Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech When gambling platform Polymarket made an early morning announcement projecting Ken Paxton would win the Texas Republican senate primary, it had no polling data to go off, and no survey methodology to inform the decision. The announcement — styled as a “BREAKING” piece of polling news, invoking the language of journalists — instead followed the betting line: millions of dollars which, in that moment, skewed heavily toward Paxton. Voters, it turned out, had another candidate in mind: John Cornyn, who only had an “18 percent chance” of victory at the time of Polymarket’s announcement. The two have since entered into a runoff, per the New York Times, meaning anybody could still win via ballotage. That’s a far cry from Polymarket’s original prediction, which was an outright victory for Paxton in the first round of voting. It’s also part and parcel for prediction markets like Polymarket, which increasingly styles itself as a newswire service on social media, enticing users …