Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections puzzle No. 1145 for July 30.

Mercedes-Benz gave its smallest SUV a glow-up. The new electric GLA offers more space for passengers, ultra-fast charging, and a range of over 400 miles.
Major record labels want global music charts to disqualify AI slop tracks unless they’re legally made, substantially human-created, and free of streaming fraud concerns.

The 2027 Cadillac Lyriq is now available to order. It’s only $200 more than last year’s model, but one key upgrade may make it worth the extra cost.

In an interview with our friend Joanna Stern on her YouTube channel, OpenAI president Greg Brockman said the company is working on a “family of devices” for interacting with its AI models. However, Brockman didn’t confirm reports that one of those devices is a smart speaker OpenAI’s rumored to be launching in 2027, or earlier […]

When the Trump administration announced yesterday that it was banning “advanced robotic devices” from entering the United States, the headlines were all about humanoids. But spying doesn’t require legs – and neither does the FCC’s robot ban. The robot ban will sweep up robot vacuum cleaners too, FCC media relations director Katie Gorscak confirms to […]

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Ferrari has already sold every Luce it plans to build in 2026. The automaker’s first electric car hit its full-year sales target — just under 500 units — in less than two months, the Financial Times reported.
That’s despite a brutal wave of design crit…
AMD has launched the entry-level RX 9050 as rising component costs make affordable gaming PCs increasingly difficult to build.

SK On and Factorial Energy announced a new alliance that will focus on bringing solid-state batteries to the masses.