HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Restaurant owners are uniting in a class action lawsuit against CenterPoint Energy, claiming the company’s negligence has cost them business and threatened their livelihoods. reached out to CenterPoint for comment on the lawsuit but has yet to receive a response. However, the restaurant owners have plenty to say. Ryan Lachaine, executive chef and partner at Riel Restaurant in Montrose, experienced a full week without power, leaving his 20 employees unable to work. “Running a restaurant is challenging even in the best of times. When something like this happens, it’s absolutely devastating,” Lachaine said. “We all anticipated…
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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — CenterPoint Energy began Monday with approximately 240,000 outages, and by evening, about 132,000 customers were still without power. The company provided an update on the restoration timeline, stating that all impacted customers should have power back by Friday, July 19, 11 days after Hurricane Beryl made landfall. As of 8:30 p.m. Monday, CenterPoint had restored power to 92% of affected customers. By the end of Wednesday, they expect to have restored 98%. The company also highlighted potential issues with customer-owned equipment, specifically weatherheads, which are crucial for safely restoring service. Damage to these components requires repairs…
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ChatGPT maker OpenAI is working on a novel approach to its artificial intelligence models in a project code-named “Strawberry,” according to a person familiar with the matter and internal documentation reviewed by Reuters. The project, details of which have not been previously reported, comes as the Microsoft-backed startup races to show that the types of models it offers are capable of delivering advanced reasoning capabilities. Teams inside OpenAI are working on Strawberry, according to a copy of a recent internal OpenAI document seen by Reuters in May. Reuters could not ascertain the precise date of the document, which details a plan for how OpenAI intends…
LONDON: Barbora Krejcikova held off Italian crowd favourite Jasmine Paolini to win the Wimbledon singles title on Saturday, coming through 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 on a sunlit Centre Court. The Czech doubles specialist had dominated the opening set with a near-perfect display but was then rocked by a dazzling Paolini fightback which sent the showpiece into a decider. The momentum appeared to be with seventh seed Paolini, but a tight third set swung 31st seed Krejcikova’s way when she broke serve at 3-3 courtesy of a double-fault. Serving for the title at 5-4, Krejcikova just about held her nerve, wasting two…
LAHORE: As few as seven athletes were named in Pakistan’s contingent for the upcoming Olympic Games, which was announced on Saturday. The 18-member contingent includes 11 officials, who will travel along with the athletes to Paris for the Games, which start on July 26. Among the seven athletes, javelin thrower and Pakistan’s only goal-medal hope Arshad Nadeem and shooters Ghulam Mustafa Bashir (25m Rapid Fire Pistol), Gulfam Joseph (10m Air Pistol, 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team) and Kishmala Talat (10m Air Pistol, 25m Pistol, 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team) are participating in the Games after qualifying for their respective events. Faiqa Riaz…
Carlos Alcaraz overpowered seven-time champion Novak Djokovic in straight sets to retain his Wimbledon title on Sunday in a brutal statement that the new era of men’s tennis has arrived. The Spanish third seed produced a performance combining awesome power with a delicate touch to win 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (7/4), collecting the fourth Grand Slam of his young career. Alcaraz equals the Open Era record for most Grand Slams won at the age of 21 or under, joining Boris Becker, Bjorn Borg and Mats Wilander. And he is just the sixth man to win the French Open and Wimbledon back…
England are hoping to end their 58-year wait to win a men’s major international tournament when they take on an outstanding Spain team in the final of Euro 2024 on Sunday. The match at the Olympiastadion in Berlin kicks off at midnight and will bring the curtain down on a month of football in Germany in which Spain — featuring teenage sensation Lamine Yamal — have been comfortably the most impressive side. They have already eliminated several of the continent’s heavyweights while winning all six matches en route to the final as they aim to become European champions for a record fourth time, after 1964, 2008…
BERLIN: Mikel Oyarzabal finished off a scintillating one-two with Marc Cucurella and went to the corner flag, where he was soon buried in a sea of red. He scored the decisive goal of the Euro 2024 final just four minutes before full-time. The ‘Red Fury’ is back. Spain are champions of Europe once again, while England’s wait for a first major title since their triumph at the 1966 World Cup will continue. Spain had arguably been the team of the tournament and it remains to be seen how far Luis de la Fuente’s team can go with the World Cup…
To secure an International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan of $6 billion, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb has repeatedly emphasised that Pakistan’s tax-to-GDP ratio, currently at 9 per cent, is inadequate to sustain the country. He has expressed a firm commitment to increasing this ratio to 13pc within the next three years. Regrettably, neither he nor any other senior government official has demonstrated a similar level of commitment and dedication to raising the country’s exports-to-GDP ratio (exports of goods and services as a percentage of GDP), which currently stands at around 10.4pc. Many economists believe that increasing this ratio to 15pc could potentially obviate the need for an…
