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Sunday's late-afternoon window on CBS averaged 26.368 million viewers

Oct 20 • 7:01 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.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

TTUHSC School of Nursing Expands Access to Maternal and Child Healthcare in Lubbock

The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) School of Nursing celebrated the opening of Grand Expectations Health Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house today.

Oct 20 • 6:03 PM EDT • Health • kcbd.com

Penn State expected to miss Bowl Games by multiple outlets

Penn State was nearly a consensus College Football Playoff pick earlier this year, and now they are expected to miss out on Bowl Games.

Oct 20 • 6:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.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

Robbery turns deadly at Fairfield business

A man was found dead inside the business, according to police

Oct 20 • 5:25 PM EDT • Business • fox19.com

OCPS rejects compromise on teacher health insurance ahead of school board hearing

The local teachers union accepted the compromise recommendations made by a special magistrate late last week. Both sides will share their views about teacher health insurance costs and salaries at Wednesday’s hearing, scheduled to…

Oct 20 • 5:22 PM EDT • Health • orlandosentinel.com

Several S&T researchers among top 2% cited scientists in their fields

A total of 94 current and former researchers affiliated with Missouri S&T are among the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists recognized either for their career-long impact or for their 2025 metrics, according to a Stanford University analysis of the Elsevier Data Repository....Continue Reading Several S&T researchers among top 2% cited scientists in their fields

Oct 20 • 5:13 PM EDT • Science • news.mst.edu

Seniors Left Waiting as Treatment Bill Faces Uphill Climb

This is an exclusive BHB+ story. Many adult seniors have been locked out of accessing residential addiction treatment for the sector's entire

Oct 20 • 4:44 PM EDT • Health • bhbusiness.com

Seniors Left Waiting as Treatment Bill Faces Uphill Climb

This is an exclusive BHB+ story. Many adult seniors have been locked out of accessing residential addiction treatment for the sector's entire

Oct 20 • 4:44 PM EDT • Business • bhbusiness.com

Falcons release LB Bralen Trice

Oct 20 • 4:34 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

AFL Releases FY2025 Corporate Responsibility Report

AFL, the Duncan, South Carolina-headquartered manufacturer of fiber optic cable, equipment, accessories, and related services, released its FY2025 Corporate Responsibility Report. As a reflection of AFL’s continued commitment to creating long-term...

Oct 20 • 4:29 PM EDT • Business • greenvillebusinessmag.com

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

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

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

Louisiana receives $3 million in grants to support veterans’ mental health

Five Louisiana groups awarded ~$3M in VA Staff Sergeant Fox Grants for veterans' mental health peer support and outreach, including two in Northeast Louisiana. State also launching its first Veteran Business Outreach Center.

Oct 20 • 4:06 PM EDT • Health • knoe.com

Nearly $1 million worth of rare Pokémon and sports cards stolen from FedEx truck in California

Nearly $1 million in rare trading cards were stolen from a FedEx truck parked near a Santa Ana, California, business, according to police.

Oct 20 • 3:59 PM EDT • Sports • abc7chicago.com

Police: Robbery, homicide investigation underway at business along Dixie Highway

Officers are investigating after a man was found dead inside a business along Dixie Highway, according to Fairfield police.

Oct 20 • 3:58 PM EDT • Business • wcpo.com

Dear Tim Sweeney, You Could Learn A Thing Or Two From The Xbox Exec Who Posted So Bad That He Had To Delete His Account

A better world is possible

Oct 20 • 3:34 PM EDT • Technology • aftermath.site

Your Huddle subscription just got an upgrade

Your account now features complete access to our newest fantasy tools.

Oct 20 • 3:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Governor Moore Announces $25 Million to Support Health Care Access for Uninsured Marylanders, Touts Public Health Wins at Bloomberg American Health Summit

Governor Moore Announces $25 Million to Support Health Care Access for Uninsured Marylanders, Touts Public Health Wins at Bloomberg American Health Summit

Oct 20 • 3:05 PM EDT • Health • governor.maryland.gov

Nearly $1 million worth of rare Pokémon and sports cards stolen from FedEx truck in Santa Ana

Nearly $1 million in rare trading cards were stolen from a FedEx truck parked near a Santa Ana business, according to police.

