Blue Origin's New Glenn Rocket Ground Test Ends in Fiery Florida Explosion

CEO Jeff Bezos called it a "very rough day." [...]

Hands-On With Gemini Spark: I Gave It Access to My Life and It Friend-Zoned My Boyfriend

Google's new AI agent combed through my emails, documents, and calendar to plan a birthday party and still didn’t clock the person most important to me. [...]

Amazon Is Making an AI-Animated ‘Good Advice Cupcake’ TV Show. Its Original Creator Is Furious

Loryn Brantz created The Good Advice Cupcake for BuzzFeed years ago. The company licensed the character for a new Amazon series—made with AI—without her consent. [...]

Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time

Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics. [...]

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Saturday, May 30

Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for May 30. [...]

AI is killing the summer internship. The entry-level pipeline that built careers is breaking.

Katelyn Watterson owes her career to a summer internship. As a student at American University, she spent a summer working for a high-end beauty brand in New York. Her boss offered her a full-time job [...]

‘The switches are surprisingly heavy’ — I didn’t expect Keychron’s new analog keyboard to feel like it did, and that’s both good and bad news

The Keychron K3 HE packs a lot of features in a small and relatively inexpensive package — but does it deliver the goods? [...]

Grifters, cynics, and true believers: The family tree of vaccine opponents

A new book looks into the long history of people who have opposed vaccines. [...]

Making AI chatbots helpful weakens their ability to simulate human behavior, large-scale study finds

A large-scale study covering 208,000 participants and 26 million responses shows that the very training that turns language models into helpful chatbots weakens their ability to replicate human behavi [...]