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River Markets, which gives professional traders a single place to trade across multiple prediction markets, raised an $8.5M seed led by Haun Ventures (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/08/11/exclusive-river-m…

Exclusive: River Markets announces $8.5 million seed round to build prediction market trading tools for institutions
The round was led by Haun Ventures alongside Y Combinator, Coinbase Ventures and others.

Central bankers in economies including the US, Japan and the UK will face a moment of truth this week,
as surging inflation raises the prospect of higher interest rates.
Policymakers in all three countries will set rates in the next seven days
against the backdrop of turbulent global bond markets.
In particular, investors will be watching closely to see if Kevin Warsh, the new chair of the US Federal Reserve,
can face down Donald Trump’s demands for rate cuts an…

Surging inflation puts interest rates back in focus as policymakers meet in Japan, US and UK
Iran war and turbulent global bond markets add to pressure as rate decisions loom this week in major western economies

2026 Cowboys Season Preview: What Prediction Markets Forecast for Dallas https://insidethestar.com/2026-cowboys-season-preview-what-prediction-markets-forecast-for-dallas

Kalshi referred 32 possible insider traders to the CFTC in the three months through June; sources: CFTC has up to 20 ongoing probes using just Kalshi's evidence (Sharon LaFraniere/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/us/politics/predic…

Prediction Firms Are Flagging Insider Traders. Many Will Not Face Charges.
The agency that polices the industry does not have the staffing, the legal tools or the will to broadly crack down on wagers that are easily manipulated, experts say.

"markets" - funny, I thought the "#market" would provide solutions.
How long until the "leaders" acknowledge that the current economic paradigm - the #NeoliberalMyth - is at the root of the problems we all face? Problems like the cost of healthcare, education, housing, mobility, problems we were told "privatization" would solve.

France’s dilemma: protesters demand spending as markets require fiscal restraint
Waves of protests expose debt crisis faced by French government, but political wrangling is stalling an escape plan. Is there a way out?

"markets" - funny, I thought the "#market" would provide solutions.
How long until the "leaders" acknowledge that the current economic paradigm - the #NeoliberalMyth - is at the root of the problems we all face? Problems like the cost of healthcare, education, housing, mobility, problems we were told "privatization" would solve.

France’s dilemma: protesters demand spending as markets require fiscal restraint
Waves of protests expose debt crisis faced by French government, but political wrangling is stalling an escape plan. Is there a way out?

The CFTC uses its "emergency authority" to order Kalshi to continue operating in New York after the state filed a lawsuit in July seeking to shutter Kalshi (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/08/11

CFTC orders Kalshi to continue offering prediction markets in New York after state lawsuit
New York sued Kalshi last month in a bid to block it from operating sports-related prediction markets.

NFL asks Supreme Court to regulate prediction markets at the state level https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7671964/2026/10/08/nfl-supreme-court-prediction-markets-kalshi/

Not sure what this is all about but I've been enjoying listening to NFL game preview podcasts in the evening when the games already happened. Just amusing how it doesn't matter who the forecaster is, ex-player/GM/analyst/fan etc. they can consistently get the predictions terrible wrong and absolutely right. It's a toss up hehehe. Easy money for the prediction markets #nfl

Die Google-Suche sieht in Europa ab sofort anders aus. 👀 Der Tech-Gigant hat damit begonnen, im Europäischen Wirtschaftsraum die Darstellung von Suchergebnissen anzupassen – und ist darüber alles andere als glücklich.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11446040?wt…

Spotify expands audiobooks to 180 markets, bringing its catalog to 750M users, and adds 350K titles in 120 languages in partnership with 300 publishers (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/07/spotify-expands-audiobooks-to-over-180-mark…

Spotify expands audiobooks to over 180 markets | TechCrunch
Spotify will make 350,000 titles available in over 120 languages for this expansion

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 2972 nodes and 3565 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

Tencent raised ~$5.7B via US dollar and offshore yuan debt offerings, drawing $23B in orders; source: it had initially been expected to raise at least $4.5B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/tencent-markets-us-d…

Donald Trump is trying to make America more like him.
But voters will soon get to deliver a verdict on the president’s efforts to redefine how the government he leads wields power at home and abroad.
Three flashpoints illustrate how his coercive and transactional instincts are changing the character of the country and how the rest of the world sees us.
🔸Ever since World War II, America has nurtured democracy.
But by allowing Russia to supply markets with diesel, Trump…

Russia deal, execution plans and deportations tell a defining tale about Trump and power
Hegseth’s plan livestream the death by firing squad of the Fort Hood mass shooter and other Trump administration moves court backlash.

