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Ohio State faces a major test without Julian Sayin

Who will be the Buckeyes' next signal caller in Sayin's absence?

Oct 20 • 8:24 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

New Richland Lab Could Transform How Scientists Study Microbes and Boost Regional Jobs

The BriefGroundbreaking held Tuesday: PNNL officially began construction on the M2PC lab, a 30,800-square-foot facility funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science that will study soil microbes to improve crop productivity and develop new biotechnology applications. The facility will be open to researchers from around the nation and the world.Research timelines could shrink dramatically: The facility's automation and AI capabilities could reduce experiments that currently take six months to just 72 hours, allowing scientists to explore more possibilities faster than ever before.New jobs coming to the Tri-Cities: The project is expected to create positions for automation engineers, AI experts, roboticists, technicians, and skilled craftspeople, with the facility opening in 2029.RICHLAND, Wash. — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory broke ground Tuesday on a first-of-its-kind facility that could accelerate scientific discoveries about the microscopic organisms living in soil—organisms that may hold the key to growing more food and developing new energy technologies.The Microbial Molecular Phenotyping Capability, or M2PC, represents a significant investment in automation and artificial intelligence to speed up research that traditionally takes years to complete. The 30,800-square-foot facility will house more than 100 connected automated instruments designed to study microbes at a pace and scale never before possible.Reshaping Agriculture's FutureThe M2PC facility will not put a new tool directly into a farmer's hands tomorrow morning, but it is actively reshaping the commercial pipeline to solve agriculture's biggest headache with biologicals: inconsistent field performance. For years, PNNL researchers have explored how microbes work and how they might help produce useful materials, advance energy technologies, and address challenges involving critical materials and minerals. But those experiments have been limited by what researchers could accomplish by hand."They can be used to provide nutrients to a plant so that the plant would grow more. So, like increasing your crop productivity, for example," said Douglas Mans, PNNL's Associate Laboratory Director for Integrated Discovery Sciences.PNNL's own research shows soil microbes can help plants access nutrients and withstand drought—benefits that could prove crucial as farmers face growing environmental pressures. The M2PC facility will allow scientists to identify and optimize useful microbes faster than ever before, accelerating the development of biological solutions that actually work consistently in the field.What Makes M2PC UniqueThe Microbial Molecular Phenotyping Capability differs from traditional research labs because it operates as a first-of-its-kind, AI-enabled autonomous laboratory designed to shrink experimental timelines from years down to months or weeks. The M2PC lab will connect more than 100 automated instruments to grow microbes, prepare samples, measure their behavior, and link observations to the molecular processes behind them. Artificial intelligence will help analyze results and guide the next experiments, allowing scientists to explore more questions faster.Deb Gracio, PNNL Director, emphasized the transformative potential during Tuesday's groundbreaking ceremony: "Research that has taken years will become possible in months and hopefully in weeks."That acceleration is already being demonstrated. PNNL's smaller automated lab, called the Anaerobic Microbial Phenotyping Platform or AMP2, completed three experimental cycles in just 72 hours—a process that normally would have taken about six months."That normally would have taken us about six months … and we were able to do that in 72 hours," Mans said.The AMP2 laboratory is not being closed or replaced. Instead, the current 1,800-square-foot laboratory serves as an active prototype and precursor for the much larger M2PC facility. AMP2 will continue operating as a separate lab designed to run anaerobic experiments—those conducted in the absence of oxygen—while M2PC will focus on aerobic research.Broader Applications Beyond AgricultureWhile improving crop productivity is one important application, the M2PC facility is designed to support research into multiple areas critical to national priorities. The lab will advance research into biofuels, manufacturing materials, and energy technologies. It will also help researchers understand how microbes respond to environmental changes and how to design biological systems for biotechnology applications.As a flagship component of the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, M2PC represents a significant investment in using artificial intelligence and automation to accelerate U.S. scientific discovery. Dorothy Koch, Associate Director of the DOE Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research program, highlighted the facility's importance during the groundbreaking."M2PC will accelerate biological discovery and design," Koch said, noting that the facility is expected to conduct a minimum of 500 strain experiments per week, 100 microbiome experiments per week, and take a million measurements per month.Economic Opportunity for the RegionBeyond the scientific breakthroughs, the M2PC project represents significant economic opportunity for the Tri-Cities region. The facility will require hiring automation engineers, AI experts, technicians skilled in operating robotics, and specialized craftspeople to build and maintain the sophisticated equipment."We're anticipating that type of hiring," Mans said when asked about job creation.PNNL has already begun recruiting talent nationally and internationally for positions related to the smaller AMP2 lab, bringing automation engineers from cities like Boston and San Francisco to work in the region. The M2PC facility is expected to accelerate that trend."This capability won't really exist anywhere else in the world," Mans said, suggesting the facility could become a draw for scientific talent seeking to work on cutting-edge biotechnology research.Timeline and Next StepsThe M2PC facility is expected to open in 2029. Between now and then, construction crews will level and prepare the ground, while the building takes shape. Simultaneously, Ginkgo Bio Works, the automation contractor, will build the facility's automation components off-site so they can be installed as the building is completed.In the interim, PNNL researchers and the broader scientific community will begin planning the first experiments to be conducted in the facility, ensuring research is lined up and ready to begin as soon as the doors open.The groundbreaking ceremony included representatives from the Department of Energy, PNNL leadership, and elected officials at the federal, state, and local levels, underscoring the project's significance to the region and the nation's biotechnology future. News The U.S. Department of Energy Secretary tours Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Dan Hanson, Apple Valley News Now News Beyond DNA: Scientists Explore New Frontiers in Biology Research Dan Hanson, Apple Valley News Now News TRIDEC optimistic that Hanford, PNNL will see funding in national budget Robert Desaulniers News Big picture science: monitoring the Yakima River Basin News PNNL research could shape the future of fighting fentanyl ​COPYRIGHT 2026 BY APPLE VALLEY NEWS NOW. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.

