Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Monday, October 28th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough

today as Robin Hood rolls out smart

markets have seemed to have their mainstream breakthrough this year.

Tic-Toc now has a Fediverse open source competitor.

AI now has an open source definition or something, and Meta open source their own

AI podcast making tool.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Robin Hood says U.S. users that meet a certain criteria can now trade a

Kamala Harris or Donald Trump contract via its Robin Hood derivatives unit and

forecast the X quoting C. M. C. M. C. via its Robin Hood Derivatives Unit and Forecaste X, quoting

cambic. Robin Hood jumps into a suddenly crowded politics prediction

markets field that grew this month after platform Calshi won a key ruling against the Commodity Futures

Trading Commission which was seeking to stop the election outcome trading.

The CFTC is appealing the ruling.

Shortly after, interactive brokers launched various political

contracts including on the election. The election markets have generated some controversy

this year with some concern about light volume allowing the markets to be skewed.

International platform, Polymarket said last week that a single French user was responsible

for four accounts spending millions to buy the Trump contract.

But Polymarket said an investigation found the trading was not

manipulating the market end quote. Yes on Polymarket let's quote from the Washington

Post around two billion dollars in cryptocurrency has been wagered on

predicting the next president on

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