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The Hamptons’ most talked-about dinner party of the summer will have to wait a little bit longer.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s closely watched dinner honoring OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been postponed, according to The New York Times. The private gathering was originally scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 29, at Paltrow’s home in Amagansett, New York.

No reason for the postponement was given, so it is unclear whether the online backlash surrounding the event had anything to do with the change. Sources told the Times that the dinner is still expected to happen within the next few weeks, although a new date has not been set.

Still, the delay adds another twist to a dinner that became an internet spectacle before anyone had even taken a seat.

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As Mashable reported Aug. 21, Journalist Matthew Belloni first shared the invitation in his Puck newsletter, revealing that Paltrow planned to host a private, off-the-record conversation” with Altman, followed by dinner.

SEE ALSO: Welcome to the Hamptons, where every day is another sponsored brand activation

"I guess summers in the Hamptons just aren’t complete these days without sucking up to our new A.I. overlords," Belloni wrote. "Luckily, Gwyneth Paltrow has you covered."

From there, the backlash arrived quickly. The combination of a wellness mogul, one of the world’s most prominent AI executives, and an off-the-record Hamptons soirée struck some people as "tone-deaf." Other users criticized Paltrow for honoring the head of a company they say threatens the livelihoods of writers, actors, and other creative workers.

Paltrow, however, did not ignore the pile-on. Instead, she responded with an (apparently) AI-generated parody. In a cheeky Instagram carousel, she shared a series of fake invitations to dinners honoring M3GAN, Shrek, Jessica Rabbit, Sex and the City character Samantha Jones, and viral meme character Chanty Beluga. "We’re serving swordfish burritos, Cheddar foam lattes on request," Paltrow wrote in the caption.

As strange as the original invitation may have seemed, the pairing did not come entirely out of nowhere. Paltrow already has ties to both OpenAI and the broader tech world. She reportedly backed OpenAI through Kindred Ventures in 2023 and is friends with Charles Porch, the company’s vice president of global creative partnerships, who helped arrange the dinner.

Paltrow has also recently shown that she knows how to turn a corporate controversy into internet content. After the viral Coldplay kiss-cam scandal involving Astronomer’s former CEO and chief people officer, the company temporarily hired Paltrow as a spokesperson for a tongue-in-cheek ad.

So, no, the internet did not permanently scare AI away from the Hamptons. It just has to wait a few more weeks to find out whether Paltrow was serious about those cheddar foam lattes.

Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Mashable’s parent company, in April 2025 filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.



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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

Some AI industry leaders, such as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, are obsessed with artificial general intelligence, or AGI. While the term has no universally agreed-upon definition, it generally refers to AI that can match or even surpass human cognitive abilities across a large range of tasks.

In a recent interview, Altman shared that OpenAI believes it will achieve AGI by the end of the year.

However, according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, AI has, in some respects, already achieved AGI — and it's really no big deal.

Nvidia has become the darling of the tech industry in recent years. The company is an invaluable part of the AI industry because it produces many of the high-performance chips that power the technology.

During an earnings call on Aug. 26, Huang was asked about AGI in light of OpenAI's recent claims.

"For many tasks, we could say that we’ve already achieved AGI," Huang said. "I think of all of those milestones…they’re kind of senseless at this point."

Huang said the focus should be on whether AI is "doing productive and useful work." From a company perspective, Huang added that the concern should be about "generating profitable tokens."

It's unclear exactly what Huang meant when saying Nvidia has already achieved AGI. He pointed to AI’s evolution beyond simply responding to prompts, arguing that agents can now reflect on their performance, learn new skills, and improve their future output.

This is not the first time the Nvidia CEO has claimed the company has achieved AGI.

In a March 2026 interview, podcaster Lex Fridman asked whether an AI that could start, build, and run a billion-dollar company would be achievable within the next 20 years.

"I think it’s now. I think we’ve achieved AGI," Huang replied. 

