SAN FRANCISCO, June 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Impulse AI's autonomous agent was the only model to pick the winner of all three of the 2026 NBA playoffs' biggest upsets, beating every major public forecaster and betting market it was measured against, including ESPN's Basketball Power Index, Basketball Reference, Polymarket, and Kalshi. No data scientist built it. The company uploaded data, wrote a prompt, and the AI agent did the rest.
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