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The US Senate unanimously passed a rule barring senators from trading on prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket, amid rising concern over insider trading (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/30/senate-prediction-markets-trading-ba…

U.S. senators ban themselves from prediction markets trading
The move came after Democratic lawmakers asked the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to prohibit event contracts on elections, war and military actions.

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

Cyber Resilience Act: BSI wird zum digitalen TÜV für vernetzte Produkte
Die Bundesregierung bringt das Durchführungsgesetz zum Cyber Resilience Act der EU auf den Weg und will das BSI zur zentralen Marktüberwachungsbehörde machen.

Cyber Resilience Act: BSI wird zum digitalen TÜV für vernetzte Produkte
Die Bundesregierung bringt das Durchführungsgesetz zum Cyber Resilience Act der EU auf den Weg und will das BSI zur zentralen Marktüberwachungsbehörde machen.

Germany’s used #EV market is gaining momentum: "between January–April 2025 and January–April 2026, used BEV registrations rose by 77%"
https://theicct.org/publication/europe

In Q2, there were thirteen $1B US venture-backed startup exits, either through acquisition or IPO, the most exits since the 2021 market peak (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/public/data-billion-dollar-startup-exits-ma-ipo…

Crunchbase Data: Q2 Brought The Most Billion-Dollar Startup Exits Since 2021
Startup exits valued at $1 billion or more are now more numerous than at any point since the 2021 market peak, Crunchbase data shows. The trend we’re seeing for the second quarter of 2026 includes both the largest venture-backed exit of all time and a bevy of other comparatively tinier but still sizable startup exits through acquisition or IPO.

Mistrals Chatbot heißt jetzt „Vibe“ und erhält neue Fähigkeiten
Le Chat wird in „Vibe“ umbenannt. Das französische KI-Start-up Mistral bündelt darin einen Agenten für mehrstufige Aufgaben mit Programmierwerkzeugen.

Mistrals Chatbot heißt jetzt „Vibe“ und erhält neue Fähigkeiten
Le Chat wird in „Vibe“ umbenannt. Das französische KI-Start-up Mistral bündelt darin einen Agenten für mehrstufige Aufgaben mit Programmierwerkzeugen.

Analysis: in 2025, total UK ad spend grew 6.4% YoY to £46.7B; of that, £31B went to Google, Meta, and Amazon, and £1.6B went to magazines and news, down 5.1% (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/uk-adspend-google-meta-amazon/

Google, Meta and Amazon took two thirds of £46bn UK 2025 adspend
The vast UK adspend with Google, Meta and Amazon for 2025 has been revealed in new Press Gazette research which shows they dominate market.

Dell stock closed up 32.81%, its best day ever, after reporting its fastest pace of revenue growth for any period since returning to the public market in 2018 (CJ Haddad/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/29/dell-stock-earnings-ai-servers.html

Dell stock skyrockets 32% for its best day ever as AI server revenue soars
Dell reported its fastest pace of revenue growth since returning to the public market in 2018, with AI server revenue soaring 757% over last year.

BlackBerry's stock is up more than 160% over the past three months, as the company's QNX division positions its automotive software as an OS for robots (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/blackberry-is-on-one-of-its-hottest-r…

BlackBerry is on one of its hottest rallies of all time
Think robot operating systems, not smartphones.

Kalshi plans to offer perpetual futures contracts, saying it will be "the first company in American history to offer" them, to be "fully regulated" by the CFTC (Nathan Bomey/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/29/kalshi-perps-perpetual-futures-cryp…

Kalshi to offer perpetual futures contracts in prediction market expansion
Kalshi announced Friday that it will begin offering perpetual futures contracts — a form of derivatives that moves the prediction market a step further into financial markets beyond yes-or-no trades.