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Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested Wednesday as they staged a sit-in in the lobby of a Midtown East skyscraper, demanding that a company in the building stop providing arms to Israel. Sporting shirts that read “Stop Starving Gaza” and “End the Siege,” more than 150 Palestinian and Jewish protesters sat down on the floor and refused to leave the lobby of the E. 45th St. building near Lexington Ave. beginning around 11 a.m. The protesters, members of the Palestinian Youth Movement and Jewish Voice for Peace, were demanding that Maersk, a shipping and logistics company in the building, stop…

Ex-Gov. David Paterson signaled Wednesday he wants to let bygones be bygones as he endorsed his successor, Andrew Cuomo, to become New York City mayor after years of simmering tensions between the two men. Paterson, who, along with Manhattan Democratic Party boss Keith Wright, endorsed Cuomo at a morning news conference in Harlem, acknowledged he was initially a bit reluctant to throw his political weight behind his fellow ex-governor. “When Andrew asked me for my support, I didn’t do it right away,” he told reporters at Amy Ruth’s, a soul food restaurant in Harlem. “But as the campaigns developed, I…

Beach Boys co-founder and lead songwriter Brian Wilson, whose musical peers touted him as a true genius of pop composition, has died. He was 82. The news was shared by his family in a joint statement on social media: “We are heartbroken to announce that our beloved father Brian Wilson has passed away. We are at a loss for words right now. Please respect our privacy at this time as our family is grieving.” The statement continued, acknowledging, “We realize that we are sharing our grief with the world.” It is signed “Love & Mercy,” in reference to Wilson’s song,…

A body believed to be missing 2-year-old Bronx boy Montrell Williams was recovered from the East River Wednesday afternoon, police sources said. Investigators are working to officially confirm the identity of the child’s body found in the waters off Ferry Point Park in the Bronx near the Whitestone Bridge at 12:18 p.m. The grim discovery came as Arius Williams, the missing boy’s father cops say told little Montrell’s mother he threw their son into the Bronx River, is refusing to return to to court after being ordered held on Rikers Island, the Daily News has learned. A Bronx Family Court…

Former OpenAI research leader Steven Adler published a new independent study on Wednesday claiming that, in certain scenarios, his former employer’s AI models will go to great lengths to try to avoid being shut down. In a blog post, Adler describes a series of experiments he ran on OpenAI’s latest GPT-4o model, the default model available in ChatGPT, to test the AI’s tendency to favor its own self-preservation, even if it’s at the expense of a user’s safety. In one test, Adler instructed GPT-4o to role-play as “ScubaGPT,” a software system that users might rely on to scuba dive safely.…

Meta on Wednesday unveiled its new V-JEPA 2 AI model, a “world model” that is designed to help AI agents understand the world around them. V-JEPA 2 is an extension of the V-JEPA model that Meta released last year, which was trained on over 1 million hours of video. This training data is supposed to help robots or other AI agents operate in the physical world, understanding and predicting how concepts like gravity will impact what happens next in a sequence. These are the kinds of common sense connections that small children and animals make as their brains develop —…

In a handful of interviews following Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 25), Apple executives denied that last year’s demonstrations of a personalized, AI-powered Siri were vaporware, despite having yet to launch. When asked by The Wall Street Journal why Apple, with all its engineers and cash, couldn’t make the technology work well enough to ship, the company didn’t admit to being behind in the AI race. Instead, Apple senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi stressed that AI was a new technology, and something Apple sees more as a “long-term transformational wave” that will impact the industry and society…

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch says she doesn’t need help from the National Guard after cops arrested 86 anti-ICE activists in lower Manhattan — with more protests expected this week. “We certainly got this,” Tisch said Wednesday morning on Fox 5’s “Good Day New York.” “I spent the weekend reaching out to our federal partners with a very clear message that the NYPD will have this under control. We have plans in place, and if things escalate we can bring in cops from all over the city to assist.” “We have an army of 34,000 officers,” she added. “We’re prepared for…

Summary Star Wars and Fortnite’s collaboration brings iconic characters like Darth Vader and Ahsoka Tano to the game, adding depth and variety. Players can enjoy skins of characters from the Disney Plus, Prequel, Original, and Sequel trilogies, each with unique abilities and styles. Exclusive limited edition skins like The Mandalorian and Ahsoka Tano offer fans a chance to unlock their favorite characters for a limited time. Star Wars and Fortnite work perfectly together, and the famed Battle Royale has featured many iconic characters from the galaxy far, far away over the years. Fortnite x Star Wars brings bounty hunters, Jedi,…

Crypto adoption is accelerating under the Trump administration. The United States has emerged as a central force in shaping the crypto market, both from the standpoint of regulation and macroeconomics. The crypto market has begun moving along with US stock markets, reflecting growing institutional participation and sensitivity to macroeconomic conditions. In its latest report, HTX Ventures reviews the implementation of President Donald Trump’s crypto policies, current US dollar liquidity and its effect on the crypto markets.Find out more about the Trump-era policy executions and the crypto market growth catalysts, download the full report hereHow regulation is reshaping crypto market cyclesLegalization…