In a statement on X, Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour said his company would pay out positions on "Ali Khamenei out as Supreme Leader?" at the last trading price before his death. Mansour said that Kalshi doesn't "list markets directly tied to death" and that its rules are designed to "prevent people from profiting from death." […]

In the weeks leading up to the latest US-Israeli airstrikes against Iran, there were reports that President Donald Trump’s administration was considering targeting Iran’s senior leadership, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Khamenei himself appeared to be preparing for the end.  Still, the fact that the supreme leader was killed in his home office in an […]

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President Donald Trump triumphantly announced on Saturday that Israeli and US strikes had killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He was the biggest target in a “decapitation” mission that also reportedly killed a significant number of top Iranian regime figures.  When presidents order airstrikes aimed at debilitating an enemy’s leadership and forcing political change, […]

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Source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected about Americans  —  Right up until the moment that Pete Hegseth moved to terminate the government's relationship with the AI company Anthropic …