I read something earlier but I forget where. The analyst said that Washington wanted CJ McCollum’s expiring contract to trade at the deadline (or whenever) Poole has another year so the Pelicans can wait to see how it plays out.
Olynyk for Bey saves the Pelicans money. He signed his extension while hurt so it was very team-friendly. The Pels were close to the cap and saving a little money basically allows for them to spend more on the mid-level exception.
So, I guess it’s all just salary cap related. The Pels get more flexibility and the Wizards get an expiring contract they can trade for picks later.
It would harm the A.I. industry if Anthropic loses the next part of the trial on whether they pirated books — from what I’ve read, Anthropic and Meta are suspected of getting a lot off torrent sites and the like.
It’s possible they all did some piracy in their mad dash to find training material but Amazon and Google have bookstores and Google even has a book text search engine, Google Scholar, and probably everything else already in its data centers. So, not sure why they’d have to resort to piracy.