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The Monexus
Vol. I · No. 169
Thursday, 18 June 2026
Saturday Ed.
Updated 08:18 UTC
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← The MonexusOpinion

The market is betting on AI. Everyone else is asking for a refund.

Polymarket odds suggest investors have priced artificial intelligence as a near-certain winner. The same prediction markets give only a 23% chance Google has the best model by June. That gap tells a story the bulls would rather not read.

Polymarket odds suggest investors have priced artificial intelligence as a near-certain winner. The Guardian / Photography

Desk note: Wire coverage of the Google "disregard" incident led with user-experience framing; Monexus framed it against the Polymarket market-implication data, treating the pricing odds as primary evidence of how investors vs users processed the same event.

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