When you ask ChatGPT what the most popular reasons to use ChatGPT are, it says that assisting people to write is one of them. From gathering and summarising information in a helpful format to even writing blog posts on a topic, ChatGPT has become an AI companion for many across different workplaces. As a proud Scottish football fan, I asked ChatGPT and DeepSeek to summarise the best Scottish football players ever, before asking the chatbots to "draft a blog post summarising the best Scottish football players in history". DeepSeek responded in seconds, with a top ten list - Kenny Dalglish of Liverpool and Celtic was number one. It helpfully summarised which position the players played in, their clubs, and a brief list of their achievements.

Implicit knowledge hidden within the explicit table cells, such as data insights, is the key to generating a high-quality table summary. However, unveiling such implicit knowledge is a non-trivial task. Due to the complex nature of structured tables, it is challenging even for large language models (LLMs) to mine the implicit knowledge in an insightful and faithful manner. To address this challenge, we propose a novel table reasoning framework Question-then-Pinpoint. Our work focuses on building a plug-and-play table reasoner that can self-question the insightful knowledge and answer it by faithfully pinpointing evidence on the table to provide explainable guidance for the summarizer. To train a reliable reasoner, we collect table knowledge by guiding a teacher LLM to follow the coarse-to-fine reasoning paths and refine it through two quality enhancement strategies to selectively distill the high-quality knowledge to the reasoner. Extensive experiments on two table summarization datasets, including our newly proposed InsTaSumm, validate the general effectiveness of our framework.

It was nothing more than what Brad Stevens termed "a curveball," as it turned out. After an initial false positive COVID test, Evan Fournier turned in a string of negative tests, leading to his first-time availability for the Celtics Monday night against New Orleans. "He will play significant minutes, as he will all the rest of the year," Stevens said of how he planned to begin with the talented wing player, acquired from Orlando at the trade deadline for the since-waived Jeff Teague and two second-round draft picks. "We had an obvious need for another wing that can do what he does, and we're fortunate he's with us, and he's on our team," said the Celtics coach. "So I got a chance to go over to the gym (Sunday) while he was shooting around when we got back and then this morning we went through some stuff prior to our shootaround, we shot around as a team for 30 minutes, so he's gotten the crash course in a very short amount of time. He's been there, done that. He's played against us, you know, tons of times, probably knows our plays as well as anybody, and certainly we just want him to play to his strengths and not worry about anything else."

Rex Mundi is a comic book, a Johnny Depp adaption of such and a DJ. Vincent Peters, with a board of directors deriving experience from careers at Google, Facebook and SpaceX, wants his startup to be king of sports betting predictive analysis when the artificial intelligence-based system launches to the public later this year. In a crowded market where data analysts and other AI-wielding outfits are rushing in to exploit the methodical spread of legal sports betting across the United States, innovation and results will be crucial. Peters said Rex Mundi, which he founded, is producing a "65-to-68%" accuracy rate but added "we're looking for ways to get it up to 70%." Experience and leadership will matter also, Peters believes, leading the company to add DHL Express America CEO Mike Parra to a board of directors on Wednesday that includes former American Apparel CEO Chelsea Grayson. "Rex Mundi's unique vision and cutting edge algorithm will bring a one-of-a-kind experience to the space," Parra said.

The Boston Celtics routed the Cavaliers in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals, but there was at least one brief moment of hope for Cleveland. A Jeff Green jumper at the end of the third quarter cut the Celtics' 28-point lead in half, and the the Cavs found themselves within punching distance … until Boston rattled off a 7-0 run to open the fourth and put the game away for good. LeBron remembers that burst all too well, as evidenced by the above video from the postgame press conference. Feel free to check his work, but he's pretty on the money. While LeBron's computer brain is certainly impressive, he does make one error.

Tens of thousands of screaming fans will fill the TD Garden this weekend, cheering for their favorite players -- not the Bruins or Celtics, but some of the nation's best professional gamers, competing for a place in the League of Legends world championship later this year. Organizers say they have sold out the Garden for the final on Sunday, and expect to sell out Saturday as well. This is the first major esports event to come to the Garden. In League of Legends, two teams of five try to destroy their opponent's base, battling with everything from ninjas, knights and robots. The matches are best of five.

Years from now, the drama that has gripped local sports fans as the Celtics wooed big-name free agents to come play in the Hub may involve the e-sports stars of the future and a Boston-based team jockeying to sign them to their squad. A new Boston team of top-tier gamers owned by New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft will soon be competing in a new Overwatch league, according to ESPN. Overwatch, a popular shooting and fighting game made by Blizzard Entertainment, will launch a competitive league later this year, according to the network. Along with Kraft, other teams based in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Shanghai, and Seoul, South Korea, have committed to the league. Sterling Equities, which owns the New York Mets, will field a squad.

The music is blasting, fans are cheering and lights are shining on the iconic hardwood floor at the TD Garden. Next year, 17 NBA teams, including the Celtics, will form professional basketball video-game teams and compete against other pro teams in NBA 2k, a long-running series of basket- ball video games. "It's not crazy to think that one day we might be able to fill a theater or an arena with fans who want to watch the Celtics eGaming team, but we have a ways to go before that becomes a reality," said Celtics President Rich Gotham. The NBA and NBA 2K maker Take-Two Interactive Software said yesterday they will launch a competitive league with more than half of the teams in the NBA signed on, including the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers. Teams will be responsible for assembling and running their organizations.