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The progress of Chinese tech companies across the entire stack is “remarkable,” OpenAI’s Sam Altman told CNBC. Altman’s comments come as China races against the U.S. to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) — where AI matches human capabilities — and roll out the technology across society. The pace of technological advance in “many fields,” including […]
Novig has pulled in $75 million in fresh funding as it works to grow its sports trading platform and secure a clearer path to federal oversight. The Series B round was led by Pantera Capital, with Multicoin Capital, Makers Fund and Edge Equity joining in. Existing investors Forerunner, Perceptive Ventures and NFX also participated. With […]
Palo Alto Networks beat Wall Street’s fiscal second-quarter estimates after the bell on Tuesday but shares fell 7% on disappointing guidance. Here’s how the company did versus LSEG estimates: Earnings per share: $1.03 per share excluding items vs. 94 cents expected Revenue: $2.59 billion vs. $2.58 billion expected The cybersecurity company forecasted lackluster earnings for […]
The Dutch gambling watchdog has told Polymarket to stop operating in the Netherlands immediately or start paying steep weekly penalties. On Tuesday (February 17), the Kansspelautoriteit (Ksa) said it has issued a “last onder dwangsom” (order under threat of a fine) to Adventure One QSS Inc., the company behind the prediction-market platform Polymarket, for providing […]
The logo of the Adani Group is seen on the facade of its Corporate House on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, November 21, 2024. Amit Dave | Reuters India’s Adani on Tuesday announced plans to invest $100 billion to develop renewable energy-powered AI-ready data centers by 2035, seeking to establish the world’s largest integrated data […]
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says he’s growing uneasy about the direction prediction markets are taking, warning that platforms were heading towards becoming ‘corposlop.’ “Recently I have been starting to worry about the state of prediction markets, in their current form,” Buterin wrote on X. He pointed out that the sector has matured in visible ways. […]
Andrew Paterson | Photographer’s Choice RF | Getty Images Cryptocurrency payments to suspected human trafficking syndicates surged 85% in 2025, with hundreds of millions of transactions traced on public blockchains, according to a new report by Chainalysis. The U.S.-based blockchain analytics firm said most of the activity was linked to an expanding criminal ecosystem in […]
A 24-year-old man with ties to Wolcott, Connecticut, is facing federal charges after prosecutors say he ran a crypto investment scam and funneled nearly $1 million of victims’ Bitcoin into online bets on the offshore gambling site Stake.com. A grand jury in New Haven returned the 21-count indictment on January 20, and authorities unsealed it […]
It was a tale of two markets last week: Industrials surged while financial and tech names buckled under the growing weight of artificial intelligence fears. A mixed bag of economic data complicated matters further. Although the S & P 500 bounced slightly Friday following an inflation print that bolstered the future case for lower interest […]
Federal prosecutors say a 31-year-old Jamaican citizen is now facing serious charges in Connecticut over what they describe as a yearslong sweepstakes scam that drained millions of dollars from older Americans. Court documents unsealed in New Haven lay out allegations that Richard Murray and several others operated the scheme beginning as early as 2018. Investigators […]
