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Mamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back

By Rebecca Bellan · TechCrunch · Tuesday, 20 October 2026 at 01:27 (34m ago) · Original article ↗

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday night that New Yorkers must resist the narrative that an AI takeover is inevitable and demand regulations that protect the public and put power back in their hands.

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Nscale and Anthropic are reportedly in talks for yet another $45B compute deal

If the deal goes through, it would be the latest in a long string of giant compute deals Anthropic has struck over the past year.

TechCrunch 2h ago

Embedded AI evaluators won’t be an easy solution, Hugging Face’s policy chief says

The idea of embedded evaluators — in which supposedly "neutral" third-party observers are placed inside AI organizations — has been popularized over the last several months, as AI labs grapple with a rash of safety incidents that have spurred concerns over the potential harms of…

TechCrunch 3h ago

Meta tweaks its new terms of service after backlash against scraping

The changes have alarmed publishers and others with business accounts.

Engadget 3h ago

Mamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back

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Nscale and Anthropic are reportedly in talks for yet another $45B compute deal

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Meta tweaks its new terms of service after backlash against scraping