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…
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…
I rediscovered an old archive of my wiki, which used OddMuse, a wiki engine written in Perl and developed by @… (the good old time)
So I decided to write a Python converter to bring it back to life. I’ll probably discover that 80% of the content is useless, but the remaining 20% might still be worth preserving.
The converter is crappy but it works…
"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.
Circana: US Xbox unit sales fell 33% YoY to an all-time low in 2026 through August, while PS5 sales fell 25%, as both consoles hit record high average prices (Kaan Serin/Eurogamer.net)
https://www.eurogamer.net/xbox-playstation-sales-new-lows-hardware-market
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
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
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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