Chicago weighs major sports betting tax hike in $16.6 billion budget
Chicago is weighing a $16.6 billion city budget, and one part of it is catching the eye of the sports betting world.
The proposal would shake up how sports wagering is taxed inside city limits. Chicag...
Retailers struggle to spot AI-doctored images in refund requests
Generative AI is democratizing e-commerce fraud, with scammers increasingly using AI-generated images to secure refunds for items they never return. According to Wired, online shopping platforms—whi...
Big Tech Moves Toward Specialized AI and Immersive Retail
From new multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) models to immersive storytelling spaces and agent-driven enterprise tools, Big Tech’s latest moves show AI becoming the connective tissue across prod...
How Much Water Does the A.I. Industry Use?
Kevin Roose and Casey Newton, the hosts of “Hard Fork” at The New York Times, spoke with Andrew Marley, executive director for Effective Altruism DC, about how much water A.I. data centers use....
