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JUST IN: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani says being a socialist is nothing to be ashamed of.

I am suspending my campaign for Governor. To my family, staff, friends, and supporters, I am deeply sorry for mistakes in judgment I’ve made in my past. I will fight the serious, false allegations that have been made — but that’s my fight, not a campaign’s.

🚨BREAKING: Mayor Zohran Mamdani has OFFICIALLY been in office for 100 days and just released a video highlighting his long list of accomplishments. The facts don’t lie. Mamdani has had one of the most effective first 100-day stretches of any NYC mayor in modern history.

Sam Altman’s home was just targeted in a second attack. Early Sunday morning, a car stopped and appears to have fired a gun at the Russian Hill home of OpenAI’s CEO, according to a newly-obtained police report.

NYC Mamdani: We are spending tens of billions of dollars to kill people, money that could be making life easier for working people.

JUST IN: 🇨🇭 Switzerland offers to mediate between US and Iran to end the war.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán concedes defeat after 'painful' election result, ending 16 years in power.

PauseAI unequivocally condemns the attack on Sam Altman's home and all forms of violence, intimidation, and harassment. We wish safety and peace to Sam Altman, his family, and everyone affected. A few online commentators have described this person as a "PauseAI activist". This is incorrect, and we take our commitment to nonviolence extremely seriously, so we want to make this clear. Here are the facts. - The suspect joined our public Discord server about two years ago. In that time, he posted a total of 34 messages. None contained explicit calls to violence. Our moderators nonetheless flagged one message as ambiguous and issued a warning out of caution. - He had no role in PauseAI, participated in no campaigns, attended no events, and received no support from us. - Following the attack, we banned him from our server. - A moderator began removing his messages as part of our standard process for banning users, but was stopped once we recognised they could be relevant to any investigation. Avoiding extreme situations like this one is exactly why we need a thriving Pause movement: - Concern about advanced AI risk is not fringe. It is shared by leading AI researchers, members of US Congress and UK Parliament, institutions like the Bank of England, and many of the developers building these systems. This concern is growing because the risks are real. - When millions of people are genuinely afraid for their future, some will look for ways to act. The question is whether they find a peaceful path or not. - PauseAI is that peaceful path. Every day, we organise lawful protests, petitions, policy advocacy, and public education. We give concerned people ways to act constructively, peacefully, and democratically. - Conversely, without a thriving Pause movement, concerned citizens have no effective outlet. No community. No one urging restraint. No accountability. The alternative is exactly what happened this week: isolated, desperate individuals acting alone and adversarially. Every one of you reading this can help us build capacity better and faster. Join our efforts. Together, let's create a peaceful movement so powerful that no one ever decides to take violent action out of desperation. Those who are now trying to use this tragedy to discredit AI safety advocacy should consider what world they are arguing for. A world where there is no organised, peaceful movement, but the fear remains, is a far more dangerous world. Undermining PauseAI does not make anyone safer, it makes further such incidents more likely. We will continue to condemn violence. We will continue to build a peaceful, democratic global movement. And we welcome anyone who shares our concern to join us. We have a high standard to meet in order to overcome the risks created by advanced AI.

Today at 6:15 PM, I will deliver an address marking my first 100 days in office and the work we’ve done to make our city safer, more affordable, and more equitable for all New Yorkers.  Join us live: youtube.com/live/XNSAQ78Kd…

