Prediction Markets Let You Bet on Whether a Wildfire Will Burn Down Your Town

Wildfire survivors call fire-prediction markets “morally reprehensible” and worry they could increase the risk of arson.

Black-box optimization weather intervention method supports future disaster mitigation

In recent years, the frequency of weather-related natural disasters—cyclones, torrential rains, floods—has increased as a consequence of global warming. These disasters cause billions of dollars in ...
Morningstar

Luffa Ecosystem Launches First Social Forecasting Benchmark Application PolyMind, Kicking Off World Cup Prediction Season

Envisioning the Future of Social Ecosystems: Luffa Anchors Next-Gen Web3 Engagement as First Social Forecasting Benchmark PolyMind Enters Open Beta HONG KONG, June 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Luffa, AI x ...
IEEE

Lose Your Self (LoYS): an adversarial entropy-based unsupervised approach for model debiasing

When spurious correlations between targets and data are present in training samples, deep neural networks may struggle to generalize, typically learning shortcuts corresponding to such undesired ...