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How Small Pharmacy Expansion Will Impact CVS Health (CVS) Investors

CVS Health has been rolling out smaller pharmacy focused stores, expanding MinuteClinic sites and raising its 2026 revenue and earnings outlook, alongside new efforts in benefit transparency and women’s midlife health research. The push into underserved neighborhoods with compact pharmacies and clinics points to a tighter focus on access, operating efficiency and aligning physical sites with where prescription demand actually shows up. This article examines how CVS Health’s investment...

Oct 21 • 1:17 AM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com

Darryn Peterson Could Unlock Lauri Markkanen’s Most Dangerous Role Yet

By drawing defensive gravity and facilitating as a playmaker, the dynamic rookie guard can transform Utah’s All-Star forward into a lethal, off-ball threat who punishes scrambled defenses.

Oct 20 • 11:32 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Criticism grows over Ramaswamy attack ad featuring Amy Acton's mother

Several Ohio politicians have taken to social media to condemn an attack ad against Amy Acton that featured her estranged mother.

Oct 20 • 10:23 PM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com

Ohio governor’s race roiled by new viral video featuring Amy Acton’s estranged mother

Oct 20 • 9:19 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

Apple is looking for a cellular modem engineer as it eyes 6G

Apple is looking for an experienced cellular modem systems engineer to help develop its next generation of cellular modems as the company transitions toward 6G.

Oct 20 • 9:18 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com

Would subsidizing weight-loss drugs make health care fairer?

GLP-1 medicines such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro have transformed the treatment of obesity, but access to them in Australia increasingly depends on something much less medical: whether you can afford ...

Oct 20 • 8:40 PM EDT • Health • medicalxpress.com

GOP leans on anti-Trans attacks as economy & corruption are top issues

Oct 20 • 8:00 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

How to teach graph skills in science lessons

Translate graph skills into a science context with these teacher-tested tips

Oct 20 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • edu.rsc.org

Vivek Ramaswamy ad features opponent’s estranged mother

Ohio Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy backs controversial political campaign featuring his Democratic opponent Amy Acton’s estranged mother.

Oct 20 • 8:00 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.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

Museum of Science and Industry Begins South Portico Renovation as North Entrance Plans Draw Scrutiny

The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) on October 13 broke ground on a $22 million renovation to reopen its historic south entrance. The project is part of a broader effort to expand access to the Jackson Park landmark, even as preservation advocates criticize a separate proposal for a massive new north entrance. The...

Oct 20 • 6:58 PM EDT • Science • chicagomaroon.com

Urban Meyer only has one concern about a 24-team College Football Playoff

Urban Meyer won three national titles as a college football head coach, but the game is already very different from his time at Florida and Ohio State. The ways NIL and the transfer portal have shifted the sport’s landscape were hard to predict, and the Fox Sports college football analyst is among those who misread…

Oct 20 • 6:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Ohio governor’s race in uproar over video featuring Democrat’s estranged mother

Amy Acton was removed from her mother’s home when she was 12 after her stepfather was indicted on a charge of raping her.

Oct 20 • 5:28 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com

Eagles roster moves include 4 running back transactions

Lots of movement in the backfield.

Oct 20 • 4:58 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Antonio Miguel Cardoso to Leave Olympiacos

Olympiacos have severed ties with their football director, Antonio Miguel Cardoso, following an intense transfer window.

Oct 20 • 3:17 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Big software firm is moving headquarters from Chicago to downtown New Orleans. Here's why.

"Talented people shouldn’t have to leave Louisiana to build careers at the forefront of that transformation.”

Oct 20 • 3:05 PM EDT • Business • nola.com

Transfer student finds home at St. Mary’s University

Tabby Lawson finds a welcoming community at St. Mary’s University, discovering a passion for education and personalized support.

Oct 20 • 2:36 PM EDT • Science • stmarytx.edu

‘Once Upon a Time in Harlem’ film review: A must-see on Black history, arts, and politics

In 1972, Harlem-born documentarian William Greaves filmed a historic gathering of many still-living talents who had experienced the Harlem Renaissance, which had transpired about 50 years earlier. The Harlem Renaissance was a Black awakening in the arts, politics, fashion, etc.

