Cornell Study Examines Trade-Offs Between AI and Risk Indices in Heat Response Planning

Google, the New York Jobs CEO Council and Urban Assembly hosted an AI summit for 150 education and industry leaders.

The integration of crypto in the World Cup could revolutionize fan engagement and digital transactions, impacting global sports economics. The post New York City hotels see bookings surge over 90% for World Cup as crypto makes its FIFA debut appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Alex Bores (D-NY) enters his watch party at The Freehand Hotel after conceding the congressional race to Micah Lasher who will replace Rep Jerry Nadler (D-NY) in NY's 12th Congressional District on June 23, 2026 in New York City. | Photo by Laura Brett/Getty Images. The expensive, $27 million political proxy war between Anthropic and OpenAI came to a draw last night when Alex Bores, a New York state Assemblyman whose popularity surged after being targeted by a pro-AI super PAC, narrowly lost the Democratic primary to represent New York's 12th Congressional district. Prior to the race, Bores, a former tech industry employee, had coauthored and successfully passed the high-profile RAISE Act, which had implemented guardrails and safety requirements on frontier AI companies; a version of his bill was signed into state law last year. But the legislation drew the ire of Leading the Future, a $100 million su … Read the full story at The Verge.

While tech companies and Trump have been pushing teachers to use AI in the classroom, many argue that there is little evidence that it would actually help children In October, Kelly Clancy’s son received an assignment in sixth grade at a middle school in Brooklyn, New York, to create a science experiment and then ask Google Gemini, an artificial intelligence chatbot, for feedback, she said. Clancy, who has three children in New York City public schools, told the teacher that the bot “is something that just teaches kids that they can have machines do the thinking for them”, instead of suggesting: “Let’s talk to your partners. What about the science experiment could you improve?” Continue reading...

AI-focused Super Pacs are spending heavily in midterms, and nearly half has gone to a single Manhattan district race The artificial intelligence industry is spending heavily in the 2026 midterms, hoping to secure influence over the technology’s first generation of legislation – and New York City’s primary has emerged as the key battleground. AI-focused Super Pacs have raised roughly $100m this cycle, of which $44m has been spent so far, in dozens of congressional races across the country. Nearly half of all spending has converged on a single Manhattan race: Tuesday’s Democratic primary in the district of NY-12. Will Craft and Andrew Witherspoon contributed reporting Continue reading...

The deployment signifies a shift towards integrating quantum computing in financial sectors, potentially transforming risk analysis and optimization. The post OQC Tech deploys first quantum computer to New York City, targeting Wall Street appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

This week, New York City is hosting AWS Summit, bringing together builders, customers, and AWS teams for a full day of announcements, demos, and technical sessions at the Javits Center. I wrote blog posts for some of the Summit launches, so I am excited to see them go live this week. I just won’t be […]

A New York City-based insurance firm is setting aside millions of dollars to compensate victims of a data breach that occurred more than one and a half years ago. According to the settlement website, insurance company Lemonade Inc has agreed to set up a $10.5 million fund to compensate victims of a data breach that exposed […] The post New York Firm Handing Out Up To $10,000 Per Person in Settlement Over Data Breach That Exposed Personal Information appeared first on The Daily Hodl.