The WSJ said that it analyzed 1,100 videos about Polymarket and also viewed instructional materials that the company provided to creators. Many of those videos were reportedly filmed on 'near-perfect copies' of the Polymarket website, while featuring trades and winnings that were not real. The creator videos were then amplified by a 'social-media army' deployed by a marketing contractor. The WSJ said the company also told those creators not to specify that they'd been paid by Polymarket, although the creators started adding '@polymarket partner' to their bios after journalists began asking questions. Razeen Khan, a college student and creator who worked with Polymarket until March, compared the practice to commercials that make fast food look more appealing than it is in real life: 'We're depicting what actually happens.' Get an inside look at what it takes to scale and succeed from leaders at Mach Industries, Founders Fund, and Shinkei Systems. Through candid fireside chats and high-impact networking, you'll walk away with valuable insights and new connections....

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I keep a mental map of where AI 'lives.' For most of the last decade it lived in a box: a model, an API, a chat window. This week the box broke open in four directions at once, and the interesting part is that none of the breakouts rhyme with each other. They only rhyme structurally. Start with the one that reads like a typo. SpaceX agreed to acquire Cursor for $60 billion in stock. Sit with the category error for a second. A rocket company is buying a code editor. The clean story is that SpaceX absorbed Cursor to feed its struggling xAI division, but the deeper signal is that AI tooling has become strategic infrastructure on par with launch capacity. Industrial conglomerates no longer partner for AI; they annex it. When the people who build reusable rockets decide that an autocomplete-for-engineers is worth the GDP of a small country, the implied claim is that the model layer is now load-bearing for everything else. Then the talent map redrew itself in 48 hours. Noam Shazeer'co-author of 'Attention Is All You Need,' the paper every one of us has read until the margins are gray'left Google for OpenAI. A day later John Jumper, who shared a Nobel for AlphaFold, left Google DeepMind for Anthropic. Google paid roughly $2.7 billion two years ago to bring Shazeer back. That is the part worth dwelling on: acqui-hires buy retention windows, not loyalty, and when the window closes the most valuable asset simply walks out the door. The frontier is consolidating into a two-body problem, and the bodies are not the ones with the most compute. They are the ones with the most gravity for researchers. Talent, it turns out, is the scarcest accelerator....

About 10 years ago, there was a lot of chatter about who was winning the self-driving car race. One of the problems with that debate ' besides assuming there would be just one winner ' was that no one had a reliable way to measure it. This was an early era filled with a lot of demos and capital, but little substance ' at least what the public, and folks like myself, had access to. Advisory and research startup Autnmy AI has developed a generative AI platform to create a benchmarking system that evaluates and ranks autonomous vehicle companies in an effort to answer that question in real time. And this week, the startup released its Road to Autonomy Index, which searches relevant global public databases, including federal and state reports, SEC documents, public exchanges, and other data. The system weighs the company's operations, scale, revenue, commercial partnerships, manufacturing, and safety record based on that data and provides an update every 12 hours. There are four indices that rank robotaxis, autonomous driving licensing companies, autonomous trucks, and delivery bots....