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Elon Musk hints new Grok AI could beat Warren Buffett’s March Madness bracket

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Billionaire Elon Musk on Monday said his startup xAI’s latest iteration of the Grok chatbot could help college basketball fans pick a perfect bracket once March Madness begins.

xAI rolled out its new chatbot Grok-3, which is powered by artificial intelligence (AI), on Monday night, and during its event the company’s lead researcher, Jimmy Paul, noted, “We can also do something more fun. For example, how about make a prediction about March Madness?”

“This is kind of a fun one where Warren Buffett has a billion bet that if you exactly match the entire winning tree of March Madness, you can win a billion dollars from Warren Buffett,” Musk said in reference to the NCAA Basketball tournament bracket.

“It would be pretty cool if AI could help you win a billion dollars from Buffett. It seems like a pretty good investment,” he added.

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No contestant has ever picked a perfect March Madness bracket. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)

Warren Buffett partnered with Yahoo and Quicken Loans in 2014 to offer a contest in which any contestant who picks a perfect March Madness bracket would win $1 billion. The contest had no winner that year and the jackpot went unclaimed, and the contest has changed in the years since.

Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway revised the challenge so that only company employees are eligible to win the new prize, which is $1 million per year.

The company is yet to announce the details of this year’s contest.

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Elon Musk says xAI’s new Grok-3 could help pick a perfect March Madness bracket. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images)

No one has ever picked a perfect NCAA Tournament bracket despite millions of brackets being submitted on various platforms each year when March Madness begins.

To pick a perfect bracket, the would-be oracle of March Madness would have to correctly pick all 63 games in the tournament – including 32 games in the round of 64, plus 16 games in the round of 32, eight games in the Sweet 16, four games in the Elite Eight, the two Final Four games as well as the national championship game. The so-called First Four games, which allow the winners to advance to the round of 64, are typically disregarded in bracket contests.

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College basketball fans submit millions of brackets each year when March Madness begins. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

The NCAA analyzed the probability of making perfect picks for the 63 games in the March Madness bracket.

If a bracket picker guesses the outcome of each game, there is a 1 in 9.2 quintillion chance of picking a perfect bracket, per the NCAA. For reference, one quintillion is one billion billions.

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The odds are slightly better for a bracket picker who is knowledgeable about college basketball, though they still face long odds of about 1 in 120.2 billion, according to the NCAA.

February 18, 2025
Fairfield’s Deon Perry nails incredible 70-foot game-winning shot to beat rival Marist

Fairfield guard Deon Perry called game – from the parking lot.

Fairfield and Marist were tied 56-56 with 1.1 seconds remaining in the second half on Thursday night at Leo D. Mahoney Arena at Fairfield University.

Fairfield’s Michael Rogan was inbounding the ball from under his own basket, with the Stags needing some kind of miracle to prevent overtime.

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Fairfield guard Deon Perry is mobbed by teammates after hitting miraculous game-winning shot. (Olivia Frzop/Fairfield University Athletics)

Rogan found Perry, who came crashing back towards Rogan to receive the pass.

Perry turned around, took one dribble and launched a prayer from about 70-feet out.

The ball hit nothing but net.

Pandemonium ensued as Perry was mobbed by teammates and fans who stormed the court.

Perry was hoisted into the air on top of his teammates’ shoulders while referees tried restoring order to the place, frantically blowing their whistles.

It was a fitting end to a game that was tied 11 different times with 10 lead changes, as it was back and forth all night long between the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference rivals.

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Fairfield guard Deon Perry celebrates with teammates after hitting improbable game-winning shot. (Olivia Frzop/Fairfield University Athletics)

Perry only played 19 minutes in the Stags’ 59-56 win, but he led the team in scoring with 19 points on 6-14 shooting. He was the only Fairfield player to be in double-figures in scoring.

Jamie Bergens and Prophet Johnson each had nine points in the win, while Peyton Smith added eight points of his own for Fairfield.

