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The New York Times has added an AI assistant to its NYT Cooking app, initially available to subscribers on iOS. The tool is designed to answer cooking questions, suggest ingredient swaps, and help troubleshoot recipes, drawing on the publication's existing recipe database and reader comments rather than generating fully new recipes.
The New York Times is testing an AI feature in its Cooking app, announced by senior editor Genevieve Ko, that suggests ingredient and equipment substitutions and scales recipes for different serving sizes. The feature, accessed via a chatbot text box on recipe pages, is currently available to all Cooking subscribers on iOS and will expand further soon. Customized recipes remain private and cannot be shared, and users cannot disable the feature though Ko says it is optional to use.
Apple restricts which iPhone apps can appear in CarPlay to a limited set of approved categories, which explains why apps like Gmail, Apple Fitness or Calculator don't show up even though they could technically run there. Apple has been gradually loosening these restrictions over time, expanding the range of app types allowed. Users can also check Settings > General > CarPlay to add and reorder any compatible apps they may have missed enabling.
CNET's daily Wordle guide revealed that the answer to puzzle No. 1,950, published Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026, is PENNY. The word features a repeated letter, one vowel plus a sometimes-vowel, starts with P and ends with Y.
CNET released its daily answer guide for the New York Times Mini Crossword puzzle dated Oct. 20, 2026, covering all across and down clues. The guide highlights a quirk in the puzzle where two different clues, for 4-Across and 6-Across, are worded identically but have different answers, SCORE and LACES.
CNET published the solution to the Oct. 20, 2026 NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, grouping words into four categories: words meaning to reject a shot (blocks, denies, stuffs, swats), Mountain West schools (Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, Wyoming), 49ers career passing leaders (Brodie, Garcia, Montana, Young), and terms associated with Russell Westbrook (0, Oklahoma City, triple-doubles, UCLA). The piece also offers hint phrases for each color category to help players before revealing the full answers.
The New York Times Mini Crossword puzzle for October 8 features the answer 'Ella' for 5-Down, referencing singer Ella Langley. The puzzle includes clues such as 'Old-fashioned business?' answered by 'BAR' and 'Monthly expense' answered by 'RENT'.
The New York Times Strands puzzle for October 8, 2026, features the theme 'A star is born' and includes the answer 'LUMINARY' as its spangram. Players are guided to find words related to fame and recognition, such as 'FAME' and 'CELEBRITY,' to uncover theme words and complete the puzzle.
The October 8, 2026, edition of the NYT Connections puzzle features four groups of four words each, with themes including following rules, surpassing others, triplets, and actor surnames ending in Tom. The answers include heeds, best, cheers, and Holland, among others. The puzzle challenges players to identify these thematic groupings within a 16-word grid.
CNET released its daily hint and answer breakdown for the Sept. 20 edition of NYT Connections: Sports Edition, puzzle number 727. The four categories covered Maryland teams, former NHL cities, NFL rookie wide receivers, and sports terms drawn from the NATO phonetic alphabet.
CNET's daily coverage of the New York Times Connections puzzle offers hints and answers for game #1196, which the writer describes as trickier than usual. The four categories are organized by difficulty, from an easy yellow group to a challenging purple group that plays on math terminology.
Newly unsealed portions of a legal brief in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft show internal admissions from both companies' executives. Microsoft's director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht, reportedly called AI training data scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history,' while OpenAI's Head of ChatGPT, Nick Turley, described the chatbot as an 'existential threat' to publishers. The filing also cites data showing Copilot slashed click-through traffic to the Times by up to 93% compared to Bing search.