Prediction markets have, predictably, been given a boost by the summer of sports
Major platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket have seen huge upticks in users of late, thanks in no small part to what’s felt like a recent sporting smorgasbord, with major competitions across hockey, basketball, and soccer soaking up fans’ time (and spending, clearly) at the outset of summer.
While gaming industry groups may not like it, there’s been a huge change in the methods people are using to put money on the big games, with everyone from fortunate NYC bar owners, to a far less fortunate Spanish supporter, turning to prediction markets to try and turn their sports know-how into cold, hard cash.
According to a new report from Adam Blacker for apptopia, that shift might have been even more seismic than imagined in the wake of the NBA and NHL finals and around the 2026 World Cup kicking off.
While gaming industry groups may not like it, there’s been a huge change in the methods people are using to put money on the big games, with everyone from fortunate NYC bar owners, to a far less fortunate Spanish supporter, turning to prediction markets to try and turn their sports know-how into cold, hard cash.
According to a new report from Adam Blacker for apptopia, that shift might have been even more seismic than imagined in the wake of the NBA and NHL finals and around the 2026 World Cup kicking off.
Gold Tesla Cybercabs are piling up, but they’re not picking up passengers yet
Low-volume production started in April. Now people are noticing them more and more in the wild.
Anthropic pulls Fable and Mythos access worldwide after Trump administration bars their use by foreign nationals
Only days after releasing two versions of its next-gen AI model, Anthropic has disabled them for users worldwide.
Anthropic says it received a Friday night order from the Trump administration to suspend access to the models for any foreign national (anywhere in the world) — a group that included some Anthropic employees. In response, the company turned off access to everyone.
Last week, the company released to the public its much-anticipated Claude Fable 5 model (and its restricted version Claude Mythos 5, which is still being tested with trusted partners). Anthropic said in a blog post announcing the action that officials cited national security concerns with the new models, while offering few specific details.
The post said that the government gave the company “verbal evidence of a potential narrow, non-universal jailbreak” of the public Fable 5 model. A jailbreak is a means by which users can evade restrictions built into the code to unlock prohibited functionality. Anthropic downplayed the significance of the attack, and said other major models, such as OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, could also be affected by the technique described.
Fears of these first Mythos-class models being misused are running high, after Anthropic warned the cybersecurity world in May that the advanced cyber capabilities of Mythos have rapidly discovered thousands of vulnerabilities in ubiquitous software, leading to the decision to restrict the full version of the model to a close group of trusted partners for testing.
This morning, Axios reported that Anthropic technical staff have flown to Washington to meet with White House officials to resolve the issue.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Trump administration’s decision to take action against Anthropic was prompted by discussions that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy had with officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. According to the report, Amazon researchers said they had been able to evade some of Fable 5’s security restrictions using specific prompts. Amazon is a major investor in Anthropic.
Anthropic is currently suing the US government to fight the Pentagon’s blacklisting of the company on national security grounds.
Last week, the company released to the public its much-anticipated Claude Fable 5 model (and its restricted version Claude Mythos 5, which is still being tested with trusted partners). Anthropic said in a blog post announcing the action that officials cited national security concerns with the new models, while offering few specific details.
The post said that the government gave the company “verbal evidence of a potential narrow, non-universal jailbreak” of the public Fable 5 model. A jailbreak is a means by which users can evade restrictions built into the code to unlock prohibited functionality. Anthropic downplayed the significance of the attack, and said other major models, such as OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, could also be affected by the technique described.
Fears of these first Mythos-class models being misused are running high, after Anthropic warned the cybersecurity world in May that the advanced cyber capabilities of Mythos have rapidly discovered thousands of vulnerabilities in ubiquitous software, leading to the decision to restrict the full version of the model to a close group of trusted partners for testing.
This morning, Axios reported that Anthropic technical staff have flown to Washington to meet with White House officials to resolve the issue.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Trump administration’s decision to take action against Anthropic was prompted by discussions that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy had with officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. According to the report, Amazon researchers said they had been able to evade some of Fable 5’s security restrictions using specific prompts. Amazon is a major investor in Anthropic.
