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This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian.

OpenAI, and then Anthropic, were each formed by AI developers who feared unrestrained corporate AI development—specifically, that companies like Google and Meta would steer the technology towards deleterious, maybe even catastrophically unsafe, outcomes for society. Their founders proclaimed that their new labs, uniquely, could be trusted to develop the technology in humanity’s best interest. But each, in turn, were themselves co-opted by the same market incentives, themselves becoming corporate behemoths zealously guarding future investor value rather than the public interest...

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy Rabbit Books and Bar is set for its grand opening Saturday (tomorrow!) at 8 a.m. at 170 Avenue A on the southeast corner of 11th Street.  The mother-daughter-owned bookstore and bar comes from Marianna Vaidman Stone and her daughter...

Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy  Written by EVG  Holy Ride's time among us lasted all of one day.  On Wednesday, a group of skaters installed the three-ramp creation featuring Jesus on a skateboard at the Tompkins Square Park TF.  By yesterday, NYC...

A new outdoor exhibition that brings together contemporary art and urban ecology opens tomorrow (Saturday!) at the Clyde Romero Community Garden, 213 E. Seventh St., between Avenue B and Avenue C.  Presented by the Lower East Side Ecology Center and Make Meadows, Gree...

"Why are so few young people finding love?"

First responders made a tragic discovery as they searched for a missing man in Orange County, NY. Continue reading…

You've likely seen those blue Adopt-A-Highway signs all over the Hudson Valley, but did you know that it's easier than you think to adopt a local road? Continue reading…

“Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) made a remarkable argument on Thursday, explaining that in his opinion, Congress ‘should do a little more’ for wealthy Americans,” Mediaite reports. Said Grothman: “Don’t let anybody tell you that people running, uh, Congress right now are looking out for the rich. Actually, I think we should do a little more […]

“Trump administration officials and allies suspect U.S. Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro might be trying to get back on President Donald Trump’s good side by convening a rare special grand jury in the district,” Semafor reports. “The move followed Trump’s repeated, public criticisms of Pirro over her decision to drop charges in a Reflecting Pool […]

“Democrats are hoping a potential blue wave will make a reddish Florida district competitive,” Semafor reports. “New polling from GQR shared first with Semafor shows retired Army Brigadier Gen. Leela Gray polling at 44% and incumbent Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna at 47% — representing a statistical tie, within the 4.4-percentage-point margin of error.”

Punchbowl News: “Steve Scalise said he won’t challenge Mike Johnson for speaker if House Republicans keep the majority. Johnson has done ‘a great job,’ the majority leader told us, and the speaker has ‘earned’ the right to keep the gavel.” “But we asked Scalise three times whether he’d run against Johnson for minority leader if […]

“When Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump met in the Oval Office two weeks ago, the president asked the Israeli prime minister how he was doing in the polls ahead of an Oct. 27 election,” Axios reports. “Netanyahu paused. Then one of his advisers piped up: ‘Mr. President, he is winning,’ the aide said, according to […]

“Republicans have a new name on their growing list of progressive midterm targets: Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, fresh off a landslide Senate primary win,” Axios reports. “With President Trump’s approval ratings in the 30s, Republicans are trying to turn the midterms from a referendum on him into a choice between the GOP and a […]

ABC News: “The party is expected to give a final vote on Saturday, during its scheduled meeting, to finalize the 2028 calendar order, which would have South Carolina’s primary on Jan. 22, Nevada on Feb. 1, New Hampshire on Feb. 8, New Mexico on Feb. 15, Michigan on Feb. 22 and Virginia on Feb. 29.” […]

"We’ve never seen launch capacity so constrained."

Samsung didn't have to change much this year because its hardware is just that good.

Figures in a Landscape, 1937 #expressionism #jacksonpollock

Walter Allner, Alexander Liberman and Fred Troller each maintained two distinct yet overlapping artistic practices—fine and applied.

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Mandates vs options: The good, the bad, and the feasible

Can electrifying your workout offer a shortcut to a stronger, fitter you? I sweated in a skintight EMS suit for two months to find out.