SEE ALSO: NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says AGI is here — sort of

However, Huang then qualified that claim, saying AI might be able to create a billion-dollar viral app but could not build a company like Nvidia. "The odds of 100,000 of those agents building Nvidia," he added, "is zero percent."



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Partygoers dance under red lights while holding 818 Tequila bottles and a large branded folding fan.

On a Friday afternoon in July, Kendall Jenner’s tequila brand 818 transformed The Surf Lodge’s waterfront beach club into a tequila lover’s paradise.

Guests sipped on one-too-many frozen 818 margaritas (made in Ninja SLUSHi machines) and cans of creator Alix Earle-backed cocktail brand SIPMARGS, cooled off with Shark’s new ChillPill handheld fans, and snacked on Popeyes chicken tenders — part of the fast-food chain’s summer-long partnership with The Surf Lodge. Creators including Halley Kate McGookin, Lilly Sisto, and Carly Weinstein mingled with media, customers, and friends of the brand as DJ duo Two Friends performed against the Montauk sunset.

A group of guests line up at the 818 tequila bar at their event with The Surf Lodge
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Blue-and-white lounge chairs decorated with 818 Tequila pillows and yellow towels sit beneath bright yellow umbrellas at a sandy beach club.
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The party marked National Tequila Day, but it was only one piece of 818’s "Best Summer Ever" campaign. Throughout the season, the brand served tequila and frozen slushies at bars out East and wrapped a jitney in 818 branding. The Hampton Jitney is the coach service that shuttles passengers between New York City and eastern Long Island. The brand also brought influencers and members of its online community to Montauk for a getaway that included two nights of accommodations — designed to look every bit as enviable online as it felt in person.

An 818 baseball hat, Saratoga water, and other canned beverages served at The Surf Lodge
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818 Slushy Bar at The Surf Lodge crowded with guests
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Elaborate as that may sound, 818 was hardly an outlier. Spend a summer weekend in the Hamptons, and there’s a decent chance you’ll encounter a brand activation before you find a parking spot.

SET Active took over Amagansett’s iconic Clam Bar for one night, promising lobster rolls, games, custom keychains, and early access to its Coastline collection. (More than 200 people marked themselves as attending.) Cowboy Colostrum brought several newly famous Love Island USA contestants to both Sag Harbor and Montauk for one of their first brand trips after leaving the villa. Armani Beauty gathered celebrities and creators at The Surf Lodge to introduce its new Dolci Blush. WashWise invited female founders, executives, and creators to a morning of yoga, cold plunges, saunas, and mini therapy sessions in Montauk.

The list of activations goes on.

Of course, branded events in the affluent zipcode(s) are nothing new. This summer, however, the Hamptons calendar felt more saturated than ever. So how — and why — did this small stretch of Long Island become such a powerful stage for creator marketing?

"Consumers, creators, tastemakers, and media in one place"

The creator marketing industry is expanding quickly. U.S. spending on creator advertising is expected to reach $44 billion in 2026, up from $29.5 billion in 2024. Nearly half of the advertisers surveyed by IAB described creators as a "must buy," placing them behind only social media and paid search.

Sarah Janetti had a front-row seat to that packed calendar. The creator behind @sjeaats and author of the Substack Dish and Tell estimated that she attended at least 15 Hamptons brand events this summer, sometimes squeezing three into a single weekend.

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Views from the Reunited Beauty yacht event Credit: Sarah Janetti

Janetti rattled off events from Kith and Vivrelle, Fleur du Mal, Creed, ORA Method, and Evolv, but the invitations varied almost as much as the brands. Some leaned into the Hamptons’ built-in glamour: Clean cosmetics label Reunited Beauty celebrated its launch aboard a yacht in Sag Harbor.

Others were more family-friendly. Frozen-treat brand JonnyPops staged a pop-up at Amber Waves Farm, handing out complimentary pops and take-home boxes to visitors. "So many invitations centered on fitness," Janetti told Mashable, with brands using workout classes as a natural setting for creators to try activewear, wellness products, drinks, and beauty items.