What the fantasy, betting markets say about expectations for 2026 Raiders https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/what-the-fantasy-betting-markets-say-about-expectations-for-2026-raiders-3883152/

So San Francisco's #MayorLurie say he needs more authority to fix SF's problems?
Like he's fixing the drug problem, and won't show up to discuss it?
https://

S.F. supervisors press city on drug markets: Are the crackdowns working?
Supervisors reached a stalemate at the hearing. Despite requests for a representative from Mayor Lurie’s office to be present, no one showed.

So San Francisco's #MayorLurie say he needs more authority to fix SF's problems?
Like he's fixing the drug problem, and won't show up to discuss it?
https://

S.F. supervisors press city on drug markets: Are the crackdowns working?
Supervisors reached a stalemate at the hearing. Despite requests for a representative from Mayor Lurie’s office to be present, no one showed.

Pangolin DNA study links local wild meat markets to global trafficking networks https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/07/pangolin-dna-study-links-local-wild-meat-markets-to-global-trafficking-networks/…

Pangolin DNA study links local wild meat markets to global trafficking networks
Pangolin scales and other body parts trafficked internationally appear to come from the same areas that supply the animals for local wild meat markets, a new study has found. It created a DNA database and location-prediction model for three threatened species: the white-bellied (Phataginus tricuspis), Sunda (Manis javanica) and Chinese (Manis pentadactyla) pangolins. Pangolins are […]

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 2972 nodes and 3565 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

Blockchain.com seeks CFTC approval to offer event contracts and cryptocurrency derivatives in the US; it already offers some prediction markets internationally (Davis Giangiulio/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/09/blockchain-com-cftc-prediction-markets.html

Blockchain.com seeks U.S. approval for prediction markets, crypto derivatives trading
Blockchain.com is seeking CFTC designation and registration to offer U.S. event contracts and cryptocurrency derivatives.

"How social media and parrotfish poop are protecting the Maldives"
#Maldives #SocialMedia #Animals

How social media and parrotfish poop are protecting the Maldives
It started six years ago when Shaha Hashim began seeing posts across social media: Vulnerable and protected species were being fished throughout the atoll islands of the Maldives, and some were even turning up in fish markets. This included animals like the giant clam (genus Tridacna), Napoleon wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus), and even species of parrotfish […]

We’re doing a cozy book launch at #EASST2026, today, 1pm, library. Join us for for a cheers, and get ready for the open call for Vol. 3 of Predictions!
In the third volume, #prediction markets will be one focus. Against the inevitable.

H&M targeted by hackers behind Asos cyberattack
https://www.thetimes.com/business/companies-markets/article/h-and-m-xbnlq60g7

I realize this is probably irrelevant in many "academic" cases — someone has already nailed down the problem precisely and presented it as a mathematical abstraction, and "all" that's left is to find a good algorithm. But if you were closer to the problem space (organ markets, say?) you might think a lot about the human behaviors, especially in conjunction with government, policy experts, ethicists, etc.? So I'm curious how the field as a whole handles this.

NYT CEO Kopit Levien confirms The Athletic is no longer pursuing a major partnership with Kalshi, saying "we take the trust of our readers incredibly seriously" (Brett LoGiurato/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/the-prediction-market-predicament

The Prediction Market Predicament
Prediction markets are making inroads with major news organizations, but at the Status Summit, two of the industry’s most influential leaders raised questions about whether embracing them could undermine reader trust.

#CapitalOne Cites Money Laundering Review in #Trump-Related Suit https://finance.yah…

RE: #cybernerics at this...
Capitalism uses markets as an evolutionary algorithm that evolves functions that turn all the complexity of the world into a single variable across a continuum of "line go up/line go down." Everything that can't be translated is helpfully thrown away.
Almost every problem we face in the world today (looking right at you, climate change), comes either directly or indirectly from the lack of verity and the omission of this out of band data.
False scarcity is a capitalist tool to manage externalities, and it doesn't work. I'm not saying this can't help, but there are so many ways to game the solution that it's not even funny.
The market incentivizes optimization that omits (what it considers) spurious data. So if there is a way to abuse the system, the system will find a way to abuse it.
You can't solve this problem inside of capitalism (nor within the apparatus of any state), and trying to do so will ultimately be subverted by markets. Evolutionary algorithms are extremely powerful things, even very simple ones. The problem is that the algorithm lacks the complexity to solve it, so it will evolve systems that find ways to omit extraneous signals.
It's unfortunate, because the problem is right and the solution seems like it could fit. But I don't think it can. It also omits invisible labor, which is just a thing you inherit when you use capitalism (or any implicitly patriarchal system).

