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Google’s AI future demands trust — and your personal data

Gemini Spark is giving Google a whole new level of access to your data.

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May 19 • 5:00 PM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
Taylor Bishop soars toward political career thanks to MSU internships

When Taylor Bishop (Class of 2026) came to Morehead State University from nearly three hours away in Greensburg, he found two things that put him on a clear path to college graduation and his future career. The first was his interest in history growing up, which expanded into political science after he started taking classes at MSU. "I really got interested in politics when I got to Morehead State," Bishop said. "It was like learning a language that I'd never known, and I fell in love with it instantly." The second key factor that shaped much of Bishop's college experience was taking his First-Year Seminar with instructor Rebecca Wright. Wright is also the coordinator of internships for MSU's Center for Career Development & Experiential Education and gave Bishop some important advice. For more information on gaining real-world experience like education abroad and internships at Morehead State University, contact the Center for Career Development & Experiential Education at careerservices@moreheadstate.edu or 606-783-2233. To learn more about MSU's Department of History, Philosophy, Politics, Global Studies and Legal Studies programs, contact hgpl@moreheadstate.edu or 606-783-2655. "You need to get internships wherever you can so it can get you wherever you want." Bishop took those words to heart and for much of his undergraduate career, he benefited from several meaningful experiences outside of the classroom that expanded both his knowledge and his confidence to succeed.

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May 19 • 3:38 PM EDT • Politics • moreheadstate.edu
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Google announces agent-optimized Gemini 3.5.Flash and a do-anything model called Omni

Google says its more efficient Gemini 3.5 Flash is the key to your agentic AI future.

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May 19 • 2:11 PM EDT • Technology • arstechnica.com
Trump's endorsement put to the test in Tuesday's primaries

Is there a future in politics for Republicans who buck President Donald Trump?

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May 19 • 2:09 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Trump DOJ sets up $1.8B fund for Trump’s allies

The fund was part of a settlement agreement by Trump to drop his lawsuit against the IRS

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May 19 • 10:45 AM EDT • Politics • theweek.com
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Dexcom CEO hints at future uses for CGM

In this edition of STAT Health Tech: Takeaways from a conversation with Dexcom CEO, and updates on WiSeR, and Epic's market share.

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May 19 • 10:10 AM EDT • Health • statnews.com
Grad hopes to advance women’s health in space

Duffield Engineering graduate Priya Abiram ’25 is working toward a future where space travel is designed to support all bodies.

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May 19 • 9:35 AM EDT • Health • news.cornell.edu
Scientists revise global warming projections, say small gains not enough

Both the old best and worst case future scenarios in the fight against climate change are being jettisoned by the world’s top scientists as they prepare the next series of huge United Nations reports.

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May 19 • 9:05 AM EDT • Science • apnews.com
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Introducing new Surface devices built for business and AI acceleration

Every IT leader and partner we work with is navigating the same challenges: AI is changing the demands of how teams work, security threats are growing more sophisticated and agents are changing investment decisions for the future. All under greater s

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May 19 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • blogs.windows.com
Withings Body Scan smart scale review: Premium health insights, premium price

The Withings Body Scan is not your everyday smart scale. Sure, it tracks your weight and body composition, but it also measures ECG, assesses the flexibility of your arteries and detects nerve activity in your feet.

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May 19 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • livescience.com
Curiosity Guides 2026 Keller Award Winners

Doctoral graduates Anna Yaschenko and Junjian Wang knew early on that genetics would be part of their future. In NC State labs, their innovative research earned them recognition as the 2026 recipients of the Kenneth R. Keller Research Award.

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May 19 • 8:26 AM EDT • Science • cals.ncsu.edu
Businesses face varied futures as Boomers sell, retire

About 6 million small- and medium-sized businesses could be up for sale in the next decade.

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May 19 • 8:15 AM EDT • Business • spectrumnews1.com
If/Then: Pending Deregulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Could Create Significant Negative Health Effects

If the US Environmental Protection Agency finalizes a rule on greenhouse gas emissions without quantifying related effects on human health, then Congress could respond by requiring this and future rules to account for human health effects.

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May 19 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • resources.org
Meet the new Trader: Nomadic Envoys

ARC Raiders is a multiplayer extraction adventure, set in a lethal future earth, ravaged by a mysterious mechanized threat known as ARC.

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May 19 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • arcraiders.com
Global warming is accelerating 5,000 times faster than rice can evolve

A new study finds that climate change is creating environments where humans have never successfully cultivated rice before.

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May 19 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • livescience.com
Jacobs Entertainment teases new additions to Reno's Neon Line District

a once dilapitated portion of downtown reno... Breathing new life after a $400 million investment. And more development could be on the way in the future: (lklv

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May 19 • 2:05 AM EDT • Entertainment • mynews4.com
Lucy Bentsen: Coastal roots lead to marine science, diving career

Lucy Bentsen, a passionate marine science student, shares her journey, experiences, and future plans in marine rescue, rehabilitation, and diving.

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May 19 • 1:59 AM EDT • Science • mustangnews.net
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What to watch in Tuesday's primaries as Trump's endorsement is put to the test

Is there a future in politics for Republicans who buck President Donald Trump

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May 19 • 12:14 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
What to watch in Tuesday's primaries as Trump's endorsement is put to the test

Is there a future in politics for Republicans who buck President Donald Trump.