Oct 20 • 2:47 PM EDT • Sports • abc7.com

Lionsgate Stock Jumps on Report Legendary Submitted a New Takeover Offer

Legendary Entertainment has revived its bid to acquire Lionsgate, according to a Bloomberg report.

Oct 20 • 2:10 PM EDT • Entertainment • variety.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

Joe Burrow leads NFL in key PFF passing category

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

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

Business Briefcase: County asks for input on parks, recreation, open space

Schuylkill County is inviting residents to share ideas and help shape the future of parks, recreation, and open spaces throughout the county, according to a Schuylkill Chamber of Commerce update. Two upcoming public open houses “will p…

Oct 20 • 2:00 PM EDT • Business • republicanherald.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

Phoenix among best markets for small business expansion

Phoenix is one of the nation’s stronger markets for small-business expansion, but Tucson is facing a more challenging economic outlook, according to a new study comparing 56 major U.S. metropolitan areas.

Oct 20 • 1:15 PM EDT • Business • fhtimes.com

Berrien County Health Department warns parents, teens about kratom risks

The Berrien County Health Department is launching a campaign warning parents and teens about the risks of kratom. According to the health department, kratom contains a chemical called 7-hydroxymitragynine, or 7-OH, that acts like an opioid and can cause severe withdrawal symptoms.

Oct 20 • 12:50 PM EDT • Health • wndu.com

Mayer Hillman obituary

Pioneer of ideas about the climate crisis and road safety, and a champion of walking, cycling and children’s mobility

Oct 20 • 12:46 PM EDT • Science • theguardian.com

Louis-Ernest Barrias | Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science (1816-1918)

Access all artwork details and all available works by Louis-Ernest Barrias at M.S. Rau

Oct 20 • 12:10 PM EDT • Science • mutualart.com

Top Entertainment Stocks To Research

SEA, Spotify Technology, Walt Disney, Verizon Communications, and Autodesk are the five Entertainment stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Entertainment stocks are shares of publicly traded companies involved in producing, distributing, or delivering entertainment,

Oct 20 • 12:04 PM EDT • Entertainment • marketbeat.com

Police investigating homicide after woman found dead in Dauphin County business

DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM)– Police launched a homicide investigation after a woman was found dead inside a Dauphin County business on Tuesday morning, according to the Swatara Township Police…

Oct 20 • 12:00 PM EDT • Business • abc27.com

Investigators interview Rep. Ilhan Omar’s sister

Investigators have interviewed Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s sister, Sahra Noor, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the matter.

Oct 20 • 11:50 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

Investigators interview Rep. Ilhan Omar’s sister

(CNN) — Investigators have interviewed Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s sister, Sahra Noor, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the matter.

Oct 20 • 11:50 AM EDT • Politics • kten.com

Intermountain Health Lutheran Breast Care Center Earns Re-accreditation

Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital Breast Care Center in Wheat Ridge has been re-accredited under the American College of Surgeons (ACS) National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC).Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women in the United States after skin cancers. Programs accredited by the NAPBC follow a model ...

Oct 20 • 11:49 AM EDT • Health • news.intermountainhealth.org

Man arrested after unlawfully entering Alabama School of Math and Science Property, police say

A 44-year-old man was arrested Monday afternoon after unlawfully entering the grounds and a building at the Alabama School of Math and Science, according to the Mobile Police Department.

Oct 20 • 11:44 AM EDT • Science • fox10tv.com

Trump administration health leaders break down new women's health initiative

Oct 20 • 11:40 AM EDT • Health • yahoo.com

Best Trader Joe's items for meal prep, according to former employee

As a former Trader Joe's employee and longtime shopper, I know the chain well. Some of my favorite items are the soy chorizo and miso-ginger broth.