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Merchandise from Gurney's Montauk Credit: Sarah Janetti

Taken together, her schedule resembled a circuit: A creator could spend the morning at a branded workout, the afternoon at a pop-up, and the evening aboard a sponsored yacht, producing several distinct pieces of summer content before the weekend was over.

There’s clear intention behind this strategy. "The Hamptons is uniquely powerful because it brings together consumers, creators, tastemakers, and media in one place," Jenny Brown, executive creative director at 818, told Mashable. "It’s one of the few destinations where people aren’t just experiencing culture—they’re actively documenting it."

Other factors explain why it has become such a hot spot. The most obvious is the audience already there: wealthy residents and vacationers, celebrities, creators, media figures, etc. I mean, the median Hamptons home sold for $2.5 million in the second quarter of 2026, up nearly 32 percent from a year earlier. Brands also get an instantly recognizable backdrop, from beaches and farm stands to sprawling houses and waterfront restaurants. Venues like The Surf Lodge and Gurney’s bring their own cultural cachet and experienced event teams, while the East End sits close enough to New York City for brands to shuttle guests out for an afternoon, a weekend, or the entire summer.

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Evolv and OneSkin dinner at Shou Sugi Ban House Credit: Sarah Janetti

"You’re meeting people when they’re relaxed and making memories, rather than trying to capture their attention in the middle of a busy weekday," Brown added.

Brown also pointed to a renewed interest in East Coast summer traditions after years of "Euro Summer" dominating social media. "This summer, we’ve seen a real shift toward celebrating iconic American summer destinations," she said.

Has the Hamptons reached activation overload?

The obvious drawback is that seemingly every brand has arrived at the same conclusion. In 2025, an executive at event-production company LDJ Productions told Vogue Business that approximately 90 percent of the luxury events the company worked on that summer were held in the Hamptons.

Executing those events is expensive. Companies must account for venue fees, transportation, shipping, production, seasonal staffing, and accommodations in an area with limited housing and punishing weekend traffic. Rain can derail an outdoor activation, while an invitation may be competing with several other events scheduled on the same afternoon that can blur together.

The crowding has already pushed some fashion companies to look elsewhere. A July Business of Fashion report found brands opening stores and hosting events in Nantucket, Newport, and other affluent coastal destinations where there may be less competition. One handbag founder told the publication that cutting through the Hamptons’ noise had become nearly impossible.

But moving the activation circuit somewhere else can bring the new tensions to a new place. Back in July, a Nantucket craft store sparked controversy by displaying a sign that read "No influencers," reviving a broader debate over the rise of creator culture and how disruptive it can be to independent businesses and communities.

SEE ALSO: Nantucket's 'No influencers' sign reignites debate over social media tourism

Still, all that backlash is unlikely to bring the influencer era to an end. With creator ad spending on track to reach $44 billion in 2026, these events offer companies more than a single sponsored post. One weekend can generate days of content, introduce products to several audiences, and build an entire aspirational world around a brand.

At their best, these events do more than give creators something to post; they give everyone there something to remember. And it seems the Hamptons is hard to beat — at least this summer.



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This illustration photo created in Los Angeles, December 4, 2023, shows Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto VI trailer played on a screen in front of the game title

Grand Theft Auto VI will present players with no shortage of unfamiliar challenges, from elaborate robberies to its revamped police system. But for a generation increasingly reaching adulthood without much dating experience, the game’s most novel mechanic may be answering a partner’s goodnight text.

Following Netflix’s GTA 6 Extended Look, IGN published details from an additional gameplay demonstration at Rockstar’s studio. The preview revealed that GTA 6 includes an optional relationship system that allows players to shape the bond between its protagonists, Jason and Lucia. Maintaining their relationship requires more than completing missions together, though: Players can explore Leonida as a couple, plan activities, communicate over text, and make small choices that affect how close they become.

Many online have realized the implications.