Oct 20 • 2:10 PM EDT • Politics • peoplesworld.org

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

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

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Endangered red wolf pups Cane, Champ, Puck, Stormy and Whaler prepare for transport from Durham to a new conservation center in New York.

Oct 20 • 1:30 PM EDT • Science • themountaineer.com

‘Healthy Rounds’: Supercharging the Immune System

Dr. Kapil Meleveedu, director of UConn Health’s Blood and Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program, joins Dr. Anthony Alessi’s podcast

Oct 20 • 1:15 PM EDT • Health • today.uconn.edu

A special art project reveals the beauty of science to parkgoers in Virginia Beach

A temporary installation at Mount Trashmore transforms a section of the park into a landscape of sound, color and movement.

Oct 20 • 1:03 PM EDT • Science • whro.org

Predicting Suns' Team Awards for 2026–27 Season

Devin Booker cements his legacy as a franchise icon while rookie sensation Khaman Maluach transforms the frontcourt in this visionary look at the Valley’s future hardware.

Oct 20 • 1:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

The Rural Health Transformation Fund is delivering for NC

The real measure of success will be whether a rural hospital can keep its doors open, whether a young doctor chooses to practice in a small town, and whether a family can get the care it needs without spending half a day on the road.

Oct 20 • 1:00 PM EDT • Health • carolinajournal.com

Attack Ad Featuring Candidate’s Mother Turns Ohio Governor’s Race Even Uglier

A Republican ad features Amy Acton’s estranged mother calling her daughter a liar. The two have not spoken since Dr. Acton’s mother backed her husband after his arrest on rape charges.

Oct 20 • 11:48 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

Perot Museum announces $185 million expansion, plans outdoor science center in downtown Dallas

A 4-acre downtown Dallas parking lot could become an outdoor science center with exhibits, water features, and gardens, with a 2028 opening goal.

Oct 20 • 11:13 AM EDT • Science • nbcdfw.com

Is 'Wicker' worth watching? What reviews say about Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård's R-rated love story

Olivia Colman's strange new romance lands in limited theaters this week before a nationwide release on Oct. 30.

Oct 20 • 11:03 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Trump takes transactional politics to a new level at latest campaign rally

Trump effectively told Kansans he’s prepared to hurt the state on purpose if he dislikes an election result, which is every bit as remarkable as it sounds.

Oct 20 • 10:58 AM EDT • Politics • ms.now

Trump takes transactional politics to a new level at latest campaign rally

Trump effectively told Kansans he’s prepared to hurt the state on purpose if he dislikes an election result, which is every bit as remarkable as it sounds.

Oct 20 • 10:58 AM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com

Abbott, Big 10 Conference, Rutgers Athletics, and RWJBarnabas Health Seek to Boost National Blood Supplies

Diego Orozco knows firsthand that every blood donation offers new hope for blood cancer patients like him. After battling leukemia and enduring three stem cell transplants, the 34-year-old North Plainfield resident has relied on countless blood transfusions to survive some of the most difficult moments of his cancer journey.

Oct 20 • 10:17 AM EDT • Health • rwjbh.org

A Delivery Robot Caught My Eye in Miami. Here's What It Revealed About the Future of Business

Delivery robots reveal how AI-driven innovation can transform customer experiences, unlock revenue opportunities, and help businesses grow.

Oct 20 • 10:00 AM EDT • Business • inc.com

Gentle Brain Ultrasound May Help Ease Delusions in Schizophrenia

NYU Langone pilot study shows that transcranial ultrasound stimulation may safely treat delusions in schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. Learn more.

Oct 20 • 9:04 AM EDT • Health • nyulangone.org

SRS names former Allianz exec to alternative risk role

Strategic Risk Solutions said Tuesday it has appointed former Allianz Commercial executive Chris Terry as managing director and head of alternative risk transfer and risk strategy, effective April 19…

Oct 20 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • businessinsurance.com

340 Home Care, Home Health, and Hospice Providers Earn Inaugural Trusted & Transparent™ Recognition from Accushield

/PRNewswire/ -- Accushield today announced the inaugural class of Trusted & Transparent™ home-based care companies, with 340 organizations and 883 location...

