Hurkacz adds Lendl and Massu to his coaching team ahead of 2025 campaign LONDON: Australian Open quarter-finalist Hubert Hurkacz has added eight-time Grand Slam champion Ivan Lendl and former Olympic gold medallist Nicolas Massu to his coaching setup for 2025, the Polish world no. 16 announced in a social media post on Friday. Lendl, who coached Andy Murray during multiple Grand Slam victories, will replace Craig Boynton who parted ways with Hurkacz in August after five years together. Massu, who won the men’s singles and doubles gold medals in the 2004 Olympics, coached Dominic Thiem when he won the U.S. Open in 2020. “Having Nicolas Massu and Ivan Lendl as part of my team is an honour,” Hurkacz, 27, told the ATP website in a statement. “Their knowledge and dedication inspire me to work harder than ever, and I’m ready to put in the hard work.” Former Wimbledon semi-finalist Hurkacz achieved a career-high ranking of world number six in August, but struggled to regain form after an injury suffered during Wimbledon saw him undergo meniscus surgery in July. “This has been a year of ups and downs; I’ve learned a lot and grown a lot, and I can finally say I am fully healthy and ready for the challenges ahead,” Hurkacz added.
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DETROIT (AP) — A program that provides federal funds to groups in Detroit working to reduce homicides and shootings is showing reductions of 83%, 73% and 61% in some of the city's most violent areas. The numbers come as Detroit is on pace to continue setting historic lows in those crimes, according to the city. ShotStoppers ' metrics measure the level of homicides and shootings in the current quarter compared to the same quarter in the two prior years and were released Monday by Mayor Mike Duggan. The program kicked off in 2023. Going by names like Force Detroit, Detroit 300, Detroit Friends and Family, and New Era Community Connection, activists and residents are empowered to use their own strategies to prevent violence. Those strategies include teaching young people to think critically, improving training opportunities for adults, drug prevention and blight removal. Each group also is alerted by the police department whenever there is a shooting in their zone, Duggan told The Associated Press last week. “Because an hour later there will be a retaliation,” Duggan said. “The key is getting people to make different decisions. They’ve brokered agreements with groups beefing with one another. What they’re doing is making a difference.” The six groups focus on parts of the city that between 2018 and 2022 were hotspots for homicides and shootings. The recent drops in what the city calls Community Violence Intervention — or CVI — zones are from August through October and are compared to the same three-month period in 2023 and 2022. Homicides and shootings were down 35% in areas not part of the CVI zones. The 83% reduction in the Detroit Friends and Family CVI zone on Detroit's far northeast side was achieved through mediation strategies inside jails and juvenile facilities, working with the area's youth and looking at the goings-on within social networks, said Ray Winans, the group's founder. “It's not so much what we say to them. It's more so what we hear from them,” Winans told The Associated Press last week. “We want to hear what their stories are. We know our stories and support them while they are going through theirs'.” “This is a group of young men and women whose brains aren't fully developed yet,” he added. “We don't look at leadership in the sense of traditional leadership. We serve as an example of what's possible. We deal with behavior modifications.” Tamica Nixon, 48, has relatives who live in Winans’ CVI zone. She said just a year or so ago the sound of gunshots was prevalent. “There were so many gunshots you would think that’s the type of things you would hear in a war,” Nixon said following Duggan’s announcement at a neighborhood church. “Everything has really improved now. It’s safer.” The program is similar in name to the gunshot detection technology, ShotSpotter, which has been used and later dropped by Chicago and several other police departments in the United States. Violent crime in Detroit has been trending down for several years, with annual homicides being at their lowest since 1966 when there were 214 homicides. In 2023, Detroit recorded 252 homicides and 804 nonfatal shootings. Those numbers were 309 and 955, respectively, in 2022. The city recorded 308 homicides in 2021 compared to 323 in 2020. There also were 1,064 nonfatal shootings in 2021, down from 1,170 the year before. Officials have placed some credit to the drop in violent crime citywide to the hiring of about 200 new police officers over the past few years and a partnership between the city, Wayne County and the state that improves coordination among agencies and courts. ShotStoppers' success only appears to add to the lower numbers. The project currently is funded by $10 million from the American Rescue Plan Act and each group started with a $175,000 base budget per quarter. Bonus grants are awarded to the groups that significantly cut serious violence in their areas. With federal funding expiring in April, the statewide $100 million Public Safety & Violence Prevention Trust Fund being considered by Michigan lawmakers In Lansing could continue funding for the program. If approved, Detroit plans to add two new groups.