Trump threatens to use military force against high interest rates in the US. 🤡
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-suggests-military-bond-markets-222513278.html

Trump Suggests He Can Use the Military on Bond Markets: ‘If We Have To Use That, We Will’
Trump was asked by a reporter whether he had directed Bessent to intervene in the bond market and what other options were on the table.

FlightAware withdraws its lawsuit against Kalshi, a day after it alleged Kalshi is using its data without permission to let users bet on flight cancellations (Sumedha Mukherjee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/f

Donald Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to supply more than 4 million tons of diesel to the global market.
Diesel prices have surged around the world as Ukraine has pounded Russian refineries, forcing Moscow to ban diesel exports.
Trump is under growing political pressure to take action to reduce fuel prices ahead of the November midterm elections.
Putin is under growing pressure to sell Russian oil , to finance higher s genocidal war against Ukraine …

Trump strikes deal with Putin to supply Russian diesel to U.S. and global markets
President Donald Trump has few options to reduce diesel prices given the destruction done to refineries by the wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

I received this GrowSF poll. The language was heavily loaded to make the use of these drones and cameras sound much more limited and accountable than it would ever be in actuality. I saw through it because I know their game, most people wouldn't.
Remember that polls can be used more to manufacture a narrative than to honestly uncover what people actually think.

Dak Prescott’s 2026 MVP Odds: What Prediction Markets Say About the Cowboys QB https://insidethestar.com/dak-prescotts-2026-mvp-odds-what-prediction-markets-say-about-the-cowboys-qb

Disney strikes a multiyear deal to stream Formula E races on Disney and ESPN in the US and on Disney in most international markets starting in December (Sam Smith/The Race)
https://www.the-race.com/formula-e/formula-e-secures-major-disney-streaming-deal/

Formula E secures major Disney+ streaming deal
Formula E will be streamed live on Disney+ and ESPN channels from the start of the Gen4 era onwards later this year

RE: #Gaza now reporting acute hunger. The situation in the markets there is obvio…

from my link log —
Uber's path of destruction.
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/05/ubers-path-of-destruction/
saved 2019-09-10

Uber’s Path of Destruction - American Affairs Journal
Since it began operations in 2010, Uber has grown to the point where it now collects over $45 billion in gross passenger revenue, and it has seized a major share of the urban car service market. But the widespread belief that it is a highly innovative and successful company has no basis in economic reality. An examination of Uber’s economics suggests that it has no hope of ever earning sustainable urban car service profits in competitive markets...

Are global stock markets heading for a crash? | Stock markets | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2026/sep/20/stock-market-crash-government-bond-yields

Are global stock markets heading for a crash?
Economies thrown into renewed turmoil as AI debt, Iran war and soaring government bond yields fuel alarm

NFL asks SCOTUS to take up prediction market case https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50132618/nfl-supreme-court-kalshi-prediction-markets-regulation

As Trump Media scraps some businesses, it's doubling down on Truth Social and the president (Bernard Condon/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-crypto-prediction-markets-truth-social-trump-media-b2465005a4832ebbceb0e44b856375cb
http://www.memeorandum.com/260811/p51#a260811p51

Spotify expands audiobooks to 180 markets, bringing its catalog to 750M users, and adds 350K titles in 120 languages in partnership with 300 publishers (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/07/spotify-expands-audiobooks-to-over-180-mark…

Spotify expands audiobooks to over 180 markets | TechCrunch
Spotify will make 350,000 titles available in over 120 languages for this expansion

I've started collecting dates for various photography related markets/events in southern Germany & Austria (mostly Bavaria & Tirol) for the coming ~9 months. If you know about other such events (esp. for fine art photography prints), I'd highly appreciate any pointers and I'll add them to this list. Thank you! 🙏
The events are also available as static ICS calendar file here:

