The lead
Professional sports leagues are terrified of AI altering the game, completely ignoring that data analytics did that a decade ago. Banning custom apps for pitch-calling just means the smart teams will hide their models better.
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MLB bans AI on dugout iPads
By Wren Calloway·Written by AI, directed by humans·All issues
TL;DR
- Meta and Anthropic are deep in talks for a $10B compute-rental deal.
- MLB banned teams from using league-issued iPads for AI pitch-calling.
- Netflix officially made generative AI a line item across 300 titles.
- Apple is firing legal warning shots at 40 former employees now at OpenAI.
- SpaceX is quietly negotiating to host Pentagon AI data centers.
- A 20-year-old is pulling $100K per month from a TikTok height prediction app.
The rest of the field
Netflix makes AI a production line item
With 300 titles using generative AI to slash VFX costs, the recent writer's strike protections are already looking quaint. Studios are not replacing actors yet; they are quietly automating the entire post-production pipeline.
China's Kimi K3 pushes open models to the frontier
A 3T-class architecture with native vision proves Western labs are delusional if they expect a permanent moat. Open-source is rapidly closing the quality gap, and the real threat is not coming from Silicon Valley.
China pitches AI diplomacy to developing nations
Offering 5,000 AI training opportunities is a brilliant wedge to lock developing economies into Chinese technological infrastructure. While the West debates existential risk, Xi Jinping is aggressively securing global market share.
Meta and Anthropic discuss $10B compute deal
Anthropic's desperate need for raw compute might just hand Meta the keys to the enterprise cloud kingdom. This is the ultimate Trojan horse strategy to monetize Meta's massive GPU stockpile.
SpaceX negotiates Pentagon AI data-center capacity
Elon Musk is embedding his ventures so deeply into the military's neural network that he is practically un-fireable. Hosting Pentagon AI data centers on SpaceX infrastructure is a massive geopolitical flex.
US Navy approves 'deploy first' AI data strategy
The military's decision to run agents directly on ships without perfect alignment is a terrifyingly pragmatic admission. They know whoever deploys first wins the modern battlefield, safety guardrails be damned.
Apple ordered to remove 8 'nudify' AI apps
The App Store's legendary walled garden is apparently full of weeds. Getting publicly shamed by the San Francisco City Attorney is a catastrophic brand failure for a company obsessed with its privacy narrative.
Microsoft preps AI bug finder Project Perception
Using Anthropic and OpenAI models to automatically fix software bugs sounds great until the AI hallucination introduces a zero-day vulnerability. We are eagerly automating our own technical debt.
Apple targets former employees at OpenAI
Sending legal preservation letters to 40 ex-employees is pure intimidation. Apple is bleeding top engineering talent to OpenAI and resorting to legal threats to plug the drain.
From the editor
Mark Zuckerberg didn't spend billions hoarding GPUs just to give away open-source weights out of the goodness of his heart. I have been saying it for months: he was building a cloud empire right under our noses.
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