Patrick Hatten

Look, we all have things we didn't get done this week. We really, really meant to get to them, but life got crazy and it just didn't happen. Well, guess what? All that stuff is still gonna be there Monday, so YOU OFFICIALLY HAVE ROBERT IRVINE'S PERMISSION* to leave work one hour early and get this weekend started! Enjoy! Tell your local bartender that Robert said hi! *Void where prohibited. You do not actually have my permission. Any and all consequences faced for leaving work early are yours and yours alone.

Breaking: FSU Football private plane spotted heading south from Leesburg, GA today. Jimbo Fisher owns a 600 acre hunting ranch in Lee County GA, just north of Albany. 👀

If you think FSU is Nebraska, you’re an idiot Context matters and Novell was a trainwreck

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Florida State already has the financial infrastructure to compete—if its new coach can align with the front office. "They are not far away from being a potential ACC contender again," an agent who represents more than 30 college players tells FOS.

Nissan sued a computer repairman for $10,000,000 to take the Nissan․com domain. His legal last name was Uzi Nissan. He refused to fold, spent $3,000,000 fighting them in federal court for 8 years, and won. This is the story of Uzi Nissan and why a $20B car giant still can't use Nissan․com. 1980-1994 - Uzi Nissan emigrates from Israel to Raleigh, North Carolina - opens a small auto repair shop in 1980 using his family surname - launches Nissan Computer Corporation on May 14, 1991 selling PCs and servers - registers Nissan․com on June 4, 1994 for $70 while the automaker barely touches the web December 10, 1999 - Nissan Motor Co. realizes a North Carolina PC shop owns their exact domain - instead of paying his asking price, the automaker files a $10,000,000 federal lawsuit for cybersquatting - Uzi refuses to back down and turns the homepage of Nissan․com into a public archive of their legal threats 1999-2007 - the court battle drags on for 8 years across district court, the Ninth Circuit, and a Supreme Court petition - Uzi spends over $3,000,000 in legal fees and takes out two mortgages on his home - federal judges rule a corporation can't strip a man of a domain built on his own birth name July 2020 - Today - Uzi Nissan passes away from COVID-19 in July 2020 at age 68 - when thieves hijack the domain after his death, a federal judge orders Nissan․com returned to his family estate in April 2024 To this day, Nissan Motors is forced to use NissanUSA․com. If you type Nissan․com into your browser right now, you still don't get a car dealership. You get a memorial to the computer repairman who beat a multinational giant over his own last name.

We're digging deep on the problems at FSU on today's Inside ACCess (4 pm, ACCN) but I dug into some pretty astonishing numbers for my Week 10 preview column today, too... espn.com/college-football/st…

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ChatGPT has now a big problem. Researchers at Oxford exposed a massive threat to large language models.” It’s called "Model Collapse." And it explains why the internet is about to become a toxic waste dump for Large Language Models. Right now, AI companies are scraping the entire web to train their next-generation models. But there’s a massive problem. The internet is no longer just human data. It is rapidly filling up with AI-generated text, images, and code. What happens when an AI trains on data generated by another AI? A new paper in Nature just gave us the answer. And it is terrifying. When AI models are recursively trained on AI-generated data, they suffer from irreversible brain damage. The researchers found that the model starts forgetting the "tails" of the original data distribution. The rare, weird, unique, and complex human nuances completely disappear. It's like making a photocopy of a photocopy. Every generation loses resolution. The output gets flatter, blander, and more generic, until the model completely collapses in on itself. For years, we thought the biggest bottleneck for AI was compute, getting enough H100 GPUs from Nvidia. This paper proves the real bottleneck is us. If we keep flooding the internet with synthetic AI slop, we will poison the very data pool required to build smarter models. The ultimate irony? We thought AI was going to make human creators obsolete. Instead, this research proves that verified, genuine human data is about to become the most valuable commodity in the tech industry.

Bowling alleys and arcades used to be affordable, local spots where a working family could spend $20 on a Friday night. Then private equity and hospitality groups started buying them up to turn them into "gourmet entertainment lounges." Now it’s $45 an hour to rent a lane, $8 for shoe rentals, $14 for a craft beer, and an arcade card loaded with microtransactions that drains $30 in ten minutes. We systematically destroyed every cheap, unpretentious third space in America and replaced them with corporate revenue engines designed to extract $150 from you just for leaving your house.

Indiana’s Cignetti tees off on ESPN, says they employ a lot of people told to talk up the SEC. This clip is a sports media content gold mine.

Florida was able to count 92% of ballots in 1 hour last night. California is at 61% after over 26 hours. Both states had 8 million votes.

Yep. AI companies are now having to demonstrate ROI to their investors.