Micro1, a Scale AI competitor, touts crossing $100M ARR

Micro1’s rapid climb over the past two years has pushed it into a cohort of AI companies scaling at breakneck speed. The three-year-old startup, which helps AI labs recruit and…

Liquid Swords’ debut title is a $25 ‘noir action game’ coming next year

The debut game from Liquid Swords will arrive in early 2026, it was announced at today’s PC Gaming Show. Samson: A Tyndalston Story is billed as “a consequence-heavy noir action…

AI chatbots can sway voters better than political advertisements

“One conversation with an LLM has a pretty meaningful effect on salient election choices,” says Gordon Pennycook, a psychologist at Cornell University who worked on the Nature study. LLMs can…

Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints, Answers for Dec. 5 #438

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and…

Trump invites ‘cute’ Japanese kei trucks to come to America

Tiny kei trucks from Japan have a new fan: President Donald Trump. Trump expressed admiration for the pint-sized autos during a briefing with reporters to announce his plan to gut…

CDC vaccine panel realizes again it has no idea what it’s doing, delays big vote

Far from that topic, Nevison gave a presentation downplaying the transmission of hepatitis B and the benefits of vaccines. She falsely claimed that the dramatic decline in hepatitis B infections…

What Happens When Your Coworkers Are AI Agents

Michael Calore: The inscrutable billboards. Lauren Goode: I was just like, “What? No, keep me in the land of Burrata and Caravaggio.” Michael Calore: Well, Lauren, I’m sorry to tell…

Anthropic CEO weighs in on AI bubble talk and risk-taking among competitors

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei shared his thoughts on if the AI industry was in a bubble at The New York Times DealBook Summit on Wednesday. This was in addition to…

EU’s New Digital Package Proposal Promises Red Tape Cuts but Guts GDPR Privacy Rights

The European Commission (EC) is considering a “Digital Omnibus” package that would substantially rewrite EU privacy law, particularly the landmark General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It’s not a done deal,…

Russia reportedly bans Snapchat and FaceTime

Roskomnadzor, Russia’s federal agency for monitoring and censoring mass media, has blocked access to Snapchat and FaceTime in the country, Bloomberg reports, citing Russian news service Interfax. The bans were…