https://www.atptour.com/en/news/pif-atp-next-gen-accelerator-hub

The program is organized entirely around age. Under 20. Top 500. Top 350. Top 250. Every eligibility criterion is a number applied to a young body. The implicit assumption is that professional tennis development is a young person's pathway — and that the only problem worth solving is how to accelerate young players into the system faster.
Peak early. Develop fast. Age out. The program doesn't question that assumption. It optimizes for it. ??#

EXT. HAMPSTEAD HEATH - NIGHT

A heavy, London fog swallows the trees. The world is reduced to textures: wet bark, slick mud, the orange sodium glow of distant streetlamps struggling to penetrate the mist.

Silence, until the rhythmic CRUNCH of boots on gravel.

VLADIMIR (70s, Estonian, wearing a coat too thin for the damp) moves with a frantic, military precision. He is old, but his eyes are wide, darting. He carries a small, crumpled parcel wrapped in a greasy newspaper.

I guess Apple and Google are not 'spooked' by the sudden COLLAPSE of the OpenAI IPO discussion. THEY SHOULD BE!

https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/apple-finalizing-1b-deal-to-use-google-ai-for-siri-7943706/