Financial Times:
Study: long-shot Polymarket bets on military action, defined as $2,500+ wagers at odds of 35% or less, have a ~52% average win rate, vs. 25% for political bets  —  High rate of winning wagers likely to add to concerns that sensitive information can leak on prediction markets

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Netomi, which builds AI for enterprise customer service, raised $110M led by Accenture Ventures and signs a deal to bring its platform to Accenture clients  —  Netomi, the San Francisco-based startup building AI systems for enterprise customer service, said Thursday that it has raised $110 million …

Laura J. Nelson / Wall Street Journal:
Sergey Brin-backed Building a Better California says two ballot countermeasures to the proposed wealth tax are on track to qualify for the November ballot  —  Two ballot initiatives funded in part by the Google co-founder that take aim at portions of a proposed wealth tax are on track to qualify

OpenAI:
OpenAI says its models, starting with GPT-5.1, “increasingly mentioned goblins, gremlins, and other creatures”, leading to prompt instructions to mitigate it  —  Starting with GPT-5.1, our models began developing a strange habit: they increasingly mentioned goblins, gremlins, and other creatures in their metaphors.

Reuters:
Sources: strong AI demand in China nearly doubles prices for Nvidia's B300 servers to ~$1M each, as a crackdown on chip smuggling dries up black market supply  —  Strong demand for AI computing equipment in China has nearly doubled prices for Nvidia's B300 servers to about 7 million yuan …