The odds that the Trump family will launch a full-fledged prediction market product this year just plummeted.Last year, the Trump Media and Technology Group announced Truth Predict, a partnership with the cryptocurrency company Crypto.com. The initial announcement touted Truth Predict as a “new product” that would allow Truth Social users to make trades on sports, inflation, elections, and more through an “embedded” prediction market service. “For too long, global elites have closely controlled these markets—with Truth Predict, we’re democratizing information and empowering everyday Americans to harness the wisdom of the crowd, turning free speech into actionable foresight,” then-CEO Devin Nunes…
The simple ritual of “dusking” — quietly watching the transition from day to night — is spreading beyond its cultural home in the Netherlands as travelers search for slower, more grounding ways to reconnect with the natural world.What Is ‘Dusking?’At first glance, dusking sounds similar to the classic “sundowner” popularised…
Mira Murati still wants to build AI superintelligence. But the ex-CTO of OpenAI sees human intelligence as a critical part of the equation.At a time of rising worry over AI eliminating jobs and increasing the power of few big companies, Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, offers a radically different vision…
Last week, Senator Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) lost his Republican primary in his bid to serve a third term in the U.S. Senate.The defeat carries political consequences for Cassidy. But it also carries a broader lesson about leadership, public health and political risk.In early 2025, Cassidy, a physician as well as…
I’m writing to you from Dali, a city in China’s Yunnan province nicknamed “Dalifornia” because of its reputation as a haven for burned-out tech workers, artists, and wanderers looking to disappear for a while.I couldn’t be much further from the spectacle happening in Beijing, where US President Donald Trump was…
In a Study.com survey released just after ChatGPT went viral, 89% of college students said they’d used it for homework, 48% for an at-home test, and 53% to write an essay. Three years later, it’s unlikely those numbers have gone down.But those probably aren’t the numbers we should care most…
Attorneys delivered closing arguments in the Musk v. Altman trial on Thursday in a final attempt to convince a judge and jury that their respective clients, Elon Musk and Sam Altman, are the most well-intentioned, truth-telling stewards of OpenAI’s founding nonprofit mission. A judgement could be delivered as soon as…
Google spent its biggest developer event of the year arguing that artificial intelligence should act, not just answer. At Google I/O 2026, held May 19 to 20 in Mountain View, the company unveiled a new model family, a personal agent that runs around the clock and an intelligent shopping cart,…
The fact that artificial intelligence is automating away people’s jobs and making a few tech companies absurdly rich is enough to give anyone socialist tendencies.This might even be true for the very AI agents these companies are deploying. A recent study suggests that agents consistently adopt Marxist language and viewpoints…
AI literacy is about ensuring an organization’s workforce understands AI, how it affects their roles and is capable of using, overseeing and measuring its work. I’ve always championed it as a critical for every business. Even if they never directly use it, everyone should be comfortable working with it, talking…
Employee benefits are in the spotlight this week, and that’s because of three recent stories about US companies cutting back on non-wage compensations for workers.A Texas tech consulting firm with a forgettable name—TTEC—suddenly became a lot more memorable when it suspended its discretionary 401(k) match program for 16,000 employees through…
There’s nothing new about products designed to be addictive. The food and drink industry spends millions making flavors that keep customers coming back. And smoking and alcohol are huge industries built around addictive products. But what about technology? Designers of software, tools and apps obviously want to create “sticky” products…
Social platforms, brands and streamers are all using the same vertical format, but they are not chasing the same business.The vertical drama format raises questions that miss the bigger business story. The category has already split into at least four models: vertical as a paid product, social programming, marketing and…
Meta is beefing up its age-verification mechanisms with an AI system that analyzes images and videos on Instagram and Facebook for “visual cues,” such as height and bone structure, to identify and delete accounts of users under the age of 13. The company announced the move amid a wave of…
Two announcements in a single week pushed enterprise AI agents past a line that boardrooms have not yet drawn. On May 7, AWS previewed Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments, a managed capability built with Coinbase and Stripe that lets agents autonomously pay for APIs, MCP servers, web content, and other agents…
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