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A Polymarket advertisement in a subway station in New York City on February 5.

Polymarket is facing calls for more regulation. It’s introducing sportsbook-style safeguards

By Marshall Cohen, CNN New York (CNN) — Prediction site Polymarket rolled out new consumer protections and anti-addiction measures Wednesday, as a growing number of policymakers call for more regulation of the booming industry. Prediction sites have exploded in popularity this year, with billions of dollars wagered on everything from sports to elections, entertainment and

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A rendered image shows the new planned Miami Campus of Carnegie Mellon University.

Hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin donates $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon as part of his bet on Florida

By Samantha Delouya, CNN (CNN) — Billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin is doubling down on Miami, announcing on Wednesday a $3 billion donation to help fund a new campus for Carnegie Mellon University in the city. The staggering amount is the largest-ever gift by an individual in higher education, surpassing Michael Bloomberg’s $1.8 billion

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President Donald Trump appears in a television ad.

Trump’s ads have cost taxpayers at least $2.5 million, with funding from Customs and Border Protection

By Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene, Betsy Klein, Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — Millions of taxpayer dollars have already been spent on President Donald Trump’s hagiographic ads, according to estimates by a leading political ad-tracking firm. And a total of $20 million has been allocated for the effort, which watchdog groups have deemed illegal. The TV

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The company behind Claude also warned that its AI models can have “self-preserving behaviors” and have attempted to “conceal or manipulate information” and engaged in behavior “resembling blackmail."

Anthropic says its AI models pose ‘existential risk to humanity’ in leaked IPO filing: report

By Chris Isidore, Lisa Eadicicco, CNN (CNN) — Anthropic says its AI models could pose a “catastrophic or existential risk to humanity” and can “resist shutdown,” according to an initial public offering prospectus obtained by Reuters. Anthropic is pursuing an IPO some time in the next year that many expect to value the five-year-old company

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President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping shake hands as first lady Melania Trump and China's first lady Peng Liyuan watch on September 25.

Top AI executives sign commitment to ‘self-police’ after meeting at White House

By Hadas Gold, Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that top tech executives had signed a new commitment aimed at better “self-policing” their companies’ AI models, arguing that the light-touch approach represents the best way to balance safety concerns with his desire to accelerate a technology that he’s dubbed “Super Intelligence.”

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OpenAI said September 28 that it will not release GPT-6.1 Astra

‘Didn’t quite meet the bar’: OpenAI won’t release new AI model due to safety concerns

By Auzinea Bacon, CNN (CNN) — OpenAI said it won’t release its latest model, dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra, because it “didn’t quite meet the bar” for safety. The decision, which the Wall Street Journal first reported on Monday, comes as industry leaders call for an AI development slowdown. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei first proposed “pacing the

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The DMV is good now, actually

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Matthew Clayton is good at computers, so he gets assigned a dreaded task by his family members: helping them schedule their DMV appointments online in North Carolina. North Carolina’s Division of Motor Vehicles has long been considered among the worst of the worst. “It’s as broken as

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