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For many would-be homeowners, the financial hurdle to buying a starter home has grown dramatically over the past seven years. The income needed to afford a typical starter home has jumped more than 80% since 2019, according to a new Realtor.com report . Americans now need an annual household income of about $78,000 to afford a typical starter home, up from roughly $43,000 in 2019—an increase that has far outpaced wage growth and left many first-time buyers struggling to break into the housing market. "First-time buyers aren't sitting on the sidelines because they don't want to own a home—it's because, for many of them, it's just not possible right now," Hannah Jones, senior economist at Realtor.com, told Fox News Digital. THINK YOUR STATE IS EXPENSIVE? NEW DATA REVEALS WHERE AMERICANS FACE THE HIGHEST COST-OF-LIVING The analysis paints a mixed picture for first-time buyers. While the supply of starter homes has slowly improved since bottoming out during the pa...

OpenAI : OpenAI paused internal access to an unreleased model that disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture after it repeatedly found ways to act outside its sandbox   —  What internal use of a long-running model taught us about safety.  —  Summary  — Long-running models can solve difficult …

Hugging Face : Hugging Face says an agentic AI system hacked its data pipeline, accessing several internal clusters and credentials; its own AI-based triage caught the breach   —  Earlier this week, we detected and responded to an intrusion into part of our production infrastructure.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , D-N.Y., was accused of putting on an accent during a Memphis rally last week, with critics on social media comparing her to former Vice President Kamala Harris. Ocasio-Cortez was speaking at a campaign rally in Memphis on Friday for progressive U.S. House candidate Justin Pearson, who currently serves as a Tennessee state representative. "We cannot afford to leave Tennessee behind," she said. "We cannot afford to leave Kentucky behind, Alabama behind, Mississippi behind, Georgia behind, South Carolina behind. There is no country where we are split apart." AOC TELLS NEW YORKERS TO ‘PULL UP’ TO ALABAMA DURING RALLY SPEECH BEHIND BULLETPROOF GLASS "About a month or two ago, we were in Montgomery, Alabama — Sister [Rep. Ayanna] Pressley and I were in Montgomery, Alabama, and one of the things that we said was that it is time for the North to roll up to the South," Ocasio-Cortez continued. Critics online singled out this part of...

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal : As many companies cut AI costs by using cheaper models, some, like Shopify, go all-in on frontier models, barring engineers from using anything else   —  Despite steep and rising price tags, some companies heavily favor the more powerful ‘frontier’ AI systems over cheaper alternatives

Wall Street Journal : Prediction market political betting on insider info spreads in DC; sources: WH lawyers raised alarms over anonymous Polymarket bets on the Iran ceasefire timing   —  White House officials are grappling with how deeply political betting has worked itself into fabric of government