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Today's NYT Strands hints are easy if you hate to rush.

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 shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There's



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The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult if you're a good cook.

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips


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Google CEO Sundar Pichai talks onstage on Tuesday at the company's I/O conference in Silicon Valley.
  • Google delayed its Gemini 3.5 Pro AI model, disappointing some developers.
  • The smaller Gemini 3.5 Flash model now powers Google's Antigravity AI coding service.
  • Feedback from 3.5 Flash will likely be used to enhance Gemini 3.5 Pro, via reinforcement learning.

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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis.
  • Google showcased impressive new launches at its flagship I/O developer conference.
  • Humanity now stands at the "foothills of the singularity," its AI chief Demis Hassabis said.
  • While Google is on a tear, it remains behind rivals on coding and is working hard to catch up.

Google's massive spending on AI is paying off, and that was


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Andrej Karpathy, one of the original co-founders of OpenAI and among the most recognised AI researchers in the world, announced on Monday that he has joined Anthropic. The move is a significant talent coup for the Claude maker as it races to stay at the frontier of large language model development. Karpathy is joining Anthropic’s pre-training team, […]



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Analog Devices has agreed to buy Empower Semiconductor for $1.5 billion in cash, placing a major bet that the insatiable energy demands of AI data centres will keep chipmakers scrambling for better power-delivery technology. The deal, announced on Monday, gives the Wilmington, Massachusetts-based chipmaker access to Empower’s integrated voltage regulators, which sit directly beneath AI


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SpaceX expects to complete its $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor roughly 30 days after it begins trading publicly, according to Bloomberg, a timeline that would place the deal in July if the company’s blockbuster IPO proceeds on schedule. The rocket, satellite, and artificial intelligence conglomerate is planning to file its public IPO prospectus as […]



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OpenAI has announced two new measures designed to help the public determine whether an image was created by its AI models. The company is formally joining the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) open standard while simultaneously partnering with Google to embed its invisible SynthID watermark across OpenAI’s image outputs. The moves represent a […]



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