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These states are fighting prediction markets. The Trump admin is furious
Many states are trying to crack down on the newest frontier in the financial wild west: prediction markets. Although best known as places for betting on sports, which the Supreme Court ruled is legal during President Donald Trump's first term…
CFTC Officials Who Questioned Prediction Markets Were Suspended: NYT
Senior officials at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission who raised concerns about prediction market companies were suspended, investigated and eventually pushed out of the agency. According to a New York Times investigation published Sunday…
Real stars of the 'steroid Olympics' are the drugs
New York/London | As athletes gather in Las Vegas on Sunday (Monday AEST) for the inaugural “steroid Olympics” backed by Peter Thiel and Donald Trump jnr, drugmakers are scrambling to promote a new generation of performance-enhancing…
VC funding in Irish SMEs falls 58pc in Q1, IVCA finds
Notable rounds this past quarter include Neurent Medical, Aerska, Evervault, Circuit and XFuel. VC funding into Irish SMEs fell 58pc to €221.7m in first quarter of this year, finds Irish Venture Capital Association's (IVCA) quarterly Venture…
Early to spot the winnable ideas
For Artha India Ventures, venture capital is as much about execution as funding. Having backed over 130 startups, the firm believes that operational discipline often determines the success of an early-stage company. “We've always had a…
TG Jones owner to buy high street brand as future of 80 stores hangs in balance
Modella Capital is on the verge of acquiring Flying Tiger Copenhagen in the private equity firm's latest raid on the British high street. The private equity firm is nearing an agreement with Danske Bank and Nordea, the owners of Flying Tiger, with…
Tech billionaires used performance drugs in secret. Now they're selling a revolution.
LAS VEGAS — This past week, in a city built on risk and reward, billionaire biohacker Christian Angermayer went about his wellness routine. He injected himself with weight loss drugs, testosterone, and legal-but-off-label growth hormones…
Polymarket Partnered With Nasdaq: Can Bet Stock Before Launch
Polymarket just opened a new kind of bet. You can now stake real money on what OpenAI, Anthropic, or SpaceX are worth — no stock market access needed. Prediction markets are platforms where traders buy contracts tied to real-world events.
DeepSeek vs OpenAI: The $10B AGI Race Begins - Memeburn
DeepSeek just told investors it is building toward artificial general intelligence, not chasing short-term revenue. With a potential $10 billion funding round on the table and a $45 billion valuation in sight, the Chinese AI lab is making the…
Founder of Dovetail Software Responds to Australia's CGT Overhaul
An engineer evaluating a startup offer in 2027 will be doing the same mental arithmetic as every engineer before them: meaningful equity upside in exchange for the chance to build something significant. The 2026 Federal Budget just changed what…
Big Short's Michael Burry Warns SEC Tokenized Stock Plan Risks 'Snow Crash' Future
Michael Burry cited Neal Stephenson's 1992 novel Snow Crash in a May 19 Substack warning about SEC tokenized stock plans. The SEC under the Trump administration proposed an innovation exemption for crypto firms, but delayed the plan on May 22…
TechCrunch Mobility: Robotaxi reality check
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility ! Robotaxis are here! And yet, they're…
A new Welsh Development Agency set to be created by Plaid government
Wales' new Plaid Cymru government will create a new Welsh Development Agency (WDA) with a new name, the nation's new economy minister Adam Price has said. The original agency was responsible for bringing an estimated £12bn investment into…
Google Just Shared Bad News for Nvidia, and Even Worse News For CoreWeave and Nebius
Alphabet (GOOG 1.04%) (GOOGL 1.19%) CEO Sundar Pichai shared some interesting news during the company's first-quarter earnings call. Google will start to deliver its custom AI accelerator chips, Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), to a select group of…
The Sequence Radar #865: Last Week in AI: Last Week in AI: Karpathy, Google, Colossus, and the Coming IPO Wave
We continue our series about alternatives to transformers. In the AI of the week, we are going to deep dive into the new HRM small models, you need to know about those. The opinion of the week we dive into the idea of recursive models as a new AI…
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