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A look at "tokenmaxxing", a status game where employees at a number of companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they're using (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

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Halide co-founder is suing former partner for bringing source code to Apple

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Social media accounts showing AI-generated women as pro-Trump soldiers, truckers, and cops have gone viral, with thousands appearing to believe they are real (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

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These 20 one-season anime are perfect for unwinding during the weekend

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Planescape: Torment is the best D&D RPG of all time, and it's still waiting for a sequel

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After Project Hail Mary, watch Ryan Gosling's even better outer space epic

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Sources: advertisers that bought ChatGPT's first ad campaigns say the process was low tech and that they haven't received much data showing if their ads worked (Catherine Perloff/The Information)

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A Pokémon FireRed failure that could only happen in 2026

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CEO of Halide-maker Lux Optics, Ben Sandofsky, sues his co-founder Sebastiaan de With, now on Apple's design team, alleging improper use of funds and stolen IP (Aaron Tilley/The Information)

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This lost gem from a forgotten animation pioneer is streaming free online

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Vercel, which helps developers host web apps and AI agents, says its run-rate GAAP revenue hit $340M at the end of February, up 86% YoY, amid the AI coding boom (Richard Nieva/Forbes)

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Final Fantasy Type-0 should have been the future of Final Fantasy

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Here are 20 of our favorite outdoor deals from REI’s Member Days Sale

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Marathon completely changed my mind about extraction shooters

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Crimson Desert's lousy controls made me commit these 13 accidental atrocities

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The gen AI Kool-Aid tastes like eugenics

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Critical Role's Schemer table is redefining a fundamental aspect of Dungeons & Dragons

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Oeuf is a punishing platformer in a cozy shell

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Inside Palantir's recent developer conference, where it doubled down on a vision of AI built for battlefield advantage as its commercial business soars (Steven Levy/Wired)

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Sources: OpenAI aims to grow to about 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, from ~4,500 today, as it seeks to stop Anthropic's momentum with business customers (Financial Times)

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