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Tariff turbulence exposes costly blind spots in supply chains and AI
Presented by Celonis When tariff rates change overnight, companies have 48 hours to model alternatives and act before competitors secure the best options. At Celosphere 2025 in Munich, enterprises demonstrated how they’re turning that chaos into competitive advantage — with quantifiable results that separate winners from losers. Vinmar International:... Read more
Fraudulent gambling network may actually be something more nefarious
A sprawling infrastructure that has been bilking unsuspecting people through fraudulent gambling websites for 14 years is likely a dual operation run by a nation-state-sponsored group that is targeting government and private-industry organizations in the US and Europe, researchers said Wednesday. Researchers have previously tracked smaller pieces of the... Read more
Gibraltar MP suggests UK gambling tax hike could impact its online gaming sector
An increase in UK gambling taxes could directly and indirectly affect Gibraltar’s public revenues, a government minister from the British Overseas Territory has warned. In a ministerial statement, by the Minister for Justice, Trade and Industry, Hon. Nigel Feetham KC described the issue as being “of vital importance to... Read more
Alexa Plus Will Summon a Movie Scene for You, and Prime Video Will Stream It
Have you ever hunted for movie scenes to replay or tried explaining one to a friend? Well, Alexa Plus can do the legwork for you and stream the scene on Prime Video. On Wednesday, Amazon announced the launch of an AI-powered feature for Fire TVs that lets you ask... Read more
Want a Fortell Hearing Aid? Well, Who Do You Know?
“I’ve tried different brands of hearing aids, and they’re good, but they’re not this good,” says Martin in a Zoom interview. He visited the team in Soho, did the street test, and was delighted when he tried it with his wife and daughter at their favorite restaurant, with de... Read more
New training method boosts AI multimodal reasoning with smaller, smarter datasets
Researchers at MiroMind AI and several Chinese universities have released OpenMMReasoner, a new training framework that improves the capabilities of language models in multimodal reasoning. The framework uses a two-stage process. It first refines a base model with a curated dataset in a supervised fine-tuning (SFT) stage. Then, a... Read more
Paddy Power announces extension to World Darts Championship sponsorship
Paddy Power has announced that it will continue to sponsor the PDC World Darts Championship through until 2031. The bookmaker began sponsoring the biggest event in professional darts ahead of the 2023 edition, following on from names such as Cazoo, William Hill and Ladbrokes throughout the years. @paddypower will... Read more
12 Best Gifts for Plant Lovers: Tech Edition
The name says it all: These easy self-watering planters are designed for those who have trouble remembering to water small or large indoor plants. I’ve always had trouble with larger plants, but this system has kept my fiddle-leaf fig green and healthy for over a year.  The simple design... Read more
Bryan Johnson Has Discovered Shrooms, and He Really Wants You to Know It
“Come watch me trip balls,” declared Bryan Johnson, the “Don’t Die” longevity entrepreneur, on X a couple of days before he livestreamed himself consuming a high dose of psychedelic mushrooms at a psilocybin center in Oregon on Sunday. It marked the second act of his stunty new investigation into... Read more
Mistral launches Mistral 3, a family of open models designed to run on laptops, drones, and edge devices
Mistral AI, Europe's most prominent artificial intelligence startup, is releasing its most ambitious product suite to date: a family of 10 open-source models designed to run everywhere from smartphones and autonomous drones to enterprise cloud systems, marking a major escalation in the company's challenge to both U.S. tech giants... Read more