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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis believes progress toward artificial general intelligence (AGI) is moving faster than expected and that society now has only a few years to prepare. He believes AGI could arrive around 2030, though acknowledges it could be here in 2029 — or even sooner. In an interview with Axios, Hassabis said that today’s AI agents — systems capable of performing tasks independently — should be viewed as a sort of “practice run” for significantly more powerful AI in the future. He also warned that governments, economists, and society at large are not taking this development seriously enough. One particular risk he highlighted is that AI systems in the future might begin to improve their own development. “All the leading labs are pretty focused on that,” Hassabis told Axios. “It will yield clear benefits in the form of faster research. But there are also risks associated with that type of system.”
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The case highlights vulnerabilities in prediction markets, prompting increased scrutiny and potential regulatory changes to prevent insider trading. The post Polymarket faces insider trading scrutiny as Google engineer charged with fraud appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
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Google Pay is overhauling its payment infrastructure for an impending wave of transactions from AI agents. The latest updates introduce the Universal Commerce Protocol and a new server architecture, positioning Google Pay as a central clearinghouse for purchases executed by autonomous agents rather than human users. AI agents – designed to perform tasks like booking […] The post Google Pay preps for AI agents with Universal Commerce Protocol appeared first on AI News.
This case underscores the legal risks of exploiting corporate data in prediction markets, potentially tightening regulatory scrutiny on such platforms. The post Google engineer charged with insider trading on Polymarket after $1.2M in alleged profits appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