Oct 20 • 7:44 PM EDT • Science • applevalleynewsnow.com

Analyzing the Atlanta Braves' Bullpen Standing Heading Into the Offseason

The Braves have three key relievers set to hit the free agent market this offseason.

Oct 20 • 7:38 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Ryan Day Reveals Concerning Julian Sayin Injury Update

Ohio State coach Ryan Day announces Julian Sayin is out indefinitely and reveals the Buckeyes are preparing for a potentially season-long absence.

Oct 20 • 7:25 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Germophobe Primates Want to Avoid Getting Sick, Too

Some monkeys become significantly more cautious about food sources that appear contaminated after experiencing deadly outbreaks of disease.

Oct 20 • 7:05 PM EDT • Science • nytimes.com

Monkeys also avoid germs after viral outbreaks

Macaques who survived the spread of a deadly disease were more wary of potentially contaminated food.

Oct 20 • 7:05 PM EDT • Science • popsci.com

Morton Ranch High School football family embraces health journey with youngest child

Oct 20 • 6:08 PM EDT • Health • click2houston.com

WATCH LIVE: Trump holds GOP midterm rally in North Carolina

Early voting got underway in North Carolina last week, a key state in Democrats' efforts to retake control of Congress.

Oct 20 • 6:06 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org

Early voting ongoing

Registered Monroe County voters can cast ballots from Monday, Oct. 19, through Saturday, Oct. 31, during early voting for the November general election, county elections officials said.

Oct 20 • 6:00 PM EDT • Politics • keysnews.com

Aspirus highlights overlooked key to bone health for women

Aspirus Health is bringing attention to a common bone health mistake it wants women to avoid making.

Oct 20 • 5:17 PM EDT • Health • uppermichiganssource.com

SpaceX turns a profit after a string of losses as its satellite and computer leasing businesses soar

SpaceX reported a bigger quarterly profit than expected Tuesday as its satellite communications operations and its business of leasing computing power to other companies boomed.