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Thoughts to live by: Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and JosephLONDON: “Human intelligence,” the cultural critic Neil Postman once wrote, “is among the most fragile things in nature. It doesn’t take much to distract it, suppress it, or even annihilate it.” The year was 1988, a former Hollywood actor was in the White House, and Postman was worried about the ascendancy of pictures over words in American media, culture and politics. Television "conditions our minds to apprehend the world through fragmented pictures and forces other media to orient themselves in that direction", he argued in an essay in his book Conscientious Objections. “A culture does not have to force scholars to flee to render them impotent. A culture does not have to burn books to assure that they will not be read ... There are other ways to achieve stupidity.” DECLINE IN LITERACY SKILLS What might have seemed curmudgeonly in 1988 reads more like prophecy from the perspective of 2024. This month, the OECD released the results of a vast exercise : In-person assessments of the literacy, numeracy and problem-solving skills of 160,000 adults aged 16 to 65 in 31 different countries and economies. Compared with the last set of assessments a decade earlier, the trends in literacy skills were striking. Proficiency improved significantly in only two countries (Finland and Denmark), remained stable in 14, and declined significantly in 11, with the biggest deterioration in South Korea, Lithuania, New Zealand and Poland. Among adults with tertiary-level education (such as university graduates), literacy proficiency fell in 13 countries and only increased in Finland, while nearly all countries and economies experienced declines in literacy proficiency among adults with below upper secondary education. Singapore and the US had the biggest inequalities in both literacy and numeracy. “Thirty per cent of Americans read at a level that you would expect from a 10-year-old child,” Andreas Schleicher, director for education and skills at the OECD, told me – referring to the proportion of people in the US who scored level 1 or below in literacy. “It is actually hard to imagine – that every third person you meet on the street has difficulties reading even simple things.” In some countries, the deterioration is partly explained by an ageing population and rising levels of immigration, but Schleicher says these factors alone do not fully account for the trend. His own hypothesis would come as no surprise to Postman: That technology has changed the way many of us consume information, away from longer, more complex pieces of writing, such as books and newspaper articles, to short social media posts and video clips. At the same time, social media has made it more likely that you "read stuff that confirms your views, rather than engages with diverse perspectives, and that’s what you need to get to [the top levels] on the [OECD literacy] assessment, where you need to distinguish fact from opinion, navigate ambiguity, manage complexity", Schleicher explained. IMPLICATIONS FOR POLITICS AND PUBLIC DEBATE The implications for politics and the quality of public debate are already evident. These, too, were foreseen. In 2007, writer Caleb Crain wrote an article called Twilight of the Books in The New Yorker magazine about what a possible post-literate culture might look like. In oral cultures, he wrote, cliche and stereotype are valued, conflict and name-calling are prized because they are memorable, and speakers tend not to correct themselves because “it is only in a literate culture that the past’s inconsistencies have to be accounted for”. Does that sound familiar? These trends are not unavoidable or irreversible. Finland demonstrates the potential for high-quality education and strong social norms to sustain a highly literate population, even in a world where TikTok exists. England shows the difference that improved schooling can make: There, the literacy proficiency of 16-year-olds to 24-year-olds was significantly better than a decade ago. THE QUESTION OF AI The question of whether AI could alleviate or exacerbate the problem is more tricky. Systems like ChatGPT can perform well on many reading and writing tasks: They can parse reams of information and reduce it to summaries. A number of studies suggest that, when deployed in the workplace, these tools can significantly increase the performance of lower-skilled workers. In one study, researchers tracked the impact of an AI tool on customer service agents who provided technical support via written chat boxes. The AI tool, trained on the conversational patterns of top performers, provided real-time text suggestions to agents on how to respond to customers. The study found lower-skilled workers became more productive and their communication patterns became more similar to those of higher-skilled workers. David Autor, an economics professor at MIT, has even argued that AI tools could enable more workers to perform higher-skilled roles and help restore “the middle-skill, middle-class heart of the US labour market”. But, as Autor says, in order to make good use of a tool to “level up” your skills, you need a decent foundation to begin with. Absent that, Schleicher worries that people with poor literacy skills will become “naive consumers of prefabricated content”. In other words, without solid skills of your own, it is only a few short steps from being supported by the machine, to finding yourself dependent on it, or subject to it.