Oct 20 • 11:35 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

Elon Musk, Terafab Tax Breaks Take Center Stage In Texas Politics

A new lawsuit seeks access to correspondence between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

Oct 20 • 11:30 AM EDT • Politics • investors.com

Truist Financial Issues Pessimistic Forecast for Accel Entertainment (NYSE:ACEL) Stock Price

Truist Financial lowered their price target on shares of Accel Entertainment from $14.00 to $13.00 and set a "hold" rating on the stock in a research note on Tuesday.

Oct 20 • 11:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • marketbeat.com

Walk-in mammograms at Turning Stone Casino clinic

Walk-in mammogram screenings are now available at Rome Health Convenient Care at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona on Mondays and Tuesdays, according to hospital officials.

Oct 20 • 11:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • romesentinel.com

Giants are releasing running back Najee Harris, AP source says

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Giants are releasing running back Najee Harris, according to a person with knowledge of the decision.The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Tuesday because the move, which was first reported by NFL Network, had not been announced.

Oct 20 • 11:29 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Army-Navy Game Could Shift Dates to Accommodate 24-Team CFP

The game could take place the Saturday left open without conference championships.

Oct 20 • 11:17 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

New comet accidentally discovered by space telescope

The ‘happy coincidence’ is currently more than 807 million miles from Earth.

Oct 20 • 11:15 AM EDT • Science • popsci.com

Business Breakfast with Consul General of Mexico

The Latin American Chamber of Commerce of Georgia is honored to welcome Rafael Laveaga, Mexico’s Consul General in Atlanta, as our featured guest speaker for the October Business Breakfast. In this special presentation, Consul General Laveaga will discuss the growing economic, trade, and cultural relationship between Georgia and Mexico and highlight the impact of this ... Read more

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

Ghosting Someone Might Actually Be Bad for Your Mental Health, According to Science

New research suggests people who ghost others often feel guilty afterward, while those left behind underestimate how much they care.

Oct 20 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • vice.com

Visier Launches Vee Diagnostics Capabilities at HRTech 2026, Bringing Data Science Rigor to Everyday Talent Decisions

/PRNewswire/ -- Visier announced the early access launch of diagnostics capabilities within the Visier Workforce Insights Agent, Vee. Most organizations can...

Oct 20 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • prnewswire.com

Bucs second half collapse should cost someone their job

Bucs second half collapse should cost someone their job

Oct 20 • 10:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

York County Mexican restaurant fails state health inspection

The state Department of Agriculture conducts annual inspections of food-serving businesses to ensure public safety and safe food-handling practices. Schools are inspected twice per year, according to the Bureau of Food Safety and Laboratories.

Oct 20 • 10:35 AM EDT • Health • centredaily.com

Lions Named Trade Fit for Chargers’ Young Defender

The Los Angeles Chargers are sitting at 0-6 and likely to be sellers at the trade deadline. After Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press suggested the team call the Chargers for cornerback Tarheeb Still or Donte Jackson, Mike Payton of A to Z Sports suggests the Chargers’ other cornerback is the best fit of […] The post Lions Named Trade Fit for Chargers’ Young Defender appeared first on HEAVY.

Oct 20 • 10:34 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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

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

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

GTA 6 Digital Preorders Already Topped 6 Million and $594 Million, With PlayStation Accounting for 74%, Sensor Tower Estimates

Analyst firm Sensor Tower estimates that GTA 6 already sold six million digital copies, eclipsing any other game in the past six years.

Oct 20 • 10:00 AM EDT • Technology • wccftech.com

Iain Armitage was ‘very insulted’ when “Young Sheldon ”costar Wendie Malick accidentally compared him to Ted Cruz

“I was like, ‘Did my face look that melty that day?’ What does that mean?”

Oct 20 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Morning 3: Lincoln County home health worker accused of taking thousands in forged checks -- and other news

Here are the top stories for the morning of Oct. 20, 2026

Oct 20 • 9:59 AM EDT • Health • wbtv.com

Home health worker accused of taking thousands in forged checks in Lincoln County

The employee allegedly took checks from a checkbook while providing care at a patient’s house.

Oct 20 • 9:49 AM EDT • Health • wbtv.com

Amazon Prime comes with an Alexa upgrade you should know about

Alexa+ is now free for all Amazon Prime members, and they can access the upgrade via their Echo Show and Dot devices, their tablets, the app and on the web.

