Google engineer charged with insider trading after making $1.2M on Polymarket

The U.S. Justice Department charged Google software engineer Michele Spagnuolo with insider trading, alleging the employee made $1.2 million trading on Polymarket based on confidential business information. Spagnuolo, who used the name “AlphaRaccoon” on Polymarket, has worked at Google for over 12 years, according to information on LinkedIn. “As alleged, Spagnuolo violated the duties he…

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Triomics nabs M to convey oncology-specific AI to most cancers facilities

Triomics nabs $22M to convey oncology-specific AI to most cancers facilities

Triomics, a startup constructing an AI-powered platform to assist oncologists and administrative employees automate data-heavy duties like scientific trial matching and appointment prep, has raised $22 million in Collection B funding. The spherical was led by Battery Ventures, with participation from returning backers Nexus Enterprise Companions, Lightspeed, Y Combinator, and others. The excellent news is…

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Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans

Meta is doubling down on its subscription offerings. On Wednesday, the social networking giant announced it’s now rolling out its consumer subscription plans globally for its flagship apps, Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, and beginning tests of new subscriptions for businesses, creators, and Meta AI users. For a few dollars per month, consumers subscribing to Instagram…

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UK Visa Portal exposed thousands of applicants’ passports and selfies — then called the lawyers on us

A website called UK Visa Portal publicly exposed thousands of passports and selfie photos of applicants who paid the site to obtain a U.K. immigration visa, TechCrunch has learned. An anonymous person notified TechCrunch about the security lapse, saying that the website was exposing at least 100,000 documents from people who uploaded their passports and…

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NVIDIA Releases Polar, a Token-Faithful Rollout Framework for GRPO Training Across Codex, Claude Code, and Qwen Code

Reinforcement learning for language agents is growing more complex. Agents now manage multi-turn tool use, long-running contexts, and multi-agent orchestration. The main engineering challenge is connecting existing agent software to training pipelines without breaking how those tools work. NVIDIA’s research team introduced Polar, a rollout framework that lets researchers run reinforcement learning over any agent…

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