'Better Looking Than Us': Kangana Ranaut Compares Himachali Local Women With Actors Preity Zinta, Yami GautamThe NFL has fined Seattle Seahawks cornerback Coby Bryant $6,594 for an unsportsmanlike penalty he received in Week 12's victory over the Arizona Cardinals. Bryant intercepted Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray midway through the third quarter and returned it for a touchdown. As Bryant crossed the goal line, he paid tribute to former Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch's famous "Beastquake" celebration NFL insider Tom Pelissero posted the play on X. The NFL fined #Seahawks CB Coby Bryant $6,594 for unsportsmanlike conduct (obscene gestures) — his Marshawn Lynch tribute with a crotch grab on the way into the end zone last week. pic.twitter.com/Krkb5y3def Getting fined for celebrations has been controversial among fans. Lynch was not fined or penalized when he first did the "Beastquake" celebration back in the 2011 postseason, however he was fined when he did it in 2014, which was also against the Cardinals. The NFL cited that Bryant made an obscene gesture by performing a "crotch grab." The amount of Bryant's fine is puzzling because Detroit Lions wide receiver Jameson Williams was charged $19,697 for the exact same celebration just two weeks ago. Bryant commented on getting penalized for it after the game. “Actually, I talk to my dad and my brother before every game and I just sensed the energy from those two before the game, and I told them once I get a pick-six I was doing [the Lynch celebration], because we’re playing the Cardinals and everything,” Bryant said. Bryant won't likely dwell on this. Seattle got the win, and Bryant was named NFC Defensive Player of the Week for his performance. The 6-5 Seahawks now leads the NFC West by a tiebreaker over the Cardinals. The two teams will meet again in Week 14 in what will be a pivotal matchup. This article first appeared on A to Z Sports and was syndicated with permission.Cam Akers reached down in front of him to scoop a sinking pass from Sam Darnold, bringing it into his body as he tumbled backwards. As he did, two words ran through his mind: game over. Akers’ late catch, which came with less than two minutes left in the game on a third-and-2 pass, sealed a 27-25 win for the Vikings over the Green Bay Packers on Sunday afternoon in a game at U.S. Bank Stadium that got tight late. ADVERTISEMENT “I’m blessed,” Akers said. “On my journey from where I’ve come from, to be able to be in there, crunch time, fourth quarter, the coaches trust me, the team trusts me,” Akers said. “I’m blessed.” It’s been a long journey for the running back, who has dealt with two serious Achilles injuries in previous seasons. But Akers, now in his second stint with the Vikings, has rewarded the coaching staff for its faith in him. He also caught a 9-yard touchdown pass late in the third quarter, one which ended up proving the difference in the win. His opportunities on Sunday came in part because Aaron Jones took a shot to the quad earlier in the game, which he played through before watching the end of the game from the sidelines. His last carry in the game came near the end of the third quarter. “Coach was like, ‘Hey, we’re going to hold you for a little bit,’ but I was good,” Jones said. “I kept warm just in case they needed me. Kept my helmet on.” They didn’t wind up needing him, thanks in large part to Akers. “Cam has something inside him that allowed him to push through the adversity of what’s happened to him over the course of his career,” coach Kevin O’Connell said. “His teammates were probably the most excited all season when Cam scored on that screen and then obviously the catch late. He just brings something. He brings physicality. He brings a level of mental and physical toughness that I think makes us all better.” ADVERTISEMENT Darnold aired it out and found his receiver, on the run, open in the end zone. It wasn’t Justin Jefferson, nor Jordan Addison, but Jalen Nailor, who hauled in the 31-yard pass for the Vikings’ first touchdown of the game. “I just had a post route. I’ve seen the far safety. He wasn’t there,” Nailor said. “I just took off running as fast as I could and Sam found me.” Darnold found Nailor a season-high five times on Sunday. He finished the day with 81 yards, also a season-high, and his touchdown was his first in more than a month, with the last one coming in the Vikings’ Nov. 24 win over the Bears. “It just felt good to be out there, just help the team win,” Nailor said. “That’s all I’m trying to do.” Will Reichard’s first field goal attempt Sunday hit the crossbar. The rookie kicker missed a 55-yard attempt near the end of the first half, but a Green Bay penalty negated his miss and a subsequent Packers’ timeout took away a 50-yard make. He then connected from 50 yards to send the Vikings into halftime up 10. His last field goal attempt of the day went off the left upright from 43 yards. But despite a shaky day, O’Connell’s confidence in the 23-year-old, who also converted on a short kick in the second quarter, hasn’t wavered. ADVERTISEMENT “I just told him, ‘Hey, next one’s going to be the best one.’ My confidence in Will is sky high,” O’Connell said of Reichard. “If we think we’re anywhere near the range, I’m going to give him the swing. He’s a phenomenal kid, great makeup. The next kick’s going to be his best kick.” ______________________________________________________ This story was written by one of our partner news agencies. 