An international research team involving the University of Bayreuth has, for the first time, analyzed the "inner workings" of ...
What makes people change their minds or their behavior? Social scientists spend a lot of time thinking about this question, ...
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Mark Zuckerberg is betting that prediction markets are the future. The New York Times reports that Zuck wants Meta to have its own Polymarket-like smartphone app and has given the go-ahead to develop ...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has directed staff to build a prediction markets platform, a source confirmed to CNBC. The New York Times was first to report the app's development. Stocks of sports gambling ...
A few days before the first round of Los Angeles’s mayoral primary, Kalshi and Polymarket gave reality TV star Spencer Pratt a 75 percent chance of advancing to the general election. Kalshi published ...
Major financial firms are racing to enter the prediction market space after the sector generated billions in trading volume over the past year. Charles Schwab, which oversees $11.77 trillion in client ...
One of the favorites to win the 2026 World Cup will kick off their tournament on Tuesday when Argentina take on Algeria in a Group J match. La Albiceleste, led by Lionel Messi, are the reigning world ...
Arrests for betting on the U.S. military operation that removed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Death threats from gamblers to a journalist reporting on an Iranian missile attack on Israel. Fears of ...
Can AI predict the winner of the 2026 FIFA World Cup? The World Cup, which began Thursday in Mexico City, could top $60 billion in total wagers, up from the more than $35 billion bet during the 2022 ...
The 2026 World Cup continues on Friday as the USMNT opens against Paraguay in Group D. The Americans join Mexico and Canada as co-hosts of the World Cup 2026, and expectations are high for Team USA as ...
Prediction-market platform Kalshi recently unveiled a swath of “market integrity” updates that all relate to one thing: stopping illegal trading by insiders. The updates include things like risk ...