A US Army Special Forces master sergeant, Gannon Ken Van Dyke, has been arrested for allegedly using classified military intelligence to orchestrate a lucrative insider trading scheme on the prediction marketplace Polymarket. Van Dyke is accused of leveraging his direct involvement in the planning and execution of the operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolás…
Polymarket removed a forum related to the rescue mission of U.S. military servicemembers amid political pressure, the latest sign of mounting scrutiny around prediction markets. U.S. and Iranian military forces are searching for a missing American airman after its F-15E fighter jet was shot down over Iran on Friday. One crew member has been rescued,…
Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Elon Musk is now a driving force in prediction markets. Musk’s xAI on Thursday announced a partnership to integrate its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok with Kalshi‘s prediction markets service. In June, xAI announced a similar deal with Polymarket, a Kalshi rival. Kalshi, the company that turned heads with a made-with-AI…