"This may just be some gamers’ first experience of putting effort into a relationship," one Instagram commenter wrote. Another predicted that Lucia would become some players’ first-ever girlfriend at all. Many X users imagined taking Lucia on dates "while my IRL relationship falls apart."

The joke isn’t coming out of nowhere. For many Gen Z adults, dating simply wasn’t a standard part of adolescence. Only 56 percent said they had a boyfriend or girlfriend as teenagers, compared with roughly seven in 10 millennials and more than three-quarters of Gen Xers and baby boomers.

For some, that delayed start has continued into adulthood. A 2025 survey found that three in 10 Gen Z adults had never gone on a romantic date, including one-third of Gen Z men.

SEE ALSO: Why Gen Z is ditching mainstream dating apps for 'hyper-niche' spaces

That doesn’t mean young people have given up on love. In fact, the disconnect between wanting a relationship and feeling prepared for one may help explain why GTA 6’s system has struck such a chord. A nationally representative survey found that 86 percent of single Gen Z respondents wanted a committed relationship, but only 55 percent felt ready to pursue one.

How does GTA 6’s relationship system work?

Rockstar’s new system turns the basic work of maintaining a relationship into something players can practice — or avoid — inside one of the most anticipated games ever made. According to IGN’s preview, Jason and Lucia can spend time together by shopping, playing pool, kayaking, working out, visiting the zoo, or buying each other food. They can hold hands and help one another choose outfits. Robbing a gas station together also builds their bond, because every couple needs shared interests.

When the protagonists are apart, players can also call or text the other character. Rockstar North co-studio head Rob Nelson said one might message to say they are going to bed and ask whether everything is OK. Sending a quick response will apparently suffice. Ignoring the message, however, "may impact your relationship a bit."

SEE ALSO: 'GTA 6' Netflix extended look: Everything we learned about the plot in the 26-minute reveal

For some players, the idea of managing both sides of a virtual relationship raised an obvious question: Isn’t that just texting yourself? Some Instagram commenters wondered the same, comparing the mechanic to playing chess against yourself.

Still, the relationship appears to be less about choosing the correct dialogue response and more about doing the ordinary things that keep a relationship going: answering texts, running errands, trying new activities, and choosing to spend time together (even when no mission requires it).

That approach also aligns with what young audiences increasingly want to see onscreen. A 2025 survey of 1,500 people ages 14 to 24 found that nearly 61 percent wanted romantic relationships in entertainment to emphasize the friendship between a couple over sex. So far, that sounds a lot like Jason and Lucia’s story, which seems built as much around everyday companionship as romance in this "Bonnie and Clyde" type tale.

Don’t worry, though: Players can opt out of the romance if they aren’t interested. Jason and Lucia will remain partners in crime regardless of how close they become and will continue working together and having each other’s backs, but Nelson said that completing story missions together may not be enough to keep them romantically involved. He told IGN that Rockstar did not want to "foist" a relationship on players.

Players have spent years preparing to survive Leonida. They may not have expected to practice being a good partner there, too.

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This illustration photo created in Los Angeles, California, on December 5, 2023, shows Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer played on computer screens.

Grand Theft Auto VI's protagonists, Jason and Lucia, have many of the qualities of a functional couple. They live together, get ready for parties together, hold hands in public, and help each other escape heavily armed police.

Their relationship sits front and center in Netflix's Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look, the 26-minute presentation Rockstar Games released Aug. 27. Captured entirely from in-game footage on PlayStation 5, it offers the clearest account yet of the game’s storyline and how its two protagonists operate as partners in crime and life.

SEE ALSO: GTA 6 Netflix extended look: 12 details not seen in the Cyberleek videos

Rockstar has previously said that Jason and Lucia become trapped in a criminal conspiracy stretching across Leonida after an easy score goes wrong. The new footage begins to show what that may look like. A botched pickup leads to a deadly police raid, which appears to push the couple toward more experienced criminals, riskier jobs, and a lavish party that ends in another full-scale attack.

