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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Maddie Zimmer and Ilse Tromp both had two goals and an assist in the first half and Northwestern beat Saint Joseph's 5-0 in the championship match of the NCAA Division-I women's field hockey tournament at Phyllis Ocker Field on Sunday. It was the second championship for the second-seeded Wildcats (23-1-0), who have played for the title in four straight seasons. Northwestern beat Liberty 2-0 in 2021 before losing to North Carolina the past two seasons. No. 4 seed Saint Joseph's (20-4-0) was in uncharted waters with its first trip to the final. The Hawks eliminated top-seeded North Carolina in the semifinals to advance. The Tar Heels have won the championship in half of their 22 trips to the final. 6:25 into the first quarter when Zimmer used an assist from Tromp to score. Zimmer had an assist on Olivia Bent-Cole's eighth goal of the season for a 2-0 advantage, and Tromp found the net with 25 seconds left with assists from Lauren Hunter and Ashley Sessa for a 3-0 lead. Hunter and Sessa again had the helpers on Zimmer's 10th goal of the campaign, and Hunter and Regan Cornelius assisted on Tromp's 11th goal of the season 2:42 later for a 5-0 lead at halftime and that was that. Annabel Skubisz finished with her school-record 14th shutout of the season for Northwestern. Zimmer and Tromp are the second duo to score multiple goals for their school in a championship match. Zimmer was named the tournament MVP. It was the second championship for Wildcats coach Tracey Fuchs. Northwestern joins North Carolina and Old Dominion as the only schools to reach the championship match in four straight seasons. Six schools have won multiple titles.
A 7-year-old rivalry between tech leaders Elon Musk and Sam Altman over who should run OpenAI and prevent an artificial intelligence "dictatorship" is now heading to a federal judge as Musk seeks to halt the ChatGPT maker's ongoing shift into a for-profit company. Musk, an early OpenAI investor and board member, sued the artificial intelligence company alleging it had betrayed its founding aims as a nonprofit research lab benefiting the public good rather than pursuing profits. Musk has since escalated the dispute, adding new claims and asking for a court order that would stop to convert itself into a for-profit business more fully. The world's richest man, whose companies include Tesla, SpaceX and social media platform X, last year started his own rival AI company, xAI. Musk says it faces unfair competition from OpenAI and its close business partner Microsoft, which has supplied the huge computing resources needed to build AI systems such as ChatGPT. “OpenAI and Microsoft together exploiting Musk’s donations so they can build a for-profit monopoly, one now specifically targeting xAI, is just too much,” says Musk's filing that alleges the companies are violating the terms of Musk’s foundational contributions to the charity. OpenAI is filing a response Friday opposing Musk’s requested order, saying it would cripple OpenAI’s business and mission to the advantage of Musk and his own AI company. A hearing is set for January before U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland. At the heart of the dispute is a 2017 internal power struggle at the fledgling startup that led to Altman becoming OpenAI's CEO. Musk also sought to be CEO and in an email outlined a plan where he would “unequivocally have initial control of the company” but said that would be temporary. He grew frustrated after two other OpenAI co-founders said he would hold too much power as a major shareholder and chief executive if the startup succeeded in its goal to achieve better-than-human AI known as , or AGI. Musk has about how advanced forms of AI could threaten humanity. “The current structure provides you with a path where you end up with unilateral absolute control over the AGI," said a 2017 email to Musk from co-founders Ilya Sutskever and Greg Brockman. “You stated that you don't want to control the final AGI, but during this negotiation, you've shown to us that absolute control is extremely important to you.” In the same email, titled “Honest Thoughts,” Sutskever and Brockman also voiced concerns about Altman's desire to be CEO and whether he was motivated by “political goals.” Altman eventually succeeded in becoming CEO, and has remained so except for a period last year when he was fired days later after the board that ousted him was replaced. OpenAI published the messages Friday in a blog post meant to show its side of the story, particularly Musk's early support for the idea of making OpenAI a for-profit business so it could raise money for the hardware and computer power that AI needs. It was Musk, through his wealth manager Jared Birchall, who first registered “Open Artificial Technologies Technologies, Inc.”, a public benefit corporation, in September 2017. Then came the “Honest Thoughts” email that Musk described as the “final straw.” “Either go do something on your own or continue with OpenAI as a nonprofit,” Musk wrote back. OpenAI said Musk later proposed merging the startup into Tesla before resigning as the co-chair of OpenAI's board in early 2018. Musk didn't immediately respond to emailed requests for comment sent to his companies Friday. Asked about his frayed relationship with Musk at a New York Times conference last week, Altman said he felt “tremendously sad” but also characterized Musk’s legal fight as one about business competition. “He’s a competitor and we’re doing well,” Altman said. He also said at the conference that he is about the Tesla CEO’s influence with President-elect Donald Trump. OpenAI said Friday that Altman plans to make a $1 million personal donation to Trump’s inauguration fund, joining a number of tech companies and executives who are working to improve their relationships with the incoming administration.
Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The Minnesota Vikings won a thriller at Soldier Field, a game they were this close to choking away. The Vikings led by two touchdowns in the fourth quarter but needed an overtime field goal to beat the Chicago Bears , 30-27. With 22 seconds left and trailing by 11, Caleb Williams hit Keenan Allen for a one-yard score, and the two-point conversion was successful when Williams found DJ Moore. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM T.J. Hockenson of the Minnesota Vikings reacts after a first-down catch during the fourth quarter against the Bears at Soldier Field on November 24, 2024, in Chicago. (Quinn Harris/Getty Images) The Bears then recovered the onside kick, just the third onside recovery on the season in the NFL. They quickly got in field goal range after a long catch by Moore and drilled the field goal to send the game into overtime. They outscored the Vikings 17-3 in the fourth quarter. The Bears went three-and-out on the first overtime possession, and that turned out to be the last time they would touch the ball on the day. Justin Jefferson had just one catch in regulation, but his second of the game put Minnesota at midfield. A few plays later, Sam Darnold found T.J. Hockenson for a gain of 29 to get them inside the 10-yard line. After Darnold took a knee in the middle of the hashmarks, John Parker Romo drilled the chip shot to give Minnesota the win. The Bears recover an onside kick during the fourth quarter against the Minnesota Vikings at Soldier Field in Chicago on November 24, 2024. (Quinn Harris/Getty Images) CHIEFS SQUANDER LATE DOUBLE-DIGIT LEAD, BUT SURVIVE IN WALK-OFF FASHION AGAINST PANTHERS It was the best day the Bears' offense has had in a while after they'd failed to score 20 points in each of their previous four games and lost each of them. But apparently, 27 isn't enough. Darnold went 22-for-34 for 330 yards and two touchdowns. Jordan Addison went off for eight catches and 162 yards and one of the scores. Aaron Jones also added 106 yards on the ground and another touchdown. Caleb Williams threw for 340 yards in the losing effort, while Moore had seven catches for 106 yards and a touchdown. Allen added nine catches for 86 yards and the fourth quarter score. Aaron Jones of the Minnesota Vikings celebrates with teammates after a touchdown during the third quarter against the Bears at Soldier Field in Chicago on November 24, 2024. (Quinn Harris/Getty Images) CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Minnesota improved to 9-2 on the season. They've now won four in a row after two consecutive losses that came immediately after their 5-0 start. The Bears have lost five straight and are 4-7. Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter .Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and AFP commissioner Reece Kershaw (Image: AAP/Dominic Giannini) Immediately following the horrific antisemitic arson attack on the Adass Israel synagogue, before perpetrators or their motives had even been revealed — and before our communities had a chance to catch our breath — politicians and interest groups started capitalising on the attack by advocating for increased policing and a law and order response. As a Jewish historian, I’m deeply concerned that this approach fundamentally misunderstands antisemitism and how to combat it. Antisemitic arson attacks on synagogues and cars are beyond the pale and an attack on our collective values of diversity. The perpetrators must be investigated and held to account for the terror they have instilled in Jewish communities. But a broad police crackdown — including targeting protests, as suggested by Jillian Segal, the special envoy to combat antisemitism — will not make even a small dent in antisemitism. A synagogue minutes from my home was set ablaze. This is why many Jewish Australians live in fear Read More The Australian Federal Police has set up special operation Avalite , a mobile squad of counterterrorism investigators who will have expanded powers to focus on threats, violence and hatred toward the Australian Jewish community and parliamentarians. There is a real problem of antisemitism in Australia, but it can not be solved by more policing. It’s a problem of racism. At the Jewish Council of Australia, where I am executive officer, we cop antisemitic abuse daily — from the far right, from conspiracy theorists, from Zionists attacking our Jewish identity, and from a lot of people who think we are somehow