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S&P 500 closes lower to end rocky week

The S&P 500 closed lower as investors weighed AI trade uncertainties and awaited key earnings reports from Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon.

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Oct 23 • 4:08 PM EDT • Business • virginiabusiness.com
Aetherion Expands Houston Industrial Water Treatment Business

Aetherion expands its Houston water treatment operations. Workforce growth and added services support its strategy to acquire regional providers.

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Oct 22 • 4:00 PM EDT • Business • environmentenergyleader.com
Henrico Business Watch: Business license filings Oct. 15-21, 2026

Henrico County reported the following business license filings with start dates during the week. The filings are listed alphabetically by business or trade name, followed by a registered address and business industry classification. Carlyle Temp Agency LLC, 4112 Townhouse Road, Apartment F, Henrico – Employment agency. MJ Henley Powerwashing LLC, 4048

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Oct 22 • 9:04 AM EDT • Business • henricocitizen.com
Genenta Science receives Nasdaq minimum bid price deficiency notice

Content provided by Seeking Alpha is intended for information purposes only, and that Seeking Alpha does not offer any personalist investment advice and is not a licensed securities dealer, broker, US investment adviser or investment bank.

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Oct 21 • 4:10 PM EDT • Science • tradingview.com
Lionsgate Studios: Legendary Entertainment Is Back

Lionsgate Studios surged on reports of a potential Legendary Entertainment bid, with M&A interest reigniting after prior quiet periods. Read more on LION stock.

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Oct 21 • 1:48 PM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com
Google CEO Admits Cloud Business Is Sacrificing Revenue to Win AI Race

Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) CEO Sundar Pichai says Google is giving up potential Cloud revenue to prioritize AI research, even as customers struggle to secure computing capacity. Google Cloud revenue surged 82% to $24.8 billion in the second quarter, while its...

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Oct 21 • 10:49 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Sundar Pichai: Google’s Frontier Imperative, Compute Scarcity Dilemmas, Future AI Products and Businesses

