NYT's Kevin Roose hands Claude $100 and a Kalshi account to trade
kevinroose · x · 2026-09-25
NYT tech columnist Kevin Roose is running an experiment: he gave his Claude (Muse) $100 and a Kalshi prediction-market account to trade autonomously, to see how "frontier" the model really is. Results are pending—it's an open-ended live experiment.
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