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Council Revamps Bill Giving Housing Groups First Dibs to Buy — and Landlords Still Object

Tenement buildings in Manhattan showed signs of decay

Housing preservation groups could be first in line to buy troubled apartment buildings when they go up for sale under a City Council bill updated Monday to address pushback. “This version of the bill gives an opportunity to prove the case that we can give qualified purchasers a slight window to make a real, market-based […]

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Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense

Did you know that BG3 players exploit children? Are you aware that Qi2 slows older Pixels? If we wrote those misleading headlines, readers would rip us a new one - but Google is experimentally beginning to replace the original headlines on stories it serves with AI nonsense like that. I read a lot of my […]

Why is Trump suddenly so obsessed with Honduras?

The US may or may not be marching toward war with Venezuela, but at the moment, there’s another Latin American country that seems to be occupying President Donald Trump’s attention.  Counting is currently underway in Honduras’s presidential election, which was held on Sunday, and the margins are razor thin, with Nasry “Tito” Asfura of the […]

Can Marco Rubio end the war in Ukraine?

President Donald Trump promised to stop the Ukraine-Russia war shortly after taking office, but it’s been almost a year since he was sworn in, and the war rages on. There have been several starts and stops in this latest round of peace talks, including allegations that special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, was […]

Amazon’s bet that AI benchmarks don’t matter

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Amazon's AI chief has a message for the model benchmark obsessives: Stop looking at the leaderboards. "I want real-world utility. None of these benchmarks are real," Rohit Prasad, Amazon's […]