As prediction markets boom, competition is heating up. So traders go the extra mile for a fraction-of-a-second advantage or to sleuth out information nobody else has. It can lead to a huge payday.

At the end of 2024, no AI had even managed to place 100th in one of the major competitions. But they have since vaulted up the leaderboards. AIs have already proved that they can make superhuman ...

As Yogi Berra famously said: 'It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future' Financial advisers seem so smart. They track the latest economic reports and tax-law changes. They run ...

You know that cliché in movies when the camera zooms in on a character who says, “It’s coming,” before someone else dramatically replies, “It’s already here”? Prediction markets are a bit like that in ...