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OpenAI is reportedly making a portable, screenless smart speaker intended to act as a household AI companion. It sounds like a cross between an Apple HomePod, a Furby, and spyware.

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Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that OpenAI is developing a hardware device powered by its generative AI chatbot ChatGPT. Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reports that the device will perform various functions already covered by other smart speakers, including controlling smart appliances, playing media, responding to messages, and answering questions. 

However, rather than attempting to offer pure utility, OpenAI's smart speaker will apparently try to endear itself to users with a "personality" as well. Specifically, the device will have moving mechanical parts which it can use to express itself, Bloomberg reporting that it will be designed to feel "humanlike" and "a physical manifestation of OpenAI's ChatGPT."

The device will reportedly actively gather data about users as well, using such means as accessing their emails ostensibly to offer more personalised service. Equipped with cameras and sensors and able to access users' personal information, OpenAI's speaker will reportedly learn their owners' habits and offer assistance without prompting.

We've known that OpenAI has had an eye on moving into physical devices for a while now, with the company announcing last May that it had acquired iPhone designer Jony Ive' startup io. Details leaked to The Wall Street Journal at the time suggested that OpenAI's hardware debut would be a screenless device that could essentially surveil a user and their environment.

"The product will be capable of being fully aware of a user's surroundings and life, will be unobtrusive, able to rest in one's pocket or on one's desk," according to an OpenAI staff meeting recording reported by the Journal. 

Bloomberg's sources now appear to back up this report that OpenAI's devices are being designed with constant surveillance in mind. According to the Journal's report, OpenAI has grand plans to ship 100 million of these devices, and dreams of it becoming "a third core device a person would put on a desk after a MacBook Pro and an iPhone."

Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Mashable’s parent company, in April 2025 filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.

Today's Connections: Sports Edition will be easier if you watch Chicago sports.

As we've shared in previous hints stories, this is a version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans.

Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight, and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier — so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for the latest Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

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The NYT's latest daily word game has launched in association with The Athletic, the New York Times property that provides the publication's sports coverage. The sports Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common.

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Each puzzle features 16 words, and each grouping of words is split into four categories. These sets could comprise anything from book titles, software, country names, etc. Even though multiple words will seem like they fit together, there's only one correct answer.

If a player gets all four words in a set correct, those words are removed from the board. Guess wrong and it counts as a mistake — players get up to four mistakes before the game ends.

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Players can also rearrange and shuffle the board to make spotting connections easier. Additionally, each group is color-coded with yellow being the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media.

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Want a hint about the categories without being told the categories? Then give these a try:

• Yellow: Olympian

• Green: Arenas and Stadiums

• Blue: Types of passes

• Purple: Is an animal

Here are today's Connections: Sports Edition categories

Need a little extra help? Today's connections fall into the following categories:

• Yellow: A Summer Olympic Athlete

• Green: Chicago Sporting Venues

• Blue: Can be Preceded by "Pass"

• Purple: Starts with an Animal

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Ready for the answers? This is your last chance to turn back and solve today's puzzle before we reveal the solutions.

Drumroll, please!

The solution to today's Connections: Sports Edition #660 is...

What is the answer to Connections: Sports Edition today?

• A Summer Olympic Athlete: FENCER, GYMNAST, ROWER, RUNNER

• Chicago Sporting Venues: SOLDIER, UNITED, WINTRUST, WRIGLEY

• Can be Preceded by "Pass": BREAKUP, INTERFERENCE, PROTECTION, RUSHER

• Starts with an Animal: BULLPEN, CROWD, LAMBEAU, LIONEL MESSI

Don't feel down if you didn't manage to guess it this time. There will be new sports Connections for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we'll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.

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Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue.

Released in August 2025, Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit.

Currently, if you're stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move on to the next difficulty level and start over. However, we have you covered! Below are piecemeal answers that will serve as hints so that you can find your way through each difficulty level.

How to play Pips

If you've ever played dominoes, you'll have a passing familiarity with how Pips is played. As we've shared in our previous hints stories for Pips, the tiles, like dominoes, are placed vertically or horizontally and connect with each other. The main difference between a traditional game of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded conditions you have to address. The touching tiles don't necessarily have to match.

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The conditions you have to meet are specific to the color-coded spaces. For example, if it provides a single number, every side of a tile in that space must add up to the number provided. It is possible — and common — for only half a tile to be within a color-coded space.

Here are common examples you'll run into across the difficulty levels:

• Number: All the pips in this space must add up to the number.

• Equal: Every domino half in this space must be the same number of pips.

• Not Equal: Every domino half in this space must have a completely different number of pips.

• Less than: Every domino half in this space must add up to less than the number.

• Greater than: Every domino half in this space must add up to more than the number.

If an area does not have any color coding, it means there are no conditions on the portions of dominoes within those spaces.

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Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. The answer is 3-4, placed horizontally.

Number (4): Everything in this space must add up to 4. The answer is 3-4, placed horizontally; 0-2, placed vertically.

Number (4): Everything in this space must add up to 4. The answer is 4-1, placed horizontally.

Number (8): Everything in this space must add up to 8. The answer is 3-0, placed vertically; 5-3, placed horizontally.

