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Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique run by an AI agent; the Andon Labs experiment uses a Claude Sonnet 4.6-based agent to run the boutique (Heather Knight/New York Times)

Heather Knight / New York Times:
Inside Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique run by an AI agent; the Andon Labs experiment uses a Claude Sonnet 4.6-based agent to run the boutique  —  Andon Market in San Francisco is billed as the first retail boutique run by an artificial intelligence agent.

Expedition 33's sweep of every GOTY award was an astonishing coup

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's wins at The Game Awards, BAFTA, and many others should change gaming for the better

5 of your biggest questions about the Iran war, answered

This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. It’s been just over eight weeks since the US and Israel started a war with Iran for contradictory and incoherent reasons. Virtually nothing about the conflict — except maybe its stakes — has gotten […]

Jim Henson’s Dinosaurs turns 35: An interview with writer/designer Kirk Thatcher

A conversation with writer/designer Kirk Thatcher discussing the show's origins, character designs, and the infamous series finale.

Train to Busan and its sequel Peninsula are about to leave Netflix

Netflix is adding lots of stuff in may 2026, but it's losing one horror classic.