Oct 20 • 4:49 PM EDT • Business • clickondetroit.com

Former sheriff accused of killing judge wins pause on second mental health evaluation

LETCHER COUNTY, Ky. (WJHL) — The former Letcher County sheriff accused of killing a judge in his chambers has managed to temporarily halt an order that would have required him to undergo a second m…

Oct 20 • 4:15 PM EDT • Health • wjhl.com

Regional Banks Put AI Into Core Operations as Business Lending Grows

Third-quarter results from PNC, U.S. Bancorp, Truist, Fifth Third, Regions and KeyCorp show that regional banks are putting artificial intelligence into

Oct 20 • 4:07 PM EDT • Business • pymnts.com

University of Maryland expands key reproductive health program

The school is using more than $16 million in state grant funds over five years to build on previous work that already trained more than 100 clinicians, students and other health professionals in abortion care.

Oct 20 • 3:50 PM EDT • Health • wypr.org

Karl Rove and David Axelrod give their predictions for 12 key midterm races

Rove, the reviled and revered hardball strategist behind the George W. Bush years, and Axelrod, the Obama strategist behind Democrats’ authentic-and-tenacious school of thought, give their takes on races to watch.

Oct 20 • 3:47 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org

From ‘50 bucks and a 423 credit score’: Family popcorn business marks 8 years

The founder of Robinson’s Popcorn, a family-run West Michigan business, is celebrating eight years in business by passing the keys to his daughter.

Oct 20 • 3:36 PM EDT • Business • woodtv.com

The Arizona race for governor revealing rifts in Latter-day Saint politics

The Republican crusade to reclaim control of Arizona has come to a head this year, and some of the key players involved in the race are BYU grads.

Oct 20 • 3:29 PM EDT • Politics • ksl.com

Former Ohio State standout emerging as potential NFL rookie starter

Former Ohio State cornerback Davison Igbinosun is earning high praise from the Buffalo Bills coaching staff after his recent play.

Oct 20 • 3:06 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Starz Entertainment LLC (STRZ) Restores STARZ on Verizon Fios Under New Distribution Deal

Starz Entertainment LLC reached a new distribution agreement with Verizon Fios, restoring all STARZ channels, STARZ On Demand and the STARZ app for Fios subscribers.Material DetailsContext by AI AnalystThis is a mid-cycle distribution recovery, reinstating a key MVPD partner after prior carriage lo…

Oct 20 • 2:59 PM EDT • Entertainment • tradingview.com

Bruins to Host Hockey Fights Cancer Night, Presented by Beth Israel Lahey Health, on October 22

The Boston Bruins will host Hockey Fights Cancer Night, presented by Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH), on Thursday, October 22, during their home game against the Nashville Predators at 7 p.m. at TD Garden. Now in its 28th season, Hockey Fights Cancer is a joint initiative of the NHL and

Oct 20 • 2:18 PM EDT • Health • nhl.com

Joe Burrow leads NFL in key PFF passing category

Joe Burrow’s accuracy on intermediate throws stands out among the NFL’s best through Cincinnati’s first five games.

Oct 20 • 2:01 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Longtime Meta policy head Joel Kaplan is leaving

Joel Kaplan, Meta's chief global affairs officer and a key bridge to Trump, will leave after the midterms and a transition period.

Oct 20 • 1:54 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

The Inevitable And Unavoidable Dylan Garand Watch

No matter how you shake it – or bake it, for that matter; your call not mine – Dylan Garand must remain in our critical crosshairs.

Oct 20 • 1:51 PM EDT • Sports • sports.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.

Oct 20 • 1:47 PM EDT • Technology • bigtechnology.com

Eight eMudhra CA Keys Compromised, Triggering Emergency Fixes Across Browsers and Software

Eight eMudhra CA keys were compromised, prompting browser blocks and software fixes. Chrome found no rogue certificates in CT logs.