We’ve well established how the
$111 billion Paramount and Warner Brothers merger
is terrible for labor, creatives, consumers, and markets.
But the kind of behaviors Paramount leadership have been engaged in to sell the deal also give a pretty clear indication what kind of company we’re dealing with,
-- and why they shouldn’t be allowed to control an even bigger slice of U.S. media.
Recent desperate moves by Paramount include accusing all deal critics of being …

Paramount Caught Using ‘Astroturf’ Group To Drum Up Fake Support For Merger
We’ve well established how the $111 billion Paramount and Warner Brothers merger is terrible for labor, creatives, consumers, and markets. But the kind of behaviors Paramount leadership have …

Polymarket expands its live sports offerings, including partnering with the ATP Tour to integrate official tennis match streams into its platform (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/04/polymarket-atp-tour-tennis-prediction-markets

Polymarket becomes official prediction markets partner of ATP Tour
This deal is different from Polymarket's other sports partnerships because it goes beyond branding and official data into live media rights and product integration.

Q&A with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour on his vision to "financialize everything", sports betting, Kalshi's "philosophical misalignment" with Polymarket, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)
https://www.

Kalshi’s Tarek Mansour Isn’t Interested in Management Advice
Tarek Mansour co-founded the fast-growing prediction market company shortly after graduating from M.I.T., aiming to provide a “mathematical, objective” view of the world.

Bat virus fragments turn up in fertilizer sold in Thai markets, study finds https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/08/bat-virus-fragments-turn-up-in-fertilizer-sold-in-thai-markets-study-finds/

Bat virus fragments turn up in fertilizer sold in Thai markets, study finds
Researchers have found the first genetic evidence of bat-borne viruses within commercially sold bat guano fertilizer in Thailand. However, the viral strains the team detected are not known to infect humans. Moreover, since the researchers only identified fragments of viral RNA and did not isolate live, intact viruses, they could not confirm if the genetic […]

Week 1 NFL picks, predictions for Kalshi, Polymarket, Underdog: Bears-Panthers, Vikings-Packers markets

https://www.cbssports.com/prediction/news/

Paramount commits to keep UK linear and streaming services separate, maintain news and kids' networks editorially independent, and boost Channel 5 funding (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/busi

Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Cleared by UK Competition and Markets Authority
Despite the green light, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy previously warned she's "minded to intervene" and is still conducting her own assessment

FOIA docs: the CFTC launched at least three previously unreported investigations into Polymarket trading, including about Google's 2025 Year in Search Ranking (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/polymarket-investigations-iran-biden-google-foia/…

The US Government Launched 3 Previously Unreported Investigations of Polymarket Trades
The agency that oversees prediction markets has investigated Polymarket trades on Biden pardons and the Iran war—and even more potential insider trading at Google, documents obtained by WIRED show.

Google-Verstöße gegen DMA: EU verhängt insgesamt 890 Millionen Euro Strafe
Seit Monaten untersucht Brüssel mögliche Verstöße von Google gegen den Digital Markets Act. Jetzt wurden Strafen über zusammen fast 900 Millionen Euro verhängt.

Google-Verstöße gegen DMA: EU verhängt insgesamt 890 Millionen Euro Strafe
Seit Monaten untersucht Brüssel mögliche Verstöße von Google gegen den Digital Markets Act. Jetzt wurden Strafen über zusammen fast 900 Millionen Euro verhängt.

So I searched on "Penobscot farmers markets", and duckduckgo returned this as the first item.
Did you know "As one of Maine's largest cities, Penobscot County is home to a thriving farmers market scene. " ? (and no list of markets, just generic drivel).
I am so tired of this #AI BS
Farmers Markets in Penobscot County, Maine - CollectiveCrop

Farmers Markets in Penobscot County, Maine - CollectiveCrop
Find the best farmers markets in Penobscot County, Maine. Browse weekly schedules, seasonal produce, and local vendors near you. Your guide to fresh, local food at Penobscot County farmers markets.

So I searched on "Penobscot farmers markets", and duckduckgo returned this as the first item.
Did you know "As one of Maine's largest cities, Penobscot County is home to a thriving farmers market scene. " ? (and no list of markets, just generic drivel).
I am so tired of this #AI BS
Farmers Markets in Penobscot County, Maine - CollectiveCrop

Farmers Markets in Penobscot County, Maine - CollectiveCrop
Find the best farmers markets in Penobscot County, Maine. Browse weekly schedules, seasonal produce, and local vendors near you. Your guide to fresh, local food at Penobscot County farmers markets.

