You only get one chance at a first impression, and getting to introduce Apple’s first folding phone is certainly a strong way to start things off as Apple’s CEO. On The Vergecast today, we’re talking all about Apple’s launch event: how John Ternus did in his first appearance as CEO, what we make of the
The US government launched at least three previously unreported investigations into trading on the prediction market Polymarket, according to documents obtained by WIRED through a Freedom of Information Act request. Voting records from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal agency that regulates prediction markets, shed new light on how the government approaches these investigations.
Mecka AI, a startup that collects and analyzes human motion data to train humanoid robots and other robotics, is nearing a new round led by Sequoia Capital at a valuation of about $500 million, according to two people with knowledge of the deal. The new financing comes just three months after Mecka announced that it
Beth Barnes, one of the AI industry’s most influential watchdogs, said in July she was struggling to hire talented researchers to monitor AI’s risks. That has begun to change. Researcher Joe Benton announced this week that he had left Anthropic for Barnes’ nonprofit METR, writing that he worries about “extinction-level risks” from the tech. The
Lenovo’s upcoming Googlebook 15 just got its latest and most comprehensive leak, and woof — this is not the affordable Chromebook you’re used to if the specs are accurate. The leak comes from MacObserver, which has the full purported specs sheet, showing that the Lenovo Googlebook 15 is very much going to be a premium
New Mexico’s Supreme Court is punishing a lawyer for including AI-fabricated witnesses and fake police testimony in an appeal for his client’s murder conviction, according to a report from Reuters. In a filing on Wednesday, the court fined Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in contempt for failing to “verify the factual claims and legal
