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💪 Lumin Fitness brings AI personal training technology to mainstream gym chains

🏎️ Alpine F1 and Mercedes partner with AI to gain competitive edge on race day

🥊 Jabbr.ai raises €4.3M to bring transparency to combat sports through computer vision

🤖 OpenAI launches ChatGPT Atlas browser with integrated AI assistant capabilities

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AI in Sports and Fitness

Lumin Fitness licenses AI personal training technology to mainstream gyms. The boutique studio's Lumin Solo platform is now available at Fitness Connection locations, offering members real-time adaptive guidance, automatic rep and body mechanic tracking without wearables, and gamified challenges across 500+ sessions.

Alpine F1 team turns to AI for race strategy. Renault's Formula 1 team is using machine learning and computer vision to analyze hundreds of sensors on the car, turning massive data streams into real-time insights that help engineers make faster strategic decisions during competition.

Mercedes expands F1 partnership with Meta AI. The team has added Meta AI as an official partner, allowing fans to use the AI through Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp to analyze race strategies, share predictions, and revisit season highlights. Meta AI logos will feature on the helmets of drivers George Russell and Kimi Antonelli.

IBM launches Cricket IQ Analytics Platform. The enterprise AI system generates real-time insights across player fitness, mental readiness, pitch conditions, and in-game dynamics, converting complex datasets into natural-language recommendations for coaches and teams. IBM is piloting the platform with an Indian state cricket association and in advanced discussions with an IPL franchise.

Danish startup Jabbr.ai secures €4.3M funding for combat sports transparency. The Copenhagen-based company's DeepStrike platform uses computer vision to track punch accuracy, impact force, and fighter performance in real time, addressing judging opacity in boxing and MMA. The round includes backing from Buckley Ventures, Seven Seven Six (Alexis Ohanian), and Olympic boxing gold medalist Andre Ward.

Ochy partners with Runners Need to bring AI gait analysis to UK retail. The partnership integrates Ochy's smartphone-based gait analysis into Runners Need stores, allowing staff to provide instant assessments of asymmetries, stride mechanics, and shoe compatibility in under a minute, transforming traditional shoe fitting into a data-driven experience.

🧰 Tools and Tips

• I am not great with Excel although I use it regularly to track revenue and evaluate trends. Shortcut AI is an AI-powered cloud Excel alternative that analyzes data, generates insights, and builds financial statements from natural language prompts.

• Try Atlas, OpenAI's new web browser built with ChatGPT at its core.

• You can now build and customize online stores powered by Shopify and Lovable.

• Start learning all things AI on the new Google Skills.

Perplexity Comet is an AI-powered browser that goes far beyond traditional web browsing. I have been playing with it and wanted to share with you the valuable time you can save using it.

I run the La Jolla Half Marathon each year. I have very little time to run but like to follow a plan to hold myself accountable. In this example, I asked Perplexity Comet for the best half marathon training plans for someone who can only run three days a week. After Comet gave me a list of plans and a table comparing the workouts, I asked it to explain who each plan is best for, how challenging they are, and which one would fit my experience and goals. Comet quickly broke down the details and guided me through the pros and cons of each option, making it easy for me to decide which training plan was right for me.

If I had tried to do this with a regular browser, I would have needed to search on Google, click through a bunch of different links, read long articles, and try to gather all the details by myself. I’d be copying notes, building my own tables to compare each plan (or copying into an LLM to do so for me), and it could take considerable time before I felt confident in my decision.​

Perplexity Comet gives real-time context and automates multi-step tasks directly within your browser, making research and decisions quicker and easier.

Next week, I’ll share some business examples of how to use Comet, showing how it can help professionals save time and work smarter by automating complex tasks.

Beyond Sports: AI News Bytes

OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Atlas, an AI browser with ChatGPT built-in, now available globally on macOS for free, Plus, Pro, and Go ChatGPT users. The browser allows ChatGPT to assist across the web, understanding context and completing tasks without leaving the page.

Anthropic rolls out Claude Memory to all paid Claude users, allowing the chatbot to remember projects and context across sessions. Claude Memory also lets users import memory data from ChatGPT accounts.

OpenAI acquires Software Applications Inc., a startup building an AI-powered user interface for Mac desktops, bringing roughly a dozen Apple alumni into OpenAI's fold to improve how AI tools handle tasks on computers.

Amazon unveils prototype Amelia smart glasses designed for delivery drivers, featuring a camera and built-in display that pair with a waistcoat button to document deliveries. Amazon estimates the glasses could create up to 30 minutes in efficiencies per 8- to 10-hour shift.

Google Gemini is coming to GM vehicles in 2026, replacing the current "Google built-in" operating system. The conversational AI assistant will access vehicle data, help plan routes, and control features like climate control before drivers enter the vehicle.

Meta lays off 600 AI employees within its artificial intelligence unit as the company reduces layers to operate more nimbly.

Reddit sues Perplexity for allegedly ripping its content to feed AI, claiming the startup used third-party data scrapers to circumvent Reddit's protections and obtain copyrighted content in violation of data protection laws.

Samsung launches the Perplexity TV App, the first-ever Perplexity AI-powered TV app on the market. Available on 2025 Samsung TVs with rollout to 2023-2024 models later this year, it offers personalized discovery and AI-powered answers directly on televisions.

AI Jobs in Sports and Fitness

• New Balance - Senior Project Manager - AI

• Whoop - Senior Business Analyst (AI Product)

• Under Armour - Summer 2026 Internship, AI & Advanced AnalyticsGannett

• Patagonia - Principal, Head of AI

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