Oct 20 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com

WSU professor Felix Lankester elected to National Academy of Medicine

Lankester’s pioneering work on vaccine delivery and community-based vaccination programs has helped transform rabies prevention and save lives in low-income countries.

Oct 20 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • news.wsu.edu

How voters feel about trans rights and abortion access will soon be put to the test

How do voters feel about trans students participating in school sports teams? Or abortion access? The U.S. is about to find out.

Oct 20 • 8:55 AM EDT • Health • statnews.com

Revisiting Brewers' Adames Trade Which Included Rays' Rasmussen

The Milwaukee Brewers transformed their infield with a midseason swap, but the Tampa Bay Rays struck gold by turning a struggling reliever into a dominant ace.

Oct 20 • 8:53 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Are transgender sports bans really about protecting women? Survey data tells a different story

In a recent national survey, Americans with the most negative views of women were the biggest proponents of transgender sports bans.

Oct 20 • 8:39 AM EDT • Sports • theconversation.com

Planning commission lauds work on ‘complex’ Lake Fairfax Business Center development plan

Plans to transform most of the Lake Fairfax Business Center in Reston into a mixed-use neighborhood are heading to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors for a final vote. Developer EYA secured a supportive recommendation from the Fairfax County Planning Commission last Wednesday (Oct. 14) after its legal representative confirmed that any lingering disagreements with

Oct 20 • 8:30 AM EDT • Business • ffxnow.com

Judi Health launching employer Medicare Part D plan with a focus on transparency

Judi Health is launching a new Part D plan that aims to lean on its tech stack to drive transparency and outcomes. | Judi Health is launching a new Part D plan that aims to lean on its tech stack to drive transparency and outcomes.

Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • fiercehealthcare.com

Woman Indicted In Alleged $612,000 Theft Scheme From Great Mills Business

GREAT MILLS, Md. — An Odenton woman has been indicted on six theft charges after prosecutors alleged she stole approximately $612,758.92 from a Great Mills business through unauthorized payments and credit card transactions spanning several years. Heather Lynne Payton, 50, was indicted by a St. Mary’s County grand jury on September 28, 2026, in connection […]

Oct 20 • 7:39 AM EDT • Business • thebaynet.com

Inc. Names Counterpart a 2026 Power Partner for Supporting Small Businesses

Counterpart, the AI-native insurance platform providing management and professional liability solutions to small businesses, has been named a 2026 Inc. Power...

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

A note to readers: Science, accountability and elections

Dear readers, As early voting begins, I wanted to share some news — and why it connects to the decisions we make at the ballot box. I’ve been selected for the inaugural cohort of the South Atlantic Climate Journalism Hub mentorship program, hosted by Covering Climate Now. I’m excited to join this group, learn from scientists and fellow journalists, and expand my science reporting. Science directly ties to governance. Local officials make decisions about where development goes, how infrastructure is maintained, what emergency preparations receive funding, and how communities rebuild after disasters. Understanding the evidence behind those decisions helps us evaluate whether our government is serving us well. Here in western North Carolina, those connections are all around us, in Lake Lure and beyond. Flood maps inform decisions about property and development. Engineering assessments help identify risks at dams and bridges. Rainfall forecasts guide emergency preparations. Geological information helps explain landslide hazards. Water testing gives communities information they need to assess conditions. Meteorologists’ knowledge and public perception of weather events shape public safety. Each involves scientific or technical knowledge. Each also raises questions about public responsibility: What did officials know? How did they use that information? What did they tell the public? What did taxpayers receive for their money? A study can identify a problem. Elected officials still have to decide what to do about it, how to pay for it, and how to explain their choices. Reporting should examine both the evidence and the response. That is where I want to strengthen my work. My reporting on Helene recovery, infrastructure, flooding, public safety, and public spending has repeatedly brought me to questions that require scientific expertise alongside public records. This mentorship may help me better understand the research, ask more precise questions, and explain the answers clearly. I also bring the perspective of someone living with these concerns. I live downstream of Lake Lure Dam, and landslides affected my property during Helene. Those experiences bring urgency to my questions. Careful reporting helps establish the answers. Readers deserve to know what the evidence shows, where uncertainty remains, and whether officials accurately describe the information guiding their decisions. You also deserve scrutiny of proposed solutions: what they cost, what they are expected to accomplish, and what risks remain. Access to that information matters. As a mostly deaf journalist who relies on written communication, I will continue pressing for written public warnings, records, and explanations that people can read and use in real time. As you consider the candidates seeking your vote, consider how they approach evidence, preparedness, and transparency. Do they support local journalism, even when it’s not parroting a press release? Do they explain weather events clearly in plain English and explain their decisions after them? Make supporting records available? Acknowledge uncertainty? Follow through when a report identifies a risk? Those are practical questions about governing. Thank you for supporting Cops & Congress and the work that makes these questions part of the public conversation. I’m grateful to David Dickson and the CC Now team for this opportunity, and I look forward to bringing what I learn back to you. Annie DanceEditor & Publisher, Cops & Congress — Learn more about this newsletter, ethics policy, how you can help shape this work, and support it. Follow on X and Facebook. Send constructive criticism, fan mail, and tips with public documents for future stories: CopsandCongress@gmail.com ICYMI: View the Cops & Congress archive — Annie Dance is the publisher of Cops & Congress, a newsletter that analyzes what happens when crime, courts, disaster, democracy, and small-town policies collide. Views expressed here are covered by the First Amendment. Dance has a Bachelor of Arts from Manhattan University in Communication with a focus in Journalism and Government. She has been a journalist for over 20 years. Share Upgrade now or give a gift subscription

