Sixth Circuit Opens Kalshi Contracts to State Gambling Laws

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled against Kalshi on Sept. 25, saying…

JetBrains Releases Mellum2.1: A 12B MoE Open Model for Coding Agents

JetBrains has released Mellum2.1, an open model built for coding agents and fast sub-agents. Mellum2.1 is…

Sportsbook VIP Promotions Face Wider Congressional Scrutiny

Sen. Richard Blumenthal plans to seek information from DraftKings and prediction-market platforms including Kalshi and Polymarket,…

Architect Launches Liquid Inference, a Real-Time Auction for LLM Inference

Architect Financial Technologies has launched Liquid Inference, an LLM router that runs a live auction for…

NVIDIA PivotOPD Teaches Multi-Turn AI Agents to Recover From Pivotal Mistakes

NVIDIA researchers, with Princeton University and the University of Maryland, have introduced PivotOPD, an on-policy distillation…

Coinbase Exits Michigan Sports Markets as Appeals Continue

Coinbase Financial Markets Inc. has agreed to stop offering new sports-event contracts to Michigan customers and…

Perplexity AI Releases pplx-embed-v2-late: A 0.6B Edge Model and a 9B Model Scoring 92.4% on MADQA

Perplexity has released pplx-embed-v2-late, a pair of ColBERT-style multimodal embedding models. They come in 2 sizes:…

Anthropic Releases Claude Haiku 5.5: A Small Model With 1M Context Priced at $0.10 per Million Input Tokens

Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 5.5, its cheapest and fastest small model to date. It targets…

Davis Proposal Targets Candidates’ Own-Race Prediction Bets

Rep. Don Davis, a North Carolina Democrat, introduced the No Betting on Your Own Race Act,…

Liquid AI Releases Open-Weight d1-3B and d1-omni-600M: Multimodal Decision Models With Zero Output Tokens

Liquid AI has released Open d1, two open-weight multimodal models in its d1 decision model family.…

DraftKings, FanDuel Put $7 Million Into Nebraska Betting Vote

DraftKings and FanDuel each added $3.5 million to Nebraska’s online sports-betting campaign as prediction markets topped…

Maine Online Casino Plans Face Rules, Lawsuit and Delay

Maine’s online casino market is legal but not live, with the Maine Gambling Control Unit taking…