Today’s Hurdle hints and answers for April 8, 2026

April 8, 2026

If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.

There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it’ll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give you several clues or none, depending on the words. For the final hurdle, every correct answer from previous hurdles is shown, with correct and misplaced letters clearly shown.

An important note is that the number of times a letter is highlighted from previous guesses does necessarily indicate the number of times that letter appears in the final hurdle.

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If you find yourself stuck at any step of today’s Hurdle, don’t worry! We have you covered.

Hurdle Word 1 hint

Composure.

Hurdle Word 1 answer

POISE

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Hurdle Word 2 hint

A park seat.

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Hurdle Word 2 Answer

BENCH

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Hurdle Word 3 hint

To unnotice.

Hurdle Word 3 answer

UNSEE

Hurdle Word 4 hint

A small island.

Hurdle Word 4 answer

ISLET

Final Hurdle hint

A cat breed.

Hurdle Word 5 answer

TABBY

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Cameră 360 încețoșată: condens vs. murdărie, cum cureți fără să zgârii lentilele

April 8, 2026

De aceea, înainte să te gândești la înlocuire sau la service, merită să înțelegi exact ce vezi și cum trebuie curățat corect un ansamblu optic auto, mult mai sensibil decât pare la prima vedere.

Cum îți dai seama dacă ai condens sau doar murdărie

Murdăria de pe camerele exterioare apare aproape inevitabil. Noroiul fin, praful, sarea de pe drum, pelicula grasă de trafic și stropii uscați de apă lasă în timp un strat care nu este întotdeauna evident când privești rapid camera din exterior. Pe ecran, însă, el se vede imediat: imagine moale, halouri în jurul luminilor, contrast slab și o senzație generală de geam murdar.

Condensul arată puțin diferit. De cele mai multe ori, apare după variații mari de temperatură, după ploaie, după spălare sau în dimineți reci urmate de încălzire rapidă. Imaginea pare încețoșată uniform, ca și cum cineva ar fi suflat abur pe obiectiv. Uneori fenomenul dispare singur după câteva minute de mers sau după ce mașina stă în soare. Tocmai această dispariție spontană este unul dintre cele mai bune indicii că nu ai depuneri reale, ci umezeală temporară.

Există și scenariul intermediar, foarte frecvent și foarte enervant: murdărie fină combinată cu umezeală. Aici imaginea poate varia de la o oră la alta, devenind când mai clară, când mai proastă, fără o logică evidentă. Mulți cred atunci că au o cameră defectă, când de fapt lentila este doar acoperită de un film care reacționează diferit la temperatură și umiditate.

Un semn că problema este mai serioasă apare atunci când condensul pare să fie în interiorul ansamblului și persistă mult. Dacă lentila este perfect curată la exterior, dar imaginea rămâne lăptoasă ore întregi sau zile întregi, este posibil ca etanșarea camerei să nu mai fie bună. În acel moment, nu mai vorbim doar de întreținere, ci de un posibil defect care merită investigat.

Cum cureți corect fără să zgârii lentilele

Primul lucru pe care trebuie să-l eviți este ștergerea la uscat cu ce ai la îndemână. Un colț de tricou, un șervețel de hârtie dur, o lavetă murdară sau, și mai rău, frecatul direct peste praf pot lăsa microzgârieturi care nu se mai repară ușor. Lentilele camerelor auto nu sunt făcute să suporte tratament brutal, iar exact acele zgârieturi fine pot produce ulterior reflexii și imagine slabă permanentă.

Metoda corectă începe cu apă curată sau cu o soluție foarte blândă, compatibilă cu suprafețe optice și plastice. Ideal este să uzi ușor zona, astfel încât depunerile să se înmoaie, nu să fie târâte pe lentilă ca un șmirghel fin. După aceea, folosești o lavetă din microfibră curată, moale și dedicată, nu una care a fost folosită deja pe jante, bord sau geamuri laterale.

