Is this the beginning of the rise of the machines? Last week saw AI triumph outright for the first time in our Premier League predictions battle, although BBC Sport's own expert human, Chris Sutton, points out he is still top of the overall league this season. This time, as well as AI, Sutton faces a different hi-tech challenger. His guest opponent for this weekend's fixtures is a computer game: Football Manager 26, the latest edition of the long-running management simulation series. The FM26 game engine has played out this weekend's matches and you can see its results, including goalscorers and red cards, below. Miles Jacobson, the studio director of Sports Interactive, the company behind Football Manager, also joined in.

Realism is a big draw for fans of management sims, and both EA FC and Football Manager have kept salaries and transfer fees for women players in line with the real world, where amounts tend to be much higher in the men's game. But Andreas says the EA FC team has made a few concessions - such as the venues where matches in the game take place. Using his home club Frankfurt as an example, he says the women's squad usually plays at a smaller stadium but all the matches in EA FC take place in the Deutsche Bank Park. It's the largest stadium in the German city, where the ladies team's bigger fixtures are held in real-life. On a practical level, it means the team doesn't need to recreate another venue inside the game.

How likely are you to read a 39-page document about the "health" of the internet? But listening to the return of excellent tech podcast IRL is definitely our idea of a good time. Its new season tackles AI-related issues, including the unethical use of artificial intelligence in surveillance, and the problematic way it creates bias in healthcare. This content is also something that its creators, Mozilla, have – in previous years – published as a gargantuan Internet Health Report. Evidence, if ever you needed it, of podcasts' ability to create a hooky listen out of even the most technical of subjects.

Just before the launch of Football Manager 2017 [official site], with the beta already released to the many people who preordered the game, I spoke to Sports Interactive director Miles Jacobson about the changes his team have made in this latest game in the series. We talked about AI improvements, Brexit, and whether Leicester winning the Premier League was a happy day or a sad day at Sports Interactive. With updates to the beta arriving regularly as the people playing provided feedback, commentary and complaints, Sports Interactive is a busy place around this time of year. The fortnight before launch day is an enormous playtest, in which more eyes are on the new version of the game than have been at any point during development. Jacobson seems happy to take time away from assessment of new release candidate builds to talk though.