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Private contractors are set to cash in as millions of Americans lose health care

Implementing Trump’s "big, beautiful" Medicaid cuts will be a windfall for firms like Deloitte.

Oct 20 • 7:13 PM EDT • Health • motherjones.com

Sacramento news roundup: ICE incident, seized business and energy rank

From a congressman's call for ICE accountability to a State Bar raid that hauled off 14 boxes of files, here's what's driving Sacramento conversation.

Oct 20 • 7:07 PM EDT • Business • sacbee.com

NWTI, state office to host industry training luncheon on Thursday

Northwest Technical Institute (NWTI) in Springdale said Tuesday (Oct. 20) that it and the Arkansas Office of Skills Development will jointly host an event Thursday (Oct. 22) on short-term industry...

Oct 20 • 7:00 PM EDT • Business • talkbusiness.net

Hundreds of Mainers lost their health insurance due to Medicaid eligibility changes

The federal government will no longer reimburse states for Medicaid coverage provided to lawful noncitizens

Oct 20 • 6:16 PM EDT • Health • wmtw.com

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

Man arrested for Miami Beach business burglaries, police say

A 57-year-old man is facing felony charges after police said he was responsible for two restaurant burglaries in Miami Beach, including one covered by Local 10 News.

Oct 20 • 5:50 PM EDT • Business • local10.com

SpaceX and Tesla form committees to explore merger

Elon Musk, who is CEO of both companies and owns billions in stock, said he can't be a part of those merger discussions.

Oct 20 • 5:48 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

October 22 Vallejo/Vacaville Arts-Entertainment Source: Faces and Places

“Building APAPA with you has been one of the greatest honors of our lives. We are proud of these past 25 years, and we are excited to see what this generation and future generations will do next,” C.C. Yin proudly said.

Oct 20 • 5:44 PM EDT • Entertainment • timesheraldonline.com

Detroit Lions Announce Two Roster Moves Ahead of Packers Showdown

The Detroit Lions have signed Aidan Keanaaina to their practice squad and released Chris Smith ahead of Sunday's game against the Packers.

Oct 20 • 5:31 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Feds hold back an additional $1.2 billion in California Medicaid reimbursements

In May, the administration held back $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursements to California over concerns about "fraudsters" in the state's hospice and in-home care programs.

Oct 20 • 4:33 PM EDT • Politics • latimes.com

SpaceX Swings to a Profit, Even as A.I. Spending Soars

Elon Musk’s rocket company also said its revenue had more than doubled, driven by its Starlink internet satellite service and artificial intelligence products.

Oct 20 • 4:32 PM EDT • Business • nytimes.com

Meta tells Brazil's electoral court it gives equal treatment to Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro

Meta said it had "completed the implementation of measures to comply with the directive from the electoral court."

Oct 20 • 4:29 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org

Ilhan Omar's daughters show up at scene of DC raid as rumors swirl about embattled rep's whereabouts

Isra Hirsi was spotted entering Ilhan Omar's D.C. home under cover of darkness as Capitol Police were called to the residence later that evening.

Oct 20 • 4:08 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com

Robbery turns deadly at Fairfield business

A man was found dead inside the business, police said.

Oct 20 • 4:08 PM EDT • Business • fox19.com

SpaceX quarterly revenue jumps, beats estimates as AI business surges

Oct 20 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX on Tuesday said its third-quarter revenue more than doubled, beating estimates as AI and Starlink grew, while capital spending nearly tripled as it invested in compute infrastructure, sending its shares up about 3%...

Oct 20 • 4:08 PM EDT • Business • wtvbam.com

Orange County Public Schools rejects salary and health insurance recommendations

OCPS said declining enrollment and what it described as insufficient state funding have put additional pressure on its budget

Oct 20 • 4:01 PM EDT • Health • wftv.com

Oregon to increase 2027 payments to care organizations for Health Plan members

Oregon health officials say that they expect the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid to approve the rise by the end of 2026.

Oct 20 • 3:31 PM EDT • Health • oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Blake Griffin: Clippers Haven’t Honored ‘Lob City’ Team

Griffin said the Clippers releasing Chris Paul was “disappointing.”

