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Robert Cringely, the tech pundit who has been covering Silicon Valley since before most startups existed, is now trying to fix one of AI's most stubborn problems. He's co-founded two Brains Inc, a startup aimed squarely at reducing hallucinations in large language models — the tendency of AI systems to confidently state things that simply aren't true. It's a crowded space, but Cringely brings decades of credibility and a sharp critical eye, which may count for something when the pitch meetings begin.
Shifting to the financial world, CME Group has taken the unusual step of suing the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, alleging the regulator made a legal error when it approved Kalshi's first perpetual futures product in the United States. The central question is whether perpetual swaps, a structure long popular in crypto markets, belong under CFTC oversight in the way the agency decided. The outcome could reshape how derivative products are classified and traded on American soil.
And on the subject of prediction markets, a sharp analysis this week argues that Polymarket's incentive structure doesn't actually reward truthful outcomes — it rewards strategic positioning. The piece suggests that what looks like collective wisdom may sometimes be closer to a coordination game, raising real questions about how much we should trust these platforms as forecasting tools.
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