Atlassian to buy Arc developer The Browser Company for $610M
Productivity software maker Atlassian has agreed to acquire The Browser Company, which makes the Arc and Dia browsers, for $610 million in cash.
California Senate revises AB 831 to restrict online sweepstakes casinos
The California Senate has tweaked Assembly Bill 831 (AB 831), a proposal that aims to shut down online sweepstakes casinos in the state. Lawmakers stressed that the bill isn’t meant to interfere with state lottery
Michigan shuts down four unlicensed online casinos targeting state residents
The Michigan Gaming Control Board (MGCB) has sent cease and desist letters to four online casinos that officials say were unlicensed. The sites are Betty Wins, Orbit Spins, Pacific Spins Casino, and Yabby Casino,
DuckDuckGo adds access to advanced models to it subscription plan
With DuckDuckGo’s $9.99 per month plan, users will be able to access newer models, including OpenAI’s GPT-4o and GPT-5, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4, and Meta’s Llama Maverick.
Evolution and Pragmatic Play shut down content on Stake in California
The major iGaming content providers Evolution and Pragmatic Play have pulled their content from Stake.us for users in California after a civil enforcement filed by the City of Los Angeles on August 29. Led by the
Florida police departments team up to raid 11 stores for illegal gambling machines
Polk County Sheriff’s Department and Auburndale Police Department have joined forces to search Florida stores for illegal gambling machines. In a video shared to Facebook by the Polk County Sheriff’s Department,
CFTC gives Polymarket the ‘green light’ to return to the US
Polymarket has been given the ‘green light’ by the CFTC, as announced by the prediction market’s CEO on social media. In a notice shared on September 3, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) confirmed that
Madrid’s Orbital Paradigm aims to prove a cheaper path to orbital reentry
Orbital Paradigm is moving fast and cheap to industrialize low Earth orbit.
Mistral, the French AI giant, is reportedly on the cusp of securing a $14B valuation
The two-year-old OpenAI rival, founded by former DeepMind and Meta researchers, develops open source language models and Le Chat, its AI chatbot built for European audiences.
Scale AI is suing a former employee and rival Mercor, alleging they tried to steal its biggest customers
Scale is clearly concerned enough about the threat of Mercor, and the poaching of one of its employees, to pursue legal action.