The agency that oversees prediction markets has investigated Polymarket trades on Biden pardons and the Iran war--and even more potential insider trading at Google, documents obtained by WIRED show. The US government launched at least three previously unreported investigations into trading on the prediction market Polymarket, according to documents obtained by WIRED through a Freedom of Information Act request. Voting records from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal agency that regulates prediction markets, shed new light on how the government approaches these investigations. In early May, CFTC chairman Michael Selig approved an order allowing the agency's enforcement division to launch a private investigation into potential insider trading on Polymarket event contracts related to pardons issued by former president Joseph Biden. The order granted permission to take testimony, obtain subpoenas, administer oaths, and require the production of documents in the course of the investigation.

If you work regularly with PDF documents then the chances are you're already very familiar with PDFelement by Wondershare . This hugely popular software is the go-to for many people when they want to create, edit, sign or convert PDFs. Now, with the arrival of Version 13, there are powerful new AI tools that will make life even easier for those that need to work with multiple forms of documentation or have to manage agreements across a team. So, here's how PDFelement V13 can streamline your workload and help you study, research or prepare presentations, all while saving you time. Spaces is one of the standout new features in PDFelement V13. This is a simple, organized workspace where you can gather together information from various sources (PDFs, YouTube URLs, text documents, Powerpoint files, spreadsheets, notes and other reference materials) then ask the AI contextual questions about the content.

It's Weirder Than You Could Imagine Cofertility lets women freeze their eggs for free--as long as they give half of them back to the company. What happens next is anyone's guess. The Instagram post, precision-guided by sex and age, had zeroed in on its target. Yuchen Tu is a conser vatory-trained viola player from Chongqing, China, a lover of science fiction, and an aspiring member of the US Army Reserve Officer Training Corps. And late last spring, just after her 24th birthday, she realized she might be the perfect candidate to freeze her eggs--for free. Tu goes by Sue, a name she likes because it reminds her of the 2024 body horror film, whose protagonist tortures herself in pursuit of youth and beauty. To prequalify for free egg freezing, all Sue had to do was take a two-minute quiz. "Not everyone can pass this exam," she remembers thinking. "Oh, it seems like a competition." Sue passed, as have thousands of young women allured by the promise of a company called Cofertility. "The best time to freeze your eggs is when you can least afford it," goes the company's mantra, uttered on repeat by its public face and CEO, onetime Uber employee Lauren Makler. Thus was born Cofertility's mission: to help women like Sue, who had just received her master's degree in classical music and was preparing to embark on a second bachelor's, preserve their future fertility for zero dollars. Instead of paying to freeze and store her eggs with money--the going rate in New York City, where Sue lives, is about $18,000--she would use a currency she already had in abundance: the eggs themselves. Cofertility's clients must, in the company's words, "donate half of the eggs retrieved to intended parents that need the help of an egg donor to have a baby." It's a model called egg sharing, and it hadn't been commercialized widely in the US until Cofertility came along.

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OpenAI is planning to cut off Cursor's access from its models, following the AI coding assistant's acquisition by SpaceXAI. In a post on its website, the company said it's giving Cursor users as much time as it could based on its contract. It intends to pull its models from the service on November 12, 2026, but it said that Cursor could choose an earlier termination date. The company explained that it's making this choice because it can't be confident that SpaceX will use its technology within its terms of services, based on its "experience with Elon Musk's companies violating contracts." OpenAI and Musk have a long and troubled history, with the SpaceXAI chief being one of the company's earliest investors.

'Darth Vader' Wants You to Know He Definitely Supports Flock Surveillance Anthony Ralphs was frustrated by the San Diego City Council's support for Flock. He decided it would take something more than reasoned argument to get their attention. At the San Diego City Council's most recent budget meeting, Sith Lord Darth Vader had some points to make. Between gasping breaths, Vader praised the council's recent votes to renew its contract with the surveillance company Flock Safety, which has been making headlines recently as more and more stories of police officers abusing its tools have continued to come out--and as a WIRED review of code for a new AI tool already in use by some police departments has made clear that it is watching far more than just license plates. "The emperor is a fan of Flock. And we must continue utilizing Flock technologies so that we can follow and surveil the rebel scum as they move from playground to playground, from playground to pool, from pool to gymnasium."

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FEMA's'Shadow Administrator' Was Paid by a DOGE Member's Startup for Months Details from recent court filings show that DOGE's influence within government--and potential conflicts of interest--extend further than previously known. An outside contractor once described as the "shadow administrator" of the Federal Emergency Management Agency was actually working, for at least part of her time in government, for a company owned by a member of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, according to recent court filings. The filings show that from fall 2025 to spring of this year, Kara Voorhies, a special government employee and contractor whose work at FEMA has drawn scrutiny from Congress as well as the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general, was subcontracted by a company owned by Kyle Schutt, a DOGE operative whose own company was contracting with DHS. The documents were filed in a lawsuit contesting President Donald Trump's vast cuts to the federal workforce. Previous filings have indicated that for several months, authority over some of the spending operations of FEMA, a constituent agency of DHS, was seemingly illegally influenced by Voorhies.

Why $370bn tech group Palantir pays 1.4 percent tax rate: Report Palantir Technologies, the United States data analytics and artificial intelligence company which has contracts with the country's military and intelligence apparatus, has "engineered its corporate structure" to pay no US federal corporate income tax, according to a new report. The study by the Centre for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research (CICTAR) comes as Palantir reports soaring revenues, driven partly by government contracts, while it faces continued criticism for providing technology to the Israeli military amid the genocide in Gaza. What does the report show? Earlier this week, Palantir reported second-quarter revenue of $1.94bn, up 93 percent from a year earlier. But despite its rapid growth, CICTAR said its global effective tax rate was just 1.4 percent in 2025.