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New York Times turns puzzle games into subscription moat

The New York Times has prepared some exclusive goodies for its subscribers: a weekly drop of bonus puzzles based on the publication's popular games. Five to six new puzzles will be released every Wednesday, each featuring "a twist" on games like Wordle, Strands, Connections, and Crossword that are d

The Verge·3w ago

TECHNOLOGY

AI’s reasoning gap emerges as models fail novel puzzles

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any better? Puzzles and games have always been central to AI development. The term “machine lear

MIT Technology Review·3w ago

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Tesla’s camera-only robotaxi faces its real-world test against Waymo

Believe it or not, the Tesla Cybercab is coming. Nearly two years after Elon Musk first unveiled the gold-tinted, gull-wing-door sporting, steering-wheel-free, two-seaters as the future of Tesla's autonomy efforts, the company is finally putting them into operation as part of its robotaxi service in

The Verge·3w ago

TECHNOLOGY

Tesla’s Cybercab bet exposes the fragility of autonomous vehicle hype

The electric-auto maker will officially debut its steering-wheel-free robotaxi on Thursday. But building the vehicle is the easy part.

Wired·3w ago

TECHNOLOGY

Nintendo cartridge batteries are dying, and USB-C tools are stepping in to save them

Last week, I powered on a 26-year-old copy of Pokémon Pinball, one of the best Game Boy games ever made. My save file was no more. The Charmander I'd caught for my daughter, the high scores we'd set together… gone. Before flash memory, Nintendo cartridges used tiny watch batteries to save their

The Verge·3w ago

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Russia’s Sfera satellite internet plan faces mounting technical and supply chain obstacles

Is Russia's rival to Starlink failing? Here's what we know.

Ars Technica·3w ago

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Humanoid robots still can’t bridge the gap between demos and reality

The idea of humanoid robots running our homes has been the stuff of science fiction for years. But unlike hoverboards and self-tying sneakers, a robot housekeeper has never felt close to rolling into our homes. Until now. This has been the year of the humanoid robot. At CES, there were dozens of hum

The Verge·3w ago

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Pangram’s AI detection dominance masks persistent accuracy problems

Meet the AI police who can make or break careers—in publishing and beyond.

Wired·3w ago

TECHNOLOGY

Picea Robotics bets manufacturing expertise can revive Roomba

iRobot has announced a new flagship robot vacuum, which it will showcase at IFA in Berlin this week, the company's first big tech trade show in years. The Roomba maker will be exhibiting under its new owner, Picea Robotics, the contract manufacturer that purchased the once-troubled American robotics

The Verge·3w ago

TECHNOLOGY

Google courts Hollywood studios for AI training data licensing deals

Google has reportedly been reaching out to a number of Hollywood's biggest studios, hoping to strike licensing agreements that would allow it to train its AI models on copyrighted material in exchange for massive piles of cash. In theory, these deals would be a win-win: a huge financial boon to the

The Verge·3w ago

TECHNOLOGY

Anthropic cuts Claude costs sharply to win back enterprise developers on agents

Anthropic says its newest AI models, Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, address criticisms from customers about price, data retention, and overzealous safeguards. The company claims Claude Fable 5.1 offers stronger performance than Fable 5, but costs around 25 percent less typically and up to 45 percent less

The Verge·3w ago

TECHNOLOGY

Sonos bets its recovery on premium hardware and promised software fixes

Sonos unveiled a bunch of new stuff today at its open house event. There's the $699 Beam Ultra soundbar and the $449 Ace Ultra headphones, plus several under-the-hood app updates (some coming sooner than others). While the show floor was a less than ideal venue to judge audio quality of either new p

The Verge·3w ago

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