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ICE acting director Todd Lyons will resign at end of May | AP News

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🔒 Virginia Ex-Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax Kills Wife and Self, Police Say - The New York Times

Mr. Fairfax served as lieutenant governor from 2018 to 2022. The couple’s teenage children were home, the police said, and one of them called 911.

Justin Fairfax killed his estranged wife and himself 2 weeks before a court deadline to move out

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Claude, Copilot, Codex, LLM, AI

Hosting of models for GitHub Copilot - GitHub Docs

Learn how different AI models are hosted for GitHub Copilot.

Pricing - Claude API Docs

Learn about Anthropic's pricing structure for models and features

Anthropic has revealed Claude Opus 4.7, and you can use it right now

The AI race is heating up as companies release stronger models rapidly. Anthropic's Opus 4.7 boosts coding, handles long complex tasks, and self-verifies outputs. Available now: the most capable public model outside Mythos/Glasswing access. As the LLM wars heat up, some of the biggest players ...

AI related layoffs and/or doom

🔒 Snap Is Laying Off 16% of Full-Time Staff as It Embraces A.I. - The New York Times

The company, which owns the social media app Snapchat, said it was laying off about 1,000 employees as it increased its reliance on artificial intelligence.

Companies Announcing Layoffs Are Citing AI in Most Unoriginal Ways - Business Insider

Layoff announcements are generally boilerplate, but recent layoff-turned-AI-manifestos are all melding together.

AI is destroying jobs – and the energy crisis could make that much worse | Larry Elliott | The Guardian

Every wave of new tech has come with a doomsday scenario. But governments just aren’t planning a human response on the scale required, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

AI Buzz

‘Doctor’ Or ‘Doctored’? Trump’s AI Jesus Image Explanation Sparks Gaffe Buzz | WATCH

President Trump’s explanation for his controversial AI-generated image has sparked a new wave of confusion online. After claiming he was depicted as a “doctor,” social media users now believe he may have meant “doctored” instead. The theory has gone viral, adding another twist to ...

Latest AI (coffee) buzz: Starbucks launches ChatGPT app to help customers discover their next drink – GeekWire

Customers can access the app by enabling it inside ChatGPT's app directory. Start a conversation prompt with "@starbucks" to customize orders and choose a location to order from.

AI Health Tips Exposed: Not Everything Online Is Safe

Artificial intelligence is fast spreading as more people feel threatened the new technology would make them obscure and push them into redundancy. Here is

AI development workflows

How AI is changing how startups build and scale: From code to execution - Microsoft for Startups Blog

Discover the impact of AI on coding workflows for developers, enhancing productivity and simplifying complex processes.

My AI-Assisted workflow - DEV Community

Unsupervised fixes on already-merged ... during development. It is not fast to set up. The planning and PRD steps take real time, and the temptation to skip them in favour of going straight to code is constant. The workflow only pays off if you genuinely believe that thinking time before coding is cheaper than debugging time after. It is also not a replacement for engineering judgement. The AI will suggest ...

Canva AI 2.0 introduces memory, connectors, automated workflows - 9to5Mac

Canva today is making its biggest push yet into the agentic design field with the release of the research preview of Canva AI 2.0.

Fun Stories or Jokes to Get Rid of the DOOM

Dave Chappelle Says Republicans 'Weaponized' Transgender Jokes

After being called out for transphobic jokes, the superstar comedian told NPR that Lauren Boebert and other Republicans are politicizing his humor.

Dark Horse announced even more Marvel Comics horror collections: The Best of Marvel's Vampire Tales • AIPT

'The Best of Marvel’s Vampire Tales Volume One' arrives August 18, 2026 as a 360-page hardcover, priced at $65.

Doom Scrolling & Keeping Up With The A.I.-s | Jordan Hathcock

Part I: Blessed are the logged off Let me confess something that feels borderline un-American in 2026: I don’t always know what’s going on. No breaking

📜 History Fact

The Spanish Armada's failed invasion of England in 1588 marked the beginning of Spain's decline as a naval superpower.

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