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Google posts an official look at the Pixel 10 Pro Fold

Google’s next Pixel launch event doesn’t happen until next week, but the company has already announced the Pixel 10 Pro Fold with a brief video teaser published on Tuesday. Based on the video, the new Fold will closely resemble the Pixel 9 Pro Fold — though that’s not a huge surprise, based on what’s already […]

OpenAI is adding Connectors for Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts in ChatGPT for Pro users, with Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu plans to follow (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)

Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer:
OpenAI is adding Connectors for Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts in ChatGPT for Pro users, with Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu plans to follow  —  OpenAI wants ChatGPT to know more about you, including your emails, calendar events in Google Calendar, and even your Google contacts, to reference everything in a conversation.

Judge Orders ICE to Improve Squalid Manhattan Lockup Conditions

A dozen people with their faces blurred sit and lay side by side on a concrete floor. A door with a glass window can be seen on the far side. Multiple people on the floor lay on thin emergency blankets.

A federal judge Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order, requiring the Trump administration to immediately improve conditions for immigrants inside the 10th floor detention area of 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan as well as provide access to confidential calls for attorneys.  In a written order Tuesday afternoon, Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered the Trump administration […]

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Eric Adams Aide Pleads Guilty in Illegal Campaign Fundraising Scheme

Mohamed Bahi walks out of the gold colored front doors of 500 Pearl street. The address can be seen on the left of the frame.

A former aide to Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday admitted choreographing an illegal donation scheme aimed at generating matching funds for the mayor’s 2021 campaign, contending he was “instructed” on how to do this by a campaign volunteer. Mohammed Bahi, who served as one of the mayor’s liaisons to the Muslim community, entered a guilty […]

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NYC-based Profound, which helps brands optimize visibility in AI search responses, raised a $35M Series B led by Sequoia, bringing its total funding to $58.5M (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)

Sharon Goldman / Fortune:
NYC-based Profound, which helps brands optimize visibility in AI search responses, raised a $35M Series B led by Sequoia, bringing its total funding to $58.5M  —  Profound co-founders James Cadwallader and Dylan Babbs, who are betting big on helping brands get discovered in AI search