Number (5): Everything in this space must add up to 5. The answer is 0-2, placed vertically; 5-3, placed horizontally.

Less Than (1): Everything in this space must be less than 1. The answer is 3-0, placed vertically.

Medium difficulty hints, answers for July 15 Pips

Greater Than (9): Everything in this space must be greater than 9. The answer is 5-5, placed horizontally.

Greater Than (9): Everything in this space must be greater than 9. The answer is 3-3, placed vertically; 2-5, placed vertically.

Equal (2): Everything in this space must be equal to 2. The answer is 2-3, placed vertically; 2-2, placed vertically.

Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. The answer is 3-3, placed vertically.

Greater Than (3): Everything in this space must be greater than 3. The answer is 6-3, placed horizontally.

Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. The answer is 6-3, placed horizontally.

Number (9): Everything in this space must add up to 9. The answer is 2-3, placed vertically; 5-1, placed horizontally.

Hard difficulty hints, answers for July 15 Pips

Number (5): Everything in this space must add up to 5. The answer is 3-5, placed vertically; 2-0, placed vertically.

Number (9): Everything in this space must add up to 9. The answer is 3-5, placed vertically; 4-5, placed vertically.

Number (0): Everything in this space must add up to 0. The answer is 2-0, placed vertically; 0-1, placed vertically.

Number (0): Everything in this space must add up to 0. The answer is 0-0, placed horizontally.

Number (10): Everything in this space must add up to 10. The answer is 4-5, placed vertically; 5-1, placed horizontally.

Number (2): Everything in this space must add up to 2. The answer is 0-1, placed vertically; 5-1, placed horizontally.

Number (7): Everything in this space must add up to 7. The answer is 2-5, placed horizontally.

Number (4): Everything in this space must add up to 4. The answer is 4-0, placed vertically.

Equal (2): Everything in this space must be equal to 2. The answer is 2-2, placed horizontally.

Less Than (4): Everything in this space must be less than 4. The answer is 4-0, placed vertically.

Number (4): Everything in this space must add up to 4. The answer is 4-4, placed vertically.

Number (10): Everything in this space must add up to 10. The answer is 5-5, placed horizontally.

Number (10): Everything in this space must add up to 10. The answer is 4-4, placed vertically; 6-3, placed vertically.

Number (4): Everything in this space must add up to 4. The answer is 1-3, placed vertically.

Less Than (4): Everything in this space must be less than 4. The answer is 6-3, placed vertically.

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The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult if you're a sports fan.

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle.

If you just want to be told today's puzzle, you can jump to the end of this article for today's Connections solution. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

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The NYT's latest daily word game has become a social media hit. The Times credits associate puzzle editor Wyna Liu with helping to create the new word game and bringing it to the publications' Games section. Connections can be played on both web browsers and mobile devices and require players to group four words that share something in common.

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Each puzzle features 16 words and each grouping of words is split into four categories. These sets could comprise of anything from book titles, software, country names, etc. Even though multiple words will seem like they fit together, there's only one correct answer.

If a player gets all four words in a set correct, those words are removed from the board. Guess wrong and it counts as a mistake—players get up to four mistakes until the game ends.

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Players can also rearrange and shuffle the board to make spotting connections easier. Additionally, each group is color-coded with yellow being the easiest, followed by green, blue, and purple. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media.

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Want a hint about the categories without being told the categories? Then give these a try:

• Yellow: It's the law

• Green: Tied up

• Blue: Games

• Purple: Spacious

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Here are today's Connections categories

Need a little extra help? Today's connections fall into the following categories:

• Yellow: Terms for the legal system

• Green: Things with laces

• Blue: Kinds of sports

• Purple: Words before "Room" to indicate extra space

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Ready for the answers? This is your last chance to turn back and solve today's puzzle before we reveal the solutions.

Drumroll, please!

The solution to today's Connections #1130 is...

What is the answer to Connections today

• Terms for the legal system: BAR, BENCH, COURT, TRIBUNAL

• Things with laces: BASEBALL GLOVE, CORSET, FOOTBALL, SHOW

• Kinds of sports: EXTREME, MOTOR, RACKET, WATER

• Words before "Room" to indicate extra space: BREATHING, ELBOW, HEAD, WIGGLE

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Today's NYT Strands hints are easy if you see the glass half full.

Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There's always a theme linking every solution, along with the "spangram," a special, word or phrase that sums up that day's theme, and spans the entire grid horizontally or vertically.

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By providing an opaque hint and not providing the word list, Strands creates a brain-teasing game that takes a little longer to play than its other games, like Wordle and Connections.

If you're feeling stuck or just don't have 10 or more minutes to figure out today's puzzle, we've got all the NYT Strands hints for today's puzzle you need to progress at your preferred pace.

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The words are related to attitude.

Today’s NYT Strands theme plainly explained

These words describe positive perspectives.

NYT Strands spangram hint: Is it vertical or horizontal?

Today's NYT Strands spangram is vertical.

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NYT Strands spangram answer today

Today's spangram is Pie in the Sky

NYT Strands word list for July 15

• Romantic

• Impractical

• Pie in the Sky

• Quixotic

• Idealistic

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Today's Wordle answer should be easy to solve if you're a jokester.

If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you.