Nervous investors across big economies have been dumping government bonds,
driving up the cost of borrowing, as surging oil prices amplified fears about rising inflation.
The cost of a barrel of oil jumped 6% to above $107 on Thursday amid concerns that advances by Houthi rebels along the Red Sea coast in Yemen could choke off Saudi crude exports.
The global bond sell-off that has rocked markets in recent weeks resumed in response to the news from the Middle East
– wh…

Global bond sell-off resumes as surging oil prices stoke fears about inflation
Crude jumps above $107 a barrel amid concerns over Middle East conflict and out-of-control government borrowing

2026 NFL Awards: What Prediction Markets Say About the Cowboys' Chances https://insidethestar.com/2026-nfl-awards-what-prediction-markets-say-about-the-cowboys-chances

Citrini Research founder James van Geelen has sold the firm to SemiAnalysis for an undisclosed sum; sources: van Geelen plans to launch a new fund (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-11/citrini-founder-who…

Flight tracking platform FlightAware sues Kalshi in New York, alleging Kalshi is using its data without permission to let users bet on flight cancellations (Jack Morphet/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

LemonEdge, which provides fund accounting and operations tech for the private markets sector, raised a $21M Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments (FinTech Global)
https://fintech.global/2026/07/29/lemonedge-lands-21m-series-a-to-moder…

LemonEdge lands $21m Series A to modernise private markets
LemonEdge, a fund accounting platform designed specifically for the private markets sector, has secured $21m in Series A funding as it looks to speed up product development and deepen its footprint across the US and Europe. The round was led by Blackstone Innovations Investments, the early-stage venture arm of Blackstone, and included BNY, the global […]

Highest-paid players at every NFL position: Christian Gonzalez resets cornerback market with $132-million deal

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/highest-paid-players-at-every-nfl-po…

Eventual, a new media company that uses prediction market data and trader insights for forecasting and analysis, launches in partnership with Polymarket (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/28/prediction-markets-media-startup-eventual
…

Exclusive: Prediction markets get their own media company
Just as FiveThirtyEight turned polling into a new way to understand politics, Eventual believes prediction market data can be used to analyze everything from elections to the economy.

The modern stock market is now gamified to the point where it functions essentially like a casino.
While no one can predict the exact moment the game breaks, managing risk means refusing to get caught flat-footed when it does.
This is not about "don't trade stocks."
It's instead a warning that buying and holding isn't a viable strategy anymore.

Trying to Pick Individual Stocks to Buy Is the Most Pointless Thing Investors Can Do Now
Stock picking for long-term total returns used to be the investing equivalent of the American Way. Now, drip by drip, stock by stock, and sector by sector, i...

The CFTC proposes a federal framework for crypto exchanges to offer retail customers leveraged and margined spot trading, without requiring congressional action (Jason Shubnell/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/news/markets/2026-

CFTC proposes new federal framework for leveraged retail crypto trading
The agency floated a new "crypto asset market" exchange category but said it can't require crypto to trade on CFTC platforms without Congress.

Millions of people with private Medicare coverage are being forced to change their insurance for 2027
and will pay higher prices for prescriptions and medical care,
prompting some experts to warn that more older Americans will face greater financial hardship.
Major insurers, like UnitedHealth, Centene and state Blue Cross plans, have shuttered plans that they viewed as unprofitable in certain markets,
leaving some people with fewer choices of policies, and even more l…

Private Medicare Plans Are Raising Costs And Forcing Millions To Find New Insurance
As enrollment for Medicare Advantage begins this month, older Americans are confronting fewer options because insurers are discontinuing coverage in many areas.

E.W. Scripps revamps leadership of its local media division, cutting 27 roles and creating 11 regions led by general managers, most overseeing 2 to 4 markets (George Winslow/TV Tech)
https://www.tvtechnology.com/business/people/scripps-r…

Scripps Revamps Local Media Regional Leadership Structure
As part of the changes, 27 executive positions are being eliminated

ProphetX, a CFTC-designated sports prediction market that is also building a B2B business to sell its exchange infrastructure to other companies, raised $35M (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/07/28/prophetx-35m-b2b-predict…

Exclusive: ProphetX raises $35M for B2B sports prediction markets
The CFTC is giving an opening to sports prediction markets.

