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Prediction markets face crackdown just as Wall Street, bookies, and AI models quietly adopt them as a premium feature.
Forecasts
Washington and Tehran are trading blows in public while haggling in private. The loud part is moving toward Iran’s shores and shipping lanes. The quiet part is every regional capital begging them not to touch the real money: Gulf energy exports and Iran’s nuclear sites.
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All forecastsTrump turned a sleepy Texas runoff into a public loyalty test. The base is about to flunk the electability exam and hand Democrats their best Senate shot in a generation.
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Washington screams “China stole our homework,” then hires a Canadian magician to shred it before class.
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Grab a lab coat, a half‑charged Chromebook, and a suspiciously sticky box of LEGO. Design the chaotic‑wholesome after‑school STEM club of your dreams, and we’ll tell you which criminally underrated video game hero you’re secretly main‑charactering as.
Tear open that warped CD tower, dust off the glitter gel pens, and crack open your secret lyric binder — we’re about to scientifically determine which unhinged early‑2000s fandom you were low‑key president of. No, this won’t be on the SAT, but it SHOULD be.
As Jensen Huang builds the largest infrastructure expansion in human history, U.S. policy is whatever David Sacks and Mark Zuckerberg were texting five minutes ago.