Oct 20 • 1:09 PM EDT • Technology • thehackernews.com

Child care affordability could become a key issue for Texas voters in November

Oct 20 • 12:42 PM EDT • Politics • click2houston.com

As Summer Crowds Fade, Keystone Businesses Navigate the Annual Shift to Winter

After a summer defined by packed streets, Fourth of July festivities, and celebrations marking America’s 250th anniversary at nearby Mount Rushmore, the tourist hub of Keystone is settling into its quiet off-season

Oct 20 • 11:20 AM EDT • Business • kotatv.com

Will PENN Entertainment (PENN) Beat Estimates Again in Its Next Earnings Report?

PENN Entertainment (PENN) has an impressive earnings surprise history and currently possesses the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely beat in its next quarterly report.

Oct 20 • 11:10 AM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com

Video. Reaching for the Starmus: Science and music festival back in Tenerife

Video. Mixing Nobel prize-winners, astronauts and artists, the Starmus Festival has been uniting key figures over the past decade at one event to spark creativity, curiosity and a greater understanding of the universe. Its co-founder, Garik Israelian says its all about inspiring the next generation.

Oct 20 • 10:49 AM EDT • Science • euronews.com

Evolution of women’s healthcare focus of URI’s annual Youngken Clinic

KINGSTON, R.I. — Oct. 20, 2026 — Women’s healthcare is evolving rapidly, and while greater emphasis has been placed on comprehensive care, women still face more barriers to healthcare than men, according to the National Institutes of Health. Pharmacists are key players in helping break down those barriers, playing an increasingly important role in improving […]

Oct 20 • 10:24 AM EDT • Health • uri.edu

Meta (META): Can WhatsApp Become a Meaningful Business Beyond Advertising?

Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is turning business conversations into revenue. Paid WhatsApp messaging helped Family of Apps other revenue grow 73% to $1.01 billion in the second quarter of 2026, following 74% growth in the first. That category includes subscriptions and other services and represented just 1.7% of group revenue. Expanding messaging alternatives make merchant […]

Oct 20 • 9:43 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com

North Carolina Could Play a Key Role in This Year’s Midterm Elections, Wake Forest Expert Says

Oct 20 • 8:10 AM EDT • Politics • newswise.com

2026 Business & Economic Outlook to Explore Key Trends

The Northwest Indiana Business RoundTable ( NWIBRT ) and the Construction Advancement Foundation ( CAF ) will host the 2026 Business & Economic Outlook on Oct. 30, bringing business leaders, …

Oct 20 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • buildingindiana.com

A key climate report was scrapped under Trump. Scientists plowed ahead with the research.

Some of the ousted climate scientists have just published their own research paper, identifying changes in the research field.

Oct 20 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • washingtonpost.com

The key health care ballot measures we’re watching in the midterms

State fights over issues like transgender rights and Medicaid offer clues to where Americans stand on contentious health matters.

Oct 20 • 4:30 AM EDT • Health • statnews.com

Pianist Jeffrey Siegel to perform music of Brahms at Munson

Pianist Jeffrey Siegel brings The Romantic Music of Brahms to Munson in Utica on Oct. 24 as part of his Keyboard Conversations series.

Oct 20 • 3:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • romesentinel.com

Rangers Find Their Offensive Rhythm In Win Over Ducks

The New York Rangers’ offense came alive on Monday night at Madison Square Garden, en route to a decisive 5-2 victory over the Anaheim Ducks.

Oct 20 • 12:56 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Rogers argues El-Sayed is vulnerable with 2 traditionally Democratic blocs as Obama heads to Michigan

Mike Rogers argues Abdul El-Sayed may lose Black and Jewish voters in Michigan's Senate race during a Sean Hannity town hall on key demographics.

Oct 20 • 12:03 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com

WATCH: Jupiter defeats Palm Beach Central in key district clash

Jupiter took down Palm Beach Central in an important district game, continued from Friday's lightning suspension. The Warriors now control their district destiny.