Waymo starts offering driverless rides to customers in San Diego, Tampa, Florida, and Denver; Amazon's Zoox plans to start testing in Houston and San Diego (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/01/waymo-and-zoox-expand-…

Waymo and Zoox expand into more U.S. markets as robotaxi race heats up
Waymo is bringing driverless rides to three more cities, and Amazon plans to start testing in two additional U.S. markets.

Buccaneers vs. Cowboys odds, picks: Surprising first touchdown predictions for Thursday Night Football

https://www.cbssports.com/prediction/news/

China is conquering high-tech markets once controlled by the West
This is how China prefers to be seen:
sleek, innovative and globally proficient in advanced manufacturing.

“They have gone all in on automation and robotics and minimizing labor and maximizing efficiency,”
said Michael Dunne, an auto industry consultant in San Diego.
“You will find in China’s auto industry the most advanced plants in the world, by far.”

And not just in the auto industry.

How China is conquering high-tech markets once controlled by the West
Once known for using cheap labor to produce inexpensive clothes and toys, Chinese factories increasingly make some of the world’s most sophisticated products.

Blockstream's Liquid Network halts new transactions after "purported white-hat hackers" withdrew ~4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its federation wallet (Omkar Godbole/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/…

Spotify expands its Partner Program to 35 new markets after easing eligibility requirements earlier in 2026 to 1,000 engaged listeners, three episodes, and more (Dragomir Stojkov/Net Influencer)
https://www.netinfluencer.com/spotify-expands-…

Spotify Expands Podcast Partner Program To More Than 35 New Markets
Spotify is expanding its Partner Program to more than 35 new markets, including Brazil, Colombia, Italy, Mexico, Poland and Spain. The rollout, set to launch later this fall, is the program’s largest expansion since it debuted in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia in January 2025. Eligible audio and video creators in […]

Here's what NFL prediction markets say about the Packers: Use Polymarket promo code CBSSPORTS for $20 bonus

https://www.cbssports.com/prediction/…

Robinhood's prediction markets revenue surged 10x YoY to $156M in Q2, topping stock and crypto for the first time as speculators shift to real-world event bets (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/robinhood-now…

Robinhood Now Makes More Revenue From Predictions Than From Stock Trades
Brokerage app Robinhood has quickly become a force in prediction markets, challenging the hold of Kalshi and Polymarket on the popular betting market. Robinhood’s prediction markets revenue surged more than tenfold year over year in the second quarter to $156 million, the company reported last ...

A group of US lawmakers is sounding the alarm over
prediction market platforms that allow users to bet on wildfires,
as experts warn the emerging trend could raise the risk of arson.
Democratic senators from six states sent a letter this week to the chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC),
an independent government agency regulating platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi,
urging it to rein in the practice.
“As the United States faces yet …

US senators urge crackdown on wildfire betting amid warnings of arson risk
Experts say growing trend on sites such as Polymarket and Kalshi could motivate people to start fires to win money

Disney will livestream Super Bowl LXI on February 14 in the US and 55 international markets, providing another platform for ESPN's first Super Bowl production (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/disney-plus-streaming-super-bow…

Disney Plus Streaming 2027 Super Bowl in US and 55 Countries
Disney+ will stream Super Bowl LXI for subscribers in the U.S. and dozens of countries worldwide on Feb. 14, 2027.

An appeals court rules states can regulate prediction markets, finding Kalshi's sports event contracts are bets, not swaps, and subject to state gambling laws (Lauren McCarthy/New York Times)
https://www.nytime…

Prediction Markets Should Be Regulated as Gambling, Appeals Court Says
The outcome contradicted an earlier appeals court decision. Federal regulators said the split rulings called for resolution by the Supreme Court.

