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• Surge AI CEO says companies are focused on flashy AI responses over solving real problems.
• He criticized industry leaderboards such as LMArena, where anyone can vote on responses.
• Other experts have criticizde AI benchmarks for prioritizing performance over economic usefulness and truth.

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Tonight marks day 18 of the lunar cycle, meaning the Moon is in its waning gibbous phase. More than half of its surface is still illuminated, but it’s slowly shrinking each night as it moves toward the New Moon. Keep reading to find out what this means.

What is today’s moon phase?

As of Monday, Dec. 8, the moon phase is Waning Gibbous. This means 83% of the moon is lit up tonight, according to NASA

• Trump has thoughts about Netflix's $72 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.
• He said their combined market share "could be a problem" and said he would be involved in the deal.
• In 2017, Trump opposed AT&T's proposed acquisition of Time Warner.

President Donald Trump is getting involved in the Netflix-Warner Bros. deal.

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• OpenAI staff recently shared six tips on how to get better results from ChatGPT.
• I tested each one to see whether it actually improves the experience.
• The tips made my use of ChatGPT feel more intentional and smarter.

OpenAI staff recently shared several tips for getting more

Today's Connections: Sports Edition will be easy if you live in the Mile High City.

As we've shared in previous hints stories, this is a version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans.

Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new

Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue.

Released in August 2025, the Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit.

Currently, if you're stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move onto the next difficulty level and start over. However, we have you

• When Toccara Best's request for a year off was denied, she quit her job anyway to travel with her husband.
• Their "gap year" stretched into five as they kept traveling through blog work and housesitting gigs.
• Their son's birth brought them back to the US. Traveling the

• An 18-year-old founder told BI what it's like building an AI startup while still in high school.
• Although it was scary starting young, Ace Yip said she didn't want to wait.
• Yip added that she doesn't buy Silicon Valley's dropout myth, and she is still headed to college.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ace Yip He

• Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says scaling laws are vital to the tech's progress.
• Scaling requires feeding AI models ever more data and more compute.
• Some other AI leaders, however, believe the industry needs to find another way.

There's a debate rippling through Silicon Valley: How far can scaling laws take the technology?

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• A content creator set up a GoFundMe for an 88-year-old veteran working at a Detroit supermarket.
• Strangers have donated almost $2 million in less than a week.
• Economic uncertainty and financial pressures are