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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is now deploying artificial intelligence to police prediction markets like Polymarket for insider trading. CFTC chairman Michael Selig told WIRED the agency is actively scanning trading patterns for illegal activity, a signal that regulators are getting serious about a space that has long operated in a legal gray zone.
Shifting to crypto markets, Strategy's preferred stock ticker STRC just logged a record one point five billion dollars in single-day trading volume. That extraordinary activity came just ahead of an ex-dividend date and generated enough capital for the firm to purchase eleven thousand seven hundred and seven bitcoin, underscoring how creatively the company continues to stack its holdings.
And finally, a cautionary tale from the developer community. The terminal app Warp, once celebrated as the best shell experience around, has ballooned to eight hundred and five megabytes after pivoting hard into AI features. For comparison, the leaner rival Ghostty clocks in at just sixty-two megabytes. It's a vivid reminder that AI integration can come at a real cost to the tools we rely on every day.
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