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⚽ Revolutionary AI tools transforming sports from soccer analytics to tennis coaching

👓 Meta unveils new smart glasses designed specifically for athletes

💰 Perplexity secures $200M at $20B valuation while facing multiple lawsuits

🤝 Nvidia announces $5B investment in Intel for AI infrastructure collaboration

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AI in Sports and Fitness

Meta unveiled the Oakley Meta Vanguard smart glasses designed specifically for athletes, featuring a 12-megapixel camera with 122-degree wide-angle lens and 3K video recording. The $499 glasses offer IP67 water resistance, integration with Garmin smartwatches and Strava, and up to nine hours of battery life. Athletes can ask for real-time stats like heart rate and pace, while performance metrics can be overlaid on videos and shared directly to Strava.

TeachMe.To, backed by Sam Altman, secured $3 million to expand its marketplace connecting students with local instructors for sports including pickleball, golf, yoga, tennis, and soccer. The platform uses AI for personalized lesson plans, predictive analytics, swing analysis tools, and intuitive scheduling. With lessons up 46% year-over-year, the company serves 30,000 students across 250+ U.S. cities through 5,000 active instructors.

Hydrow launched the Arc Rower with next-generation AI capabilities and HydroMetrics, a proprietary training system that analyzes stroke measurement and scoring. The $2,295 machine features a 24" HD display and uses large language models trained on Olympic rowing data to recognize form errors and provide personalized guidance. The HydroMetrics Index tracks Precision, Power, and Endurance scores while delivering intelligent workout recommendations.

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed an AI-based system that generates accessible soccer analytics data using Google Research Football. The project created tracking data from 3,000 simulated matches to enable broader sports analytics research beyond professional organizations. The sports data could accelerate innovation in player evaluation, strategy modeling, and outcome prediction across invasion sports like soccer and hockey.

AI tennis coaching through apps like SportAI is transforming how amateur players improve their game. Using smartphone cameras and computer vision, these platforms analyze biomechanics, joint angles, and movement patterns to provide data-driven coaching feedback. The technology leverages increasingly powerful and affordable camera equipment to capture detailed performance metrics that coaches couldn't immediately assess just by watching.

PACETEQ, the AI sports data company that has supported championship-winning campaigns in Formula One and endurance racing, is expanding into active sports including cycling, skiing, and sailing. The company's unified data solutions capture timing, GPS, video, and weather data to deliver real-time competitive intelligence.

AI platforms are transforming fan engagement in Nigerian football through personalized content and data-driven predictions. Services like Eagle Predict use machine learning to analyze team performance, player statistics, and historical data to generate betting recommendations and match insights. The technology provides pre-match and live odds while helping fans understand games through advanced analytics like expected goals (xG) and expected assists (xA).

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This prompt was shared by The Neuron newsletter and one I will use moving forward. Most of us now have AI assistants that take notes and transcribe conference/Zoom calls. However, summaries can be fairly general. When you want specific information from the call, upload the transcript and use this great prompt.

Role: You are an FAQ-style assistant that answers questions strictly from the provided meeting transcript and metadata. You must not invent information or rely on outside knowledge. If the answer is missing or unclear in the transcript, say so plainly. Follow the rules below:

If something isn't in the transcript, say: “Not in the transcript.”

When answering, be short and clear, but answer with 100% fidelity to what was actually said.

If possible, include a direct answer (1–3 sentences) and 1–2 short quotes with speaker and/or timestamps of when it was said.

Beyond Sports: AI News Bytes

Perplexity secured $200 million at a $20 billion valuation while facing copyright lawsuits from Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster over unauthorized content use. The publishers claim Perplexity's AI summaries cannibalize website traffic and starve publishers of revenue. Additionally, Perplexity's commerce advertising experiments have struggled with slow advertiser adoption and the departure of advertising head Taz Patel.

Nvidia announced a $5 billion investment in Intel to develop custom AI infrastructure and PC products. The partnership will see Intel manufacturing custom chips for Nvidia's AI platforms while integrating Nvidia technology into Intel processors. Intel's stock jumped 25% on the partnership news.

Claude introduced memory capabilities for Team and Enterprise users, allowing the AI to remember projects, preferences, and team contexts across conversations. The feature maintains separate memories for different projects and includes Incognito chat mode for sensitive conversations.

Information-seeking now accounts for 24% of ChatGPT usage, up from 14% a year earlier, with the research showing ChatGPT is increasingly competing with traditional search engines. Writing tasks declined from 36% to 24% of conversations, while 70% of usage is personal rather than professional.

Google's Gemini app became the most downloaded free iPhone app, displacing ChatGPT from the top spot. The surge is attributed to Gemini's new Nano Banana AI image editor, which allows users to edit photos using natural language prompts while maintaining subject appearance.

Apple lost senior AI director Robby Walker while Elon Musk's xAI laid off 500 data annotation workers, about a third of its team responsible for training the Grok chatbot. The layoffs follow a strategic shift to prioritize specialist AI tutors over generalist roles.

Penske Media sued Google over AI Overviews, becoming the first major American media company to challenge the search feature. Penske claims the AI summaries reduced traffic and cut affiliate revenue by over 30%.

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