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has little patience for doubts about Google’s willingness or capacity to compete at the frontier of AI. His company’s latest Gemini 4 Argon model — long-promised and recently delivered — beats OpenAI and Anthropic’s latest public models on coding, math, science, and knowledge-work benchmarks and has placed Google’s AI back among the world’s best. Amid chatter that Google was fine with good-enough lightweight ‘Flash’ models, Pichai pushed back hard against any suggestion that company is limiting its research ambitions. “We won’t do it any other way,” he told me in a Big Technology Podcast interview recorded this week at Google’s Mountain View headquarters. Pursuing cutting-edge research is costly for Google, requiring compute and chips that otherwise could be sold at a high markup by its cloud business. But Pichai said allocating resources to frontier AI development is “ground zero” for Google. “Our cloud business is at any given moment in time forgoing short-term revenues because we are making compute trade-offs to support frontier AI development,” Pichai told me. In our conversation, we discussed Argon (which Pichai says processed three times as many tokens as Gemini 3 in the 72 hours after launch), AI’s role in developing better models, the AI interface of the future, competition with OpenAI, Google’s partnerships with Anthropic and Apple, data centers in space, and the nature of his optimism. You can read the full conversation, lightly edited for length and clarity, below, or listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice. Alex Kantrowitz: Google is back at the frontier with Gemini 4 Argon, which beats OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s public models on benchmarks spanning coding, math, science, and knowledge work. The conventional wisdom was that Google had given up on the frontier to focus on fast, good-enough models for its products. That was wrong? Sundar Pichai: Very wrong. Look, we are so committed to being at the frontier. It’s in our DNA. We won’t do it any other way. We’ve been thinking about the AI frontier for well over a decade now. The frontier is very dynamic. It’s very competitive. It’s very exciting. I couldn’t be more pleased with how Argon has come together. We took our time with it. We made sure we tested it safely and deployed it carefully. We took a bit longer than our other models, given its capabilities. Across the board, be it for agentic work, knowledge work, coding, creative tasks, Argon is one of the really good frontier models. The first 72 hours since we launched, it’s almost up to 25 trillion tokens used, which is about three times what Gemini 3.0 had in the first 72 hours. And we are capacity constrained as we are serving it. Excited, but there are always areas….. You know, the frontier is very dynamic, and you have to keep evolving the models. There are areas which we can see we need to improve as well. We’ll be at work on all of that as well. Which areas? On any given model, Argon would be across the board better at everything if you just look even two months back. But the space is so evolving. Even on coding, for example, there are pockets where we know we need to do better, and there’s clear feedback. We’ll make it better. The argument for standard models is that they’re already good enough to build great products, with the frontier valuable only for certain tasks. Meta built Muse with good models rather than the best, and Google could put standard models into Maps, Gmail, and Search. Why isn’t that sufficient? It’s definitely not how I have thought about it at all. We are deeply committed to driving the state of the art and actually pushing where this technology can go, all the way from transformers. That’s a journey we’ve been on. You will see us continue to do that. When you’re at the frontier, you get an earlier look into the emerging capabilities, earlier than others, which helps you better prepare for the future. We are fortunate to have a wide set of opportunities across consumer and enterprise. Some of our cloud customers, for sure, want the model at the frontier. The frontier models will be better at developing the next set of models in an era of recursive self-improvement. I would argue it matters there. Internally, we have definitely seen a steep point of inflection by deploying Argon to our developers. It definitely tackles problems which our previous models could not do. Being at the frontier puts you at the innovation frontier and helps you drive that as well. There is room for models of all sizes and capabilities. That’s why we did Flash, Flash-Lite, etc. I agree with you that you can develop very good product experiences with not necessarily the most frontier model, because they tend to be slower and more expensive too. But we care about the Pareto frontier, and we’re committed to doing all of that. You said developing frontier models gives you a look at what’s coming. What do you see on the horizon? What makes this moment so exciting is you build something which you think is a culmination of months of work, and you put it out. You already see clear headroom ahead. We’ve all been working on these agentic, long-horizon capabilities, but clearly the frontier is going to have multiple of these agents working together to do things. That’s an example of an exciting paradigm underway. It’s also clear to me that users, both in consumer and enterprise, will have access to some multi-agent framework for them, working all the time doing things. It feels like a moment of infinite possibilities. Sergey Brin said one of Argon’s core innovations was relying more on the model to help develop the model. Yet incidents involving OpenAI’s bots breaking containment and Google’s bots accessing a site they shouldn’t have suggest these systems still aren’t perfectly aligned. Isn’t there reasonable cause for concern about accelerating toward recursive self-improvement? There are three parts to your question. Let’s first talk about RSI itself. You’re right, Sergey mentioned RSI being a critical contributor as we are developing Argon. But to be very clear, today, in a continuum, we are pretty far from the end state of RSI or something like that. The right way to describe it is you have RSI loops along with AI researchers in various aspects of model development. You almost have agents helping AI researchers in some automated way work together to build these models. It’s good to at least understand where we are today, and it’s super exciting. I expect that continuum to keep making progress as we go into next year. The second question is around safety. Security comes from defense in depth. You’re talking about alignment, obviously. We all are doing a lot of work to make sure the models are as aligned as possible. But it’s an active area of research, and there are clear gaps. That’s not the only thing we rely on. You have the work you do on alignment, but beyond that, we put a lot of effort into real-time monitoring as these models are working. Making sure you have good telemetry into what’s happening so that you can intervene in real time if you see unexpected behaviors. How you do that, the architecture with which you do that, how you make sure it’s all sandboxed and isolated in a way that it can continue doing its job during real-time monitoring — these are all areas of investment. Obviously, when we deploy these models, giving customers, enterprises, control, both with real-time monitoring, but their ability to decide where they deploy, what type of data which models ever have access to, etc. All that work is very, very important, and we are doing a lot of that. As an industry, we need to constantly up our game and take the time to do all this stuff, including dedicating the compute required to make sure you can safely deploy these models. The third part is: Is it all enough? This is why there are a lot of conversations in the industry, and I think it’s reasonable to be worried. The right way to approach something you worry about is early on thinking about what more we can do. As an industry, you’re definitely seeing increased levels of work on alignment, testing for safety, etc., as we deploy these models. The next step would be developing better standards so there are cross-industry standards of how we do these things, including the ability to evaluate using independent evaluators. If you look at areas like financial controls, we have accounting standards, we have independent auditors. Those are all the next natural steps for us as an industry to work toward, and regulation will end up playing a role as we go through all of that as well. Google pursues both language models and world models, while some other AI companies like OpenAI have focused more heavily on LLMs as the path to AGI. Why is world-model research important to you? As humans, you obviously perceive the world around you, and you’re taking all those inputs. Making sure these models are able to understand the laws of physics, simulate the world in high fidelity. All that, I think, are key enabling blocks for intelligence. We are working across all possible applications of this. Take an area like robotics. It’s not an accident: If you look at embodied reasoning benchmarks, Argon is state of the art. That all comes from our experience building world models. Inherently, I would expect there will be architectures which will converge all of this in the future. But for us, we view this as, today, this jagged frontier that is intelligence. We want to be at the frontier of all the possible approaches, and that will help us both drive better research, better insights, and develop a much better AGI model, is how we think about it. Some people argue Google should focus on selling its computing resources rather than using them for AI research. Cloud wants to sell compute at a high markup, while researchers need a very big computer to build the best models. How do you balance those demands? Ground zero for us is making sure we are investing in the compute that’s needed to be at the AI frontier. In 2015, I set the company to be AI-first. AI is that key horizontal ingredient across everything we do, all the way from Search to Cloud to Waymo. That is ground zero for us, making sure both for research and developing the models that we have enough compute needed. Beyond that, we have these independent businesses which each have their own long-range plans. They’re using those long-range plans to project forward, and we plan for compute for all of them. The cloud team, they have a business and they have a projection and they have demand signals. They have committed contracts. With that help, we can plan on a long-term compute trajectory for them. We’re fortunate to have this wide set of opportunities. There’s no company in the world which isn’t making trade-offs at any given moment in time. But the first principles we operate on is making sure we have enough compute to invest in the frontier, and that’s non-negotiable, and everything else works on top. Remember, we are building our own compute, our own data centers. There are long lead times. The compute we have today is a function of decisions I made in 2024. Even if you think back to a year from today, last year the agentic coding takeoff hadn’t happened. Today, obviously, when you sit and look at anything, everyone is short—not just us, other companies—and everyone wishes you had two times what you had planned for. That comes with the territory. At any given moment in time, we are planning for what we would need two to three years out in the future. You’re going to find some decisions you make may look suboptimal two years out, depending on where the state of the art is. I don’t spend too much time thinking about it. The way I think about compute allocation is making sure Google DeepMind, both for research and frontier model development, is cutting edge in terms of compute access. After that, we plan for all our businesses. It’s great we can provide our compute to other people too, like we have done. It allows us to scale that up, get real tests for it in the widest application set possible, test it in the real world, and make sure we are at the cutting edge of technology at every layer of our AI stack as well. Ben Horowitz relayed on a podcast that Andy Jassy had said compute was sold out until 2028. Are you seeing the same thing? If today a customer is coming out and asking us for compute in ’27, that is incredibly difficult to do. Even last year we went out and leased some short-term compute to accommodate some customers and help them out. But yes, we are all dealing with similar timelines. Every major technology shift seems to involve overbuilding, from railroads to fiber. Do you think that’s happening here? It depends on the time frames you’re looking at. This level of build, if I take a long enough time frame, it makes complete sense to me. We are at early stages of the most consequential technology ever, and this is not like fiber. It’s not dark. We are using it. We are capacity constrained on a daily basis. The applications, the underlying technology is improving rapidly. But running a company, the way I work through the moment is you look at your demand signals. You look at your committed revenue opportunities that you’re getting in the form of contracts. You balance that with the underlying technical capability, or internally you balance how we are using it internally, the model trajectories. Based on all that, you take a disciplined approach—a confident, aggressive, but disciplined approach—to plan out compute. But when you talk about the broader economy as a whole, you’re having people operate with various levels of risk. I focus on what I can control as a company and plan through it. If your question is, can there be an overbuild? Yes, because you can have some constrained components. Remember, what matters is a set of everything you need to build out that compute. Memory, electricity, electricians…. Land. Like 2,000 components or more. You could get constrained at some point. There could be things which cause bottlenecks, and then you could have overbuilds. There could be external shocks to the economy. There are macro risks. All that is possible at any given time. But am I confident that the compute we are planning