The presentation does not reveal the complete plot or necessarily show every scene in chronological order. It does, however, give us enough to begin connecting Jason and Lucia’s path through the game. Here is everything that happened in their story, followed by the new gameplay details and a comparison of the official footage with the recent leaks.

Spoilers for Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look follow.

What happens in the GTA VI Extended Look?

The trouble begins with what should be a routine pickup. Jason and Lucia enter a rundown apartment building while working for Vice City businessman Boobie Ike, searching for a man named Raymond. Right from the start, Rockstar slips in possible clues about the game's larger systems; for example, Jason stops to pet a dog, prompting an angel icon to appear on screen as if he has earned a sort of morality credit.

The couple moves deeper into the building, and they discover people cooking and packaging drugs while Raymond’s associates explain that his partner has gone off the grid. Until they find out what happened, the entire operation is supposed to remain in a holding pattern. But before Jason and Lucia can leave, someone named Ernesto calls with a warning: a task force is on its way. The people inside begin frantically packing up drugs and trying to escape, while the arriving officers appear to have little interest in making arrests.

Instead, police storm the building and begin shooting, giving us the first extended look at GTA VI’s faster, more physical combat. Jason and Lucia fight through cramped rooms with pistols and shotguns before escaping in an elevator. There, Lucia asks whether one of the officers was Menendez, suggesting the couple may already have a history with the task force.

The Grand Theft Auto VI title card then appears. This disastrous pickup is clearly more than just an isolated mission.

Jason and Lucia's bad day begins

From there, we get to Jason and Lucia at their shared home, getting ready for a party. Fake commercials air on television, including an ad for the anxiety medication "Angstipan," a dissociative drug often advertised on billboards in Leonida, and another for a sandwich that contains what appears to be an entire deli counter.

Jason and Lucia later arrive at the party hand in hand, where they meet Brian Heder. Brian is a longtime drug runner who lets Jason live at one of his properties in exchange for helping with local shakedowns, according to Rockstar’s character description. Their conversation makes clear that the couple is in serious trouble and needs Brian to arrange an introduction to someone who may be able to help.

SEE ALSO: 'GTA 6' Netflix extended look: Every song we heard during gameplay

Interspersed throughout the Netflix special are montages highlighting the people, places, and activities that fill GTA VI’s world. They also provide important context about Jason and Lucia’s relationship and their history together.

In the first supercut, the couple robs a diner, holds up a liquor store, steals cars, and fights through several other jobs. The diner sequence appears to be the finished version of the robbery that leaked in unfinished form in 2022.

The Extended Look moves to Jason and Lucia driving to meet a new contact. Lucia feels nervous before they arrive, and she has good reason: the mystery man appears to be Raul Bautista, a seasoned bank robber. Jason is handed a rifle, Lucia gets behind the wheel, and the couple is immediately thrown into another police chase.

This one quickly becomes much larger than the apartment raid. As Lucia speeds through the sunny streets of Vice City, Jason shoots at police vehicles and helicopters from the passenger seat.

By the time the trio escapes, it becomes clear that the mission was also a test. When Lucia asks whether they passed, their contact tells them that they stayed alive and hands over their payment. Jason and Lucia then wonder whether they are officially part of his crew.

A security job goes spectacularly wrong

The answer appears to be yes, and their apparent promotion immediately raises the stakes. The next time we see Jason and Lucia working, they have traded small robberies and casual clothes for formal wear and a private security job protecting a wealthy young man named Andrés de León.

The assignment takes them from Andrés’ private jet to a party celebrating the opening of MegaMundo’s first corporate headquarters on American soil. Inside, Andrés and his associates are doing drugs in a conference room while the company’s chief operating officer, Petra, tries to pull Jason into the larger celebration downstairs.

Naturally, the night ends in yet another shootout. Armed men wearing medical masks (similar to the ones Raymond's crew wore) and white jumpsuits storm the building, separating Jason and Lucia on different floors. The mission then cuts between their simultaneous fights: Jason shoots his way through the attackers while protecting Andrés and briefly slows time to land several precise headshots, suggesting a character-specific ability similar to those used by Michael, Franklin, and Trevor in GTA V.

