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YouTube is giving creators a new AI tool that can generate instrumental tracks to use in videos for free without worrying about copyright claims, TechCrunch reports. The new feature was demonstrated in a video posted on the company’s Creator Insider channel this week. In the video, the host, Lauren, shows a new tab in the Creator Music beta section on YouTube called “Music assistant” where you can enter a prompt like “give me uplifting and motivational music for a workout montage.” The tool then generates several tracks you can review and download so you can add them to your video editor. Lauren says it’s gradually rolling Music assistant out for users who have access to Creator Music. Music assistant is one of several AI music-generating tools out there. Companies like Stability AI have a diffusion model that can make background audio for projects, and Meta’s open-source AudioCraft and MusicGen models can synthesize sounds and media using prompts, too. YouTube has also experimented with AI music in other ways. It built a music remixer that lets you “restyle” popular songs to add to your Shorts. And its Dream Track feature, powered by Lyria from Google’s DeepMind, lets you hum songs and turn them into music tracks in the style of participating artists like T-Pain.

Despite significant progress in code generation and completion, AI coding tools continue to face challenges in debugging—an integral part of software development. While large language models (LLMs) can generate code snippets and occasionally offer fixes, they often falter when addressing runtime errors or navigating through logical faults using traditional debugging tools. Human developers routinely rely on interactive debuggers like Python’s pdb to inspect variables, trace execution, and understand program flow. These tools facilitate exploratory reasoning—a dimension largely absent from the capabilities of current LLMs. This gap highlights a fundamental limitation: most LLMs operate in static environments with limited support for dynamic feedback, making it difficult to engage in the iterative reasoning required for effective debugging. To explore the extent to which LLMs can make use of interactive debugging tools such as pdb, Microsoft has introduced Debug-Gym—a Python-based environment designed to evaluate how AI agents perform in realistic code-repair tasks. Debug-Gym provides a structured setting where LLM-based agents can employ debugging commands, examine runtime behavior, and refine their approach through active exploration. Rather than simply predicting corrections, agents in Debug-Gym can interact with their environment to gather evidence before proposing solutions. This model of active, tool-assisted debugging more closely mirrors the human approach to software repair and allows for the assessment of reasoning strategies in complex scenarios. Technical Architecture and Features Debug-Gym is built to support experimentation with interactive, tool-aware coding agents. It presents agents with error-prone Python programs and grants access to debugging tools via a controlled interface. Core components of the system include: Buggy program scenarios: A curated set of Python scripts with known faults, spanning syntax, runtime, and logical errors. Debugger access: A tool interface exposing commands akin to those used in Python’s pdb, including stack inspection, step-through execution, and variable evaluation. Observation and action spaces: Structured inputs such as traceback data and variable values are provided to the agent, which can then respond with commands or code edits. The architecture supports deterministic execution and is modular, enabling easy substitution or augmentation of agents and debugging tools. The environment is publicly available under an open-source license, encouraging collaboration and comparative evaluation. Evaluation and Observations Initial experiments using Debug-Gym suggest that agents capable of leveraging interactive tools are better equipped to resolve complex bugs. According to Microsoft’s evaluation, LLMs that issued and interpreted debugging commands—such as variable prints or navigation through stack frames—demonstrated more accurate and efficient code repairs compared to static counterparts. In a benchmark consisting of 150 diverse bug cases, interactive agents achieved a notably higher success rate, resolving over half the problems with fewer iterations. The framework also provides visibility into agent behavior. Researchers can analyze tool usage patterns, investigate where agents deviate from productive debugging strategies, and identify common failure points. This level of introspection supports iterative development of agent policies and opens pathways for fine-tuning models using richer feedback than text alone. Furthermore, Debug-Gym supports training paradigms such as reinforcement learning from interaction histories, allowing future models to learn not just from human demonstrations, but also from the structured sequences of debugging actions. Conclusion Debug-Gym offers a practical and forward-looking approach to advancing LLM-based coding tools. By incorporating support for interactive debugging, it aligns more closely with real-world developer workflows. The environment enables precise measurement of agent capabilities in dynamic code repair and provides the scaffolding needed to train and evaluate agents that learn from exploration. While current systems still face limitations in understanding nuanced runtime contexts, Debug-Gym lays the groundwork for developing agents that can systematically reason through bugs using external tools. This shift from passive code suggestion to active problem-solving represents a meaningful step toward integrating LLMs into professional software development environments. Check out Twitter and don’t forget to join our 85k+ ML SubReddit. Asif RazzaqWebsite |  + postsBioAsif Razzaq is the CEO of Marktechpost Media Inc.. As a visionary entrepreneur and engineer, Asif is committed to harnessing the potential of Artificial Intelligence for social good. His most recent endeavor is the launch of an Artificial Intelligence Media Platform, Marktechpost, which stands out for its in-depth coverage of machine learning and deep learning news that is both technically sound and easily understandable by a wide audience. 