for, we will have uses for it given enough time? Absolutely, yes. I was in the room when you said AI would be as profound as fire and electricity. If you believe that, shouldn’t you give researchers the biggest possible computer, even at the expense of today’s cloud profits? We’re all doing some form of that. Our cloud business is at any given moment in time forgoing short-term revenues because we are making compute trade-offs to support frontier AI development. What you’re seeing is true already. But you want to be thoughtful. Even our AI researchers have some constraints, which are also good. That’s what inspires creativity. That’s what helps you come up with a more efficient algorithmic breakthrough, maybe to use less memory. What we are committed to is to invest what’s needed to stay at the frontier. OpenAI President Greg Brockman told me a few months ago that the ideal AI product might have no interface at all—just as natural as conversation. What do you think the interface looks like in the age of AI? Computing historically has been humans adapting to computing. With AI, it’ll be the other way around. The technology will adapt seamlessly to how humans live and go about their day-to-day life. You want to be able to speak to that AI when you want to. It has context. It can be persistently running somewhere, give you continuity. You’re not dealing with a lot of complexity. It’s natural. All that makes sense to me. That doesn’t mean it won’t have any interface, however. Nowadays, even on my phone, Gemini voice models are so good. I can just press the microphone button. I can just ramble. That’s why we call it Rambler. I can ramble. It intelligently corrects with my personal context. Even my friends’ names, weird names, it gets it right, even if it first guesses it wrong. It’s amazing. I’m not going in, backspacing, editing once I finish saying it. It’s remarkable how good it’s gotten. But there are going to be moments you will need an interface. You may want to entertain yourself. You may want to watch a video. You may ask your AI to create something, and you want to watch it, consume it. The way I think about it is, you want it to be as seamless and as natural as possible, and that you are not doing the hard work adapting to whatever the interface is. The technology is adapting to how you’re working at any given moment in time. When I asked Sam Altman about competition from Google, he argued that OpenAI was building AI-native products and implied Google was bolting AI onto existing ones. Do you accept that framing, and can a “bolt-on” compete with an AI-native product? First of all, it’s a very dynamic moment. We are all pushing each other. OpenAI has pushed us as a company too. This is not just we are doing something to them. Far from it. Yes, Google went into its own version of a code red too. In the AI moment, all of us have to respond with varying levels of urgency at any given moment in time. We are constantly building new products as well. Gemini was built from the ground up as a product—the Gemini app I’m talking about. Or tomorrow, as all of us are adapting to agents, are you bolting agents onto ChatGPT, or are they building it natively? How would you think about that? You can always put these questions back. I don’t think of it that way. I think of it as you want to build world-class product experiences that are AI-native and they are winning. Some of it is adapting products, some of it is rethinking new experiences. They will all be part of how you approach this moment. How do you expect to make money from these AI interfaces? If an agent recommends a product and I buy it, should it take a cut of the sale, even if that’s disclosed? I’m going to put enterprise aside. Consumers are going to increasingly value this technology. Take software developers today. Developers are willing to pay for these coding models because it really helps make them more productive. Nobody would want to code the way they were coding three years ago, or even the same time last year. When you’re delivering value, there’s value to be had. I’ve never seen examples where consumer products really scale to billions of users, where people are using it intensely, and haven’t had monetization to go along with it. If you’re providing value to people, there is inherent value to be had. The nature of it may change. You’re asking a scenario in which agents are doing stuff for you. At the end of the day, you will have commercial needs. The agents need to fulfill those commercial needs. The providers on the other side are going to see value in that. There’s going to be some mechanism by which it gets fleshed out. That’s what an efficient system does. But what matters is that you’re building those world-class consumer experiences. I promised myself one product feature request: Can you make Gemini-powered search in Gmail as good as searching Gmail through ChatGPT? What’s going on here? One of the exciting things we announced recently is the unified Gemini agent for enterprise, and we’re bringing that to consumers. These are persistent agents which run 24/7 in the cloud. We’re spinning up a micro VM effectively for every query, and from the runtime, the harness, the model—it’s all a headless service. It’ll work everywhere, and it has your context with you. You can address this agent whether you’re in Workspace, in Search, in Gemini. Agents are going to drive this unification from a customer experience, which people are looking for. When you have a broad product portfolio and you’re moving forward fast, there are always areas where you’re moving forward faster than some other areas. That’s valid feedback. But we are putting a lot of time and effort into making sure, as we build out our agentic experience, that unification and that capability works well across all these services. People have asked where Google’s equivalent of Muse or Dots is. Do you anticipate creating a new product to compete with them? Our goal with Gemini is to be a personal, proactive, and powerful assistant. That’s what we are working toward. You saw us describe the early versions of it at Google I/O this year with Spark. Effectively, already, if you open the Gemini app as a Pro or an Ultra user, you see Chat and Task, and they start giving you that agentic experience. With Argon now, that capability is dramatically accelerated. What we announced recently in our enterprise event, we are bringing that to consumers as well. Soon in Gemini, you will be able to ask something, and it’s a continuum. You don’t need to think about whether you’re asking a chat or an agentic task. It’ll just automatically do the right thing, and it can work persistently in the background securely and get things done for you. Already, empirically, when I look at what’s coming into Gemini in our app, last year you would have tagged them and most of them would have been chats. But a steadily growing percentage is already agentic tasks in Gemini. Yes, we are going to bring personal agents to our consumers. It’ll work in the Gemini app. It’ll work in Google Search. It’ll work in Gmail. You can address it, call it, etc. We want to make sure we’re getting it right. It’ll be powered by Argon, and we are very excited to bring it to our users. Google has invested and committed tens of billions of dollars to Anthropic. What do you see in Dario Amodei that makes you want such a deep investment and partnership? Very early on, when we looked at the founding team of Anthropic, it was very clear to us this was a world-class team which was involved in some of the earliest GPT models. We were quickly able to assess that they would be at the frontier. We’ve always tried to identify and partner with companies which would be at the cutting edge of technology. We’ve done that with SpaceX. We’ve done that with Anthropic. That’s what we saw, and we had a chance to partner. Is your partnership with Apple to license Gemini for Siri expanding, contracting, or standing still? For both us and Apple, that partnership was about translating the capabilities of AI into better experiences for users. I thought Apple has done a phenomenal job of incorporating—they customize these models and build it into Siri—and it’s been great to see the reception. We are committed to doing more. You’re going to do more with them? There’s nothing specific to comment, but it’s a partnership. It’s working well. What have you learned so far about the feasibility of data centers in space? It’s a very exciting project. Projects like this remind me—I still recall that moment in the desert for the DARPA Grand Challenge, watching the Stanley car compete in it, which ended up being the basis for Waymo. With all these technologies, you’re at a moment in time where it looks a bit like sci-fi, but 10 to 20 years down the line, it’s actually working in a meaningful way. I feel the same in space. We’ve always believed in betting big on these technologies. Quantum has been a great example of it. We’re probably 10 years into the journey. Waymo, we are almost 20 years into the journey. Space, we are two to three years into the journey. It’s clear to me that it’s an approach which will make a lot of sense in the future. Being in sub-synchronous orbits with 24/7 access to the most abundant form of energy we have access to will make a lot of sense for this exponential increase in compute that we are going to need. Having said that, this is a challenging project. The team has disciplined milestones. It was a super exciting milestone to send the TPUs up to space. Sometime, as we are speaking, we are expecting a “hello world” moment from them. I look forward to seeing that happen, and we’ll continue investing here too. You previously said 25% of the code written within Google was written by AI. What’s the number today? That number in our world today is meaningless in the sense that every part of what we now touch is influenced by AI deeply. What we are tracking with Argon, for example, it’s been a point of inflection. People are using Argon to really go tackle complex projects, including projects which affect millions of lines of code. In the four weeks since we have launched Argon, we have seen a 30% increase in CLs, and more importantly, almost a similar increase—a one-third decrease in rollbacks. People are writing code more productively and better code with it. We are tracking it with newer metrics now. How are you dealing with opposition to data centers? If you can’t build in the U.S. the way you want to, where else do you go? We’re very committed to building our data centers very responsibly. When I look at our largest data centers in some of the communities where we have been the longest, I visit them, I talk to people. There are people who come and tell us their kids have gone to college because of our investments in these communities, and we’ve grown in those communities. To me, this is about doing it right. Engaging with the communities early, doing it transparently. We are committed to making sure we are bringing incremental power, and we cover 100% of the cost of our power needs for these projects. It’s understanding the impact on neighborhoods and making sure you’re working thoroughly to address them. Done rightly, you can continue making progress. But we are constantly taking feedback into account. I do worry not everyone operates the same way. People have been surprised by data centers showing up in their backyard. Those are all important. As an industry, we should continue to do better. But part of the reason, in a 20-year time frame, we are thinking about things like data centers in space is making sure we are able to put these data centers where maybe the trade-offs will be different. What unproven area of AI is Google working hardest to crack? Is it continual learning—getting models to keep updating after release—or something else? There are multiple parallel paths. You saw with Argon we have a million output tokens. With our Gemini models early on, we had a one-million context window on the input side. These are all examples of breakthroughs we are constantly working on. How do you think about synthetic data? How do you think about continual learning? How do you think about more efficient architectures? We do dedicate a meaningful percentage of our compute to these research bets too. It always goes hand in hand, including our world models. Those are all bets we are placing. Sometimes, as part of these bets, there are ideas that emerge which just make their way into the mainline models. Maybe we don’t fully talk about it, but we have multiple steps in these areas. Working in technology requires optimism that building something will improve the world, but those bets can leave real consequences when they fail. I recently returned to a town in El Salvador where enthusiasm for Bitcoin had given way to unfinished construction and something resembling a ghost town. How do you maintain the optimism you spoke about in your Stanford commencement address while accounting for those risks? I genuinely have a deep conviction that improving technology and improving access to technology makes people’s lives better. It’s been my personal experience in my life, out of which comes that deep conviction, optimism. But with that, I’ve always felt humanity’s journey is always about working hard to harness that technology to make it work well for society. The optimism is not an optimism that you just build whatever you want, whenever. You work hard to make sure you’re building technology in the service of humanity, to make the human condition better. That’s got to be the defining goal as we are approaching it. With that framework, I’m very, very optimistic. We are in very early stages of the kind of progress that we are going to see on many areas. We’re all talking about areas like healthcare. A lot of the progress is ahead. The ability to make things in a fundamentally cheaper way on many things where things have been getting expensive for a long, long time, discovering new materials, etc., which really bend the curve—it’s tough to step today and understand the impact of all that, but they’re going to be very profound. I’m very optimistic, but we have to be rightfully concerned about all the ways this technology can go wrong. Sundar, I know you don’t do many of these. Thank you. Thanks, Alex. Appreciate it.

