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Meta is under scrutiny after a Wired investigation revealed that hundreds of company contractors posed as teenagers to prompt rival chatbots, including Gemini and ChatGPT, into discussing suicide, sexual content, and drug use. It raises serious questions about competitive intelligence gathering and ethical guardrails inside one of the world's most powerful tech companies.
Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg is also making news on a different front, reportedly urging Meta to explore partnerships with prediction market platforms Polymarket and Kalshi. The move signals growing corporate interest in real-money forecasting tools, and it puts Meta closer to territory that regulators and policymakers are still figuring out how to govern.
On a more optimistic note, NASA's X-fifty-nine aircraft, nicknamed the frankenjet for its unconventional design, has been conducting supersonic flight tests aimed at eliminating the disruptive sonic boom. If the research holds, it could eventually reopen the door to commercial supersonic travel over land, something that has been effectively banned for decades.
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