Inside Google’s AI Land Grab in Sport Google signed Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain to matching three-year AI-and-device deals within three weeks of each other, on top of five years of the same structure running through the NBA, the FA, Arsenal, Liverpool and the NWSL. Gemini’s monthly users doubled to 900 million in the same … Read more
Something interesting is happening inside Claude’s voice interface, and it’s a signal that tells us a lot about where AI assistants are heading. For the past few weeks, if you’ve been living where the devs are and poking around with Claude’s voice mode, you might have noticed a model selector sitting there. It looked like … Read more
When I first looked at Zoom Slides, my immediate reaction wasn’t “Zoom built a PowerPoint competitor.” Instead, I saw another step in a journey I’ve been writing about for nearly twenty years. Back in January, while previewing the sessions I’d be moderating at ITExpo, I wrote that the future of Unified Communications wasn’t simply UC … Read more
I’ll say it plainly: I think we’re beginning to see the end of the App Store. Not a gradual fade. Not an evolution. A slow-motion obsolescence, and most people building in the app economy haven’t looked up long enough to notice. The App Store’s Days Are Numbered Here’s the uncomfortable truth: the App Store, in … Read more
Back in the fall of 1974, I was tasked by Philadelphia Wings general manager Jack Bionda, one of the five greatest box lacrosse players of all time, and our director of player personnel, Ken Wood, to begin assembling information on every draft-eligible box and field lacrosse player in North America. I gathered stats books from … Read more
Most industries talk about AI transformation in the future tense. Sports just moved it to the present tense. Two deals announced this week look like separate news items. They’re not. Together, they signal a structural inflection point that will separate the organizations that thrive in the next decade from the ones that scramble to catch … Read more
The invisible layer wins. Every billion-dollar sports business running today, streaming rights, fantasy platforms, betting exchanges, and performance analytics all run on APIs that most executives couldn’t name and most investors never audit. That’s the opportunity and the risk sitting in the same sentence. The Plumbing No One Talks About Is Now the Product Over … Read more
Every so often, a new idea comes along that is not just a product feature or a cost-saving tweak, but a real architectural shift. Anthropic’s Advisor Strategy is one of those ideas. At its core, the concept is simple. You let a faster, lower-cost model do the routine work. When something complex, ambiguous, or high-stakes … Read more
Ever since I was a young boy, I’ve been into numbers. Now, I wasn’t a stats nerd. I just kept the stats for the Philadelphia Wings, not to the level of Harvey Pollack, affectionately known as “Superstat,” but I kept the game stats. Who scored the goals? Who got the assist? Who was in the … Read more
By now, it should surprise no one that Meta is methodically weaving AI deeper into its communications stack. The recent announcement of Manus Minutes — an AI-powered way to capture, summarize, and extract meaning from conversations — feels like one of those features that doesn’t stay standalone for long. Here’s my prediction: Meta will integrate … Read more