For Marist, Josh Pascarelli and Jadin Collins-Roberts lead the way. Pascarelli scored 15 points on 6-13 shooting while Collins-Roberts added 10 points in the loss for the Red Foxes.

Perry’s miracle game-winner handed Marist only their second loss in MAAC play, and their fourth loss overall on the season.

Marist dropped to 16-4 (9-2 in the MAAC) with the heartbreaking loss to Fairfield and will look to bounce back against Iona on Saturday at 7 p.m. ET.

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Fairfield improved to 9-14 (5-7 in the MAAC) and will look to carry their momentum when they host cross-town rival Sacred Heart at 7 p.m. Saturday.

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Ryan Canfield is a digital production assistant for Fox News Digital.

February 7, 2025
NFL legend laments difficulty of beating Chiefs: ‘You gotta beat the refs, you gotta beat Taylor Swift’

Pro Football Hall of Famer Andre Reed underscored the difficulty of defeating the Kansas City Chiefs at their home stadium amid frustrations with the loss the Buffalo Bills suffered in the AFC Championship.

Reed, who starred as a Bills wide receiver during the team’s four straight Super Bowl losses, watched again as the team fell short against the Chiefs. He touched on the controversy surrounding the questionable calls from officials that seem to favor Kansas City as well.

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Pro Football Hall of Fame member Andre Reed before the game between the New England Patriots and the Buffalo Bills at New Era Field in Orchard Park, New York, on Oct. 29, 2018. (Rich Barnes-USA Today Sports)

Needless to say, the seven-time Pro Bowler was hot.

“The bottom line is you just gotta go out there and not play against the refs, but you kind of to a center point,” Reed said on “The Jim Rome Show.” “A lot of Chiefs are going to tell me I don’t know what I’m talking about. That might be the case. But when you go into Kansas City, you gotta beat a lot of people. You gotta beat the team, you gotta beat the fans, you gotta beat the refs, you gotta beat Taylor Swift. You gotta beat everybody.

“If you just go out there and throw that all out the window and beat Kansas City at their own game, and beat them, that all is never gonna be said. Yesterday we didn’t do that.”

Reed said he wasn’t sure if the Bills would have won if the Xavier Worthy catch was overturned to be an incomplete pass and if Josh Allen got the first down on a 4th-and-1 play.

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Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes celebrates after defeating the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Championship game on Jan. 26, 2025, in Kansas City. (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)

But it was those two plays that had fans wondering what officials were looking at the entire game.

Despite many eyebrows being raised, Dean Blandino, the NFL’s former head of officiating, says he doesn’t see favoritism toward the Chiefs.

“People are talking about officiating a little too much.… It’s always going to be a part of the conversation,” Blandino told TMZ Sports.

“Do teams get breaks at times? They do. And not every call is right. And sometimes that happens. I think it evens out over time. Me watching it, I don’t see these games and say the Chiefs are getting all these calls. These are close, close plays, and they happened to go in the Chiefs’ favor on Sunday.”

Blandino also disputed any notion there is some sort of conspiracy to favor the Chiefs.

“I get it. I’m a fan first. I grew up in New York as a Knicks fan watching Michael Jordan crush my dreams and saying, ‘The league wants Michael Jordan in the championships.’ Ultimately, when you’re a part of the NFL and you realize, for it to really be a conspiracy, do you know the amount of people that would have to be involved?

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“Someone somewhere would slip up, and it would get out. If there was a room in the NFL office where they were writing the script, they never invited me, and I was the head of officiating. I feel like I’d be a pretty important contributor to that. I get it. People are passionate. I just think, sometimes, officials make mistakes… sometimes, when you have a team that has been this successful, I think it’s par for the course.”

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Ryan Gaydos is a senior editor for Fox News Digital.

January 29, 2025
Josh Allen crushed after losing to Chiefs again in playoffs: ‘To be the champs, you got to beat the champs’

The Kansas City Chiefs once again saw confetti falling in their favor in a crucial game, as they won the AFC Championship for the third straight season to give themselves a chance at Super Bowl history in New Orleans next month.

