A nearly perfect score

After playing 498 days in a row, my score today in Bongo was the second-highest in the world: There’s a difference between casual online games that have a right answer, and those that are open-ended. In crossword puzzles and most of the games from the Times (like Wordle and Connections) you’re trying to guess what

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AI slop

It’s not slop because it was created by an AI. It’s slop because it’s slop. I just read the first two pages of a sci-fi novel on my Kindle. The author proudly proclaims that the 400-page book was created without any AI whatsoever. Alas, the book is slop. The writing is overwrought and the dialogue

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How to win a bidding war

Pundits are saying that Netflix “lost” the bidding for Warner. Actually, they won. They didn’t just win because they got a nearly $3 billion breakup fee. They won because in just about every contentious public auction, the winner is the one who is willing to overpay the most. The best way to win a bidding

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