Oct 20 • 3:21 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Andrew Thomas’ latest update leaves the Giants waiting

John Harbaugh didn’t declare Andrew Thomas or Jermaine Eluemunor ready for Houston on Monday. He said both tackles, along with […]

Oct 20 • 3:14 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

White House pitches $8 billion to farmers as midterms near

The aid comes as Republicans struggle electorally in previously reliable agricultural states.

Oct 20 • 2:52 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com

Roeper alum returns to educate after long career in science

BIRMINGHAM — Shannon Cass-Calay, 1988 graduate of The Roeper School, said it was always a life goal to return to the school as an educator.

Oct 20 • 2:18 PM EDT • Science • candgnews.com

Neat goes national: KU business alum takes his sweat-hiding T-shirt to ‘Shark Tank’ Nov. 4

It’s a neat pitch: shirts for men who sweat and would rather not show it: the job interview, the first date, the big presentation. Patented technology is built into the fabric so professionals look composed when it counts, Jim Huffman said, describing the product he’s sharing with TV’s highest-profile investors.

Oct 20 • 2:13 PM EDT • Business • startlandnews.com

Meeting Big Challenges with Big Ideas, Health Centers Pitch ‘Y Combinator-Style’ Solutions for Local Healthcare

With challenges looming like Medicaid cuts, workforce shortages, and resource gaps, health centers across the United States are being asked to do more with less, and it would be easy to picture a g…

Oct 20 • 2:07 PM EDT • Health • directrelief.org

United CEO Scott Kirby wants a nationwide wealth tax

United CEO Scott Kirby said that income inequality "has become a danger to our society."

Oct 20 • 1:58 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

Former employee accused of shooting inside Lynnwood business

The suspect turned himself in after allegedly firing a gun at another man on Monday morning, a police report said.

Oct 20 • 1:41 PM EDT • Business • heraldnet.com

Amazon hiring thousands in Southern Nevada

This year workers will receive a pay bump, with the company putting more than $1.5 billion into wage increases for its United States workers, Amazon said.

Oct 20 • 1:30 PM EDT • Business • reviewjournal.com

Candidate who said she’d fire all Republicans says she had three beers before viral interview

Oct 20 • 12:30 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com

Glendale Small Business Files Federal Lawsuit Challenging Seizure of Money by Federal Agents During Raid

PHOENIX—Today, the owner of a Glendale money services business (MSB) teamed up with the Institute for Justice (IJ) to file a federal lawsuit after his […]

Oct 20 • 12:08 PM EDT • Business • ij.org

Kenya Confirms New Ebola Case, Total at Nine, Health Ministry Says

NAIROBI, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Kenya ⁠has ⁠confirmed a new ⁠Ebola case, bringing the total number of infections to nine, the health ministry ‌said on Tuesday. The ministry ‌said the latest case was ⁠a close ⁠family member of the first patient and had already been placed in quarantine. "All nine cases ...

Oct 20 • 11:36 AM EDT • Health • usnews.com

Hunter Schafer reveals she had gender-affirming bottom surgery: ‘I’m a woman, I’m a girl’

The “Euphoria” star said the experience has been “amazing” and she feels truly herself.

Oct 20 • 11:13 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Jauan Jennings Trade: Raiders, Vikings Connected In Rumor

Jauan Jennings has not lived up to expectations with the Minnesota Vikings, and the team could part ways with the veteran receiver before the trade deadline. A seventh-round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, the Tennessee product spent his early years in a supporting role before earning more snaps later in his career. He first …

Oct 20 • 11:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Advito Adds New Service To Help Organizations Prepare Emissions Data

Tool is said to provide an independent assessment of processes and methodologies

Oct 20 • 10:37 AM EDT • Business • businesstravelexecutive.com

Richard Riehle, prolific character actor from 'Office Space' and 'Bridesmaids,' dies at 78

LOS ANGELES — Richard Riehle, a prolific character actor who portrayed Tom Smykowski, the product manager with "people skills" in Mike Judge's cult classic, "Office Space," has died. He was

Oct 20 • 10:32 AM EDT • Entertainment • thederrick.com

Trump administration announces $8 billion farm relief plan as fuel, fertilizer costs bite

(CNN) — President Donald Trump announced at a Kansas rally on Monday that his administration is introducing an $8 billion aid package for farmers in the face of high diesel

Oct 20 • 10:30 AM EDT • Politics • wxow.com

JD Vance declines to endorse Netanyahu for reelection, says he's focusing on midterms

“I endorse American candidates, and that’s where I’m focused on the midterms,” Vice President JD Vance said.

