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Ampere: US sports rights spending expected to increase 20% by 2030 to over $78B; recent NBA and MLB rights deals will account for nearly half of all spend (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

New NBA and MLB TV Deals Will Drive Global Sports-Media Spend to $78 Billion in Five Years
Ampere Analysis forecasts a 20 percent increase by 2030.

Here’s a good analysis by Gartner and The Next Platform that tries to make sense of spending on AI predictions over the next few years. “if you add devices to datacenter stuff, then AI drove 19.6 percent of IT revenues in 2024 and will drive 27.2 percent of IT revenues in 2025 and 34.1 percent in 2026.” h…

Dicing, Slicing, And Augmenting Gartner’s AI Spending Forecast
When we try to predict the weather, we use ensembles of the initial conditions on the ground, in the oceans, and throughout the air to create a kind of

Apple TV : Konflikt um Verschiebung von Terrordrama "The Savant"
Nach dem Attentat auf Charlie Kirk hat Apple eine neue Dramaserie verschoben, in der es um inländischen Terrorismus geht. Deren Hauptdarstellerin übt Kritik.

Notable at Fri Dec 5th SFMTA engineering hearing:
👍 Item 1: Slow Golden Gate Ave gets concrete diverter
🙅‍♂️ Item 7: Kirkham neckdown to be removed and replaced by less effective traffic calming
https://www.sfmta.com/media/43965/download?inline

AI spending is boosting the economy, but many businesses are in survival mode (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/25/ai-spending-is-boosting-the-economy-many-businesses-in-survival-mode.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p12#a251026p12

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google pledged a combined $67.5B in Indian investments since October, 80% of those in December, as part of an AI spending frenzy in India (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)

AI spending frenzy reaches India, sparking enthusiasm and concern
Amazon, Microsoft and Google have pledged a combined $67.5 billion in Indian investments since October. Eighty percent of those commitments came this month.

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Musk rode into Washington with big ambitions of slashing government spending by trillions of dollars.
Instead, during his brief time in DC, government spending actually increased,
and he left behind many burned bridges.
https://www.theverge.com/news/827390/doge-

DOGE is no more, and in its wake, only chaos
After Musk was chased out of DC, a power vacuum at the head of DOGE caused chaos and ultimately led to its dissolution.

US government shutdown threatens the spending power of Congress (David Morgan/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-government-shutdown-threatens-spending-power-congress-2025-10-26/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p27#a251026p27

A look at Detroit's Apple Developer Academy, launched after the BLM protests, which spends $20K per student, nearly 2x the budget of local community colleges (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-app-making-course-michigan-state-university/<…

Apple’s App Course Runs $20,000 a Student. Is It Really Worth It?
Apple, Michigan taxpayers, and one of Detroit’s wealthiest families spent roughly $30 million training hundreds of people to build iPhone apps. Not everyone lands coding jobs right away.