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Originally created by engineer Josh Wardle as a gift for his partner, Wordle rapidly spread to become an international phenomenon, with thousands of people around the globe playing every day. Alternate Wordle versions created by fans also sprang up, including battle royale Squabble, music identification game Heardle, and variations like Dordle and Quordle that make you guess multiple words at once. 

Wordle eventually became so popular that it was purchased by the New York Times, and TikTok creators even livestream themselves playing.

What's the best Wordle starting word?

The best Wordle starting word is the one that speaks to you. But if you prefer to be strategic in your approach, we have a few ideas to help you pick a word that might help you find the solution faster. One tip is to select a word that includes at least two different vowels, plus some common consonants like S, T, R, or N.

What happened to the Wordle archive?

The entire archive of past Wordle puzzles was originally available for anyone to enjoy whenever they felt like it, but it was later taken down, with the website's creator stating it was done at the request of the New York Times. However, the New York Times then rolled out its own Wordle Archive, available only to NYT Games subscribers.

Is Wordle getting harder?

It might feel like Wordle is getting harder, but it actually isn't any more difficult than when it first began. You can turn on Wordle's Hard Mode if you're after more of a challenge, though.

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"How silly!"

Does today's Wordle answer have a double letter?

There are no recurring letters.

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Today's Wordle is a 5-letter word that starts with...

Today's Wordle starts with the letter P.

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Get your last guesses in now, because it's your final chance to solve today's Wordle before we reveal the solution.

Drumroll please!

The solution to today's Wordle is...

PSHAW

Don't feel down if you didn't manage to guess it this time. There will be a new Wordle for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we'll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints. Are you also playing NYT Strands? See hints and answers for today's Strands.

Reporting by Chance Townsend, Caitlin Welsh, Sam Haysom, Amanda Yeo, Shannon Connellan, Cecily Mauran, Mike Pearl, and Adam Rosenberg contributed to this article.

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If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.

There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give you several clues or none, depending on the words. For the final hurdle, every correct answer from previous hurdles is shown, with correct and misplaced letters clearly shown.

An important note is that the number of times a letter is highlighted from previous guesses does necessarily indicate the number of times that letter appears in the final hurdle.

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If you find yourself stuck at any step of today's Hurdle, don't worry! We have you covered.

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A Christian symbol.

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CROSS

Hurdle Word 2 hint

An animal.

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BRUTE

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Hurdle Word 3 hint

Court proceeding.

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TRIAL

Hurdle Word 4 hint

A demon.

Hurdle Word 4 answer

FIEND

Final Hurdle hint

Homosapien.

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HUMAN

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Lucky puts its cards on the table too early.

The new Apple TV limited series, starring and executive produced by Anya Taylor-Joy, kicks off with its titular protagonist (Taylor-Joy) on the run from an FBI agent. Sporting a bleached bob and a Caesars Palace jacket, she scrambles through a maze of parked trucks, desperately crawling under wheels and slamming around corners until her fate finally catches up with her. It's a fairly thrilling action sequence, but soon, all too predictably, Lucky flashes back to the fateful hours leading up to this high-octane chase.

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The move is an all-too common one in film and TV, meant to give viewers a tantalizing taste of what's to come. Often, though, it feels like titles that use this tactic aren't confident that viewers will buy into their story without the promise of action. With Lucky, that unfortunately proves to be the case. A crime drama bursting with clichés, Lucky works best when its characters are getting out of serious scrapes, and less so when they're actually talking.

What's Lucky about? Anya Taylor-Joy in "Lucky." Credit: Apple TV

As we learn in the first of Lucky's many flashbacks, the woman on the run in the show's opening is Lucky Armstrong, con woman extraordinaire. Together with her husband, Cary (Drew Starkey), she's just pulled off a $10 million heist that should have her set for life. The pair spend a sweet night celebrating in Las Vegas, but by the morning, Lucky wakes to find herself alone, penniless, and at the top of the FBI's most-wanted list.

So begins one of Lucky's most tense sequences. As the FBI descends on Caesars Palace, she must use all her wiles to escape from a seemingly impossible trap. It's an electrifying cat-and-mouse game, following an increasingly desperate Lucky through crowded casino floors and winding hotel rooms.

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The Caesars Hotel sequence is just the first of many thrilling set pieces throughout Lucky's run, including shoot-outs, car chases, and one desert-set escape that sees Taylor-Joy channeling the same fierce drive to survive she weaponized so well in 2024's Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. In all these scenes, Lucky is operating at her most desperate, which means we get to see her full bag of tricks, learned from her imprisoned father, John (Timothy Olyphant), at work. As she manipulates mark after mark, Taylor-Joy brings an effortless cool to Lucky. Sometimes, though, that cool can be overpowering, and we lose the fear and anger that's driving Lucky in her quest to set things right. (It doesn't help that, even after going through hell, Lucky's bob remains chic as ever, making it hard to buy into the character's gritty struggles.)

Outside of these sequences though, Lucky loses its steam. Its overreliance on flashbacks leads to some extremely on-the-nose moments, like when Lucky pulls a con at a birthday party, all while remembering a conveniently similar job she and her father pulled years ago. Elsewhere, story beats feel oddly familiar. At one point, Lucky pretends to be drunk while meeting a man at a bar, leading to a scene eerily reminiscent of one in Promising Young Woman.

