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FIFA is on track for a record $13 billion cycle and the two US broadcasters to roughly double their 2022 World Cup haul, but the spike is a 39-day pop-up. It's a stress test of whether scarce live attention can still command the prices the rest of television gave up trying to charge.

The network declined to cut to commercials during the new hydration breaks, a wager that guaranteed presence in a moment nobody looks away from is worth more than the impression pod it replaces. It's the clearest live test yet of a media currency shifting from who might be watching toward attention that cannot wander.

Joseph Mugare, Data Analyst at Colgate-Palmolive, argues that companies are invoking AI efficiency to justify workforce restructuring before anyone can cleanly attribute specific job cuts to specific AI capabilities.