OpenAI, Uncle Sam, and the Five Percent “Prompt Tax On CNN, the headline landed like a Silicon Valley jump scare: OpenAI in talks to give the Trump administration a 5% stake in the company. Not 0.5%. A full five. That is not a nibble. That is the government walking into the AI steakhouse and saying, “We’ll have a medium-rare slice of the future.” Reuters says the Financial Times reported the talks, but Reuters also noted it could not independently verify the report and that O

New York City is currently being cooked like a dollar-slice pizza under a Times Square heat lamp, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani has officially entered the group chat with the most parental sentence in summer politics: set the thermostat to 78 degrees. Yes, 78. Not 68. Not “meat locker.” Not “penguin sanctuary.” Seventy-eight — the temperature where your apartment technically has air conditioning, but your glutes are glued to your couch. The city’s request is part of an emergency h

Knicks Banners, Taylor Swift’s Bouquet, and New York’s Wildest Summer of Rings New York City is not having a normal summer. It is having a movie franchise... First, the Knicks turned Madison Square Garden into a basketball cathedral, beating the San Antonio Spurs to win their first NBA championship since 1973. The city threw them a ticker-tape parade through the Canyon of Heroes on June 18, with Jalen Brunson chants, blue-and-orange buildings, and the kind of civic happiness