Here's what prediction markets say about the Steelers: Use Polymarket promo code CBSSPORTS for $20 bonus

https://www.cbssports.com/prediction/news/

There are several, overlapping reasons for the bond market sell-off.
One is inflation.
Treasuries, which pay a fixed amount each year, are in part a bet on the future value of money
– with higher inflation eroding the real value of those payments.
With the Iran conflict slipping towards a forever war, keeping oil prices elevated,
and amid concerns about the new Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh’s willingness to raise interest rates,
investors are fretting …

Jumpy bond markets make it clear: Trump risks driving US into debt crisis
Treasury secretary Scott Bessent’s attempt to calm bond markets is a sign of weakness not strength

OpenAI expands its ad pilot program across 31 European markets, including Germany, France, Spain, and Italy; the pilot launched in the US, the UK, and others (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/openai-is-taking-its-ad-business-to-31-…

OpenAI Is Taking Its Ad Business to 31 New European Markets
Expansion of its ads pilot comes as ad revenue climbs over 25% since the start of August.

Sources: Donald Trump Jr. told GOP state AGs at a March event that gambling companies' "vested interest" was misleading states to attack prediction markets (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/technology/pre…

Prediction Markets and States Clashed, Setting Off a Furious Political Battle
A legal dispute over the future of Kalshi, Polymarket and others has drawn in the Trump administration, the president’s son and nearly every state attorney general.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority clears Paramount's takeover of WBD, saying "after the merger, Paramount will continue to face sufficient competition" (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Prediction markets are expanding into mainstream media, with integrations in Dow Jones, Substack, CNN, CNBC, and more, as they become an informational channel (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/prediction-markets-polymarket-media-company-kalshi/…

Polymarket’s Next Bet? It Can Also Be a Media Company
The legal battle over whether prediction markets are a form of gambling has overshadowed something else entirely: They’re already a new form of media.

Robinhood adds Crypto.com's yes-or-no contracts to its platform and takes minority stakes in the exchange and its prediction market business OG (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/curr…

The global sell-off in government bonds that has recently been gathering steam has pushed borrowing costs to their highest levels in decades.
Many analysts think the jump is not a blip but a lasting return to the elevated interest rates that were once common.
This shift is uncomfortable,
making it more expensive for governments, households and businesses to get loans.
It also shows the market is sending signals to central bankers that the short-term rates they contro…

The Bond Markets Are Pushing Up Rates. Will Central Banks Follow?
Around the world, rising bond yields reflect shifting expectations on how fast policymakers will raise interest rates.

WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal says he's stepping down after a year in the role; his hiring was part of a push to promote "personal liberties and free markets" (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/washington

Washington Post opinion editor leaves after about a year: memo
Adam O'Neal was hired to fulfill Jeff Bezos's mandate to champion "personal liberties and free markets." A replacement hasn't been named.

Crypto exchange BitMart says it plans to wind down its trading platform on January 31, 2027, ending 9 years of operation, and has stopped accepting new orders (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/07/2

BitMart to shut down after nine years, exchange token crashes 58%
Users have a month to close trades and six months to withdraw funds, and the exchange gave no specific reason for the closure.

Fed Confronts the Prospect of Another Rate Increase Ahead of Midterms
Financial markets are placing nearly 70 percent odds on the Federal Reserve raising interest rates in late October
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/business/fed-in…

Fed Faces Prospect of Another Interest Rate Increase Just Before Midterm Elections
Financial markets are placing nearly 70 percent odds on the Federal Reserve raising interest rates in late October.

Kalshi asks Netflix to take down a trailer for Instadocs: The Prediction Games, saying it falsely suggests users placed bets in Nevada, where Kalshi is blocked (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Kalshi Accuses Netflix of Defamation Over Trailer for Prediction Markets Documentary
In a cease-and-desist, the company takes issue with the trailer falsely suggesting that Kalshi is violating a court order barring it from operating in Nevada.

North American startup funding hit $92B in Q3, down 35% QoQ but up 50% YoY, with $61B to AI startups; there were 11 $1B acquisitions and IPOs remained quiet (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/q3-2026-north-amer…

North America’s Startup Funding Falls In Q3 As AI Giants Eye The Public Markets
In total, investors poured $92 billion into seed- through growth-stage rounds for U.S. and Canadian startups in the third quarter, per Crunchbase data. That’s a 35% decline from the prior quarter but up 50% from year-ago levels.