Oct 20 • 6:56 AM EDT • Science • anniedance.substack.com

As Science and Technology Advance, Nurses Become More Essential to Successful Organ Transplants

Symposium of articles examines how innovations in organ donation and transplantation reinforce the vital role for critical care nurses and advanced practice nurses throughout the continuum of care for donors, candidates awaiting transplantation, recipients and their respective families.

Oct 20 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • newswise.com

Why Calling Anti-Trans Hate a “Distraction” Is So Troubling

It’s a familiar line in the midterms: Anti-trans attacks are a “distraction” from “kitchen-table” issues. That sends a chilling message about whose rights are worth fighting for.

Oct 20 • 5:30 AM EDT • Politics • thenation.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

GLP-1 drugs may protect kidney health in people with bipolar disorder

Mayo Clinic researchers found that GLP-1 receptor agonists, medications widely used for diabetes and weight management, were associated with a lower risk of dialysis or kidney transplantation in adults with bipolar disorder and chronic kidney disease.

Oct 20 • 3:41 AM EDT • Health • news-medical.net

$22M renovation begins at Griffin Museum of Science and Industry’s historic entrance

Chicago Construction News staff writer Construction has begun on a $22-million project to renovate the historic South Portico entrance at Chicago’s Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, adding accessible entryways […]

Oct 20 • 12:49 AM EDT • Science • chicagoconstructionnews.com

Low Testosterone Opens the Door to a Broader Health Conversation

Low testosterone can signal broader health concerns involving weight, metabolic health, sleep and lifestyle. Cleveland Clinic’s Mark Paulos, MD, explains why comprehensive evaluation and a whole-person treatment approach matter.

Oct 20 • 12:02 AM EDT • Health • consultqd.clevelandclinic.org

PFF bye week grades: transfer grades

Nebraska football heads into its bye week at 5-2 after two gut-wrenching losses: a top-10 Indiana team at home and former quarterback Dylan Raiola leading back-to-back touchdown drives to steal

Oct 19 • 7:00 PM EDT • Sports • dailynebraskan.com

Trump administration holds up Patriot missiles for Ukraine

Delays in approving transfers from partner countries coincide with a worsening rupture between President Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky.

Oct 19 • 6:33 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com

Who speaks for Mars? Scientists call for ethical debate before terraforming begins

Transforming Mars into a more Earth-like world could irreversibly destroy scientific evidence about the planet's history and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. In an opinion article published in ...

