Jay Peters

Today’s Thinky Direct 2026 featured more than 40 trailers and announcements about upcoming games featuring puzzles and problem solving. Not a bad way to kick off the upcoming run of big gaming events.

225 movies will initially join the service, including big hits like The Hunger Games and John Wick, with around 100 more being added this year and early next, Deadline reports.

Links from sites that utilize the standard.site schema — which, at a high level, lets users people blog posts on the AT Protocol — will include things like the publication’s name, an estimated reading time, and a call to action in Bluesky posts. Bluesky itself is built on the AT Protocol, so this is a cool integration of initiatives.

The US Justice Department wants names, addresses, and banking information of at least two anonymous users, and is subpoenaing Reddit and X as part of criminal investigations, according to Bloomberg. The users have hired lawyers to push back.

The $65 billion Series H round gives Anthropic an eye-watering $900 billion valuation. That gives the company a higher valuation than OpenAI’s last valuation of $730 billion, according to The New York Times.

After an initial rollout earlier this year, Spotify officially announced on Thursday that the feature is available for “all users globally.” Spotify also says that, for Premium users, downloads for offline listening will also keep going even when the app is closed.

If you’ve set up preferred sources — like, say, The Verge — they’ll be labeled in AI Overviews and AI Mode, according to Google. The company says that “people are twice as likely to click through to a Preferred Source.”