Oct 20 • 9:45 AM EDT • Technology • engadget.com

Tracking Military Health Through the Millennium Cohort Study

Why it matters * Long-term evidence strengthens military health and readiness * Research turns service members' experiences into better care * Findings have informed policy, prevention and screeningNORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / October 20, 2026 / For more than three decades, has helped federal military leaders turn health questions into evidence that improves care and readiness. The Millennium Cohort Study shows that work in action, helping agencies better understand health challenges and

Oct 20 • 9:35 AM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com

Perceptions of science and scientists shape partisan views on common vaccines

How Americans view science and scientists is strongly associated with whether they think vaccines are safe and effective - and helps explain partisan differences in perceptions of some vaccines, according to a new study led by a team from the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania.

Oct 20 • 9:30 AM EDT • Science • news-medical.net

Antigravity's Follow Me Bundle Adds Accurate Tracking And Gesture Controls To Its A1 Drone

Antigravity's watch and ring remote are available as an accessory bundle or as a full kit with the A1 drone.

Oct 20 • 9:00 AM EDT • Technology • engadget.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

Aprio Broadens its AI-Powered Advisory Partnership with Intuit to Further Accelerate Mid-Market Business Growth

/PRNewswire/ -- Aprio, the 20th largest business advisory and accounting firm in the U.S. today announced the next phase of a strategic partnership with...

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

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

Hwo can yuo raed tihs? The science of scrambled words

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

Are partisan politics even changing up our accents? They just might be, y’all

Vowels have become the latest players in partisan politics, a barometer of how beliefs and values fit within the old vs. new South.

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

KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: Fall 2026 Update on Vaccine Views

The latest KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust finds about half of parents mistakenly believe spacing out vaccines is healthier for children, while confidence in many long-standing childhood vaccines is high across partisans. These findings take on new relevance following President Trump's recent executive order calling for changes in U.S. childhood vaccine recommendations, including splitting the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine—currently given as a single combined shot—into three separate vaccines across multiple visits.

Oct 20 • 8:30 AM EDT • Health • kff.org

Planning TB prevention: Considerations for an evolving toolkit

Explore our TB prevention toolkit: today’s tools, the pipeline of new options, and the open questions ahead.

Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • clintonhealthaccess.org

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

No. 1 Exercise To Boost Bone Density, According to a Doctor

In TODAY.com’s Expert Tip of the Day, a doctor shares his favorite compound exercise to boost bone density and protect against bone loss in midlife.

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

$6.4 Million Grant to Bolster Maternal, Child Health

(10/20/26) The Center for Child Well-Being will expand psychiatry access, resources and workforce development.

Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • medicine.missouri.edu

Trump’s attacks on California elections endanger democracy, repeating a pattern

Republicans questioned elections before reforms made redistricting nonpartisan. Now they accuse California of letting noncitizens vote.

Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • calmatters.org

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

NC State a touchdown favorite at Stanford

NC State is making its first trip to Stanford since the Cardinal joined the ACC, which is to say that we’re in for a very late night of who-knows-what. Should be fun. The Wolfpack is a seven-point favorite to win this one, and if there’s any sort of turnaround on the horizon for this group, […]

Oct 20 • 7:44 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Duke Slots #2 In Preseason AP Poll

The ACC has four teams in the Top 15

Oct 20 • 7:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Cristiano Ronaldo ‘let Man Utd down’ with lack of effort

Cristiano Ronaldo “didn’t prepare himself” properly during his second stint at Man Utd and the club was “not the highest priority” for him, according to Erik ten Hag. The former Red Devils b...

Oct 20 • 7:16 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Tennessee health departments providing free flu vaccines Tuesday

TRI-CITIES, Tenn. (WJHL) — Health departments across the Northeast Tennessee region are offering free influenza vaccines on Tuesday as part of a statewide annual “Fight Flu” prevention …

Oct 20 • 7:08 AM EDT • Health • wjhl.com

Stefon Diggs: It's still wide open for us

The Commanders fell to 1-4-1 when the clock ran out on Monday night, but wide receiver Stefon Diggs chose to accentuate the positive in the locker room after the game.

