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Infiniti Intelligence Hourly Briefing — Oct 13, 2026 · 12:09 PM ET

2 stories in this edition: Nobel Peace markets missed the winner entirely: Navi Pillay wins as $30M+ in frontrunner contracts settle at zero · Maine Senate: both venues agree to the cent — Jackson at 57c, Collins at 45c — but move in opposite directions

Nobel Peace markets missed the winner entirely: Navi Pillay wins as $30M+ in frontrunner contracts settle at zero

Quiet quarter-hour — no significant new headline in the last 15 minutes, so this fresh notable-trades story leads, in a different category from the last three editions…

Navi Pillay won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, while more than $30 million in contracts tied to frontrunners settled at zero, according to predictionauthority.com.

A miss at the top of the market

The outlet’s headline describes a market that missed the eventual winner entirely. Its report, published Oct 13, 2026, at 12:09 PM ET, puts the focus on the contrast between Pillay’s victory and the outcome for contracts on leading contenders.

The source page was unavailable, leaving important details unverified: which candidates attracted that activity, their prices before the announcement, and how the reported $30 million-plus figure was calculated.

That distinction matters. The headline establishes a reported zero settlement for frontrunner contracts, but the available material does not establish traders’ aggregate net losses or provide enough information to reconstruct the market’s forecasts.

What it means for prediction markets

  • The reported result highlights an outcome outside the frontrunner group. Without the underlying prices or candidate list, the size of the forecasting miss cannot be measured precisely.
  • The $30 million-plus figure needs context. It should not be treated as an equivalent amount of net trader losses without a breakdown of what it represents.
  1. Predictionauthority (predictionauthority.com)https://predictionauthority.com/news/nobel-peace-prize-2026-navi-pillay-polymarket-kalshi-miss/

Maine Senate: both venues agree to the cent — Jackson at 57c, Collins at 45c — but move in opposite directions

Action Network reports Troy Jackson at Yes 57c and Susan Collins at Yes 45c on both Polymarket and Kalshi, with Jackson sliding 3 points on Polymarket this week while…

Matching prices in Maine

Troy Jackson holds the higher quoted price in the Maine Senate race on both Polymarket and Kalshi, according to Action Network. Each venue lists Jackson’s Yes contract at 57c and Susan Collins’s at 45c.

The update, published Oct 13, 2026, at 12:09 PM ET, shows no difference between the platforms’ reported prices for either candidate. That agreement captures their current levels, rather than how they reached them.

Weekly movement is only partly documented

Action Network reports that Jackson has fallen 3 points on Polymarket this week. Despite that decline, his quoted Yes price remains above Collins’s on both venues.

The supplied summary ends before detailing the other weekly moves, while the accompanying source extract contains no usable race reporting. It therefore does not establish the size of any Kalshi change or Collins’s weekly movement, limiting comparisons of momentum across the two platforms.

What it means for prediction markets

  • Prices align: The reported snapshot places Jackson at 57c and Collins at 45c on both Polymarket and Kalshi.
  • Jackson’s Polymarket trend is weaker: His 3-point weekly decline has not displaced him as the higher-priced candidate.
  • Cross-platform momentum remains unclear: Matching current quotes do not establish matching trends, and the supplied reporting does not fully document the weekly changes.
  1. Actionnetwork (actionnetwork.com)https://www.actionnetwork.com/news/maine-senate-race-2026-polls-prediction-markets-troy-jackson-vs-susan-collins-polls-live-polymarket-kalshi-odds

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