Congress Wants to Kill Sports Betting on Kalshi and Polymarket — Here's What's at Stake – Huddle Up 

Legislative impacts on sports betting.

Sports Betting, Legislation, Kalshi, Polymarket

NBA Backs First Expansion in 20 Years With Las Vegas, Seattle – Bloomberg *

NBA's strategic expansion to new markets.

NBA, Expansion, Marketing, Sponsorship

Impact of the WNBA labor deal – The Athletic *

WNBA's labour deal impact on growth.

WNBA, Labor Deal, Athlete Compensation, League Growth

NFL and Sportsbooks Sued Over Microbetting Addictions – Sportico *

Legal challenge highlights sports betting concerns.

Sports Betting, Legal Issues, NFL, Microbetting

UEFA is the latest to go direct-to-consumer, but is it worth it? – Insider Sport *

UEFA's direct-to-consumer streaming shift.

UEFA, Sports Media, Streaming, Broadcasting

MLB Season Arrives With Some Momentum, but Labor Fights Loom – Front Office Sports *

Labour and media rights in MLB spotlight.

MLB, Labor Negotiations, Media Rights, Sports Business

The New Video Experience in Apple Podcasts – Podnews

Video capabilities could impact sports content.

Apple, Podcasts, Technology, Media

AI & I: How to Build an Agent-Native Product – Every

Leveraging AI for innovative solutions.

AI, Technology, Marketing, Innovation

Harness Design for Long-Running Application Development – Anthropic

AI-driven applications enhance fan engagement.

AI, Technology, Software Development, Innovation

What is OpenAI focusing on instead? – The AI Valley

Superapp development influences AI applications.

AI, Digital Innovation, Sports Technology, User Experience

Your AI Strategy is a Cost Strategy – Forever Scale

AI strategy shifts towards cost management.

AI, Business Strategy, Cost Management, Technology

Jorja Smith's record label hits out at ‘AI clone' song – BBC *

AI-generated content impacts creative industries.

AI, Music, Legal, Content Ownership

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How a Motorsport PR Firm Turns a Formula 1 Grand Prix Into a Global Media Product – Culture of Sport *

PR strategies for Formula 1's global reach.

Formula 1, Marketing, Media, PR, Motorsport

Travis Kelce Reportedly Re-Ups with Chiefs on a 3-year, $54.7 Million Deal, but There's a Catch – Yahoo Sports *

NFL contract insights with a twist.

NFL, Contracts, Player Management, Sports Business

ESPN Sets Documentary Film on the Origin Story of … ESPN – Hollywood Reporter *

ESPN's pivotal media evolution.

Sports Media, ESPN, Documentary, Broadcasting

VisitPittsburgh Commits $2M to ‘Forge On' Campaign Ahead of NFL Draft – Biz Journals 

Pittsburgh's $2M Draft marketing boost.

Marketing, NFL, Tourism, Branding

Monarch Makes First WNBA Investment in Cleveland Team – Sportico

WNBA expansion gets a financial boost.

WNBA, Investment, Sports Business, Basketball, Expansion

NFL Network to Continue Draft Broadcast Under ESPN – Front Office Sports

NFL Draft broadcast confirmed with ESPN.

Media, NFL, Broadcast, ESPN, Television

YouTube Launches Gemini-Powered Creator Partnerships With AI Matching – Adweek *

AI revolutionises YouTube creator connections.

Technology, Influencer Marketing, AI, YouTube

FIFA's Revenue Push: YouTube as Preferred Platform + Betting Streaming Rights – Unofficial Partner *

FIFA's YouTube and betting rights strategy.

FIFA, Streaming, YouTube, Betting, Media Rights

Tubi Announces New YA Romance Set in the World of Esports – Variety

Esports meets YA romance on streaming.

Esports, Streaming, Entertainment, Media

Why aren't we fine-tuning more? – Nate Meyvis

AI fine-tuning for better engagements.

AI, Marketing, Advertising, Technology

The End of Coding: Andrej Karpathy on agents, autoresearch, and the loopy era of AI. – No Priors 

AI redefining coding.

AI, Innovation, Marketing, Data, Sports

Minecraft Is Building A Theme Park… In The Real World – Hollywood Reporter

Minecraft blurs real and virtual worlds.

Marketing, Entertainment, Experiential

WNBA CBA quadruples salary cap to US$7m in new revenue sharing agreement – SportPro *

WNBA increases salary cap significantly.

WNBA, Finance, Revenue, Women's Sport

The big calls needed to fix Newcastle United – Howe's future, striker signings, brutal transfer decisions and more – The Athletic *

Newcastle United's critical strategic decisions.

Sports Management, Soccer, Strategic Management

What will Caitlin Clark, Paige Bueckers and more WNBA stars on rookie contracts now make? – The Athletic *

Salaries for WNBA stars emerging.

