Super Bowl Tailgate Photo Essay: Bad Bunny, Big Tech, and the Big Game
CommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyTo 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.Take the setting. 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,…
