I got the Spurs making relatively easy work of the Knicks because of guard play. I see the Spurs full court pressing Brunson for most of the game and the lack of guard depth causing the Knicks to get into their offense late with a 7’12 center in the paint.
I got the Spurs making relatively easy work of the Knicks because of guard play. I see the Spurs full court pressing Brunson for most of the game and the lack of guard depth causing the Knicks to get into their offense late with a 7’12 center in the paint.
I got the Spurs making relatively easy work of the Knicks because of guard play. I see the Spurs full court pressing Brunson for most of the game and the lack of guard depth causing the Knicks to get into their offense late with a 7’12 center in the paint.
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
The NIL era is flipping the NBA Draft on its head.
Only 71 players entered the 2026 NBA Draft, per the NBA. Down from 106 last year and a peak of 363 in 2021.
That's the lowest early-entrant total since 2003.
College basketball stars are staying in school, overwhelmingly.
Rams GM Les Snead and UT-Martin coach Jason Simpson have a very strong relationship—to the point where Snead helped advise the family when Jason's son, Ty, was making a decision on whether or not to declare for the draft.
Now, Ty Simpson is a Ram.
Last night the greatest fold of all time happened in televised high stakes poker.
This is nearly unbelievable. But - @Andrew_Robl is maybe the best poker player on earth.
J Cole admits he be lying in his songs saying he think he’s the best
“It’s a persona & I really be having people believing that ish”
“In real life if u ask me if im the best no, I just put on that cape”
Black Thought, Kendrick Lamar, Lupe etc are better on any given day