This week, world leaders descended on Manhattan for the UN General Assembly. It’s also New York Climate Week—investors, policymakers, advocates, and journalists are colliding at panels, talks, and fancy dinners.

Benjamin Nweke described a failure that took him three weeks to notice. He had turned on Structured Outputs for a pipeline that parsed payment confirmation messages into transaction records, and his reconciliation job started flagging a small, steady stream of mismatches — a couple of percent of a week’s volume. Not crashes. Not malformed rows.…

But a priest who advises the Catholic Church on AI, the handwaving over superintelligence distracts from the need for open debate about how to constrain the companies building the technology. By casting the problem as so complex that only they can solve it, he says, the big labs exclude everyone else from the conversation. “Ethics…

Streaming is getting more expensive again. Disney is the latest media giant to raise prices for its streaming services, adding to a growing pattern across the industry. The increases come roughly a year after Disney’s last major streaming price hike.