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The full 2025 NFL schedule hasn’t been released yet, but Seahawks fans already know who their team will be facing this season. From division rivals to high-profile non-conference matchups, here’s a look at every opponent Seattle is set to take on, both home and away.2025 Seattle Seahawks ScheduleHome OpponentsPatriots, Bears, Seahawks highlight new playoff teams in Colin’s 2025 predictions | The Herd Away OpponentsHow is the NFL schedule determined?The NFL has detailed rules about how the schedule comes together. Check out the specifics below:Each team plays 17 regular season games.Each team receives a bye week.Teams alternate seasons where they host…

Coinbase, the largest publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange, said on Thursday it will buy derivatives exchange Deribit in a $2.9 billion deal to expand into the crypto options markets. The move underscores a push by crypto firms to widen their institutional investor base, while also catering to retail traders who are becoming more sophisticated.The Deribit acquisition gives Coinbase “a foothold in non-U.S. markets, especially Asia and Europe, where leverage trading is more prevalent,” said Bo Pei, analyst at US Tiger Securities. The cash-and-stock deal will allow Coinbase to offer crypto options to its international clients. Widely used for hedging, options can…

Published Thu, May 8, 2025 · 08:13 AMMANULIFE Financial posted a 3 per cent jump in first-quarter profit on Wednesday, helped by the strong performance of its insurance business in Asia and overall growth in its global wealth and asset management business.Manulife has been expanding its investment advisory and retirement planning services to tap into the rising demand for long-term financial management.The firm’s push in Asian markets to capture the financial needs of a growing, under-insured middle class has helped its earnings in recent quarters.Core earnings from Asia rose 7 per cent to C$492 million (S$460 million), while global wealth…

New research shows that enterprises are going beyond AI experimentation and into large-scale production but that return on investment is taking a back seat in the process. The report from Domino Data Lab shows that while 88 percent of organizations report improved ability to move AI from experimentation to production, nearly 60 percent expect less than 50 percent ROI in the rapidly changing areas of machine learning (60 percent) or Gen AI (57 percent). “It’s clear that the AI hype cycle has peaked. Enterprises are done experimenting, and they’re racing to scale, but the payoff is still out of reach,”…

LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kali Uchis wrote the album she knew her future self would need to listen to. The Grammy-winning artist unknowingly was crafting her own audible remedy.“I really did make the music that I needed for my grieving process, for just the place that I’m at in my life right now,” she says of the album out Friday.“Sincerely,” (yes, the title includes the comma) began as a collection of letters to herself, friends and loved ones but took on a deeper meaning as the Colombian American songwriter gave birth to her first child and processed…

There is always baseball happening — almost too much baseball for one person to handle themselves.That’s why we’re here to help, though, by sifting through the previous days’ games, and figuring out what you missed, but shouldn’t have. Here are all the best moments from last night in Major League Baseball:Juan Soto is mashing the ball againSoto hit a pair of home runs in the rubber match of the New York Mets’ three-game series against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday, with the first long ball coming in the top of the sixth inning and the second one coming in the…

US President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 27, 2025. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump is set to unveil a trade agreement with the United Kingdom on Thursday.The deal would be the first by the United States with a country whose imports were subject to new tariffs imposed by Trump in early April.Trump is expected to announce the agreement in the Oval Office.UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is not in Washington, D.C., but is expected to…

[TOKYO] Toyota Motor said US President Donald Trump’s tariffs will result in a 180 billion yen (S$1.6 billion) hit to operating income in just two months, with the Japanese carmaker joining a growing list of companies grappling with the fallout of trade turmoil.The company said on Thursday (May 8) that the impact for April and May has been tentatively factored in, and the situation remains uncertain. That is set to weigh on its full-year results, with its outlook for operating income of 3.8 trillion yen for the year ending Mar 31, 2026 falling far short of analyst expectations of 4.7…

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates ratcheted up his feud with Elon Musk, accusing the world’s richest man of “killing the world’s poorest children” through what he said were misguided cuts to US development assistance. Gates, who is announcing a plan to accelerate his philanthropic giving over the next 20 years and close down the Gates Foundation altogether in 2045, said in an interview that the Tesla chief had acted through ignorance. In February, Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) in effect shut down the US Agency for International Development, the main conduit for US aid, saying it was “time for…

The UK and US are poised to announce a long-awaited trade deal in what Donald Trump has promised to be a “very big and exciting day”. It makes Britain the first nation to strike such an agreement with the US president since he unleashed his wave of global tariffs, giving Sir Keir Starmer a welcome boost after the local elections drubbing. However, the devil will be in the detail. A UK-US trade deal has been touted as a possibility since Brexit but negotiations frequently stalled under the Tories because of key sticking points like food standards and the NHS.Politics latest:…