It’s 4 accounts’ bets that put Trump’s odds at 60, likely being done to influence people’s perceptions about Trump’s chances. It only took ~$30M to tip the scales to 60, which is a very cheap way to advertise for Trump considering the billionaires who support him. https://www.wsj.com/finance/betting-election-pro-trump-ad74aa71

Yeah, so they can see inside…

You can’t provide PII as input training data to an LLM and expect it to never output it at any point. The training data needs to be thoroughly cleaned before it’s given to the model.

Instead, he’s given the symbol such a bad reputation that nobody would want to use it

For Edge, it’s probably at least partially because Microsoft doesn’t want you to end up in a situation where you have no browsers on your computer. You can’t expect the average user to not be stupid enough to uninstall Edge without having another browser installed, nor can you expect them to figure out how to install a browser without one.

The same goes for things like an image viewer or video player; you can install alternatives, but Microsoft doesn’t want you to end up in a situation where you lose core functionality on your computer. They have no guarantees that whatever alternative you install has the same capabilities as what’s bundled by default.