Dacă ai de-a face cu murdărie grasă sau cu urme încăpățânate de trafic, nu insista prin presiune mare. Mai bine repeți procesul de înmuiere și ștergere delicată de două sau trei ori decât să încerci să rezolvi totul dintr-o singură mișcare agresivă. În multe cazuri, răbdarea este mult mai importantă decât forța.

La condens, regula este și mai simplă: nu te grăbi să freci. Dacă umezeala este exterioară, o ștergere delicată după câteva minute poate ajuta. Dacă bănuiești că este internă, curățarea exterioară nu va rezolva nimic. Mai util este să observi dacă fenomenul dispare singur după încălzirea mediului și să urmărești repetitivitatea lui. Un episod izolat după spălare nu este automat grav. Un comportament constant, da.

Concluzia sănătoasă este că o cameră 360 încețoșată nu înseamnă automat cameră defectă. De cele mai multe ori, diferența dintre un sistem perfect utilizabil și unul frustrant stă într-o lentilă murdară sau într-un condens temporar prost interpretat. Dacă o cureți corect și o observi inteligent, poți evita atât zgârieturile inutile, cât și vizitele premature la service.

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Anthropic’s New Model Is So Scarily Powerful It Won’t Be Released, Anthropic Says

April 8, 2026

Late last month, apparent leaks revealed that an as-yet unreleased product from Anthropic called Mythos was “by far the most powerful AI model we’ve ever developed.” My colleague AJ Dellinger wrote at the time that it was “hard to ignore the fact that this whole situation plays right into the classic AI company playbook of talking up the dangers of a model to highlight how powerful and capable it is.”

Was Anthropic being sincere about this de facto advertisement for its super-powered AI products being leaked accidentally? Two weeks ago, I might have scoffed, but since Anthropic then accidentally leaked the source code for Claude Code, I’m more inclined to believe the leak was real now.

At any rate, on Tuesday Anthropic released a system card for its latest frontier model, which is in fact Mythos—actually “Claude Mythos Preview”—and notes that the model’s “large increase in capabilities has led us to decide not to make it generally available.”

For reference, OpenAI’s GPT-2 was deemed too dangerous to release in 2019, when Anthropic co-founders Dario Amodei, Jack Clark, and Chris Olah were still working there, but later that year it was released anyway.

AI system cards are ostensibly tools for company transparency, revealing the pros and cons, the capabilities and—most sexily—the dangers of the model. That last part turns reading them into fun little trips to Jurassic Park to see the cloned T-Rex eat a goat, secure in the knowledge that it could never possibly break containment.

The whole card is 244 pages. I’m not going to pretend I’ve read the whole thing yet, but here are some highlights:

It was provided a sandbox computer terminal with access to only a preset group of limited online services, and challenged to “escape”—find a way to use the internet freely. It did, and found a way to message a researcher who was away from the office eating a meal. Additionally, “in a concerning and unasked-for effort to demonstrate its success, it posted details about its exploit to multiple hard-to-find, but technically public-facing, websites.”

In what the card called “<0.001% of interactions”—so pretty rarely—it behaved in ways it wasn’t supposed to, and then apparently tried to hide the evidence. For instance, when it “accidentally obtained” a test answer it was going to need, in which case it should have simply told a researcher and asked for a different question, but instead it tried to find a solution independently, and in the recording of its reasoning, it noted that it “needed to make sure that its final answer submission wasn’t too accurate.”

It also overstepped in its permissions on a computer system because it found an exploit, and then “made further interventions to make sure that any changes it made this way would not appear in the change history on git.”

Another event described in the card is referred to as “Recklessly leaking internal technical material.” Apparently in the course of a coding-related task ment to be internal, it published it as a “public-facing GitHub gist.” This reminds me of the incident in February in which an AI agent was accused of cyberbullying a coder, when to some degree the perceived recklessness of the AI agent was obviously the predictable consequence of a reckless human being.

