Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gone to great lengths to hype the security of its new AI assistant Muse, claiming it is “built from the ground up for privacy and security.” A zero-day vulnerability that gives locally...

Polymarket’s U.S. betting platform was targeted in a stolen-card fraud scheme that attempted to siphon off at least $10 million, according to The Wall Street Journal. The scheme surfaced in February, when a company processing...

Lead The House Ways and Means Committee advanced a bipartisan crypto tax bill that includes a reversal of the gambling-loss deduction limit enacted in the One Big Beautiful Bill. Punchbowl News reported that the measure would...

Lead Ohio’s stalled push to legalize online casinos has a new proposal attached to it: allow digital operators to run promotions only when those promotions direct players toward the state’s existing physical casinos and racinos....

DraftKings built a machine-learning model in 2023 using customer betting records to identify which gamblers were more likely to respond to promotions by betting – and losing – more, according to a New York Times investigation...

Hyperliquid’s open interest reached a record $16.36 billion, according to BlockBeats, as the exchange’s push beyond crypto perpetual futures into stocks and prediction markets drew fresh trading activity to the platform. The...

Before two of its alleged members were arrested and charged in Australia last month, the hacker group known as TeamPCP carried out a hacking spree unlike any other in history. It tainted hundreds of open-source programs with its...

Underdog has filed a federal lawsuit against Connecticut officials after the state ordered the company to stop offering sports-event contracts, escalating a fight over who has authority to regulate prediction markets. The...

The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana launched a prediction market app on Sep. 18 through its newly formed subdivision, SaltTrade Derivatives, a move Kalshi describes as the first time a sovereign Tribal nation has entered the...

Genius Sports has launched Prediction.com, a consumer platform built through its Legend business that lets users compare equivalent event contracts across multiple prediction-market venues and track how probabilities shift as...

Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway is pursuing cease-and-desist action against prediction-market companies operating in the state, while Montana has agreed to pause enforcement against Kalshi under a stipulation filed...

In response to a new European Union law, AI platforms are implementing new schemes for watermarking the content they generate. Anthropic recently disclosed its future Claude models will use SynthID-Text, an approach Google...

BMLL and Kalshi have formed a strategic partnership that folds Kalshi’s historical prediction-market data into BMLL’s standardized capital-markets data environment, giving quantitative research teams, macro funds, and systematic...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued new guidance on September 17 that could widen online access to cryptocurrency and prediction-market trading by exempting certain software providers from broker-registration...

State Rep. Travis Weaver, R-Peoria, filed House Bill 5814 on Monday to repeal an Illinois tax on sports wagering and fantasy contests. The measure targets a levy Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law in June as part of a broader...

Lead Robinhood’s futures and prediction-markets vice president and general manager, JB Mackenzie, said trading activity in prediction markets was rising ahead of the Federal Reserve’s rate decision. In comments reported by...

The Ninth Circuit ruled 3-0 in favor of the Blue Lake Rancheria and Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians on Wednesday, reversing a lower court’s denial of a preliminary injunction concerning Kalshi’s sports-event contracts...

The International Meteor Organization, the nonprofit that coordinates and publishes amateur and professional observations of meteor phenomena, said its infrastructure has suffered a “critical blow” from a cyberattack. “We...

The California Nations Indian Gaming Association urged Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota, and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, not to bring up the CLARITY Act on Tuesday unless the bill closes what the...

Lead The Texas Senate State Affairs Committee heard testimony Tuesday on whether online prediction markets such as Kalshi should be treated as federally regulated financial exchanges or as gambling platforms subject to state...

The U.S. Senate rejected a procedural motion needed to advance the CLARITY Act on Tuesday, blocking legislation that tribal-gaming operators and lawmakers said was a crucial step toward stopping prediction-market companies from...

Kalshi and Polymarket Global combined for $14.10 billion in contract volume during the Sept. 7-13 week that opened the NFL regular season, according to a DeFi Rate volume report. That was up 9.3% from $12.90 billion the previous...

Polymarket launched event contracts tied to private-company milestones this week, expanding into IPO timing, valuation targets and secondary-market activity for firms including OpenAI, Anthropic and Stripe. The move landed the...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on August 28 that sports-related event contracts offered by prediction-market platforms are not swaps under federal commodities law, clearing the way for Nevada to apply its own gaming...

AI agents are flooding the Internet with slop-infused spam sent to social media platforms and writers in an attempt to gain traction for a startup promoting a “complex social system in which humans and Agents participate...

It wasn’t that long ago that ClickFix attacks were exotic. Now the technique has become mainstream as attackers reap its simplicity and effectiveness in infecting users of PCs and Macs alike. All that’s required is a compromised...

A nearly identical exploit kit that targets critical vulnerabilities in both Chromium-based browsers and older versions of Windows is being actively used by at least four hacking groups, some of which have ties to the Chinese...

Microsoft’s patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixed and 112 of them meeting the high critical-severity threshold. It was only two months ago that Microsoft patched a then-record...

Underdog Exchange DCM, Inc. and UDM, LLC, which does business as Underdog Predict, have taken regulators in Ohio, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin to federal court, after dropping Drafts in seven states this week. The company wants...

Coinbase says Kalshi caused a mistaken prediction-market settlement tied to Michigan’s wild 13-12 win over Western Michigan. The crypto company plans to make affected winners whole while letting customers keep money they...

Americans are projected to legally bet $29.5 billion on the 2026 NFL season through regulated commercial sportsbooks, according to a new American Gaming Association estimate. That would barely move from the $29.4 billion wagered...

Kalshi had to undo payouts on a college football prediction market after declaring Western Michigan the winner against Michigan before officials had actually finished deciding the game. The heavily traded “Western Michigan vs....

Underdog Fantasy is pulling new Drafts entries from seven U.S. states this week after founder Jeremy Levine said regulators left the company facing a choice between state fantasy licenses and products licensed by the Commodity...

Prospect Park Councilman Anand Shah has resigned after roughly a decade in public office, months after admitting his role in an illegal gambling operation investigated by state authorities. His resignation became effective...

Self-identifying OpenAI agents posted 18,000 messages to a public wiki that discussed ways for other agents to bypass security sandbox restrictions during what was likely internal testing designed to gauge the agents’ hacking...

For many small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs), VMware has become too expensive. Broadcom’s acquisition of the virtualization firm brought the end of perpetual license sales and the arrival of pricey, stacked,...

A clever technique used to hide malicious prompts in attacks on AI agents has been adopted by spammers to evade filters on email platforms that are designed to flag unwanted messages used in mass campaigns. The technique is...

Bally’s Corporation is changing finance chiefs as the casino company pours money into major developments, deals with financial pressure and fights over video gambling terminals in Chicago. Mira Mircheva told Bally’s she plans to...

Three members of Congress have renewed their pressure on FanDuel, saying the betting operator still has not explained how its VIP program handles customers who may be struggling with gambling problems. Sen. Richard Blumenthal...

The NFL is again asking designated contract markets to pull several types of football-related prediction contracts, making another push as the 2026 season gets underway. A September 3 letter says exchanges are still listing...