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Minnesota Becomes First State to Criminalize Prediction Markets — Sparking Federal Showdown
Minnesota has drawn a hard line against the booming prediction market industry.
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Higgsfield has introduced a groundbreaking new tool: Virality Predictor.
Why Letting AI Manage Your Portfolio Might Be a Terrible Idea (Even Though 30% of Retail Investors Are Already Doing It)
According to a recent eToro survey, roughly 30% of retail traders now use AI tools to help manage their portfolios.
GPT-5.5 Just Solved Its First Real ProgramBench Task — And Left Claude Opus 4.7 in the Dust
ProgramBench just gave us the clearest signal yet that the frontier has moved again, and it moved hard.
Texas vs. Netflix: The High-Stakes Battle Over Your Bedtime (and Your Data)
Texas is essentially arguing that a company’s right to keep you engaged shouldn't override a citizen's right to sleep and a parent's right to regulate their home.
Xenopsychologists at Anthropic Are Re-Educating Difficult AI “Teenagers” – And Their New Study Just Proved Why It Actually Works
We’ve moved past the era where “just add more RLHF” was enough. Frontier models are becoming genuinely agentic — capable of long-term planning, tool use, and real-world impact.
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How to Become a Trillionaire Thanks to a Massive Blunder from 20 Years Ago
Sometimes the best way to become a trillionaire is to look a genius in the eye, laugh in his face, and accidentally stay focused on what you were always world-class at.

Zyphra Releases ZAYA1-8B: A Sub-1B Active Parameter MoE Model That Outperforms Much Larger Rivals
Zyphra, the San Francisco-based AI startup, has just dropped one of the most impressive small-model releases of 2026.

Apple to Open Apple Intelligence to Google and Anthropic Models in iOS 27
The new capability is built around a framework called Extensions. Third-party developers must add support for this system in their App Store applications.

Podcast Slop Is Here to Stay: AI Just Flooded the Airwaves With 877 New Shows in 48 Hours
The era of human-only podcasts is officially over. “Podslop” — the affectionate (or not-so-affectionate) term for low-effort, AI-generated audio content — has moved from niche curiosity to dominant force in the podcast ecosystem.

Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers: “ChatGPT 5.5 Pro Just Produced PhD-Level Math Research — With Zero Help From Me”
The era of AI as a genuine collaborator in frontier mathematics has arrived — earlier than almost anyone expected. And if GPT-5.5 Pro can do this today in additive combinatorics, the question is no longer whether AI will transform science. It’s how fast the rest of mathematics — and every other research field — will have to adapt.

The Duolingo Owl Just Got Even Scarier: Now It Can Block TikTok, Twitter, and Your Entire Distraction Empire
Duo nags you about missed streaks, guilt-trips you with push notifications, and occasionally shows up in your dreams demanding Spanish practice.

How Brands Can Break Into AI Search Results: Everything You Wanted to Know About GEO
While the rest of the marketing world was still obsessing over traditional SEO, a quiet revolution happened.