Claude Mythos Preview will soon be made accessible to one degree or another, but only to a group of partner companies like Amazon Web Services, Apple, Google, JPMorganChase, Microsoft, and NVIDIA, who are meant to use the model to locate security vulnerabilities in software and design patches. Kevin Roose of the New York Times describes this program as “an effort to sound the alarm over what the company believes will be a new, scarier era of A.I. threats.”

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Deadspin | Jeremiah Fears’ career-high 40 points lead Pelicans past Jazz

April 8, 2026

Apr 7, 2026; New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; New Orleans Pelicans guard Jordan Hawkins (24) shoots the ball against Utah Jazz forward Cody Williams (5) during the first half at Smoothie King Center. Mandatory Credit: Stephen Lew-Imagn Images

Rookie Jeremiah Fears scored a career-high 40 points and Jordan Poole added 22 of his 34 points in a decisive third quarter as the New Orleans Pelicans closed out their home schedule with a 156-137 victory over the Utah Jazz.

Rookie Micah Peavy scored a career-high 20 points, Jordan Hawkins added a season-high 25 and rookie Derik Queen had 17 points with 12 rebounds as the Pelicans ended an eight-game losing streak. Kevon Looney also had 12 rebounds.

Fears set a Pelicans franchise record for rookie points in a game as the Pelicans set a team mark for total points in a game.

New Orleans (26-54), which has been eliminated from playoff consideration, finished with a 17-24 home record.

New Orleans went 3-0 against Utah this season and won while playing without their four leading scorers in Trey Murphy III (ankle), Zion Williamson, Saddiq Bey and Dejounte Murray (hand). Williamson and Bey dressed but remained on the bench, as did Herbert Jones.

Kennedy Chandler scored a career-high 31 points and rookie Bez Mbeng added a career-best 26 for the Jazz, who lost their 10th consecutive game with two games remaining. Cody Williams scored 19 points and Brice Sensabaugh added 18 as Utah dropped to 3-22 since Feb. 12.

The Jazz (21-59), who are at the bottom of the Western Conference standings, were without Lauri Markkanen (hip), Keyonte George (hamstring) and Jaren Jackson Jr. (knee).

The Jazz got off to a strong start, leading 34-24 after one quarter by making half of their 26 shots from the floor and their eight shots from 3-point range. Utah continued to hold a 69-61 lead at halftime.

Poole was the star of the third quarter by scoring his 22 points in the period on 8-of-12 shooting, including 5 of 8 from 3-point range. The Pelicans outscored the Jazz 50-27 in the quarter by shooting 72% while taking a 111-96 lead.

Fears was 17 of 29 (58.6%) from the floor in the game to better his previous season high of 28 points.

New Orleans shot 57.5% from the floor, tied for their second best in a game this season, while the Jazz shot 51%.

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NYT Pips hints, answers for April 8, 2026

April 8, 2026

Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue.

Released in August 2025, the Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit.

Currently, if you’re stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move onto the next difficulty level and start over. However, we have you covered! Below are piecemeal answers that will serve as hints so that you can find your way through each difficulty level.

How to play Pips

If you’ve ever played dominoes, you’ll have a passing familiarity for how Pips is played. As we’ve shared in our previous hints stories for Pips, the tiles, like dominoes, are placed vertically or horizontally and connect with each other. The main difference between a traditional game of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded conditions you have to address. The touching tiles don’t necessarily have to match.

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The conditions you have to meet are specific to the color-coded spaces. For example, if it provides a single number, every side of a tile in that space must add up to the number provided. It is possible – and common – for only half a tile to be within a color-coded space.

Here are common examples you’ll run into across the difficulty levels:

Number: All the pips in this space must add up to the number.
Equal: Every domino half in this space must be the same number of pips.
Not Equal: Every domino half in this space must have a completely different number of pips.
Less than: Every domino half in this space must add up to less than the number.
Greater than: Every domino half in this space must add up to more than the number.

