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Steam's boards ran a heavy ordinary review volume across Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3

Reddit's niche hobby boards, fountain pens, homelab, houseplants, knitting, ran their usual weekend mix with nothing that breaks pattern.

The market layer's freshest contracts price Elon Musk's weekly tweet count and MrBeast's next video view bracket alongside a long slate of Oscar acting outcomes; no contract touches this week's AI-accountability stories directly.

Google Trends ran sports-heavy on both sides of the Atlantic, college football coaching chatter and Oklahoma's schedule on the US side, the national lottery and a royal visit on the UK side.

Radar's own item count ran toward the lighter end of the week's range in 36 hours; the 7-day trend lines, the Loom's real anchor, held their course regardless.

nextTech's AI-accountability fight widens from content to infrastructure and training dataFood's sweep carries the week's most consequential new evidence, radar's own boards carry none of itBody holds the board's second-highest reading with nothing in the sweep to confirm it
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