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Your Friends & Neighbors begins with a tight shot of Jon Hamm slowly returning to consciousness in the middle of a million-dollar foyer, where he mysteriously lies in a large puddle of a dead man’s blood. Terrified and confused – and after a failed attempt to clean up the mess, likely out of panic – he tries to flee the scene only to trip and fall into the pool, where he ponders just how things took such a dire turn. If your instinct is to process this image as a metaphor, don’t worry – the former Mad Men star himself validates that assumption directly in a voiceover promising an unlikely story of a charmed life gone awry. It’s a sequence of events clearly designed to shock and seduce us. Instead, it plays like a scene you hazily remember seeing a few dozen times before, but can’t pinpoint exactly where.By the end of the series opener, it’s clear that Apple TV+’s newest high-end drama wants to offer a tale that both titillates and shirks convention. After all, it’s not every day that you see a well-off man really question the affluence he’s spent his whole life chasing, nor do we plebeians often get a less-than-glossy glimpse into the lives of the One Percent. But beyond a handful of solid performances and some lo-fi larceny sprinkled throughout the seven episodes made available for review, Your Friends & Neighbors reads more like a concept that took all the wrong lessons from Robin Hood and Breaking Bad and leans perhaps too heavily on the assumption that the predictably messy lives of the rich are inherently must-watch. Hamm stars as Andrew “Coop” Cooper, a once-successful hedge fund manager who is unceremoniously fired after a tryst with a lower-level employee. Between his abrupt ouster and a contract that prevents him from immediately accepting a role at a competing firm, he’s left with a few undesirable options. Rather than accept a too-junior position elsewhere or simply downsize from his multiple luxury homes, he decides to steal from his similarly affluent neighbors. It is a brash idea that Coop adopts with startling ease.If there’s a reason behind that, creator Jonathan Tropper doesn’t really explore it in these first episodes. It’s partly why Your Friends & Neighbors’ pacing feels tricky. Things move slowly here, which would be totally fine if more of the journey was dedicated towards really digging into the stickier parts of Coop or building a somewhat cohesive case to support his bold pivot. But we’re not offered much beyond a rich man supporting the sometimes frivolous whims of his family and his desperation to keep up appearances. Not enough to totally tank a premise, but definitely not enough to build any real empathy towards our leading man. Your Friends & Neighbors GalleryBetween robberies, Coop occasionally hints at a desire to engage in some much-needed introspection. But for every slight indictment of his sort-of former lifestyle, there’s even more evidence of his desperation to maintain it. Rather than interrogate the tension between judging the lives of his neighbors and literally risking freedom just to keep up, Tropper quickly ushers us towards the next scandal before we ask too many questions or even begin to grasp the motivation behind any of Coop’s choices.These scandals, by the way, are fairly standard fare for the The Rich Are Messier Than You Think subgenre: adultery and occasional drug use, mainly. They maintain the show’s watchability, but are hardly worth any watercooler chat. Even the robberies themselves – you know, the show’s main attraction – are few and forgettable. As Coop lifts a stack of bills here and a too-expensive watch there, he provides us with insight on his peers’conspicuous consumption: owning pieces of jewelry worth enough to feed an entire midsized village or the perplexing, uber-exclusive process of procuring a $50,000 Hermès bag. It’s an excuse to employ some interesting, magazine-spread-worthy background on the things he’s stealing, which are coupled with some glossy-magazine-sleek visuals. But the details aren’t surprising if you’ve ever encountered a rich person in real life or in fiction. Perhaps that’s the occupational hazard of a baby criminal in his first season. But if you’re going to tease some heists, for the love of all things spicy, give us some real heists – or, at the very least, juicer secrets.This isn’t quite the sneaky fish-out-of-water romp it purports to be.