A Google engineer who allegedly made over $1,000,000 after predicting 2025’s most-searched person has now been arrested for insider trading

via wired.com

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As much as I enjoy a gacha pull as a little treat, I’m not overly jazzed about how inescapable gambling mechanics have become in games—or anywhere else, for that matter. So-called prediction markets are also becoming increasingly popular, and one Google engineer has been arrested for allegedly leveraging insider information to place bets on Polymarket, […]

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