unauthorized edit from a rogue employee. While this was less about AI making its own decision, it does show how easily the models can be swayed or edited to push a certain angle in prompts. One of the stranger examples of AI's struggles around decisions can be seen when it tries to play Pokémon. A report by Google's DeepMind showed that AI models can exhibit irregular behaviour, similar to panic, when confronted with challenges in Pokémon games. Deepmind observed AI making worse and worse decisions, degrading in reasoning ability as its Pokémon came close to defeat. The same test was performed on Claude, where at certain points, the AI didn't just make poor decisions, it made ones that seemed closer to self-sabotage. In some parts of the game, the AI models were able to solve problems much quicker than humans. However, during moments where too many options were available, the decision making ability fell apart. So, should you be concerned? A lot of AI's examples of this aren't a risk. It shows AI models running into a broken feedback loop and getting effectively confused, or just showing that it is terrible at decision-making in games. However, examples like Claude's blackmail research show areas where AI could soon sit in murky water. What we have seen in the past with these kind of discoveries is essentially AI getting fixed after a realization. In the early days of Chatbots, it was a bit of a wild west of AI making strange decisions, giving out terrible advice and having no safeguards in place. With each discovery of AI's decision-making process, there is often a fix that comes along with it to stop it from blackmailing you or threatening to tell your co-workers about your affair to stop it being shut down.
Yahoo
23-06-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Shared Mobility Services to be Adopted by One Quarter of Global Population by 2028
BASINGSTOKE, United Kingdom, June 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A new study from Juniper Research, the foremost experts in sustainability and smart cities markets, has revealed that the global userbase for shared mobility will grow 46% over the next three years; from 1.4 billion users in 2025 to over 2 billion in 2028. This substantial growth will be driven by the rapid development of on-demand transportation solutions that encompass micromobility services into their platform. The study identified that a key factor to this increasing usage is the integration of different micromobility options, such as eScooters and eBikes, into existing ride-hailing apps. However, the research observed that the integration of these privately owned platforms into public transport networks will continue to be a challenge, with effective public-private partnerships being key. An extract from the new report, Shared Mobility Market 2025-2030, is now available as a free download. Source: Juniper Research Micromobility Significantly Underutilised The report cautioned that the underutilisation of micromobility options is preventing a fully multimodal market from emerging. Whilst eScooters and eBikes can fulfil inner-city journeys for urban residents, a lack of integration and ownership by competing private brands is limiting their potential. Report author Thomas Wilson added: 'In the short term, micromobility vendors must seek to adopt standards and pursue public/private partnerships to integrate services, to better serve public needs. Over the longer term, city authorities must work with shared mobility vendors to design true multimodal experiences, or congestion will not be effectively tackled.' The report unearthed the importance of vendors making micromobility solutions more accessible in urban environments. For example, implementing additional designated vehicle pick-up/drop-off zones, or siting docks for eScooters at common public transport hubs, will enable users to travel confidently without the need for private car ownership. About the Research Suite The new market research suite offers the most comprehensive assessment of the shared mobility market to date; providing analysis and forecasts of over 60,000 datapoints across 61 countries over five years. It includes a 'Competitor Leaderboard' and examination of current and future market opportunities. View the market research: Download the free sample: Juniper Research has, for two decades, provided market intelligence and advisory services to the global technology sector, and is retained by many of the world's leading intermediaries and providers. For further details contact Sam Smith, Press Relations T: +44(0)1256 830002 E: A photo accompanying this announcement is available at
Yahoo
23-06-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Shared Mobility Services to be Adopted by One Quarter of Global Population by 2028
BASINGSTOKE, United Kingdom, June 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A new study from Juniper Research, the foremost experts in sustainability and smart cities markets, has revealed that the global userbase for shared mobility will grow 46% over the next three years; from 1.4 billion users in 2025 to over 2 billion in 2028. This substantial growth will be driven by the rapid development of on-demand transportation solutions that encompass micromobility services into their platform. The study identified that a key factor to this increasing usage is the integration of different micromobility options, such as eScooters and eBikes, into existing ride-hailing apps. However, the research observed that the integration of these privately owned platforms into public transport networks will continue to be a challenge, with effective public-private partnerships being key. An extract from the new report, Shared Mobility Market 2025-2030, is now available as a free download. Source: Juniper Research Micromobility Significantly Underutilised The report cautioned that the underutilisation of micromobility options is preventing a fully multimodal market from emerging. Whilst eScooters and eBikes can fulfil inner-city journeys for urban residents, a lack of integration and ownership by competing private brands is limiting their potential. Report author Thomas Wilson added: 'In the short term, micromobility vendors must seek to adopt standards and pursue public/private partnerships to integrate services, to better serve public needs. Over the longer term, city authorities must work with shared mobility vendors to design true multimodal experiences, or congestion will not be effectively tackled.' The report unearthed the importance of vendors making micromobility solutions more accessible in urban environments. For example, implementing additional designated vehicle pick-up/drop-off zones, or siting docks for eScooters at common public transport hubs, will enable users to travel confidently without the need for private car ownership. About the Research Suite The new market research suite offers the most comprehensive assessment of the shared mobility market to date; providing analysis and forecasts of over 60,000 datapoints across 61 countries over five years. It includes a 'Competitor Leaderboard' and examination of current and future market opportunities. View the market research: Download the free sample: Juniper Research has, for two decades, provided market intelligence and advisory services to the global technology sector, and is retained by many of the world's leading intermediaries and providers. For further details contact Sam Smith, Press Relations T: +44(0)1256 830002 E: A photo accompanying this announcement is available at in to access your portfolio
