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Amazon will stop accepting new Mechanical Turk customers on July 30, 2026, leaving the platform on life support with no new features...

Second Chance Thrift Shop in Colonie shows strong local resilience, reopening June 23 after a December pipe burst destroyed 80-90% of its stock and...

SigMap slashes token usage by 97% during AI coding sessions, unlocking major efficiency gains for developers relying on AI assistants.

Troy Fire Department responded around 10:20 p.m. on July 4 to a house fire at 25 St. Vincent’s Avenue, limiting damage to smoke, fire, and water while...

Q2 2026 venture capital reveals extreme concentration, with AI capturing ~70% of global deployment and OpenAI plus Anthropic alone taking 43% of H1...

Sakana AI is presenting 11 papers at ICML2026 in Seoul, with core themes in multi-agent coordination and sparse efficient LLMs alongside test-time scaling, long-term memory, and agent benchmarks.

An AI tutor delivered 0.71-1.30 SD effect sizes in a Dartmouth course, offering compelling evidence-based results for AI in education.

An audit by Comptroller Susan Rizzo found overarching ineffectiveness in Albany County's Ethics Commission, citing dozens of late or incomplete...

Halfway through 2026, standout releases mix fresh innovation with clever nostalgia.

• Fitbit Air leads fitness with its 12g screenless design,...

Ant Group has completed 12 humanoid robotics investments in 18 months, leading a 500 million yuan round for Zeroth which targets elderly and pet care...

• Aquatic center boost: Knickerbacker Aquatic Center opened in Troy with an Olympic-sized pool, splash pads, and free daily access, replacing the...

Startups are shifting toward non-traditional funding as private debt and employee founder programs expand.

• GCC private debt hit $4.1B in 2025,...

Neuroscience-inspired memory systems let AI adapt to new data without losing prior knowledge, delivering smarter, faster, and more energy-efficient cognition across smartphones and healthcare.

Hacker News users are examining a reported session/cache leakage bug between workspace instances or accounts, possibly tied to Sonnet 5 responses...

• Menlo Ventures closed a record $3B fund, its largest ever, driven by Anthropic stake now worth ~$14B
• The firm also expanded its Anthology fund...

Top investors reveal sharply different AI strategies amid rapid change.

• Chi-Hua Chien bets on consumer applications that hide AI behind...

• Q2 marked the most billion-dollar startup exits since 2021, led by SpaceX's record $2.1T IPO and massive acquisitions.
• Nearly 90 new unicorns...

This living glossary delivers plain-English definitions for the AI jargon dominating meetings and headlines.

• AGI: AI outperforming humans at most...

Robotics is hitting different sectors with targeted precision:

• Dental surgery: A bite-sized MIR robot mounts to teeth for faster crown prep, cutting...

Two startups are pushing wearable AI beyond fitness tracking with rings designed purely for voice capture and transcription.

• Sandbar’s Stream Ring...