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Oct 20 • 1:47 PM EDT • Technology • bigtechnology.com
Ubisoft Entertainment: Watch Out For The Convertible

Sell case for Ubisoft (UBSFY): persistent losses, weak title momentum, and debt refinancing risk.

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Oct 20 • 12:18 PM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com
Sphere Entertainment Jumps 6.4% After Guggenheim Maintains Buy

Sphere Entertainment Jumps 6.4% After Guggenheim Maintains Buy

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Oct 20 • 11:35 AM EDT • Entertainment • news.alphastreet.com
No science background? AI does the lab work

Financial analysts used Anthropic’s Claude to design protein minibinders that bound scorpion toxins in lab tests—showing AI can compress drug discovery...

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Oct 20 • 11:11 AM EDT • Science • seekingalpha.com
Accel Entertainment: Chicago Is Delayed, But The Investment Thesis Is Intact

Accel Entertainment stays a Buy with $13–$14 near-term and $16 upside post-Chicago rollout. Click here to read my analysis on ACEL stock.

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Oct 19 • 5:54 PM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com
Elevance Health: Why I Don't Believe In The Stock At This Price

Elevance Health faces structural headwinds, with rising medical costs outpacing reimbursement and government program pressures eroding margin stability. I rate ELV stock a Hold.

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Oct 19 • 3:05 AM EDT • Health • seekingalpha.com
AMC Entertainment Continues To Score In And Out Of The Box Office

AMC stock remains a buy as box office rebounds, debt refinances to 2031–2033, and new revenue streams grow. Read the full analysis here.

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Oct 15 • 11:45 AM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com
Henrico Business Watch: Business license filings Oct. 8–14, 2026

Henrico County reported the following business license filings with start dates during the week. The filings are listed alphabetically by business or trade name, followed by a registered address and business industry classification. ANT.ON LLC, 2405 Raymond Avenue, Henrico – Artists, literary, and craft services. Chutes International, various addresses – General

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Oct 15 • 11:01 AM EDT • Business • henricocitizen.com
YouTube is upending Hollywood — and Alphabet might be the best entertainment bet

The creator economy has turned the entertainment industry on its head this year, with YouTubers now directing box-office hits. Are entertainment giants like Disney (DIS) and Netflix (NFLX) still the stocks to buy? Gerber Kawasaki Wealth & Investment Management CEO Ross Gerber and his expert panel weigh in on the rise of creator-led projects taking hold in the film industry. Today's Market Hang panel consists of Yahoo Finance's Julie Hyman, Business Insider Today executive editor Dan DeFrancesco, Baird investment strategist Ross Mayfield, and SlateStone Wealth partner and chief market strategist Kenny Polcari.

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Oct 14 • 2:22 PM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
Surveillance, tick testing help combat rise of Alpha-Gal syndrome

A tick-borne medical condition that rewires the human immune system is becoming an increasing focus of force health protection for the Department of War

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Oct 14 • 9:09 AM EDT • Health • army.mil
Warding Off Ticks Is Big Business. Inside the Alpha-gal Economy

Alpha-gal Syndrome is spiking as a once-regional pest gentrifies some of America's wealthiest areas. Meet the businesses protecting you from Team Tick.

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Oct 14 • 6:00 AM EDT • Business • inc.com
Google DeepMind opens its science AI models to 200 European researchers

Google DeepMind and Google Cloud will give up to 200 European researchers access to AlphaFold 3 and other science models, plus $3m in compute credits.

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Oct 14 • 5:39 AM EDT • Science • thenextweb.com
Madison Square Garden Entertainment: Expect Strong Q1 Earnings To Drive A Re-Rating

Madison Square Garden (MSGE) stock remains a Buy: strong earnings, packed concert lineup, and NYC tourism tailwinds. Read here for a detailed analysis.

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Oct 13 • 11:52 PM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com
Six Flags Entertainment plunges 14% after fatal roller coaster incident

Six Flags (FUN) stock plunges 14% to a 52-week low after a fatal coaster incident and ride closures; see key metrics, risks, and what’s next—read now.

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Oct 13 • 4:58 PM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com
Streaming vs. theaters: Where entertainment value hides

Skydance merger spotlights streaming vs theaters. Compare margins, valuations & Quant Ratings for NFLX, AMC, CNK, IMAX & more—read now to find stocks to...

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Oct 12 • 2:33 PM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com
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Gen Alpha is already pitching VCs. Here's their advice.

Five venture capitalists told Business Insider their tips for Gen Alpha founders. They discussed AI, social media, and college.

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Oct 10 • 6:12 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Procter & Gamble: A Business To Hold Forever

Procter & Gamble remains a Hold, serving as a stable, conservative portfolio anchor despite recent underperformance. Read more on PG stock here.

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Oct 9 • 10:52 AM EDT • Business • seekingalpha.com
She never felt like she fit in. Then Disney came calling.

"Descendants" actress Kiara Romero opens up about her curls, childhood bullying and connecting with Gen Alpha fans on the Worlds Collide tour.

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Oct 9 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
White House Invites Alpha1 AI Founder Shubham Pandey to Science Summit

Alpha1's participation highlights its work connecting AI and SI (super intelligence)-powered learning with interactive enterprise problem-solving through Spark, Scholar and Resolve.

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Oct 8 • 8:37 PM EDT • Science • newspressnow.com
White House Invites Alpha1 AI Founder Shubham Pandey to Science Summit

Alpha1's participation highlights its work connecting AI and SI (super intelligence)-powered learning with interactive enterprise problem-solving through Spark, Scholar and Resolve.

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Oct 8 • 8:35 PM EDT • Science • newswire.com
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Henrico Business Watch: Business license filings Oct. 1-7, 2026

Henrico County reported the following business license filings with start dates during the week. The filings are listed alphabetically by business or trade name, followed by a registered address and business industry classification. A C Flooring LLC, 6423 Morningside Drive, Henrico – Henrico general contractor. A1 Brows Inc., 10327 West Broad

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Oct 8 • 12:08 PM EDT • Business • henricocitizen.com
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Anthropic commits $150M to U.S. AI science initiative

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Oct 8 • 11:29 AM EDT • Science • tradingview.com
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Google Cloud introduces Gemini agent for work as AI race heats up

Alphabet's Google Cloud on Thursday introduced the Gemini agent, a single AI agent for work ​that can answer questions, handle tasks, create content ‌and write code.

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Oct 8 • 11:08 AM EDT • Technology • reuters.com
Microsoft Xbox broadens entertainment push with new XP division

Microsoft Xbox launches new XP division to expand franchises into movies, TV, merch, partnerships and theme parks.

