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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.

Amazon partners with OpenAI to let users of Amazon's DSP run ads in ChatGPT in a pilot program limited to the US; ChatGPT Ads hit $1B in ARR last month (Peter Adams/Marketing Dive)
https://www.marketingdive.com/news/amazon-pilot…

Amazon pilots ad services in ChatGPT: What marketers need to know
The managed service offering, which is in a U.S. pilot and available via Amazon DSP, comes as ChatGPT Ads recently hit a revenue milestone.

Home prices in the San Francisco Bay Area’s already expensive market are
skyrocketing as employees at leading artificial intelligence companies come into gargantuan sums of money
thanks to a boom in initial public offerings.
With San Francisco’s OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as SpaceX, which operates a major facility in the Los Angeles area, eyeing debuts on the stock market,
the hot housing market may not abate soon.
If their initial public offering (IPO) is we…

Ever since generative AI, these startups have realized that they can use fear and public outcry over their product as free marketing. Every time a Sam Altman type talks about the “singularity” and how “dangerous” their AI is, they rise in popularity.
It's a horrible marketing discovery, as these concepts are in fact dangerous and morally problematic, so you're caught giving them publicity because the better alternative can't be to not talk about it.

Apple trotzt dem PC-Markteinbruch
Die drei weltweit größten PC- und Notebook-Hersteller lassen Federn. Nur Apple wächst dank des MacBook Neo erheblich.
https://www.heise.de/news/Apple-trotzt-dem

Apple trotzt dem PC-Markteinbruch
Die drei weltweit größten PC- und Notebook-Hersteller lassen Federn. Nur Apple wächst dank des MacBook Neo erheblich.

Amazon partners with OpenAI to let users of Amazon's DSP run ads in ChatGPT in a pilot program limited to the US; ChatGPT Ads hit $1B in ARR last month (Peter Adams/Marketing Dive)
https://www.marketingdive.com/news/amazon-pilot…

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.

As the AI boom boosts demand for RAM,
SK Hynix – one of the world’s biggest suppliers of memory chips – launched on Wall Street Friday.
The South Korean chipmaker opened at $170 per share and raised $26.5 billion,
surpassing Alibaba’s record as the largest debut of a foreign company, according to reports from Associated Press and CNN.

Nvidia’s biggest RAM supplier just had a trillion-dollar debut on Wall Street
SK Hynix has made a record-breaking debut on the US stock market. The South Korean chipmaker opened at $170 and raised $26.5 billion, making it the largest debut of a foreign company since Alibaba.

Muse Spark 1.1: Meta will mit Kampfpreisen OpenAI und Anthropic unterbieten
Mit Muse Spark 1.1 startet Meta den kommerziellen Zugang zu einem eigenen KI-Modell und verschärft den Preiskampf im KI-Markt.

Muse Spark 1.1: Meta will mit Kampfpreisen OpenAI und Anthropic unterbieten
Mit Muse Spark 1.1 startet Meta den kommerziellen Zugang zu einem eigenen KI-Modell und verschärft den Preiskampf im KI-Markt.

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)
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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.