Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Thursday, June 18

Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for June 18. [...]

I'm excited about ChatGPT's memory upgrade - but I'm quickly seeing a downside

OpenAI says ChatGPT's memory is getting better. But my tests reveal outdated assumptions, personal profiling, and incorrect details that could subtly distort your answers. [...]

Chelsea Finn wants robots to get better at learning

The Stanford professor’s work gives autonomous systems new frameworks for tackling complex tasks. [...]

Rajiv Dattani is bringing insurance to the AI agent boom

Dattani’s company, AIUC, is creating insurance standards for agent providers, giving enterprises a new way to assess risk and trust. [...]

Sequoia’s Roelof Botha joins the SpaceX board, days after the record IPO

SpaceX has named its first new board member since going public, and the word doing the heavy lifting in the announcement is “independent.” In a filing on June 17, the company said its board had el [...]

State Farm is ripping up contracts for its 19,000 agents — and forcing them to use AI

The insurer is cutting pay and benefits while requiring agents to adopt new AI tools, after losing its top auto insurer ranking to Progressive [...]

NASA picked Eric Schmidt’s Relativity Space to fly to Mars. It has never reached orbit.

NASA is partnering with Relativity Space, the rocket company run by former Google chief Eric Schmidt, to fly a science mission to Mars. Announced on June 17, the mission is called Aeolus, the first fl [...]

AI agents are getting their own search engine

AI agents may soon search for and use their own tools at runtime, thanks to a new open standard backed by Microsoft and Google. [...]

Nearly 80% of data center capacity is at elevated risk from flooding, wildfires, and extreme heat, a new study warns

A First Street analysis of 97 global markets found that chronic stress from heat and drought threatens more than half of all data centers worldwide [...]