Apple prohibits employees from using confidential information obtained a

Apple has barred directors, officers, employees, independent contractors and consultants from using confidential information obtained through their work to bet, trade or buy and sell event contracts on prediction markets or similar platforms, according to an internal-trading policy filing dated October 2026. The policy also prohibits tipping such confidential information to anyone who may participate in those markets, and it applies whether or not the conduct would count as insider trading or securities trading under applicable law. The move matters because prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi have grown into venues where corporate insiders could hold an informational edge on event contracts tied to product launches, litigation and earnings. What to watch next is whether other large technology companies adopt similar language and whether prediction-market operators formalize their own insider-trading rules for corporate participants.