Annette Bening is an ice-cold scene stealer in Lucky. Annette Bening in "Lucky." Credit: Apple TV

Lucky weaves a larger web of crime and shady syndicates that pales in comparison to the more immediate drama of Lucky's smaller cons. However, there's one huge saving grace to that more overarching crime tale, and that's Annette Bening as fearsome mobster Priscilla Masterson.

Always rocking the coolest glasses and coats the show has to offer, Bening's Priscilla takes over every scene she's in with an icy power. At times, she's calculatedly nonchalant, with even her most casual comments oozing with threats. At others, she's a laugh riot thanks to her dry disdain for everyone around her. She makes a great foil for Taylor-Joy's often-harried Lucky, as she's almost always in control. When she's not, it's because she's under the thumb of the menacing Wayne Whittaker (William Fichtner). You can imagine that as Lucky grows older, she could find herself in a similar troubling situation: still living a life of crime, still expected to take the fall.

Lucky hopes to examine how Lucky could get off that path, the one her father set her on when she was a child. Its conclusions and twists along the way are fairly predictable, but it offers up some slick summer fun in the meantime. When you're done, though, Lucky's impact is like that of a good con man: gone before you even know it.

The first two episodes of Lucky premiere July 15 on Apple TV, with a new episode every Wednesday.

A power auction conducted by a giant grid operator is expected to add $6.3 billion in additional charges to consumers and businesses because of electricity needs of data centers.

It's an open secret in the tech world that Samsung will likely debut the Galaxy Z Flip 8, Z Fold 8, and new Z Fold Wide at its Galaxy Unpacked event in London on July 22.

And on Tuesday, the company confirmed in a press release that its next-gen Galaxy foldable devices will debut soon with a new Flex Titanium display structure. In its announcement, Samsung said the new Flex Titanium technology will provide foldable phones with "enhanced durability and reduced crease visibility."

"The new Flex Titanium technology will debut with Samsung’s next-generation Galaxy foldable devices. Further details will be unveiled at Galaxy Unpacked on July 22," the press release stated. The announcement all but confirms the long-rumored focus of the Galaxy Unpacked event, which lines up with Samsung's previous foldable phone launch timeline.

As the name suggests, Flex Titanium uses titanium components to support bending displays.

Specifically, the new hardware tech employs a titanium-alloy film underneath the OLED panel, as well as a titanium plate underneath the film. Samsung said the titanium film sits "below the OLED panel" and offers "20 times greater mechanical stiffness than plastic films while measuring less than 30% the thickness of a human hair, enabling a slimmer display panel." In Samsun said theaddition, the titanium plate supports "the display module from beneath, eliminating air gaps between the module and adhesive for more stable support when unfolded, while retaining the flexibility needed for repeated folding."

The idea is to make phones that can withstand thousands of folds over multiple years, while providing a quality viewing experience for users who don't want to see a big, ugly crease in the middle of the screen. For what it's worth, in the last couple of years, flagship Samsung foldables have mostly fixed the crease problem already, but we're still excited to see how Samsung can alleviate it further.

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It hopefully won't be long before we get a real first look at those devices, as the London Unpacked event is just one week away.

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A group of former Meta employees is suing the company for allegedly using AI systems that unfairly targeted them for layoffs.

The lawsuit alleges that Meta used improperly tested AI-powered assessment tools — including productivity scores, AI token usage tracking, and an internal LLM known as Metamate — that ranked employees for termination ahead of mass layoffs. The metrics used for the ranking unfairly scored employees that missed work or had reduced output expectations because of known medical conditions, maternal leave, and other disability-related terms, the lawsuit alleges.

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"This is patently untrue. Full stop," wrote Meta spokesperson Andy Stone in a X post responding to the lawsuit's claims. "Workforce management and organizational decisions were and are made by people, not AI."

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The employees say these decisions violate federal and state anti-discrimination laws. They also argue the AI systems weren't properly screened for bias, violating California and New York City laws, specifically.

The 26 plaintiffs were terminated in a round of company-wide layoffs affecting 8,000 employees in May. At the time, Meta cited its ongoing AI investments in its announcement of the reduction in staff.

Remaining employees noted a newly launched employee tracking tool, known as the Model Capability Initiative (MCI), intended to train AI models using employee activity. They alleged the tool was collecting more data than initially advertised, prompting concern it was violating European data laws.

The former employees are seeking a preliminary decision from a California federal court that could stall their termination, currently set for July 22, while they privately arbitrate.

We may need to pour one out for OnePlus in the very near future.

German news outlet WinFuture (via PCMag) reports that OnePlus, which has carved out a niche by offering more affordable phones with flagship specs over the years, will soon cease operations in the U.S. and Europe.

The announcement is reportedly expected from Chinese parent company Oppo as soon as this week.

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No reason for the cessation of OnePlus has been mentioned. However, messaging around OnePlus, in reporting and in official company statements, has been moving in this direction for months now.

AndroidHeadlines first reported the surprising news back in January, before OnePlus told PCMag back in April it was "evaluating its regional roadmap and product strategy" in North America.

Now it seems that evaluation has concluded.

