Three years ago, ChatGPT was born. It amazed the world and ignited unprecedented investment and excitement in AI. Today, ChatGPT is still a toddler, but public sentiment around the AI boom has turned sharply negative. The shift began when OpenAI released GPT-5 this summer to mixed reviews, mostly from... Read more

Betfred have been hit with an £825,000 ($1.1 million) fine by the Gambling Commission due to money laundering and social responsibility failures. The operator, owned by Done Brothers (Cash Betting) Limited, will also receive a warning and will have to undergo a third-party audit, ensuring the company is effectively... Read more

Elon Musk’s social media site X, formerly Twitter, is under fire in the EU following a two-year investigation into the platform’s practices. On Friday, the European Commission slapped the company with a 120 million euro ($140 million) fine for several breaches of EU regulations, including what it calls the... Read more

Julie Bornstein thought it would be a cinch to implement her idea for an AI startup. Her résumé in digital commerce is impeccable: VP of ecommerce at Nordstrom, COO of the startup Stitch Fix, and founder of a personalized shopping platform acquired by Pinterest. Fashion has been her obsession... Read more

Presented by Oracle NetSuite When Evan Goldberg started NetSuite in 1998, his vision was radically simple: give entrepreneurs access to their business data anytime, anywhere. At the time, most enterprise software lived on local servers. As an entrepreneur himself, Goldberg understood the frustration intimately. "I had fragmented systems. They... Read more

Connecticut Consumer Protection has issued cease-and-desist orders to three prediction markets for allegedly offering unlicensed online gambling. The Department of Consumer Protection Gaming Division send letters with cease-and-desist notices to three platforms conducting unlicensed online gambling, specifically sports wagering: Kalshi, Robinhood, and Crypto.com. The department alleges that each of... Read more

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An AI image generator startup left more than 1 million images and videos created with its systems exposed and accessible to anyone online, according to new research reviewed by WIRED. The “overwhelming majority” of the images involved nudity and were “depicted adult content,” according to the researcher who uncovered... Read more

For all their superhuman power, today’s AI models suffer from a surprisingly human flaw: They forget. Give an AI assistant a sprawling conversation, a multi-step reasoning task or a project spanning days, and it will eventually lose the thread. Engineers refer to this phenomenon as “context rot,” and it... Read more

A total of 12 offshore gambling operators have received cease-and-desist letters from the Michigan Gaming Control Board (MGCB) following investigations carried out by the regulator. The MGCB states in an update that these operators were “unlawfully offering online gaming and sports betting to Michigan residents” and say investigations “determined... Read more