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As he continues to recuperate from knee surgery in March, Kyrie Irving, a standout for the Dallas Mavericks, will miss the rest of the season, his agent informed ESPN’s Shams Charania. Irving hasn’t played this season since undergoing surgery in March to repair a ruptured left ACL. Anticipated to return for the 2026–2027 season is the nine-time All-Star. Considering that the Mavs are in full tank mode, it is hardly a major surprise. However, the 33-year-old will not play this season as he continues to recover from the ACL tear he sustained in March, according to a press release from the organization.

Kyrie Irving shares emotional message as Mavericks star confirms season-ending recovery decision

Officially, Kyrie Irving will miss the season. Shetellia Riley Irving, his agent, informed Charania: “This is about Kyrie being 1,000% when he comes back and giving himself the best chance to chase a championship next season,” Irving said in that release:“This decision wasn’t easy, but it’s the right one.. I am grateful for the Mavericks organization, my teammates and our fans for their continued support throughout the process. I am looking forward to coming back stronger next season. The belief and drive I have inside only grows…”He continued:“And I wanted to send a huge shoutout to ALL of my brothers and sisters out there who’ve torn their ACL or gotten injured doing what they love to do every day. THANK YOU for the inspiration. No fear!”For the rest of the season, Irving will continue his recuperation under the guidance of the Mavericks’ performance and medical staff.

Mavericks struggle without Kyrie Irving as Dallas shifts focus toward rebuilding phase

Irving and the team reached a three-year, $119 million contract in June 2025 while he continues to recuperate. For the rest of this season, he will continue in rehab under the care of the Mavs’ performance and medical staff. However, he has already missed the last 20 games of the previous campaign due to a knee injury. Since the 15-year veteran joined the team in the 2022–2023 season, the Mavericks are 75–53 when Irving is in the lineup. On the other hand, they are only 42-75 when Irving is not present.The Mavericks have a 19-35 record going into the post-All-Star break stretch of their schedule, which puts them fourth in the Southwest Division. Dallas announced its plan to rebuild earlier this month with the trade of Anthony Davis, who was sold to the Washington Wizards in a nine-player blockbuster.

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Anthropic’s AI, Claude Code, now generates nearly all internal code, prompting questions about its 100+ open engineering roles. Executives clarify human engineers are crucial for prompting, customer interaction, and strategic decisions. This shift elevates engineers to focus on system design and product direction, with AI handling repetitive coding tasks. The trend signifies a significant evolution in software development.

Anthropic’s own executives have confirmed it—Claude Code is now writing nearly 100% of the company’s internal code. So when the company’s job page still shows 100+ open engineering positions, the obvious question is: what exactly are these engineers supposed to do Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, addressed this directly when an X user flagged the apparent contradiction. His answer was simple. “Someone has to prompt the Claudes, talk to customers, coordinate with other teams, decide what to build next,” he wrote. “Engineering is changing and great engineers are more important than ever.”

Claude is writing Claude—but humans are still running the show

The backdrop here matters. At the 2026 Cisco AI Summit, Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger confirmed that the company’s AI tools now generate nearly all of its internal code. “Claude products and Claude code are being entirely written by Claude,” he said—building on CEO Dario Amodei’s earlier prediction that AI would handle 90% of coding, a figure that has since been surpassed inside Anthropic itself.Boris Cherny added more colour in a Fortune interview, saying he personally hasn’t written a single line of code in over two months, shipping 22 to 27 pull requests a day—all 100% Claude-generated.

AI is handling the grunt work—engineers are making the bigger calls

What this means in practice is that engineers have moved up the stack. Repetitive tasks—drafting features, refactoring, writing documentation—now belong to Claude. Humans focus on system design, architectural decisions, customer conversations, and deciding what gets built next. Everything AI produces is still reviewed and validated before it ships.The trend isn’t unique to Anthropic. Microsoft and Salesforce report around 30% AI-generated code, while a recent Science journal study put the figure at roughly 29% for GitHub Python functions in the US. Inside the frontier labs, though, the curve is far steeper—and Cherny thinks the rest of the industry will get there soon.

TimesofIndia.com in Colombo: Pakistan all-rounder Shadab Khan has hit back at former Pakistan captain and batting legend Mohammad Yousuf and Shahid Afridi, who have claimed that the country’s cricket is currently in its “darkest period” and said players like Babar Azam and Shaheen Shah Afridi should no longer be considered for the shortest format.“Criticism is something we can’t control. Every individual has his own opinion; they are free to have it,” Shadab told reporters after Pakistan’s thumping 102-run win over Namibia at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground in Colombo.Shadab had a poor outing against India, where he managed only 14 runs and gave away 17 runs in the only over he bowled.

“Time’s up for Shaheen, Babar, and Shadab. Pakistan’s T20 squad needs new performers, not empty wins against weaker sides,” Mohammad Yousuf wrote on X on Sunday.

