Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, April 18
Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for April 18.
Windsurf: OpenAI’s potential $3B bet to drive the ‘vibe coding’ movement
A Windsurf deal would allow OpenAI to own more of the full-stack coding experience (and it would be its most expensive acquisition to date).Read More
Company apologizes after AI support agent invents policy that causes user uproar
On Monday, a developer using the popular AI-powered code editor Cursor noticed something strange: Switching between machines instantly logged them out, breaking a common workflow for programmers who use multiple…
Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash introduces ‘thinking budgets’ that cut AI costs by 600% when turned down
Google’s new Gemini 2.5 Flash AI model introduces adjustable “thinking budgets” that let businesses pay only for the reasoning power they need, balancing advanced capabilities with cost efficiency.Read More
Nike Workout Shoes With Compression and Heating Will Cost $900
The Nike Hyperboot shoes will be available next month and are intended to help you warm up before and recover after workouts.
Marvel Rivals’ New Costume Customization Is Fairly Priced, but There’s a Problem
A couple dollars isn’t much to pay for in-depth skin customization, but you can’t spend your existing Units on the new feature.
Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for April 18, #207
Hints and answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, No. 207, for April 18.
Congressmen sound alarm over data privacy following 23andMe bankruptcy
Three congressmen on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce sent a letter to the genetic testing company 23andMe on Thursday, asking the company questions about its data privacy policies.
BigQuery is 5x bigger than Snowflake and Databricks: What Google is doing to make it even better
Google ramps up the competition in the enterprise data space claiming its AI innovation help it to leapfrog rivals.Read More
New method lets DeepSeek and other models answer ‘sensitive’ questions
Enterprise risk company CTGT said their method cuts bias and censorship in models like DeepSeek.Read More