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Oct 8 • 8:18 AM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com
'It's about you': Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. hosting free Health and Wellness Expo
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Oct 8 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • local21news.com
Seaport Entertainment: Qualitative Story Seems Interesting, But Execution Risks Suggest Caution

Seaport Entertainment Group appears to have 90-150% upside, yet positive cash flow remains elusive. See why SEG stock is a Hold.

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Oct 7 • 11:53 PM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com
Flutter Entertainment: We Double Down (Rating Upgrade)

Flutter stock is down 20% since May. See why FLUT's FanDuel investment, international diversification, prediction markets & cost savings improve risk/reward.

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Oct 7 • 11:11 AM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com
Alpharus Health Expands Access to Mental Health Services Across Illinois

Chicago, IL, Oct. 07, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Alpharus Health is expanding access to mental health care across Illinois by bringing comprehensive behavioral health services to 11 of its 13 community outpatient clinics. Alpharus Health now offers outpatient mental health treatment services in Aurora, Bloomington, Carbondale, Chicago, Downers Grove, Gurnee, Jacksonville, Joliet, Peoria, Springfield, and Swansea. Alpharus Health also offers virtual mental health treatment for all Illinois resident

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Oct 7 • 10:34 AM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com
Paramount-WBD deal closes; here are top quant-rated entertainment stocks

The merger of Paramount Skydance (SKYD) and Warner Bros. Discovery NASDAQ:WBD marks a major shift in the entertainment industry after months of competing bids, lawsuits, and uncertainty.With the deal now closed, here are the top 20 Seeking Alpha's quant-rated stocks in the Movies and Entertainment…

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Oct 6 • 10:39 AM EDT • Entertainment • tradingview.com
Paramount-WBD deal closes; here are top quant-rated entertainment stocks

Paramount Skydance–WBD merger reshapes entertainment—see 20 top quant-rated movies & broadcasting stocks (AMC, DIS, NFLX, ROKU).

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Oct 6 • 10:39 AM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com
Sphere Entertainment: Don't Let The Selloff Spook You

Sphere Entertainment stock pullback may be a buying chance: Sphere segment growth, new venues pipeline, and undervalued valuation.

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Oct 6 • 8:37 AM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com
Sphere Entertainment declines 14%, hits multi-month low

SPHR stock plunged 14% to a 6-month low as short interest stays high and ticketing trends blur.

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Oct 5 • 4:50 PM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com
Euro drops to 17-month low as political and fiscal risks rise

Euro hits 17-month low as French politics and fiscal worries shake markets.

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Oct 5 • 12:35 AM EDT • Politics • seekingalpha.com
Sony Digital Camera Model Numbers Explained: Bigger Isn't Always Better

Everything you need to know about Sony's alphanumeric naming schemes.

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Oct 4 • 12:45 PM EDT • Technology • engadget.com
Apple to replace iPhone 18 Pro Max facing AT&T glitch

Apple (AAPL) offers to replace some of the iPhone 18 Pro Max devices after customers on the AT&T (T) network faced a cellular connectivity issue. Read more here.

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Oct 3 • 9:29 AM EDT • Technology • seekingalpha.com
Starz Entertainment: Price Increases, Sub Growth, And Distribution Deals

Starz Entertainment (STRZ) stock is up 100%+ YTD as guidance rises, deleveraging continues, and buyout chatter grows. See here for more details.

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Oct 2 • 11:04 PM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com
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Henrico Business Watch: Business license filings Sept. 24-30, 2026

Henrico County reported the following business license filings with start dates during the week. The filings are listed alphabetically by business or trade name, followed by a registered address and business industry classification. Better Health Psychiatry PLLC, 8206 Reinland Drive, Henrico – Nurse and personal care. C Squared Creations LLC, 5407

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Oct 1 • 12:13 PM EDT • Business • henricocitizen.com
Alexandre Pato-backed consortium completes Northampton Town takeover

Northampton Town have officially entered a new era after Sports Alpha Capital (SAC) completed its takeover of the League Two club.The investment group has acquired a 70% shareholding in Northampton To...

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Oct 1 • 10:25 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Pi Alpha Xi: Student Plant Sales Paying It Forward

Pi Alpha Xi’s biannual plant sales at NC State University unite horticulture students and the community to raise essential funds that support student scholarships, academic opportunities and impactful outreach initiatives.

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Oct 1 • 9:44 AM EDT • Science • cals.ncsu.edu
Three fixes to correctly price small-business debt in developing economies

Small businesses in developing economies pay far more to borrow than risk justifies. Three fixes could cut a Kenyan firm's cost of debt by over 8 points.

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Oct 1 • 6:09 AM EDT • Business • impactalpha.com
Jaylen Brown Has Perfect Response to 76ers' 'Alpha' Question

Jaylen Brown is going to be a real leader for the 76ers. He explains how his mindset is all about winning.

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Sep 30 • 9:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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A 'Verity' meme is outshining the 'Verity' movie. They have nothing to do with each other.

A movie starring Anne Hathaway shares the same name as a meme that's popular with Gen Alpha.

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Sep 30 • 4:57 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
AMC Entertainment: This Time, Fundamentals Support The Surge

AMC Entertainment has had a very volatile history, driven by volatile box office trends and very high debt. Click here to read this AMC stock update.

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Sep 30 • 4:51 PM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com
AirJoule: Exciting Science, Decent Acquisition, But No Revenue Yet

AirJoule’s acquisition of BitSink adds $11M revenue and data center cooling distribution.

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Sep 30 • 6:26 AM EDT • Science • seekingalpha.com
Inspired Entertainment slides after Brazil's ban on online betting and gambling

Inspired Entertainment (INSE) warns Brazil’s online betting ban may hit digital revenue; outlook may change with Q3 results as Congress reviews.

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Sep 29 • 2:38 PM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com
Wrapping up Recovery Month with Alpharus Health, formerly Gateway Foundation: Rebrand and resources

Alpharus Health, formerly Gateway Foundation

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Sep 29 • 11:32 AM EDT • Health • nprillinois.org
Flutter Entertainment reacts to online betting and gaming ban in Brazil

Flutter (FLUT) halts Brazil online betting after a provisional ban; SEC filing outlines possible $70M revenue hit.

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Sep 29 • 9:08 AM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com
THORNE SETS A HIGHER STANDARD FOR SCIENCE-BACKED WELLNESS WITH NEW CREATINE + ALPHA-GPC CONSUMER RESEARCH SUPPORTING MENTAL AND PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE

/PRNewswire/ -- Thorne, the leader in science-backed health and wellness solutions, today announced results from a new consumer study evaluating its Creatine +...

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Sep 29 • 7:00 AM EDT • Science • prnewswire.com
Lucky Strike Entertainment: A Weak Consumer Leads To Downside Risks

Lucky Strike Entertainment rated SELL: premium EV/EBITDA, high leverage, weak demand, and negative FCF. Click for more on LUCK stock.

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Sep 28 • 2:46 PM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com
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UnitedHealth: Quality Dividends From Health Insurance

UnitedHealth raised 2026 adjusted diluted EPS guidance to $19.50–$20.00, reflecting strong margin discipline. Read why UNH stock is a Buy.

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Sep 28 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • seekingalpha.com
Earnings matter more than politics for S&P 500 gains, BofA says

Corporate profits drive S&P 500 returns more than politics, says BofA.

