Gemini partners with Grok for AI-powered prediction market feeds

A book about how AI shapes perceptions of reality came under fire for using AI-generated quotes. Its problems go beyond that.

Wintermute is providing liquidity on the two biggest prediction markets, linking flows for both firms, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Enterprises everywhere have been urging employees to adopt AI, with internal leaderboards springing up to show who has used the most AI tokens. Such games can backfire, though, as Amazon recently discovered. Kirorank, an unofficial leaderboard tracking usage of Amazon’s Kiro AI tool, ranked workers according to their AI activity, but senior managers at Amazon found that employees were creating AI agents to carry out unnecessary tasks in an attempt to boost their scores, a practise known as tokenmaxxing, according to a report in the Financial Times. The tracker has now been taken offline. Kirorank The FT quoted an Amazon senior VP as saying that the leaderboard had been built “with good intentions” but the compute costs it generated were too high. Amazon is not the only company to find that attempts to boost AI use can have negative implications. In April, Meta killed an unofficial ranking system called Claudeoconomics, which had also led to a frenzy of tokenmaxxing. Token usage is easy

Google’s new AI ad formats could weaken publisher traffic, but they also reveal why credible media still matters.

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A research project examining AI-driven recruitment hires across the US has revealed a systemic racial bias. Researchers from Stanford University found a startling pattern of racial disparities when looking at the interview offers resulting from 4 million job applications submitted to 156 employers. The situation is aggravated by the “monoculture” in AI hiring software: More than 90% of US employers are screening job applicants with software, with 60% of Fortune 500 companies using the same tool, HireVue, the researchers found. Applicants who applied to multiple companies using AI had all their applications rejected more often than would be expected if each company’s screening methods were independent. They calculated that Black and Asian candidates were rejected in greater numbers than baseline figures would suggest. According to the survey, 29,000 more Asians would have been interviewed if AI had not been deployed. The researchers are concerned about the way in which AI is being used.

I will sit right down (waiting for the gift of sound and vision) And I will sing (waiting for the gift of sound and vision) — David Bowie Apple is planning to sponsor and present 14 AI research papers at the annual IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in Denver next week, just days before it introduces major new AI features at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC). The fresh research explores topics such as using LLMs in image generation, quality testing, and user interface prototyping. For months, supply chain rumors have hinted at a radical evolution for the ubiquitous AirPods in the form of built-in ambient cameras. With this in mind, it’s noteworthy that one of the research papers, “From Where Things Are to What They’re For: Benchmarking Spatial–Functional Intelligence for Multimodal LLMs,” specifically seems to cater for such use cases.  Accessibility for the people In application, this tech promises profound potential for accessibility. It sug

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