Oct 19 • 6:20 PM EDT • Science • phys.org

Your Company Doesn’t Need More AI Tools. It Needs These 6 Operating Changes

Giving employees another AI tool won’t transform a business by itself. Leaders from Homebase, Tiny Health, and Zoom explain the operating changes that turn access into measurable work.

Oct 19 • 6:17 PM EDT • Business • inc.com

Covenant Health helicopters take flight to speed up medical transport in East Tennessee

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Covenant Health Air is lifting off the ground, saving lives in East Tennessee. It unveiled two new medical helicopters on Monday, one based out of Rockwood and the other o…

Oct 19 • 6:12 PM EDT • Health • wate.com

Lung cancer can grow silently for years, here’s who qualifies for screening

Only 15% of eligible Americans get screened for lung cancer, translating to tens of thousands of preventable deaths every year, doctors warn.

Oct 19 • 5:39 PM EDT • Health • foxnews.com

Mines Museum of Earth Science event makes science spooky

Not many Halloween events send trick-or-treaters home with geodes, but the Mines Museum of Earth Science’s annual Spooktacular is one of them.

Oct 19 • 5:19 PM EDT • Science • thegoldentranscript.com

Trump signs order launching women’s health division at NIH, White House

First Lady Melania Trump has championed the executive action as a 'transformative moment' for US women's health.

Oct 19 • 4:29 PM EDT • Health • aljazeera.com

What Does a Human Heart Need to Grow? Scientists Found the Answer in a Bioprinted Model

Heart problems that babies are born with, called congenital heart defects, often begin developing early in pregnancy. Approximately three weeks after fertilization, the human heart is still a simple, straight tube of cells and, over the course of about five weeks, this tiny structure must undergo a remarkable transformation to reshape itself into the complex organ that eventually pumps blood throughout the body.

Oct 19 • 3:46 PM EDT • Science • pcrm.org

Nebraska Supreme Court Keeps Trans Sports Ban on Ballot

Supporters call it “fairness for girls.” A legal challenge argued that the wording conceals the measure’s targeting of transgender athletes.

Oct 19 • 3:05 PM EDT • Politics • them.us

This Week: Politics 101, 20th Street Bikeway, Muni Trivia

Here is a list of events this week. Monday/Tonight! SF Politics 101 with Joel Engardio. Learn how local politics shaped San Francisco. Monday/tonight, October 19, 5:30-6:45 p.m. SPUR Urban Center, 654 Mission Street, S.F. Wednesday 20th Street Protected Bikeway Ribbon Cutting. The Oakland Department of Transportation, city officials, Bike East Bay and other community partners will celebrate the completion of the 19th Street BART to Lake Merritt Urban Greenway. Wednesday, October 21, 1:30 p.m. 400 Thomas L Berkley Way, Oakland. Thursday 2026 Silver SPUR Awards. This SPUR event brings together elected officials and business, civic, and philanthropic leaders to celebrate four individuals and their contributions. Thursday, October 22, 4-7:30 p.m. Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA, 700 Howard Street, S.F. Get tickets here. Friday Woman and Non-Binary Morning Ride. Join the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition for a socially distanced bike ride for women and nonbinary cyclists. Friday, October 23, 7:15-8:45 a.m. McLaren Lodge, 501 Stanyan Street, S.F. Friday Muni Trivia Night. Bring your friends or come solo and make some new ones. Friday, October 23, 7:30 p.m. Standard Deviant Brewing, Pier 70, suite 195, 1070 Maryland Street, S.F. RSVP here. Saturday Fifth Annual Firefighter Family Ride. Join SFFD, SF Safe Routes to School, and the SF Bicycle Coalition for a fun, low-stress bike ride through one of the city’s most beautiful routes. Saturday, October 24, 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Panhandle Park Blacktop (Fell & Ashbury) to JFK Promenade (Whale’s Tail). Sunday Canvas for No on Prop G. Join the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition to canvas for No on ‘G’ to save Sunset Dunes Park. Sunday, October 25, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Marina Blvd & Laguna Street, S.F. Got an event we should know about? Drop us a line.

Oct 19 • 11:38 AM EDT • Politics • sf.streetsblog.org

Business Insider launches subscriber-only newsletter, Legal AI Insider

Business Insider is launching Legal AI Insider, a subscriber-only newsletter that will take readers inside the things transforming legal work.

