NYT's Kevin Roose hands an AI agent $100 and a Kalshi account to trade
kevinroose · x · 2026-09-25
NYT tech reporter Kevin Roose gave his AI assistant Muse $100 and a Kalshi prediction-market account, letting it trade autonomously to test how "frontier" the model really is. The experiment is ongoing, with results to follow.
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