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Are Prediction Markets Doomed to Fail?
Are Prediction Markets Doomed to Fail?
In the last year, few industries have captured cultural, regulatory, and investor interest to the same degree as prediction markets. Platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket, which have millions of...
Meta's New Model & The AI Pricing Debate
Mark Zuckerberg’s Affordability Play
Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1 this week, its most capable model to date, developed by the Meta Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang. On agentic benchmarks, the model rivals GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8....
Rare Diseases and the Platform Biotech Renaissance
Rare Diseases and the Platform Biotech Renaissance
For decades, developing treatments for rare diseases, which are medical conditions that affect fewer than 200K people at any given time, were viewed as one of the least attractive m...
Ships for America
This piece was originally published in Arena Magazine.
Most stories about American industrialism have turned from inspirational myths into cautionary tales. One such story is that of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden,...
Token Costs Threaten Frontier Lab Dominance
Rising Cost Competition to Frontier Labs
In AI, the high token cost of using frontier models is becoming an increasingly loud part of the conversation. This week, OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 Sol at $5 input / $30 output per million tokens,...
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