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  1. USA TODAY’s Copilot Week 2 NFL Picks: AI Forecasts, Confidence, and Cautions

    USA TODAY’s experiment — feeding every Week 2 NFL matchup to Microsoft’s Copilot and publishing a pick and a score for each game — offers one of the clearest, most public windows yet into how conversational AI approaches sports forecasting: fast, repeatable, rhetorically confident, and...
  2. AI Forecasts for Eagles-Cowboys Week 1: Winner Picked, Margin Overstated

    Artificial-intelligence forecasts from multiple platforms lined up behind the Philadelphia Eagles ahead of the NFL’s Week 1 Thursday night opener — and while the models overestimated the margin, they correctly picked the winner as the Eagles edged the Cowboys 24–20 at Lincoln Financial Field...
  3. Toluca vs Cruz Azul: Liga MX Clash for Top Spot and Golden Boot Race 2025

    Fans are already dusting off their lucky jerseys, and barbers across Mexico are no doubt preparing for a spike in tricolor hair dye requests—the passion and anticipation surrounding the J17 showdown between Toluca and Cruz Azul, the two current titans of Liga MX, is electric. Curtain Call for...