Buckle Up: Delta's Expanded Surge Pricing Could Signal Higher Fares (Veronica Riccobene/The Lever)
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Buckle Up: Delta’s Expanded Surge Pricing Could Signal Higher Fares
Airline ticket prices are rising faster than inflation, and now Delta is scaling up its artificial intelligence-powered dynamic pricing to further gouge its customers.The Lever
Anthropic hired back two of its employees — just two weeks after they left for a competitor.
Boris Cherny and Cat Wu, two leaders of Anthropic’s coding product, Claude Code, are reportedly back at the company after news broke earlier this month that they had departed for Anysphere, the developer of Cursor.
Anthropic Hires Back Two Coding AI Leaders From Cursor Developer Anysphere
L'Ars alla paralisi: la manovra è a rischio
Ars alla paralisi. Le inchieste giudiziarie che coinvolgono il presidente Gaetano Galvagno e l'assessore al Turismo Elvira Amata e il clima di tensione che si registra nella maggioranza sulla manovra ter hanno sbarrato la strada alla riforma dei consorzi…
L'Ars alla paralisi: la manovra è a rischio
Le inchieste giudiziarie che coinvolgono il presidente Gaetano Galvagno e l'assessore al Turismo Elvira Amata e il clima di tensione che si registra nella maggioranza sulla manovra ter hanno sbarrato la strada alla riforma dei consorzi di bonificaGiacinto Pipitone (Giornale di Sicilia)
20 states sue Trump administration over disaster prevention funding (Ella Lee/The Hill)
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20 states sue Trump administration over disaster prevention funding
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Senate set to debate cuts to NPR, PBS and foreign aid (NPR)
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Senate set to debate cuts to NPR, PBS and foreign aid
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New agent at Laura Dail
Aashna Avachat seeks work across most genres and categories, and right now is open only to queries by writers of color.
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Mercedes-Benz will let you use an in-car camera in Microsoft Teams while driving
You’ll be able to let everyone at work know you’re working really hard while driving along.
Mercedes-Benz will let you use an in-car camera in Microsoft Teams while driving
Mercedes-Benz is the first car maker to allow its in-car camera to work in Microsoft Teams meetings while you’re driving. It’s coming to the all-new CLA first.Tom Warren (The Verge)
Contracts Show Millions of Dollars and Diverted Disaster Resources Were Used to Build DeSantis' 'Alligator Alcatraz' (Hunter Walker/Talking Points Memo)
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Contracts Show Millions of Dollars and Diverted Disaster Resources Were Used to Build DeSantis’ ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
TPM has obtained and analyzed over a dozen contracts and invoices related to the construction and operation of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ so-called “Alligator…Hunter Walker (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
The Houston City Council updated the so-called “civility ordinance” that prohibits sleeping, lying down or placing possessions on sidewalks in 12 parts of the city from 7 a.m.-11 p.m. In downtown and East Downtown, the rules will now apply 24/7.
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Houston City Council effectively bans homeless people from downtown and East Downtown sidewalks
The city council updated the so-called “civility ordinance,” which prohibits sleeping, lying down or placing personal possessions on sidewalks in 12 parts of the city from 7 a.m.-11 p.m.Dominic Walsh (Houston Public Media)
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The most protected group of people on the planet
Bill would prevent ICE from detaining or deporting U.S. citizens (Russell Contreras/Axios)
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Bill would prevent ICE from detaining or deporting U.S. citizens
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A high-profile scandal involving a bestselling memoir
Every so often, the public is reminded that memoirs are not journalistic works and aren’t fact-checked by their publishers.
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Zelda’s new live-action stars could be around for a long time
The Zelda film could be Nintendo’s next big movie franchise, meaning we might see the leads in more than one film.
Zelda’s new live-action stars could be around for a long time
Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda movie will star Bo Bragason and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, and there’s a good chance they’ll be big faces for the franchise.Jay Peters (The Verge)
I spent 24 hours flirting with Elon Musk’s AI girlfriend
Now I’m going to bleach my soul and get myself to a nunnery.
I spent 24 hours flirting with Elon Musk’s AI girlfriend
Ani, the new Grok AI companion, is meant to act as your anime girlfriend. The experience gets unsettling when you realize how few guardrails it has.Victoria Song (The Verge)
Scientists develop technique for high-resolution single cell epigenetic analysis
Van Andel Institute scientists have developed an improved technique to comprehensively profile DNA methylation in single cells, an advance that will help researchers better study the role of epigenetics in cancer and other diseases.Van Andel Research Institute (Phys.org)
Sources: Anthropic has rehired Boris Cherny and Cat Wu, who developed Claude Code, just two weeks after they left for Cursor developer Anysphere (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
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Sources: Anthropic has rehired Boris Cherny and Cat Wu, who developed Claude Code, just two weeks after they left for Cursor developer Anysphere
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