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Kalshi hits $5B valuation days after rival Polymarket gets $2B NYSE backing at $8 Billion

Prediction markets startup Klashi raised $300 million, while Polymarket nabbed up to $2 billion.

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Why Deloitte is betting big on AI despite a $10M refund

AI companies are making their much-anticipated enterprise plays, but the results are wildly inconsistent. Just this week, Deloitte announced it’s rolling out Anthropic’s Claude to all 500,000 employees. On the very same day, the Australian government forced Deloitte to refund … Continue reading

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Google Chrome silences those pesky notifications

Google Chrome will now automatically mute notifications from sites you don’t visit that often, cutting down on spammy alerts.

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Instagram head Adam Mosseri pushes back on Mr. Beast’s AI fears, but admits society will have to adjust

Instagram chief Adam Mosseri says AI will empower new creators while forcing society to rethink what’s real online as synthetic content grows.

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Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors

NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.

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Investors are betting $21 billion that the energy transition isn’t going away

Political shifts might have set back the energy transition, but large investors are betting that renewables are at the future of energy.

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Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to advise Microsoft and Anthropic 

Former Conservative PM Rishi Sunak served from 2022 to 2024. Britain’s Acoba flagged concerns of granting “unfair access” to Anthropic and Microsoft.

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The world is just not quite ready for humanoids yet

Famed robotics Rodney Brooks recently sounded the alarm on the amount of money going into humanoid startups. He’s not the only skeptic.

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UK slaps Google Search with special market status, making way for stricter regulations

The CMA has designated Google as having “strategic market status” in the search and search advertising markets, which means the company has such “a substantial and entrenched” position that it requires special regulations to ensure fair competition.

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Shutdown silver lining? Your IPO review comes after investors buy in

With 90% of SEC staff furloughed, the agency announced on Thursday that it won’t penalize companies for omitting pricing details during the shutdown.

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