However, against Namibia in a must-win game for Pakistan, Shadab redeemed himself. The all-rounder scored an unbeaten 36 off 22 balls and picked up three crucial wickets.“I feel that since I have made a comeback, I bowled one bad over, and because of that there is so much criticism. I don’t try to justify it. I can’t control these things. It was a bad day and a bad over. It’s T20 cricket; you can go for runs and take wickets as well. I don’t ponder too much about the criticism,” he said.Yousuf, who served as the men’s team batting coach for a period of three months between March and June 2025 before resigning from the role, was scathing in his remarks.“Unless we remove political influence and personal agendas from Pakistan cricket, we cannot return to the team we once were. This is the darkest period in our cricketing history, and my heart bleeds for it. Incompetent individuals must be removed from office and from the team,” Yousuf wrote on social media platform X on Monday.Yousuf was not alone. Pakistan cricket legend Shahid Afridi has called for senior players like Shaheen Shah Afridi, Babar Azam, and Shadab Khan to be dropped from Pakistan’s final group-stage game against Namibia.“If it were up to me to make a decision, I would drop Shaheen, Babar, and Shadab. I would bench them all,” Shahid Afridi said on a panel show for Samaa TV.“They are all senior players who, in my opinion, have a responsibility to perform. You lose matches. But nobody loses like this. Nobody loses in such a one-sided manner. My point is, this is the Pakistan team; you have to fight. We have also played cricket; we have lost many times, but I don’t recall us ever playing or losing in this specific way. We have lost, but we fought,” Afridi added.Shadab took a swipe at the legends without taking any names and cited the 2021 T20 World Cup example, when Babar Azam-led Pakistan thrashed India by ten wickets in Dubai. It remains the only time Pakistan have defeated India in World Cups.“Our ex-cricketers have their own opinions. They have done well for Pakistan, and at the end of the day, they have also never defeated India in the World Cup. We were the ones who defeated India in the 2021 World Cup. In World Cups, we have beaten India only once. Yes, they are legends, but they have never done anything remarkable against India in the World Cup,” he said.Shadab also credited India batter Ishan Kishan, who scored a breathtaking 77 off 40 balls on Sunday in Colombo.“In a high-pressure match, it is all about how you get the start. India started well. They have a player, Ishan Kishan, who was in good form, and he played an excellent innings,” he said.“We are talking too much about one match. Yes, the obvious goal was to win that match against India as well. At the end of the day, our main aim is to win the World Cup. We are trusting our process, and we will get the results,” he added.Pakistan will start their Super Eight campaign against New Zealand at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on February 21. The Salman Ali Agha-led team will then play their remaining two fixtures against England on February 24 and Sri Lanka on February 28 at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in Kandy.

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NEW DELHI: Galgotias University was asked to vacate its stall at the AI Summit Expo in Bharat Mandapam on Wednesday after a robotic dog displayed at its booth as an in-house innovation was identified as a commercially available Chinese product, said government sources.The robot, showcased by the university as “Orion,” was recognised by observers as the Unitree Go2 made by Chinese robotics firm Unitree. The incident quickly escalated into a wider controversy at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, a flagship AI event inaugurated by PM Modi.

What the row is about

The robotic dog displayed at the university’s stall was identified as the Unitree Go2, a commercially available quadruped robot sold in India for about Rs 2–3 lakh. Critics said the robot was presented at the summit as a product developed by the university, raising questions about showcasing imported technology at a national AI event meant to highlight domestic innovation.After scrutiny intensified, power at the Galgotias University pavilion at the AI Summit was also reportedly cut off after it was asked to vacate the expo.

What triggered the row

Professor Neha Singh, while presenting the robot earlier, told DD News, “We are the first private university investing more than 350 crore rupees in artificial intelligence and we have a dedicated data science and artificial intelligence block on the campus. So Orion has been developed by the Center of Excellences and as you can see, it can take all shapes and sizes.”“It’s quite naughty also. It’s quite naughty also and it can perform small tasks of surveillance, monitoring,” she added.

Opposition reacts

The controversy drew sharp reactions from opposition. The Congress said on X: “The Modi government has made a laughing stock of India globally, with regard to AI. In the ongoing AI summit, Chinese robots are being displayed as our own. The Chinese media has mocked us. This is truly embarrassing for India. What is even more shameful is the fact that Modi’s minister Ashwini Vaishnaw is indulging in the same falsehood, promoting China’s robots at the Indian summit.““The Modi Government has caused irreparable damage to the image of the country – they have reduced AI to a joke – a field in which we could be world leaders given our data power,” it added.Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi called the summit a “disorganised PR spectacle.” In a post on X, he said, “Instead of leveraging India’s talent and data, the AI summit is a disorganised PR spectacle – Indian data up for sale, Chinese products showcased.”

University issues clarification

In the first statement, Galgotias University said it had not built or claimed to have built the robotic dog and emphasised its focus on student learning through exposure to advanced global technologies.“Let us be clear – Galgotias has not built this robodog,neither have we claimed. But what we are building are minds that will soon design, engineer, and manufacture such technologies right here in Bharat. Innovation knows no borders. Learning should not either. We will continue to source the best technologies from across the world so our students can study them, challenge them, improve upon them—and ultimately create world-class solutions from India for the world.“In a later statement, the university said concerns about “propaganda” against the university were misplaced.“We at Galgotias, faculty and students, are deeply pained by the propaganda campaign against our university. We would like to clearly state that the robotic programming is part of our endeavour to make students learn Al programming and develop & deploy real world skills using globally available tools and resources, given developing Al talent is need of an hour.”Professor Neha Singh, who was representing the university, said the controversy stemmed from unclear communication.“The controversy happened because things may not have been expressed clearly. I take accountability that perhaps I did not communicate it properly, as it was done with a lot of energy and enthusiasm and very quickly, so I may not have come across as eloquently as I usually do. Also, the intent may not have been properly understood. One important point is regarding the robot dog—we cannot claim that we manufactured it. I have told everyone that we introduced it to our students to inspire them to create something better on their own. Our university contributes to building future leaders by providing cutting-edge technologies in the field of AI, and it will continue to do so.”The summit’s focus on India’s AI ambitions was overshadowed after observers identified the robot as the Unitree Go2, a model sold by Chinese robotics company Unitree.