Elon Musk on why the smartest people drop out of college: "You don't need college to learn. Learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free. It is not a question of learning." Musk explains what college actually provides: "There is a value that colleges have, which is seeing whether somebody can work hard at something, including a bunch of annoying homework assignments, and still do their homework, and kind of soldier through and get it done. That's the main value of college. And also, you probably want to hang around with a bunch of people your own age for a while instead of going right into the workforce. So I think colleges are basically for fun and to prove you can do your chores. But they're not for learning." On hiring at his companies: "There is a requirement of evidence of exceptional ability. I don't consider going to college evidence of exceptional ability. In fact, ideally you dropped out and did something. Obviously, Gates is a pretty smart guy, he dropped out. Jobs was pretty smart, he dropped out. Larry Ellison, smart guy, he dropped out. Obviously not needed." Musk shares how education should work: "Generally, you want education to be as close to a video game as possible. Like a good video game. You do not need to tell your kid to play video games; they will play video games on autopilot all day. If you can make it interactive and engaging, you can make education far more compelling and far easier to do." He challenges the current system: "You really want to disconnect the whole 'grade level' thing from the subjects. Allow people to progress at the fastest pace that they can, or are interested in, in each subject. It seems like a really obvious thing." Musk criticizes traditional teaching: "Most teaching today is a lot like vaudeville. Somebody's standing up there lecturing to you. They've done the same lecture several years in a row. They're not necessarily all that engaged. That lack of enthusiasm is conveyed to the students; they're not very excited about it. They don't know why they're there. 'Why are we learning this stuff?' We don't even know why. A lot of things people learn, probably there's no point in learning them, because they never use them in the future." On whether university is necessary: "A university education is often unnecessary. That's not to say it's unnecessary for all people. But I think you learn about as much, the vast majority of what you're going to learn there, in the first two years. And most of it is from your classmates. If the goal is to start a company, I would say no point in finishing college." Musk started his own school for his kids: "I created a little school. It's small, only 14 kids now, and it'll have 20 in September. It's called Ad Astra, which means 'to the stars.'" He explains what makes it different: "There aren't any grades. There's no grade one, grade two, grade three. Not making all the children go in the same grade at the same time, like an assembly line. People are not objects on an assembly line. That's a ridiculous notion. Some people love English or languages. Some people love math. Some people love music. Different abilities at different times. It makes more sense to cater the education to match their aptitudes and abilities." Musk shares a key principle: "It's important to teach problem-solving, or teach to the problem, not to the tools. Let's say you're trying to teach people about how engines work. A more traditional approach would be: 'We're going to teach you all about screwdrivers and wrenches. You're going to have a course on screwdrivers, a course on wrenches.' This is a very difficult way to do it." He offers a better approach: "A much better way would be: 'Here's the engine. Now let's take it apart. How are we going to take it apart? Oh, you need a screwdriver, that's what the screwdriver is for. You need a wrench, that's what the wrench is for.' And then a very important thing happens: the relevance of the tools becomes clear." The result: "It seems to be going pretty well. The kids really love going to school. I think that's a good sign. I hated going to school when I was a kid; it was torture. The fact that they actually think vacations are too long, they want to go back to school. Weird, I know." Musk reframes what education really is: "If you think about it, what is education? You're basically downloading data and algorithms into your brain. And it's actually amazingly bad in conventional education. It shouldn't be this huge chore. The more you can gamify the process of learning, the better."

The CEO of Google DeepMind just went on record saying he disagrees with one of the most respected AI researchers in the world. Demis Hassabis, the man behind AlphaFold, AlphaGo, and Google's entire AI operation publicly pushed back against Yann LeCun's claim that large language models are a dead end for artificial intelligence. LeCun, who left Meta earlier this year to start his own AI lab, has been saying for years that LLMs cannot reason, cannot plan, and will never get us to human-level intelligence. Hassabis disagrees, and he said so directly. His position is that scaling laws are still working, foundation models are still getting more capable, and whatever AGI ends up looking like, LLMs will be a central part of it, not something that gets replaced. He does say there is roughly a 50/50 chance that one or two additional breakthroughs will be needed beyond scaling alone, things like better memory, long-term planning, and world models. But the core disagreement with LeCun is clear, Hassabis believes the current architecture is sound and the current path leads somewhere real. Two Nobel-recognized researchers, two founding figures of modern AI, now publicly on opposite sides of the most important technical question in the industry.

NASA astronaut, U.S. Navy Captain, father, former F/A-18 pilot and SpaceX Crew-1 pilot Victor Glover on becoming the first Black man to go to the Moon 🚀 gets hit with a DEI question and flips it into something bigger than race

@elonmusk I would work on this… Is there a link to the full speech???

