Alex Keeney and Brian Golden unpack the latest New York Times/Siena polling and what it means for prediction markets around control of Congress, before Texas Bullpen co-founder Brad Johnson joins to discuss James Talarico vs. Ken Paxton, shifting politics in South Texas, data centers, and Texas’ coming battles over prediction markets. Griff Bohm of Juniper Ventures also breaks down Washington’s AI-regulation debate, frontier-model oversight and U.S.–China coordination, while the show previews the Federal Reserve decision and debates the future of the CLARITY Act after the Senate rejected cloture on the motion to proceed, 49–50.
Is Texas really becoming competitive — or are traders getting ahead of themselves?
Alex Keeney and Pratik Chougule break down the latest midterm polling and prediction-market action before turning to one of Washington’s biggest emerging fights: what, if anything, the U.S. government should do about increasingly powerful AI models.
Nick Fitz and Griff Bohm join Eventual to explain what it actually means to “pace the frontier,” whether the major AI labs could coordinate on safety, the prospects for federal AI legislation, U.S.–China cooperation, model reviews, and the increasingly complicated politics surrounding Anthropic, OpenAI and the rest of the industry.
Then Scottilicious joins for the latest on the CLARITY Act and the battle over crypto market-structure legislation in Washington.
Finally, Brad Johnson of the Texas Bullpen joins Alex and Pratik for a deep dive into Texas politics: James Talarico vs. Ken Paxton, whether recent polling signals a genuinely competitive Senate race, the political direction of South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley, Monica De La Cruz and TX-15, Henry Cuellar, Brandon Herrera, the statewide ballot, Texas gambling and prediction-market regulation, and the growing backlash to data-center development.
Prediction markets give us prices. Eventual asks whether those prices make sense.
On this episode:
James Talarico vs. Ken Paxton • Texas Senate 2026 • 2026 midterms • generic ballot • House and Senate control • AI safety regulation • Anthropic • OpenAI • Elon Musk • U.S.–China AI competition • frontier AI • CLARITY Act • crypto regulation • Texas politics • Rio Grande Valley • prediction markets • Polymarket
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