The European Parliament is ditching Google as its default search engine in favor of French service Qwant.
(That’s the one I use too!)
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiles proposals to build 200,000 affordable housing units and preserve an additional 200,000 over the next decade as part of a comprehensive housing plan that amounts to a substantial marker in the national debate on those issues.
“I’m an engineer and I haven’t written a line of code in six months…Every night I have hundreds or sometimes thousands of agents that are running five, ten, twenty hours, and this is just how engineering is done now.” (Boris Cherny, Anthropic)
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An important decision. Had SpaceX been fast-tracked into the S&P500, index funds around the world would have been forced to buy in, which would have handed Elon Musk even more wealth and power.
The political battle over AI is only just getting started. But who reaps the benefits, and who bears the costs? Without regulation, we risk an “anything goes” situation; without strong redistributive mechanisms, AI will continue to forge new tech oligarchs. #AI #criticaltech
