Meta builds prediction markets app under Zuckerberg’s direction

Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has directed employees to develop a prediction markets app called Arena that would operate separately from the company’s existing social media products, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing two employees familiar with the…

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has sued Kentucky, now the ninth state the regulator is battling in its fight over prediction markets.

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Cboe launches prediction markets-style binary options tied to the Mini-S&P 500 Index, scaled to one-tenth the S&P 500 benchmark, allowing traders to take yes-or-no positions through broker platforms including Interactive Brokers, with fixed $100 or $0 payouts at settlement. Binary Options Introduced Through Retail Brokerage Channels Cboe Global Markets (CBOE) announced on June 23, 2026, […]

Meta's reluctance to submit AI models for voluntary government reviews may impact its market credibility and competitiveness in sensitive sectors. The post Trump administration presses Meta for voluntary AI security reviews appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

An extensive program at Meta to gather a wide range of data from employees to train its AI model has been frozen after employees reportedly broke through its guardrails and accessed restricted data, and then did so again after Meta claimed to have fixed the vulnerability. Whether or not the data collection by the $201 billion owner of Facebook was a good idea, analysts argue that the data protections deployed were woefully inadequate, given the extreme sensitive nature of the collected data. “Meta had the resources to get it right, and yet they failed exponentially,” said Karianne Michelle, a director with consulting firm Acceligence. “That is what it looks like when the policy decision and the technical execution are happening in two different rooms that are not fully in sync. It is the kind of gap you see often enough at organizations under structural strain.” Fritz Jean-Louis, principal cybersecurity advisor at Info-Tech Research Group,  agreed. “What we just observed from the Meta