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First trailer for ‘TONY’, starring Dominic Sessa as Anthony Bourdain. Directed by Matt Johnson (‘Nirvanna: The Band - The Show - The Movie’)

I am horrified and angered by the swastikas painted on homes and synagogues in Queens, including on a plaque honoring survivors of Kristallnacht. This is not just vandalism — it is a deliberate act of antisemitic hatred meant to instill fear.

There is no place for antisemitism in Queens or anywhere in our city. I stand in solidarity with our Jewish neighbors. Their safety, dignity, and belonging are non-negotiable.

The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating and I am confident those responsible will be held accountable.

Anthropic is about to announce a $1.5 billion joint venture with multiple wall street firms to sell AI tools to private-equity backed companies. Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman and Goldman Sachs are all major investors. The announcement is expected tomorrow morning.

software engineers before vs after agents

MIT student asked a question earlier today that a lot of young founders are quietly wondering about: "Won’t the frontier labs just do everything?" Yes it's true that OAI/Ant are shipping at incredible pace, but it's quite easy to avoid their blast radius and build amazing startups: OpenAI is not going to build a cattle-herding drone, buy an old F-150 and drive from ranch to ranch like the founder of one of the fastest-growing YC W26 startups, Graze Mate. Anthropic is not going to integrate with dental insurance verification systems (Lance). Google is not going to navigate NATO procurement (Milliray). The value is in the last mile, not the model. Sales cycles require humans who understand the customer. And most importantly, the market is expanding, not shrinking: AI isn't cannibalizing the existing 1% software spend — it's unlocking the other 5-6% that was going to humans. That's a much bigger market for startups yet-to-be-founded than the one the labs are playing in. Now, what DOES seem risky? A thin UI layer on top of ChatGPT with no domain expertise; a general-purpose chatbot or assistant; or a product that gets obsolete when model capabilities improve. But — tools for specific industries; "full-stack" AI companies that actually are the service (AI law firm, AI accounting firm, AI uranium exploration company); or generally products where the customer doesn't want a tool but an outcome — are defensible ideas for startups.

Roles of the big powers in Mali may be a bit different than one realise. So may be the conflict

It's official: As of just a few minutes ago, there are legal table games in New York City. Rapper Nas made the first dice roll at Resorts World NYC, which beat the other two forthcoming NYC casinos to market — perhaps by several years.