Monthly Archives: September 2025

Prediction Pulse: Trump announcement stirs market chatter as Pentagon Pizza Index stays flat

Kalshi rolled out its first player prop bets just in time for kickoff Thursday night, letting users wager on who will score touchdowns in Week 1 NFL games. First, next, anytime, or even multiple trips to the end zone are … Continue reading

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Online gaming named as one of the Phillipines’ biggest revenue drivers in 2025

The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) has named online gaming as one of the government’s biggest revenue drivers in 2025. At the same time, PAGCOR has also warned about the danger of unregulated sites illegally targeting Filipino players in … Continue reading

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Licensed gaming businesses in Sweden report 7 billion SEK in turnover in 2025 Q2

Licensed gaming companies in Sweden reported a turnover of SEK 7 billion in the second quarter of 2025, an increase from the year before. Gaming companies with a Swedish license shared a turnover of SEK 7 billion ($740 million) in … Continue reading

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Google leads monster week for tech, pushing megacaps to combined $21 trillion in market cap

Tech’s megacaps got bigger this week, and the eight trillion-dollar companies now make up a combined 36% of the S&P 500.

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Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to settle authors’ copyright lawsuit

Authors had sued Anthropic, claiming the AI startup had illegally used their books to train its models.

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Hitachi Energy Pledges $1B to Strengthen US Grid, Build Largest Transformer Plant in Virginia

Rising AI, EV, and industrial power demands strain the US grid. Hitachi Energy boosts transformer output to secure reliable energy for America’s future.

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Screw the money — Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement sucks for writers

Writers aren’t getting this settlement because their work was fed to an AI — this is just a costly slap on the wrist for Anthropic because it illegally downloaded books instead of buying them.

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Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement

Anthropic will pay at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated. The company downloaded unauthorized copies of books in early efforts to gather training data for its AI tools.

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Trump threatens trade probe after ‘discriminatory’ EU fines against Google, Apple

President Donald Trump threatened to launch a trade investigation to “nullify” Europe’s fines against Google and other U.S. tech firms.

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Personalized AI companion app Dot is shutting down

Dot, a personalized AI companion, is shutting down.

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