NPR (Greg Rosalsky) - AI tokens could become the kilowatt-hour of the AI age
AI companies use tokens to track usage and bill customers. Now economists are using them to track the spread of AI through the economy.
REDSTATE (Freedom Foundation) - Beware the New Red Lesson Plan
NYTIMES (Tracy Mumford, Will Jarvis, Margaret Kadifa, Jake Lucas, Ian Stewart, Jason Horowitz, Farnaz Fassihi and Shane Goldmacher) - Democratic Party Faces Debt and Disarray, and Wildfires Force Mass Evacuations in Europe
Plus, whales on a plane.
ABCNEWS - WATCH: Premature giraffe calf born via emergency C-section
ABC News' Danny New has the incredible story of Milani, a giraffe at Tanganyika Wildlife Park in Kansas, who was delivered via C-section to a mother who couldn’t survive her illness.
REDSTATE (Brad Essex) - THE ESSEX FILES: Mamdani’s Anti-Israel Posturing Exposes the Failures of NYC’s Socialist Experiment
WASHINGTONPOST (Cole Reynolds) - Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters
The plastic, nonlethal aircraft, which can smash windows and ram attackers, will be at the ready in a handful of schools in Florida, Georgia and Colorado.
THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - Birth Rates Are Falling in American Cities, With California the Worst Affected.
The number of children living in major cities in the United States has fallen by six percent, with Californian cities experiencing the steepest declines.
A new report has revealed a significant decline in child populations across major cities in the United States, with cities in California experiencing some of the steepest losses. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: - DETAIL: According to data published by The Wall Street Journal, the number of children living in major U.S. cities has dropped six percent over the past decade. Out of the 25 cities with the largest child population declines, six of them are in California. San Jose has lost 20 percent of its population under 18 and 34 percent of children under five years old. San Diego has lost 14 percent of its children, Fresno lost five percent, Sacramento lost four percent, and San Francisco has lost three percent. The study includes cities…Open
NYTIMES (Gina Kolata) - There’s a Way to Prevent Ovarian Cancer. Few Know About It.
The vast majority of cases begin in the fallopian tubes — and removing them can reduce the risk by nearly 80 percent.
NYTIMES (Melena Ryzik) - Sam Smith Shows a New Side on “Hazel Eyes”
After rising to global pop star status with songs about heartbreak, Smith returns with an album about pointedly queer “requited love,” made exactly how and where made them happiest.
NYTIMES (Michael Gold) - Senate Democrats Press Blanche on Times Subpoenas
Days before a committee vote on Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, Democrats demanded answers about the since-withdrawn subpoenas.