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View More NewsAcross the country, progressive politicians continue to push for an ever-higher minimum wage. Whether it’s New York City’s Mamdani-led pursuit of $30 by ’30, L.A.’s $30 “Olympic wage” for hotel workers, or Seattle’s minimum wage for the gig economy, it’s clear that the fight to raise the minimum is only escalating. Now, congressional Democrats have waded into the debate with the introduction of the Living Wage for All Act, spearheaded by Sen. Chris Murphy (D–Conn.). Sen. Murphy’s bill has garnered attention for seeking to increase the federal minimum wage from its current level at $7.25 per hour all the way up to a $25…
In brief Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 16—a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that beats US labs on specific specialized benchmarks. K3 is priced identically to Claude Sonnet 5 ($3 per million input tokens, $15 per million output tokens) while scoring closer to Fable 5. Full model weights—the files that let anyone run, fine-tune, or build on the model locally—drop by July 27 under a modified MIT license, making K3 the largest freely available AI model in history. Moonshot AI just put out the biggest Chinese open-source model ever released, and it topped Claude Fable 5 at writing scripts.Towards AI’s…
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The rise and fall of Graham Platner, who has just withdrawn from the U.S. Senate race in Maine in which he was challenging Republican incumbent Susan Collins, makes one think of a fairy tale or myth in which a character of humble status is suddenly elevated to wealth and high status by some magical entity but is led astray by character flaws such as greed or hubris and is just as precipitously hurled back into lowly obscurity. In Graham’s case, the magical entities were progressive political operatives Dan Moraff, Leanne Fan and Moritz Katz, who thought they had found the…
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