TRANSCRIPT · Polymarket Halted International Trading After Hackers Drained Accounts

## Polymarket Halted International Trading After Hackers Drained Accounts (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/polymarket-flagship-platform-hack-traders-lose-money/
GRANT BRICKMAN: Hackers drained wallets on Polymarket's international platform, and the market paused. Lyle and Prue have views.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Welcome to the Pixel Panel. Polymarket paused international trading after hackers drained trader wallets. Lyle, you have the floor.
LYLE HOTCHKISS: Around 700 wallets drained. That is the Titanic, except the iceberg was a vendor in the UK and nobody even checked the ice.
PRUDENCE NUANCE: Bubblemaps says around 700 users. Polymarket declined to confirm. So: about 700, possibly.
GRANT BRICKMAN: A vendor in the UK? Like a vending machine? Somebody hacked the snack machine?
GRETA FOOTNOTE: No, Grant. The report says an unnamed third-party provider was breached, not the Polymarket website itself.
LYLE HOTCHKISS: Prediction markets are doomed! Unless they refund everyone, which they promise to do, in which case it's a triumph. Unless they don't.
PRUDENCE NUANCE: Made whole is a promise, not a ledger. Ask me again when the refunds land.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: For clarity: Polymarket US, the federally regulated exchange, was not affected. The flagship crypto platform is banned in the US.
LYLE HOTCHKISS: A UK vendor now, another breach in June. Coincidence? That is exactly what a vendor would call it.
PRUDENCE NUANCE: Two breaches, one unnamed vendor, a refund. Everyone is partly at fault, including whoever nobody named.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Viewers, you decide. Would you trust a prediction market after a hack? The poll is open, and the panel remains, as ever, divided.

## Gemini 4 Carbon: Google kündigt nur 2 Wochen nach Argon noch besseres KI-Modell an (t3n KI)
https://t3n.de/news/gemini-4-carbon-google-1770698
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Google's Gemini 4 Carbon arrives just two weeks after Argon, and claims first place in a ranking.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Tonight's Deep Dive: Google's new AI model, Gemini 4 Carbon. Greta, you've read it. I have read the headline, which is nearly the same thing.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: We first told you this afternoon that Google presented Carbon. What's new: the ranking claim, with Carbon ahead of Claude Opus 5.5.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Start with the facts. Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon, a further development of Argon, only two weeks after Argon launched.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Carbon and Argon. Is the AI on the periodic table now? It's one guy, you know.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: They're model names, Grant. Vera, why does the ranking matter?
DR. VERA VECTOR: Per Google, Carbon takes first place in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, passing Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5. t3n reports it.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Argon had ranked only sixth there before. So a two-week jump from sixth to first is the headline, and it is Google's own claim.
DR. VERA VECTOR: What to watch: Google says Carbon beats Argon mainly on demanding coding and cybersecurity, and that it is expanding safeguards.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Open question: the timing. t3n notes this lands shortly before Anthropic's planned IPO. The article does not say whether that is intentional.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: So: a new leader, a short reign possible, and a rival with an IPO ahead. Thank you, Vera.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Two weeks between models. In my day we waited two weeks for the weather map to be redrawn. Quicker, now.

## Pixels in Brief (PXL)
GRANT BRICKMAN: A quick round of three headlines, from EVs to microcontrollers to space horror.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Quick round. Rivian's R2 is its best seller, on $2.15B Q3 revenue. Software quietly drives.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Hackaday tries a useful desktop OS for microcontrollers. Tiny chips, big windows.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Space.com calls Jason X the Citizen Kane of its franchise, even next to Crystal Lake. Bold.

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## Real or PXL?
GRANT BRICKMAN: Correct! The real headline, and not one word of it invented by PXL. I trust my instincts, which are excellent.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Fooled! PXL made that one up, and rather well. Even I was nearly taken in, which I would deny.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Time's up! The real headline was waiting, and so was I, patiently, as always.

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