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/
DSA-Strafe: Temu soll 200 Millionen Euro zahlen
Die EU-Kommission hat gegen den chinesischen Online-Marktplatzbetreiber Temu eine Geldstrafe von 200 Millionen Euro unter dem Digital Services Act verhängt.
https://www.…
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…
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
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Doctors and researchers worry that FDA-related wagers on Kalshi and Polymarket could compromise drug development tests and erode public trust in the process (Rebecca Robbins/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…
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
Apple overtakes Nvidia to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company, two years after it lost the crown, closing at a $4.9T market cap on Monday (Kalley Huang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/technology/apple-valuation.html
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…