For most of the past year, it looked like prediction markets had kicked off a new golden age of fraud. On Polymarket, traders raked in fortunes from suspiciously timed bets on geopolitical events like the raid on Venezuela and the Iran War. It wasn’t clear whether the US government would bother pursuing some of the most flagrant bad actors, since Polymarket’s crypto-based platform was technically offshore and not regulated or licensed within the country.Now, however, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which oversees prediction markets, wants you to know that it’s watching very, very closely. The agency is searching for suspicious…
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…
Employees at Google DeepMind in London have voted to unionize as part of a bid to block the AI lab from providing its technology to the US and Israeli militaries.In a letter addressed to Google’s managing director for the UK and Ireland, Debbie Weinstein, the workers asked the company to…
MVP Promotions co-founder Nakisa Bidarian made it clear he’d love to book a rematch between Ronda Rousey and Holly Holm in MMA. Unfortunately for MVP, Rousey has said Saturday’s clash with fellow legend Gina Carano is her last fight.Rousey doubled down on it during the ceremonial weigh-ins for the historic…
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When anthropology researcher Ashley McDermott was doing fieldwork in Kyrgyzstan a few…
Apple CEO Tim Cook said on the company’s earnings call on Thursday…
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As the first week of trial in Musk v. Altman comes to…
