Senator Marco Rubio tells a dog it’s a “pain in the ass.” The dog, named Triumph, fires back by asking Rubio to announce his next foreign attack so it can bet on Polymarket.

This article explains how to install and configure the open-source Hermes AI agent on your own server and use it to run a self-improving weather-trading bot on Polymarket. It covers Hermes’s memory, skill-creation, and always-on execution features, then walks through cloning a weather bot repo, setting up wallets, approvals, and trading prompts.

A trader on Polymarket made a $400,000 profit by betting on Nicolás Maduro's capture shortly before the U.S. operation was announced, raising questions about potential insider trading. Experts are divided on whether the trader had access to classified information, highlighting the regulatory challenges in monitoring prediction markets compared to traditional financial markets. Concerns about political connections, particularly with the Trump administration, further complicate oversight and enforcement of insider trading rules.