[schmidt_fifty]

> In January, New York state announced plans to build up its AI research bona fides through a $400 million public-private partnership dubbed “Empire AI.”

How is this not just straight graft?

[mkoubaa]

NY State politics 101: Donate to politicians, get funded, repeat.

[pclmulqdq]

Are you new to New York?

Everything the state does is graft.

[baseballdork]

Why would it be graft?

[sybercecurity]

"Empire AI"? Now we're just putting "AI" after geographic labels now? Like how NYC tried to be "Silicon Alley" and Northern VA tried to be "Silicon Dominion".

I guess next century we'll have people say "I grew up in one of the rundown AI Belt cities then moved here."