Oct 19 • 11:55 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Science key to tackling worldwide challenges

Science and technology are immensely important for addressing shared global challenges and achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, especially in a world where geopolitical tensions are rising, said experts at a global forum in Beijing on Monday.

Oct 19 • 11:37 PM EDT • Science • chinadailyhk.com

76ers' Most Important Duo Might Not Be Who Everyone Thinks

While the Philadelphia 76ers built their roster to support Joel Embiid with LeBron James and Jaylen Brown, the two young guards are the key to victory.

Oct 19 • 9:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

AI-generated political ads are showing up on TV screens, experts say they are getting harder to spot

Oct 19 • 8:37 PM EDT • Politics • ksat.com

Warhammer Tone Pro: The 1-5 system

Five tones, infinite possibilities – dive into the new paints.

Oct 19 • 8:00 PM EDT • Technology • warhammer-community.com

Decatur meatpacking business provides food for those in need amid rising costs nationwide

Heinkel's meat packing provides Northeast Community Fund in Decatur with 16,500 pounds of smoked turkey legs to feed the areas hungry.

Oct 19 • 7:44 PM EDT • Business • wandtv.com

Richard Riehle, dependable TV and film character actor who was in 'Glory and 'Office Space,' dies

Beloved character actor Richard Riehle has died at 78.

Oct 19 • 7:20 PM EDT • Entertainment • news4jax.com

BYU Football Releases Updated Depth Chart Ahead of UCF Game

Fresh off a high-stakes upset, the Cougars shuffle their offensive line and lean on quarterback Bear Bachmeier's rushing mobility to offset key injuries before facing the Knights.

Oct 19 • 6:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

AI facial health recognition tools help physicians assess age and survival risk to guide personalized treatment

Researchers are using AI tools to analyze simple facial photographs to determine key indicators of a person's health. Mass General Brigham researchers built FAHR-Face (Foundation Artificial Intelligence ...

Oct 19 • 6:30 PM EDT • Health • medicalxpress.com

Rams Get Devastating Injury News on Multiple Stars

The Los Angeles Rams suffered three long-term injuries to key position player groups during their loss to the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday. The post Rams Get Devastating Injury News on Multiple Stars appeared first on LA Sports Report.

Oct 19 • 5:36 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Buckeyes' Get Two Primetime Kickoffs Announced to Start Bye Week

The Ohio State Buckeyes got the kick times of their next two games against a pair of their top opponents.

Oct 19 • 5:29 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Avalanche star Cale Makar embracing fatherhood, but it’s business as usual on the ice

Hockey remains the constant for Cale Makar, even as he embarks on a new phase of his life.

Oct 19 • 5:23 PM EDT • Business • denverpost.com

Republicans pull funding in Ohio’s 1st District as race shifts toward Democrats

The district was once considered one of the most competitive in the country, with both parties viewing it as key to maintaining control of the House.

Oct 19 • 5:15 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumnews1.com

Angels of Assisi to hold 4th annual Pet Health Fair at Berglund Center

Angels of Assisi is preparing for their 4th annual Pet Health Fair on Saturday, Oct. 24!

Oct 19 • 4:47 PM EDT • Health • wsls.com

President Trump in Macon Saturday, as political heavyweights flood Georgia before Nov. 3

Obama to stump Oct. 28 for Ossoff, Bottoms; Harris to keynote Fulton fundraiser Oct. 30 with Ossoff.

Oct 19 • 4:45 PM EDT • Politics • atlantanewsfirst.com

I needed to see the new Windows 11 Photos app in action to fathom how fast it is — it's like switching from dial-up to broadband

Microsoft rebuilt key parts of Photos, and the result appears dramatically faster than the sluggish app Windows users know today.

Oct 19 • 12:58 PM EDT • Technology • windowscentral.com

'Other Desert Cities' review: Julia Louis-Dreyfus debuts Broadway

A revival of Jon Robin Baitz's 'Other Desert Cities,' directed by John Benjamin Hickey, opens at Broadway's Hudson Theatre with a cast that includes Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris and Allison Janney.

