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When you’ve got the best QB1 on the planet in your corner, ownership is overrated. But the latest NFLPA report, released a few days back, says Broncos CEO Greg Penner is the best boss in the AFC West. Which got the crack staff in the Grading The Week offices thinking: Do they hang banners for HR surveys? We kid, of course, but if it’s good enough for the players, it’s good enough for us. Minus the occasional car theft, issues with child care and some transitional bumps with the new strength and conditioning staff, the Broncos graded out well in…

A new generation of artificial intelligence is poised to turn old assumptions about technology on their head. For years, people working in warehouses or fast food restaurants worried that automation could eliminate their jobs. But new research suggests that generative AI — the kind used in chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT — will have its biggest impact on white-collar workers with high-paying jobs in industries such as banking and tech. A report published last month by the Burning Glass Institute, a nonprofit research center, and SHRM, formerly the Society for Human Resource Management, stops short of saying the technology will…

NEW YORK — Komal Vilas Thatkare says she doesn’t have anyone to ask about her most private health questions. “There are only men in my home — no ladies,” said the 32-year-old mother and housewife in Mumbai. “I don’t speak to anyone here. So I used this app as it helps me in my personal problems.” The app she uses is powered by artificial intelligence running on OpenAI’s ChatGPT model, that Myna Mahila Foundation, a local women’s organization, is developing. Thatkare asks the Myna Bolo chatbot questions and it offers answers. Through those interactions, Thatkare learned about a contraceptive pill…

NASHVILLE — The Colorado Avalanche’s first move ahead of the NHL trade deadline was to subtract from the current roster, but the deal could lead to bigger additions in the near future. Colorado traded tough guy Kurtis MacDermid on Friday to the New Jersey Devils. The initial return was a 2024 seventh-round pick and Zakhar Bardakov, who was a seventh-rounder for New Jersey in 2021. The prized asset could be the extra financial flexibility. MacDermid is in the final season of a two-year contract that carries a cap hit of $987,500. The Avs have been over the NHL salary cap…

Rockies 10, Mariners 9Friday at Salt River Fields On the mound: Lefty Kyle Freeland, intent on a bounce-back season, got off to a good start. In his first Cactus League outing, Freeland pitched two perfect innings, striking out one. He threw 19 of 21 pitches for strikes. … Right-handed relievers Matt Carasiti (1 1/3 innings) and Jake Bird (one inning), as well as lefty Evan Justice (one inning), all held the Mariners scoreless. … Veteran right-hander John Curtiss did not fare well, getting rocked for five runs on five hits (including a homer and a double) and a walk in…

A look at each of the Class 4A Great 8 matchups set for Saturday at the Denver Coliseum: BOYS No. 1 Kent Denver (23-2) vs. No. 9 DSST: Green Valley Ranch (19-5) Time: 10:15 a.m. Players to watch: KD — Caleb Fay, 6-6, so. (21.1 ppg, 6.9 rpg, 3.7 apg, 1.1 bpg); Alex Padalino, 6-2, sr. (9.4 ppg, 2.9 rpg); Nicholas Buchenau, 6-5, sr. (8.4 ppg, 6.6 rpg). GVR — Jovonnie Babineaux, 5-10, sr. (17.6 ppg, 2.8 apg); Tong Bot, 6-4, jr. (11.0 ppg, 6.8 rpg, 1.1 bpg); Shalom Abioye, 6-0, sr. (10.8 ppg, 2.2 spg). What to know: A…

With her college basketball career nearing its end and a professional career in her plans, Quay Miller has taken some time to contemplate what life would be like without the game. “It’s just exciting to see what my future could look like,” she said. “I’d probably be a principal or go to culinary school. Something for sure helping people. Or cooking of some sort.” It’s a fitting response for a young woman who, in addition to being a great player for the Colorado women’s basketball team, has built a reputation for helping others and being a great human off the…

The family of a 28-year-old man killed in a hit-and-run crash in Adams County in December is struggling to find closure as police continue to search for the driver who fled the scene. Charrone Davis, 28. (Courtesy of Destiny Jackson) Charrone Terrell-Warren Davis was riding a TIFGALOP standing adult electric scooter in southwest Adams County the night of Dec. 21 when he was struck by a white Subaru Outback heading east on East 58th Avenue. The driver fled the scene and Davis was taken to a hospital where he later died, according to the Colorado State Patrol. The investigation is…

In the storied annals of Denver Public Schools basketball, Northfield is hungry to write its own chapter. The Nighthawks advanced to the Class 5A Final Four on Friday at the Denver Coliseum with a furious fourth-quarter comeback against Mead. Northfield won 61-52, outscoring the Mavericks 21-3 in the final frame. After going 5-16 two years ago and losing in the first round of the playoffs last season, top-seeded Northfield rolls into next week’s Final Four with the wind at its back. “Everyone’s still underrating us, even though we’re the No. 1 seed,” said senior Justus Michael, who had a game-high…

Last year, Kennady Schneider couldn’t take gym class or participate in physical activities on field trips with her classmates, the risk too great that the noise and heat could trigger a seizure. Kennady, now 19 and a senior at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, has a particularly difficult-to-treat form of epilepsy that has caused multiple seizures a day since she was 5. Some lasted as long as 20 minutes, leaving her depleted and ultimately causing other disabilities, including vision problems and some intellectual limitations. Medications and a surgery cutting the area where the two halves of her brain join…