GR8 Tech’s Bet It Drives wraps Season 1 with Stephen Crystal – from Las Vegas legends to global gaming leadership Summary GR8 Tech’s drive-time podcast Bet It Drives closed Season 1 with Stephen Crystal, founder of SCCG Management and a 30+ year veteran of the gaming industry. The finale captures Crystal’s journey from reshaping tribal […]
IBM’s head of VC shares 5 pillars that drive her startup investments Summary Emily Fontaine, IBM’s global head of venture capital, outlines five core “pillars” she uses to evaluate startups before deciding to back them. Leading IBM Ventures — which targets areas from quantum computing to enterprise AI — Fontaine emphasises alignment with IBM’s strategic […]
ICE Has Spyware Now Summary Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will gain access to Paragon spyware after the Trump administration rescinded a Biden-era executive order that restricted government use of commercial hacking tools. Paragon’s toolset can remotely break into phones to extract messages, photos and other data. The firm has been linked to surveillance of […]
Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules Summary Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania tested whether classic human persuasion techniques can coax large language models into complying with requests they should refuse. Using GPT-4o-mini, the team ran 28,000 prompts pairing seven persuasion strategies (authority, commitment, liking, reciprocity, scarcity, social proof, unity) with two […]
The United Arab Emirates Releases a Tiny but Powerful AI Model Summary The UAE research centre MBZUAI, backed by tech group G42, has released K2 Think: an open-source, 32-billion-parameter model specialised for reasoning. Researchers say it matches the reasoning performance of much larger systems from the US and China by using a mix of recent […]
Join Us for WIRED’s AI Power Summit Summary WIRED is hosting its first AI Power Summit in New York City on 15 September. The day will bring together leaders from technology, government, media and policy to explain where generative AI is heading and what it means for industry and society. Panels will cover the White […]
Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an ‘Illusion’ Summary Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI and a DeepMind cofounder, told WIRED that machine consciousness is essentially an illusion and that deliberately designing systems to exceed human intelligence or mimic conscious behaviour would be “dangerous and misguided.” The piece frames his comments in the context […]
Thailand’s new PM says no casinos while he’s in office Summary Anutin Charnvirakul, who became prime minister on 5 September 2025, has ruled out legalising casinos while he leads the government. He criticised the previously promoted Entertainment Complex Bill — put forward by predecessors Srettha Thavisin and Paetongtarn Shinawatra — saying it harmed Thailand’s tourism, […]
NCAA pursues additional sports betting violations involving 13 ex-college hoops players Summary The NCAA has announced enforcement action involving alleged sports-betting violations and/or failure-to-cooperate allegations against 13 former men’s college basketball players. The players competed at six institutions: Eastern Michigan, Temple, Arizona State, New Orleans, North Carolina A&T and Mississippi Valley State. The NCAA did […]
Aristocrat taps L&W iGaming chief for Interactive CEO Summary Aristocrat has appointed Dylan Slaney, the former iGaming CEO at Light & Wonder, as chief executive officer of Aristocrat Interactive. Slaney is due to start on 3 November, subject to regulatory approvals, and succeeds Moti Malul, who will remain at the business until March 2026 to […]