WNBA, Contracts, Sports Management

World Cup 2026 Security Funding Finally Arrives, but the Delay Tells You Plenty – Culture of Sport *

Delayed security funds for World Cup 2026.

World Cup, Security, Funding, Politics, Event Management

I Vibe Coded The Epstein Files Podcast With Claude and Hit 100K Downloads in a Week – Levy's Newsletter 

AI drives podcast success rapidly.

AI, Podcast, Marketing, Technology, Media

Athlete Financing Firm Gets Backing From Former Endeavor Chiefs – Bloomberg

Endeavor executives support athlete financing.

Athlete Financing, Sponsorship, Investment

India sports economy 2025 crosses $2 Billion driven by cricket and media spending – Sport Mint

India's sports economy reaches milestone.

Sports Business, Marketing, Media Rights, Sponsorship, Cricket

Why Teams Aren't Posting Their Own March Madness Highlights – Front Office Sports *

NCAA limits team highlight postings.

NCAA, Marketing, Media Rights, Social Media

Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI agent to help him run Meta – The Wall Street Journal

AI aids executive management at Meta.

AI, Management, Innovation, Business Strategy

OpenAI is throwing everything into building a fully automated researcher – MIT Technology Review *

OpenAI focuses on automated research.

AI, Research, Technology, Sports Analytics

Okara – The world's first AI CMO – X

Agentic CMO replacing marketing teams?

AI, Marketing, Business, Technology

Tom Dundon's Group Buying 80% of Blazers in Deal's First Phase – Front Office Sports *

Explores the dynamics of sports team ownership.

NBA, Business, Investment, Sports Teams

Multi-Screening March Madness – Front Office Sports *

Examines March Madness' media innovation.

March Madness, Sports Media, Technology

World Baseball Classic Final Draws Record 10.78M Viewers – Boardroom TV *

Record viewership for World Baseball Classic.

World Baseball Classic, Viewership, Sports Broadcasting, Marketing, Sponsorship

Sports creator Florian Marliere buys the broadcast rights to France's premiere rugby league – BBC *

Influencers in sports broadcasting rights.

Sports Media, Broadcasting Rights, Rugby

WNBA, WNBPA Sign Term Sheet for 7-Year CBA – Front Office Sports

New CBA signifies progress in women's sports.

WNBA, Labor, CBA, Women's Sports

The business of the IPL 2026: Cricket's billion-dollar juggernaut enters a new commercial era – SportPro

IPL's massive economic impact examined.

IPL, Sponsorship, Media Rights, Cricket

AI Won't Replace Strategy: It Will Expose It – Medium 

Explores AI's role in strategic planning.

AI, Strategy, Sports Technology, Marketing

NVIDIA Wants to Own Every Layer of the AI Economy and GTC 2026 Was the Blueprint – Neuron Daily

NVIDIA showcases its ambitious AI goals.

AI, Technology, Business Strategy, Sponsorship

Adobe Firefly lets creators train AI on their own images to scale a signature style across video and photo projects – Adobe Blog

Explore Adobe's AI for personalised branding.

AI, Content Creation, Marketing, Multimedia, Branding

I Vibe Coded The Epstein Files Podcast With Claude and Hit 100K Downloads in a Week – Levy’s Newsletter *

How AI can build new content, amazing use case

AI, Vibe Coding, Podcast

Cricket boards at loggerheads over ‘deeply disturbing' gambling proposal – Crikey *

Cricket's controversial gambling revenue discussion.

Cricket, Gambling, Sponsorship, Sports Marketing, Revenue

JASHIE announces partnership with Queensland Government to advance Japan-Australia Sport and Health innovation collaboration – JA Network 

Japan-Australia innovative sport and health partnership.

International Collaboration, Innovation, Sports Technology, Health, Government Partnerships

MLB's Low Valuations May Make Teams Private Equity Targets – Sportico *

MLB as target for private equity due to low valuations.

MLB, Finance, Private Equity, Investment, Business

WNBA, WNBPA Agree to New CBA with Increased Salary Cap, Player Pay – ESPN *

CBA increases salary cap and player pay.

WNBA, Sponsorship, Marketing, Business

Venezuela Team Gets Biggest Share of $37M WBC Prize Pool – Front Office Sports

WBC prize pool boosts Venezuela's share.

WBC, Prize Money, Sports Economics

Cursor Trains Models to Self‑Summarise Context – Cursor

Self-summarising AI can aid sports analytics.

Artificial Intelligence, Data, Technology, Analytics

AI Is Great, Except When It Gets Everything Wrong All The Time – The Age

Explores challenges of AI in sports contexts.

AI, Marketing, Technology, Data, Sports Business

Why Sport Has An Analogue Advantage Over Artificial Intelligence – Notice Sports

Highlights sports' unmatched human experience.

Sports, Marketing, AI, Human Connection