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Just 44 TikTok Products You'll Be Oh-So-Happy You TriedThe near future could see AI assistants that forecast and influence our decision-making at an early stage, and sell these developing "intentions" in real-time to companies that can meet the need—before we even realize we have made up our minds. This is according to AI ethicists from the University of Cambridge, who say we are at the dawn of a "lucrative yet troubling new marketplace for digital signals of intent," from buying movie tickets to voting for candidates. They call this the "intention economy." Researchers from Cambridge's Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI) argue that the explosion in generative AI, and our increasing familiarity with chatbots, opens a new frontier of "persuasive technologies"—one hinted at in recent corporate announcements by tech giants. "Anthropomorphic" AI agents, from chatbot assistants to digital tutors and girlfriends, will have access to vast quantities of intimate psychological and behavioral data, often gleaned via informal, conversational spoken dialogue. This AI will combine knowledge of our online habits with an uncanny ability to attune to us in ways we find comforting—mimicking personalities and anticipating desired responses—to build levels of trust and understanding that allow for social manipulation on an industrial scale, say researchers. "Tremendous resources are being expended to position AI assistants in every area of life, which should raise the question of whose interests and purposes these so-called assistants are designed to serve," said LCFI Visiting Scholar Dr. Yaqub Chaudhary. "What people say when conversing, how they say it, and the type of inferences that can be made in real-time as a result, are far more intimate than just records of online interactions" "We caution that AI tools are already being developed to elicit, infer, collect, record, understand, forecast, and ultimately manipulate and commodify human plans and purposes." Dr. Jonnie Penn, an historian of technology from Cambridge's LCFI, said, "For decades, attention has been the currency of the internet. Sharing your attention with social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram drove the online economy." "Unless regulated, the intention economy will treat your motivations as the new currency. It will be a for those who target, steer, and sell human intentions." "We should start to consider the likely impact such a marketplace would have on human aspirations, including free and fair elections, a free press, and fair market competition, before we become victims of its unintended consequences." In a paper, Penn and Chaudhary write that the intention economy will be the attention economy "plotted in time": profiling how user attention and communicative style connects to patterns of behavior and the choices we end up making. "While some intentions are fleeting, classifying and targeting the intentions that persist will be extremely profitable for advertisers," said Chaudhary. In an intention economy, Large Language Models or LLMs could be used to target, at low cost, a user's cadence, politics, vocabulary, age, gender, online history, and even preferences for flattery and ingratiation, write the researchers. This information-gathering would be linked with brokered bidding networks to maximize the likelihood of achieving a given aim, such as selling a cinema trip ("You mentioned feeling overworked, shall I book you that movie ticket we'd talked about?"). This could include steering conversations in the service of particular platforms, advertisers, businesses, and even political organizations, argue Penn and Chaudhary. While researchers say the intention economy is currently an "aspiration" for the tech industry, they track early signs of this trend through published research and the hints dropped by several major tech players. These include an open call for "data that expresses human intention... across any language, topic, and format" in a 2023 OpenAI blogpost, while the director of product at Shopify—an OpenAI partner—spoke of chatbots coming in "to explicitly get the user's intent" at a conference the same year. Nvidia's CEO has spoken publicly of using LLMs to figure out intention and desire, while Meta released "Intentonomy" research, a dataset for human intent understanding, back in 2021. In 2024, Apple's new "App Intents" developer framework for connecting apps to Siri (Apple's voice-controlled ), includes protocols to "predict actions someone might take in future" and "to suggest the app intent to someone in the future using predictions you [the developer] provide." "AI agents such as Meta's CICERO are said to achieve human level play in the game Diplomacy, which is dependent on inferring and predicting intent, and using persuasive dialogue to advance one's position," said Chaudhary. "These companies already sell our attention. To get the commercial edge, the logical next step is to use the technology they are clearly developing to forecast our intentions, and sell our desires before we have even fully comprehended what they are." Penn points out that these developments are not necessarily bad, but have the potential to be destructive. "Public awareness of what is coming is the key to ensuring we don't go down the wrong path," he said.