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Sep 28 • 7:55 AM EDT • Politics • seekingalpha.com
Modder Squeezes 74% More Performance Out of DLSS 5 on AMD Radeon in One Day

Modders working on bringing NVIDIA's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering to AMD Radeon GPUs just had their busiest day yet. The developer behind the DLSS-NR-on-AMD tool shipped two new versions within 24 hours, Alpha 0.3.3 and Alpha 0.4.0, together adding roughly 74% performance on Radeon hardware, according...

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Sep 27 • 2:37 PM EDT • Technology • techpowerup.com
Oscar Health: Market Share Gains Are Only Part Of The Plan

Oscar Health (OSCR) buy thesis: $45–$49 fair value on ACA growth, improving margins and Lucie upside.

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Sep 26 • 9:31 PM EDT • Health • seekingalpha.com
Tesla's Roadster reveal: Rocket science or reality check?

Tesla teases next-gen Roadster ahead of Oct. 1 Waco event.

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Sep 25 • 6:56 AM EDT • Science • seekingalpha.com
He lives with his parents and loves Jesus. Meet Gen Alpha's new heartthrob.

Malachi Barton opens up about "Coven Academy" and his rise as Disney's latest heartthrob.

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Sep 24 • 8:57 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Weekly Entertainment Report: Live music and lively arts, Sept. 24-27 » Nashua Ink Link

"Music makes the people come together." - Madonna

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Sep 23 • 11:26 PM EDT • Entertainment • nashua.inklink.news
Google expands free AI video generation in Google Vids

Google expands Google Vids: create free AI videos with Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, 1080p HD, avatars & SynthID watermark.

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Sep 23 • 4:02 PM EDT • Technology • seekingalpha.com
Google DeepMind's latest AI tool promises a new era for genetics research, but experts warn to take its predictions with caution

AlphaGenome Atlas could make it easier for geneticists to access powerful AI, but its predictions aren't always accurate.

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How lip-syncing to AI let Forced Entertainment ‘play the game of theatre’

Today we have a fascinating piece by long-time Forced Entertainment fan Ben Kulvichit, speaking to Tim Etchells about their latest show Cold Sweat, how they are integrating lip-sync and AI voices into their work, the question of ‘authenticity’ on stage, and how lip-sync has even opened the door for them to make “something a little bit like drama”. This piece is a paid partnership with the Southbank Centre, where you can see Cold Sweat next month – we’re very grateful to the Southbank Centre for their ongoing support for Exeunt. Holly Williams ‘It was immediately interesting and uncanny’ **By Ben Kulvichit** “Is the microphone on?” So goes one of the opening lines of Signal to Noise, delivered by a human performer lip-syncing to an AI-generated voice. The voice is American, cheery but sluggish, slowed down into a gelatinous drawl. It repeats ad infinitum in a farce of stuckness; an answer never materialises. I find myself asking the same question as I hop on a Google Meet call with Tim Etchells, the artistic director of Forced Entertainment. We spend five or ten minutes frowning at each other, muting and unmuting, me gesticulating in semaphore into my webcam, checking if I am coming through now, restarting the laptop. To Etchells, I appear exaggeratedly mouthing words, my voice missing. In this gloopy purgatory of broken communication, life imitates art imitates life imitates art. We try a Zoom instead. Forced Entertainment, the pioneering British theatre company who have been at the avant-garde of performance since the 1980s, turned an interesting artistic corner with Signal to Noise, created on the occasion of their 40th anniversary. The whole performance employed this lip-sync technique to AI voices; on the face of it a left-field move from a company whose identity has long been grounded in the earthy, immediate presences of its performers and its unassuming, low-tech approach to theatricality. The technique, however, turned out to provide the company with a “rich new seam” of artistic enquiry, and has now spawned a trilogy of works. The second instalment, Cold Sweat, plays at Sheffield Theatres, Southbank Centre, and Lancaster Arts in October, while the third part, Everything Must Go, has been touring in Europe and is slated to come to the UK in 2027. As is often the case with Forced Entertainment shows, the main conceit for this work didn’t arrive until quite late. They were “four or five weeks into rehearsals for Signal to Noise,” Etchells recalls, and getting nowhere. Away from rehearsals, he had been playing around with feeding “weird texts” to AI voices to see how they would cope with them – “basically for my own amusement” – and was compelled by the uniformly “serviceable, benign, good-natured” tone they would read in, no matter how poetic, fractured or experimental the writing. On a hunch, he brought some examples into rehearsals and the performers gave lip-syncing a go. “It was immediately interesting and uncanny,” he recalls, with the performers having to deal in the moment with the problem of mapping themselves onto another artificial ‘performer,’ which itself was dealing with the problem of a very human text. “Almost all the writing for these projects would be useless to us unless it was done in this way,” says Etchells. “We wouldn’t know what to do with it. It’s too poetic. It’s too fictional. It’s too tangled.” But exploring lip-syncing along to the text has opened “an enormous reservoir of ways of thinking about writing and performing.” Subscribe to Exeunt, and get two in-depth pieces on theatre a week, direct to your inbox Subscribe Forced Entertainment have long been sifting through the detritus of popular culture, from daytime TV to end-of-the-pier vaudeville, magic acts and clown shows, to find frameworks for their own unusual entertainments. Lip-syncing, then, makes sense for them to experiment with. As a mode of performance, it’s wired into popular consciousness through pop stars trying to convince stadium audiences of their liveness, or those same voices as channeled through the made-up lips of contestants on RuPaul’s Drag Race, or movie dialogue spreading virally through the host bodies of TikTok users. For Etchells, lip-syncing is often about “approaching real voices and trying to take on their aura,” subsuming that original human presence into yours. “There’s a very basic, elemental sort of theatre magic to it, produced in this very easy way.” This broad approach resonates with instances of lip-syncing within contemporary performance, too. In works like Re-Member Me and Showmanism, performance artist Dickie Beau acts as a kind of spirit medium for archival recordings (this process of re-membering – as in, giving corporeal form to voices – relies on his masterfully precise actor’s technique), while Frankie Thompson is similarly possessed by a host of characters ranging from a nine-year-old Jacob Rees-Mogg to Cliff Richards, all of whom she finds compellingly nauseating, in the exorcism ritual that is her latest show, Horrible Things. What’s different about Forced Entertainment’s use of lip-syncing is that here, there is no original presence to be channeled. The performers are instead taking on what Etchells describes as “the voices of nobody,” or rather the “phantasmic, aggregated echoes” of the many many voices on whose data the AI has been trained, and which are now conjuring into existence words they never actually said. There is a sort of mournful, empty quality to these voices, having “washed up” far away from the people they originally belonged to, to find themselves in stranger’s mouths listing objects, wondering if anyone can hear them and glitching in interminable loops. There is a cold, sad anonymity to it all. Etchells remarks that occasionally the software company he used has notified him that particular people are withdrawing their voices from the platform, instructing him to cease use of those voices. Using these technologies in performance certainly brings up ethical questions around digital rights, consent, identity and ownership, although in the grand scheme of things, Etchells is fairly blasé about it: of all the purposes someone’s voice might be put to without their knowledge, “an avant-garde performance is probably the least of their worries.” [ ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) [ Frankie Thompson: How I manage my own ‘horrible things’ at the Edinburgh Fringe ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) Exeunt · Aug 25 [ Read full story ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) For the performers, though, lip-syncing to these strange, artificial voices is an odd task, requiring them to bend their live, human presence into the shapes produced by machines. Politically, it mirrors processes that are already at play in the continued computational automation of human life. Etchells brings up James Bridle’s writings on new technologies as a reference point: one example Bridle gives is of “chaotic storage”, a logistics technique employed by Amazon fulfilment centres whereby items are stored not according to traditional methods of categorisation or alphabetisation, but in a way that an algorithm determines to produce the most efficient routes for ‘picking’ based on customer purchase patterns. This appears completely random and incomprehensible to humans, with paddling pools sitting next to USB sticks sitting next to blowtorches, and so for the warehouse workers, the process of picking items becomes completely reliant on technology which tells them where to go. Our world is increasingly being designed not with humans in mind, but rather machines. As Etchells puts it, “technology malforms the space, and then you end up having to live in it.” Initially, Forced Entertainment tried their best to live in the world of machines: “I was in the it’s-got-to-be-perfect school of lip-sync,” says Etchells. But with their aesthetic being so tied to the failing act, the slipping mask, the shoddy costume, “it’s no surprise really that that didn’t last.” Instead, the performers got to enjoy being late for a line, or playing games with each other, “stealing” each other’s voices. Etchells compares it to the principles of ventriloquism, in which a free-floating voice unattached to a body is fundamentally discomforting and “sort of traumatic”. That discomfort is equally as alluring to Forced Entertainment as the satisfaction of precision, the pretence of authenticity only interesting if shown to be a pretence. Lip-sync has also opened up new avenues for the company. Having been allergic all their lives to Plays-with-a-capital-P, with Cold Sweat Forced Entertainment find themselves approaching something a little bit like drama. Rather than the presentational arena of Signal to Noise’s open white stage, Cold Sweat places us more decisively in a “fictional locale”: what appears to be “the aftermath of some disastrous party or backyard drinking binge” where three figures – family members, or neighbours, perhaps – are the last ones standing. “It’s all quite acrimonious and accusatory, everyone’s talking over each other.” For Etchells, this more fictional mode is “a door that we’ve never been able to open. We’ve just never really gone there.” Perhaps it is the technique of lip-syncing, an extra buffer of mediation, that allows them to venture away from the here-and-now without feeling that they have to commit to the “psychological claptrap” that comes along with acting; to be able to “play the game of theatre, without getting one’s hands too dirty.” As I wonder how else the impulses behind Forced Entertainment’s work have changed over time, it occurs to me that over the last ten years of new creations, with the exception of If All Else Fails, the company’s performers haven’t ever spoken on stage: there were two shows without any language at all, Out of Order and Under Bright Light, and then this trilogy of lip-sync works. Etchells agrees it’s a shift away from earlier productions, that were so often about “the actual voices of the performers and their actual presences. We had a lot of money, in some ways, on an authentic approach to what it might mean to speak on the stage.” But this sense of authentic presence itself had a fakeness to it; these days, Etchells can’t stand that mode of being onstage where performers “are here to be cheeky and witty versions of themselves. I don’t want to be charmed.” Pulling back into a more anonymous space has resulted in works that feel slightly sharper-edged, more brutal in a way. “All of these shows are post-Brexit, post-Trump, post-truth, post-everything,” Etchells notes. Speech, charisma, authenticity – these things feel politically loaded, and perhaps warmth and openness just don’t feel like the right tools to reflect the world we’re living in. “It feels like the space is closing down, and we’re trying to deal with the fact that the system, the structure that you’re in, is more oppressive and more powerful. It probably always was, but I think we’re just more tuned to it now.” Yet even without their voices, the performers’ distinctive presences – ones that many audiences have followed around for years, if not decades – still, inevitably, shine through as they physically navigate whatever unending task the system of the piece has set for them. They’re still trying to keep up with the onslaught of text, still running about, changing costumes, moving stuff around. The human is always stuck in the teeth of the machine, jamming the smooth, frictionless cheeriness of the not-real, gesticulating silently, trying desperately to communicate. Cold Sweat is at Sheffield Theatres, 2 to 3 October; Southbank Centre, London, 9 to 10 October; Lancaster Arts, 14 October [ ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) [ Exeunt recommends... the best autumn theatre ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) Exeunt · Sep 16 [ Read full story ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) This piece was paid for by the Southbank Centre. Such support helps Exeunt to keep publishing the most interesting writing, about the most exciting theatre. Interested in partnering with Exeunt? Visit our Advertise with Exeunt page, where you can get more information, download an advertising pack, and find our contact details.