“The speed at which the story progresses could be due to the buffet of side plots courtesy of Coop’s family and friends/victims. When he’s not an amateur thief, Coop is a bitter divorcé still reeling from the infidelity of his ex-wife, Mel (Amanda Peet), and a father to two vaguely contemptuous teens (Isabel Gravitt and Donovan Colan). Again, we’re only offered bits and pieces of the lore behind the family dynamic, which largely revolves around Mel’s choice to cheat with one of Cooper’s close friends, ex-NBA player Nick Brandes (Mark Tallman). We’re largely left in the dark as to why things fell apart, aside from a few fairly useless idioms from Coop: who admits to taking his “eyes off the ball” at some point during their union. We’re also not clear on what made him such a terrible father or why Mel, a therapist by trade, appears oddly apathetic about her betrayal. Still, there’s an undeniable allure to Peet, who leans into Mel’s complexities and finds moments to inject some humanity, all the while standing absolutely toe-to-toe with Hamm in both moments of peace and chaos.This is where the show picks up in strength and potential: with its cast, who deliver despite their middling material rather than because of it. Hamm, as expected, is charming and knows how to deliver a line with darkly comedic flair. Olivia Munn, who shines as Coop’s soon-to-be-divorced neighbor and occasional fling, Samantha Levitt, avoids coming off as a cliched vixen thanks to her sharp wit and emotional depth. Her chemistry with Hamm is bested only by her chemistry with Peet as friends and unknowing (at least for Mel) love triangle rivals. In fact, the women of Your Friends & Neighbors, though largely underwritten as little more than sexy, sexy messes, are still far more compelling when given more to do than worry about Coop. This includes Lena Hall, who plays the younger sister who’s forced to move in with him, and Aimee Carrerro as Elena Benavides, a savvy, observant maid who inserts herself into his double life. While the heft of the its premise is seemingly placed on Hamm’s shoulders, much of the ensemble are still afforded private battles that, if the writers decide to dig a little deeper in future episodes and seasons (which are already partially guaranteed, given the show’s early renewal prior to debut) can provide some distraction from Coop’s undercooked insights.PlayTo be clear, Your Friends & Neighbors is perfectly watchable if you still harbor some curiosity over the opulent lives of the rich. It’s stylish, occasionally humorous (sometimes unintentionally so, like in its almost cartoonish portrayal of coke usage), and yes, teeming with sexy moments thanks to its sexy, capable cast. But this isn’t quite the sneaky fish-out-of-water romp it purports itself to be, nor is its main character nearly as complex as his long stretches of self-indulgent banter suggest. If you’re looking for more, much like Coop’s decision to dabble in crime in the first place, there are better choices.

This article contains spoilers for the Black Mirror episode “Common People.” Season 7 opener “Common People” is one of the darkest episodes of Black Mirror…and that’s a high bar to clear. Previous installments of Charlie Brooker’s long-running sci-fi anthology have plumbed the depths of technodystopia – featuring temporal torture, infanticide, and several actual apocalypses. Still, Common People does something those other puny Black Mirrors would never dream of: It kills America’s sweetheart Rashida Jones. Jones stars as Amanda who, along with her husband Mike (Chris O’Dowd), is leading one of those peaceful “first act of a Black Mirror episode” lives. While money is tight and some fertility issues bubble up for the working class family, they nevertheless remain happily in love. And then story writers Brooker and Bisha K. Ali go ahead and throw an inoperable tumor into Amanda’s parietal lobe, sending her into a coma she’ll likely never wake up from. Thankfully, tech company Rivermind has a solution. The surgery to repair Amanda’s brain is free but the streaming model to keep it online will cost $300 a month. That, of course, is the ad model. The ad-free costs more. And then keeping up with the evolving servers and cell towers costs even more than that. Staying awake longer than a few hours a day? That’s extra. Feeling serene? That’s extra. Getting pregnant? Buddy, you best believe that’s extra. The financial burden of keeping Amanda operational grows so dire that she and Mike opt to unplug entirely, making “Common People” only the second Black Mirror episode by my count to conclude with euthanasia (following in the footsteps of the far more hopeful “San Junipero”). Having co-written the teleplay for Black Mirror season 3 opener “Nosedive” alongside Michael Schur, Rashida Jones is no stranger to the franchise’s bleak satirical approach. Jones discussed what it was like to re-enter the Black Mirror universe when she and Gaynor actress Tracee Ellis Ross spoke to Den of Geek and other journalists at a pre-release roundtable. “I’m never saying no to Black Mirror. Charlie knows that,” Jones says. “But this felt like it really had that classic Black Mirror flavor. Tonally, it reminds me of the first time I ever watched Black Mirror in its first season – that bleakness and ability to straddle comedy and darkness. I would do anything to be in this universe. But this episode in particular, I felt well suited for this part.” According to the duo, the process for receiving a Black Mirror script and learning of its premise is something straight out of a Black Mirror episode itself. “I said yes before knowing what the episode was,” Ross says. “Then, when I read the script, I was like ‘oh, even better!’ You get a script that is digitally imprinted for you so no one can read it but you, not even your representatives. It’s kind of cool. You feel like you’re in an alternate reality.” Once aboard, the biggest challenge for Jones wasn’t the episode’s brutal ending but the seemingly more mundane issue of ad copy that Rivermind requires Amanda to deliver. “I was the most excited by that and also the most nervous about it being right. Ally Pankiw, the director, was so great. She let me experiment and try variety of things that were really subtle, and then really over the top. We ended up somewhere in the middle where it feels like the ads are using my personality to sell, as opposed to the ad kind of taking over in a way that just doesn’t feel like me.” Still, the ending looms large as Common People’s most defining feature. Though Amanda’s weakened state by the story’s conclusion calls into question how much autonomy she has over the decision to end her life, Jones is confident it’s something that she and Mike came to together. Join our mailing list Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! “I bet it’ll be debated whether or not she actually had the agency to make that decision, and how much of it was her,” Jones says. “But I kind of chose that it was like the best version of herself. I push up the serenity button at the end and I think it’s still me, just in a clearer mindset where I’m not distraught with pain and fatigue. As far as Mike is concerned, my interpretation is that he is doing the same thing.” Though the story ends here for both Amanda and Mike, it might just be only the beginning for Rivermind’s malign influence on the world. Building upon her experience in writing for the show and living up to its speculative fiction nature, Jones imagines an even darker eventual reality for future Rivermind subscribers. “That’s the trajectory of capitalism. Things are out of reach and then they’re made accessible while these people’s lives are at stake. You can imagine a future of Rivermind where there are all these tiers for things that are possible: living forever, being young forever, while the base thing remains keeping people alive in any kind of coverage zone. That’s probably where they’re headed to. It’s so dark.” That’s the thing about Black Mirror‘s bad endings. They often leave something even worse up to the viewers’ imagination…if they can dare to imagine it. All six episodes of Black Mirror season 7 are available to stream on Netflix now.

Just a few weeks ago, our April/May issue hit newsstands. As Country Living’s Senior Homes + Style Editor, I always take the time to post a thank you to all the creatives who brought our issue to life on my Instagram. To celebrate our most recent issue, I led with an image of a bloom-meets-laundry room (pictured above) from designer Kendall Rabun’s stunningly fabulous West Virginia project. Almost immediately, my post was flooded with comments asking what paint color Kendall used (Oval Room Blue by Farrow & Ball, by the way). These comments confirmed a lingering suspicion I’ve had for months: We’re entering the era of duck egg blue. Stacy Zarin GoldbergDesigner Molly Singer’s kitchen feels airy and bright thanks to a coating of Backdrop’s Skywalker.Blue has long been a designer-favorite paint color (especially for kitchens), beloved for the easy, laid-back sensibility it brings to a room. The recent shift towards greener, more verdant versions follows green’s resurgence in the design mainstream. (I mean, who hasn’t seen a beautiful green kitchen and thought about immediately starting a weekend project to repaint their own kitchen cabinets?) Duck egg blue’s steely look has been perfectly poised for design dominance because it pulls notes from both beloved shades—blue and green. Chase DanielIn this Texas farmhouse galley kitchen, the homeowner chose a timeless duck egg blue paint color to pair with the reproduction wallpaper and antique mint-colored enamel gas range.Much like actual duck eggs, which get their iconic coloring from the naturally occurring pigments blue oocynian and biliverdin, duck egg blue paint colors come in a variety of shades. Hints of black or gray give the color a muddier appearance, creating a more traditional feel that pairs well with brown wood furniture or layers of bold pattern. Brighter, clearer shades can lean coastal, but also work beautifully with traditional white farmhouse interiors.Below, we’ve rounded up a few of our favorite duck egg blue paint colors for you to try. Just be sure to read our painting guide before putting brush to wall! FOR MORE ON PAINT COLORS:The Best Duck Egg Blue Paint ColorsSkywalker by Backdrop$59 at backdrophome.comDix Blue by Farrow & Ball$146 at Farrow & BallMeander Blue by Sherwin-WilliamsNow 30% Off$49 $34 at Sherwin-WilliamsWythe Blue by Benjamin Moore$56 at Benjamin MooreAnna LoganSenior Homes & Style EditorAnna Logan is the Senior Homes & Style Editor at Country Living, where she has been covering all things home design, including sharing exclusive looks at beautifully designed country kitchens, producing home features, writing everything from timely trend reports on the latest viral aesthetic to expert-driven explainers on must-read topics, and rounding up pretty much everything you’ve ever wanted to know about paint, since 2021. Anna has spent the last seven years covering every aspect of the design industry, previously having written for Traditional Home, One Kings Lane, House Beautiful, and Frederic. She holds a degree in journalism from the University of Georgia. When she’s not working, Anna can either be found digging around her flower garden or through the dusty shelves of an antique shop. Follow her adventures, or, more importantly, those of her three-year-old Maltese and official Country Living Pet Lab tester, Teddy, on Instagram.  

