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The Lasting Impact of Trump’s Attack on Black America in 2025

Trump-era attacks didn’t just make news — they reshaped life for Black Americans and left lasting impacts on our communities, from opportunities lost to systemic setbacks.

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My Hero Academia has a new special episode coming, presented at Jump Festa

My Hero Academia will continue with a new episode presented at Jump Festa, coming in May 2, 2026

A look at Meta's 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, with the first phase opening in 2028; an analysis shows sales tax breaks on GPUs could total $3.3B+ (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)

Jon Keegan / Sherwood News:
A look at Meta's 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, with the first phase opening in 2028; an analysis shows sales tax breaks on GPUs could total $3.3B+  —  $10 billion of investment.  Code names to disguise projects and companies.  Mixed opinions.  Skyrocketing property values.

OpenAI introduces a framework to evaluate chain-of-thought monitorability and a suite of 13 evaluations designed to measure the monitorability of an AI system (OpenAI)

OpenAI:
OpenAI introduces a framework to evaluate chain-of-thought monitorability and a suite of 13 evaluations designed to measure the monitorability of an AI system  —  We introduce evaluations for chain-of-thought monitorability and study how it scales with test-time compute, reinforcement learning, and pretraining.

YouTube's head of products for podcasts Steve McLendon says viewers streamed 700M+ hours of podcasts on TV in October, up from 400M hours in October 2024 (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
YouTube's head of products for podcasts Steve McLendon says viewers streamed 700M+ hours of podcasts on TV in October, up from 400M hours in October 2024  —  That's up from 400 million hours a year ago as podcasts become the new late-night TV.  —  People are spending more time tuning …