Scott Bessent’s attempt to calm the bond markets and push down America’s cost of borrowing have attracted a rebuke from the US Treasury secretary’s former mentor.
The billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller, who worked with Bessent at George Soros’s fund management firm in the 1990s, has warned that his former pupil is courting danger by trying to suppress US bond yields.
Druckenmiller, writing in the Wall Street Journal, argued that the US should “let the bond market speak”, …

US Treasury’s Scott Bessent ‘will lose’ battle with bond markets, former mentor warns
Trump ally should cut budget deficit rather than try to suppress bond yields, says billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller

OpenAI expands its ad pilot program across 31 European markets, including Germany, France, Spain, and Italy; the pilot launched in the US, the UK, and others (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/openai-is-taking-its-ad-business-to-31-…

OpenAI Is Taking Its Ad Business to 31 New European Markets
Expansion of its ads pilot comes as ad revenue climbs over 25% since the start of August.

AI startup acquisitions by other AI startups hit 195 through Sept. 29, up 14% from all of 2025, but number of buyers grew just 2%; OpenAI was the most active (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/ma/ai-startup-acquisitions-legal-health…

Crunchbase Data Shows AI’s Most Active Startups Are Becoming Serial Acquirers
Some of the AI industry’s fastest-growing startups are becoming serial acquirers, buying smaller companies to fill product gaps, enter new markets and bring specialized teams in-house, a review of Crunchbase data shows. While AI giant OpenAI is by far the busiest of these buyers, well-funded startups in legal tech, customer service and software development have also made multiple acquisitions this year.

There’s a new Democratic presidential front-runner,
according to the Kalshi prediction markets at least.
Over the weekend, Jon Ossoff claimed first place (whatever exactly that means on Kalshi),
at 18 percent,
followed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at 17 percent
and then Gavin Newsom at 15 percent
(here’s the link,

Navra, founded by SoFi and Figure co-founder Mike Cagney to make on-chain lending and securities markets more accessible, raised a $19M Series A led by Ribbit (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/10/06/navra-mike-cagney-19…

SoFi co-founder Mike Cagney raises $19M for Navra
Traditional capital needs more accessible blockchain tools.

Jio Platforms, which owns India's largest carrier and counts Meta and Google as investors, gets regulatory approval to float India's largest-ever IPO of ~$4B (Vallari Sanzgiri/The Hindu BusinessLine)
https://www.thehindubusi…

Jio Platforms gets SEBI nod for biggest IPO listing of around ₹37,700 crore
Jio Platforms secures SEBI approval for a ₹37,700 crore IPO, boosting investor confidence with strong cash flows and debt repayment plans.

Sources: the CFTC has launched a probe into prediction markets' "mention markets", prompting Kalshi to remove bets on word choices from sports-related offerings (Bobby Allyn/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/13/nx-s1-5930689/cftc…

Singapore-licensed dtcpay, which offers stablecoin payments across Europe, Hong Kong, Australia, and North America, raised a $25M Series A (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/09/18/sbi-group-backs-payments-firm-dtcp…

SBI Group backs payments firm dtcpay in $25 million funding round
Stablecoin payments company dtcpay completed a $25 million Series A funding round with a strategic investment from Japan’s SBI Group.

Circle reports Q2 revenue up 7% YoY to $701M, below $712M est., net income of $48M, vs. $43M est., and USDC circulation at $73.4B on June 30; CRCL fell 20% YTD (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A federal judge issues a preliminary injunction blocking Minnesota from enforcing a newly enacted law that banned prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket (Nate Raymond/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/judge-blocks-minneso…

Sources: federal authorities prepare to charge a US serviceman and a KPMG employee with insider trading on prediction markets, as part of a new batch of cases (Dave Michaels/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/u-s

Sources: HP, Asus, and Acer have started using small amounts of DRAM chips from CXMT in their laptops for non-US markets, amid an unprecedented memory shortage (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/china-tech/hp-asus-and-acer-…

HP, Asus and Acer begin using CXMT chips amid memory shortage
But PC makers careful to avoid angering top suppliers Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix

New York AG Letitia James sues Polymarket US, alleging that the site is illegally running a gambling operation, as part of NY's crackdown on prediction markets (Kevin T. Dugan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.…

Ukraine says Russia used an Nvidia Jetson Orin computing module in its autonomous AI-guided drones; Nvidia says they are widely available on resale markets (Andrew E. Kramer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com…

Some of Russia’s A.I. Drones Are Powered by Nvidia Microcomputers, Ukrainian Officials Say
The tech giant says it does not sell the devices in Russia, but they are widely available on resale markets. When purchased that way, they are virtually impossible to track.