Mark Zuckerberg has urged Meta's senior leadership to explore partnerships with Polymarket and Kalshi, the New York Times reported, extending Meta's prediction-market strategy beyond its in-house Arena app.

Meta has developed an experimental app called Arena, independent of Facebook and Instagram, and could compete with the biggest prediction markets.

NEW YORK — Polymarket and Kalshi, prediction markets on which users can bet on outcomes as varied as the Super Bowl and the length of the State of the Union address, have been…