France’s regulatory authority for licensed gambling/betting games announced this week that it ordered ISPs to block access to Polymarket. Anyone caught advertising an unauthorized betting site “could be fined up to 100,000 euros, or around $114,000.” (The article notes this follows a previous regulatory action from November placing a geoblock Read more…
“I need cold hard return facts,” the “Mad Money” host said. “Or, I, too, will grow more skeptical than I am now….” While Cramer said he remains optimistic about the long-term opportunity, he argued the market needs more evidence that those investments are translating into measurable financial returns for customers. Read more…
The automotive industry’s increasing use of over-the-air technology to update vehicle systems makes it more susceptible to cyberattacks, analysts say, urging more intervention in the sector… Its use represents “a unique national security concern,” Gabriel Lim, senior analyst at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, told CNBC. Read more…
Xi Jinping used his first appearance at China’s World AI Conference to promote a vision of low-cost, broadly accessible AI and call for international cooperation rather than technological rivalry. “AI development should not be a solo performance by a single country, but a symphony of international cooperation,” he said. Bloomberg Read more…
As smoke from hundreds of burning wildfires spread across Canada and the United States, the first three operational satellites in the Google-backed FireSat program successfully launched into orbit. The satellites will begin providing wildfire detection capable of spotting even small fires in the United States, Australia, and Europe before the Read more…
Australia will require large data centers powering artificial intelligence to generate as much power as they consume, and ensure that creative professionals retain control over work that may be used to train A.I. systems, as the government sets up guardrails over the rapidly growing industry. The announcements on Wednesday in Read more…
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