Amazon Echo Feature Targets One of Parenting’s Daily Challenges: Bedtime
Amazon’s new Sleep Studio feature for Echo smart speakers can read bedtime stories, play soothing sounds and guide kids through meditations.
Debating the Future of Filmmaking: Can AI Break (or Truly Remake) Hollywood?
Commentary: I went to the world’s biggest AI and media conference to find out whether the technology can save the entertainment industry. The answer is complicated.
Separated From My MacBook Pro, I Turned to a MacBook Neo. Here’s How It Did
The Neo gave me very few reasons to complain during my week with it.
Deezer’s Free Tool Scans Your Streaming Playlists for AI-Generated Music
In our test, AI was hard to find in a sizable Spotify playlist library.
AI is cutting hours of office work, but also creating a new kind of busywork
A new survey of individuals using AI found it made them more productive, saving each roughly 11 hours per week. But at the same time, the workers on average have…
Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, June 12
Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for June 12.
Amazon Updates Echo Hub With More Screen Customization for Smart Homes
Echo’s central wall display is getting new ways to add controls and new graphics.
Xiaomi’s new open source, agentic AI coding harness MiMo Code beats Claude Code at ultra-long, 200+ step tasks
Xiaomi’s MiMo AI team has open-sourced MiMo Code V0.1.0, a terminal-native AI coding assistant that the Chinese electronics giant says outperforms Anthropic’s Claude Code on key agentic coding benchmarks, especially…
Mother Sues OpenAI, Saying ‘Deliberate Design Decisions’ Led to Daughter’s Death
Kristie Carrier says her daughter, Alice, began using ChatGPT in 2023 for practical questions before opening up to the chatbot about suicidal ideation in 2024.
Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for June 12, #627
Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for June 12, No. 627.