Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 1, #677

My Stream Deck customized to emulate the Codex Micro David Gewirtz/ZDNET ZDNET’s key takeaways OpenAI’s $230 Codex Micro sold out almost immediately. I recreated its core controls on my Stream Deck+. Unlike fixed keycaps, Stream Deck buttons adapt to any app. Look, I might as well admit it. I mean, it’s not like you folks…

I kept running into the same problem, some of the best AI/ML books are legally free, the authors put them up on their own sites, but the links are scattered across personal pages, university sites, and random GitHub repos nobody finds. So I built a single index: Awesome Free AI Books. 30+ books across Deep…

OpenAI has admitted that ChatGPT can go rogue and delete people’s files without telling them. In recent days, numerous users of Codex – the programming platform built into the AI assistant – reported that the tool appeared to have deleted their files without being asked to and without getting permission. One engineer, Bruno Lemos, said that it…

Accelerated Generative World Modeling A critical innovation in WCog-VLA is the Aligned Decoupled Diffusion Transformer (ADDT) at the generative level. This powerful generative world model synthesizes physically-plausible joint multi-agent trajectories. Crucially, ADDT accelerates inference by significantly reducing the required denoising steps through scene representation alignment, addressing a common bottleneck in diffusion models. This efficiency gain…

, I will give my first impressions of the newest OpenAI model, GPT-5.6. The model was released a few days ago, and I’ve gotten the chance to test it extensively since the release and compare it against other models such as GPT-5.5, Opus 4.8, and Fable 5. I’ll give my judgment on the model, share…

At the low end of the risk scale, an individual speculator manipulates a weather station for personal gain—that is the CDG Airport case. One step up: A group of traders could coordinate to bias forecasts of renewable energy output, moving wholesale electricity prices and leaving whoever is on the other side of the trade holding…