Stephanie Hughes

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

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I'm Stephanie Hughes.

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

This week, Meta and News Corp reach a licensing deal.

Plus, defense contractors untangle Claude 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 Khamenei would be ousted as the supreme leader in Iran.

Khamenei was killed over the weekend during a U.S.

military strike.

Kalshi didn't pay out the bets that were placed after Khamenei's death.

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

I talked about this with Paresh Dave at Wired.

Right.

I think Kalshi had mentioned in some places that there was a death carve-out, but not everybody would have been aware of it necessarily.

Meanwhile, Polymarket, a rival marketplace, reportedly removed the ability this week for traders to bet on whether a nuclear weapon would be detonated and when.

To me, it seems even if you had bet yes on this and you technically win, you're still a loser because there's a nuclear war.