The AI industry's demand for electricity has outstripped the power industry's capacity to deliver. Bloomberg says two data centers sit idle, waiting for more power to come online. To meet their growing need for power, AI companies are taking power generation into their own hands. One data center in Texas is bolting old jet engines to racks and spinning them up to generate additional power. Google announced that they are blasting racks of AI chips into space to harness solar energy from satellites with a project they are calling Suncatcher…

Inspired by Anil's hope for an "easter egg breakdown" of the mayor-elect's victory speech, I spent some time digging in. I know there's more that I've missed, add your own in the comments below. The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said: “I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.” For as long as we can remember, the working people of New York have been told by the wealthy and the well-connected that power does not belong in their hands.

On a subzero New York night, a pianist met two robbers. What followed was not a fight, but an eight-hour conversation — and a promise that changed three lives.

Gov. JB Pritzker for the first time is calling for President Donald Trump to be removed from office under the 25th Amendment, after the president said cities like Chicago should be used as “training g...

The “world’s first robot combat league” has been drawing sell-outs and online FOMO.

IAB Tech Lab kicked off a task force to collaborate on the design of a marketplace for AI Agents and publishers. This could be the future the online publishing ecosystem.

Chinese autonomous vehicle company WeRide launched Southeast Asia's first fully driverless bus service on July 17, operating without safety personnel aboard...

A parking spot in Park Slope just sold for $250,000.

At 1pm today, there is a kick-off meeting (page has a YouTube link to view remotely) to discuss the mandated public information sessions and other aspects of the Community Advisory Committee (CAC). The six member of the CAC will ultimately recommend the project to the New York Gaming Facility Location Board and help determine which three (out of eight) applicants ultimately receive a casino license. If you have any interest in this project, I would encourage you to learn more by viewing the livestream. Work will keep me from watching but I would love to hear what you think.

The Timekettle WT2 edge also called the W3 Real-TimeTranslator Earbuds device supports bilingual conversation translation for up to 6 people. With 95% accuracy in 40 languages and 93 accents, it's the...

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Cloudflare sees about 20% of the world's internet traffic cross its network. Matthew Prince, CloudFlare's CEO, has a pretty good handle on trending internet behavior. In the video below, he summarizes the impact of AI "answer engines" that summarize what they find in response to questions put into AI chatbots such as Google's AI Overview or Open AI's Chat GPT. What he concludes is that the exchange that allowed the search engines to index a site in return for referred pageviews is no longer equitable and is growing increasingly lopsided. …

Perplexity acquisition rumors echo when Google was about to acquire YouTube. Risky at the time but a game-changer in hindsight.