The U.S. Air Force Academy broke ground yesterday on a memorial to the Tuskegee Airmen with a replica of the P-51 Mustang they flew in 15,000 sorties and earned 850 medals. Lt. Col. James Harvey, a 100-year-old Tuskegee pilot won the inaugural Top Gun fighter pilot competition in 1949. He went on to fly with distinction in combat in Korea. Happy to support this memorial along with the Boeing company. Only one color on this day, Air Force Blue. usafa.edu/planned-airfield-o…

Microsoft invested in OpenAI because a company with a couple hundred engineers was outperforming its own ~1,500 AI engineers. Assuming the claims are legit, history may now be repeating. Forced to do more with less, a Chinese company with 200 engineers builds a model 45x more efficient than OpenAI, spends only $5M by decomposing larger models into a team of smaller models - all with 8-bit floating point processing (vs 32-bit). The kicker - it's open source (expect a U.S. fork) which has worked beautifully for broadly used, mission critical infrastructure software and disrupted many a company. Keeps it interesting.

We are excited to announce The Apollo has been selected as one of five Honorees to receive the 47th @kencen Honors for lifetime artistic achievements! This thrilling recognition makes The Apollo one of the first organizations to be honored in the history of the @KCHonors.

The Apollo Theater is honoring @Usher at its June 11th gala in Harlem and celebrating the theater's 90th year. Many thanks to the allstar lineup: @Babyface, @JohnnyGill, @BigDaddyKane, Karyn White as well as @DNice at the after party. This the MET Ball of Harlem and the official party of the summer. Bring friends, a team builidng event. bit.ly/3wzeFeS

With David Sanborn’s passing, much of the key personnel from “Young Americans” is now gone: * Sanborn * Luther Vandross * Bowie, himself Recording the iconic album, Sanborn said, was “one of the great pleasures of my life.” #RIP @DavidSanborn 🙏🏼 “Dick Cavett Show” (1974)

CBS New York goes behind the curtain at The Apollo's new Victoria Theater space. The Apollo theater now has 4 stages making it the largest Black performing arts theater in the country as it celebrates its 90th anniversary this year. cbsnews.com/newyork/news/beh… via @CBSNewYork

Interesting data from a broad poll: New Poll by The Black Economic Alliance Foundation/The Harris Poll: Corporate Diversity Initiatives Overwhelmingly Supported Across Racial, Ideological, and Generational Lines foundation.blackeconomicalli…

Earlier this week, the Club had the privilege of hosting Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Wally Adeyemo for a remarkable conversation with members led by Charles Phillips. 📸 Interested in listening in? Stay tuned for the footage release next week on our YouTube channel. To gain access to our full slate of benefits and programs, visit econclubny.org to explore membership options🔗 _ #ECNYAdeyemo #ECNY #EconClubNY #USTreasury #DepSecAdeyemo @USTreasury @TreasuryDepSec @PhillipsCE

Apollo Theater appoints new president and CEO... cbsnews.com/newyork/video/ap… via @CBSNews Congrats to Jonelle Procope after 20 years of remarkable leadership and Michelle Ebanks as the new CEO.

@github copilot, with "public code" blocked, emits large chunks of my copyrighted code, with no attribution, no LGPL license. For example, the simple prompt "sparse matrix transpose, cs_" produces my cs_transpose in CSparse. My code on left, github on right. Not OK.

Curious about the "cs_" in the prompt, I tried no function name, just "/* sparse matrix transpose in the style of Tim Davis */". And got my code again, slight tweaked. So the @github AI "knows" this is my code. Try it. Compare with github.com/DrTimothyAldenDav…

My interview with General David H. Berger , Commandant of the Marine Corps, change agent, and classmate of mine from The Basic School officer training. youtu.be/fy7sZwNNW-8 via @YouTube

It is with heavy hearts that The Apollo remembers Harry Belafonte, an extraordinary artist and civil rights activist, and a longtime friend of our iconic stages. REST IN POWER to a true Apollo Legend.

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I've been informed my list was incomplete. Further props in order. Congrats to @AbbottJeff , CEO of Ivanti, who ran channels. Shout outs to @RodmacJohnson and @Cormac_Watters who are running Oracle Apps NA and EMEA respectively. Congrats all and what a team!

Congrats to @d_angove on being named CEO of Blue Yonder along with Corey Tollefson as President. Hat trick, all software CEOs now @StephanScholl @PamMurphyInTech Great work all and well deserved.

The Apollo Theater announces it's first NFT today commemorating its June 13th gala, party of the summer honoring @tylerperry Hosts: @kenanthompson & @WhoopiGoldberg Thanks to @theroots , @PrettyMill1, @AnthonyHamil123 , and @dnice for performing. apollotheater.org/NFT/

Well done mates. Mt. Everest History: First All-Black Expedition Team Summits World’s Highest Peak gearjunkie.com/climbing/full… via @thegearjunkie

Wise, level headed, experienced, and personable (and likes NYC). Congrats to my old friend Karen Bass on the LA Times Endorsement: Karen Bass for Los Angeles mayor latimes.com/opinion/story/20… @KarenBassLA