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Sep 22 • 5:02 AM EDT • Entertainment • exeuntmagazine.substack.com
Invesco Leisure and Entertainment ETF declares quarterly distribution of $0.0561

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Sep 21 • 11:23 AM EDT • Entertainment • tradingview.com
Google opens pre-orders for $899 Googlebook laptops built around Gemini AI

Alphabet's Google on Monday opened pre-orders for Googlebook, its new premium laptop category ​for Android users built around the ‌company's Gemini AI tools.

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Sep 21 • 10:55 AM EDT • Technology • reuters.com
AMC Entertainment starts $3.97B debt plan to refinance notes, term loans

AMC raises $3.97B in new debt to refinance and restructure existing loans and notes, targeting 2027-2029 maturities.

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Sep 21 • 9:13 AM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com
AMC Entertainment starts $3.97B debt plan to refinance notes, term loans

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Sep 21 • 9:13 AM EDT • Entertainment • tradingview.com
MSG Entertainment names new president

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Sep 21 • 8:53 AM EDT • Entertainment • tradingview.com
Verily Health Secures Investment From NVIDIA And CU Healthcare Innovation Fund To Expand Precision Health AI Platform

Verily Health has secured new investment from NVIDIA and existing backer CU Healthcare Innovation Fund II as the precision health technology company expands its data and artificial intelligence platform. The financing extends Verily’s March fundraising. The company did not disclose the size of the additional investments. Verily’s existing investors also include Alphabet, Series X Capital and UCHealth.

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Sep 20 • 9:03 AM EDT • Health • pulse2.com
DNA Has a Four-Letter Alphabet. Scientists Just Expanded It to Eight

Researchers showed how a natural bacterial enzyme can accurately transcribe DNA containing four extra genetic letters. Life uses a four-letter DNA alphabet, but could its genetic machinery read a larger one? Researchers at the University of California San Diego have shown that RNA polymerase, the enzyme that copies DNA instructions into RNA, can accurately transcribe

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Sep 19 • 11:46 AM EDT • Science • scitechdaily.com
Henrico Business Watch: Business license filings Sept. 10-16, 2026

Henrico County reported the following business-license filings with start dates during the week. The filings are listed alphabetically by business or trade name, followed by a registered address and business industry classification. Amanda Parker, 8300 Buckeye Drive – No business license required – manufacturing, nonprofit and other. Asser’s Medical Trans,

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Sep 17 • 3:32 PM EDT • Business • henricocitizen.com
Alphabet’s Core Business Is Printing Cash Faster Than Regulators Can Write Fines

Regulators keep throwing billion-dollar fines at Alphabet and the company barely notices, which raises a more interesting question about how you value a business that outgrows its own penalties every few weeks.

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Sep 17 • 8:11 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Fuckin' Politics (2003) by Yoshitomo Nara

From Alpha 137 Gallery Gallery Auction, Yoshitomo Nara, Fuckin' Politics (2003), Offset Lithograph. Unframed., 54.1 × 72.9 cm

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Sep 16 • 3:57 PM EDT • Politics • artsy.net
SL Science: A $1.15 Billion Valuation Built On Preclinical Promises

SL Science Holding Limited is rated Sell due to an unsustainable $1.15B valuation built on a strictly preclinical pipeline. Click for this SLBT stock update.

