AI News - Mid-October 2026

Aaron (0:08)

Good morning, good evening wherever you are, and welcome back to The Enterprise AI Show. This is your host, Aaron, and today we have our AI news update for mid-October. Now, Brian and Brandon talk about using Jev to run the Commander's football team, CoreWeave's woes, and how Anthropic and OpenAI continue to cook, even though the Enterprise continues to struggle with the ROI.

And they also talk about why Meta talks about their models when uses what really makes money and a possible new playbook for established vendors in the new age of AI-built apps. And all of that is coming up right after this quick break.

Brian (0:55)

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We're back. Brandon, it's good to be with you, man. We are doing our now world-famous sort of mid-month AI and Cloud News of the Month. How you been, man?

Brandon (2:40)

I've been doing fantastic. And this week, I thought we'd start with football because that's what we like to do. But very quickly, I would like to just recap that the commanders, and for those that don't follow, this is American football team based in Washington. They lost in one of the most unspeakable ways possible. They were playing the game. They basically had a chance to kick a field goal. They had 50 seconds left. They ran a play and incredibly, they ran out of time. This is potentially the dumbest possible thing that you can do in a football game. It's absolutely the kind of thing that cannot happen at all.

And so afterwards, of course, there was a lot of questions. Like, who was in charge? What was going on? Like, how could this happen? Because allegedly these coaches and players spend 80 hours a week practicing just for one game in these situations and they did the impossible.

So that led me to think to myself is should they, all football teams, just use Jev? Where you can just ask it yes or no questions about like what you should be doing at that time. And instead of pretending like you protected, you just be like, you asked Jev, it's like, we have 50 seconds left. What should we do? We should run a play, spike the ball and kick field goal. Like that's, should we do that? You should just ask Jev yes or no, because clearly these human beings can no longer be trusted with simple yes or no questions. And so maybe this is a revolutionary, forget analytics. We just distill football down to a set of yes or no questions. And we just don't even let the head coaches and the players even make any decisions anymore. We can all just have a board, right? Everyone could look up at the scoreboard or on TV and they flash it up like, what should we do? Let's just ask Jev and just see what actually happens. So Brian, what do you think of my attempt to bring AI directly into football by only asking yes or no questions?

Brian (4:18)

I like the idea, just to put it in context for anybody who doesn't know about Jev, which included me about a week ago before you explained what Jev was to me. Jev is this new LLM that mostly focuses on yes and no questions, is that right?

Brandon (4:31)

Yeah, either that or multiple choice, but that's the point. It's not gonna give you long answers. It just gives you binary stuff.

Brian (4:37)

Right, so it's now somehow the creators of Jev are now valued at $7.5 billion to, like you said, answer yes or no questions or multiple choice questions, which I guess would be great if you were playing Millionaire, the game show Millionaire, or any number of game shows where it could work itself out. But no, it's interesting because forever, again, we're gonna get into football talk and most people are gonna tune out. But forever, there's been this running joke that the timing in a football game, especially the last minute or so when things are getting close, that they've always said, look, coaches need to basically have a designated nerd who has done nothing but played online video games to be there to be the watching the clock thing. I think this is for American football, both Azure and AWS have both been huge sponsors of American football, especially the NFL. Azure has their iPads or whatever they're called on the sideline watching stuff, and AWS does. I think this is another opportunity for one of the tech companies to sponsor the Jev. Maybe it could be a bot, maybe it could be like SpaceX could have a bot running around next to the coach in the last minute, the Jev thing lights up or something. I think it's, I like the idea. I think you're right, there never should be a situation like that. Plus, if you have a bot running around on the side of the field, like there is all sorts of opportunities for comedy to happen, just unexpected things to happen. It could just, it could time out, somebody could actually like kick the cord off of it or something. I like the idea of it. But yeah, football is unique in that it is this total chaos for 59 and a half minutes. And then the last 30 seconds is literally just the simplest yes or no questions, which again is worth seven and a half billion dollars for somebody to be able to answer those questions.