Justin Blinder was lugging Taco Bell burritos from neighborhood to neighborhood on his bike for his Uber Eats gig in 2020, watching as skyscrapers and modular apartment buildings gave way to brown-bricked housing projects and cracked streets.It made the Brooklyn-based artist and software developer think viscerally about affordability, and how…
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There’s a simple solution for AI companies that feel like their models are developing at a frightening speed: Hit the brakes.That’s the advice Michael Kratsios, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, gave during an interview with Fox News Sunday.”It’s very interesting that they talk about these issues, about how scared they are about potentially where the future is, and maybe they want to do a pause,” Kratsios said. “Our…
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President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he was creating a new “AI force” to “watch over” AI development, one week after a chorus of AI leaders called for government regulation of the ever-advancing tech.At the same time, he said he would not heed those leaders’ call to slow down…
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View MoreStart spreadin’ the news… they’re leavin’ today… Wait, that’s about New York. And maybe they’re not leaving. Paramount has been threatening to leave Los Angeles and California for a few months now. Leaving would take one of Hollywood’s “Big Five” studios out of the city, out of the state, but not…
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My daughter was born three months before the COVID-19 restrictions began where we live. Stuck at home with a new baby, I needed something to keep me busy, and I’m too mishap-prone for sourdough. For a linguist like me, a language-related project seemed like just the thing.I decided to dust…