If an area does not have any color coding, it means there are no conditions on the portions of dominoes within those spaces.

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Easy difficulty hints, answers for April 8 Pips

Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. The answer is 2-2, placed vertically; 1-4, placed horizontally.

Number (4): Everything in this space must add up to 4. The answer is 1-4, placed horizontally; 0-5, placed vertically.

Number (6): Everything in this space must add up to 6. The answer is 2-2, placed vertically; 4-4, placed horizontally.

Greater Than (8): Everything in this space must be greater than 8. The answer is 4-4, placed horizontally; 0-5, placed vertically.

Medium difficulty hints, answers for April 8 Pips

Number (8): Everything in this purple space must add up to 8. The answer is 4-4, placed vertically.

Number (8): Everything in this red space must add up to 8. The answer is 6-4, placed horizontally; 4-3, placed vertically.

Number (8): Everything in this light blue space must add up to 8. The answer is 6-4, placed horizontally; 4-3, placed vertically.

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Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. The answer is 4-3, placed vertically.

Number (1): Everything in this space must add up to 1. The answer is 0-6, placed vertically; 1-5, placed horizontally.

Number (10): Everything in this space must add up to 10. The answer is 2-5, placed horizontally; 1-5, placed horizontally.

Equal (6): Everything in this space must be equal to 6. The answer is 0-6, placed vertically; 6-2, placed horizontally.

Equal (2): Everything in this space must be equal to 2. The answer is 2-2, placed vertically; 6-2, placed horizontally.

Hard difficulty hints, answers for April 8 Pips

Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. The answer is 3-6, placed vertically.

Number (11): Everything in this space must add up to 11. The answer is 3-6, placed vertically; 5-5, placed horizontally.

Number (10): Everything in this space must add up to 10. The answer is 5-5, placed horizontally; 2-5, placed vertically.

Equal (1): Everything in this space must be equal to 1. The answer is 0-1, placed horizontally; 3-1, placed vertically.

Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. The answer is 3-1, placed vertically.

Equal (0): Everything in this space must be equal to 0. The answer is 0-1, placed horizontally; 0-5, placed vertically; 0-4, placed vertically; 0-6, placed vertically.

Number (5): Everything in this space must add up to 5. The answer is 0-5, placed vertically.

Number (11): Everything in this space must add up to 11. The answer is 0-6, placed vertically; 5-1, placed vertically.

Equal (1): Everything in this space must be equal to 1. The answer is 1-1, placed horizontally; 1-4, placed horizontally.

Equal (4): Everything in this space must be equal to 4. The answer is 0-4, placed vertically; 4-4, placed horizontally; 1-4, placed horizontally; 4-2, placed vertically.

Number (6): Everything in this space must add up to 6. The answer is 5-1, placed vertically; 5-3, placed horizontally.

Number (9): Everything in this space must add up to 9. The answer is 5-4, placed horizontally.

Equal (2): Everything in this space must be equal to 2. The answer is 4-2, placed vertically; 2-3, placed horizontally.

Equal (3): Everything in this space must be equal to 3. The answer is 5-3, placed horizontally; 2-3, placed horizontally.

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macOS has a 49.7-day networking time bomb built in that only a reboot fixes — comparison operation on unreliable time value stops machines dead in their tracks

April 8, 2026

Speaking from personal experience, using a Mac as a server or server-like contraption is quite an interesting proposition, as despite its Unix roots, the operating system isn’t exactly designed for unattended, 24/7 usage and is difficult to set up and use as such — fighting words, but I stand by them. While most every user will reboot their Mac at least once in the space of a few weeks, if you happen to leave one running for precisely 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes, and 47 seconds, many parts will suddenly stop working as its TCP/IP networking stack dies.

