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City Shutting Down Historic 30th Street Intake Shelter

The 30th Street Men’s Shelter was housed in a crumbling brick building surrounding by scaffolding.

New York City’s Department of Homeless Services is shutting down Manhattan’s massive 30th Street Shelter — the main intake location for men and adult families entering the city’s behemoth shelter system for over 40 years. The remaining 250 residents of the hulking nine-story brick building built in 1931 will be moved out by mid-March, while […]

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Lio, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise procurement, including document reading and supplier evaluation, raised a $30M Series A led by a16z (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
Lio, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise procurement, including document reading and supplier evaluation, raised a $30M Series A led by a16z  —  Lio's co-founders know firsthand that procurement — the process enterprises use to purchase services from vendors — is often a bottleneck.

China's new five-year blueprint introduces an "AI+ action plan", mentions AI 50+ times, and outlines investments in quantum computing, 6G, embodied AI, and more (Reuters)

Reuters:
China's new five-year blueprint introduces an “AI+ action plan”, mentions AI 50+ times, and outlines investments in quantum computing, 6G, embodied AI, and more  —  China's new five-year policy blueprint laid out its ambitions to aggressively adopt artificial intelligence throughout …

AI tools can unmask anonymous accounts 

Do you have a Reddit alt, secret X, finsta, or Glassdoor account you trash your boss with? AI might have just made it a lot easier to unmask you. That's the conclusion of a recently published study, which hints at some uncomfortable consequences for staying private online - even if it's not quite time to […]

Nominal, which makes software for the defense, space, energy, and automotive sectors, raised an $80M Series B extension led by Founders Fund at a $1B valuation (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)

Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg:
Nominal, which makes software for the defense, space, energy, and automotive sectors, raised an $80M Series B extension led by Founders Fund at a $1B valuation  —  Founders Fund is leading an $80 million investment in Nominal Inc., a startup aiming to modernize factories and make manufacturing more efficient.