Oct 20 • 10:01 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org

They Take Healthcare to the Streets. In Phoenix, That's Getting Harder

When cities remove encampments or restrict aid, street medicine providers must scramble to keep providing healthcare.

Oct 20 • 10:00 AM EDT • Health • shelterforce.org

Christina Applegate says she’s ‘scared’ after MS misdiagnosis: ‘I feel lost’

Christina Applegate said on Tuesday’s episode of her ‘MeSsy’ podcast that she is feeling ‘lost’ after being misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis for years.

Oct 20 • 9:58 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

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

Christina Applegate Says She Was Misdiagnosed With MS After Yearslong Battle

Years after Christina Applegate shared that she was battling multiple sclerosis, the actress said she is "back at square one" after learning she had been misdiagnosed.

Oct 20 • 9:26 AM EDT • Health • eonline.com

29,000 Granite Staters Could Lose Their Health Coverage, New Study Says

A new study by the NH Fiscal Policy Institute indicates from 23,000 to 29,000 New Hampshire residents will lose their Medicaid health insurance coverage by 2028 under new federal and state regulations and requirements set to begin Jan. 1.

Oct 20 • 9:15 AM EDT • Health • indepthnh.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

Christin Applegate reveals doctors misdiagnosed her with multiple sclerosis 5 years ago

Christina Applegate revealed she was misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis, breaking down in tears as she explained that “something else is going on” after doctors said she actually didn’t have MS.

Oct 20 • 8:59 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

'Office Space' star Richard Riehle dies at 78

Actor Richard Riehle arrives at the premiere of New Line Cinema's 'A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas' at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on November 2, 2011 in Hollywood, California. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images)Richard Riehle, known for his role in the 1999 film Office Space, has died. He was 78.A statement shared by Artists & Representatives and Wright Entertainment, Inc. announced Riehle's passing on Monday, writing, "Our industry has lost an exceptional talent, and our community has lost a truly wonderful man.""We are deeply saddened to confirm the passing of our beloved client, Richard Riehle, this past weekend," the statement said. "A remarkable actor whose career in theater, film, and television spanned nearly five decades and more than 400 projects, Richard leaves behind an extraordinary legacy."The statement continued, "Beyond his immense talent, he will be remembered for his genuine goodness, boundless kindness, and unwavering generosity, particularly toward emerging actors and filmmakers, whom he encouraged and supported at every opportunity."Born on May 12, 1948, Riehle starred in many television series and films over the years.Notable projects include Casino, The Man from Earth and Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.He got his start as an actor at the University of Notre Dame, where he was involved in the University Theatre and starred in several stage productions. He went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts in acting and directing from the University of Minnesota.While he's played characters that have an "average Joe" presence, he always made the most of his brief screen time.Some roles that he is remembered for include The Quartermaster in Glory, the train guard in The Fugitive, Reverend Scroggins in Fried Green Tomatoes and Bill Cozbi in Bridesmaids.On television, he starred as Principal Ed Rooney in the 1990 series Ferris Bueller and as grandfather Walt Finnerty in the early 2000s sitcom, Grounded For Life.In 2023, he also played Warden Reynolds in Barry.Riehle is survived by his wife, Jane Latham, and their four children.Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Oct 20 • 8:56 AM EDT • Entertainment • willmarradio.com

Council leader to stand down after health scares

Labour's Tudor Evans said it was time to "put health and family first" after 38 years in politics.