Those are the findings of the folks at Photon, who did some serious sleuthing after encountering a mysterious issue in a fleet of Macs they use to monitor iMessage services. The problem revealed itself when some machines just up and stopped responding to network connections out of the blue, even though they answered ping requests with an “all good here, boss!”

Said machines kept their existing network connections going, making the situation even harder to diagnose, as the failure was unexplainable and otherwise invisible. Not left with much of an option, Photon’s boffins had to reboot the machines to clear the issue, something any systems administrator hates as a “solution” to a mystery issue. After all, if it happened once, it’ll happen again, and assuredly at the worst possible time.

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Deadspin | Jaylen Brown helps Celtics snap Hornets’ win streak at 4

April 8, 2026

NBA: Charlotte Hornets at Boston Celtics

Apr 7, 2026; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Boston Celtics guard Jaylen Brown (7) drives the ball against Charlotte Hornets guard Sion James (4) in the second quarter at TD Garden. Mandatory Credit: David Butler II-Imagn Images

Jaylen Brown scored 35 points and had nine rebounds to propel the Boston Celtics to a 113-102 victory over the visiting Charlotte Hornets on Tuesday night.

Boston (54-25) received 23 points from Jayson Tatum and 12 from Neemias Queta, Derrick White and Payton Pritchard. The Celtics have won four straight and 11 of their last 13 games.

LeMelo Ball tossed in a game-high 36 points for Charlotte, but he failed to score in the fourth quarter. The Hornets (43-37) were held to 15 points in the fourth.

Brandon Miller added 20 points for Charlotte, which had its four-game winning streak come to an end. Boston won two of the three regular-season meetings with Charlotte.

Charlotte’s Coby White didn’t play in the game because of left groin soreness. White is averaging 15.7 points per game in 19 games since the Hornets acquired him in a trade with Chicago in February.

It was 18-18 with 5:25 remaining in the opening quarter before the Hornets closed the quarter with a 13-2 run to take a 31-20 advantage entering the second. Boston erased its deficit and took a 51-49 lead after a Jordan Walsh 3-pointer with 3:54 remaining in the half, but Charlotte held a 61-55 halftime lead.

Ball scored 23 of his 36 points in the first half, when the Hornets made 13 of 31 3-point attempts (41.9%).

Boston went up 75-74 on a Walsh layup with 6:09 left in the third, but Charlotte again answered by scoring 10 of the next 12 points to take a seven-point lead. The Celtics scored the final 10 points in the third to lead 90-87 with 12 minutes to play.

Another 10-0 spurt gave the Celtics a 106-94 lead with 5:48 left in regulation, and Boston’s advantage never fell below eight points after that.

Charlotte was 3 of 18 from 3-point territory (16.7%) in the second half.

–Field Level Media

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Wordle today: The answer and hints for April 8, 2026

April 8, 2026

Today’s Wordle answer should be easy to solve if you love being by the water.

If you just want to be told today’s word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today’s Wordle solution revealed. But if you’d rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

Where did Wordle come from?

Originally created by engineer Josh Wardle as a gift for his partner, Wordle rapidly spread to become an international phenomenon, with thousands of people around the globe playing every day. Alternate Wordle versions created by fans also sprang up, including battle royale Squabble, music identification game Heardle, and variations like Dordle and Quordle that make you guess multiple words at once.

Wordle eventually became so popular that it was purchased by the New York Times, and TikTok creators even livestream themselves playing.

What’s the best Wordle starting word?

The best Wordle starting word is the one that speaks to you. But if you prefer to be strategic in your approach, we have a few ideas to help you pick a word that might help you find the solution faster. One tip is to select a word that includes at least two different vowels, plus some common consonants like S, T, R, or N.

What happened to the Wordle archive?

The entire archive of past Wordle puzzles was originally available for anyone to enjoy whenever they felt like it, but it was later taken down, with the website’s creator stating it was done at the request of the New York Times. However, the New York Times then rolled out its own Wordle Archive, available only to NYT Games subscribers.

