A visitor to the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood in Florida won a Dragon Link progressive jackpot of $1,143,913.90. The win came on Sunday 9 August 2026 whilst the player was betting $25.
Netflix is continuing to transform its business model by making advertising a new driver of growth. The platform has just appointed its first head dedicated to gambling sector advertisers, a move that has reignited speculation about the possible arrival of casino adverts.
Netflix had intended to highlight the rise of prediction markets through a new documentary, but a few days before its release, the American company Kalshi accused the streaming platform of presenting inaccurate and misleading information about its business and claims to have launched an initial legal challenge to prevent the broadcast.
Amazon has reached a remarkable settlement in a US lawsuit concerning social casino apps. The technology company will not pay any compensation itself, but is giving players the opportunity to recover over 201 million dollars from the developers behind the apps.
A cyberattack has hit Polymarket, an online prediction platform, resulting in an estimated loss of $3.1 million in cryptocurrencies for several users. The company states that the incident stemmed from a compromised external software provider and not from a flaw in its internal infrastructure.
The MLBPA, the players’ union of Major League Baseball, wants to ban betting linked to players’ individual performances.
A Google software engineer, Michele Spagnuolo, is the subject of a criminal complaint in the United States. The authorities accuse him of exploiting internal, non-public company information to place winning bets on Polymarket.
A man from Arizona has been found guilty of faking his own kidnapping by a Mexican cartel in order to obtain money to cover gambling debts.
Online gambling is increasingly found in the pockets of young users. What is currently leading to political unrest in the United States is sounding more and more familiar in Belgium.
Kalshi recently penalised several political candidates for betting on their own electoral prospects. A case that raises questions about ethics, transparency and the limits of financial tools applied to politics.
AI is making its mark in the gambling industry, but its adoption remains uneven and sometimes poorly supervised. According to a recent study by the University of Nevada, structural flaws are stifling its effectiveness.
A recent social media post by Donald Trump has sparked an unexpected controversy. He shared an AI-generated image featuring the logo of Stake, an online gambling platform that is unauthorised in the United States and in many European countries.
The NBA has just turned a new page in its history by agreeing to explore the possibility of bringing franchises to Las Vegas and Seattle. The Nevada city is one step away from joining the elite of world basketball.
In Las Vegas, there is no shortage of stories of spectacular wins, but some defy the odds to the point of becoming almost unreal. Such is the case of an anonymous player who, in a single session, hit two jackpots on the same machine at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas.
Polymarket is arming itself with Palantir’s AI technology to mercilessly track down match-fixing and suspicious bets. A crucial step to definitively sideline fraudsters and make the gambling market safer.