Oct 20 • 8:51 AM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com

Indian scientists identify Martian analogue sites

Kerala researchers identify Martian analogue sites in Tamil Nadu and Atacama Desert via hydrous sulfates, aiding Mars paleoenvironments study.

Oct 20 • 8:46 AM EDT • Science • thehindu.com

Start-Up Claims to Treat a Patient With A.I.-Created Viruses

Certain viruses attack bacteria and can sometimes clear antibiotic-resistant infections. Researchers said they had tailored a virus to attack one patient’s illness.

Oct 20 • 8:07 AM EDT • Science • nytimes.com

Spotify launches paid podcast memberships with perks beyond bonus content

Spotify's new paid memberships let podcasters offer fans exclusive perks, including ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content, while keeping 90% of the revenue.

Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com

CA immigration business seized over allegations of practicing law without a license

The State Bar of California raided the North American Immigration Center in Chino, calling it an unauthorized law firm

Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • sacbee.com

Study links rise in online sports betting to mental health issues

The study’s authors said gambling and sports betting have never been more accessible.

Oct 20 • 7:52 AM EDT • Health • wbay.com

GM’s core profit rises 22% on strength of pickup-truck business

By Kalea Hall Oct 20 (Reuters) - General Motors’ third-quarter results easily beat analyst expectations on the back of resolute shoppers who continue to spring for pricey ​pickups and SUVs. The company on Tuesday said quarterly ‌earnings before interes...

Oct 20 • 6:33 AM EDT • Business • wtvbam.com

How one health system is battling rising uncompensated care costs

Sanford Health is expanding patient navigation and Medicaid renewal support as uncompensated care costs rise and more patients lose coverage.

Oct 20 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • modernhealthcare.com

New coalition aims to keep Virginians covered as Medicaid rules tighten

Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources Marvin Figueroa on Monday announced the Virginia United Coalition, formalizing a partnership that builds on a series of roundtable meetings with him and Gov. Abigail Spanberger throughout the summer, as well as an executive order she signed.

Oct 20 • 5:20 AM EDT • Health • virginiamercury.com

'We lost the battle': Local businesses prepare as DEI crackdown hits OEV

New Florida law forces Tallahassee to replace its minority business aid program with a neutral alternative. Some business owners worry about the future.

Oct 20 • 5:03 AM EDT • Business • tallahassee.com

Democrats Demand Tougher Standards for Companies Running Medicaid Systems

A year after launching an inquiry into companies, including Deloitte, that receive billions in taxpayer dollars to build complex computer systems determining Medicaid eligibility, senators are urging the federal government to impose stricter rules.

Oct 20 • 5:01 AM EDT • Health • kffhealthnews.org

Republicans in competitive Pa. races are tying themselves to Josh Shapiro. What does that mean for the midterms?

Republicans in competitive swing district races are featuring Gov. Josh Shapiro in ads. It's "quite telling," one political science professor said.

Oct 20 • 5:01 AM EDT • Politics • inquirer.com

Commentary: Stable jobs support healthier Hoosiers and a more sustainable Medicaid program

Indiana's low unemployment rate is good news for Indiana’s economy, and also matters for the health and stability of Hoosiers.

Oct 20 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • indianacapitalchronicle.com

JCPS paid $292K for an online mental health service. Six kids used it.

The company is one of hundreds of ed tech providers that have contracted with JCPS

Oct 20 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • lpm.org

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

DC council member wants temporary shutdown of business where National Guard was shot

A D.C. Council member has called for the temporary shutdown of a business where police said a National Guard member was shot late Sunday.

Oct 20 • 4:08 AM EDT • Business • wtop.com

Politics of the potato front and center for Japan’s new agriculture minister

Arata Takebe’s Hokkaido constituents might oppose a push to increase potato imports from the U.S.

Oct 20 • 2:56 AM EDT • Politics • japantimes.co.jp

ABB says data centre business booming, Q3 figures in line with forecasts

ZURICH, Oct 20 (Reuters) - ABB is continuing to see a boom in spending on data centres used to power artificial intelligence, the engineering group said on Tuesday, as it

Oct 20 • 1:10 AM EDT • Business • centraloregondaily.com

ABB says data centre business booming, Q3 figures in line with forecasts

ABB ​is continuing to see a boom in ‌spending on data centres ⁠used ​to power ⁠artificial intelligence, the ‌engineering group ‌said on Tuesday, as ⁠it ⁠reported its latest earnings.

