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Tech Tuesday: News giant CNN and prediction market Kalshi are joining forces

FILE - The CNN logo is displayed at the entrance to the CNN Center in Atlanta on Feb. 2, 2022.
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FILE - The CNN logo is displayed at the entrance to the CNN Center in Atlanta on Feb. 2, 2022.

From sports to news, there’s a new player in how we consume and interact with the world around us: online betting and prediction markets.

What started as a simple overturn of a sports betting ban has turned into a partnership between one of the world’s biggest prediction markets, Kalshi, and one of the world’s biggest sources of news, CNN.

What does this partnership mean? How have prediction markets grown so much and where are they going?

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