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The best deals on 4K TVs

Things are looking bright for those who want to nab a great TV in 2025 at a substantial discount. There’s usually a great deal happening on a mid- or high-end TV from LG, TCL, Hisense, or Amazon’s own Fire TV brand — even if the biggest discounts remain reserved for Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Amazon […]

Zohran Mamdani’s Breakfast With House Democrats Avoids Intraparty Tensions

Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks at a public defender strike rally in Foley Square.

This story was produced as part of a partnership between THE CITY and NOTUS, a publication from the nonprofit, nonpartisan Allbritton Journalism Institute. New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani met with Democratic members of Congress in Washington on Wednesday morning, as several members of the caucus have expressed reservations about his rise in the party. […]

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New York Among 20 States Suing FEMA for Canceling Disaster Preparedness Funds

Attorney General Letitia James speaks about lawsuits against companies selling ghost gun kits, June 29, 2022.

A coalition of states — including New York and New Jersey, which just experienced flash flooding that killed two — are suing the Trump administration over its abrupt cancellation of hundreds of millions of dollars of natural disaster preparedness funding. The group of 19 Democratic attorneys general and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro accused the Federal […]

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Scale AI lays off 200 employees: ‘We ramped up our GenAI capacity too quickly’

Scale AI, the AI industry’s chief data dealer, will lay off 14 percent of its workforce, or about 200 employees, just one month after Meta took a multibillion-dollar stake in the company and hired its CEO and other staff. The layoffs include 500 of its global contractors, Scale spokesperson Joe Osborne told The Verge, adding […]

xAI's Grok is rated for kids aged 12 and up in the iOS App Store, despite adding "companions"; one includes an NSFW "Bad Rudy" mode and the other becomes NSFW (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Casey Newton / Platformer:
xAI's Grok is rated for kids aged 12 and up in the iOS App Store, despite adding “companions”; one includes an NSFW “Bad Rudy” mode and the other becomes NSFW  —  AI companions are arriving faster than platforms can build guardrails around them.  Parents need to pay attention