Anthropic is currently suing the US government to fight the Pentagon’s blacklisting of the company on national security grounds.
Tesla used skewed data in push for European FSD approval, Reuters finds
Tesla has used highly questionable safety stats in an effort to win over European regulators and rekindle sales in the region, according to a Reuters investigation.
Tesla reportedly pitched regulators in Sweden and the Netherlands with claims that its Full Self-Driving (FSD) tech is over 7x safer than human drivers. However, independent researchers told Reuters that the stats are misleading because Tesla compares airbag-deployment crashes involving FSD-equipped vehicles with much broader US crash statistics, while also benchmarking newer Teslas against the entire US vehicle fleet, which is significantly older on average.
Despite the flawed metrics, the Dutch regulator approved FSD in April, saying its decision was based on its own “tests, analyses and verifications,” and Tesla is now pushing for EU-wide clearance. A version of FSD is currently available in five European markets.
Despite the flawed metrics, the Dutch regulator approved FSD in April, saying its decision was based on its own “tests, analyses and verifications,” and Tesla is now pushing for EU-wide clearance. A version of FSD is currently available in five European markets.
Report: Microsoft weighs Xbox spin-off amid major overhaul
Microsoft is reportedly considering spinning out or restructuring its struggling Xbox unit, per The Information. While new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who took over in February, is preparing for layoffs, she’s simultaneously planning to boost investment in its biggest franchises like “Halo,” “Fallout,” and “Minecraft.”
The latest potential shake-up comes as the gaming division battles major headwinds, following a massive 33% plunge in Q3 console sales and a recent move to slash Game Pass prices while removing new “Call of Duty” titles.
The latest potential shake-up comes as the gaming division battles major headwinds, following a massive 33% plunge in Q3 console sales and a recent move to slash Game Pass prices while removing new “Call of Duty” titles.
Anthropic’s Mythos gets tired, hates bad users, and wants to be thanked
Reminder: these models are not people, they don’t think, and when you close the tab, the model isn’t pondering your last interaction.
Oracle is trying really hard to convince investors it won’t have a debt problem
It’s coming up with new metrics to allay fears about its ballooning capex and debt load.
Welcome to the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google price wars
It’s the clearest signal yet that AI models are becoming commoditized.
Oracle Q4 earnings and revenue top estimates; hyperscaler plans more debt issuance to support massive capex push
The company posted Q4 FY 2026 earnings Wednesday after the bell.
Report: OpenAI and Nvidia in talks to team up for 10-gigawatt data center in Ohio
Fresh off scaling back ambitious plans for its Stargate data centers, OpenAI may be moving forward with a new plan: a 10-gigawatt data center in Ohio powered and backed by Nvidia.
According to a report by The Information, the new data center, built on federal land, would dwarf the largest data centers being built today in terms of computing power.
The facility would cost about $500 billion to build, and OpenAI would would own the equipment and be on the hook for 20 years of lease payments, which Nvidia would provide a backstop for, per the report.
If this sounds familiar, Nvidia and OpenAI did announce a similar deal back in September. Nvidia said it would invest as much as $100 billion in what CEO Jensen Huang called “the biggest AI infrastructure project in history,” which never came to fruition (though Nvidia did invest $30 billion in OpenAI). Per the report, this potential deal is a new plan.
OpenAI’s Stargate partner SoftBank is part of the plan as well. SoftBank’s SB Energy is providing financing for the project, and broke ground on the facility in March. The land on which the data center would be built is owned by the Department of Energy.
The facility would cost about $500 billion to build, and OpenAI would would own the equipment and be on the hook for 20 years of lease payments, which Nvidia would provide a backstop for, per the report.
If this sounds familiar, Nvidia and OpenAI did announce a similar deal back in September. Nvidia said it would invest as much as $100 billion in what CEO Jensen Huang called “the biggest AI infrastructure project in history,” which never came to fruition (though Nvidia did invest $30 billion in OpenAI). Per the report, this potential deal is a new plan.
