MicroAGI, a German startup, is offering free home cleanings in New York City through its Shift app in exchange for first-person video footage of cleaners at work, which it uses to train and license AI…
Consumer Reports found that Uber and Lyft use AI-driven pricing to charge vastly different fares for identical rides, with a median price difference of 50%, and offer fake discounts based on inflated …
Moyan Chen, 24, was laid off from her data scientist role at Meta in May 2025 after less than a year on the job. She attributes the layoff to AI replacing repetitive tasks and is now reconsidering her…
A massive inflatable effigy of Elon Musk was raised in Times Square today by the coalition Safe AI Now to protest Grok, the Musk-owned AI chatbot whose image-generation tool has been used to create se…
Nationwide weekday office visits remain at about 70% of pre-pandemic levels, with office vacancy rates climbing to 14%, the highest since the Global Financial Crisis. Newer office buildings are thrivi…
Venture capitalists at NY Tech Week are betting New York City will become the "applied AI capital," with AI giants like OpenAI opening offices to tap into the city's media, finance, and healthcare ind…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced in April plans to create a city-owned grocery store in East Harlem, Manhattan, the first of five such stores planned for each borough. The stores will feat…
MicroAGI, a German startup, is offering free apartment cleaning to New York City residents in exchange for permission to record the entire process using cameras attached to cleaners' hats. The company…
A German startup, MicroAGI, is offering free home cleaning in New York City through its Shift app, sending cleaners wearing cameras to record footage for training AI-driven robots. The company claims …
Shift, an AI training startup, is offering limited-time free home cleanings in New York City where cleaners wear head-mounted cameras to record first-person footage. The recordings capture tasks like …
Shift, an AI training startup, announced Thursday it is offering free home cleanings in New York City in exchange for allowing cleaners to record first-person footage with head-mounted cameras. The co…
Ekorbia v0.2 introduces a comparison-chat mode that runs two to three local large language models against the same prompt in parallel. Testing Gemma 4, IBM Granite 4.1, and Qwen 3.5 on a 32 GB M1 Max …
MotherDuck, a cloud-based analytics platform, has publicly stated it will not fork the open-source database DuckDB, despite the potential benefits of creating a separate codebase. The company argues t…
New York City and Los Angeles County have announced a partnership to form a "bicoastal bridge" advocacy bloc, using their combined purchasing power to push automakers to continue producing electric ve…
In August 2020, FBI agents visited a journalist's New York home to question him about a 2019 article he wrote regarding a hack at a Mexican embassy, which involved a hacker accessing a vulnerable serv…