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Emma Roth
Emma Roth
The CFTC is suing three states for trying to regulate prediction markets.

Lawsuits against Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois accuse the states of violating the CFTC’s “exclusive regulatory authority” over prediction betting markets operated by companies like Kalshi and Polymarket. The CFTC claims the three states have attempted to “outlaw, regulate, or otherwise restrain” prediction betting as concerns grow over potential insider trading.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Google’s new Gemma 4 ‘open’ AI model sets developers free.

Previous versions used a custom license that has been criticized as too restrictive. With Gemma 4, Google is moving to the Apache 2.0 license, which is much more permissive and widely used by developers, including for other Google products like Android. The new model also offers performance improvements, as detailed in the video below.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Google Meet now has a native CarPlay experience.

Calls will be audio only, though — no video (which makes sense). An Android Auto version of Meet is set to launch “soon,” Google says.

An image of Google Meet’s CarPlay experience.
Image: Google
Elon Musk is about to be a very busy boy!

I’m sure he’d call it ‘freaking epic.’

Elizabeth Lopatto
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Google’s AI-powered video editor is getting an upgrade.

In addition to adding support for Veo 3.1 and Lyria 3 models, Google Vids now allows you to direct and customize the AI-generated avatars you can put in your videos. You can also record your screen with a new Google Vids extension in Chrome, as well as upload videos directly to YouTube.

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Hayden Field
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Soccer on Amazon Prime.

Via Amazon Luna, that is; EA Sports FC 26 is now be playable for Amazon Prime subscribers at no extra cost on recently-revamped Amazon’s cloud gaming service.

Luna April Content Update

[Amazon Game Studios]

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
PlayStation is acquiring Cinemersive Labs, a “machine learning and computer vision company.”

Sony says the team at Cinemersive Labs will join Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Visual Computing Group and “contribute to our broader efforts in advancing state of the art visual computing within games.”