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Today so far 2026-09-08 · 06:00 UTC

Privacy concerns dominate today's tech news, with multiple reports warning that LG televisions may be spying on users even when powered off, prompting urgent calls to disconnect the devices from the internet. Meanwhile, the industry faces infrastructure challenges, as chip shortages are reportedly hampering AI development for cancer research, and progress continues in AI capabilities with developments in autonomous agent verification techniques and advanced weather forecasting models.

Flutter Restructures US Operations as FanDuel CEO Howe Departs With $4.37M Severance

Flutter Entertainment announced a leadership transition at FanDuel, with Chief Executive Amy Howe departing after five years and Christian Genetski stepping into the CEO role.

2026-05-08 · 05:30 UTC
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Genius Sports Absorbs key iGaming Affiliates as Q2 Forecast Doubles EBITDA

2026-05-08 · 01:30

Genius Sports reported first-quarter 2026 results after absorbing three of the largest iGaming and sports betting…

Kalshi Hits $22 Billion Valuation After Massive $1 Billion Series F Funding Round

2026-05-07 · 22:31

The leading prediction market closed its Series F funding round, led by Coatue, to reach institutions, which are…

Chrome Deletes Its Own Privacy Promise for Sneaky On-Device AI

2026-05-07 · 20:52

Chrome is quietly installing a 4GB AI on your devices.

IMF Warns AI Will Supercharge Cyberattacks on Global Financial System

2026-05-07 · 19:44

The IMF called for treating cybersecurity as a core stability issue as new AI tools let even unskilled attackers breach…

Your AI Chatbot May Be Leaking Your Chats to Meta, TikTok and Google

2026-05-07 · 19:06

A new study finds ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Perplexity all share user data with third-party ad trackers—sometimes even…

Tether's Medical AI Runs on Your Phone and Outperforms Models 16x Its Size

2026-05-07 · 16:01

QVAC MedPsy squeezes clinical AI onto a smartphone, beating Google's MedGemma-27B on real-world scenarios while using…

Tether Launches Compact Edge AI for Medical Reasoning Models

2026-05-07 · 15:55

Tether has released new medical AI models that can run directly on phones, laptops, and local servers without relying on…

Prediction Market Startup Kalshi Boosts Valuation to $22 Billion With Fresh $1B Investment

2026-05-07 · 15:00

Kalshi has another billion dollars to play with as the U.S. prediction market leader continues to grow at a rapid pace.

Google Found a Way to Make Local AI Up to 3x Faster—No New Hardware Required

2026-05-07 · 14:13

Google's new Multi-Token Prediction drafters can make Gemma 4 run up to 3x faster on your own hardware—no cloud…

South Korea Ordains Robot Monk Ahead of Buddha’s Birthday

2026-05-07 · 14:11

A Unitree Robotics humanoid joins the Jogye Order, South Korea's largest Buddhist sect.

AI Job Panic Grows After Anthropic Launches Finance Agents for Banks

2026-05-07 · 13:59

Artificial intelligence continues to raise fears about the future of jobs as AI startup Anthropic launched 10 new AI…

WLTH Launches Mobile App on iOS and Android, Opening the Door to Pre-IPO Opportunities

2026-05-07 · 13:05

Now out on Apple and Google for everyone outside of the USA and UK  New platform challenges who gets access to…

AGI-26 Conference Reveals Star-Studded AI Speaker Lineup

2026-05-07 · 13:00

AGI-26, the 19th annual conference of the AGI Society, which is devoted only to Artificial General Intelligence, will…

Hut 8 Loses $253M in Q1 but Signs an AI Contract Worth $9.8B

2026-05-07 · 10:05

Hut 8 reports a net loss of $253 million in Q1 2026, but its stock jumps by +33% thanks to an AI infrastructure contract.

Hut 8 Surges 30% After Landing Second AI Data Center Lease Worth $9.8 Billion

2026-05-07 · 09:30

Hut 8 (NASDAQ: HUT) shares jumped 30% in pre-market trading on Wednesday after the company announced a new 15-year AI…

Musk Changes Tone In Surprise Anthropic Alliance

2026-05-07 · 09:15

For months, Elon Musk publicly attacked Anthropic.

Anthropic Secures 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs Through SpaceX Partnership

2026-05-07 · 05:54

Anthropic has signed a deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to access Colossus 1, a massive AI supercomputer built in Memphis,…

Chrome Is Quietly Installing a 4GB AI Model on Your Computer—And Putting It Back If You Delete It

2026-05-06 · 22:01

Google Chrome silently downloads a 4GB Gemini Nano model to eligible devices, re-downloads it if deleted, and the AI…

This AI Reads Your Chemistry Instructions and Finds the Best Way to Build You a Molecule

2026-05-06 · 21:31

Researchers at EPFL built a framework that lets chemists describe what they want in plain language—and have AI sift…

Elon Musk's SpaceX Will Help Power Anthropic's Claude in Surprise AI Deal

2026-05-06 · 20:23

Elon Musk’s combined company of SpaceX and xAI will help boost Anthropic with a deal to provide compute for Claude AI…

Sandisk Is Mooning Like a Meme Coin. Here's Why

2026-05-06 · 18:57

Sandisk stock is up over 3,000% in one year. It's not a meme. It's NAND flash—and AI can't get enough of it.

Claude Delusion? Richard Dawkins Believes AI May Be Conscious

2026-05-06 · 17:47

The evolutionary biologist says extended exchanges with Anthropic’s chatbot felt less like software and more like…

Google DeepMind Takes Stake in 'Eve Online' Maker, Will Use Game to Test AI Behavior

2026-05-06 · 16:59

The wild world of space simulation game Eve Online will soon become an AI research destination for Google DeepMind…

Apple Expands AI Strategy With User-Selectable Models in iOS 27

2026-05-06 · 16:34

Apple is preparing a major shift in its artificial intelligence strategy by opening its ecosystem to competing AI…

Anthropic Deploys AI Agents to Tackle Wall Street's Most Tedious Work

2026-05-06 · 14:54

Anthropic released 10 ready-to-run templates targeting some of finance's most time-consuming tasks—from building…

Apple Agrees to $250 Million Settlement Over AI Claims—Here's Who Can Get Paid

2026-05-06 · 14:01

Tech giant Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle claims it misled consumers about its AI system's capabilities.

Anchorage launches agentic banking as CEO tips ‘trillion-dollar’ opportunity

2026-05-06 · 06:55

Anchorage’s new product enables AI agents to have compliant access to capital across traditional finance and crypto…

Coinbase Lays Off 14% of Staff as Kalshi Sees 92% Odds of More Tech Layoffs

2026-05-06 · 06:49

Coinbase’s decision to cut approximately 700 jobs, or 14% of its workforce, on Tuesday is being read by prediction…

Prophet launches AI-powered prediction market with live $10,000 trading tranche

2026-05-06 · 06:11

Cape Town, South Africa, May 6, 2026 Prophet, an AI-native prediction market platform, has launched its first live…

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