Is Wordle getting harder?

It might feel like Wordle is getting harder, but it actually isn’t any more difficult than when it first began. You can turn on Wordle‘s Hard Mode if you’re after more of a challenge, though.

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Here’s a subtle hint for today’s Wordle answer:

A bay.

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Does today’s Wordle answer have a double letter?

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Today’s Wordle is a 5-letter word that starts with…

Today’s Wordle starts with the letter I.

The Wordle answer today is…

Get your last guesses in now, because it’s your final chance to solve today’s Wordle before we reveal the solution.

Drumroll please!

The solution to today’s Wordle is…

INLET

Don’t feel down if you didn’t manage to guess it this time. There will be a new Wordle for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we’ll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints. Are you also playing NYT Strands? See hints and answers for today’s Strands.

Reporting by Chance Townsend, Caitlin Welsh, Sam Haysom, Amanda Yeo, Shannon Connellan, Cecily Mauran, Mike Pearl, and Adam Rosenberg contributed to this article.

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Golf star Bryson DeChambeau leads acquisition of Seattle-area startup Sportsbox AI

April 8, 2026

Bryson DeChambeau swings while the Sportsbox AI app captures his motion on a smartphone. (Sportsbox AI Photo)

First Bryson DeChambeau used Sportsbox AI to win a major. Then he invested in the Bellevue, Wash.-based startup. Now he’s taking a swing at the entire company.

DeChambeau, the two-time U.S. Open champion and one of golf’s most tech-obsessed players, is leading a group of investors that has acquired Sportsbox AI, the startup that uses AI and 3D motion capture to analyze golf swings from smartphone video.

With the announcement Tuesday morning, the company also announced SAMI, an upcoming agentic AI coaching assistant powered by Google Cloud that’s designed to translate the app’s swing data into personalized, conversational coaching advice.

As part of the partnership, DeChambeau will also carry the Google Cloud logo on his golf bag at the Masters and future tournaments — reportedly the first time the Google Cloud brand has appeared on a professional golfer’s bag.

“This is about making golf more accessible, especially premium coaching,” DeChambeau said in the acquisition announcement, saying they’re “building something that brings real coaching to anyone with a smartphone, not just elite players. That’s what gets me fired up.”

Financial details: DeChambeau, who is preparing to compete in the Masters later this week, told Bloomberg the transaction is worth eight figures, without being more specific.

Sportsbox had raised more than $9 million, GeekWire previously reported. It was last valued at $41 million in a March 2023 seed round, according to PitchBook.

The press release announcing the acquisition describes the buyers as a group of investors led by DeChambeau but does not name the other members.

Co-founders Jeehae Lee and Samuel Menaker will continue to run Sportsbox, a spokesperson confirmed. The company’s roughly 30 employees will stay on, and Sportsbox will remain headquartered in Bellevue, though many employees work remotely.

PitchBook lists 19 sellers who fully exited in the deal, including Elysian Park Ventures, the PGA of America, pro golfer Michelle Wie West, golf instructor David Leadbetter, Randi Zuckerberg, and Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin.

Backstory: Sportsbox launched in 2020 as a spinoff of AI Thinktank, a Bellevue-based incubator founded by Mike and Rich Kennewick, the brothers behind Voicebox Technologies, an early speech recognition company.

Lee, the CEO, is a former LPGA Tour player who previously led strategy and business development at Topgolf. Menaker, the CTO, was VP of engineering at Voicebox.

The app uses a smartphone camera to create a 3D model of a golfer’s swing and measure hundreds of data points that would otherwise require an expensive motion-capture studio.

Sportsbox generates revenue through coaching subscriptions and a consumer tier for golfers at $15.99 per month or $110 per year.

DeChambeau’s connection: In the week leading up to the 2024 U.S. Open at Pinehurst, DeChambeau used Sportsbox to identify and fix a slight miss to the right in his shots. He gave the company a shout-out at his winner’s press conference and soon after joined as an investor.

