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OpenAI launches Flex processing in beta, an API option halving o3 and o4-mini prices in exchange for slower responses and "occasional resource unavailability" (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI launches Flex processing in beta, an API option halving o3 and o4-mini prices in exchange for slower responses and “occasional resource unavailability”  —  In a bid to more aggressively compete with rival AI companies like Google, OpenAI is launching Flex processing …

Brooklyn Food Pantry Loses Federal Migrant Aid Grants — for Feeding Migrants

A Campaign Against Hunger worker stocks produce at the Ocean, Brooklyn food pantry.

The Trump administration has cancelled more than $1.3 million in federal emergency grants awarded to a Brooklyn food pantry to feed migrants, after advising the nonprofit it was suspected of violating U.S. law by serving food to “illegal aliens.” The move leaves the Campaign Against Hunger — which each year serves 17 million meals to […]

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Trump vs. the Fed, briefly explained

This story appeared in the Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Today I want to add a little perspective to President Donald Trump’s attack on Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, which made headlines but might […]

Sinners’ credits scenes give the vampire movie a Return of the King spin

Remember back in 2003 when Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King came out, and fans kept circling back to the topic of how every time they thought the movie was over, Jackson added a new epilogue, finale, wrap-up scene, or coda? (Even so, some people still didn’t think the […]

Trump-Ordered Halt to Wind Power Construction Casts Shadow on Offshore Project

A rendering shows plans for a wind turbine plant at the Brooklyn Marine Terminal.

New York’s first major offshore wind project suspended construction on Thursday in response to a stop-work order issued by the Trump administration — also potentially altering the future course of a city-owned Brooklyn port used as home base to support the project. Empire Wind 1, developed by the Norwegian company Equinor, had just started work […]

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