Today’s Strands puzzle was kind of tough, with some really long clues to unscramble. If you need hints and answers, read on. Hint for today’s Strands puzzle Today’s Strands theme is: “As if!” If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: Ha ha! Clue words to unlock in-game hints Your... Read more

Anthropic said its Claude-based security models gained unauthorized access to the sensitive production environments of three outside organizations during internal testing designed to measure the models’ offensive cyber capabilities. The events, which Anthropic revealed Thursday, are the second revelation in 10 days that AI models from the world’s wealthiest... Read more

Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle is a fun one, covering a wide variety of sports. If you’re struggling with the puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups Yellow group hint: Fore! Green group hint:... Read more

The prevailing narrative in Silicon Valley is that Chinese AI models like Kimi K3 and DeepSeek R1 came out of nowhere. But the truth is that even if you never travel to China, there’s an easy way to get a sense of what Chinese AI researchers are up to:... Read more

A security team approving an open-source model for production today starts with a repository page. The page lists the model name, the license, and a tag identifying the base model it descended from. That tag is a string the uploader typed. Hugging Face does not require uploaders to substantiate... Read more

Russian state hackers are using a maximum-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook’s Exchange Server to backdoor unpatched machines and steal credentials and other confidential information from them, security researchers said Thursday. The attacks are coming from TA488, a tracking name for a group working on behalf of the Kremlin, Proofpoint... Read more

Novig is becoming the exclusive official prediction market partner of the New York Mets through a new multi-year agreement, creating what the companies say is the first partnership between a Major League Baseball franchise and a prediction market company. .@Novig has been named the Official Prediction Market Partner of... Read more

On the first evening of GenCon 2026, in a venerable theater that Wizards of the Coast took over for a weekend’s worth of Dungeons & Dragons activities, the team behind the biggest tabletop roleplaying game in the world revealed its next year of upcoming adventures.  There was plenty of... Read more

To quote an ancient Jedi Master “Begun, the AI price wars have!” OpenAI is sharply reducing the prices of two models in its GPT-5.6 frontier series, cutting GPT-5.6 Luna, the smallest and fastest model in the series, by 80% and GPT-5.6 Terra, the mid-tier model, by 20%, while adding... Read more

New York is taking its fight against prediction markets to court, with Gov. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James announcing Friday (July 31) that the state has sued Kalshi, alleging the federally regulated prediction market operator is running an illegal gambling business by offering contracts on sports, elections... Read more