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Let us begin by tipping a small, respectful, slightly terrified king to the International Chess Federation, which has managed to connect three things that reliably make people feel inadequate: chess, artificial intelligence and education. At FIDE’s “Chess & AI in Education” Congress in Menorca, Spain, in April, the message was not that robots are […]

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Paul S. Atkins said Friday (May 8) that he believes the SEC must provide greater clarity around on-chain financial markets and that he continues to encourage Congress to pass the CLARITY Act to future-proof these efforts. In a speech delivered at the Special Competitive Studies Project’s AI+ Expo, Atkins said today’s software applications do […]

Wearables track sleep, heart rate and recovery in real time. Logging a meal still means searching a database, estimating a portion and typing it in by hand. That gap has been one of digital health’s most stubborn problems. Polyverse, the developer behind CalCam, is trying to close it. The app uses Google’s Gemini 2.0 […]

Customer acquisition at scale is no longer the name of the online sports betting game. According to executives on DraftKings’ Friday (May 8) first-quarter 2026 earnings call, competition is increasingly centered on infrastructure, data science and product integration. CEO Jason Robins framed “sports predictions” as the company’s next strategic frontier, describing the category as […]

The legal fight over Illinois’ first-in-the-nation swipe fee law is headed back to federal district court. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Friday (May 8) vacated a lower-court decision in the challenge to the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act and remanded the case to the U.S. District Court for the […]

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency highlighted artificial intelligence as both a risk and an opportunity for innovation in its spring 2026 Semiannual Risk Perspective. AI is one of several key issues facing banks surveyed in the report released Thursday (May 7). “Artificial intelligence is significantly transforming the cyber threat landscape, while […]

The labor market added jobs at a moderate pace in April, but the latest employment data also underscored a reality that has increasingly defined the economy in the United States. Font-line workers remain central to hiring growth even as many workers continue to balance cautious optimism with concerns about long-term stability. The Bureau of […]

Airbnb is gaining innovation and efficiency through its use of artificial intelligence, the company said in a shareholder letter released Thursday (May 7). The company’s engineers now coauthor 60% of the code they produce with AI, enabling teams to ship faster, iterate more quickly, and deliver more improvements to guests and hosts, according to […]

The productivity debate around enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) has narrowed to one question: how much faster can workers complete existing tasks? Anthropic’s internal research suggests that framing leaves something out. The company found that 27% of AI-assisted work inside Anthropic came from tasks employees wouldn’t have attempted without AI. That work wasn’t impractical because it […]

Mastercard has launched a program designed to help small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region navigate the trade disruptions, rising energy and logistics costs, and other strains caused by the current regional conflict. Dubbed “Built Small. Moving Strong.,” the program brings together banks, government entities and ecosystem partners to […]