responsible for Israel’s genocide. It’s well documented that antisemitic incidents increase whenever Israel is committing atrocities. Jewish identities trace back more than 3,000 years and span many cultures and traditions. Zionism is a political ideology with Jewish and non-Jewish adherents, just over 120 years old. When the media, politicians and pro-Israel lobby groups all consistently assert a fictitious, absolute alignment between Jewish identity in Australia and the actions of Israel, it’s not hard to see why a racist idea takes hold that Jews as a whole are to blame for Israel’s actions. But this form of racism does not take place in a vacuum. Contrary to Zionist rhetoric, antisemitism is a historical and political phenomenon , not an “eternal hatred” that simply recurs in all societies for thousands of years. It is not a pathology or a problem of “antisemites”, or an issue simply of the far right or far left. Antisemitism is a form of racism that has come to the fore at various points throughout Australian society since the 1890s, shaped by broader racial ideologies. Racism against different groups in Australia has always been tied to geopolitics and Western imperialism: from invasion and colonisation, to competition with China, to the War on Terror — from the exclusion of Chinese people through to panics around asylum seekers and Muslim migrants. White Jews in Australia were mostly considered “white” until the 1930s, when potential Jewish migrants — refugees from Germany and Austria — were racialised and considered unassimilable. Throughout the 1940s and early 1950s, Australia’s immigration policies discriminated against Jews. In the late 1940s, antisemitism was exacerbated by fears of Jewish terrorism in Palestine and stereotypes portraying Jewish Holocaust survivors as clannish, communist agents, black marketeers and anti-British. These racist ideas mirrored those directed against Asians, illustrating how antisemitism in Australia has always intertwined with and reinforced other forms of racism. ‘They’ll be more upset’: Albo flagged shift in Australia’s Israel-Palestine position at private Labor event Read More Understanding antisemitism requires seeing beyond an exceptionalist narrative. It demands we recognise how racism works through an interconnected racial order that continually redraws boundaries of power and belonging. The Human Rights Commission’s recently released national anti-racism framework draws these links and gives us a solid plan to tackle all forms of racism across Australian society. The spectacle of arrests in a law and order crackdown, likely including some of the favourite Muslim and Palestinian targets of pro-Israel Jewish groups and the right-wing press, will serve as national security/anti-terror theatre. The optics aim to reassure the public, and Jews in particular, but they do so by racialising and marginalising others. The Scanlon Foundation’s recent “Mapping Social Cohesion” report found that negative attitudes towards Jewish people have increased from 9% in 2023 to 13% in 2024. While this is certainly worrying, it pales in comparison to the now one in three (34%) adults that have a somewhat or very negative attitude towards Muslims (up from 27%). These figures can’t be separated from the rhetoric of “anti-terrorism” and Israel’s genocidal war, which has seen anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim racism proliferate . True safety for Jewish communities cannot be achieved through divisive crackdowns that associate Jews and the fight against antisemitism with the police and state power. The continued exceptionalisation of antisemitism, treating it as a standalone or special type of racism — put starkly by Senator Dave Sharma who recently condemned ALP ministers for talking about a “fictitious Islamophobia” in the same breath as antisemitism — is a recipe for the continued use of Jews as political footballs by both major parties and the entrenchment of anti-Jewish attitudes. Jewish communities deserve real protection — not a false sense of security purchased at the expense of other marginalised groups. We need solutions that address the roots of antisemitism in the broader problem of racism in Australian society, not law enforcement theatre that only breeds more division. Have something to say about this article? Write to us at letters@crikey.com.au . Please include your full name to be considered for publication in Crikey’s Your Say . We reserve the right to edit for length and clarity.None