Outside groups have spent roughly $12 million to support or oppose Mr. Bores’s campaign for a House seat in Manhattan, elevating his name in a crowded race.
$61 an hour by 2034 is where union housekeeper pay is headed under a strike-averting deal that lifts wages 50% over eight years, putting full-time earnings at $100,000 to $110,000 by 2032. In a market where Manhattan rooms already average between $500 and $600 a night, rates are expected to climb another 50% to 60% […]
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Topline The first NBA Finals appearance in decades for the New York Knicks comes with a hefty cost for fans, who will have to pay thousands of dollars for even the cheapest seats inside Madison Square Garden—rivaling the average monthly rent for a Manhattan apartment, the average price of an engagement ring and several transatlantic flights. The Knicks are in the NBA Finals for the first time since 1999, drawing high demand for seats inside Madison Square Garden. Getty Images Key Facts The Knicks first host the San Antonio Spurs at Madison Square Garden on June 8 for Game 3, with the cheapest resale ticket priced at $4,247, before the get-in price drops slightly to $3,728 for Game 4 on June 10, according to TickPick. If the series extends to a Game 6, the cheapest price for a ticket to the late-series game rises to a Finals high of $4,917 for Game 6, according to TickPick. A
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By the time that the Democratic primary for New York's 12th congressional district wraps up in June, Anthropic and OpenAI will have spent millions on their battle over the political future of AI: who gets to regulate it, or who will be punished for trying to regulate it. But the real winner of their feud may be the guy they're currently fighting over: a once-obscure New York state assemblyman, who they've Streisand-effected into becoming the poster child for AI safety regulation.
Ever since late 2025, Leading the Future, a super PAC funded by OpenAI, Palantir, and a16z executives, has spent millions against Alex Bores, who wrote one of the …
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A Jerusalem family that lost relatives in a 1997 Hamas suicide bombing is among the plaintiffs pushing a US federal court to order Tether to hand over hundreds of millions in frozen digital currency. The case, filed in Manhattan, could set a significant legal precedent for how courts treat centralized stablecoin issuers. Related Reading: Crypto […]
Facility would require more power than entire state uses and suck up vast amount of water in drought-stricken area
A plan to create one of the world’s largest datacenters, a gargantuan project spanning an area more than twice the size of Manhattan, has provoked a furious public backlash in Utah amid concerns over its vast energy use and impact upon the state’s stressed water supplies.
The Stratos artificial intelligence datacenter footprint will cover more than 40,000 acres (62 sq miles) over three sites in Box Elder county in north-western Utah. The facility will require about 9GW of power, which is more than the entire state of Utah currently consumes, and suck up a significant amount of water in an area that has been hit by severe drought in recent years.
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