Yes

@r0ck3t23 Is there a link to this speech?

Elon Musk thinks the entire education system is built on a broken assumption. That every student should learn the same thing. At the same speed. In the same order. At the same time. Musk: “Everyone goes through from like 5th grade to 6th grade to 7th grade like it’s an assembly line. But people are not objects on an assembly line.” The model was designed for a factory economy. Standardized inputs. Predictable outputs. That economy is gone. The assembly line is gone. But the education system still runs on its logic. A student who masters algebra in two weeks sits through eight more weeks because the calendar says so. A student who struggles gets dragged forward because the schedule doesn’t wait. Neither is being served. Both are being processed. Musk: “Allow people to progress at the fastest pace that they can or are interested in, in each subject.” AI doesn’t teach a classroom. It teaches a student. One at a time. Every time. It skips what a student already knows. It finds where they’re stuck and approaches it from a different angle. It adjusts in real time. Not at the end of a semester when the damage is already done. A student obsessed with basketball learns fractions through shooting percentages. A student who builds in Minecraft learns geometry through architecture. The subject doesn’t change. The entry point does. No teacher with thirty students can do this. Not because they lack skill. Because the math doesn’t work. AI doesn’t have that constraint. Musk: “You do not need to tell your kid to play video games. They will play video games on autopilot all day. So if you can make it interactive and engaging, then you can make education far more compelling.” The brain isn’t broken. The format is. Kids learn complex systems and strategic thinking for hours voluntarily. Then walk into a classroom and can’t focus for twenty minutes. That’s not a discipline problem. That’s a design problem. Musk: “A university education is often unnecessary. You probably learn the vast majority of what you’re going to learn there in the first two years. And most of it is from your classmates.” Four years. Six figures of debt. And the real value comes from the people sitting next to you. Not the institution charging you. The degree doesn’t certify knowledge. It certifies endurance. Musk: “If the goal is to start a company, I would say no point in finishing college.” The system was built to train employees. If you’re not trying to be one, it has nothing left to offer you. Every lecture. Every textbook. Every curriculum. Now available instantly. Personalized to any learner. Adapted to any pace. The question isn’t whether the old model survives. It’s how long we keep forcing students through it while the replacement already exists.

"This is Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. I regret to report that both our Jedi Order and the Republic have fallen, with the dark shadow of the Empire rising to take their place. This message is a warning and a reminder for any surviving Jedi. Trust in the Force. Do not return to the Temple. That time has passed. And our future is uncertain. We will each be challenged. Our trust. Our faith. Our friendships. But we must persevere. And in time, a new hope will emerge. May the Force be with you, always."

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Weekend Update with Colin Jost and Michael Che!

"We are fortunate to be in this agency at this time together." Artemis II pilot Victor Glover expresses gratitude for everyone who supported him throughout his lunar mission.

@ElissaDeSouza I grew up in the suburbs, I went to the mall on Friday nights, movies and hung at the local McDonald’s parking lot. High school football games also had large crowds of people who left to go hang at local food establishments.

What should’ve been a great night out in Navy Yard turned into something we’re seeing far too often. Sitting at dinner at Takumi (one of the newest additions to the neighborhood) this was the view: chaos spilling into the streets, fights breaking out, and large groups of teens running through the area after yet another reckless event at the Bullpen. This isn’t a one-off—it’s a repeat pattern, and it’s happening later and later into the night. Residents and visitors should be able to enjoy a beautiful day, support new businesses, and have a peaceful meal without worrying about safety or disruption. At some point, we have to ask: how many times does this need to happen before real accountability and prevention measures are put in place? #NavyYard #Teentakeover #DC

A new study shows that Black women outpace every other group of women in workforce participation. Yet they are still paid less, build less wealth, and retire in poverty at twice the rate of white women. This is not a coincidence. This is a system. It is long past time this country started carrying them the way they have carried us. thegrio.com/2026/04/08/bla…