Lucia, meanwhile, has been separated from her guns and must rely on the hand-to-hand fighting skills Jason mentioned earlier. After being knocked down in a stairwell and strangled by one attacker, she manages to fight him off and take his weapon.

By that point, the larger story is beginning to take shape. Jason and Lucia start out as a couple, committing minor robberies, but a failed pickup sends them looking for help. That search connects them with more experienced criminals, and those relationships pull them into increasingly elaborate and dangerous jobs.

What else can you do in GTA VI?

About the halfway point, Rockstar uses Extended Look to show just how much players can do around Vice City and the wider state of Leonida. Among other things, Jason and Lucia can ride scooters, swim, scuba dive, drive airboats through swamps, work out, go skydiving, race cars, ride motocross bikes, visit strip clubs, practice at shooting ranges, rob stores, and escape police on motorcycles and jet skis.

Unlike the long aerial transitions used to move among the three protagonists in GTA V, the switch appears to take only a few seconds. That suggests players will be able to move between Jason and Lucia almost instantly when the two are near each other.

It is certainly impressive that all of this footage was captured on a standard PlayStation 5. The nighttime lighting, water reflections, crowded interiors, instant character switching, and dense street scenes were not recorded on an upgraded PS5 Pro or high-end PC.

How does the official footage compare with the leaks?

The Extended Look arrives after a person or group calling itself Cyberleek spent more than a week releasing footage from an apparently playable version of GTA VI.

Those leaks appeared to show Jason playing basketball, refueling cars, using a Taser, flying a plane, driving hypercars, stealing vehicles, and attempting to escape police. Other clips fueled speculation about vehicle storage, expanded inventories, a six-star wanted level, police recognizing a suspect’s clothing, and the possible morality system hinted at when Jason pets the dog.

SEE ALSO: GTA 6 Netflix extended look: 12 details not seen in the Cyberleek videos

Rockstar acknowledged that unauthorized gameplay had circulated Aug. 26, calling the experience "heartbreaking for our team." The studio apologized for the long wait, said development was "nearly there" and asked players to wait until Nov. 19 to experience the complete game.

Meanwhile, Rockstar's parent company, Take-Two Interactive, has sought information from Microsoft and Discord as it attempts to identify the people behind the leaks. Cyberleek's repeated attempts to use the footage to promote a cryptocurrency have also made theories that the leaks are a secret Rockstar marketing stunt increasingly difficult to believe.

SEE ALSO: GTA 6 Cyberleek update: Everything leaked so far, what might be next

Even with so much footage already circulating, the official presentation supplied something the leaks could not: context. The leaks showed individual mechanics and disconnected moments. The Extended Look showed the relationship holding all of those moments together.

Grand Theft Auto VI will be released Nov. 19 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. The Extended Look is available on Netflix and will also be released through Rockstar’s YouTube channel and the official GTA VI website.

There will be plenty of cars to steal, places to rob, and ways to attract police attention. But the real question at the center of GTA VI is what happens to Jason and Lucia as they do all of it together.



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One of Grand Theft Auto's greatest pleasures has always been getting into a stolen car and finding out what's on the radio.

So, naturally, we were listening closely during the new 26-minute extended look at Grand Theft Auto VI, which premiered Thursday on Netflix.

The footage gave us our most substantial look yet at Rockstar Games' return to Vice City and the larger state of Leonida, following protagonists Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos as a drug raid explodes into a chaotic shootout. From there, Jason and Lucia go on a romp through Vice City. But amid all the new gameplay details, locations, characters, and general fictional Florida chaos, there was another thing we couldn't stop paying attention to: the music.

Rockstar has been teasing the sound of GTA VI since the game's first trailer arrived in 2023. That trailer was soundtracked by Tom Petty's "Love Is a Long Road," while 2025's second trailer prominently featured The Pointer Sisters' "Hot Together" alongside snippets of songs from Wang Chung, Tammy Wynette, and Haitian konpa band Zenglen.

