By Yohan Yun | 10 min read
AI-driven agents are gaining a structural edge in prediction markets by exploiting pricing inconsistencies faster than any human trader. Researchers estimate that roughly $40 million has already been extracted from arbitrage opportunities on platforms like Polymarket, where bots scan hundreds of markets per second to capitalize on brief pricing gaps. Latency arbitrage, which targets windows too narrow for manual trading, is emerging as a dominant strategy as these agents grow more sophisticated. The trend raises broader concerns about market fairness, as advanced AI systems could increasingly dominate activity and influence outcomes at scale, mirroring dynamics seen in traditional high-frequency trading.
By Mike Boland | 5 min read
New survey data from ARtillery Intelligence reveals that 53 percent of mobile AR users will pay $1.00 or more for AR apps, with a sweet spot between $1.00 and $3.00 attracting the largest share of paying consumers. However, 23 percent of users prefer in-app purchases over upfront costs, reflecting a broader consumer expectation that AR experiences should be free at the point of entry. The challenge for developers is that years of brand-sponsored, no-cost AR have conditioned users against paying, keeping overall digital goods revenue modest despite growing engagement. The findings underscore a monetization tension at the heart of consumer AR: willingness to pay exists, but unlocking it requires moving beyond the free-experience paradigm that currently dominates the market.
By Margaux Nijkerk | 9 min read
Major blockchain networks are diverging sharply in how they address the approaching quantum computing threat to cryptographic security. Ethereum has taken the most proactive stance, with Vitalik Buterin outlining a multi-fork roadmap and the Ethereum Foundation establishing a dedicated post-quantum research team running weekly test networks. Bitcoin, by contrast, lacks a coordinated plan, funding structure, or agreed timeline, even as Google sets a 2029 deadline to migrate its own systems to post-quantum cryptography. Solana is experimenting with optional quantum-safe vaults, while industry analysts remain split on urgency, with some warning that the transition could take as long as the threat itself to arrive.
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NASA's IXPE Gets Fresh Look at Supernova
NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission has taken a new observation of a supernova, RCW 86, seen here in an image released on March 24, 2026. This observation helps fill in a fuller picture of what other telescopes have seen.
The full image combines IXPE’s data with legacy observations from two other X-ray telescopes: NASA’s Chandra and the ESA (European Space Agency) XMM-Newton telescope. The yellow represents low-energy X-rays, while blue shows high-energy X-rays detected by Chandra and XMM-Newton. The starfield in the image comes from the National Science Foundation’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab).
Image credit: X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO, XMM: ESA/XMM-NEWTON, IXPE:NASA/MSFC; Optical: NSF/NOIRLab; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt
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