Today’s NYT Strands hints are easy if you’re really passionate about something. Strands, the New York Times‘ elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky…
White House officials are almost certain to revise the Trump administration’s new artificial intelligence guidelines and expand its oversight of AI models, according to people familiar with the matter. The White House announced this month that it had developed an AI framework, where the most powerful models created by US labs would be tested for…
Fermi, the AI nuclear power firm, has named a new CEO more than three months after firing co-founder Toby Neugebauer from the top executive post. Fermi said Wednesday it has hired Lee McIntire, an independent member of the company’s board who has held chief executive positions at CH2M Hill and TerraPower, the nuclear power startup…
Lovable has raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, more than doubling its value in eight months as investors place another large bet on software built through natural-language prompts. The Stockholm-based company is nearing a $600 million annual revenue run rate and plans to expand its workforce by 50% to about 450 employees this…
Made By Google is here, which means smarter phones, fancier watches, and even more AI. Ahead of the event, Google announced that its AI assistant hit more than one billion monthly users. It’s not just brand loyalty either, with more than 100 million of those querists turning to the app from iOS devices. Gemini now…
Regions such as Galicia, Asturias, Castile and León, Madrid, Aragon, Catalonia, the Valencian Community, and the Balearic Islands experienced the path of totality, while the rest of the country saw a partial eclipse. The solar corona glows as the moon completely blocks the sun during the totality phase, as seen from San Asensio in the…
Anthropic recently made the decision to watermark Claude’s outputs — inserting invisible code into the chatbot’s editorial text that marks it as AI-generated. Anthropic rolled out this new policy to satisfy the EU AI Act’s Transparency Code, which now requires tech companies to label content that has been AI-generated or edited in a manner identifiable…
South Korea has unveiled a seven-part technology strategy spanning nuclear energy, quantum computing, space, biotechnology, renewable energy, and critical minerals as President Lee Jae Myung looks beyond semiconductors and AI for the country’s next growth engines. The Seven Major SEED initiative sets deadlines extending into 2035, including a Moon landing in 2030, a domestic 100-qubit…
Even though Google still has its Made by Google event scheduled for later in the evening, the company still went ahead and announced what it has in store for its Pixel 11 launch. The livestream itself will serve as a more hands-on, celebrity-sponsored event, mostly as a showcase of what Gemini AI can bring to…
By any metric, the horror film Obsession has been one of the most extraordinary Hollywood success stories of 2026. Made on a budget of around $750,000 and released in May, it went on to earn $488 million worldwide, catapulting 26-year-old director and screenwriter Curry Barker—originally known for his YouTube sketch comedy—to the top of the…
