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Black People Are Asking Why We Didn’t Know About Mamdani’s Wife’s N-Word Tweets

The Root

Black folks are pissed after Zohran Mamdani's wife's old tweets resurfaced, painting her in a problematic light within the Black community.

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Black People Are Asking Why Didn’t Anyone Know About Mamdani’s Wife’s N-Word Tweets

The Root

Black folks are pissed after Zohran Mamdani's wife's old tweets resurfaced, painting her in a problematic light within the Black community.

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Google Lyria 3 Pro makes longer AI songs

The Verge - All Posts
Google is expanding the capabilities of its Lyria 3 music-making AI, enabling it to create tracks up to three minutes long and from within multiple other Google Products. Until now, Lyria had been limited to 30-second clips. Lyria 3 Pro not only increases the maximum length sixfold, it also allows the user to prompt for […]

Charlotte-based Lucid Bots, which manufactures autonomous drones for cleaning windows, raised a $20M Series B co-led by Cubit and Idea Fund (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch:
Charlotte-based Lucid Bots, which manufactures autonomous drones for cleaning windows, raised a $20M Series B co-led by Cubit and Idea Fund  —  Andrew Ashur, the founder and CEO of window cleaning robot startup Lucid Bots, likes to joke that his company is the antithesis of the robotics industry right now.

The Numbers Don’t Lie—Black Women Are Leading and It Has Nothing to Do With Magic

The Root

From the C-suite to entrepreneurship, Black women have had a record-breaking rise in recent years, even as they battle an uneven playing field.

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