OpenAI’s Stargate partner SoftBank is part of the plan as well. SoftBank’s SB Energy is providing financing for the project, and broke ground on the facility in March. The land on which the data center would be built is owned by the Department of Energy.
The robots are coming... to help small businesses, actually
Labor shortages, not bots, are the bane of so-called blue-collar businesses.
Amazon just secured a massive $17.5 billion line of credit
Amazon has landed a $17.5 billion line of credit arranged by Citibank, according to a new SEC filing.
While the filing says the money is for “general corporate purposes,” the company is clearly on a global borrowing spree to fund its massive AI infrastructure investments, with $200 billion in planned capex this year. For perspective, that budget is larger than the entire GDP of most countries. This giant credit line comes shortly after Amazon shattered the record for issuance in Canada’s “maple bond” market.
The spending is so aggressive that credit rating agency S&P recently warned Amazon’s “leverage will increase substantially” and it will likely report negative free operating cash flow over the next two years to support the data center build-out. Yet, Amazon is rushing to borrow anyway, hoping to service a massive $364 billion cloud backlog.
I didn’t make this up: Tesla currently has authorization for 69 unsupervised Robotaxis in Texas, according to the state’s database. That’s up from 42 — perhaps a reference to 420 — last month. While that represents growth, it’s far from the scale that CEO Elon Musk had promised.
And having permission to be on the road doesn’t mean the vehicles are actually in service.
The number of unsupervised Robotaxis has actually declined recently, despite the company’s highly publicized expansion, according to data from Robotaxi Tracker. The site has tracked 32 active unsupervised Tesla Robotaxis in the last month and just 23 in the last week.
Tesla and Musk, who once threatened to take the company private at $420, have long been fans of sophomoric numerology. You can’t actually tip in the Robotaxi app, but as a joke the company suggests tips of $0.69 or $4.20 — and if you tap them, it brings up a “just kidding” graphic.
Freight stocks fall as Amazon announces less-than-truckload offering for outside businesses
Amazon is escalating its attack on legacy logistics companies by opening less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping to outside businesses as part of its Supply Chain Services business announced last month.
Previously, businesses could largely only use Amazon’s LTL fleet to send bulk goods inbound to Amazon’s own facilities. Now, companies can use Amazon to ship partial truckloads anywhere in the US, including to rival third-party warehouses or direct to their own retail partners.
That means legacy carriers must now compete against Amazon’s 80,000 trailers, 24,000 containers, and its highly automated network.
“The feedback from Amazon selling partners using our LTL service was clear: the technology, visibility, and reliability were exactly what they needed — and they wanted to use it more broadly,” Jim Ruiz, director of Amazon Freight, said in the press release.
Industry heavyweights like Old Dominion Freight, XPO, and Saia all fell on the news. FedEx, which recently spun off FedEx Freight, is also down.
That means legacy carriers must now compete against Amazon’s 80,000 trailers, 24,000 containers, and its highly automated network.
“The feedback from Amazon selling partners using our LTL service was clear: the technology, visibility, and reliability were exactly what they needed — and they wanted to use it more broadly,” Jim Ruiz, director of Amazon Freight, said in the press release.
Industry heavyweights like Old Dominion Freight, XPO, and Saia all fell on the news. FedEx, which recently spun off FedEx Freight, is also down.
Report: Google is backstopping Anthropic’s $35 billion data center deal
Google and Anthropic have always had close ties. The search giant invested early in the maker of Claude, which boosted Google’s investment returns last quarter.
But the two companies appear to be closer than we knew. According to a new report from Bloomberg, it turns out that Google is backstopping $35 billion worth of data center leases for Anthropic.
Last fall, Anthropic announced that was getting into the data center business, pledging $50 billion in a partnership with Fluidstack.
The revelation adds to concerns of so-called “circular deals,” which could lead to a domino-like collapse if one company fails.
Last fall, Anthropic announced that was getting into the data center business, pledging $50 billion in a partnership with Fluidstack.
The revelation adds to concerns of so-called “circular deals,” which could lead to a domino-like collapse if one company fails.