We asked attendees of Super Bowl LX's pregame festivities for their takes on the competing halftime shows, the potential for ICE actions, and the influence of Silicon Valley on the event. To say this year's Super Bowl came at a charged time in American culture and politics is, perhaps, an understatement. While the pair of teams who took the field Sunday--the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots--comprised a pretty classic matchup (no underdogs here!), the rest of the event was set to be anything but. Santa Clara's Levi's Stadium is in the heart of Silicon Valley, just a few miles from the corporate headquarters of Nvidia and AMD, whose chips are powering the AI arms race that had competitors OpenAI and Anthropic sparring via rival Super Bowl ads . There was an explosion in sports "trading" activity on sites like Kalshi and Polymarket in the lead-up to the game, even in states like California where traditional sports betting is illegal. Sunday could prove to be an extraordinary success for prediction markets, as the industry becomes more mainstream . Fresh off a historic Grammy Album of the Year win (a first for a Spanish-language album), the unapologetically political Puerto Rican rapper and singer Bad Bunny headlined --a choice that sparked a perhaps inevitable MAGA backlash. Meanwhile, Turning Point USA organized an alternative program called The All-American Halftime Show, featuring the likes of Kid Rock and Brantley Gilbert. Never mind that Bad Bunny is Puerto Rican, and therefore an American citizen. Rumors were even buzzing about possible actions by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at the Super Bowl. Even though the NFL and California governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that there would be " no immigration enforcement tied to the game," anti-ICE protesters were on the streets. We caught up with football fans at a tailgate five minutes away from Levi's Stadium to hear their thoughts on all the drama. Here's what they had to say.

We've been doing a lot of NLP Sentiment Analysis on NFL games recently. So far, the team with the higher pregame Twitter sentiment has won 4 out of 10 analyses with 2 Week 16 games finished at the time of writing: Lions at Falcons, and Chargers at Texans. For week 16, we're going to analyze all the games and…

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Russell Wilson still wants to play for the Seattle Seahawks, his agent said Thursday amid a new report detailing a potential growing fracture between the two sides. Wilson's agent Mark Rodgers told ESPN if there was a trade coming down the line Wilson would only want to play for a handful of teams. Rodgers told ESPN that Wilson's trade list would include the Dallas Cowboys, New Orleans Saints, Las Vegas Raiders and Chicago Bears.

The Seattle Seahawks will now be utilizing Amazon Web Services in bringing artificial intelligence ... [ ] and machine learning to their game preparation in hopes to make more efficient on the field decisions. Amazon has deep roots in Seattle which are about to get deeper. The company announced it will be expanding its services within the NFL, after partnering with the Seattle Seahawks to provide the team with its cloud and machine learning/artificial intelligence offerings. In the comprehensive partnership, the company will move the vast majority of its infrastructure to AWS and will also provide wide-ranging services, including computing, storage and database, as well as analytics intended to drive game strategy decisions for the team. Amazon's NFL Next Gen Stats offering has been providing player tracking data throughout this season and the Seahawks will utilize their data, that tracks the position of the ball on the field as well as every player 10 times per second, to provide detailed information on each player's impact on the field.

In addition to moving the vast majority of its infrastructure to AWS, the National Football League (NFL) team will use the breadth and depth of AWS's services, including compute, storage, database, analytics, and ML to drive deep analysis of game footage to inform game strategy, improve operational efficiencies, and accelerate decision-making to advance team performance game-to-game. The Seahawks will combine the weekly NFL Next Gen Stats player tracking data, which tracks the position of the ball and every player 10 times per second, with its own player and club data to develop custom analytics and proprietary statistics. The Seattle Seahawks are relying on AWS's unmatched portfolio of services to discover actionable outcomes from its vast amount of player, team, and business data, enabling them to continue to compete at a championship caliber level. The Seahawks are building a data lake on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) that will combine team stats and NFL data, such as Next Gen Stats player tracking, player health and wellness data, and scouting information to provide deeper visibility into player capabilities, as well as give the coaching staff a single, real-time view of player and team performance. By applying AWS analytics services to the data, the Seahawks will be able to quickly uncover insights to better evaluate talent and develop game plans that take advantage of the team's strengths.

In addition to moving the vast majority of its infrastructure to AWS, the National Football League (NFL) team will use the breadth and depth of AWS's services, including compute, storage, database, analytics, and ML to drive deep analysis of game footage to inform game strategy, improve operational efficiencies, and accelerate decision-making to advance team performance game-to-game. The Seahawks will combine the weekly NFL Next Gen Stats player tracking data, which tracks the position of the ball and every player 10 times per second, with its own player and club data to develop custom analytics and proprietary statistics. The Seattle Seahawks are relying on AWS's unmatched portfolio of services to discover actionable outcomes from its vast amount of player, team, and business data, enabling them to continue to compete at a championship caliber level. The Seahawks are building a data lake on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) that will combine team stats and NFL data, such as Next Gen Stats player tracking, player health and wellness data, and scouting information to provide deeper visibility into player capabilities, as well as give the coaching staff a single, real-time view of player and team performance. By applying AWS analytics services to the data, the Seahawks will be able to quickly uncover insights to better evaluate talent and develop game plans that take advantage of the team's strengths.

Pro Football Focus Majority owner and former Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Cris Collinsworth discuss how his company is using artificial intelligence to help football teams determine players' salaries. The National Football League is turning to artificial intelligence to determine whether its teams are paying some of their star players too much money. Pro Football Focus (PFF) is an analytics company that is majority-owned by former Cincinnati Bengals player and NFL broadcaster Chris Collinsworth. The new system, in conjunction with Amazon Web Services (AWS), will provide never-before-seen metrics of all 32 NFL teams. "We break down every player on every play on every game," Collingsworth said during an exclusive interview on FOX Business' "Bulls & Bears" Monday.

Fresh off a nearly perfect run predicting the outcome of World Cup futbol matches, Microsoft's digital assistant, Cortana, has focused her abilities on picking the winners of NFL football games. Need help predicting whether or not the Seahawks will hold off the Green Bay Packers? The kicker, of course, is that you'll need access to Cortana, Microsoft's digital assistant. And for right now, that means a Windows Phone 8.1 phone, either one that's been upgraded via Microsoft's developer program or as part of the "Cyan" rollouts that Microsoft and its carriers are pushing to vanilla Windows Phone 8 Lumia phones. For one, asking Cortana about the outcome of a particular game is a bit like a magic spell: You'll need to ask Cortana "Who will win Team A or Team B?" and she will provide an answer.

To the editor: I am not sure that Venice becoming its own city will ameliorate what is happening on the West Side of Los Angeles, the much coveted "beach cities." While tech has made its contributions to the world at large, these many companies have swarmed our neighborhoods and don't add intrinsic value (other than to the city coffers). I hear residents continuously complain about overcrowding, congestion, traffic, homelessness, parking, skyrocketing rents and Waze racers cutting through quiet streets, all of which diminishes one's quality of life. I think there should be industrial complexes far away from neighborhoods that accommodate the thousands of workers. It seems that no one making the decisions is listening.

To the editor: We should not confuse high income/style of living with high reported "taxable" income. People who have very high/comfortable living styles often report meager levels of "taxable income." To me, it's little wonder Trump seems so reluctant to release those returns of his. Current audit, or minimized reported taxable income that would shock even his most ardent followers? To the editor: About the only growth I could see in his plan was that of the federal deficit, which, in turn, will further balloon the national debt. It is a plan riddled with assumptions.