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Matt Katz

Philadelphia

Executive Producer at City Cast Philly

Exec. Producer, CITY CAST PHILLY. Youse should subscribe to our podcast & newsletter. I also made a podcast about my life: INCONCEIVABLE TRUTH. Ex-WNYC. Ex-Inky

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  • Oct 15, 2024 | techedgeai.com | Matt Katz |Shaun Godinho |Matt KatzMatt

    How can generative AI revolutionize financial services, particularly in the areas of risk management, early warning signals, and market condition monitoring? Machine learning has become an almost standard tool, particularly in anomaly detection. Given the rivers of data emitted by markets, traders, and systems, firms are hungry to digest this information and identify patterns faster than ever.

  • Sep 19, 2024 | gothamist.com | Matt Katz

    New York City’s system for investigating rapes and sexual abuse of Rikers Island detainees is failing under Mayor Eric Adams, a Gothamist review of city data shows, and the Department of Correction now faces a growing backlog of cases as city and federal guidelines requiring timely probes have been flouted.

  • Sep 16, 2024 | gothamist.com | Matt Katz

    Two FDNY chiefs accepted $190,000 in bribes in exchange for fast tracking building inspections, according to an indictment unsealed on Monday by federal prosecutors in Manhattan. Anthony Saccavino and Brian Cordasco were the top two chiefs at the fire department’s bureau of fire prevention, which oversees fire alarm and fire suppression systems in buildings.

  • Sep 12, 2024 | gothamist.com | Matt Katz

    Overtime costs for correction officers at Rikers Island have skyrocketed under New York City Mayor Eric Adams, costing taxpayers more than $270 million last year, according to a new report from the city's Independent Budget Office. The city now spends $629 daily to house each detainee at Rikers, the report found — double what it cost a decade ago. That figure does not include medical care.

  • Sep 5, 2024 | gothamist.com | Matt Katz

    The New York City Fire Department has lost dozens of members this past year to diseases related to rescue-and-recovery work after Sept. 11, 2001, pushing the department over a grim threshold: More FDNY responders have now died from 9/11-related diseases than were killed on the day of the attack. “Our list of heroes grows each year,” said FDNY Acting Chief John Esposito at a solemn ceremony Wednesday during which 32 of the most recent deaths were added to the FDNY World Trade Center Memorial Wall.

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RT @JonathanTamari: I see it’s a “senator handcuffed while confronting cabinet secretary” bumped to #3 headline by 930 kind of night

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RT @PeterHamby: Protestors, reporters and assorted bozos crash and disrupt press conferences all the time. They never get handcuffed.

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RT @nick_field90: Leigh Ann Caldwell reports that the Fetterman/Bannon dinner "set the phones of Democratic aides ablaze with texts wonderi…