Oct 20 • 7:07 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Nashville CARES sues TN Health over HIV care restrictions

A Middle Tennessee HIV care center is suing the Tennessee Department of Health over new rules that require proof of citizenship to access services.

Oct 20 • 7:02 AM EDT • Health • nashvillebanner.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

Scientists get funding to tackle 'biosecurity threat'

A University of Surrey team is helping develop a vaccine against a bacteria affecting poultry.

Oct 20 • 6:24 AM EDT • Science • yahoo.com

How an acclaimed opera singer became Providence’s Bride of Cthulhu

What happens when an opera singer/organist/conductor meets Lovecraft? You get Gigi Mitchell-Velasco, a consummate performer and Bride of Cthulhu.

Oct 20 • 6:09 AM EDT • Entertainment • providencejournal.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

November 2026: Science history from 50, 100 and 150 years ago

In 1926 we wrote about how there was a good chance Mars had both plants and animals. And in 1876 we probed the duplicity of the artificial butter business

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

Would Trump accept GOP midterm losses? 7 in 10 Americans doubt it.

A Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll finds broad confidence that votes will be counted accurately, but deep doubt that the president would accept the results if Republicans lost.

Oct 20 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com

Want To Age Well? This Ancient Practice Has Some Science-Backed Benefits

This time-tested practice may have more to offer than you think

Oct 20 • 5:31 AM EDT • Science • yahoo.com

Xbox 'Business Strategist' Claims Video Game Industry Is 'Pretending to Not Use AI,' Deletes Twitter Account After Deluge of Replies

An Xbox staff member went viral this week for taking to social media to tell "the truth that nobody wants you to know": that the video game industry is "pretending" to not use AI.

Oct 20 • 5:30 AM EDT • Technology • ign.com

Garland County Master Gardeners’ October Business Yard of the Month goes to Belvedere Nursing and Rehab

The Garland County Master Gardeners chose Belvedere Nursing and Rehab, 2600 Park Ave., as its October Business Yard of the Month, according to a news release.

Oct 20 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • hotsr.com

Manchester United and Liverpool battling for Borussia Dortmund star

Manchester United and Liverpool are both considering a move for Borussia Dortmund midfielder Felix Nmecha, according to TEAMtalk.The report suggests that Manchester United have made contact as they as...

Oct 20 • 4:19 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Pfizer makes ‘business decision’ to end phase 2 trial of autoimmune drug as program’s future uncertain

Pfizer has called time on a phase 2 trial of its CXCR5 antibody in an autoimmune blood disorder, with the company tight-lipped on whether this marks the end of the road for the asset. The Big Pharma had been evaluating the therapy, dubbed PF-06835375, in a phase 2 study of 61 patients with primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) that kicked off in 2022, according to the federal trials register. However, Pfizer confirmed to Fierce on Monday that this study had been terminated “due to a business decision.” “The decision to terminate the trial was not based on any safety concerns,” a spokesperson pointed out. At time of publication, PF-06835375 remained listed on Pfizer’s website for both ITP and lupus. A phase 1 study in lupus wrapped up in 2022, according to the trials database. ITP is an autoimmune disorder characterized by a low platelet count. Novartis was at one point evaluating its B-cell-depleting antibody ianalumab—recently approved as Fabhalta to treat immunoglobulin A nephropathy—as a potential treatment ITP. But the therapy struggled to demonstrate a benefit in the clinic for this indication. When contacted by Fierce, Pfizer wouldn’t confirm whether all work on PF-06835375 has been halted, and whether the company has any other plans to explore C-X-C chemokine receptor type 5 (CXCR5) as a mechanism. CXCR5 is found in blood cancers such as diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and mantle cell lymphoma chemokine receptor. However, there is little expression in normal tissue, which has led some drug developers to explore its potential. Vincerx Pharma had at one point been planning to take an anti-CXCR5 ADC into the clinic to treat B-cell malignancies, but that ambition was scrapped due to cash constraints. Where Big Pharma is placing its bets is one of the hot topics being discussed at Fierce Biotech's high-impact event in London next month. Find out more information and register by clicking on the banner below: [ ](https://qtxasset.com/quartz/qcloud5/media/image/where_big_pharma_is_placing_its_bets.png?VersionId=B8JrRbJ.pFUSK1pJgjeWHLGm_18RdLAy)

