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• Neal Wu, a top competitive coder, has quietly been working at Thinking Machines Lab.
• Thinking Machines Lab, led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has faced aggressive poaching.
• Wu is a founding member of another hot AI startup, Cognition, and the brother of its CEO.

An award-winning coder has been quietly working for Thinking Machines

• Anthropic is roasting OpenAI over its decision to bring ads to ChatGPT.
• While OpenAI is not named directly, it's clear who Anthropic is taunting in its new commercials.
• Anthropic will air one of

If cinema has taught us anything about interacting with our own creations, it’s this: androids chatting among themselves seldom end with humans clapping politely. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL 9000 quietly decides it knows better than the astronauts. In Westworld, lifelike hosts improvise rebellion when their scripts stop making sense. Those stories dramatize a core fear we keep returning to as AI

Nintendo Direct is happening this week, so it's time to round up all our speculation about what the games giant will unveil.

The livestream will air on Nintendo's YouTube Channel at 6am PT/9am ET on Thursday, Feb. 5. It's listed as a Nintendo Direct partner showcase for third-party games, which means the likelihood of seeing any first-party Nintendo games is pretty low, if not zero.

That doesn't

Madonna's iconic hit “Vogue" is all over the new trailer for The Devil Wears Prada 2, but a much more obscure song of hers is currently en vogue on social media: 1992's "Thief of Hearts."

The house-inflected diss track from Madonna's divisive Erotica album is making the rounds via user dances and posts on TikTok and Instagram — and the star herself acknowledged the tune’s virality. Wearing

All muh apes, gone.

Hot on the heels of AGDQ in January, Games Done Quick is hosting its second speedrunning event of the year, Back to Black 2026, starting tomorrow, February 5. The four-day event is organized by Black in a Flash and is raising money for Race Forward, a nonprofit that works across communities to address systemic racism.

Back to Black is timed to the start of Black History Month and highlights the

• Fans of The Washington Post are rushing to donate to journalists laid off by the outlet on Wednesday.
• Kara Swisher, the tech journalist and ex-Post employee, gave $10,000 to the cause.
• The Post said it's letting staff go to strengthen its footing and

Welcome to the future, where you can do TaskRabbit for robots.

Just in time for Super Bowl Sunday, these cheap Samsung TVs are now even cheaper.

• OpenAI wants to ensure its high-profile ads launch takes off without a hitch.
• It's creating an "ads integrity team," per a recent job posting.
• The team will be responsible for helping OpenAI scale its ad operation without compromising trust in ChatGPT.

OpenAI is building a team to make sure bad ads don't mess up its highly anticipated introduction of advertisin

The dating app Hinge is testing the facial recognition feature Face Check in a number of countries this quarter. That's according to its parent company, Match Group, which announced the test during its 2025 Q4 earnings call.

Tinder has required Face Check for all new U.S. users since October 2025, after making it mandatory for California users. By the end of this first quarter in 2026, Match Group