Polymarket Launches Prediction Markets on Private Company Valuations With Nasdaq Data

TOKYO and SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 19, 2026 — Hitachi, Ltd. today announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic, a global leader in AI safety research and trusted AI models, to further strengthen […] The post Hitachi Partners with Anthropic to Strengthen ‘Lumada 3.0’ Through Frontier AI appeared first on AIwire.

The Big Four accounting and consulting firms — Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and PwC — advertised more AI-related job postings than traditional auditing positions in 2025, according to a new analysis by the Financial Times. Nearly 7% of the firms’ job postings required AI expertise, compared to less than 2% in 2022 when OpenAI’s ChatGPT was launched. At the same time, auditing roles accounted for just under 3% of the postings last year. One of the firms also noted that a single job posting could, in some cases, apply to multiple positions. According to the Times, the hiring trend shows how quickly AI is transforming the consulting and auditing industries. At the same time, the industry is trying to adapt to the fact that AI could undercut the need for certain junior positions. Traditionally, consulting firms have been built on a “pyramid model” where many younger employees work under a smaller number of senior managers and partners. AI is now expected to automate parts of that workplace arrange

AI content is getting good, but SynthID might be able to help tell truth from fiction.

The SEC's IPO rule overhaul could streamline public listings, potentially boosting market access for startups and tech firms, but may reduce investor transparency. The post SEC proposes major overhaul of IPO rules to ease public listings appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Polymarket has struck a deal with Nasdaq’s private-markets arm to launch prediction markets tied to private-company valuations, IPO timing and secondary trading, opening a new way for retail and institutions to bet on and benchmark unicorns before they list. According…

Google is making a big push into cybersecurity. At I/O, the company announced that it was inviting select groups of experts to test the API for CodeMender, an "AI agent for code security" it debuted last October. The difference is that Google is now making the tool more widely available externally - and marketing it as a way to, as Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu put it, "help secure the world's code bases" by both flagging and fixing vulnerabilities. Anthropic's surprise Claude Mythos Preview announcement seemed to shock the AI world - and a ton of others, like top banks and the Federal Reserve chair. So, led by Anthropic's news, a … Read the full story at The Verge.

OpenAI announced two new measures to help detect AI generated imagery: joining the open C2PA standard and adding Google's SynthID to its products.

Google is embracing the rise of AI coding agents with new Android tools designed to work with platforms like Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, allowing developers — or their AI assistants — to build Android apps faster from the command line.