The US Government Launched 3 Previously Unreported Investigations of Polymarket Trades

The agency that oversees prediction markets has investigated Polymarket trades on Biden pardons and the Iran war—and even more potential insider trading at Google, documents obtained by WIRED show.

Amazon Quick is now available on desktop, with a new mobile activity feed
Amazon Quick is now available on desktop, with a new mobile activity feed

Amazon has made its Quick desktop assistant generally available on macOS and Windows, pitching it to enterprise IT as the governed alternative to shadow AI. Quick runs in ordinary European AWS regions with inference kept inside Europe, but it is not on…

Switzerland takes a Swiss Army knife to Microsoft 365

Two divisions of Switzerland’s government are shifting from Microsoft 365 to open-source openDesk. Here’s why.

China’s car exports beat last year’s record with four months to go
China’s car exports beat last year’s record with four months to go

China exported more than 6.2 million passenger cars in the first eight months of this year, beating its full-year total for 2025 with four months to spare, while domestic sales fell 25.6% in August. Europe absorbed much of the growth through plug-in hy…

Dana White Makes Definitive Decision On Francis Ngannou UFC Return

Dana White says he will never work with Francis Ngannou again, calling him a bad guy and putting him on his Oscar De La Hoya list.

OpenAI pauses $200 ChatGPT Pro sign-ups as Astra demand strains its systems
OpenAI pauses $200 ChatGPT Pro sign-ups as Astra demand strains its systems

OpenAI has stopped selling the $200 tier of ChatGPT Pro, saying demand for its Astra model is straining its systems. European organisations face a second constraint the pause does not touch, because Astra still has no EU data zone deployment and no pai…

ElevenLabs lists five services on the UK government’s GBP 14B cloud framework
ElevenLabs lists five services on the UK government’s GBP 14B cloud framework

Five ElevenLabs services are listed on the software lot of G-Cloud 15, the UK government’s cloud buying framework, according to the Digital Marketplace. They cover conversational agents, transcription, dubbing and text-to-speech. Three months ago the s…

‘The Gentlemen’ Season 2 Is Another Casualty Of Netflix’s Biggest Problem

The Gentlemen lost a lot of viewership for season 2, but not because of the quality of the show. This is Netflix’s biggest problem it must deal with.

A New Drug Takes Aim At One Of Cancer’s Most Difficult Targets

FDA-approved daraxonrasib targets RAS in metastatic pancreatic cancer, doubling median survival versus chemotherapy and delivering a long-awaited treatment advance.

One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.