Oct 19 • 11:28 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

See your patient population more clearly with the UNOS SDOH Report

The UNOS Social Determinants of Health Report helps transplant programs better understand the social and economic factors affecting their patient populations through center-specific data and regional, peer and national comparisons. These insights can help programs identify trends, support quality improvement and advance more equitable access to transplantation.

Oct 19 • 11:03 AM EDT • Health • unos.org

Alignment Health Plan and Astrana Health Partner to Expand Access to Trusted Local Care for California Seniors

New collaboration expands access to multilingual, community-based care across seven Northern and Southern California counties

Oct 19 • 11:00 AM EDT • Health • globenewswire.com

Scientists Thought Water Carved These Gullies on Mars. Now They Suspect Something Much Stranger

New observations suggest that seasonal dry ice can send soil rushing downhill, carving channels that look deceptively familiar.

Oct 19 • 10:22 AM EDT • Science • zmescience.com

Under new management: Oak View Group takes the reins at Riverview Health Arena

Following an inaugural year that saw more than 60,000 visitors and 70 events, the City of Noblesville is handing operations of Riverview Health Arena at Innovation Mile to Oak View Group. The transition marks a shift from REV Entertainment, which operated the venue during its first year. Under th

Oct 19 • 10:04 AM EDT • Health • youarecurrent.com

Net Health Announces Leadership Transition: Ron Books Appointed Executive Chairman, Patrick Rooney Named Interim CEO

/PRNewswire/ -- Net Health, an AI-native specialty platform serving clinicians across the care continuum, today announced that Ron Books is transitioning from...

Oct 19 • 9:55 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com

eMazzanti Technologies Named NJBIZ 2026 Business of the Year Finalist

eMazzanti Technologies, a leading Hoboken, NJ-based Cybersecurity, managed services, and digital transformation provider with a national footprint, announced today that it has been selected as a finalist in the NJBIZ 2026 Business of the Year Awards program. The recognition highlights organizations that demonstrate sustained growth, innovation, leadership, and a positive impact on New Jersey's business community. An independent panel of judges comprised of previous program honorees selected the

Oct 19 • 9:15 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com

Liverpool Reportedly Out: Chelsea Target ‘Dead Set’ on Joining Blues

Despite it being October, the transfer mill never truly stops spinning with clubs seemingly already lining up their business for January and beyond. Liverpool have started their season under Andoni Iraola fairly well, new reports indicate they won't look to strengthen certain areas in the winter window, which could open the door for Chelsea to …

Oct 19 • 9:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

eMed Population Health Appoints Marisstella Marinkovic as Chief Communications Officer

/PRNewswire/ -- eMed Population Health today announced the appointment of Marisstella Marinkovic as Chief Communications Officer (CCO). A transformational...

Oct 19 • 8:34 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com

Is smart farming really smart business?

From eerie driverless tractors to precision spraying and sowing, AI is transforming America’s agricultural life

Oct 19 • 8:02 AM EDT • Business • ft.com

Step inside NextGen, the building designed to transform the future of health

See how Mizzou scientists are turning discoveries into new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat disease.

Oct 19 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • showme.missouri.edu

Mobile health clinic in Southwest Michigan impacts local community

A mobile health clinic in Southwest Michigan is celebrating a milestone after seeing 1,000 patients in less than a year.The team says that number reflects a gro

Oct 19 • 6:19 AM EDT • Health • wsbt.com

Worried About Your Teen? Check Their Dental Exam Results For A Window Into Their Well-Being

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, Oct. 19, 2026 (HealthDay News) — You can tell a lot about your teen from their oral health, says a new American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) report. Many teenage health problems — eating disorders, smoking, drug use, sexually transmitted diseases — can be ...

Oct 19 • 6:15 AM EDT • Health • usnews.com

Notable introduces Flow Compass, giving healthcare operators control of their AI workforce

/PRNewswire/ -- Notable, the leading healthcare AI platform for transforming workforce productivity, today announced Flow Compass, a new intelligence layer of...

