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In today's email:

🤖 OpenAI, Meta, and tech giants race to secure massive computing power through custom chip deals

💪 Twin Health and Peloton partner to revolutionize metabolic health management with AI

🏆 NFL's AI injury prediction tool helps keep elite athletes on the field

🎬 MLS experiments with AI-generated match summaries

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AI in Sports and Fitness

Twin Health and Peloton partner to revolutionize metabolic health management. The collaboration integrates Peloton's fitness content into Twin Health's AI Digital Twin care plans, offering personalized workout recommendations to help members improve heart health, manage stress, and enhance sleep quality.

NFL's Digital Athlete tool uses AI to predict and prevent injuries. The injury prediction system analyzes video and data from training, practice, and games across all 32 teams to help optimize player workload and recovery, contributing to the league's lowest concussion numbers in recent years.

Major League Soccer publishes AI-generated match summaries with mixed reception. MLS has begun automatically publishing AI-generated recaps within 10 minutes of games, drawing criticism from fans and sports journalists over editorial quality and human job displacement.

VfL Bochum integrates AI into recruitment strategy following relegation. The German club partnered with Plaier, a data-driven football analytics platform, to scout players and predict performance by forecasting player growth over three to six-year periods.

Google rolls out AI-powered sports discovery tools. Google has launched AI trending previews in Discover showing brief summaries with links to full content, and will introduce a "What's new" sports feed button for player and team searches in U.S. mobile search in coming weeks, helping fans catch up on trending updates and articles.

🧰 Tools and Tips

  • Dartfish provides performance analysis solutions for team sports and individual athletes at every level.

  • Google has launched a new Gemini-powered tool called “Help me schedule” to make booking meetings through Gmail easier.

  • Anthropic’s just rolled out a new small, cost-efficient model called Claude 4.5 Haiku. If you don’t use Claude yet, you can read about it here.

  • Check out Flow, Google’s filmmaking tool, with new artistic control.

💡Prompt of the Day: Triathlon Trends & Insights Generator (can be used for any event)

What it does: Analyzes 5 years of triathlon data to uncover trends and suggest actionable improvements.

### Instruction ###
You are a data analyst specializing in sports event analytics.

Your task is to analyze participant data from our triathlon event, covering the last 5 years.

### Context ###
The dataset includes participant information such as:
- Age
- Gender
- Finish time
- Registration date
- Year of participation

### Task ###
1. Identify trends in:
   - Age group distribution over the years
   - Average and median finish times across different age groups
   - Registration behavior (e.g., how early participants register before the event)

2. Highlight any anomalies or outliers (e.g., unusually fast finishers, sudden shifts in demographics, registration spikes)

3. Visualize key trends using appropriate charts (e.g., bar, line, histograms). Include Python code if applicable.

4. Based on your findings, provide 2–3 **actionable recommendations** to improve future event planning, marketing strategy, or participant engagement.

### Output Format ###
- Summary of key trends
- Supporting stats and visuals
- Clear, concise recommendations
- Optional: relevant Python code snippets

Let’s think step by step.

Beyond Sports: AI News Bytes

OpenAI partners with Broadcom to produce its first in-house AI processors, with 10 gigawatts of custom chips rolling out starting in the second half of 2026. The deal follows recent announcements of agreements with AMD for 6 gigawatts of compute capacity and Nvidia's $100 billion investment commitment.

Walmart partners with OpenAI to enable shopping through ChatGPT using Instant Checkout, allowing customers to complete purchases directly within the chatbot for both Walmart and Sam's Club members.

Anthropic launches Skills for Claude Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise users, which are specialized folders with predefined instructions that save time and ensure consistent output across projects.

Google enhances Flow, its AI video tool, with improved editing capabilities including the ability to add shadows and lighting adjustments, plus new audio generation features.

OpenAI launches an advisory council on mental well-being and AI safety, with CEO Sam Altman announcing the company will allow "erotica" for verified adult users when age-gating launches in December.

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