Oct 19 • 11:24 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com

Attending Minnesota Renaissance Festival

High school students from Bug O Nay Ge Shig’s world mythology class traveled to Shakopee Oct. 2 to attend the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. In addition to enjoying turkey legs and

Oct 19 • 11:14 AM EDT • Entertainment • walkermn.com

2026 Election Preview: 6th Senate District

The midterm elections are less than two weeks away and PoliticsPA has identified seven State Senate races throughout the Commonwealth to focus on during the run-up to the 2026 election, as part of our 31 Races in 31 Days series. SD-6: Frank Farry (R) vs. Eileen Albillar (D) The Key…

Oct 19 • 10:42 AM EDT • Politics • politicspa.com

Car Keys in Apple Wallet coming soon to three popular vehicle brands

Apple Wallet car keys are about to get a big expansion, with GM adding support for three vehicle brands: Cadillac, Chevrolet, and GMC.

Oct 19 • 10:31 AM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com

Trump will sign an order aimed at boosting women's health research, a plan backed by the first lady

President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order aimed at bolstering federal research on women’s health, a move pushed by first lady Melania Trump.

Oct 19 • 10:17 AM EDT • Health • news4jax.com

Whiskey rebellion over 1868 law on home distilleries heads to the Supreme Court

When John Ream got into brewing beer at home nearly two decades ago, starting out was as easy as opening the kit his wife bought for him as a gift.

Oct 19 • 10:15 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

Alice Ruppert on the Science and Art of Video Game Horses

Interviewing Alice Ruppert about horse anatomy, narratives, and more! Interview by Jahanzeb Khan.

Oct 19 • 10:00 AM EDT • Science • superjumpmagazine.com

GM Says Apple Wallet Car Keys Coming to These Vehicles

In a late September press release that we just discovered now, GM announced that it has started rolling out Apple Wallet car key support in select Cadillac, Chevrolet, and GMC vehicle models, with additional models to follow over time. Google Wallet and Samsung Wallet will also be supported, with a related Samsung press release mentioning availability in the U.S. and Canada. GM said the rollout will occur as follows, with model years listed in parentheses.

Oct 19 • 9:51 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com

Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez fights to keep a foothold in Pacific Northwest's Trump country

Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington has won twice in a district that voted for Trump, making her one of the few rural Democrats in Congress.

Oct 19 • 9:00 AM EDT • Politics • wsls.com

Daily Bean: Maple Leafs Trade Talk; Matt Poitras; Hellebuyck Rumors

The Boston Bruins had the day off yesterday but are back to work today as they look to sweep their […]

Oct 19 • 8:59 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

UN climate panel head wants swift end to deadlock over key scientific report

The world's top climate scientists will reconvene at the earliest opportunity, the panel's chair said on Monday, after member states failed to agree when to release its crucial new findings on global ...

Oct 19 • 8:36 AM EDT • Science • yahoo.com

Industry Insights: Beauty, Science and the Boardroom

Beauty companies can make more of two high-value assets they already possess: their scientific organizations and their boards. The key is to connect them deliberately.

Oct 19 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • cosmeticsandtoiletries.com

Sign of the Beefcarver closing after 70 years, citing rising food costs, COVID setbacks

Oct 19 • 7:52 AM EDT • Business • clickondetroit.com

The GOP counts on farmers' votes. As a costly harvest season raises concerns, Trump heads to Kansas

Rising fuel prices coinciding with harvest season are frustrating farmers across the Midwest and raising concerns for Republicans ahead of the midterm elections.

Oct 19 • 7:52 AM EDT • Politics • clickondetroit.com

The GOP counts on farmers' votes. As a costly harvest season raises concerns, Trump heads to Kansas

Rising fuel prices coinciding with harvest season are frustrating farmers across the Midwest and raising concerns for Republicans ahead of the midterm elections.

