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🧠 OpenAI announces GPT-5 with integrated reasoning capabilities and agent-like task completion

💰 Apple signals major AI acquisition push with Tim Cook confirming investment growth plans

🏥 Life Time revenue jumps 14% driven by AI-powered wellness platform L.AI.C expansion

🤖 NFL-backed AI Sport Scientist launches to democratize elite training and scouting tools

⚽ World Humanoid Robot Games features AI-powered robots competing in soccer and other sports

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AI in Sports and Fitness

Life Time reports 14% revenue jump to $761.5 million driven by its AI-powered wellness platform and digital health expansion strategy. The upscale athletic club operator highlighted L.AI.C, its Microsoft-powered AI personal health companion, as foundational to connecting all facets of its business ecosystem. CEO Bahram Akradi envisions tens of millions using the AI tool to support the company's clubs, Miora longevity clinics, and LTH supplement line.

World Humanoid Robot Games features AI-powered robots competing in soccer and other sports from August 15-17 with thirty international teams participating. The competition includes teams from the United States, Brazil, Germany, and Portugal, with robots designed with visual sensors to find the ball, move across fields, and recover after falls. Each team uses unique programming and decision-making systems developed through imitation learning and simulation training.

SIQ's data-tracking basketball successfully completes NBA Summer League testing with zero player complaints across 58 games and 550 surveys. The smart basketball hides sensors inside the valve stem to track touch events, shot data, and player movements in real-time without affecting bounce or feel. The NBA plans G League season-long testing before potential full league implementation.

MLS holds second annual Future of the Game Showcase featuring artificial intelligence applications across fan engagement, performance analysis, and officiating. The soccer science fair at Q2 Stadium in Austin highlighted companies from the league's Innovation Lab program, including Edge Sound Research's AI audio isolation technology and Lubu Technologies' AI-powered wearable insoles that track force impacts and foot pressure.

NFL-backed Curv AI launches the world's first AI Sport Scientist that can actually "see" athletes and measure how they move using computer vision. (press release) The digital co-pilot analyzes athletic abilities, identifies performance potential, and flags injury risk directly from video. Curv received early NFL funding during Super Bowl LIII and will help select All-American athletes for the Military Appreciation Bowl Week.

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Beyond Sports: AI News Bytes

OpenAI today announced GPT-5 as its most advanced AI model yet, featuring integrated reasoning capabilities and agent-like task completion abilities. The unified model will be made available to all ChatGPT users. You can watch the entire launch event here. Other OpenAI news this week includes:

• OpenAI launched Study Mode in ChatGPT designed to develop critical thinking skills. The feature asks users questions to test understanding and refuses direct answers unless students engage with material.

• ChatGPT adds mental health guardrails and will now prompt users to take breaks from lengthy conversations and avoid giving direct advice about personal challenges.

• OpenAI now offers ChatGPT Enterprise to U.S. federal agencies for $1 through the next year, and will open its first Washington D.C. office next year.

Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company is "very open" to AI acquisitions and will significantly grow investments in artificial intelligence technology. Cook confirmed Apple acquired around seven companies this year and is reallocating staff internally to focus on AI features across its platform.

On a releated note, Apple launched an early preview of Support Assistant in the Apple Support app, a ChatGPT-like AI that answers questions about Apple products and services. The experimental chatbot can provide troubleshooting information and escalate complex issues to human support staff when needed.

Most U.S. adults now use artificial intelligence to search for information, with 60% overall and 74% of those under 30 using AI at least sometimes. The AP-NORC poll reveals younger adults are most likely to use AI for brainstorming and work tasks, with a particularly large age divide on creative applications.

Microsoft reports quarterly profits of $27.2 billion driven by cloud computing and AI units. CEO Satya Nadella says cloud and AI is the driving force of business transformation across every industry and sector.

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