Oct 20 • 1:04 AM EDT • Business • ksl.com

In Kansas, Trump says a pastor running as a Democrat ‘mocks Jesus’

At a rally, the president likened Democrats to rioters in France, whom he said “hate Christianity” and “Western civilization.”

Oct 20 • 12:54 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com

Exclusive | Sea’s CEO Says Financial Services Arm Could Go Public

Chief Executive Forrest Li said going public could give Monee the resources and the room to go further and faster.

Oct 20 • 12:13 AM EDT • Business • wsj.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

COMCARE provides mental health support at Stryker Sports Complex as teams return to field

“It can be really hard to go to the scene of a trauma, and we want to make sure people feel safe," said the director of COMCARE.

Oct 19 • 11:27 PM EDT • Health • kwch.com

Proposed New Visa for Home Health Aides and Nursing Assistants: What Healthcare Staffing Companies Need to Know

A new policy proposal published by the Brookings Institution recommends creating a temporary work visa that would let US employers sponsor foreign home health aides, personal care aides, and nursing assistants to help ease a growing shortage of caregivers. The September 29 proposal, authored by Brookings scholar Tara Watson through the Hamilton Project, would create an “H-1D” visa category built specifically for the direct-care workforce, launching as a pilot program of 30,000 visas per year. It would require employers to pay wages near the top of the local market, guarantee workers a minimum number of weekly hours, and contemplate a potential pathway to permanent residence after six years, although implementing that pathway would require additional changes to immigration law. The H-1D is only a proposal at this point. No H-1D legislation has been enacted, and employers cannot currently sponsor workers under this proposed classification. But if the idea gains traction, healthcare staffing companies could find themselves with both a significant recruiting opportunity and a new set of compliance obligations. This Insight walks through the proposal’s general immigration and employment requirements, then turns to the specific opportunities and challenges it could create for staffing firms.

Oct 19 • 10:59 PM EDT • Health • fisherphillips.com

Rays Are Back In World Series: 3 Takeaways From ALCS Game 6

Yandy Diaz said it would all end on Monday: The Rays would defeat the Guardians in Game 6 and advance to the World Series. He was right.

Oct 19 • 10:25 PM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com

Former Las Vegas Councilwoman denies misusing donations during judicial discipline hearing

Michele Fiore testified that she believed a developer paid for a memorial statue honoring slain Metro officer Alyn Beck as she denied misusing donations during a Nevada judicial discipline hearing.

Oct 19 • 9:22 PM EDT • Politics • reviewjournal.com

'People will die because of this': health care advocates discuss new federal work requirements for Medicaid

Under the changes, which will take effect on Jan. 1, 2027, HUSKY D recipients must document at least 80 hours of work, education and job training or community service each month to maintain their coverage.

Oct 19 • 8:02 PM EDT • Health • theday.com

Toppenish School District receives $7.5 million federal grant to expand mental health services for students