Oct 19 • 7:52 AM EDT • Politics • wsls.com

Rural medical training is key to stronger health care in First Nations communities

Training doctors in rural and remote communities and embedding First Nations knowledge and leadership in medical education could be key to strengthening health care access, building a sustainable workforce ...

Oct 19 • 7:40 AM EDT • Health • medicalxpress.com

Ironworker challenges Rep. Max Miller as the Ohio congressman fights to hold seat amid abuse claims

Ohio Republican congressman Max Miller faces a tough reelection challenge from Democratic union ironworker Brian Poindexter.

Oct 19 • 6:59 AM EDT • Politics • clickondetroit.com

Ironworker challenges Rep. Max Miller as the Ohio congressman fights to hold seat amid abuse claims

Ohio Republican congressman Max Miller faces a tough reelection challenge from Democratic union ironworker Brian Poindexter.

Oct 19 • 6:59 AM EDT • Politics • clickorlando.com

Abigail Casey, Recognized By Influential Women, Bridges Science And Strategy To Move Innovation Into

Global Key Account Manager for Pharma and Life Sciences at Anton Paar Connects R&D, Manufacturing, and Commercial Teams Through Scientific Rigor and Clear

Oct 19 • 6:28 AM EDT • Science • einpresswire.com

Analysis | Home heating oil is a sleeper campaign issue across cold-weather battlegrounds

As the weather grows cold in key battlegrounds nationwide, sky-high home heating oil prices could tilt a series of tight races.

Oct 19 • 5:24 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com

Health: Medical literacy

Oct 19 • 5:19 AM EDT • Health • clickorlando.com

Eye on Entertainment: Banana Ball heads to your TV screen

Oct 19 • 5:18 AM EDT • Entertainment • clickorlando.com

‘We’re in a red sinkhole’: Plummeting Latino support for Republicans could swing the midterms

After helping elect Donald Trump in 2024, the nation’s 36 million Latino voters are shifting in significant numbers in Democrats’ favor. That could shift key midterm races across the country.

Oct 19 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

Inside a Republican’s business safety record, under scrutiny in key House race

Public records and interviews with ex-workers shed light on a company run by John Braun, who is challenging Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Washington).

Oct 19 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • washingtonpost.com

Combination nucleic acid therapies: towards personalized cancer treatment

Combination strategies enable simultaneous activation and silencing of key target genes to correct molecular pathways in pancreatic cancer.

Oct 19 • 1:02 AM EDT • Science • advancedsciencenews.com

Democrats gain ground with AAPI adults as trust in Republicans fades, AP-NORC/AAPI Data poll finds

A new AP-NORC/AAPI data poll finds that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander adults have become more disillusioned with President Donald Trump and Republicans as the midterm elections approach.

Oct 19 • 12:06 AM EDT • Politics • news4jax.com

Democrats gain ground with AAPI adults as trust in Republicans fades, AP-NORC/AAPI Data poll finds

A new AP-NORC/AAPI data poll finds that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander adults have become more disillusioned with President Donald Trump and Republicans as the midterm elections approach.

Oct 19 • 12:06 AM EDT • Politics • wsls.com

Democrats gain ground with AAPI adults as trust in Republicans fades, AP-NORC/AAPI Data poll finds

A new AP-NORC/AAPI data poll finds that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander adults have become more disillusioned with President Donald Trump and Republicans as the midterm elections approach.

Oct 19 • 12:06 AM EDT • Politics • ksat.com

The Coming Entertainment Gap

As AI frees up our hours and our population grows older, the world is heading toward a surplus of free time and a shortage of meaningful ways to fill it. By Futurist Thomas Frey In 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that his grandchildren’s generation would work about 15 hours a week. He worried […]

Oct 18 • 11:06 PM EDT • Entertainment • futuristspeaker.com

Insurer AmTrust plans 300m City of London tower beside the Gherkin

Canary Wharf veteran Sir George Iacobescu is steering plans to swap the insurer’s London base for one of the tallest buildings in the Square Mile

