The Batman

[The Batman @BoldBatman]

Needs must.

[The Batman @BoldBatman]

Never seen a dive get checked in VAR for a 2nd yellow in my life. In the box for a pk maybe, not at midfield. Argentina strikes again.

[The Batman @BoldBatman]

Conor McGregor is a joke. Marketing guru but ruined his reputation with tonight’s fight.

[Polymarket FC @PolymarketFC]

🚨 BREAKING! 🤯

@Romain_Molina:

Sexual assault on minors, money laundering, embezzlement, forgery and use of forged documents: the Argentine Football Association has faced a litany of scandals and investigations (notably by the FBI) but has been covered up and protected by FIFA for years. 🇦🇷

[Romain Molina @Romain_Molina]

ENQUETE / La mafia du foot argentin 🇦🇷

https://t.co/CbjfbwrMvW

Attouchement sur mineurs, blanchiment, détournement, faux et usage de faux : la Fédération argentine de football connaît une litanie de scandales et enquêtes (notamment du FBI) mais a été couverte et protégée par la FIFA depuis des années

Qui, quoi, comment et avec les documents...

Keep the faith !

[The Batman @BoldBatman]

@bigdefaz really sucks this Argentina scandal will go over all the casual fans heads. Glad you point it out!

[Mal @UtdMaI]

If the allegations are true, then Argentina’s recent successes may have served as a vehicle for laundering millions of dollars through FIFA and the Argentine federation.

It would also explain why so many people continue to question the penalties and refereeing decisions that went Argentina’s way during the 2022 World Cup.

Between the Negreira case and these allegations involving FIFA and Argentine football, Lionel Messi’s career could remain one of the most controversial in football history, regardless of his own personal involvement.

[wande @blaccmajek]

Imagine being 1–0 down in the 92nd minute and thinking you’re above Ronaldo in the penalty order. This is the person you want portugal to go far with? Competing with someone that’s clearly levels above him.

[The Batman @BoldBatman]

@mediocentr0 So you think Messi is the GOAT and FIFA fixes it for Argentina?

[The Batman @BoldBatman]

Wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. Thank you, Cristiano.

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Belgium after realizing that they will be waking up to 100% Trump tariffs tomorrow

[The Batman @BoldBatman]

Shocking how bad Vintha, Neves and Bruno were all tournament for Portugal. All three were too passive in possession and lacked creativity.

[The Batman @BoldBatman]

Blaming Ronaldo for Portugal’s problems will be a good ball knowledge litmus test.

[The Batman @BoldBatman]

JUDE. BELLINGHAM. MADRID DNA HITS DIFFERENT.

[The Batman @BoldBatman]

I am SHOCKED that Vini gave that earlier penalty away for Brazil. He needed to die on the sword and be the one to step up for his country. He has been carrying them all tournament and turned the biggest moment down? Unlike him.

[The Batman @BoldBatman]

This is crazy.

[ESPN @espn]

Breaking: Folarin Balogun will be available to play in USA's Round of 16 match against Belgium on Monday, FIFA announced.

The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has suspended the red card issued to the USA striker during their Round of 32 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[The Batman @BoldBatman]

Hahahah he was happy in 2022

[Arielipillo @arielipillo]

🚨 INFANTINO SUFRIÓ POR ARGENTINA HOY:

Gianni Infantino, el Presidente de la FIFA, confirma que esta noche sufrió con Argentina, pero se da cuenta de lo que dice y arregla con que es neutral 🫥

[The Batman @BoldBatman]

The media frenzy that would occur if Ronaldo and Portugal took Cape Verde to ET….. crickets now.

[The Batman @BoldBatman]

Portugal is so bad. Imagine watching them and thinking Ronaldo is the issue. Their possession-based system is way too passive and slow with no creativity. Shame on Martinez and the midfield trio.

[The Batman @BoldBatman]

Future is going to be incredible.

[Weave Robotics @weaverobotics]

Today, we’re launching our home robot Isaac 1.

Isaac 1 deliveries will begin this fall.

Order yours below.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Palantir's CEO just exposed Sam Altman and Dario Amodei for robbing every Fortune 500 company.

Within two minutes, Alex Karp took the entire frontier AI industry apart on national television.

His exact words:

"Every single enterprise in this country, these people are LIVID. They are paying for tokens that create no value. These people are stealing the weights and alpha of my business."

He literally said the entire frontier AI business model is intellectual property extraction dressed up as a subscription.

Then he also destroyed the pricing model with a single question that Silicon Valley still refuses to answer:

"If it was so valuable, let's say I can make you $1 billion tomorrow. Wouldn't I say I'll make you $1 billion and I want 30 percent? Why are they charging for tokens if it's so valuable?"

That question breaks the industry.

If OpenAI and Anthropic's models truly delivered the productivity gains the labs claim, they would take equity or a share of the profit they generate. They would not sell access by the million tokens.

Token pricing is itself the CONFESSION that the product cannot produce reliable value at scale. If it did, they would price for the value. But they price for the compute because that is what they are actually selling.

Karp went even further...

He called the entire arrangement "a wealth tax that does not help the poor. It just punishes."

American businesses are transferring the alpha of their operations, meaning the workflows, the customer data, the strategy memos, the internal models that make them competitive, directly into the training pipelines of a handful of Silicon Valley labs. Once those labs retrain, the customer's own edge becomes the next enterprise product sold back to their competitors.

And the part the AI industry does not want anyone thinking about:

Every enterprise running its confidential documents, its customer conversations, and its financial models through a frontier model is potentially teaching that model HOW to replace them.

The vendor collects the token fee AND the compounding intelligence about that customer's business. That is the mechanism. And that is why Karp used the word "stealing."

He claims this is why every executive he meets is furious in private and silent in public. Nobody wants to be the CEO who called out the labs and then discovered their next competitor was built on their own leaked workflows.

The entire AI industry has been priced for perfection on one assumption:

That frontier labs produce durable, defensible value that justifies infinite compute spend.

But Karp just told us that the customers do not believe that assumption anymore. They believe they are being taxed without benefit, watched without consent, and copied without recourse.

The moment enterprises stop believing, the whole valuation stack shakes.