Black Friday is here, and the deals are raining down across the web. This is a chance to secure some gifts for the holiday season, snag those gadgets you’ve been eyeing for yourself, and avoid paying full price for anything. Featured Black Friday Deal Updated: Nov 29 2025, 07:18... Read more

Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China have developed a new reinforcement learning (RL) framework that helps train large language models (LLMs) for complex agentic tasks beyond well-defined problems such as math and coding.  Their framework, Agent-R1, is compatible with popular RL algorithms and shows considerable... Read more

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) posted a speech that covers updates to regulations in the country. This comes as the UK Budget, which happens once a year, increased taxes on certain forms of gambling. One of these changes is that Remote Gaming Duty (tax) will increase from 21% to... Read more

Netflix, here in the final leg of the year, premiered a new series that immediately restructured my best-of list for 2025. It pretty much kicked all the titles aside, claiming its spot at the proverbial mountaintop.  I’m talking about The Beast in Me, the taut new psychological thriller that... Read more

It’s almost the end of the year, and with Black Friday upon us, it’s a great time to buy a laptop. I’ve sorted through the junk to find the best Black Friday laptop deals, and I’m happy to report that most of my favorite laptops I tested this year... Read more

Agent memory remains a problem that enterprises want to fix, as agents forget some instructions or conversations the longer they run.  Anthropic believes it has solved this issue for its Claude Agent SDK, developing a two-fold solution that allows an agent to work across different context windows. “The core... Read more

Polymarket is on the way back to the US, but this time regulated under the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). In 2022, despite being based in New York, it moved to block US customers after pressure came from regulators under the Joe Biden administration. Now, Polymarket has received an... Read more

Looking for the most recent 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, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today’s NYT Connections puzzle is tough. If you need help sorting them into groups, you’re in the... Read more

If I can offer one piece of unsolicited advice: Black Friday is a marathon, not a sprint. With the surplus of Black Friday beauty deals, it’s way too easy to spiral or blow your entire budget at Ulta the first day, but that’s exactly what we’re trying to avoid.... Read more

Hello, dear readers. Happy belated Thanksgiving and Black Friday! This year has felt like living inside a permanent DevDay. Every week, some lab drops a new model, a new agent framework, or a new “this changes everything” demo. It’s overwhelming. But it’s also the first year I’ve felt like... Read more