Posts by Amelia Frost
New York Sues Polymarket As Prediction Market Crackdown Expands Two Months After Kalshi Case
The state of New York sued Polymarket U.S. on Thursday, accusing the company of operating an illegal gambling platform without a state license. The move came less than two months after launching a similar legal challenge against rival Kalshi. The lawsuit, announced by New York Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Kathy Hochul, marks the…
Read MoreIs AI Finally Modernizing Market Research?
The global insights industry reached approximately $166 billion in 2025, according to ESOMAR’s Global Market Research Report 2026. Yet the workflows inside it remain fragmented. According to Greenbook’s 2026 GRIT Insights Practice Report, 73% of analytics professionals are now using agentic AI for data preparation and integration. The tools have multiplied, but the context they…
Read MoreWhy The Future Of Education May Depend On IA (Intelligence Augmentation) Not AI
Teachers are increasingly balancing classroom instruction with responsibilities that extend beyond lesson delivery. A 2025 Education Week review of national survey findings reported that more than 80% of teachers worked beyond their contracted hours, averaging about 10 additional hours a week, while only half were satisfied with their workload. Against that backdrop, the role of…
Read MoreBond Yields Keep Rising As Inflation Concerns Mount. Stocks Were Mixed.
Stocks were mixed on Friday as Treasury yields keep rising and touching multi-year highs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.231%, while the S&P 500 edged down, falling 0.01%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite gained 0.02%. Stocks recovered from steeper losses after a report claimed that the U.S. and Iran are discussing a deal to end…
Read MoreTokenized Markets Still Need Money
The regulatory debate is increasingly shifting from whether financial markets will move onchain to how they should get there. After Congress was unable to advance the CLARITY Act in September, the SEC moved ahead with an “Innovation Exemption” allowing certain tokenized U.S. stocks to trade onchain while the agency considers more durable rules. The appeal…
Read MoreLooking Past the Metaverse, RZ Oasis May Really Be an RWA Story
When CoinFactory recently introduced RZ Oasis and the concept it calls “Country 196,” the obvious headline was the scale of the metaverse vision. Led by founder Rasoul Rezvani, the Swiss Web3 company described a borderless digital-economic territory where gaming, AI, blockchain, digital ownership and real-world businesses could eventually operate within one connected ecosystem. But looking…
Read MoreAdriana Kugler: What America’s Jobs Data Misses, and How to Fix It
Adriana Kugler, the Georgetown University labor economist and former Federal Reserve Governor, has a simple test for what new economic data the United States should be collecting: ask which questions policymakers, businesses, and households need answered but cannot yet answer in a timely way. In her keynote at the NBER Conference on Innovation in Measuring…
Read MoreA Billionaire Bet $300 Million That Showjumping Was Underpriced. The Market Is Already Proving Him Right
Every so often, a niche sport stops being run like a pastime and starts being run like a business. Showjumping has just reached that moment, and it’s galloping fast. Backed by McCourt Global, the investment firm of business billionaire Frank McCourt, the Premier Jumping League has launched with a guaranteed $300 million prize pot, the…
Read MoreBeyond Stocks and Bonds: Why Investors Are Rethinking Traditional Wealth Strategies
For decades, many investors have built their financial strategies around a familiar formula: accumulate publicly traded assets, follow traditional allocation models, and wait for long-term market growth. According to Waiyee Schmidt and Rocco Forino, founders of Kings & Wealth, that approach may leave investors vulnerable in an economic environment defined by inflation, geopolitical uncertainty, rising…
Read MoreLowe’s Wants To Deliver Missing DIY Supplies In 20 Minutes. It’s Sending Them By Drone.
Lowe’s has started testing drone delivery for customers who need small home improvement supplies quickly, giving eligible shoppers another way to get forgotten project essentials without leaving their home or job site. The pilot is live at a company store in Matthews, North Carolina, and uses drones operated by Alphabet-owned Wing, with orders placed through…
Read MoreBreast Cancer Gave Me a New Perspective on Motherhood and Resilience
At 36 Ceminthia Graham didn’t have cancer on her radar. But in January 2025 she told her doctor she’d noticed some pain and swelling in her left breast. After getting a mammogram, ultrasound, and biopsy in February, she was diagnosed with stage 3 triple-negative breast cancer. But even after having an allergic reaction during her…
Read MoreBernie Sanders Moves to Ban AI Superintelligence. His New Bill Would Create a Federal Department of AI.
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar have introduced one of Washington’s most sweeping attempts to regulate artificial intelligence, proposing a permanent ban on artificial superintelligence, a temporary halt to advanced AI development, and the creation of a cabinet-level Department of Artificial Intelligence. The Vermont Independent and Texas Democrat introduced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act,…
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