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Hosts: James & Maya
In this episode:
• Hi, I'm Maya, and today we're walking through five stories shaping how AI shows up in business and everyday life, from the World Cup to your App Store...
• Let's start with the big one. Google, Lenovo, and FIFA have put AI across the entire 2026 World Cup. Team preparation, fan experience, and stadium sec...
• This is the first 48-team tournament, 104 matches, 16 host cities. The scale here is the story.
• Worth noting the caveats here. A deployment announcement is not a results report. We don't yet have independent data on how these systems performed un...
• What I'd watch is which vendors get repeat contracts after the tournament. That's the real test of whether this worked.
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