Apple is under fire after a recent text notification, attributed to BBC News, falsely claimed that Luigi Mangione, the accused in the murder of a prominent healthcare insurance CEO in New York, had shot himself. The shocking and false headline was generated using Apple Intelligence , which uses AI to summarize news notifications. In reality, the event did not occur, yet soon after the summary was delivered, social media was already buzzing, spreading the false news rapidly. When it was confirmed that the AI-generated summary mistakenly issued details of the high-profile murder case, it sparked concern over the accuracy of Apple’s news summary feature. The BBC has formally complained to Apple, requesting corrective measures to prevent such errors from recurring, further underscoring the importance of accountability. The media outlet's site states its editorial values , "The trust that our audience has in all our content underpins everything that we do. We are independent, impartial and honest. We are committed to achieving the highest standards of accuracy and impartiality and strive to avoid knowingly or materially misleading our audiences." Media outlets invest heavily in maintaining their credibility, and errors made by third-party platforms threaten to erode that trust. Because misinformation can spread rapidly online, it is highly critical that automated news notifications are accurate. Apple has yet to respond publicly to the BBC’s complaint. However, this incident is not the first time Apple Intelligence has faced criticism for spreading misinformation through its AI-powered summaries. On November 21, a notification attributed to the New York Times inaccurately suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been arrested. The actual story concerned the International Criminal Court issuing an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, but the AI summary significantly distorted the facts. The New York Times has chosen not to comment on the incident. Calling for a ban RSF is calling for a ban on the generative AI feature altogether. Reporters Without Borders made a statement on their site saying they are concerned about the risks of AI tools regarding false news alerts. The organization believes they are still too new to be used in reporting the news. RSF's Head of Technology and Journalism Desk said on the site, “AIs are probability machines, and facts can’t be decided by a roll of the dice. RSF calls on Apple to act responsibly by removing this feature. The automated production of false information attributed to a media outlet is a blow to the outlet’s credibility and a danger to the public's right to reliable information on current affairs. The European AI Act — despite being the most advanced legislation in the world in this area — did not classified information-generating AIs as high-risk systems, leaving a critical legal vacuum. This gap must be filled immediately.” Looking ahead The issues with Apple Intelligence have raised broader concerns about the reliability of artificial intelligence in handling sensitive information. AI-driven tools, while designed to streamline and enhance user experiences, often struggle with context and nuance—key elements in accurate reporting. When trusted news sources are misrepresented through these errors, the potential for public misunderstanding grows exponentially. The problem also highlights the broader implications of integrating AI into news delivery. As technology companies like Apple continue to adopt AI for content curation, there is growing pressure to ensure these systems are adequately tested and monitored. News organizations, for their part, are beginning to push back against errors that could damage their reputations. This incident serves as a warning about the risks of relying too heavily on artificial intelligence for content delivery, raising the question: Does the risk of misinformation outweigh the convenience of automated news summaries? While AI holds promise to improve efficiency and accessibility, its limitations highlight the enduring need for human oversight in journalism. As Apple faces mounting pressure to address the flaws in Apple Intelligence, the debate over the role of AI in news media is likely to intensify. More from Tom's Guide
The Bell Capital Cup continued Saturday with even more teams making their debut appearances. The U13 AA Karawanken Bears from Austria were on the ice at the Nepean Sportsplex early Saturday morning. The team also consists of players from Slovenia and Croatia. It was a full-day trip for the players and their parents, who came out in support, but for Skyler Furey, the trip isn't unfamiliar. Furey's parents were both born in Canada but now live in Austria where he also resides. While his parents were unable to make the trip to Ottawa, his grandfather, who lives in the city, was at the game supporting him. "It's nice to come back to Canada once in a while," Furey said. "We battled really good and it was a tough game." The Bears defeated the Cumberland Jr. Grads 5-3. A few hours later, the Greater Bay Tigers stepped onto the ice. The team consisting of players from Hong Kong, Southern China and Taiwan, got their first taste of action in the tournament. Most of the players arrived in the city days before the event due to travel times. Tigers owner Gregory Smyth says he cherishes being able to come back to Canada and see his team competing against the best. "It's an eye opener, to see how good the hockey is," Smyth said. "We're competitive too, and I think that's probably an eye opener for some of the local teams here as well because these kids can skate, shoot and pass. They did well today." Smyth says the team has enjoyed the festivities during the opening ceremonies at Hockey Fest and are treating the boys to a couple of World Junior games in the city, including Canada versus the United States on New Years Eve. More international teams also got underway today including many from the United States and the defending Division A champions from Slovenia, who played a friendly game in Rockland. The tournament runs until Dec. 31. Shopping Trends The Shopping Trends team is independent of the journalists at CTV News. 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A Hopland teen is one of two California high school students recently chosen to represent the state in the United States Senate Youth Program, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond announced this week.