William Galarza awoke to chills that felt like 10 degrees in Union Square Park Tuesday morning, his corner of the public space still cordoned off by the foot of snow that descended Sunday — the most New York City has seen in five years. “I didn’t know the snow was coming that day, so I […]

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The New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has accused the city’s housing authority of breaking state laws last summer after a contractor disturbed potentially toxic soil at the Jacob Riis Houses in East Harlem—without informing state officials overseeing a massive cleanup there. In December the conservation department filed two violations against the New York […]

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Fanny Potkin / Reuters:
Sources: China has given DeepSeek approval to buy Nvidia's H200 AI chips but imposes regulatory conditions, which are still being finalized  —  China has given its top AI startup DeepSeek approval to buy Nvidia's (NVDA.O) H200 artificial intelligence chips with regulatory conditions …

Vince Dioquino / Decrypt:
The US government finalized forfeiture of $400M+ tied to Helix crypto mixer last week; Helix operator Larry Dean Harmon was sentenced to three years in 2024  —  The mixer processed hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin that prosecutors say were tied to illicit activity on the dark web.

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Google's experience in India has become a proving ground to scale AI in education, as the country accounts for the highest global usage of Gemini for learning  —  As AI races into classrooms worldwide, Google is finding that the toughest lessons on how the tech can actually scale are emerging …