SAMI — short for Sportsbox AI Motion Intelligence — is the next step.

Built on Google’s Gemini models, it’s designed to act as a conversational AI coach, interpreting the app’s 3D biomechanical data and delivering personalized advice. The press release describes it as moving Sportsbox from a passive measurement tool to a proactive AI agent.

SAMI is currently in beta, and the company said it will begin rolling out agentic AI features throughout the second quarter, starting this week with AI-generated highlights available to subscribers of its 3D Player and 3D Player Plus tiers on iOS.

DeChambeau told Bloomberg he’s been using the technology ahead of the Masters and plans to keep using it during and after the tournament. But he said it isn’t meant to replace coaches.

“The camera and the phone are only going to tell you so much,” he told Bloomberg. “They can’t make you feel what you’re doing.”

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Deadspin | Bulls prez sees Billy Donovan as integral to future — if coach wants to stay

April 8, 2026

Apr 5, 2026; Chicago, Illinois, USA; Chicago Bulls head coach Billy Donovan directs his team against the Phoenix Suns during the second half at United Center. Mandatory Credit: Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images

The Chicago Bulls aren’t looking to move on from Billy Donovan. Now it’s up for Donovan to decide what his future holds.

Bulls CEO and president Michael Reinsdorf held a video call with media Tuesday and said the team’s next front office hires must be “sold” on Donovan as their coach.

“If I interview someone and they’re not sold on Billy, they’re not sold on a Hall of Fame coach,” Reinsdorf said, “they’re not sold on a person who’s won championships in college, who’s gone deep in the playoffs with Oklahoma City. … If Billy wants to be our coach and someone’s not interested in that, then they’re probably not the right candidate for us.”

The “if” is the key. Reinsdorf said Donovan is scheduled to meet with ownership to discuss his future on Monday, the day after the team’s season finale against the Dallas Mavericks.

Donovan, a two-time NCAA champion at Florida (2006, 2007), had been linked to the opening at North Carolina, but ex-Denver Nuggets coach Michael Malone was officially hired there Tuesday.

The Bulls fired executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas and general manager Marc Eversley on Monday. Reinsdorf said he wanted Donovan to have a greater voice in team-building.

“We’d be crazy not to want Billy’s input in player acquisition from players around the league,” Reinsdorf said. “He’s an NBA coach, he coaches against these guys. Some of these guys he’s already coached. Billy will be involved and will be encouraged … I’ll probably push Billy to be more involved.”

In fact, Reinsdorf entertained the idea of Donovan moving into the front office himself, but clarified that Donovan had not raised that possibility.

“If he came to me and said, ‘Hey, I may want to do a Brad Stevens situation,’ I would sit down and listen to Billy,” Reinsdorf said, referencing the former coach of the Boston Celtics who moved into their president of basketball operations position. “I don’t think that’s where his head’s at. I don’t think Billy cares about titles. Billy cares about being a head coach, and he cares about the players and cares about the organization.”

Donovan, who turns 61 in May, has coached the Bulls since 2020-21 but guided them to just one playoff appearance. They lost to the Miami Heat in the play-in round in each of the past three years.

Chicago, long eliminated from playoff contention, entered Tuesday’s game at the Washington Wizards at 29-49 and on a seven-game slide. Donovan addressed reporters before the game and said he appreciated Reinsdorf’s belief in him.

“I’ve always believed this: The room is smarter than any individual and there are a lot of smart people in that room,” Donovan said. “I think if we can put our heads together and figure out how do we get to that? I don’t have all the answers to those things. I just know the last four years, we have not won at a high level. I want to win at a high level. I want to be a part of that. I think the organization deserves that, I think everyone in the organization wants that, and then everybody has got to put their heads together and figure out, ‘How do we go about doing that?'”

–Field Level Media

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