On the other sideline, the Buffalo Bills were gutted when they saw Samaje Perine run for the first down necessary to seal the 32-29 victory.

After the game, quarterback Josh Allen let his feelings out when asked about his emotions following yet another loss to the Chiefs in the postseason.

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Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen, #17, warms up before the AFC Championship NFL football game against the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025 in Kansas City, Missouri. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann)

“It’s just not fun,” he said after letting out a sigh. “But to be the champs, you got to beat the champs, and we didn’t do it tonight.”

Allen is now 0-4 against the Chiefs in the postseason, so the regular season victory over Kansas City at the Bills’ Highmark Stadium does not matter in the end for this squad or its quarterback.

However, the ball was in Allen’s hands to change that winless streak late in the fourth quarter. However, with the two-minute warning and fourth-and-5 on the scoreboard, the Chiefs dialed up the perfect pressure, and Allen launched a prayer downfield to tight end Dalton Kincaid.

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It hit his arms but went incomplete. Then, with the Bills down three points, Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs knew a couple of first downs equaled another Super Bowl trip.

“They gave a good look,” Allen said when asked what he saw before that fourth-down snap. “Didn’t see anything in my first cadence. They were sliding left, the corner came…yeah.”

There was not much else Allen could say just minutes after falling just short again at the Bills’ first trip to the Super Bowl since 1993. However, Mahomes was classy after the game, giving kudos to Allen during his speech while hoisting the AFC title trophy.

Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen, #17, drops back to pass as Kansas City Chiefs defensive end Mike Danna, #51, defends during the second half of the AFC Championship NFL football game on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025 in Kansas City, Missouri. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

“I have so much respect for Josh, man,” he said to CBS Sports’ Jim Nantz. “He’s a true competitor, a true warrior, a great football player. They always come down to the wire. Luckily, we were on the winning side this time. I’m excited to get down to New Orleans. Let’s go make history.”

The Bills wanted to be looking at one more game to hopefully give the franchise its first-ever Super Bowl – they infamously lost four straight from 1990-93 – but they will have to go back to the drawing board with the offseason starting to see if they can change that in 2025.

Allen could be getting a massive personal accolade, as he is an MVP finalist and expected to be a frontrunner alongside Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson for their work during the 2024 campaign.

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However, Allen will say he does not care about individual achievements right now. His Bills lost, again at the hands of the Chiefs, and they will have months to stew over it before a new season begins.

“You can either get it done, or you can’t. We didn’t get it done,” Allen said.

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Scott Thompson is a sports writer for Fox News Digital.

January 27, 2025
Travis Kelce’s ex-girlfriend says she would ‘love’ for Bills to beat Chiefs

It’s safe to say the Kansas City Chiefs have one less fan.

The Chiefs are looking to get into their fifth Super Bowl since the turn of the decade, but they have to get through the Buffalo Bills first. But history is on Kansas City’s side entering Sunday’s AFC Championship Game: They are 4-0 against Buffalo in the playoffs in that span.

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Travis Kelce and Kayla Nicole (Rodin Eckenroth/FilmMagic/File)

And if there’s one person who knows what the Chiefs are capable of, it’s Kayla Nicole, the ex-girlfriend of star tight end Travis Kelce.

On the “I Am Athlete Daily” podcast, host Brandon Marshall admitted he didn’t want to get “messy” by bringing up the Chiefs with Nicole, but the two shared some analysis.

“I think there is nothing like that environment. That’s the loudest stadium in the league,” she said. “The energy is crazy. I think [quarterback] Patrick [Mahomes], too, is just a seasoned vet at this point. There is no panic, there is no sudden decisions. This is a well-thought-out offense. [Mahomes] studies the game like nobody else. Oh my God, yeah, that’s all he does. He’s a student of the game.