For Android enthusiasts in the west, this is a real bummer. While the likes of Google and Samsung still produce quality handsets, OnePlus would regularly swoop in and offer phones of a similar quality for under $1,000, with last year's OnePlus 15 being a good example.

Perhaps the brand just never found footing in such a competitive market, and surely RAMageddon didn't help OnePlus's quest to offer semi-affordable devices, but taking away one of the best Android alternatives in the west isn't going to help anybody.

If this is the end, it's been good, OnePlus. Perhaps Oppo can find another way to sell its wares in the U.S. and Europe soon.

Tesla is developing a wheelchair-accessible autonomous vehicle, at least according to a Tesla lobbyist. 

India Herdman, a Tesla senior policy adviser, made the claim on Monday while addressing the D.C. City Council on a proposal to legalize robotaxis in the nation’s capital. Herdman said the wheelchair-carrying vehicle is being developed in Texas, where Tesla is headquartered, but no timetable for production was announced, according to a report in Wired.

SEE ALSO: Robot, take the wheel: What you need to know about autonomous vehicles rolling out across the U.S.

Currently, no autonomous vehicle companies, including industry leader Waymo, offer wheelchair-accessible vehicles. During the same D.C. City Council meeting, Matt Walsh, Waymo's regional head of state and local policy, said the Google-owned company is also working on developing such a vehicle, but has been bedeviled by the challenge of identifying "a platform that is fully wheelchair-accessible while also meeting the unique specifications to retrofit that vehicle with our technology."

Waymo’s newest autonomous car, the Ojai, has accessibility features like grab bars and a flat floor that’s lower to the ground than its typical Jaguar I-Pace cars. Still, the Ojai cannot accommodate a wheelchair. 

Riders in wheelchairs can access vehicles via traditional, human-driven rideshare companies like Lyft and Uber, though the latter company is currently facing a lawsuit from the Justice Department, which accuses it of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by not doing enough to accommodate disabled riders. 

It would be a major coup for Tesla if it were the first company to bring a wheelchair-accessible autonomous vehicle to market, as the Elon Musk-owned company is not yet a leader in the AV space. While Waymo is available in numerous U.S. cities, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Atlanta, Miami, and Houston, Tesla’s cybercabs are mostly confined to Houston, Dallas, and Austin.

Tesla is indicating it takes accessibility seriously, announcing on its website that the company is "building an autonomous future that is accessible to all people. Our Robotaxi vehicles are designed to support various accessibility needs including space for service animals and room to store some wheelchairs and other assistive devices. The Tesla app is currently available in 29 languages, with more being added."

The free Lego deals for mid-July Lego Tom Nook and Flying Present Free at Lego with $40 purchase Shop Now Lego Restaurants of the World: Japan Free for Lego Insiders with $180 purchase Shop Now

The Lego Insiders sale may have ended over the weekend, but that doesn't mean there aren't free Legos to be found. There are two free Lego deals live through July 23: You'll get a free Tom Nook and Flying Present set when you spend $40, and Lego Insiders can get the Restaurants of the World: Japan collectible for free by spending $180. Both exclusive gifts can only be unlocked through this offer and can't be purchased separately.

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This year marks 25 years of Animal Crossing, which feels like the perfect time to finally announce a new game for the first time since 2020. Let's manifest a surprise announcement from Nintendo with this cute little free set: You'll get Tom Nook (holding a Bell coin, of course), a little slab of grass with a fossil and pink flowers, and an iconic balloon present with a mystery DIY recipe inside.

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Expansion of the collectible Restaurants of the World series continues with a traditional Japanese food stand, complete with a huge piece of nigiri sushi on the roof. So many other little details bring this set to life, including chopsticks, cherry blossoms, and a chef minifigure holding a fish.

Restaurants of the World: Japan is free for Lego Insiders who spend more than $180. We've seen so many good Lego drops this summer that it shouldn't be hard to reach that — you can also buy multiple sets to hit $180. Preorders for Lego Pokémon SmartPlay sets count.

Rappers are known to exaggerate for street cred. Mostly to create an aura of either authenticity or mythos to get fans to buy in. It's the nature of the game. But there's exaggerating, and then there's just lying.

A viral clip of one particularly outrageous lie is making the rounds again, three years later. It's from Memphis rapper Big Boogie's Feb. 17, 2023, appearance on the Bootleg Kev podcast, where Boogie claimed he'd been offered a scholarship to be drum major at a "big college in Jacksonville." (Drum majors conduct the marching band and keep it in tempo. Not to be confused with the drum line.)

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Per Boogie, he turned the offer down to focus on rap. The offer was worth $5 million, he says — though he started at $15 million before quickly talking himself down. After a visibly stunned Bootleg Kev presses him, the number softens again to "somewhere...in the millions."

What makes the clip so funny is the sheer audacity of the lie. Boogie clearly has no idea how college scholarships work, and clearly doesn't care. The whole exchange occurs within the first 3 minutes of a 40-minute podcast. Kev spends part of it confused about Boogie getting paid to "play the drums," even though Boogie had just clarified he was a drum major, not a drummer. Oh, and the school wanted him for a decade, too. A decade of undergrad drum majoring.

None of this needs fact-checking. But I have the time.

