Anthony "chovy" Ettinger built and launched tipoffwatch.com, a free sports notification service, in two hours, from first commit at 15:28 to live by 17:30 on August 19, 2026. The service uses ESPN's p…
The Walt Disney Company has launched a beta AI discovery feature in the Disney Plus app that lets a small group of subscribers search for TV shows and movies using natural language, including voice in…
Disney reported Q3 revenue of $25.3 billion, up 7% year-over-year, and increased its share repurchase program to roughly $9 billion from about $7 billion, partly using cash previously set aside for a …
ESPN's broadcast of the 2026 World Series of Poker Main Event featured an AI tool designed by US Air Force engineer Luke Geel to detect player tells, sparking skepticism among poker professionals. The…
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced on the company's Q2 2026 earnings call that Reddit is developing "video Reddit" or "spoken Reddit," features that will let users watch or listen to posts, with testi…
A 2025 audit of 186,000 articles across 1,500 U.S. newspapers estimated that about 9% of content was partly or fully AI-generated, yet only about 5% of those articles included a disclosure, according …
Developer Dan Nwaneri built Nightwatch, a system that uses a Cloudflare Worker and an LLM to filter live soccer match events and send Telegram alerts only for high-significance moments, such as goals …
The World Nineball Tour has secured a major streaming deal with ESPN, bringing the US Open and Mosconi Cup to the broadcaster. CEO Emily Frazer says the partnership aims to elevate nineball pool as a …
League Loom launched a free, read-only MCP server that connects ESPN, Sleeper, and Fantrax fantasy sports leagues to AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude, enabling users to ask plain-language questions ab…
Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro has reorganized the company, placing its gaming arm within Disney Entertainment under chief creative officer Dana Walden. D'Amaro, who took over in March, faces challenges incl…
A developer's review highlights free sports data APIs that provide institutional-quality information at zero cost, including Football-Data.co.uk for European football and an unofficial ESPN API for No…
ESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith was heavily booed by a live audience at Madison Square Garden after admitting he was 'beyond wrong' about Knicks star Jalen Brunson. Smith apologized to Brunson, Josh Har…
Disney is launching a beta AI tool in July that generates TV ads, including scripts, video, and music, targeting small and medium advertisers. The move comes as consumer backlash against AI-generated …
Disney is preparing to launch a beta version of an AI tool for generating TV ads in July, according to an internal meeting recording obtained by Business Insider. The tool, which can create scripts, v…
A developer built Beat the Oracle, a daily FIFA World Cup 2026 prediction game where users compete against Google's Gemini 1.5 Flash AI to predict match scores. The game uses ESPN's public API for rea…
A developer compiled a June 2026 guide to football data sources for building match-prediction models, covering historical results, live scores, and modeling features like expected goals (xG). The guid…
ESPN aired an AI-altered moving portrait of former San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker during Game 1 of the 2026 NBA Finals, the network confirmed to Front Office Sports. The altered image, derived fr…
ESPN faced backlash Thursday after airing an AI-generated image of former San Antonio Spurs star Tony Parker during a commercial break in Game 1 of the NBA Finals. The network used the fabricated imag…