The BriefThe Toppenish School District has been awarded up to $7.5 million through Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education), a federal grant administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).The grant will provide up to $1.5 million annually over five years to expand mental health services, strengthen substance use prevention and intervention, and improve access to support for students.District officials say the funding will help address identified gaps in services, particularly drug and alcohol counseling at the high school level, and will allow the district to build capacity for long-term mental health support.TOPPENISH, WASHINGTON — The Toppenish School District has been awarded up to $7.5 million through Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education), a federal grant administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), to expand mental health services and substance use prevention for students.District officials said access to mental health resources has been limited, making it difficult for some students and families to get the support they need. The federal Project AWARE grant will help address those challenges by bringing schools and local healthcare providers together to better support students.The grant will provide up to $1.5 million annually over five years to expand mental health services, strengthen substance use prevention and intervention, and improve access to support for Toppenish students. Deputy Superintendent Dr. Jeff Camero said the district is focused on coordinating with service providers in the area to work as a unified team."We made the awareness with the grant. But looking at all the service providers in the area and how can we all together work as a team?" Camero said.Camero said the district wants to use those resources to reach students earlier and provide more support for those struggling with their mental health. The district plans to address a range of mental health challenges, from anxiety and depression to youth suicide risk. Camero emphasized the importance of supporting students in grades eight through twelve, where suicide rates are a particular concern."Making sure from anxiety to depression, making sure that we can help support our students at those levels, but also the youth suicide risk, looking at that as a top in this area, in our grades, you know, eight, for example, eight through 12, looking at suicide rate and looking at how whether we look at the ACES or whatever program we're looking at, that's federal, how that connects and how we can better serve our students with this extra funding," Camero said.The funding will allow the district to bring in additional staff, including mental health and substance use specialists, to work directly with students and connect families with community resources. The district is already posting positions, including a director role, with additional positions expected to follow.District officials are also thinking beyond the grant's five-year timeline. Brittany Kaple, Director of Public Relations for the Toppenish School District, said the intent is to build capacity and establish connections that will sustain mental health services even after the grant funding ends."We do have the director position already posted, with some of our other positions following really close behind that. But the intent is to, you know, it's a five-year grant, so those positions would be funded for that five years. But there's also the intent to build capacity and make those connections so that at the end of the grant, when that money, you know, if that money is not renewed," Kaple said.As student mental health needs continue to evolve, access to drug and alcohol counseling has become an important priority for the district. Kaple said teachers and staff have been raising concerns about the need for more support, especially at the high school level."And that was something that was also an identified need by our high school staff when the superintendent met with them last school year. They said that that was a really great need, something that they felt was a gap in services that we were providing for our students. And so this is going to be one way to help support that need," Kaple said.The Toppenish School District says its goal is to ensure students and families have access to the support they need, both now and in the years ahead. Additional positions, including drug and alcohol counselors and family engagement specialists, are expected to be posted in the coming weeks. News Sunnyside City Council navigates 2027 budget planning Monique Garcia News "Dancing with the Stars" champion J.R. 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Oct 19 • 7:59 PM EDT • Health • applevalleynewsnow.com

Deputies: Pickens Co. business owner holds intoxicated burglary suspect at gunpoint

The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office said it arrested someone in connection with a burglary at the Sip n’ Ride on Tuesday evening.

Oct 19 • 7:28 PM EDT • Business • foxcarolina.com

Pat Daley, a political freshman focused on affordability, Medicaid expansion and infrastructure

Pat Daley is running against longtime incumbent Jesse Petrea for a seat in the Georgia House of Representatives representing Chatham and Bryan counties.

Oct 19 • 6:39 PM EDT • Politics • wtoc.com

Nashville’s General Jackson Showboat to retire after decades on the Cumberland

The General Jackson Showboat will be retired after more than four decades on the Cumberland River, Opry Entertainment Group said, citing ongoing maintenance cha

Oct 19 • 6:17 PM EDT • Entertainment • fox17.com

Detroit Lions Host Former Notre Dame Defensive Lineman for Visit

The Detroit Lions hosted defensive tackle Aidan Keanaaina for a visit ahead of their Packers matchup. Here's what to know about the former Notre Dame player.

Oct 19 • 6:01 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Raiders cut OL Evan Neal from the practice squad

The Raiders cut offensive lineman Evan Neal from their practice squad on Monday, the team announced.

Oct 19 • 5:31 PM EDT • Sports • nbcsports.com

Jon Stewart to continue hosting ‘Daily Show’ Mondays through 2028

NEW YORK — Jon Stewart will continue his Monday-night hosting duties at “The Daily Show” through 2028, Comedy Central and the newly formed Skydance Television said Monday. The two-year contract

Oct 19 • 5:21 PM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com

Oklahoma health care agency boasts low payment error rate

Oklahoma’s Medicaid payment error rate is well below the national average, according to the agency that administers the program.

