Interest in Counter-Strike 2 prediction trading remained elevated on Gate’s prediction market, where the match between Ground Zero and Mindfreak emerged as a closely watched contract. Data from the platform showed Ground Zero holding about 87% support, while Mindfreak stood at roughly 14%, indicating a clear lead in current market sentiment around the matchup. The exchange said users have been paying close attention to the event as esports-related prediction activity picks up. Gate is also running its “Esports Peak Trading Season” from 16:00 on July 20 to 16:00 on Aug. 10 (UTC+8), with a total prize pool of 200,000 USDT. After registering, users who join prediction trades for designated esports events in Gate’s prediction market section can unlock newcomer benefits, weekly task rewards, and access to an esports prediction trading leaderboard. Gate said users can enter Gate Polymarket through the Alpha section on the app homepage and use USDT in their accounts to participate in markets tied to popular esports matches and championship outcomes. The platform also highlighted its “smart money” feature, which lets users follow the positions and market views of traders with high win rates.

Andrej Karpathy has denied leaving Anthropic after users noticed that references to the company had disappeared from his X bio, a change that quickly triggered speculation that he had exited just 68 days after joining. Before his response, the rumor cycle had already escalated across X, with users sharing alleged internal messages and claims that his Anthropic email was no longer active, though none of that had been independently confirmed and neither Karpathy nor Anthropic had formally commented at that stage. The timing drew extra attention because it came days after Jensen Huang posted a joint open letter supporting open-weight AI models. The letter was initially signed by 25 companies and organizations including Nvidia, Microsoft and Meta. OpenAI and Google were later added, while Anthropic remained absent at the time referenced in the source article. That overlap prompted online speculation that Karpathy, long associated with open-source education and minimalist AI projects, may have been distancing himself from his employer. The article argues that the broader story is less about whether he changed jobs and more about how closely the public ties his image to open technical culture, from CS231n and Zero to Hero to micrograd, nanoGPT and llm.c.

MEXC will list XYZ on Jan 29 at 13:00 UTC at $0.10, with a 50,000 USDT reward pool. XYZVerse raised ~$16M via a multi-stage presale, featuring a fixed supply and deflationary burn mechanism. The esports ecosystem launches amid Bitcoin's sub-$100K stagnation, attracting investors seeking fresh narratives.

Polymarket team member Shampoo publicly accused Kalshi of inflating trading volume by $1.7 billion using a vague 'Esports' category, revealing the actual subcategory total was only $63 million. Kalshi topped Polymarket in January with $9.1 billion volume, but trust issues may threaten its $11 billion valuation.

X platform is flooded with shallow AI threads that teach tricks, not engineering. This article highlights three deep resources—Stanford CS230, Microsoft's 21 Generative AI lessons, and Claude Code Hooks—that demand 50 hours but build real system-level skills.

Axelar said the $4.67 million Secret Network exploit did not compromise Axelar or IBC itself. The issue was traced to a forked Secret-side contract that removed key minting checks, letting attackers mint unbacked assets and redeem them through legitimate bridge channels.

OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director Andrej Karpathy announced his move to Anthropic, stating the coming years in LLM frontier will be groundbreaking. He will return to R&D while promising to continue education work later.

PPP, a prediction market tracking tool, said a so-called smart-money wallet with more than $250,000 in cumulative profit bought more than $110,000 worth of M80 to win in Polymarket’s market for the CS2 BLAST Summer qualifier match between M80 and Ninjas in Pyjamas (NIP). The position was opened at an average price of 50.6 cents. According to the input, M80 has kept a stable lineup and has been in solid form in recent North American events, including sweeping multiple opponents in early July. NIP, by contrast, has lineup uncertainty, with no long-term fifth player confirmed and academy players involved in training ahead of the online best-of-three. The two teams previously met in ESL Pro League in March 2026, when M80 beat NIP 2-1. The input also notes that NIP has been inconsistent against mid-tier European teams, while M80 is pushing for qualification and both sides are under elimination pressure.