Author: Maverick Studios
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Gazing Into Sam Altman’s Orb Now Proves You’re Human on Tinder
Honestly, what’s hotter than a real person?
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Nova Forge SDK series part 2: Practical guide to fine-tune Nova models using data mixing capabilities
This hands-on guide walks through every step of fine-tuning an Amazon Nova model with the Amazon Nova Forge SDK, from data preparation to training with data mixing to evaluation, giving you a repeatable playbook you can adapt to your own use case. This is the second part in our Nova Forge SDK series, building on…
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From hours to minutes: How Agentic AI gave marketers time back for what matters
Your marketing team loses hours to page assembly, coordination emails, and review cycles. These manual workflows keep teams from their most important work: identifying what problems customers face, crafting messages that resonate, and building campaigns that drive meaningful engagement. In this post, we share how AWS Marketing’s Technology, AI, and Analytics (TAA) team worked with…
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AI Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body
AI-assisted writing is creeping into newsrooms under the guise of efficiency. But the tradeoff may be more profound than publishers are willing to admit.
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NCAA seeks faster trial over DraftKings disputed March Madness branding case
The NCAA is asking a federal judge in Indiana to speed up its trademark fight with DraftKings, saying the normal court calendar could let the sportsbook ride another March Madness wave before the dispute is decided. In a filing reviewed by ReadWrite and dated Wednesday (April 15) in the U.S. District Court for the Southern…
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Yocha Dehe slams Vallejo Council over rushed casino deal approval process
The Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation has sharply rebuked Vallejo leaders after a divided City Council approved an agreement clearing the way for the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians to pursue a temporary gaming facility. Tribal leaders said the city rushed through the decision, limited public scrutiny and weakened confidence in local government. Council members…
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CFTC’s one-man show gets awkward on the Hill as lawmakers hammer Selig on sports bets, staffing gaps and corruption claims
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) came to the House Agriculture Committee on Thursday (April 16), hoping to talk about market integrity and fraud. Instead, it got dragged into the much messier question hanging over prediction markets, i.e. when does a “financial product” start looking suspiciously like a sportsbook in a blazer? The answer, judging…
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Maryland session ends leaving sweepstakes gaming bills stalled once again as SGLA celebrates
Maryland wrapped up its 2026 legislative session without approving two bills targeting sweepstakes-style gaming, keeping a familiar fight unresolved for at least another year. The measures, HB 295 and HB 1226, both cleared the House of Delegates. Neither one made it through the Senate before lawmakers adjourned on April 13, which ended their chances this…
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New York lawsuit says Stake and Coinbase targeted child gambler for years
A New York resident identified as John Doe has sued Stake.com, Stake.us, Coinbase and related companies in New York State Supreme Court, accusing them of helping run years of illegal online gambling that he says started when he was still a child. The case was filed in Manhattan. It says the plaintiff began using the…
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Should my enterprise AI agent do that? NanoClaw and Vercel launch easier agentic policy setting and approval dialogs across 15 messaging apps
For the past year, early adopters of autonomous AI agents have been forced to play a murky game of chance: keep the agent in a useless sandbox or give it the keys to the kingdom and hope it doesn’t hallucinate a catastrophic “delete all” command. To unlock the true utility of an agent—scheduling meetings, triaging…