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The Illusion of Thinking

Michael Tsai

Bluetti’s small, camp-friendly generator is over 30 percent off

The Verge - All Posts

Fantastic Four: First Steps still manages to have a Stan Lee cameo

Polygon - All

Microsoft previews Copilot Appearance, a virtual character with real-time expressions, voice, and conversational memory, for some users in the US, UK, Canada (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Techmeme

How to make your iPhone homescreen icons clear using iOS 26

The Verge - All Posts

Elden Ring Nightreign is adding two-player co-op

The Verge - All Posts

Taste testing battery-flavored tortilla chips

The Verge - All Posts

Ubisoft says Outlaws failed because Star Wars is less popular now, but it’s not that simple

Polygon - All

Apple expands its App Store age rating system; developers must disclose app content, such as violent themes, letting Apple calculate and assign age ratings (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Breaking down Trump’s big gift to the AI industry

The Verge - All Posts

Asus’ slim ROG G14 gaming laptop with an RTX 5070 Ti is $350 off

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Microsoft’s AI CEO thinks Copilot will age and ‘have a room that it lives in’

The Verge - All Posts

The UK’s new age-gating rules are easy to bypass

The Verge - All Posts

Elden Ring Nightreign’s duos mode is coming next week

Polygon - All

Sources: GPT-5 shows improved performance in coding, particularly in practical software engineering tasks, outperforming prior OpenAI models and Claude Sonnet 4 (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

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Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is a hit, but also being slammed on Steam

Polygon - All

Lyft partners with Austria-based Benteler to deploy autonomous shuttles in the US in late 2026, to be initially deployed in partnership with airports and cities (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

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Trump’s media war just got a $10 billion twist

Vox - All

Anysphere launches Bugbot, an AI-powered tool that integrates with GitHub to detect coding errors introduced by humans or AI agents, for $40 per month per user (Lauren Goode/Wired)

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Sources: the number of Optimus humanoid robots Tesla has made this year is in the hundreds, well behind the pace needed to meet Musk's goal of producing 5K+ (The Information)

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