Oct 20 • 3:59 AM EDT • Business • fiercebiotech.com

9,450 Shares of Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. $LYV Bought by Cordatus Wealth Management LLC

Cordatus Wealth Management LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:LYV - Free Report) during the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor acquired 9,450 shares of

Oct 20 • 3:28 AM EDT • Entertainment • marketbeat.com

1,906,905 Shares in Tencent Music Entertainment Group Sponsored ADR $TME Bought by Assenagon Asset Management S.A.

Assenagon Asset Management S.A. acquired a new position in Tencent Music Entertainment Group Sponsored ADR (NYSE:TME - Free Report) in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund acquired 1,906,905 shares of the comp

Oct 20 • 3:05 AM EDT • Entertainment • marketbeat.com

College students more likely to vote this election; Ohio State political leaders and experts reflect on why that is

With midterm elections less than a month away, college students are more likely than ever to head to the polls and cast their votes, new data suggests. As many as 66 percent of college students will vote in the 2026 midterms, according to an August survey conducted by the Center for Information and Research on […]

Oct 20 • 2:16 AM EDT • Politics • thelantern.com

Calcium-rich whey permeate improves bone health in postmenopausal women, study finds

AFI AFI COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Oct. 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Twice-daily supplementation with calcium-rich whey permeate supports the maintenance of bone mineral density in postmenopausal women, according to a 12-month clinical study.[1] Declining oestrogen levels during menopause can accelerate bone loss and reduce bone mineral density, increasing osteoporosis risk. The findings come from the RENEW project, a research collaboration investigating how calcium-rich permeate from whey production

Oct 20 • 2:00 AM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com

Jacobe Smith Accepts Short Notice Fight for UFC Vegas 123

After a quick win earlier this month against Bruce Whitehead, Jacobe Smith already has his next fight booked. The undefeated welterweight takes on Randy Brown at UFC Vegas 123 in Las Vegas on October 31st. Brown was without an opponent after Carlos Leal pulled out due to an injury. Multiple sources have confirmed the fight […] The post Jacobe Smith Accepts Short Notice Fight for UFC Vegas 123 appeared first on HEAVY.

Oct 20 • 1:34 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Franciscan Health Dyer adds OrderAhead food locker in partnership with Food Bank of NWI

Technology enhances partnership aimed at fighting Region food insecurity DYER, Ind. – Franciscan Health Dyer now has an OrderAhead food locker thanks to a partnership with the Food Bank of Northwest Indiana and generous donations to the Franciscan Health Foundation. The OrderAhead food locker program was designed by the Food Bank of Northwest Indiana for neighbors with chronic concerns about adequate food access. The lockers allow food-insecure individuals to place an order online for pickup at a scheduled time. “We are thankful to be able to further enhance our impactful partnership with the Food Bank with the addition of the

Oct 20 • 1:15 AM EDT • Health • wimsradio.com

Rangers Find Their Offensive Rhythm In Win Over Ducks

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

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

$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

Former 49ers WR Reuniting with Aaron Rodgers and Steelers

On Monday, October 19, while the San Francisco 49ers are taking on the Washington Commanders in Monday Night Football, former wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling has found a new home in the NFL, and it’s a reunion with a QB he is very familiar with, Aaron Rodgers, and the Pittsburgh Steelers, according to multiple reports. Valdes-Scantling […] The post Former 49ers WR Reuniting with Aaron Rodgers and Steelers appeared first on HEAVY.

Oct 20 • 12:13 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Challenging creation of a ‘vaccine injury clinic,’ NIH research scientists rebuke Kennedy for politicizing and undermining science

The board that oversees the National Institutes of Health’s research hospital has publicly rebuked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., voting

Oct 20 • 12:05 AM EDT • Science • geneticliteracyproject.org