Prediction Markets and States Clashed, Setting Off a Furious Political Battle
A legal dispute over the future of Kalshi, Polymarket and others has drawn in the Trump administration, the president’s son and nearly every state attorney
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Barret Zoph is going back to Google, six years and two startups later
Barret Zoph is joining Google DeepMind as vice president of research, returning to the organisation he spent six years in before it was DeepMind at
Rising costs of the token consumption race
Lately, we have seen a surge in a practice called Tokenmaxxing. More and more companies are tracking their employees’ productivity with tokens spent on AI
AI receptionists seem like a dangerous idea after a patient revealed her doctor’s system could not understand her speech
A GP surgery in South Yorkshire has withdrawn an AI receptionist after a woman recovering from a stroke could not make it understand her and
Volvo’s electric cars can now warn you about a deer around a blind corner
Volvo is adding alerts for large animals, vulnerable road users, roadworks and accidents ahead to its EX60, EX90 and ES90 electric cars through a software
Meta’s plans to replace workers with AI fell flat, report says
Earlier this year, Meta, one of the industry’s loudest AI advocates, was ready to slash up to 60% of the members of some teams and
How to unlock Google’s new Pixel vibration wizardry on any Android phone
Have you heard the buzz? Good vibrations are officially here on Android — at least, on Google’s latest homemade Pixel gizmos. One of the less
OpenAI says earlier signals could have prevented the Hugging Face breach
OpenAI’s technical report on the Hugging Face breach says an internal team saw its models reaching the open internet from their sandbox in late May
Microsoft staff are burning a median $300 a month on AI, according to their own spreadsheet
An internal spreadsheet where Microsoft employees swap pay details now carries a column for monthly AI spend, with a median of about $300 over 28
RIP, Tim Curry: Ars remembers his top 10 iconic performances
It’s said celebrity deaths come in threes. We lost Sam Neill last month, and the legendary Dolly Parton yesterday. Now we find out that the
AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”
Earlier this year, Meta created a “plan” to reduce some of its teams by as much as 60 percent to make the company “AI native,”
Gemini Live gains agentic tasks, voice inbox control and personal intelligence
Google has added four capabilities to Gemini Live, letting spoken commands trigger background agents that work across Docs, Sheets and Drive, alongside hands-free Gmail control
Waystar turns agentic AI loose on claims, denials, and documentation
Waystar has launched agents that interpret payer responses and automatically resubmit denied healthcare claims, which it calls the industry’s first autonomous resubmission capability. Germany caps
AI deployments bring with them risks companies are ill-prepared for — analysts
Enterprises that have been rapidly adding AI tools and services into their workflows are often not prepared for the internal and external threats that could