Baseten, the AI infrastructure company recently valued at $2.15 billion, is making its most significant product pivot yet: a full-scale push into model training that could reshape how enterprises wean themselves off dependence on OpenAI and other closed-source AI providers. The San Francisco-based company announced Thursday the general availability... Read more

The CEO of the UK’s Betting and Gaming Council has outlined a warning that £8.4 billion ($11.1 billion) in bets could go to the black market if the proposed tax hike goes ahead. On the heels of its warning about the potential impact on jobs at the end of... Read more

Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. I admit, I was stumped by 8-Across in today’s Mini Crossword, but I figured out the... Read more

WITH THE END of the US government shutdown in sight, disorganization still reigns at federal agencies. Workers at the Environmental Protection Agency tell WIRED that they have faced increasing chaos over the past five weeks. In recent weeks, varied phases of furloughs have forced staff to go home in... Read more

Chronosphere, a New York-based observability startup valued at $1.6 billion, announced Monday it will launch AI-Guided Troubleshooting capabilities designed to help engineers diagnose and fix production software failures — a problem that has intensified as artificial intelligence tools accelerate code creation while making systems harder to debug. The new... Read more

Looking ahead, if the information removal techniques receive further development in the future, AI companies could potentially one day remove, say, copyrighted content, private information, or harmful memorized text from a neural network without destroying the model’s ability to perform transformative tasks. However, since neural networks store information in... Read more

A new poll from the prediction market operator Kalshi shows that most Americans want access to prediction markets and would rather see them overseen by the federal government instead of state gambling regulators. The timing isn’t a coincidence. The results come at a time when gaming commissions in several... Read more

Slowly but steadily, Apple has been tucking satellite-powered features into its iPhones. Get ready for that to blossom into a whole set of new capabilities. According to a Bloomberg report, Apple is working to expand the capabilities of iPhones, as well as some Apple Watches, when operating over satellite links.... Read more

Looking for a juiced-up Bluetooth speaker that can also keep your other devices charged? The JBL Charge 6 is currently marked down to just $130 on Amazon, an impressive $70 off its usual list price. Photograph: Ryan Waniata Photograph: Ryan Waniata Photograph: Ryan Waniata Like other JBL Bluetooth speakers,... Read more

Meta has just released a new multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system supporting 1,600+ languages — dwarfing OpenAI’s open source Whisper model, which supports just 99. Is architecture also allows developers to extend that support to thousands more. Through a feature called zero-shot in-context learning, users can provide a... Read more