ChatGPT’s growth keeps hitting new heights, including last month earning the honor of top downloaded app (not game) in the world per Appfigures—no doubt thanks to Studio Ghibli. ChatGPT tops global app charts, in part thanks to iOS success When it comes to the most downloaded apps in the world, the top of the pack is usually fairly predictable. TikTok and Instagram tend to go back and forth in the one and two slots. But in March, no doubt fueled by the launch of 4o image generation and the viral Ghibli-style crazy that followed, ChatGPT claimed the top spot. Per a new Appfigures report, download numbers for apps (games are excluded) looked like this: ChatGPT: 46 million downloads (13M on iOS, 33M on Android) Instagram: 46 million downloads (5M on iOS, 41M on Android) TikTok: 45 million downloads (8M on iOS, 37M on Android) Ultimately, it was ChatGPT’s dominance on the iPhone’s App Store charts that helped it squeak across the finish line with a narrow victory. Even though most of its downloads came from Android, the AI app had a big advantage on iOS over both TikTok and Instagram. ChatGPT was the top app in Apple’s App Store, while TikTok was only number six—Instagram didn’t even make the top 10. 9to5Mac’s Take I can’t help but think about the contrast between ChatGPT’s viral image success and the seemingly little impact Apple’s Image Playground app has had. Ethical issues around AI-generated art are well worth discussing, especially as relates to ChatGPT’s skyrocketing adoption. But as someone who covers Apple for a living, I wonder how much the company is kicking itself over OpenAI’s recent success. Are you surprised ChatGPT was the number one app last month, or not so much? Let us know in the comments. Best iPhone accessories Add 9to5Mac to your Google News feed.  FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.You’re reading 9to5Mac — experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Don’t know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

It's no secret that Elon Musk's wealth is staggering. At the time of writing, he's worth over $325 billion. To give that number a sense of scale, that's $62 billion more than the total annual salary of every worker in Michigan combined — all 4.3 million of them.So why is he powering his data centers with rinky-dink portable generators?New aerial surveillance footage obtained by the Southern Environmental Law Center has found that Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, is using 35 methane gas generators to power its "Colossus" supercomputer facility, the backbone of its flagship Grok. That's 20 more generators than the 15 xAI filed permits for, and 35 more than it was approved to use.The data center, nestled in historic south Memphis, came online last September, despite protests from community leaders. AI data centers are notoriously loud, and hog water and electricity like a mid-sized American city. Case in point, the local utility company, Memphis Light, Gas and Water (MLGW) estimates the Memphis facility will soon be sucking up one million gallons of water per day, as well as 150 megawatts of power, once it reaches its full power.Though the MLGW says it's "executed four standard electric service agreements, one water service, and one gas service agreement" with xAI — totaling 50 megawatts of power — Musk says the facility needs much more due to rapid power fluctuations in his system of 10 to 20 megawatts at a time.But getting approval for that kind of power is a slow and cautious process, according to Bloomberg, as rapid data center construction runs up against the limits of what civilian power grids can provide. Never one to wait for approval, Musk has chosen instead to exploit a loophole in local regulations, which seemingly allow him to park a fleet of toxic methane generators outside his facility as long as they don't sit in the same location for 364 days.Local residents, meanwhile, are left to deal with the toxic fallout. One report by ProPublica found that the cancer rate in this area of Memphis is four times higher than the national average. The low, flat land here has historically been used as an out-of-site locale for megacorporations to plant industrial facilities, resulting in waves of health crises as toxins like ethylene oxide and arsenic pollute the nearby ground, water, and air.Generators like xAI's emit huge amounts of nitrogen dioxide, a highly reactive gas which causes irreversible respiratory damage over time. And that's before you consider its effects on the ozone layer, or its contribution to acid rain, smog, and nutrient pollution in local soil and waterways. With 35 generators now chugging along, that's a whole chorus of turbines spewing the toxic gas into low-income, minority-led communities 24/7.With the city urging residents to grin and bear it, and the EPA staying silent since October, the burden is falling on the communities affected to stand up to Musk's move-fast-and-spew-gas AI strategy."Nobody else should be burying their families because these rogue, rich, white, racist people continue to build projects that are suffocating us," KeShaun Pearson, a local resident and director of the Memphis Community Against Pollution told The Guardian. "This is all preventable."More on data centers: Something's Gone Wrong With Microsoft's Huge AI Data Center InvestmentsShare This Article

