After more than a decade, the fight over an effort to build affordable housing on the site of a community garden in Manhattan is winding down. Source: New York Times Mamdani to Abandon Plan to Replace Elizabeth Street Garden With … Continue reading Mamdani to Abandon Plan to Replace Elizabeth Street Garden With Housing
“We heard them screaming,” said one rescuer in Cali, where emergency workers and volunteers are racing against time to find the living trapped in the rubble. Source: New York Times As Death Toll From Colombia Earthquake Rises to at Least … Continue reading As Death Toll From Colombia Earthquake Rises to at Least 181, Rescuers Hunt for Survivors
The divesture comes comes as the two once-tight companies have started to diverge on the business side. Source: TechCrunch Uber surprised robotics company Serve by selling its entire stake Continue reading Uber surprised robotics company Serve by selling its entire stake
That’s a lot of people chatting with their AI friends all day. | Image: Google For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users. Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X that a billion people are using … Continue reading ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users
Meta has launched a Threads app for Meta Quest VR headsets, the company announced on Tuesday. The launch follows Meta bringing the app to its Ray-Ban Display AR glasses last month and the recent news that the platform has crossed … Continue reading Threads has a VR app now
A swing-state Democratic Senate nominee needs to keep saying this: Jews have a right to a Jewish homeland. Source: New York Times How Abdul El-Sayed Can Win Michigan Continue reading How Abdul El-Sayed Can Win Michigan
Gemini is keeping pace with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which hit 1 billion monthly active users back in June. Source: TechCrunch Google’s Gemini app surges to one billion users Continue reading Google’s Gemini app surges to one billion users
Google TV Freeplay, the company’s free, ad-supported streaming service, now supports video on demand. Instead of tuning into Google TV Freeplay’s selection of always-on channels, you can now choose from over 10,000 shows and movies to watch whenever you want. … Continue reading Google’s free streaming service now lets you pick shows and movies to watch
As Muslim politicians like Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan have become more prominent, they have experienced considerable bigotry. President Trump said Democrats were electing “jihadists.” Source: New York Times With El-Sayed’s Victory Comes a Wave of Islamophobia Continue reading With El-Sayed’s Victory Comes a Wave of Islamophobia
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s special projects lead and the company’s former COO, announced his departure after an eight-year stint at the AI lab. In an internal memo he later posted to X, Lightcap told colleagues he’d be starting “something new.” “Over … Continue reading Another OpenAI executive takes off
