The Los Angeles Rams’ 14–9 win over the Houston Texans was notable not just for a late-game stop and Matthew Stafford’s quiet climb into the 60,000-career-passing-yards club, but for the way Sean McVay’s embrace of sideline technology framed the narrative: a coach openly betting on advanced...
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The NFL’s decision to fold generative AI and Microsoft’s Copilot into its sideline toolkit marks a decisive shift: intelligent assistance is moving from back-office analytics into the heat of game-day decision-making, scouting, and stadium operations in a multiyear expansion of the league’s...
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Microsoft’s decade‑long Surface presence on NFL sidelines has quietly evolved into an AI‑first operational program: the league’s Sideline Viewing System (SVS) has been upgraded with more than 2,500 Surface Copilot+ PCs and integrated Copilot and Azure AI tooling to give coaches, scouts and club...