Meta strikes a deal with News Corp to get content, old and new, to train its AI.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Stephanie Hughes.

It's Friday, time for Marketplace Tech, where we take a look at a few of the big stories in the tech industry.

This week, Meta and News Cor reach a licensing deal, plus defense contractors untangle clawed from their workflows.

But first, are there some things we shouldn't try to predict?

The online prediction marketplace

Kalshi lets users bet on the outcome of many things that can happen in the future. One bet that

saw a lot of action was whether Ali Hominay would be ousted as the Supreme Leader in Iran. Hommon

was killed over the weekend during a U.S. military strike. Kalshi didn't pay out the bets that

replaced after Hommi's death.

Instead, it reimbursed those traders, and this outraged some users on the site.

I talked about this with Peresda Vey at Wired.

There is a commodity's future trading commission rule, which is what Kalshi is regulated by,

that says that you can't have these contracts that involve or reference assassination,

war, terrorism, similar actions.

And Cali has always had this policy, but not all users were familiar with it.

So it ended up costing Calci about $2.2 million, a source that the company told Wired this

week, to reimburse folks who made those trades after the death.

Right. I think Kalshia had mentioned in some places that there was a death carve-out,

but not everybody would have been aware of it necessarily.

Meanwhile, Polly Market, a rival marketplace,

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