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Technology5 mins read

What Netflix, ESPN, and TikTok get right about AI

The best in sports, media, and entertainment are doing something different Most brands lose their audience in the first five seconds. Not because their content is bad, but because it’s not built to adapt. To get real traction, you need a system that learns from behavior and fine-tunes what each person sees, when they see it. The key is to optimize for response patterns early, before scale makes mistakes harder to fix. This post breaks down how the top players in sports, media, and entertainment do just that, and how you can apply the same approach.

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Technology3 mins read

How AI in VAR has changed football forever

If you’ve ever sat on the edge of your seat watching your team battle for glory, only to have the celebration halted by the dreaded VAR check, you know football isn’t just a game of skill, it’s a game of inches and interpretations. In those tense moments, the officials no longer stand alone. Artificial intelligence is now a silent partner in the most consequential decisions of the world’s most beloved sport. But has this partnership brought clarity, or simply another layer of controversy?

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Technology4 mins read

Not just smarter enemies: How AI is quietly reshaping the entire gaming industry 🎮

In 1997, a chess-playing AI named Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov. The world gasped. Fast forward to today: AI doesn’t just play games, it helps make them. From the ethereal landscapes of No Man’s Sky to the unpredictable foes in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, artificial intelligence has seeped into every corner of game development and gameplay. But here’s the twist, it’s not just about making things smarter. It’s about making things faster, deeper, and often, more human. Let’s unpack that.

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