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• Prediction markets have exploded in popularity in recent years.
• Two young men who lost thousands of dollars shared their stories with Business Insider.
• Experts said that the platforms' lack of guardrails increases the potential risk to millions of Americans.

Lorenzo Miro San Diego first learned about Polymarket after seeing the prediction market on an episode of "South Park"

• Top AI executives spoke at a summit in India about where the technology is headed.
• Some warned of a growing "AI divide," while others called for stronger global

• David Chong quit his $192,000-a-year Microsoft job last year to build an AI startup.
• Weeks later, most of his belongings were stolen during his move from New York City to Toronto.
• He shared how he's trying to bounce back — and why he doesn't regret going all in on entrepreneurship.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with David Chong, a 38-year-old startup founder

• The Department of Education has yet to release a report on student-loan servicers' performance.
• Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley called on the department to make the performance data public.
• Student-loan oversight has weakened following the Trump administration's call to

• OpenAI just hired Charles Porch, Instagram's head of partnerships.
• Porch has deep connections to celebrities and Hollywood, and plans to talk to them about their "fears" of AI.
• Maybe OpenAI is realizing they need celebrities to stop publicly hating AI so much.

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• OpenAI and Meta alum Philip Su said that AI was turning software engineers into managers.
• Individual contributors are now performing managerial skills like delegating and giving feedback, he wrote in a Substack essay.
• Meanwhile, Big Tech is thinning out traditional management layers as it prizes a flat structure and "founder mode."

Use AI at work? You might be a manager and not

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• AI token usage soared in recent weeks, while Nvidia GPU pricing has jumped.
• AI is evolving from chatbots to AI agents and other forms of automated computer use.
• That's driving exponential growth in AI inference, suggesting robust demand for advanced models.

AI demand has surged in recent weeks, according to new data that could support

• Some Meta product managers now call themselves "AI Builders."
• Inside Meta, product managers already vibe-code prototypes for leadership.
• AI coding tools are shaking up the tech industry, including at companies like Google and LinkedIn.

Meta product managers are rebranding. Some are now calling themselves "AI builders," a signal that AI coding tools are

• Northern Virginia is home to the world's largest data center market.
• That could soon change, as Big Tech ramps up data center construction across the US.
• West Texas, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Ohio are emerging as key markets.

The old saying "Everything is bigger in Texas" now applies to data

• Kathryn Shiber's lawsuit against boutique firm Centerview sheds light on the hours junior employees work.
• Lawyers plan to ask prospective jurors how they feel about Wall Street — and its work culture.
• The trial is scheduled to begin in Manhattan