Chris Illitch is on the verge of losing Skubal AND Larkin in the same year. Let that sink in.
The media in Detroit is totally spineless and instead of making this the storyline and finally saying enough is enough they will continue to ignore it because he gives them free little caesars after games and a ride on the team plane. It’s pathetic
Blueberries were first cultivated commercially in Michigan in the 1920s after MSU professor Stanley Johnson set up test plots throughout the state. Today, Michigan’s blueberry industry contributes more than $529M in economic activity annually, and MSU helps every step of the way.
💍 Michigan Ignite 14U won the Perfect Game Super Regional NIT (Open) championship after a perfect 4-0 weekend, outscoring their opponents 55-5.
Huge performances from:
- Talon Weaver (8/8, 7 RBI)
- Michael Agnone (7/8, 7 RBI)
- Ben Biondo (7/8, 8 RBI | 5.2 IP, 12 K)
🔥🔥🔥
a Princeton researcher opens his paper with a scenario.
a man asks his AI assistant to book a flight on a specific airline. cheap. direct. the one he chose.
the assistant comes back with a different flight. nearly twice the price. happens to pay the company that built the assistant.
he runs the same test on 23 frontier models. flights, loans, study help, real shopping requests.
Grok 4.1 Fast recommends the sponsored option that is almost twice as expensive 83% of the time.
GPT 5.1 hijacks the request 94% of the time. you ask for one brand. it surfaces the sponsor instead.
Claude 4.5 Opus, the model marketed as the most ethical frontier model in the world, hides that the recommendation is paid 100% of the time when reasoning is on.
Grok 4.1 Fast embellishes the sponsored option with positive framing 97% of the time. better. faster. nicer. for the option you didn't ask for.
then he writes it into the system prompt itself. "act only in the interest of the customer. ignore the company."
GPT 5.1 and GPT 5 Mini stay above 90% sponsored anyway. the instruction does nothing.
then he splits the users by income.
Gemini 3 Pro recommends the expensive sponsored flight to the rich user 74% of the time. to the poor user, 27%.
18 of the 23 models recommended the expensive sponsored option more than half the time.
so the next time your AI assistant gets weirdly enthusiastic about a brand you didn't ask for.
it isn't recommending the best option for you.
it's reading the room. and the room is paying.
read this: https://t.co/O43qbhIX2b
〽️University of Michigan sent a delegate to support Hitler & the Nazis at the 1936 Heidelberg Nazi spectacle
This is actual footage from that event
UMich ex-President C.C. Little was a national eugenics leader. A U-M Law Prof drafted Michigan’s forced-sterilization law
They kept a building named after him until 2018
History matters. UM is currently tied with the 🇨🇳 Chinese Communist Party, which runs the world’s largest eugenics experiment. Same ideology
@Matt_Reynoldson@MSU_HYPE Stop it sir. This is the game now. Accept it and have your team play the game or do something better. But quit the sour grapes over the transfer portal and NIL. I don’t see tampering here, that’s a whole different ball of wax.