“Then you got [Chiefs coach] Andy Reid, and I think his playbook is crazy. That’s a known fact about him. Their offense is OD. They have guys they can throw the ball to that’s not going to drop it in the end zone.”

Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce celebrates a catch for a first down against the Houston Texans during the fourth quarter of the AFC divisional round playoff game at Arrowhead Stadium on Jan. 18, 2025. (Denny Medley-Imagn Images)

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Nicole then name-dropped her ex.

“Travis Kelce, that’s a tight end that’s not going to do it. They got the threats. So as much as I would love to see somebody else in the Super Bowl, just to see something new, it’s not going to happen.”

But despite the positive words, she made her rooting interest clear.

“As much as I’d love to see [Bills quarterback] Josh [Allen] pull it off, I don’t know if that’s going to happen. … [It’s] something new. I’m bored,” she quipped.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce (Patrick Smith/Getty Images/File)

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Nicole and Kelce dated for five years and even attended Mahomes’ wedding together. Kelce has since been dating Taylor Swift.

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January 23, 2025
How To Beat New Year’s Eve Hangover on January 1? Simple Home Remedies That Will Help You Recover From NYE Hangover on the First Day of New Year 2025

After a night of celebration, the morning after New Year’s Eve often brings a hangover that can leave you feeling drained and sluggish. So, how to beat New Year’s Eve hangover on January 1? While there’s no magic cure, several home remedies can help alleviate the common symptoms of a hangover, such as headache, nausea, and fatigue. These natural solutions focus on rehydrating your body, replenishing lost nutrients, and promoting relaxation to restore balance and help you recover quickly. Follow these simple home remedies that will help you recover from NYE hangover on the First Day of New Year 2025. Lucky Fruits for New Year 2025: Fruits in Feng Shui That Symbolise Good Luck, Health and Prosperity in the Coming Year.

Taking care of your body after a night of partying is essential for bouncing back and feeling like yourself again. With the right remedies, you can reduce the intensity of your hangover and get back to enjoying the first day of the year. As you welcome New Year 2025, we bring you simple, effective home remedies that can make a world of difference in helping you recover after a NYE celebration. Eating 12 Grapes on NYE 2024: What Does It Symbolise? Which Colour Grapes To Eat for Good Fortune? Everything About Spain’s ‘Twelve Grapes of Luck’ New Year Tradition.

Drink Water and Electrolyte-Rich Fluids: Alcohol dehydrates the body, which contributes to the symptoms of a hangover. Rehydrating with water, coconut water, or sports drinks can help replenish lost fluids and electrolytes, alleviating headaches and dizziness.

Eat a Balanced Breakfast: A nutritious breakfast can help restore your blood sugar levels and ease nausea. Foods like eggs, toast, and fruit can provide much-needed energy and stabilize your stomach. Bananas, in particular, are rich in potassium, which can help replenish minerals lost during drinking.

Ginger Tea: Ginger has long been known for its ability to soothe the stomach and alleviate nausea. Drinking ginger tea or simply chewing on a small piece of raw ginger can help calm your digestive system and ease any queasiness caused by the hangover.

Peppermint Tea: Peppermint is another natural remedy that can help reduce headaches and relieve digestive discomfort. A warm cup of peppermint tea can be soothing and help ease the muscle tension that often accompanies a hangover.

Sleep and Rest: One of the best ways to recover from a hangover is simply to rest. Sleep helps your body repair itself and regain energy. Taking a nap or lying down in a quiet, dark room can help you feel better as your body recovers.

While hangovers are an unfortunate aftermath of a night of celebration, these home remedies can help reduce their impact and get you back on your feet. By rehydrating, nourishing your body, and allowing yourself time to rest, you can ease symptoms and feel more like yourself in no time. Remember, the best way to avoid a hangover in the future is moderation, but these remedies are your go-to solution when you need a quick recovery after ringing in the New Year.

(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Dec 31, 2024 05:03 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).

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