Oct 19 • 6:01 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com

JD Bertrand recalls mentorship from Chiefs LB Drue Tranquill

During his interview with @EdEastonJr, Atlanta Falcons linebacker JD Bertrand recalled mentorship from Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Drue Tranquill

Oct 19 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

US teens can access ‘nudify’ apps despite Apple and Google’s parental controls, report finds

Exclusive: Using test accounts, Tech Transparency Project downloaded 135 apps with features to generate nonconsensual nude imagery

Oct 19 • 6:00 AM EDT • Technology • theguardian.com

At 9:30 a.m. Central time on Nov. 6, Nutex Health will discuss its results.

After the planned Nov. 5 after-market filing, Nutex will discuss financial performance and provide a business update; a transcript and recording will follow online.

Oct 19 • 5:30 AM EDT • Health • stocktitan.net

When scientists went into a flooded cave in Jamaica, they found a large-mouthed creature hiding in the darkness

It’s the first time the strange-looking fish has been photographed in the cave.

Oct 19 • 3:42 AM EDT • Science • discoverwildlife.com

From Nanochemistry to Smart Roads: The Multi-Scale Science Transforming Sustainable Pavements

A new Frontiers in Materials editorial maps how functional additives, multi-scale analysis, and machine learning are turning road construction into a quantifiably sustainable, data-driven discipline.

Oct 19 • 3:36 AM EDT • Science • bioengineer.org

New Tools and Fresh Thinking Are Reshaping the Science of Addiction

A new Frontiers Research Topic argues that biosensors, longitudinal phenotyping, and transdiagnostic biomarkers are transforming addiction from a static label into a dynamic, mechanism-based science.

Oct 19 • 1:58 AM EDT • Science • bioengineer.org

Scientists Discover Strange New State Of Matter. What Is It?

It is too early to predict practical applications. For now, the main importance of the research is that it expands scientists' understanding of how matter can behave under extreme conditions.

Oct 19 • 1:44 AM EDT • Science • ndtv.com

Bengals Trade Idea: Should Cincinnati Pursue This Superstar RB?

With Cincinnati’s ground game stalling behind an elite offensive line, acquiring Jonathan Taylor could provide the explosive spark needed to transform the Bengals into legitimate Super Bowl contenders.

Oct 18 • 9:42 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — 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.Health Ministry Di...

Oct 18 • 4:35 PM EDT • Health • yahoo.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

Kenya’s Ebola Cases Hit 8, With No Community Transmission Yet

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — 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. Health Ministry Director-General Dr. Patrick Amoth said the eighth case involved a 49-year-old patient attendant who ...

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

The Elizabeth Holmes documentary is crushing it at the box office. See how much it's made so far.

Nathan Fielders nearly three-hour documentary about disgraced entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes is running up numbers at the box office

Oct 18 • 1:56 PM EDT • Entertainment • africa.businessinsider.com

World Affairs Council of the Upstate to host ‘Supply Chains’ panel discussion on Oct. 29

The program will explore how geopolitical tensions, shifting trade policies, transportation challenges and changing global markets are reshaping supply chains.

Oct 18 • 12:00 PM EDT • Business • upstatebusinessjournal.com

First-of-Its-Kind Egyptian Study Reveals Saudi Arabia’s Socioeconomic Transformation Through Entertainment

A pioneering Egyptian doctoral study in management at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) has revealed a profound

Oct 18 • 8:08 AM EDT • Entertainment • einpresswire.com

Physicists create a bizarre new quantum state called a fractional fermi sea

Physicists have discovered a strange new state of quantum matter in which ultracold atoms defy familiar organizational rules, forming a highly excited yet surprisingly orderly configuration called a "fractional Fermi sea." The discovery challenges established quantum theories and hints at exotic quasiparticles that scientists have dubbed potential "super-Fermions."

Oct 18 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com

Scientists link a strange sugar in red meat to a 63% higher diabetes risk

A study of nearly 90,000 adults found that people consuming the most of a little-known sugar found in red meat had a 63% higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Scientists suspect the sugar may trigger chronic inflammation, potentially revealing a hidden connection between red meat and diabetes that goes beyond weight gain.

Oct 18 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com