The extended gameplay reveal gives us even more clues about what we might hear cruising around Leonida.

Here are all the songs we caught during the GTA VI gameplay preview.

"Pop Bottles" — Birdman (feat. Lil Wayne)

"Skrilla" — Kodak Black

"Let Your Love Flow" — The Bellamy Brothers

"Love Bites" — Def Leppard

"People Are People" — Depeche Mode

"But I Think It's a Dream" — Captain & Tennille

"Cars and Girls" — Prefab Sprout

"Devil Woman" — Cliff Richard

"Se Me Nota (Agarrame)" — B one El Productor De Oro, Chimbala, and Omega

"Against All Odds" — Phil Collins

"Mine O' Mine" — Aluna & Jayda G

"Inner Light" — Elderbrook & Bob Moses

What songs have already appeared in GTA VI?

Even before the extended gameplay reveal, Rockstar had already given us a surprisingly eclectic preview of GTA VI's musical world.

The first trailer, released in Dec. 2023, was built around Tom Petty's 1989 track "Love Is a Long Road." The placement introduced millions of people to — or reacquainted them with — the Florida-born rocker's song, sending its streaming numbers soaring after the trailer's release.

Trailer 2 expanded the palette considerably. The Pointer Sisters' sultry 1986 track "Hot Together" serves as its primary soundtrack, but several other songs can be heard playing throughout the world, including Wang Chung's "Everybody Have Fun Tonight," Tammy Wynette's "Talkin' to Myself Again," and "Child Support" by Haitian konpa band Zenglen featuring Reginald Cangé.

Taken together, the choices suggest that Rockstar isn't limiting its return to Vice City to the neon-soaked '80s nostalgia most closely associated with GTA: Vice City. The music we've heard so far spans decades and genres, from rock and country to pop and Haitian konpa, which is fitting for a game set in the sprawling, fictionalized version of modern Florida.

And if there's one thing decades of Grand Theft Auto have taught us, it's that sometimes the song playing while you're driving around causing chaos becomes just as memorable as the chaos itself.

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SAVE $100: As of Aug. 27, get the iRobot Roomba Plus 575 Robot Vacuum & Mop Combo for $699.99 at Amazon, down from its usual price of $799.99. That's a discount of 13%.

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Whether you have kids or pets or you simply exist in your home, it can feel like a never-ending battle to keep the carpets and floors clean. Dirt is going to magically appear, and you're going to have to get rid of it somehow. That might mean vacuuming the carpets or mopping the floors. Why do it manually when you can assign the task to a robot vacuum-and-mop combo?

There's an especially great option on sale right now at Amazon that can help you accomplish more while a robot automates your cleaning schedule. As of Aug. 27, get the iRobot Roomba Plus 575 Robot Vacuum & Mop Combo for $699.99 at Amazon, down from its usual price of $799.99. That's $100 off, a 13% discount.

SEE ALSO: The best budget robot vacuums to buy in 2026, expert tested at home

This combo unit boasts a strong 25,000Pa suction level, so it can tackle ground-in dirt and debris as well as hair from both humans and pets. It can also fit under furniture and in hard-to-reach areas thanks to its slim chassis, which lets it swoop into smaller spaces to get more cleaning done. It can climb over thresholds up to 35mm and uses automatic mapping to determine where it needs to clean in your home. That takes you out of the equation, so all you have to do is set it up and watch it go.

When it's time to mop, it uses SmartScrub and DualClean mop pads to exert extra pressure to remove tough stains and dried spills. Plus, its spinning mop pads clean with an articulating arm that can extend 35mm to give you better edge coverage. When everything's clean, and the reservoir needs to be emptied and the mop pads cleaned, the dock has you covered as well, with automatic refills and cleaning so you never have to touch a dirty mop pad.

If you're tired of your current cleaning schedule, pick up this combo unit and step into the future. This discount is well worth claiming.



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