BetMGM has announced a leaderboard-style contest for players, which is tied to the Players Era Men’s and Women’s Championship. The ‘Players Era in Vegas Leaderboard’ has been launched and will run through November 9, with the contest rewarding 25 winners with a trip to Las Vegas for the championships,... Read more

I gingerly step through broken glass, flanked by two world-weary teammates, entering a long-abandoned supermarket to hunker down as rotors whir overhead. We’d already wasted enough precious ammunition fighting a pack of flying ARC drones — the latest from an annihilation wave of killer robots responsible for wiping out... Read more

Winter bedding is different from summer bedding—thicker, loftier, softer, cozier—and now’s the perfect time to upgrade thanks to Brooklinen’s Flash Sale. We test a lot of bedding at WIRED for our numerous sleep-related buying guides, and Brooklinen is mentioned in nearly all of them. Its bedding is high-quality, aesthetically... Read more

The developers of Terminal-Bench, a benchmark suite for evaluating the performance of autonomous AI agents on real-world terminal-based tasks, have released version 2.0 alongside Harbor, a new framework for testing, improving and optimizing AI agents in containerized environments. The dual release aims to address long-standing pain points in testing... Read more

Robinhood, the trading and prediction market platform, has announced its Q3 financial results for 2025. Headlining the quarterly report is that revenue is up “100% year-over-year to a record $1.27 billion”. Helping this along is that Robinhood now has “11 business lines,” making around $100 million or more in... Read more

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 Strands puzzles. Today’s Connections: Sports Edition is a tricky one. The theme of the purple category is also a word hidden... Read more

Amid a government shutdown that has dragged on for more than five weeks, the United States Congressional Budget Office said on Thursday that it recently suffered a hack and moved to contain the breach. CBO provides nonpartisan financial and economic data to lawmakers, and The Washington Post reported that... Read more

The next time you encounter an unusually polite reply on social media, you might want to check twice. It could be an AI model trying (and failing) to blend in with the crowd. On Wednesday, researchers from the University of Zurich, University of Amsterdam, Duke University, and NYU released... Read more

Google has announced it’ll add support for prediction markets data into its Finance section, as it begins to explore data from these platforms. The announcement came in on Thursday (October 6) with a new suite of AI features added to Google Finance, with the upgrades aiming to help people... Read more

It’s cold and flu season, which means germs are easily spread in public spaces, including schools. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2022, almost 6% of students aged 5 to 17 were constantly absent from school due to illness, injury or disability. Some may... Read more