Polymarket reportedly paid creators to post deceptive videos about fake bets
Many of those videos were reportedly filmed on “near-perfect copies” of the Polymarket website, while featuring trades and winnings that were not real.
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Robert Lawson: Elon Musk is a trillionaire — but the oligarchs of Congress wield more power
The most profound economic control lies not in the hands of a few rich Americans such as Elon Musk, but rather with Congress.
Hot take: Elon Musk would be in jail if he were born in Nepal
Nepal, June 21 -- If Elon Musk had been born in Kathmandu instead of Pretoria, he would've had a Cyber Bureau file long ...
LIZ PEEK: Elon Musk’s well-deserved win causes the zero-sum left to freak out
Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO makes him the world's first trillionaire as Senators Sanders and Warren claim his wealth signals ...
Elon Musk’s new ‘trillionaire’ status is a good thing, actually
None of the SpaceX CEO's obnoxious life choices or political actions are relevant to the explosion of outrage over his status as history's richest man.
Elon Musk's xAI gets Trump DOJ backing in fight to keep gas turbines running near black Mississippi homes
The Trump administration's Justice Department has moved to shield Elon Musk's xAI from a civil rights lawsuit, asking a ...
When the Trump administration cracks down on Anthropic, who benefits?
On the new episode of Equity, we discussed what actually prompted the administration's latest moves against Anthropic, and what this might mean for the AI ecosystem.
Beyond Siri: Here are the practical AI features coming to your iPhone in iOS 27
Siri’s AI overhaul may have grabbed the headlines at WWDC, but some of Apple’s most useful AI features are arriving elsewhere in iOS 27.
New York City has defeated Waymo, and the taxi lobby is the reason
Waymo delivers more than 500,000 paid rides per week across 10 US cities, raised $16 billion in February, and is expanding internationally to Tokyo and London. It cannot operate in New York City. The reason is not technical, it is political. As the New York Times reported this week, opposition from local politicians, labor unions, […]This story continues at The Next Web
Hackers hijacked Brazil’s emergency alert system and sent ‘misanthropy’ to millions of phones
Hackers breached Brazil’s national civil defense alert system overnight, sending fake “Extreme Alert” notifications containing the word “misantropi4” to millions of mobile phones across at least seven states. The Civil Defense Alert platform was taken offline at 1:30 am on Saturday after the Ministry of Integration and Regional Development confirmed the intrusion. The Federal Police […]This story continues at The Next Web
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker says AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’ and calls Copilot agents a backdoor
Signal president Meredith Whittaker has warned that AI chatbots “are not your friends,” “are not conscious beings,” and “are not sentient interlocutors,” pushing back against the growing tendency of users to treat AI systems as trusted companions. The comments came in a Bloomberg interview published this week in which Whittaker laid out her case that […]This story continues at The Next Web
Donald Trump slammed for awkwardly introducing Elon Musk as 'Leon' during Air Force One speech: 'Deranged behavior'
Donald Trump made a major blunder during his speech showing off his new Air Force One jet on Friday, June 19. While ...
Mark Cuban Says the Stock Market Makes Guys Like Elon Musk ‘Insanely Rich’ — But Eliminating Billionaires Would Trigger the ‘Worst Depression’ Ever Seen
Mark Cuban says Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar fortune exists because 150 million Americans invest in stocks — and warns a mass selloff could trigger a historic depression.
America didn’t give Elon Musk a trillion dollars. He earned every penny
Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire when SpaceX went public, but his journey from immigrant to innovator tells a ...
Elon Musk and the trillionaire class test democracy’s limits
The one-person, one-vote principle never accounted for billionaires, let alone trillionaires ...
Elon Musk's AI fears: Demis Hassabis and the Google DeepMind enigma
Elon Musk has expressed extreme mental stress over the advancements of Google DeepMind, particularly its leader Demis ...
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’
"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”
In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search
So ... what's your In the Weights score?
Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish
Shinkei makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Poseidon to kill fish quickly and humanely.