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SBC Summit Returns to Lisbon for a Record-Breaking Year
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SBC Summit Returns to Lisbon for a Record-Breaking Year

SBC Summit, the betting and iGaming industry’s flagship conference and exhibition, today welcomes 40,000 delegates to Lisbon for its third consecutive year in the Portuguese capital, and its most ambitious edition to date.

Nvidia Launches Open Agent Safety Platform After String of AI Agent Security Incidents
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Nvidia Launches Open Agent Safety Platform After String of AI Agent Security Incidents

Nvidia has released a new software platform designed to keep AI agents from breaking out of the boundaries they’re supposed to operate within. The company unveiled the Open Agent Safety Platform on Monday, positioning it as a direct response to a run of security incidents that have hit some of the biggest names in AI […]

Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI and Google Face Antitrust Suit Over Alleged Pact to Slow AI Development
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Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI and Google Face Antitrust Suit Over Alleged Pact to Slow AI Development

Four of the industry’s leading AI labs: Anthropic, OpenAI, Elon Musk’s xAI (referred to in the filing as SpaceXAI), and Google, are facing a proposed federal class action accusing them of illegally coordinating to slow the pace of AI model improvement, a move the plaintiffs say violates Section 1 of the Sherman Act.

Amazon Blocks Meta Muse AI Agent From Shopping on Its Platform
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Amazon Blocks Meta Muse AI Agent From Shopping on Its Platform

Amazon has cut off Meta’s new Muse AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com, deepening an industry-wide standoff over who controls the customer relationship as AI agents purchase on consumers’ behalf.

Meta Launches Muse AI Agent, But Trust Questions Remain After $18B Settlement
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Meta Launches Muse AI Agent, But Trust Questions Remain After $18B Settlement

Meta introduced Muse, a personal AI agent that can act on a user’s behalf. The company describes it as a step toward CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of a “personal superintelligence” available to everyone. Not everyone trusts this vision though.

Instagram Cracks Down on AI Profiles Pretending to Be Real People
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Instagram Cracks Down on AI Profiles Pretending to Be Real People

Ever followed an account thinking there was a real person behind the face only to be tricked with AI? Instagram wants to remove this possibility from the platform.

AI Chatbot and Agent Use Cases Expand as Safety Concerns Intensify
Science & Technology

AI Chatbot and Agent Use Cases Expand as Safety Concerns Intensify

Meta preps to alleviate your daily online routine with agentic tools; Harvard professors are getting AI clones to focus on more personalized interactions with students; Experian helps users browse credit card offerings with ChatGPT; while Anthropic experiments with AI tech controlling physical equipment. AI use cases scope is expanding daily and big industry names are […]

Meta Youth Trial 2026: What Fintech UX Designers Need to Know
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Meta Youth Trial 2026: What Fintech UX Designers Need to Know

Meta’s youth safety trial opened on August 18 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, putting Facebook and Instagram’s product design under unusually close legal scrutiny. Four states: California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey, are leading the bellwether case, part of a broader lawsuit brought by 29 states in 2023.

Twitch AI Training Opt-Out: What It Means for Creator Monetization Pay
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Twitch AI Training Opt-Out: What It Means for Creator Monetization Pay

Twitch added a new privacy setting on August 12 that lets streamers stop Amazon from using their content to train generative AI models. The catch is that the setting is switched on by default. Streamers who don’t find and disable it are automatically included.

Open Banking vs Open Finance: What Changes When FiDA Arrives in 2027
Fintech & Ecommerce

Open Banking vs Open Finance: What Changes When FiDA Arrives in 2027

Open banking and open finance are often treated as the same idea at different stages of maturity. That framing is no longer accurate. The regulatory scope, the participants, and the political stakes have diverged enough that open finance now needs to be understood as its own contest centred on which companies get to sit inside […]

Meta, YouTube, Snap and TikTok Settle Breathitt County Schools Lawsuit Ahead of June 15 Trial
Society & Lifestyle

Meta, YouTube, Snap and TikTok Settle Breathitt County Schools Lawsuit Ahead of June 15 Trial

Meta has reached a settlement out of court with the Breathitt County Schools regarding a lawsuit alleging that social media, including YouTube, Snap, TikTok, and others, were designed to harm school age students.

Block Profits Rise 27% After Company Lays 4,000 Middle Managers in Favour of AI Tools: Coincidence or Pattern?
Fintech & Ecommerce

Block Profits Rise 27% After Company Lays 4,000 Middle Managers in Favour of AI Tools: Coincidence or Pattern?

As Block’s strategy has shifted to deep AI embedment into the core processes, CEO Jack Dorsey predicts all the company’s middle management layer can be ultimately substituted with smart tech, boosting fintech’s service efficiency. The direction Block has chosen is starting to pay off: after 4,000 layoffs, the company sees robust financial growth across all […]

Meta Launches USDC Stablecoin Payouts on Solana & Polygon for Creators in Colombia and Philippines
Blockchain & Crypto

Meta Launches USDC Stablecoin Payouts on Solana & Polygon for Creators in Colombia and Philippines

Meta has started paying a select group of creators in USDC, a stablecoin issued by Circle. The payouts are available on the Solana and Polygon blockchain networks.

Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses Dominate in Wearables Market
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Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses Dominate in Wearables Market

In 2025, Ray-Ban Meta became the best-selling smart glasses globally. The first quarter of 2026 continues the Meta glasses hype, with new models revealed, and international expansion on hold due to “unprecedented demand” and limited inventory.

Coinbase Testing AI Agents on Slack and Email
Blockchain & Crypto

Coinbase Testing AI Agents on Slack and Email

Two AI agents modelled after ex-employees will assist Coinbase staff with work tasks, as the crypto exchange CEO predicts the platform will “have more agents than human employees” in the near future.

Should We Ban Teens From Social Media? The Fight That Could Change Childhood Forever
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Should We Ban Teens From Social Media? The Fight That Could Change Childhood Forever

The UK Parliament just voted (again) against banning social media for under-16s. But with landmark US court rulings, damning statistics, and even gaming platforms tightening the reins on kids, the pressure on governments worldwide is only growing.