Incerto Launches AI Briefing Utilizing Prediction Markets as Media — Bringing Unseen Indicators from Collective Intelligence to Business Decisions
Incerto LLC has launched an AI briefing service that leverages prediction market data for business decision-making. As major US media integrate prediction market data into their reporting, and with discussions on its social utility in the Japanese parliament and Polymarket's "View Only" entry into Japan, the redefinition of prediction markets as "media" is accelerating.
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Incerto LLC (Headquarters: Arakawa-ku, Tokyo; Representative: Aoto Sato; https://www.incerto.tech/) has launched an initiative to utilize prediction markets as media (information sources). As its first service, it will begin offering "AI Briefing" (tentative name, hereinafter "this Service"), an AI briefing service that delivers daily updates on prediction market movements, combined with news and public announcements, as media for business decision-making to management every morning.
Prediction markets, centered on US platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi, are markets where participants trade outcomes for future events such as regulatory trends, election results, economic events, and geopolitical events. In Japan, due to their relationship with gambling laws under the Penal Code, operating money-based participation is difficult, so they have often been categorized as "gambling sites." However, prediction markets strongly function as "information aggregation media" in the sense that they aggregate the knowledge, observations, and judgments of individual participants into prices through the incentive of trading. In the United States, news organizations (such as CNBC, CNN, and The Wall Street Journal) have taken note of this characteristic and begun incorporating prediction market data into their reporting formats.
This Service aims to provide this trend to the Japanese market as "media for business decision-making" for companies. It combines data from publicly operated prediction markets legally operating overseas with news, public announcements, international information, and social media. A dedicated AI interprets this information within an industry context and delivers it as a daily briefing to management, business leaders, and on-site personnel.
Furthermore, this Service is positioned as the first concrete service in the area of translating external information and market predictions into a business context for business decisions, as part of Incerto LLC's initiative to "strengthen efforts in AI development and consulting based on an economic approach," announced on April 26, 2026.
■ Background of Provision: Trends surrounding prediction markets
Globally, the positioning of prediction markets has been shifting in recent years.
United States: Mainstream media integrates prediction markets into reporting formats
In the US, probability data from regulated prediction markets is being integrated into mainstream media reporting formats.
December 2024: US business news channel CNBC announced an initiative to display probability data from prediction market Kalshi in real-time during major programs such as "Squawk Box" and "Fast Money." The practice of referring to Fed interest rate probabilities and other data as market prices via on-screen tickers and dedicated displays in programs has begun to establish itself.
December 2025: CNN signed an exclusive agreement with Kalshi. Kalshi's data is consistently cited within live coverage through API integration across television, digital, and social platforms.
January 2026: Polymarket announced a data partnership with Dow Jones (publisher of The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and Investor's Business Daily). Prediction market data has been integrated into both digital and print media, and an "Earnings Calendar" function that displays prediction market signals for listed companies' earnings forecasts is also provided.
These developments indicate that prediction markets are being recognized by US media as "sources of information that are part of the reporting infrastructure," rather than merely "objects of gambling."
Japan: Social utility debated in the National Diet
In Japan, on April 21, 2026, the House of Councillors Committee on Financial Affairs took up the social utility of prediction markets in earnest. During deliberations, blockchain-based prediction markets were positioned not as "mere gambling but as information infrastructure capable of social utilization." Multiple use cases were discussed, including economic forecasting, hedging disaster risks, and visualizing collective intelligence. Although the Financial Services Agency expressed caution, pointing out similarities to gambling offenses and insider trading risks, the fact that the social utilization of prediction markets has reached the stage of serious discussion in the National Diet itself marks a turning point in its positioning in Japan.
Reference: https://x.com/tamakiyuichiro/status/2046581457469284370
Japan: Polymarket announces "View Only" Japan expansion
On April 29, 2026, Polymarket, a major US prediction market, announced its policy for expanding into Japan. It explicitly stated a policy of not offering trading functions in Japan and adopting a "View Only" format compliant with laws and regulations, aiming to popularize prediction markets as "new media" in the Japanese market (http
Prediction markets, centered on US platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi, are markets where participants trade outcomes for future events such as regulatory trends, election results, economic events, and geopolitical events. In Japan, due to their relationship with gambling laws under the Penal Code, operating money-based participation is difficult, so they have often been categorized as "gambling sites." However, prediction markets strongly function as "information aggregation media" in the sense that they aggregate the knowledge, observations, and judgments of individual participants into prices through the incentive of trading. In the United States, news organizations (such as CNBC, CNN, and The Wall Street Journal) have taken note of this characteristic and begun incorporating prediction market data into their reporting formats.
This Service aims to provide this trend to the Japanese market as "media for business decision-making" for companies. It combines data from publicly operated prediction markets legally operating overseas with news, public announcements, international information, and social media. A dedicated AI interprets this information within an industry context and delivers it as a daily briefing to management, business leaders, and on-site personnel.
Furthermore, this Service is positioned as the first concrete service in the area of translating external information and market predictions into a business context for business decisions, as part of Incerto LLC's initiative to "strengthen efforts in AI development and consulting based on an economic approach," announced on April 26, 2026.
■ Background of Provision: Trends surrounding prediction markets
Globally, the positioning of prediction markets has been shifting in recent years.
United States: Mainstream media integrates prediction markets into reporting formats
In the US, probability data from regulated prediction markets is being integrated into mainstream media reporting formats.
December 2024: US business news channel CNBC announced an initiative to display probability data from prediction market Kalshi in real-time during major programs such as "Squawk Box" and "Fast Money." The practice of referring to Fed interest rate probabilities and other data as market prices via on-screen tickers and dedicated displays in programs has begun to establish itself.
December 2025: CNN signed an exclusive agreement with Kalshi. Kalshi's data is consistently cited within live coverage through API integration across television, digital, and social platforms.
January 2026: Polymarket announced a data partnership with Dow Jones (publisher of The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and Investor's Business Daily). Prediction market data has been integrated into both digital and print media, and an "Earnings Calendar" function that displays prediction market signals for listed companies' earnings forecasts is also provided.
These developments indicate that prediction markets are being recognized by US media as "sources of information that are part of the reporting infrastructure," rather than merely "objects of gambling."
Japan: Social utility debated in the National Diet
In Japan, on April 21, 2026, the House of Councillors Committee on Financial Affairs took up the social utility of prediction markets in earnest. During deliberations, blockchain-based prediction markets were positioned not as "mere gambling but as information infrastructure capable of social utilization." Multiple use cases were discussed, including economic forecasting, hedging disaster risks, and visualizing collective intelligence. Although the Financial Services Agency expressed caution, pointing out similarities to gambling offenses and insider trading risks, the fact that the social utilization of prediction markets has reached the stage of serious discussion in the National Diet itself marks a turning point in its positioning in Japan.
Reference: https://x.com/tamakiyuichiro/status/2046581457469284370
Japan: Polymarket announces "View Only" Japan expansion
On April 29, 2026, Polymarket, a major US prediction market, announced its policy for expanding into Japan. It explicitly stated a policy of not offering trading functions in Japan and adopting a "View Only" format compliant with laws and regulations, aiming to popularize prediction markets as "new media" in the Japanese market (http