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BiggerZ: Building a Fairness-First Crypto Casino, Sportsbook and Prediction Markets Platform
Miami, Florida, USA, 16th August 2026, PlayNewswire […]
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Washington court orders Kalshi to halt sports, election, and politics prediction markets
A Washington state judge has ordered Kalshi, the CFTC-regulated prediction market platform, to stop offering a broad range of event contracts in the state, ruling that federal commodities law does not preempt Washington’s gambling statutes. The preliminary injunction, granted by King County Superior Court Judge John McHale, bars Kalshi from offering contracts tied to sports, […]
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Woman alleges stepfather used Grok to create 7,000 explicit images from her childhood photo
A Tennessee woman has joined a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI, alleging that her stepfather used the company’s Grok chatbot to manipulate a photograph of her taken when she was 11 years old into more than 7,000 explicit images. The woman, identified in court documents as Jane Doe 4, said the images were discovered during […]
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Solana’s SIMD-0553 fee overhaul: Higher burn, resource-based pricing, and cheaper simple transactions
Solana is moving forward with a significant overhaul of its transaction fee structure, a change that would make resource-intensive operations more expensive while reducing costs for simpler transactions and increasing the amount of SOL burned. The proposal, known as Solana Improvement Document (SIMD-0553), entered the network’s onchain governance process in early August and cleared its […]
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OpenAI taps Wiz president Dali Rajic as new CRO in latest executive shake-up
OpenAI has named Dali Rajic, former president and chief operating officer of cloud security firm Wiz, as its new chief revenue officer, replacing Denise Dresser after just nine months in the role. The appointment, announced Monday in a blog post by OpenAI president Greg Brockman, is the latest in a series of leadership changes that […]
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OpenAI launches Ultrafast mode for GPT 5.6 Sol, claiming 14x speed boost
OpenAI on Thursday unveiled Ultrafast, a new mode for its flagship model GPT 5.6 Sol that the company says operates at 14 times the speed of standard processing, delivering up to 750 output tokens per second. The announcement, made via a company blog post, positions the feature as a significant step toward real-time AI interactions […]
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Writer launches Palmyra X6 and a smarter harness to slash enterprise AI token costs
Enterprise AI costs have become a boardroom obsession, and on Thursday, Writer responded with a new flagship model and a revamped harness designed to cut token spend dramatically. The company, which sells AI tools and agents for marketers, launched Palmyra X6, a post-training variation of Z.ai’s open-source GLM-5.2 model. Writer says the combination of the […]
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IBM expands OpenAI partnership to push enterprise AI adoption
IBM announced Thursday a new partnership with OpenAI to bring the AI company’s models and tools to more enterprise customers, deepening OpenAI’s reach into large corporations through IBM’s global consulting network. The deal, whose financial terms were not disclosed, comes less than a year after IBM struck a similar alliance with Anthropic, signaling IBM’s intent […]
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Figure reports $4.3B in loan marketplace volume as profit nearly triples
Figure Technology Solutions reported $4.3 billion in consumer loan marketplace volume for the second quarter of 2026, a 132% increase from the same period last year, as the company’s quarterly profit nearly tripled. The results, released Thursday, underscore the rapid expansion of the blockchain-based lending platform and its growing role in the digital asset ecosystem. […]
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Crypto Player Takes Home $1.749M After a Million PSG Bet on 1win
Willemstad, Curaçao, 14th August 2026, PlayNewswire […]