Oct 19 • 5:19 PM EDT • Health • oklahomavoice.com

Former Raiders star will not face former team

Davante Adams out with hamstring rupture

Oct 19 • 5:17 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Paid training program helping to fill Rutland healthcare worker gaps

A new paid training program in Rutland is helping people become medical assistants while addressing the region’s shortage of entry-level healthcare workers.

Oct 19 • 5:01 PM EDT • Health • wcax.com

Officials Estimate 100,000 In Danger Of Losing Healthcare Coverage As ACA Changes Loom

HARTFORD, CT — The estimated 100,000 customers who are projected to lose their healthcare coverage as a result of new requirements mandated by HR1 next year are families, neighbors and community members, Charter Oak Health Center President and CEO Vernette Townsend said Monday.

Oct 19 • 4:50 PM EDT • Health • ctnewsjunkie.com

Xbox biz guy deletes his X account less than 24 hours after saying game devs who don't embrace AI 'should not be in the business of being a business'

Business strategy manager Brandon Stirrup said he was "happy to take the hit" for his stance on AI, then left social media.

Oct 19 • 4:44 PM EDT • Technology • tech.yahoo.com

Florida Republican Party wants court to block Democrats’ Hope Florida ads

A grand jury found $10 million of Medicaid settlement money had been misappropriated, funneled through Hope Florida for political purposes.

Oct 19 • 4:25 PM EDT • Politics • cfpublic.org

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

Mass General Brigham researchers trained a new AI foundation model on more than 40 million facial images, and used it to develop AI tools to estimate biological age and directly predict survival risk in patients with cancer

Oct 19 • 4:24 PM EDT • Health • massgeneralbrigham.org

Billy Crystal reveals which “SNL” costar he ‘couldn’t even look at’

“I would just look the other way when he had lines to do,” the actor said.

Oct 19 • 4:04 PM EDT • Entertainment • malaysia.news.yahoo.com

Billy Crystal reveals which ‘SNL’ costar he ‘couldn’t even look at’

Billy Crystal said that there was one ‘SNL’ costar that he ‘couldn’t even look at’ while performing together on season 10 of the show: ‘I would just look the other way when he had lines to do.’

Oct 19 • 4:04 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Shams said that Cason Wallace would've had a 'robust' …

Shams said that Cason Wallace would've had a 'robust' …

Oct 19 • 3:54 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Apple Starts Moving Up iPhone Duo Delivery Dates

Apple has started bumping up estimated delivery dates for some customers who pre-ordered the iPhone Duo in countries such as the U.S. and Japan. In the U.S., for example, well-known YouTuber Matt Gonzalez today said his iPhone Duo pre-order initially showed a December delivery estimate, but Apple's online store now shows him an earlier delivery estimate of between November 20 and November 30. He ordered a Star White model with 512GB of storage.

Oct 19 • 3:31 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com

Paul George welcomes playing under Joe Mazzulla, Boston Celtics challenges

"It's been a fun challenge," said the Fresno State alum. "How can I be myself, how can I find rhythm."

Oct 19 • 3:20 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

PEGI begins moving existing digital-only games with loot boxes up to a 16 rating

Existing digital-only games that include paid random items, such as loot boxes, are being re-rated PEGI 16 if they curr…

Oct 19 • 3:12 PM EDT • Technology • gamesindustry.biz

Americans With Disabilities Worry About Proposed Changes to Major National Health Survey

Questions that have been proposed for removal deal with memory, fatigue, arthritis, difficulty walking and climbing stairs, as well as others about the use of hearing aids, canes, wheelchairs and scooters.

Oct 19 • 1:27 PM EDT • Health • news.wttw.com

Arc Raiders player numbers hit a six-month high following the release of the extraction shooter's huge Frozen Trails update

Embark's Studios' PvEvP phenomenon Arc Raiders is still going strong, and it's all thanks to the game's recent free weekend and huge Frozen Trails update.

Oct 19 • 1:22 PM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net

AI game clones are making indie developers afraid to show their work

Delayed Steam Next Fest demo is a sign of a growing problem for indie devs.

Oct 19 • 12:59 PM EDT • Technology • arstechnica.com