Oct 18 • 10:24 PM EDT • Business • insurancebusinessmag.com

AmTrust announces plans to be bigger than Lloyd’s in London

The New York specialty insurer has hired Canary Wharf veteran Sir George Iacobescu to plan a skyscraper that would rival the Shard - and the project says a lot about how much London matters to its business

Oct 18 • 10:24 PM EDT • Business • insurancebusinessmag.com

Baptist Health NICU reunion celebrates premature baby graduates, families

Oct 18 • 9:18 PM EDT • Health • ksat.com

Jeffries likes Democrats' chances in race for the House as he campaigns in Ohio

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries says the election climate is holding firm for Democrats as they race to retake the House.

Oct 18 • 6:33 PM EDT • Politics • news4jax.com

Jeffries likes Democrats' chances in race for the House as he campaigns in Ohio

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries says the election climate is holding firm for Democrats as they race to retake the House.

Oct 18 • 6:33 PM EDT • Politics • wsls.com

Massachusetts GOP lieutenant governor candidate suspends campaign after arrest in car crash

The Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Massachusetts has dropped out of the race hours after he was arrested in a suspected drunk driving crash.

Oct 18 • 5:22 PM EDT • Politics • ksat.com

Canines on the Creek will return to downtown Frederick

The Francis Scott Key Lions Club will host its seventh annual Canines on the Creek from noon to 5 p.m. Oct. 24 at Carroll Creek Linear Park in downtown Frederick,

Oct 18 • 4:44 PM EDT • Entertainment • fredericknewspost.com

Kenya’s Ebola cases hit 8, with no community transmission yet

Ebola cases in Kenya rose to eight on Sunday after another person tested positive while in quarantine, having been identified as a contact of the first patient.

Oct 18 • 4:35 PM EDT • Health • news4jax.com

Fair Value Cut Raises Fresh Questions For Flutter Entertainment Stock (FLUT)

Flutter Entertainment has recently seen analyst fair value estimates marked lower following repeated guidance resets and ongoing regulatory pressures across key betting markets. The split between confidence in FanDuel’s customer momentum and concern over heavier promotions and regulation highlights growing uncertainty around Flutter Entertainment’s near term profitability profile. We will now look at how this more cautious tone on regulation and costs could reshape Flutter Entertainment’s...

Oct 18 • 1:26 PM EDT • Entertainment • simplywall.st

Jackson doesn't regret telling Collins to 'shut up' after protester interrupted Maine Senate debate

Maine Democrat Troy Jackson says he doesn't regret telling Susan Collins that she should “shut up” after the Republican senator suggested that a protester who interrupted their recent debate was one of his campaign’s backers.

Oct 18 • 1:24 PM EDT • Politics • wsls.com

Box Office: Elizabeth Holmes movie ‘You Can See Everything’ is now a hit in theaters too

Paramount's “Street Fighter” leads the box office this weekend, earning $31 million from 3,575 theaters in the U.S. and Canada.

Oct 18 • 12:50 PM EDT • Entertainment • news4jax.com

Congo’s fast-moving Ebola outbreak spreads to eighth province

The Ebola outbreak in Congo has spread to an eighth province.

Oct 18 • 12:43 PM EDT • Health • ksat.com

Trying turkey sandwiches at Subway, Jimmy John's, Jersey Mike's; best

I ordered a turkey sandwich from Subway, Jimmy John's, and Jersey Mike's to see which popular chain has the best version of this classic sub.

Oct 18 • 11:12 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

Woman allegedly hit business owner with a closed fist when he tried to stop robbery

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Oct 18 • 9:30 AM EDT • Business • cbsaustin.com

Power & Politics: Long Island congressional candidates discuss affordability, immigration and key issues ahead of Election Day

Republican candidate for New York's 4th Congressional District Jeanine Driscoll and Democratic candidate for New York's 2nd Congressional District Pat Halpin join this week's show.

Oct 18 • 8:59 AM EDT • Politics • longisland.news12.com