The largest school in Jacksonville is Florida State College at Jacksonville, which does not have a marching band. The dollar figure doesn't hold up either: the highest-paid NIL (name, image, and likeness) athletes in college sports top out at around $5-6 million total for elite performance over a full season. Meanwhile, the powerhouse band program at The Ohio State University operated on an endowment of roughly $15 million as of 2019; no band would blow a third of its budget on a single drum major. And even setting the money aside, no freshman walks in and becomes drum major on day one. At Ohio State, you can't even be an assistant drum major until your second year.

And yet here we are, three years later, watching Big Boogie's greatest lie go viral all over again.

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Clip farms and reaction accounts have been reposting Boogie's lie for months now, with one account doing it once a day for an entire year. Other accounts have taken it even further, using the clip verbatim as a script for sketches of varying scenarios. One has a cameraman asking a realtor about the biggest deal he ever lost. Another has two Mormon missionaries on a doorstep, one explaining to the other why he skipped college. There's even an account called Big Band in Jacksonville (one of several, actually), posting in-character as the school's social media intern, insisting the offer was real.

Why a three-year-old clip is suddenly popping off again, who knows? But it's relatable in the way that we've all had a friend in middle school lie about some really stupid stuff.

To his credit, Boogie did go back on Bootleg Kev in 2024 to clear things up. According to him, the offer to "play the drums" was real — just not for a million dollars. He also copped to making up the numbers because he wanted the clip to go viral.

So yeah. In the end, Big Boogie is still lying.

X is rolling out a small but notable change to how it surfaces content from people users follow back, according to a post from the platform's head of product, Nikita Bier.

In a message published Monday, Bier said the company identified a gap in how the algorithm weighted relationships between users. "We're rolling out a small tweak to boost visibility of your posts to your mutuals (people who you follow back)," Bier wrote.

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He explained that the platform had discovered this "mutuals" data was missing from the algorithm, which had the effect of making friends "appear less" in a user's replies. As Bier put it, that gap "resulted in the reply section feeling more like a battleground with people you don't recognize." He added that the change should also help "clusters form around interests more easily, which many people have asked for."

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The update is the latest in a string of product changes X has made to its recommendation systems and features this year. In April, the platform rolled out a Grok-powered custom timelines feature, allowing Premium subscribers to pin feeds built around specific topics, a change Bier had also announced personally, describing it at the time as a feature that could help users "dive deep into your favorite niche on X," as previously reported by Mashable.

That rollout drew a mixed but largely curious reaction from users, some of whom raised concerns about repetitive content or overlapping topic categories.

The mutuals update also arrives against the backdrop of ongoing scrutiny of X's broader platform safety record.

GLAAD's most recent Social Media Safety Index, published in May, ranked X as the lowest-scoring major platform for LGBTQ+ user safety among the six services it evaluated, giving the company just 29 out of 100 points, according to Mashable's coverage of the report. GLAAD's report found the platform landscape overall to be "rife with anti-LGBTQ hate, harassment, and disinformation," though X's score remained the lowest of any platform assessed.

Whether surfacing more content from mutual connections will meaningfully shift the tenor of the platform's replies remains to be seen, but the change signals X's continued effort to fine-tune how relationships factor into what users see on the app.

Google's next batch of smartphones may have been leaked pretty thoroughly ahead of time, thanks to Amazon.

Android Authority reported that a bunch of Amazon listings for every upcoming Pixel 11 device went up this week before promptly being taken down. However, folks were able to capture screenshots before the information was removed, and the details revealed the full list of colors, a relatively detailed list of specs, and the pricing for each device.

According to the leaked images, the new Pixel smartphones will arrive with a starting price increase as Google eliminates low-end options, a common move these days. We'll find out the official details on Aug. 12, when the phones are revealed at the Made By Google 2026 keynote.

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We'll start with the basic Pixel 11. It reportedly will start at $899, a $100 starting price increase from last year's Pixel 10. It's worth noting that the specs Amazon shared may be placeholder info, as retailers don't always get everything ahead of time. Still, if the specs are accurate, Google is killing the 128GB variant, offering 256GB as the starter option.

Technically, the Pixel 11 with 256GB of storage may cost the same as the equivalent model from 2025. However, by cutting the 128GB version, users will have to pay $100 more for the cheapest model. FWIW, we generally recommend getting phones with at least 256GB of storage anyway.

Here are the specs Amazon shared for the Pixel 11:

• Colors: Obsidian, Frost, Hibiscus, Pistachio

• 6.3-inch OLED display with 2856x1280 resolution and 120Hz refresh rate

• 4,985mAh battery

• 13MP selfie camera

Obviously, there's some missing information there, given that these are leaked specs that were quickly removed from Amazon's storefront. For instance, these store pages seemingly didn't include rear camera specs or processor information.

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As for the Pixel 11 Pro and Pro XL, the situation is similar. Only two colors, Canyon and Obsidian, were seen in the screenshotted store pages. Interestingly, it seems like Google will ship a lower-end Pixel 11 Pro with just 12GB of RAM, after putting 16GB in every Pro phone in previous years. Variants of the Pro with more storage will apparently still come with 16GB. You can probably blame RAMageddon for that.

