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Norwegian officials are looking into a potential cybercrime after they noticed a massive surge in betting activity on this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, several hours before the official announcement was made.  The convenient timing, coupled with the sheer amount of money wagered, means the Norwegian Nobel Institute is treating it as a possible case of espionage.

Before the big announcement, the Polymarket prediction platform had Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado's odds of win

The 2024 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for their fundamental discoveries in machine learning, which paved the way for how artificial intelligence is used today.

Hopfield, a professor at Princeton University and Hinton, a computer scientist at the University of Toronto, were praised for laying the foundations for the machine learning that powers many of today’s AI-based products and applications.  Hinton, however, has also expressed fears about AI’s