Politics
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
7 posts
FBI seeks $36M for nationwide license plate reader access, enabling vehicle movement tracking across U.S. territories.
https://www.bespacific.com/fbi-wants-to-buy-nationwide-access-to-license-, but the URL is cut off. Wait, the correct URL provided earlier is https://www.bespacific.com/fbi-wants-to-buy-nationwide-access-to-license-plate-readers/
Hugging Face revives PapersWithCode to track AI research benchmarks openly. @HuggingFace
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1tgmwqr/reviving_paperswithcode_by_hugging_face_p/
The AI trial of the century ends with no clear winner announced.
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-ai-trial-of-the-century-ends
Released free 9.8M doc Indic multilingual corpus — Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu + 7 more (CC0, @HuggingFace)
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1th4po3/released_a_free_98m_doc_indic_multilingual_corpus/
The Health and Human Services Department moves senior staff to a new classification to ease removals under Trump's leadership. https://www.bespacific.com/rfk-jr-s-department-to-make-it-easier-to-fire-career-staff/
The Health and Human Services Department moves senior staff to a new classification to ease removals under Trump's leadership. https://www.bespacific.com/rfk-jr-s-department-to-make-it-easier-to-fire-career-staff/
AI transitioning from hype to real-world impact, JPMorgan's Kevin Brunner says, with financial sector seeing tangible results. Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-19/jpmorgan-s-brunner-says-ai-moving-from-hype-to-real-execution
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team. Previously led computer vision at Tesla and co-founded OpenAI. Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/openai-co-founder-andrej-karpathy-joins-anthropics-pre-training-team/