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A prediction market is only as trustworthy as the people trading on it, and Kalshi learned that lesson the hard way with former congressman George Santos. The exchange banned him for life after finding he placed large trades on his own State of the Union attendance, then made false statements to move prices in his favor, pocketing nearly eighteen thousand dollars in the process.
Turning to Washington, the Pentagon has quietly expanded its AI toolkit in a significant way. OpenAI's ChatGPT and xAI's Grok are now joining Google's Gemini on the Defense Department's central portal for AI tools, giving military personnel access to multiple commercial large language models through a single, sanctioned gateway. The national security implications of that are worth watching closely.
And President Trump is making his position on AI infrastructure very clear. In remarks that drew attention this week, he warned that communities resisting data center construction risk falling, in his words, backwards and poor. What he did not address were the mounting concerns around energy consumption, water use, and the very real costs these facilities impose on local communities.
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