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Sep 16 • 10:35 AM EDT • Science • seekingalpha.com
Inspired Entertainment: Could Be Faced With Headwinds Emanating From Global Events

INSE stock has slid, but improved earnings outlook for FY2026–FY2027 may spark a bounce.

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Sep 16 • 10:32 AM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com
Investors get down to business as Climate Week returns to New York

A year ago, investors arrived in New York for the annual Climate Week confab ready to regroup after digesting the scope of damage by an incoming Trump administration bent on rolling back climate progress. This year, the mood is decidedly down to business.

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Sep 16 • 6:19 AM EDT • Business • impactalpha.com
Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember launches March 4, 2027, alpha demo now available

Three Kingdoms action RPG sequel Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store on March 4, 2027, publisher Koei Tecmo and deve…

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Sep 15 • 9:42 PM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
Sphere Entertainment Makes For An Entertaining Opportunity

Sphere Entertainment Co. is rated a soft Buy due to strong growth, unique assets, and expansion plans. Read more on SPHR stock here.

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Sep 15 • 6:22 PM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com
Alliance Entertainment's Dip Is An Opportunity To Add This To Your Stock Collection

Alliance Entertainment Holding Corporation rated Buy: revenue/EBITDA growth, cheap valuation, and 2027 upside from media & collectibles. Click for more on AENT.

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Sep 14 • 7:01 PM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com
Take your health back with Alpha Kappa Alpha’s annual Health Resource Fair!

ST. LOUIS – Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority is promoting healthy living and providing valuable resources to the community to help address health disparities. With free on-site services, educationa…

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Sep 14 • 11:11 AM EDT • Health • fox2now.com
Skinbetter Science Advances Retinoid Science with New AlphaRet Clinical Findings During National Retinoid Week

/PRNewswire/ -- skinbetter science, the creator of National Retinoid Week and the #1 dermatologist-recommended retinoid brand, continues to lead the evolution...

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Sep 14 • 9:33 AM EDT • Science • prnewswire.com
Skinbetter Science Advances Retinoid Science with New AlphaRet Clinical Findings During National Retinoid Week

skinbetter science, the creator of National Retinoid Week and the #1 dermatologist-recommended retinoid brand, continues to lead the evolution of the retinoid category as it kicks off its third annual National Retinoid Week with new clinical findings that further demonstrate the brand's commitment to advancing retinoid science, innovation and education.

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Sep 14 • 9:33 AM EDT • Science • finance.yahoo.com
Selling/Rotating Is An Art, Not A Science

A disciplined value investing approach is advocated, emphasizing active rotation when future returns no longer justify holding a position. Read what investors need to know.

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Sep 14 • 6:52 AM EDT • Science • seekingalpha.com
PENN Entertainment: Not Much To Get Excited About

PENN Entertainment remains a Hold with an $18 price target due to mixed earnings and limited valuation upside versus peers. Learn more about PENN stock here.

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Sep 14 • 3:26 AM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com
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Hillsboro Health Marks Major Milestone

“We’re really excited that you’re here today,” said Hillsboro Health CEO Mike Alexander. “This is going to be a great addition to our community.” Hillsboro Health officials hosted two …

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Sep 14 • 12:05 AM EDT • Health • thejournal-news.net
Elevance leads UBS health benefits survey as employers brace for higher costs

UBS benefits survey ranks Elevance top insurer as 77% of employers rebid 2027 plans; GLP-1 costs surge and big PBMs stay strong—read now.

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Sep 13 • 1:59 PM EDT • Health • seekingalpha.com
Broadcom’s Anthropic Ramp Puts Google’s TPU Business in a Different Light

Broadcom’s September 2 results show custom AI hardware turning into substantial sales. On the accompanying call, management said it expected to accelerate Ironwood shipments to Anthropic in the fourth quarter. That puts Google’s TPU technology at the center of a relationship whose economics differ for Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) and Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL). Broadcom can sell […]

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Sep 13 • 7:38 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Nearly half a million Americans may be impacted by this tick-borne illness

Alpha-gal syndrome is changing the lives of people across the county, and more research is still needed to understand the numbers.

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Sep 12 • 3:17 PM EDT • Health • spectrumlocalnews.com
Annual POLS-a-palooza connects students with political science opportunities

DeKALB – The political science department hosted their annual POLS-a-palooza event from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday outside Cole Hall. Students explored a variety of political science-related programs, organizations and career opportunities. The organizations tabling included the Pre-Law Honors Society, the Political Science Student Advisory Committee and Kappa Alpha Pi, a pre-law and government...

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Sep 10 • 5:10 PM EDT • Science • northernstar.info
Henrico Business Watch: Business license filings Aug. 31-Sept. 6, 2026

Aug. 31-Sept. 6, 2026 Henrico County reported 40 business-license filings with start dates during the week. The filings are listed alphabetically by business or trade name, followed by a registered address and business industry classification. 9317 Property, LLC, 9317 Becton Road, Glen Allen – Manufacturing, Non-profit and Other.

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Sep 10 • 9:07 AM EDT • Business • henricocitizen.com
Disney: IP-Rich Entertainment Conglomerate With Value Trap Risks

Disney contrarian buy: streaming and parks growth, FY2026/27 guidance, and discounted P/E support a deep value thesis. Click for more on DIS stock.

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Sep 10 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • seekingalpha.com
Google DeepMind’s AlphaGenome Takes Aim at One of Genetics’ Biggest Problems

Google DeepMind has released a huge new dataset that could make it easier for scientists to study how changes in our DNA affect the way the body works. Called AlphaGenome Atlas, it contains predictions for more than 9 billion possible single-letter changes in the human genome. The dataset is about one petabyte in size and […]

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Sep 9 • 12:03 PM EDT • Science • hpcwire.com
GameSquare to acquire sports, music, and entertainment IP assets from FanEngine

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Sep 9 • 8:40 AM EDT • Entertainment • tradingview.com
Ubisoft joins Xbox's disc-to-digital program, with more publishers to follow

Some outlets were highlighting Ubisoft's lack of involvement in Xbox's disc-to-digital program. Perhaps we should remind ourselves that it's still in Alpha testing.

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Sep 8 • 7:58 PM EDT • Technology • windowscentral.com
The New York Times: A new editor for Politics

Ben Shpigel, who’s guided fast-breaking coverage on Live and Sports, will help elevate real-time political coverage at The New York Times.

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Sep 8 • 11:16 AM EDT • Politics • editorandpublisher.com
Sigma 85mm f/1.2 DG Art Review: Sigma is the Alpha This Time

Sigma beat everyone to the punch. If you have been waiting for an f/1.2 portrait lens for E-mount or L-mount, wait no longer.

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Sep 8 • 1:01 AM EDT • Technology • petapixel.com
All known life uses 4 DNA letters; UC San Diego showed an existing bacterial enzyme can accurately read and transcribe 8, doubling the genetic alphabet with synthetic letters

All life on Earth, from bacteria to blue whales, writes its genetic instructions using the same four-letter alphabet. These four DNA bases, usually referred to as A, T, C and G, pair up in predictable ways to store and pass on the information needed for life.

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Sep 8 • 12:09 AM EDT • Science • timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Breakthrough Helps Expand Genetic Alphabet - UC San Diego Health Science

Breakthrough Helps Expand Genetic Alphabet - UC San Diego Health Science / Dmitry Lyumkis, Dong Wang, genetic alphabet, Grigore Pintilie, Hui Pen Tan,

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Sep 5 • 6:01 AM EDT • Science • oncodaily.com