Everything is gambling now | The Vergecast

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Who's going to win the Super Bowl? What about the latest season of Survivor? Or the race to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve? Who will be Portugal's next president? How many times will Elon Musk tweet in the next week? On Polymarket, and other prediction markets, you can bet on all these things and more. Are we entering a world in which everything is gambling and gambling is everything? Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal joins the show to explain the rise of prediction markets, what's betting and what's investing, and more. Then, The Verge's Hayden Field teaches us about Model Context Protocol, a wonky bit of AI infrastructure that might be key to making AI agents work. MCP is barely a year old, and practically all of tech is ready to embrace it. Finally, Hayden helps David answer a question on the Vergecast Hotline (call 866-VERGE11 or email [email protected]!) about why every AI company seems to want you to go shopping. 0:00 Intro and Studio Setup 1:39 Deep Dive into Prediction Markets with Joe Weisenthal 4:14 Understanding the Mechanics of Prediction Markets 12:00 Regulatory and Ethical Concerns 18:45 The Role of Crypto in Prediction Markets 21:53 Prediction Markets as Data Sources 39:18 AI Protocols with Hayden Field 42:06 The Role of MCP in AI Agents 44:18 The Creation of MCP 45:39 Anthropic’s Internal Hackathon and MCP’s Growth 47:11 Industry Adoption and the Linux Foundation 55:58 The Future of MCP and AI Agents 01:04:50 Challenges and Security Concerns 01:13:11

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