Like the Pixel 11, it seems the starting price for the Pixel 11 Pro will be $1,099, up $100 from last year's Pixel 10 Pro. Meanwhile, the Pro XL will start at $1,299.

Other specs for the Pro and Pro XL include:

• Pro: 6.3-inch display

• Pro: 4,850mAh battery

• Pro and Pro XL: 13MP front camera

• Pro XL: 6.8-inch display

• Pro XL: 5,115mAh battery

Lastly, the Pixel 11 Pro Fold was also included in all of this, and it's facing a much larger potential price increase. Its starting price is reportedly up to $1,899, a $400 increase after the Pixel 10 Pro Fold launched at $1,499 a year ago. (The 256GB version cost $1,799 last year.) Obsidian and Olive are the colors seen in the screenshotted store pages, and it will have at least 256GB and 512GB storage variants. Other listed specs include:

• 6.5-inch outer display

• 4,750mAh battery

• 13MP front camera

As stated previously, these are partial spec lists and could include information that has not yet been finalized. We won't know the full picture until the Aug. 12 Made by Google event. The big story here is that each phone is apparently getting a starting price increase of at least $100, which isn't surprising, but also not particularly good news, either. That's the world we live in now.

Spotify has spent years trying to predict what you want to hear next. Its latest idea is to let you explain it yourself.

The company announced on July 14 that it's rolling out a conversational AI feature that lets users type or speak to Spotify from inside the mobile app. Eligible Premium subscribers can ask for something to play, listen for a moment, and then keep adjusting the selection through follow-up requests instead of starting over every time the mood changes.

You could begin by asking Spotify to play artists you have never heard before, then tell it to add some Taylor Swift. From there, you could narrow the selection to her newer music, ask for something more upbeat, or take the playlist in another direction entirely. The assistant can also handle some of the smaller tasks that usually require tapping around the app, including saving songs, adding tracks to the queue, and following artists.

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The beta is gradually rolling out in English to Premium users ages 18 and older in the United States, Ireland, and Sweden through Spotify’s iOS and Android apps. It will appear across the Home and Now Playing screens, where users can either press the microphone button or type their requests.

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Spotify is also letting users ask the chatbot questions about whatever they are currently hearing. From the Now Playing screen, listeners can ask when an album came out, what genre a song belongs to, or what inspired a particular project.

The same system works with podcasts and audiobooks. A listener could ask what other books an author has written or which other podcasts have featured a particular guest, making it possible to satisfy a passing curiosity without leaving Spotify and opening a separate app. Consider it one less tab to lose track of.

How reliably the assistant will answer those questions remains to be seen.

Spotify is calling the release a beta and has acknowledged that its responses will not always be correct. Don't forget: Even for the best AI models, accuracy and hallucinations are a stubborn problem. The new Spotify AI assistant is programmed using a combination of Spotify’s own AI technology and models from several providers, depending on which system is best suited to a particular request.

According to one user, the feature becomes more...intimate when users stop asking about Spotify’s catalog and start asking about themselves.

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Because Spotify already tracks users’ playlists, favorite artists, repeat listens, and streaming histories, the assistant can answer questions about how their taste has changed over time, including when they first played a song, which genres they prefer, or how often they have streamed a particular artist.

Spotify has long used that data for products like Discover Weekly, daylist, and Wrapped. The new assistant makes some of it available on demand, rather than waiting for the platform to package those habits into an end-of-year playlist or graphic that inevitably ends up on Instagram.

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Spotify has already been weaving AI into the listening experience. Its AI DJ picks songs and talks between tracks, while its prompt-based playlist tool lets users create a mix simply by describing the mood they want. Listeners can also connect Spotify to ChatGPT and ask for personalized music and podcast recommendations there.

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Spotify laid out a much broader version of that AI strategy at its investor event on May 26, when executives described what they called the “era of Generation.” Co-CEO Gustav Söderström said the company wanted the listening experience to be shaped in real-time around each user’s taste, context, and intentions, rather than limited to choosing from a fixed catalog.

One of the products announced at the event was Personal Podcasts, an upcoming feature that will generate private audio programs from a user’s prompts. Someone could ask Spotify for a daily update about their city that also includes concerts from artists they follow, while another listener might request a five-minute explanation of economics.

The company also announced Studio by Spotify Labs, a desktop app that can generate personalized audio using a person’s Spotify activity and, with permission, information from their calendar, inbox, notes, and other documents.

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This evolving approach gets even more complicated when we shift from AI organizing music to AI actually creating music itself.

In May, Spotify and Universal Music Group also announced licensing agreements for a generative AI tool that will let fans make covers and remixes using songs from participating artists and songwriters. Participating artists and songwriters will receive a share of the money generated by those creations, with co-CEO Alex Norström describing the project as being built around “consent, credit, and compensation,” rather than proliferating unregulated AI slop.

Spotify has separately announced that it is working with Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group, Merlin, and Believe on other products it describes as artist-first AI tools.

The music industry is already past the point of treating AI-generated music as a distant possibility. Text-to-music tools can now produce full songs from a prompt, AI tracks are making their way onto streaming services and music charts, and increasingly convincing voice clones have made it easier to imitate recognizable artists.

