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Ipsos is a global market research and public opinion polling company that conducts surveys for media, business, and government clients.
Kalshi has deals to put its prices on CBS, CNN and CNBC while 60% of US adults oppose election betting, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found. The trader-concentration data that exists is for Polymarket, where the top 1% of wallets make 68% of congressional-market volume, an August analysis found.
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Wellcome's survey of more than 140,000 adults found that 72% trusted science at least somewhat in 2025, compared with 80% in 2020 and 77% in 2018. Products that sell on 'science says' are now drawing on less public credit than they had before the pandemic.
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Reuters/Ipsos found only 30% of 2024 Trump voters very motivated to vote in November's midterms, against 48% of Harris voters. The gap points to weaker Republican turnout, but the one market price reported with the poll, for Florida's governor race, still has Republicans as favorites.
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Fifty-six percent of US voters, including 43% of Republicans, back limits on building data centers, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found. That puts local siting fights at the front of the political risk to AI spending before the November 3 midterms.
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Robert Half says 72% of managers plan to pay more for recruits with AI skills in 2027. Its raise table and LinkedIn's posting data put that premium anywhere from about two points of salary to $97,000 a year, so whichever source a budget uses sets the line item.
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Goldman Sachs calls its US data-center outlook through 2027 largely unchanged, yet its figures cut 2027 capacity additions to 26 GW from 36 GW. The bank says local opposition has had limited effect on growth so far, a judgement the November 3 midterms will test.
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Partners Banka takes 1.5 points of a 2% markup on each bitcoin trade in its app while Anycoin, a MiCA-licensed exchange, executes and holds the coins. Customers skip wallet keys and exchange logins, but the coins cannot leave the app.
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Eagle Hill Consulting found 51% of 200 senior US leaders say recent technology investments fell short of their intended outcomes. The reason they gave most often was underestimating how the new tools would change day-to-day work.
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An OECD survey of 6,047 employers found this software in most workplaces on both continents. The countries split over what firms are allowed to do with it, and most of these tools are not AI at all.
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Noahpinion sets the prime-age employment rate near all-time highs against Ipsos and Pew findings that the public expects AI to compete with workers, which leaves headcount plans resting on a premise the aggregate data has not tested.
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Abbott's halt on new grid-connection approvals has stalled roughly 1,800 data center projects. The gap between 474 GW requested and 100 GW planned suggests what the audit will find.
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Jinguyuan's owner made his menu and wait times readable by other people's AI agents. He says it draws more press than customers, which is the interesting part.
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Regulation Crypto Assets pairs two offering exemptions with a way out of the investment-contract test. The White House lunch the next day was the political weather, not the rule.
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The 60-day cease-fire window closed on the 16th. Washington is weighing secondary sanctions on Chinese buyers of Iranian crude while US pump prices run 29% above last year, three months from the midterms.
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A CNBC and Generation Lab survey of 1,088 Americans aged 18 to 34 puts distrust of Palantir's Alex Karp at 81% and Anthropic's Dario Amodei at 76%. The best-liked AI chief executive still loses 65-35.
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An ECB survey of 8,205 firms found crypto acceptance flat since 2024 while mobile payments nearly doubled. The money in payments is in settlement, not the checkout button.
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