A CISO who sees a low CVE count and deprioritizes prompt injection is reading the scoreboard wrong. Prompt injection has held the No. 1 spot on the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications for three consecutive years. When two leaders...

Nebraska voters will get a say on two online sports wagering proposals in the November 2026 general election. The Secretary of State’s office said August 21 that both petition campaigns gathered enough valid signatures to make...

Kalshi is widening its footprint in Major League Baseball (MLB) after agreeing to exclusive, multi-year brand partnerships with five clubs. The prediction market platform announced the deals on Tuesday (August 25). The Atlanta...

Perplexity is launching Portable Computer today, a version of its agentic “Computer” platform that runs entirely on hardware users already own — starting with Nvidia’s DGX Spark desktop supercomputer and Linux...

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has predicted that the escalating battle over prediction markets will ultimately reach the U.S. Supreme Court, as states, federal regulators and the fast-growing industry clash over whether...

Chinese retailer AliExpress has been caught fingerprinting visitors after one of the metrics—an outdated technique that measures inaudible sounds it sends to browsers—impeded a researcher’s ability to use his bluetooth...

Anthropic is making a calculated bet that the biggest bottleneck in enterprise AI isn’t model intelligence — it’s the fact that most people still use AI alone.In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat, Scott White,...

Independent senator David Pocock has accused the Albanese government of undermining its own pledge to break the connection between gambling and sport, after it emerged betting company logos could remain on professional sporting...

IBM is announcing today at the annual Hot Chips conference what may be the most consequential change to mainframe architecture in decades: a processor whose cores can natively execute both IBM’s own instruction set and...

Kalshi is pushing to keep New York’s lawsuit against the prediction-market operator in federal court, saying the state’s case cannot be resolved without answering key questions about federal commodities and gambling law. In an...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is backing the criminal case against Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a US Army master sergeant accused of using classified military information to make more than $400,000 trading Polymarket...

Enterprise AI has largely been built around context engineering. Teams connect enterprise systems, generate chunks and embeddings, build retrieval pipelines, and assemble the context needed by individual AI applications. While...

For much of the past two years, the general belief in enterprise AI has been that more autonomy equals better performance. Build agents that can plan, decide, and act across multi-step workflows, and give them as much room to...

When an agentic AI system hands a task from a small model to a larger one — or back down again — it pays a steep tax: the receiving model has to recompute the entire conversation from scratch, driving up compute costs and...

More than 150 cryptocurrency wallets betting on military events through Polymarket behaved in ways researchers associate with possible insider trading. Now a separate federal prosecution involving a U.S. Army master sergeant is...

Waymo has sharply increased its lobbying spending as it seeks to persuade US regulators to clear a path for fully autonomous taxi services, intensifying its battle with rival Uber over the future of robotaxis. The Alphabet-owned...

Ontario’s gambling watchdog has hit Booming Games with a CAD $70,000 ($51,000) penalty after discovering that players could use a banned auto-play feature on several online slot titles. The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of...

Caesars Sportsbook has been ordered to pay more than $296,000 after New Jersey regulators found the company broke several rules designed to support responsible gambling. The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement assessed a...

At the CFTC inaugural Innovation Advisory Committee meeting, Wall Street veterans and upstarts from prediction markets agreed Washington needs clearer rules. They were rather less united on whether some of the products currently...

Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat.The Salesforce-owned messaging platform today announced Slack Code, a new product that embeds AI coding agents — including Anthropic’s Claude Code,...

Enterprise AI teams have stopped betting on a single orchestration platform. The median enterprise now runs three at once — not by accident, but because none of them fully trusts a single vendor to run the show, according to VB...

Adding an AI agent to Slack sounds appealing to many enterprises — but, as VentureBeat has experienced ourselves first hand — the reality is often far more complex and clunkier than it first seems.Now NanoCo., the company behind...

Serval is making Catalyst, its AI agent for building enterprise automations, generally available Thursday and enabling it by default for customers — allowing teams of AI agents to decide what should be automated and then build...

Earlier this week, researchers outlined an attack that used a secret input provided by Microsoft 365 Copilot for enterprise to cause the AI assistant to exfiltrate a password present in the user’s inbox. Now, a separate team has...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) push to rewrite the rules governing prediction markets is unlikely to rescue sports event contracts from mounting legal challenges and could instead give opponents another avenue...

Michigan authorities took three machines suspected of being used for illegal gambling from a Muskegon bar during a search tied to an investigation of possible unlicensed gaming. The Michigan Gaming Control Board searched DJ’s...

Federal prosecutors want a Manhattan judge to keep the criminal case against Army master sergeant Gannon Ken Van Dyke on track for trial, rejecting his bid to throw out charges over Polymarket trades that allegedly earned him...

Kalshi will not get immediate protection from Connecticut gambling enforcement after a federal appeals court rejected its request for temporary relief while its wider injunction bid remains pending. The U.S. Court of Appeals for...

Florida has become the latest state to take legal action at sweepstakes-style gaming, with Attorney General James Uthmeier suing the businesses behind Stake US and Virtual Gaming Worlds’ (VGW) Chumba Casino, LuckyLand and Global...

After a stunning debut last week with cyber capabilities so advanced they reportedly found a previously undetected vulnerability in Cursor, GLM-5.3, the new frontier open source language model from Chinese startup z.ai, has now...

Another day, another new AI agent harness is released.Only this time, it’s one that aims to solve a growing enterprise problem as AI agents proliferate: enabling greater developer control of agents and tools, while...

Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research. His arrival is the next step in a...

Today in prediction market news, we’re following fresh legal and regulatory developments, including Washington and Crypto.com agreeing to pause their litigation pending a Ninth Circuit ruling, Connecticut urging the Second...

A House proposal introduced Monday (August 17) seeks to stop federally regulated prediction markets from letting traders place bets on wildfires or the destruction they cause. Rep. Michael Baumgartner filed H.R. 10109, called...

Massachusetts Treasurer Deborah Goldberg is facing calls from a national anti-gambling organization to act quickly over online Lottery games that the group says could attract young people. Stop Predatory Gambling raised its...

Crypto.com and Washington state officials want to put their federal court fight over event contracts on hold while the Ninth Circuit weighs appeals that could resolve the key legal question between them. North American...

Block, the technology company founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that owns Square, Cash App and the music streaming service Tidal, is open-sourcing Berd, a desktop application it originally built to give its own employees...

Enterprises that already got burned by an AI agent passing its evals and then failing in production are moving faster toward removing humans from deployment decisions, not slower — even as trust in automated evaluation is rising...

Presented by Rezolve AiEnterprise AI investment in commerce has never been higher. And enterprise AI outcomes in commerce have rarely been more inconsistent. That gap is not a coincidence. It is the predictable result of a...

It’s not every day that attackers can force a frontier AI model to cough up user passwords and other sensitive data without user confirmation. That’s exactly what researchers recently did to Microsoft 365 Copilot for enterprise....