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Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour confirmed on a podcast interview that his employees asked social media influencers to promote memes about the FBI’s raid on the home of his archrival, the CEO of Polymarket.  Both companies offer competing events-betting markets, a new kind of betting industry where people wager about the outcomes of events ranging from…

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Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinEffective Human-AI Implementation Charles Towers-Clark I recently wrote about AI agent capabilities – which has led me to question what human skills do AI agents lack? A fundamental misunderstanding of AI capabilities stems from our tendency to anthropomorphize – attributing human characteristics to non-human entities. This psychological phenomenon, deeply…

Microsoft has announced the newest addition to its Phi family of generative AI models. Called Phi-4, the model is improved in several areas over its predecessors, Microsoft claims — in particular math problem solving. That’s partly the result of improved training data quality. Phi-4 is available in very limited access as of Thursday night: only…

Late-stage deals in space have been on the decline this year, but one notable exception is Fleet Space Technologies’ $100 million Series D.  The Adelaide, Australia-based startup raised the new funding to accelerate the development of ExoSphere, a platform to enable real-time mineral prospecting from space…