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AXIOS (Mike Allen) - Axios interview: Scale AI CEO Jason Droege pushes "reliablity" reality

Scale AI CEO Jason Droege tells Axios that AI is often too unreliable for mission-critical use by business, military and government. - "The cost of mistakes in these environments can be high," Droege, 47, said in an interview from San Francisco, where Scale — which celebrated its 10th anniversary this week — is based. Why it matters: Droege — who succeeded founder Alexandr Wang last June when the wunderkind became Meta's first chief AI officer, and Meta took a 49% stake in Scale — wants to signal that it isn't merely a data annotation company, but has long been an AI infrastructure and deployment company. Droege unveiled his mantra for his 1,300+ employees in a memo, "The Reliability Race," being reported here for the first…

NYTIMES (Hilary Howard and Olivia Bensimon) - Pollution Worsened in South Bronx After Congestion Tolls, Study Finds

Columbia University researchers said that sensors detected a 2 percent increase in toxic particles in the air. M.T.A. officials disputed the report.

NYTIMES (Tariq Panja, Emma Bubola, Lucía Cholakian Herrera and Sarah Pabst) - World Cup Dynamic Ticket Pricing Drives Argentine Soccer Fans To Extremes

Dynamic ticket pricing has made this year’s tournament the most expensive in history, pushing Argentine fans to extremes.