In the 1998 movie Sliding Doors, a woman played by Gwyneth Paltrow narrowly makes it onto a train — and, in an alternate storyline that plays out parallel to the first, misses the train. The whole film goes back and forth between the two Paltrows (the one who caught that subway, and the one who didn’t) showing how this single small action can have enormous consequences on someone’s life. Ashton Kutcher fans call this “the butterfly effect.”I don’t know if Sliding Doors is a masterpiece of cinema, but it is a fun thought experiment. Once you start pondering the little decisions that send your life in one direction or another, you can’t stop. And that same sort of thinking can be applied to movies, where every completed film, from the most beloved masterpiece to the most reviled disaster, is the accumulation of hundreds or maybe thousands of little decisions. Change one or two of them, and the entire picture could look totally different.To see this theory in action, you needn’t look any further than the list below. It contains nothing but huge movie stars, all of whom turned down the chance to play huge roles in huge movies. Generally speaking, these situations worked out in the end for everyone. The actors were largely unharmed and made other successful projects. The movies they turned down survived and even thrived with other stars in the key roles. And those replacements often became major movie and TV stars in their own right, something that might not have happened had the directors’ initial choice said yes in the first place.Here are 25 movie stars who all have their own version of Sliding Doors within their careers to think about. I’m sure Gwyneth Paltrow has her own examples, but she just missed the cut this time. (Sorry, Gwyneth. Maybe you make the next one.)25 Actors Who Turned Down Huge Movie RolesSome of the most famous actors in history turned down the chance to play cinema’s most iconic roles.READ MORE: The ABCs of Movies: The Best Film That Starts With Every Letter of the AlphabetThe 10 Funniest Movies of the Last Ten Years (2015-2024)Movie comedies may not be quite as popular as they once were, the last decade have still given us some very funny films.Categories: Lists, Movie News, Original Features

Archway plans, which include 27-storey tower, had been recommended for rejection View of the tower as seen from Highgate Hill Opposition to the Archway scheme has mainly focused on the height and appearance of the 27-storey student tower 1/6 show caption Niall McLaughlin’s 27-storey student accommodation in Islington has been called in by Sadiq Khan after being rejected by the local council. It is the latest intervention by the London mayor on a major scheme in the capital following his decision last month to become the planning authority for Make’s Baltic Wharf scheme in Paddington. Make Architects’ plans for a 20-storey student accommodation scheme were rejected for the second time by Westminster council in January. Now he has written to Islington council to say he will also make the decision on 2022 Stirling Prize-winner Niall McLaughlin’s 250-bed Archway Campus scheme in north London. This would see the redevelopment of the former Holborn Union Hospital on a 1.5 ha site in Archway. The scheme has faced local opposition, including from Islington North MP and former Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn, over the height and appearance of the planned student tower. Built as a Victorian workhouse infirmary, the buildings at the site became a hospital and later a medical teaching campus but have been vacant since 2013. Under plans brought forward by Seven Capital, three historic buildings would be refurbished and extended, mostly for 87 market sale homes. Three other buildings constructed in the second half of the 20th century would be demolished and replaced with three new blocks comprising 91 affordable homes. Grid Architects is responsible for retrofitting and extending the heritage buildings, while Niall McLaughlin has designed the new build masterplan, including three affordable housing blocks and two student buildings.