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A man shot and wounded a 70-year-old woman, believed to be his girlfriend, and a 60-year-old man during a clash in a Bronx apartment, cops said Sunday. The 68-year-old gunman shot the woman in the abdomen in her ninth-floor apartment on Third Ave. near E. 173rd St. about 9:30 p.m. Saturday, cops said. He shot the man in the torso, police said. NYPD ESU took a 68-year-old man into custody when he barricaded himself after shooting a 70-year-old woman in the abdomen and a 60-year-old man multiple times in the abdomen whilst inside their ninth-floor apartment in the Bronx on…

Thai police arrested a 37-year-old Chinese man wanted by authorities in China for alleged involvement in an international crime network and money laundering.Investigators said the network handled more than 500 million yuan ($75 million) in transactions, Thai media Khaosod English reported in a post on X on Saturday.Police alleged the suspect was involved in cryptocurrency and foreign-currency exchanges for criminal groups across more than 133 accounts.They also claimed that he was involved in arranging visas for members of international crime groups linked to other money-laundering cases.Investigators said he attempted to evade arrest by using forged documents to report his residence…

Today’s Minute Cryptic clue looks like a simple remark at first, but there’s more to it than meets the eye. The October 18 puzzle asks you to interpret a short phrase, identify the relevant letters, and work out how the clue’s instructions lead to a common expression. You’ll need to look beyond the literal meaning of each word to find the hidden solution. If you’re having trouble connecting the wording to the answer, don’t worry. This guide walks you through the October 18 Minute Cryptic clue, breaks down its indicator, fodder, and definition, and gives you an extra hint before…

AIsa said it had completed its seed extension round, with Tether and HIVEN joining as strategic investors.The round brings AIsa’s total funding to more than $9 million. The two new investors joined Alibaba, Tribe Capital, Sumitomo Corporation, Draper Associates, Saison Capital and other backers.“Enterprise AI agents need trusted information, useful tools and a governed way to transact,” said Jordan Liu, founder and CEO of San Francisco-based AIsa, in a Friday statement. “Our vision is to build the infrastructure that enables agents to discover, access and pay for resources globally, while giving enterprises full control over permissions, spending and transactions. We…

Old-school Westerns continuously populate lists of the best movies in the genre, having produced some of the most iconic landscapes, characters, and filmmaking styles in cinema. While many good Westerns include dusty frontiers, legendary gunslingers, sprawling environments, and epic shootouts, the best in the genre often offer more than showdowns and horseback chases. Underneath the cowboy hats and six-shooters are compelling stories about revenge, loyalty, and justice. Directors like Sergio Leone and John Ford helped transform the genre with their classic films, while Clint Eastwood delivered one of its most powerful examinations of violence and its consequences. From traditional Hollywood…

Witches have long been used in pop culture as a metaphor for female empowerment, so it’s no surprise that Buffy the Vampire Slayer — which is famous for its feminist themes — had a lot of witchy characters. One of the Buffyverse’s best ever character arcs, for instance, belongs to Buffy’s best friend, Willow Rosenberg, whose gradual mastery over the mystical mirrored Buffy’s own growing understanding of her Slayer abilities. Aside from Willow, Buffy features a number of other witches across its seven seasons, some of whom were enemies and some of whom were allies. While the rules of how…

Meta recently updated its commercial terms of use, declaring that the company can “use any content from [a business account’s] domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, research, train, and maintain the integrity of” Meta products and services. According to legal experts interviewed by Nieman Lab, this looked like a “remarkable provision” that could give Meta permission to scrape the website of any publisher with a Meta business account and use the content to train the company’s AI models. (While Meta defeated a high-profile lawsuit over alleged copyright infringement last year, other cases against AI companies, including Meta,…

The composition of Anthropic’s workforce and the type of work getting done have changed significantly in the past year, according to a report that the AI company published on Friday. Anthropic argues that its own workplace trends could be indicators of “how AI will shift work organization, hiring, and labor demand across the economy,” especially since the company “has thoroughly molded its workflows around AI.” But even if other organizations never embrace AI as thoroughly or in the exact same way as Anthropic, the report offers an intriguing glimpse at how the company currently operates. Notably, Anthropic is making fewer…

Replit, the AI coding platform that has become a favorite of startup founders and developers, is no longer working with Anthropic, the company’s CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad said Thursday while onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt. Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but there was never any indication that it was no longer partnering with Anthropic.  “I think ChatGPT is better now,” Masad said, adding that the company uses an internal benchmark to help assess metrics like performance. “We publish a public benchmark as well,…

My favorite part about open-world games is that you can do whatever you want. Well, maybe only most of the time. In any case, they are often pretty realistic when it comes to facing the consequences of your actions, and this is often quite entertaining, since not everyone is interested in being a goody-two-shoes. In fact, some open-world RPGs take player freedom very seriously, even when it comes to killing other characters. Of course, just like in real life, doing something like this often has major consequences. You might not necessarily lose your freedom or get arrested, but you will…