Report on AI content licensing marketplaces: TollBit/Sphere.ai takes 0% from rights holders, ScalePost takes 15%, Cloudflare takes 30%, and ProRata takes 50% (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/the-emer
Anthropic and OpenAI seem to have finally found product-market fit with coding agents, which are quickly becoming daily drivers for highly paid professionals (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/product-market-fit/
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/…
WZB-Diskussionspapier "AI images, labels and news demand"
https://wzb.eu/de/publikationen/discussion-papers/markt-und-entscheidung
Marist Liufau vs Sam Williams: Who Makes the Cowboys' 53? https://insidethestar.com/marist-liufau-vs-sam-williams-who-makes-the-cowboys-53
CXMT shares jumped as much as 470% in its Shanghai debut, giving the memory chipmaker a ~$487B market cap, making it the most valuable China-listed company (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/27/cxmt-china-market-debut-chipmaker-ipo.html
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…
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