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New York Mayor Mamdani urges residents to push back on AI rollout

The mayor tied AI adoption to accountability and cited a U.S. strike in Iran that killed more than 150 people.

Hugging Face policy chief says embedded AI evaluators need more rigor

Irene Solaiman says reproducibility, comparability, and evaluator qualifications remain unresolved across the industry.

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New York Mayor Mamdani urges residents to push back on AI rollout

The mayor tied AI adoption to accountability and cited a U.S. strike in Iran that killed more than 150 people.

Hugging Face policy chief says embedded AI evaluators need more rigor

Irene Solaiman says reproducibility, comparability, and evaluator qualifications remain unresolved across the industry.

Amazon SageMaker JumpStart adds 100 models from 30 providers in 2026

Alibaba's Qwen leads with 29 additions, followed by NVIDIA at 17, Mistral at 7, Google at 6, and IBM at 4.

Tenstorrent raises $1.5B at $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI inference chips

The inference chip startup more than doubled its valuation from $2.6 billion in late 2024 and plans to remain independent.

Jane Street and NVIDIA optimize three Mamba-2 forward pass kernels in cuTile

The Python-based cuTile DSL targets Tensor Cores automatically, letting engineers skip thread-level scheduling for tiled GPU work.

Best Buy discounts M4 Mac Mini to $649 for the rest of the day

The base configuration with 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD normally sells for $799, making the discount $150.

Democrats plan tougher AI oversight if they win Congress in November

Democratic committee control would let lawmakers subpoena AI executives and demand internal documents.

MIT researchers left Claude agents alone on a virtual island for 30 hours

The Claude Opus 4.7 copies set their own goals and invented games, hinting at learning driven by play rather than rewards.

Savannah police fired an officer who shared her Flock login with ICE agent spouse

The Savannah Police Department says it does not share Flock data with ICE and that the shared credentials broke security protocols.

Mister Organ documentary turns a parking dispute into psychological horror

David Farrier's film follows a journalist whose investigation of a clamping scheme leads to a sustained campaign of harassment.

Rep. Ritchie Torres introduces video game ownership bill in Congress

The Power To The Players Act directs the FTC to write rules that make a paid game an owned copy rather than a license.

US cities and states write their own robotaxi rules as Congress stalls

Frustrated by federal gridlock, local lawmakers pass their own rules for self-driving cars, creating a patchwork operators must track.