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Many in the music industry aren't happy about it. Back in June 2024, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, and Warner Records sued the companies behind Suno and Udio, alleging that the text-to-music services copied copyrighted recordings without permission to train their models. Since then, some of those disputes have turned into business deals: Universal settled its case against Udio in October 2025 and agreed to work on a licensed AI music platform, while Warner settled with Suno the following month and announced a partnership based on artists choosing whether their names, voices, likenesses, and compositions can be used.

Some AI music tools exist in a legal gray area for now, as litigation is ongoing. In May 2026, Universal and Sony asked to add over 61,000 recordings to their continuing case against Suno, saying material obtained through discovery showed that millions of their copyrighted tracks had been used in its training data.

Taken together, Spotify’s recent moves suggest the company wants AI to do more than recommend the next song. Instead, it wants the technology to help users understand music, shape it, and eventually create it. Whether artists and listeners will embrace that future is an open question.

France and Spain are one win away from the 2026 FIFA World Cup final, and in order to predict who will win the semi-final match, astrologers are looking at the sky.

With such high stakes, fans are using anything they can to guess which team will win, including astrology. But these predictions have been all over the place. Some forecasts named France as the team with the strongest planetary support, while others say Spain.

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The match takes place just hours after a New Moon, the time of the month when the moon is least visible to us. This month, the New Moon falls in Cancer, and because it's close to Lamine Yamal’s natal sun (the position the sun was in when he was born), astrologers may see Tuesday as a moment when he is especially likely to stand out. But Mercury is also retrograde, which could make the game less predictable.

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Of course, astrology can't tell us who will score or which team will advance. But it can offer another way to look at the personalities and instincts each player brings onto the field. Here is what the charts of six key players suggest about how they may approach France versus Spain, according to the internet's astrologers.

The players’ birth chart information and planetary placements were sourced from Astro-Charts and Astrotheme. Astrology is interpretive and cannot reliably predict the outcome of a match.

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Kylian Mbappé has scored 8 goals at this World Cup, bringing his career total to 20. His Sagittarius sun fits his confidence and hunger to keep pushing forward, while his Capricorn moon adds the discipline behind it. His Libra rising and Mars in Libra also make him more patient than his speed might suggest. He knows when to wait and when to make his move.

Tuesday’s Cancer moon creates a more difficult connection with his Saturn, which astrologers link to pressure, frustration, and having to work harder for chances. At the same time, Mars gives him some support, especially when it comes to speed and quick reactions. Spain may make things difficult for him, but Mbappé may still need only one opening to change the match.

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Ousmane Dembélé has scored 5 goals in 6 matches at this World Cup, a huge jump from the 7 goals he scored in his first 59 appearances for France. His Taurus sun fits the patience and persistence behind that improvement, while his Leo moon brings confidence and creativity. His Capricorn rising and Mars in Virgo add more control, helping him choose his moments instead of forcing every play.

Dembélé is also going through his Saturn return, a period astrologers connect with growing up, taking on more responsibility, and being tested under pressure. For him, the semifinal may be about proving that this new level of consistency is real and that he can keep delivering when the stakes are highest.

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William Saliba’s Aries sun and rising fit his confident, competitive personality. Mars in Sagittarius makes him quick to commit once he decides to challenge for the ball, while his Pisces moon and Mercury may help him sense what an attacker is about to do.

Tuesday’s astrology could help Saliba stay confident and react quickly when the game changes. However, Neptune close to his sun could also make some decisions less clear. Spain will try to catch him out with quick passes and unexpected runs, so he will need to avoid moving toward the ball too early and leaving space behind him.

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Lamine Yamal Nasraoui Ebana turned 19 one day before the semifinal. With his sun, moon, and Mercury all in Cancer, astrologers would describe him as highly instinctive and aware of what is happening around him. His Mars in Taurus adds patience, which fits a player who stays calm on the ball and does not let defenders rush him.

The New Moon also formed close to his sun just after his birthday, which astrologers may see as the beginning of an important new phase. Mercury retrograde adds some unpredictability, so the match may not go exactly as planned. That could suit Yamal, who is often at his best when he has to react quickly and try something unexpected.

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Rodrigo Hernández Cascante, better known as Rodri, is Spain’s captain and the player who keeps its midfield organized. His Cancer sun fits the protective side of his game, while his Virgo moon points to precision and attention to detail. Mercury and Mars in Gemini also suggest he can think quickly and change his decision when an opponent closes him down.

Rodri has some of the most supportive astrology in the match chart. The Lot of Fortune, a point astrologers link with things falling into place more easily, makes an exact positive connection with his sun. Mars is also close to his Mercury, which could help him communicate clearly and make quick choices under pressure. In a tight match, that could help Rodri keep Spain calm and in control.

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Pedro González López, commonly known as Pedri, has a Sagittarius sun and Mercury, which astrologers connect with seeing the whole field and looking beyond the easiest pass. His Leo moon adds confidence and creativity, while Mars in Libra points to strong timing and an awareness of how his teammates are moving around him.

Tuesday’s chart gives Pedri both support and unpredictability. Jupiter makes a positive connection with his sun, which could boost his confidence and help him spot opportunities. Uranus also challenges his sun, though, meaning the game could change quickly. That may suit Pedri, especially if Spain needs him to adjust and find a different way forward.