Semafor writes about a startup that’s training AI “agents” to be just as chaotic as human beings, then polling them to see who they’ll vote for:

In one survey, the company noticed that one of the AI agents said it was going to vote for Mickey Mouse in the upcoming presidential election. Fearing one of their bots had gone off the rails, the Aaru team investigated. It turned out the bot had an explanation. “The agent’s response was ‘I hate Kamala and I hate Trump. I’m writing in and voting for Mickey Mouse,’” Fink said.

A Reddit user posted an off-screen video of a certainly real-looking ad for Meta’s leaky Quest 3S VR headset, as reported by UploadVR.

The ad puts a $299.99 price tag on the 128GB model, which seems affordable compared to the Quest 3 that launched at $500.

Turns out the SEC doesn’t like it when you no-show on them. Now the regulator is seeking to penalize Musk for refusing to appear and testify in a probe into his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.

Salesforce just wrapped up Dreamforce, its flagship conference in San Francisco, with a roast of the audience by comedian John Mulaney.

“If AI is truly smarter than us and tells us that [humans] should die, then I think we should die,” he said. “So many of you feel imminently replaceable.”

“Can AI sit there in a fleece vest? Can AI not go to events and spend all day at a bar?”

This week, Nintendo sued Palworld developers Pocketpair. Here’s everything we know about why.

Or, is it quietly bringing Windows-native VR games to the leaked Meta Quest 3S? Or Windows-native games to Arm, period? Or is this just another experiment?

Either way, this datamining leak from Valve watcher Brad Lynch is an incredibly intriguing hint. (Lynch has been sniffing around Valve’s “Deckard” standalone VR headset project for years.)

This wedge-shaped 1984 Honda HP-X concept used innovative materials for the time, like carbon fiber, Kevlar, and honeycomb paneling. It had all the right ideas and adorably looked like it ran on D-sized batteries.

Unfortunately, this mid-engine didn’t receive the EV restomod treatment. But don’t worry; Honda might still build upon the wedge design for future EVs.

“The three virtual casinos launched widespread marketing campaigns” and were endorsed by Roblox influencers, the judge presiding over the lawsuit against the platform wrote in an order.

Roblox previously asked that the suit be dismissed. In an order filed Thursday, the judge dismissed the fraud charges but allowed the negligence claims against Roblox to proceed.

I’ve been going to this extremely wonky and jargon-y trial almost every day, and I joined Decoder to translate the highlights so far. The trial — which is only accessible in-person from an Alexandria, VA courtroom — is in its second week. Google is expected to start calling witnesses any day now, once the Justice Department wraps its chief case.

The PS5 Pro’s USB situation has baffled me. Sony showed CNET a console with one USB-A and one USB-C (in a USB-A cutout) on its rear, but a commenter mentioned a render on Sony’s site shows two USB-A.

Sony didn’t respond when I asked, but Sean’s photos confirm it’s two USB-A like prior models so I’ve updated our comparison.

No, an Autocomplete Interview isn’t going to answer all of our policy questions. But it does produce these 10 minutes of the presidential candidate answering the internet’s most searched queries in Wired’s now-standard format.

The Twitter that spawned it may no longer really exist, but the absurdist US Consumer Product Safety Commission account is still going strong on X. Of course it’s getting in on Moo Deng.

The 3i S10 Ultra is claimed to be the first robotic mop and vacuum that never needs to be refilled or connected to a water source. It instead cleans and recycles its wastewater, while also extracting all the clean water it needs from the air.

Full pricing is expected to be $1,899, but the robovac can be preordered through Kickstarter at a discount.

As if the Yakuza series couldn’t get any wackier, the latest spinoff has Goro Majima washing up on shore in Hawaii, losing his memory, and... becoming a pirate? Whatever is going on, I want to play it when the game launches in February. In the meantime, there’s the much more serious-looking live-action show coming to Amazon next month.

We’re increasingly seeing PC games move towards a recommendation of 32GB of RAM for high-end 4K gaming, and it looks some games might move towards 64GB eventually. Microsoft Flight Simulator lists 64GB of RAM as the “ideal” specs, alongside a 100Mbps internet connection. The RAM and bandwidth requirements are related to the way Microsoft’s latest game increasingly streams assets from the cloud instead of using up local storage space.