In today's email:

🏃 Running retailers deploy AI "Footwear Guru" systems for expert product knowledge and injury guidance

⚾ MLB advances robot umpire technology after successful spring training with 52.2% challenge accuracy

🏌️ Bryson DeChambeau uses AI swing analysis with thousands of archived recordings to optimize performance

🏢 Meta announces gigawatt-scale data centers for superintelligence research starting 2026

💼 Featured AI prompt transforms CVs into targeted résumés using job description analysis

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AI in Sports and Fitness

Running specialty retailers embrace generative AI technology to transform customer service capabilities amid growing product complexity. Big Peach Running has developed "Footwear Guru," a custom ChatGPT tool that provides instant expert-level product knowledge and injury guidance to staff members. The system addresses the industry's growing challenge of maintaining expertise across expanding product lines while relying on part-time employees.

Major League Baseball embraces robot umpire technology for All-Star Game officiating. The Automated Ball-Strike System showed impressive results during spring training, with teams successfully challenging 52.2% of ball/strike calls across 288 exhibition games. With current human umpires missing 10.9% of pitches in the strike zone and 6.3% outside the zone, this technology represents a significant step toward more accurate officiating in professional baseball.

Bryson DeChambeau pioneers AI-powered golf analytics with revolutionary swing analysis system. Working with Sportsbox AI and Google, DeChambeau has thousands of swing recordings in AI archives, more than any other golfer. The system can analyze his swing mechanics in real-time, identifying issues like head position changes or grip pressure variations. This data-driven approach contributed to his U.S. Open victory and represents the future of personalized golf coaching through AI analytics that could transform how players develop their games.

Researchers explore AI-powered anti-doping detection through advanced pattern recognition. AI systems can analyze athlete metabolic pathways to detect anomalies that might indicate performance-enhancing drug use, while also identifying potential sample-swapping scenarios like those discovered in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. This technology represents a significant advancement in sports integrity, offering more sophisticated detection capabilities than traditional testing methods alone.

OpenAI enters motorsports with strategic racing partnership for IndyCar championship team. The company became the primary sponsor for Álex Palou's Honda Indy 200 race car, marking OpenAI's first sports sponsorship and establishing a strategic research collaboration with Chip Ganassi Racing. The partnership aims to use AI tools like ChatGPT Enterprise to streamline data collection and analysis processes that are crucial for race car optimization, demonstrating how AI can enhance performance in high-tech motorsports.

Fitness industry undergoes comprehensive AI transformation focused on personalization and member engagement. Companies like EGYM are leveraging over 9 million workouts and 500 million assessments to create hyper-personalized training programs, while Future uses AI to analyze coaching interactions and suggest personalized check-ins.

iFIT forges global fitness partnership with Samsung Health for millions of users worldwide. The collaboration brings personalized AI-driven fitness content directly through Samsung Health, offering strength, yoga, cardio, and mindfulness programming to users globally. The integration includes plans to connect iFIT-enabled equipment like NordicTrack and ProForm for a comprehensive connected fitness experience that bridges hardware and software through intelligent recommendations.

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• Use heloo.cv to create a job-winning resume in minutes using our powerful AI resume builder and publish it on your own professional web link.

What it does: This prompt transforms your raw CV into a laser-focused résumé by highlighting the keywords, achievements, and structure demanded by a specific job description.

### Instruction ###
You are a professional career coach and expert resume writer.

### Context ###
– **Job Description:**  
  [Paste the full, unedited job description here]

– **Current CV:**  
  [Paste your CV in plain text here]

### Task ###
1. **Analyze** the job description to extract:
   - Key skills and requirements  
   - Action verbs and industry jargon  
2. **Rewrite & Reorganize** your CV to:
   - Feature those keywords prominently  
   - Turn responsibilities into quantified achievements (e.g., “Increased user sign-ups by 40%”)  
   - Use concise, bullet-point format under clear section headings

3. **Checklist & Questions:**  
   - Provide a brief “Summary of Changes” (3 bullets).  
   - Before finalizing, ask any clarifying questions (e.g., missing metrics, dates, tools).

### Output Format ###
**1. Summary of Changes**  
- …  

**2. Optimized CV**  
- **Experience**  
  - Role, Company, Dates  
    - Achievement bullet 1  
    - Achievement bullet 2  
- **Skills**  
  - Skill 1, Skill 2, …  
- **Education**  
  - Degree, Institution, Year  

Beyond Sports: AI News Bytes

Tesla has launched Grok AI integration in vehicles, though currently limited to general queries without car control capabilities. The feature is available only on newer Teslas with AMD chips and represents the first step toward conversational AI assistants for drivers.

Cognition acquired AI coding startup Windsurf just days after Google hired away Windsurf's leadership team in a $2.4 billion reverse-acquisition. The deal came together over a weekend after OpenAI's $3 billion offer to acquire Windsurf expired, clearing the way for alternative options in the competitive AI coding market.

Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta will build multiple gigawatt-scale data centers for superintelligence research, with the first "Prometheus" cluster coming online in 2026. The massive infrastructure investment, covering areas comparable to Manhattan, represents hundreds of billions in spending to compete with OpenAI and Google.

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says the AI search startup plans to remain independent from Big Tech acquisitions despite reportedly seeking a $14 billion valuation in its next funding round. Srinivas aims to provide an alternative to what he views as Google's search monopoly and has declined acquisition offers from companies like Apple.

Google launches featured notebooks in NotebookLM created in partnership with The Economist, The Atlantic, and other experts. The curated content covers topics from longevity advice to financial analysis, demonstrating how AI can organize and analyze complex information for easier consumption.

AI Jobs in Sports and Fitness

• Keywords Studios - Senior Research Associate - AI

• Undisclosed - Fitness Expert & AI Training Specialist - Brand

• TrainingPeaks - Data Scientist 

• Flo Health - AI & Automation Business Partner

• Eight Sleep - Head of AI 

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