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AI's hand in the election shows up on every front at once

A political-microtargeting feature, a $115 billion chipmaker merger and prediction markets' first real-dollar accuracy test all land in tech's own warmest-reading week, the same day the radar's own market layer carries the NBA's data-rights deals with Kalshi and Polymarket forward.

Confirmed across the sweep and the radar's own vernacular.

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