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Yahoo Sports Week 7 preview: Adams and Cooper debuts, Drake Maye encore and a MNF shootout | Yahoo Fantasy Forecast Welcome to our weekend preview show where we get you ready with everything you need to know heading into Sunday and Monday's action. Andy Behrens joins Matt Harmon to share 3 burning fantasy questions he wants answered in Week 7. Behrens also shares the three matchups he has his eye on in Week 7 that will have the most fantasy ramifications.

Elon Musk's X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts On Wednesday, social network X (formerly Twitter) updated its Privacy Policy to indicate that it would allow third-party "collaborators" to train their AI models on X data, unless users opt out. While X owner Elon Musk trained xAI's Grok AI chatbot on X user data, leading to an investigation by the EU's lead privacy regulator, the company hadn't yet amended its policy to indicate its data may also be used by third parties. In Section 3 of the updated Privacy Policy titled "Sharing Information," X added a paragraph detailing how X user data can be used and how users could opt out.

Waymo offers $3 credit for San Francisco riders going to public transit stations For the next month, Bay Area riders of Waymo robotaxis can earn a $3 credit whenever they travel to and from certain public transit stations. The pilot program is the first of its kind among autonomous vehicle operators in the U.S. It comes after Waymo found in a recent survey that 36% of San Francisco riders have used Waymo's robotaxi service, Waymo One, to connect to other forms of transit like BART, Muni, or Caltrain.

Hyperspectral imagery startup Wyvern looks to raise US presence with $6M raise The Alberta-based company, which collects what it says is the highest-resolution hyperspectral imagery on the market, has raised $6 million to, among other things, expand into U.S. commercial and defense markets. The new funding was led by Squadra Ventures, a firm squarely focused on investing in companies in the cyber and national security spaces. Wyvern has already established an American subsidiary, and co-founder Kurtis Broda told TechCrunch that working with Squadra was a "natural fit" for growing in that market.

ODD taps $27M for diamond chips to clear radioactive debris at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant Back in 2011, the world held its breath after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan suffered a failure of its cooling systems, in the wake of the country getting hit by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami. Last month, the Japanese government began a testing procedure to remove radioactive debris in and around the plant - a significant step in the plant's decommissioning process, expected to be completed by 2051. A groundbreaking startup from Japan, Ookuma Diamond Device (ODD), is playing a fascinating part in the process, by way of diamond-chip-powered amplifiers that are being used in efforts to remove radioactive debris.

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