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I spoke with the CFTC enforcement director and he said his team has already investigated insider trading cases about the 2026 midterms — and to candidates or campaign staff thinking of cashing in before Nov. 3: "we'll come after you" @nextpredictio @CFTC @DavidMillerNYC
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When I first heard about this a few years back, I thought it was a gag.
Now I'm reading quotes like...
"So it's like the Captain America dog program with the Ironman tech program on top of it," Lamm tells WIRED.
Warhound came out of stealth on Wednesday with $200 million in funding and a mission to create "elite working dogs" equipped with "advanced body armor." buff.ly/6Kz3APn
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Significant update today on Polymarket staff shakeup
Polymarket fires top executive who was closely allied with CEO Shayne Coplan: sources trib.al/GTKHohw
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good times wired.com/story/cool-cool-co…
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Had a grand old time chatting with the @verge's great david pierce about AI music fraud: piped.video/watch?v=OzCSF16I…
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Mannosphere gonna have a HUGE 2027
i almost want to say that this is just another groupchat conspiring to inject a book into the discourse like with Demons a few months ago (the Mannosphere?) but also like. earlier this week my coworker randomly mentioned this book in a meeting. and then earlier this summer i independently felt an urge to read The Magic Mountain." So who knows really
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Very excited for this conversation! Chicago buds come on by!!
Join us in Chicago on Nov 2 for an exclusive fireside chat with @luanalopeslara !
Plus, an industry panel exploring institutional adoption of prediction markets, featuring representatives from @Cboe, @zerohashx & @CFTC !
Presenting sponsor @Kalshi | Hosted by @FiftyOneAlpha
luma.com/tl6yoi3j
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So excited for this one! Looking forward to being in Chicago on Nov. 2 for a great conversation with @luanalopeslara and @Knibbs
Join us in Chicago on Nov 2 for an exclusive fireside chat with @luanalopeslara !
Plus, an industry panel exploring institutional adoption of prediction markets, featuring representatives from @Cboe, @zerohashx & @CFTC !
Presenting sponsor @Kalshi | Hosted by @FiftyOneAlpha
luma.com/tl6yoi3j
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At some point I noticed that more and more people seemed to be telling me: everything you think you know about food is wrong. This led me down a rabbit hole that I’ve come to think of as “dark nutrition.” I wrote about this whole world for @NYTmag nytimes.com/2026/10/21/magaz…
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EXCLUSIVE: Testosterone therapy going even more mainstream as Hims launches its own injectable offerings: wired.com/story/telehealth-g…
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gonna be on the brian lehrer show in about 20 min to talk about — what else? — why i love DIGGER so much :) wnyc.org/browse/shows/brian-…
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MAJOR UPDATE: Two Susquehanna trading firms have also been named as defendants in Utah’s civil enforcement action against Kalshi. This marks the first state AG civil enforcement action targeting prediction-market market makers.
BREAKING: Utah sues Kalshi for a “brazen pattern of unlawful conduct,” seeks injunctive relief to block in-state wagers and an order to recover “the millions it’s made through fees from wagers Utahns placed and that residents have lost through wagers.” sltrib.com/news/2026/10/20/u…
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“Elon Musk’s personal lawyer, Alex Spiro, has joined Polymarket’s board and is now helping with day-to-day operations, including hiring, people familiar with his involvement said.”
scoops! @antoniabmassa and i dug into the push and pull between polymarket investors and the prediction market's CEO, shayne coplan.
story features private jet flights, elon musk's personal lawyer, talks with goldman sachs as well as cantor fitzgerald
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So many spectacular moments in YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING but I particularly loved giving Lance Oppenheim one line of on-screen dialogue to say “that’s not…a real documentary” about the Harry and Meagan Netflix show
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Hats off to @WIRED for this candid journalistic self-examination. The last two paragraphs are a gut punch. RIP Joe Rago, whom I interviewed during the reporting and writing of Bad Blood. apple.news/AwgktUs6RRP2bV0Nj…
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The Internet Archive provides an extremely valuable public service with its Wayback Machine. An important argument from @brewster_kahle about why publishers should not treat Wayback Machine crawlers like any other bots on the web: theatlantic.com/technology/2…
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We spent all day trying to figure out the nature of Katie Zacharia's relationship to an AI mining company in Canada — and what the hell was up with said company— and then, she was just, fired
blog with @timmarchman
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