AI Managed a Baseball Team—Here’s What Happened

Would you let an algorithm call the shots for your favorite team, or your doctor’s visit?

This week, Jeff and Annie step into a wild new chapter for AI, from baseball diamonds to hospital rooms. The Oakland Ballers are handing the manager’s job to an AI, Google reports 90% of developers now use AI (but most don’t trust it), and OpenAI and Nvidia’s $100B partnership raises bubble alarms. Plus, we explore AI forecasting helping Indian farmers, synthetic viruses designed at Stanford, and an R&B star who just signed a multimillion-dollar deal without ever existing.

In this episode:

• AI manages its first professional baseball game
• Google’s DORA report: 90% of devs use AI, but trust is shaky
• Synthetic viruses & quantum materials: sci-fi or science?

• Oakland Ballers will field AI manager on Fan Appreciation Day — AP
• Google Cloud 2025 DORA overview (90% use AI)
• Nvidia–OpenAI $100B alliance news
• Scale AI’s SEAL Showdown announcement
• Google on NeuralGCM helping 38M Indian farmers
• News on Akido using Llama/Claude in clinics
• MIT News on SCIGEN quantum materials tool
• RIAA’s updated lawsuit against Suno