What happens when AI starts gambling on soccer?

A Brazil supporter cheers ahead of a World Cup rmatch against Japan in Houston. Reuters A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter. Sign up for the weekly BI Tech Memo newsletter here. How do you measure whether an AI is actually good at predicting the future? The CTO of startup Obside emailed me recently with a fascinating real-world benchmark. Instead of giving AI models another standardized test, Obside had ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Mistral, DeepSeek,…