Listed here are the morning’s prime tales on Thursday, December 25, 2025…
- While you drive or stroll previous a public park, one of many sounds you’ll doubtless hear is the thwack of a bat earlier than seeing a ball flying by means of the air. However at some parks in Fresno, these aren’t as a consequence of that all-American sport you could be considering of.
- Some psychological well being clinicians are fearful AI is coming for his or her jobs. Within the Fall, greater than 200 of them gathered for an internet discussion board to be taught extra.
When Jajpal Singh Sidhu moved to Fresno final fall, he hardly knew anybody. Initially from Punjab, India, the 23-year-old tried to search out group in a means that anybody else may: he looked for a membership that performed his favourite sport. There was only one downside. His favourite sport is comparatively obscure in his new nation. “Once I was new right here, [I was] looking for individuals who play cricket,” he mentioned.
Cricket, like baseball, is performed with a ball and a bat – however the similarities finish there. The sport with worldwide attraction, which was created in England centuries earlier than baseball turned one among America’s favourite sports activities, involving wickets as an alternative of bases and an extended, rectangular pitch as an alternative of a diamond. In India, Sidhu performed in a nationwide cricket league, and he got here to the U.S. within the hopes of constant the game at a aggressive stage. After a number of months of looking, he got here throughout the Fresno Cricket Membership’s Fb web page. The remaining is historical past. “I texted them, they usually mentioned they play within the night… They requested me, ‘you possibly can come tomorrow and be a part of us,’” he mentioned.
The Fresno Cricket Membership is knowledgeable group that has been in operation since 2007. However till lately, the membership didn’t have a devoted house to play or follow, and its hundred-odd members needed to journey to the south or north of the state for tournaments.
However that’s now altering. The Metropolis of Fresno earlier this summer time put in cricket pitches at two metropolis parks: Jaswant Singh Khalra Neighborhood Park in West Fresno, and the Fresno Regional Sports activities Complicated downtown. Baldev Birk, president of the Fresno Cricket Membership, is delighted. “I feel the explosion of cricket that’s about to occur right here within the Central Valley goes to be superb, and it’s going to be one thing superb to look at,” Birk mentioned.
A number one synthetic intelligence researcher is warning that Character.AI’s plan to ban chatbots for youths by late November could go away them prone to self-harm or suicide in the event that they detach from an AI companion too rapidly.
