Kate Knibbs 🏄🏻♀️
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senior writer at Wired 🦐 Story tips: [email protected] (or DM me for Signal/WhatsApp!) extremeknibbs on Insta/Threads and @knibbs.bsky.social
Update: we continue to investigate insider trading in Survivor markets, but the below still holds true: so far, no traders with large positions seem to have a relationship to the show or to the network. Thousands of traders took early positions consistent with the outcome, likely because of public rumors. And public rumors don't equal insider information. PS—as a longtime Survivor fan, big congrats to Aubry. Well-deserved win.
Sports Illustrated deleted an author — and his entire work history — from its website after Sportico editor @dan_bernstein_ called out the site for plagiarism. Profiles associated with the SI author have since disappeared from X and LinkedIn. futurism.com/artificial-int…
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The CFTC just made the prediction-market fight much bigger than "sports betting vs event contracts." In a May 12 Sixth Circuit amicus brief in KalshiEx LLC v. Schuler, the agency says prediction markets fall under its exclusive federal jurisdiction — and that state gambling laws are preempted when applied to CFTC-regulated markets. Chair Michael S. Selig's line is the tell: the district court took an "improperly narrow view" of CFTC jurisdiction. Translation: Ohio is now a test case for whether states can carve up federally listed event contracts state by state. CFTC release: cftc.gov/PressRoom/Pres…
