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Markets and AI, broken down by the Talis team. Company results, trends, and the theses behind the trades.

• education · prediction markets · hyperliquid

  Prediction Markets Explained: How They Actually Work

  What prediction markets are, how YES/NO contracts pay out, and how Hyperliquid's HIP-4 brings outcome trading directly into a major crypto exchange.

  June 29, 2026 · 9 min read

• pre-IPO · perps · $ANTHROPIC · education

  What Is a Pre-IPO Perpetual Future? How People Are Trading Anthropic Before It Goes Public

  Anthropic restricted who can trade its private shares, then confidentially filed to go public. So how are people already betting on it? A plain-English guide to pre-IPO perps, and why that price is not the company's valuation.

  June 16, 2026 · 8 min read

• markets · uranium · ai

  Is AI Creating the Next Uranium Bull Market?

  Every AI query resolves down to electricity. As nuclear gains ground as always-on power for data centers, uranium sits quietly upstream of the entire AI buildout.

  June 15, 2026 · 6 min read

• markets · $GOOGL · ai

  Is AI Really Killing Google? Alphabet's Latest Results Tell a Different Story

  Investors fear AI is making Google search obsolete. Alphabet's fiscal 2025 numbers, including 13% search growth and 36% cloud growth, suggest the opposite.

  June 9, 2026 · 6 min read

• perps · trading 101 · education

  How to Go From Knowing Nothing to Your First Perpetual Futures Trade

  Finance is confusing on purpose. Perpetual futures are actually a game with 5 simple rules anyone can learn. This guide makes them simple enough to teach a 10 year old.

  June 9, 2026 · 5 min read