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May 19 • 12:13 AM EDT • Politics • ksat.com
What to watch in Tuesday's primaries as Trump's endorsement is put to the test

Is there a future in politics for Republicans who buck President Donald Trump.

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May 19 • 12:13 AM EDT • Politics • wsls.com
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Dr. Roach: Man underestimates chewing tobacco's influence on his health

I'm frustrated and worried about his future.

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May 19 • 12:00 AM EDT • Health • detroitnews.com
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Patch Notes 1.29.0

ARC Raiders is a multiplayer extraction adventure, set in a lethal future earth, ravaged by a mysterious mechanized threat known as ARC.

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May 18 • 8:00 PM EDT • Technology • arcraiders.com
Traditional Medicine Innovation for Health Impact: Financing, Collaboration, and Future Pathways

This session brings together WHO, Member States, innovators, regulators and private sector partners to explore the role of integrating and advancing traditional medicine to improve health outcomes, while accelerating innovation, partnerships and collaboration. Discussions will focus on translating evidence and innovation into implementation, addressing financing and policy barriers, and identifying practical pathways to scale credible, community-rooted traditional medicine approaches to expand access, equity and health impact.Watch live on YouTube

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May 18 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • who.int
Former Md. Gov. Larry Hogan rules out future campaigns for political office, launches leadership institute

Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan told WTOP he’s done with running for political office. Instead, he’s helping to launch a leadership institute at Washington College.

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May 18 • 7:00 PM EDT • Politics • wtop.com
Georgia’s agribusiness industry depends on a thriving, fully funded public health system

In the fiscal year 2027 budget that Gov. Brian Kemp signed last week, less than one in every 10 state dollars spent on Georgia’s three primary health agencies is allocated to the Department of Public Health. The future of Georgia’s No. 1 industry relies on a state and local public health system that can track […]

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May 18 • 6:20 PM EDT • Health • georgiarecorder.com
Doctor's kit found on Mount Vesuvius victim in Pompeii

A man who died in Pompeii during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 was carrying a medical kit with him, new scans reveal.

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May 18 • 5:14 PM EDT • Science • livescience.com
Scientists found stardust trapped in Antarctic ice. What could it tell us about our solar system?

"This dust can penetrate the shielding of the solar system and end up on Earth."

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May 18 • 5:00 PM EDT • Science • space.com
How network intelligence helps businesses build digital resilience

Network intelligence can help organizations become more agile and secure, boosting their digital resilience in the future.

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May 18 • 4:23 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Whoa! Netflix is Sending Narnia Heading to Theaters...What This Means for the Future of Film

(Welcome to the “Most Important Story of the Week”, my bi-weekly strategy column analyzing the most important (but often not buzziest) news story of the last two weeks. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. Please subscribe.) Here’s a funny thing about the debate over whether streamers should release their movies in theaters first: Both sides think the other side represents the “conventional wisdom”. If you’ve been reading me for any amount of time, or even just scanned my front page, you know I think movies make more money by having a robust theatrical window compared to going straight-to-streaming. I’ve published thousands of words on this topic. And for years, I felt like I was standing up to a wave of opposition. See, while the “put your films in theaters to make money” take was obvious at any point before 2019, post-streaming revolution, most of the trendy thinkers took the opposite point of view. Big names argued that Netflix putting their film straight-to-streaming (“S-to-S” from here on out) actually made more money. Netflix was “disrupting” theaters, just as they disrupted Blockbuster Video, and since innovation is always good, this too was a great idea. This thinking then leaked into the mainstream business outlets like the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. I read many articles whose take boiled down to “Netflix makes tons of money from S-to-S releases” and “theaters were in structural decline” anyways. Covid-19 shutting down theaters and the 2023 strikes shutting down film production seemingly justified this point of view, as the box office struggled to return to 2017-2019 heights. Yet I’ve also read folks arguing the opposite point: the conventional wisdom says to put films in theaters! From some writers’ points of view, “everyone” actually agrees/agreed with my “send your films to theaters” take—especially the stodgy traditional studios—and folks still didn’t understand Netflix’s genius. I feel like, for the last two years, many people have argued this point as if it’s conventional wisdom. You know what? I may have been wrong. At this point, the “S-to-S strategy makes money” might be the minority viewpoint. Especially with the news this month that Netflix will put at least one film—Greta Gerwig’s Narnia film The Magician’s Nephew—in theaters in 2027 for a full 49-day run is big news. So that’s the story of the week, but I’ll also explain why they’re making this move now and why Netflix may not completely embrace theaters, along with other topics, like how I don’t buy Disney’s “super app” strategy, the latest good news out of the unions, my take on the latest attacks against free speech, and a whole lot more. Let’s get started. Subscribe Most Important Story of the Week - Netflix Goes to Theaters! Listen, I promise not to victory lap too hard today. As I just wrote, I’ve argued against sending films straight-to-streaming for—checks calendar—eight years now. Since 2018. Yikes. That’s a long time. And for years, others painted my thinking as “conventional” in that I was standing up for the status quo against trendy, cool disruption. And that’s not cool! But math is math, and I never could make the S-to-S numbers work. The only thing that ever enabled that model was Wall Street’s brief exuberance for it. It seems like the heads of Netflix now agree with me. (There were always rumors that former head of film for Netflix Scott Stuber argued internally for theatrical releases as well.) As they announced: “The Magician’s Nephew_—the first film in a Narnia series of films—will open on 12-Feb-2027, with a 49 day theatrical exclusive run.”_ I’m a little surprised at how little coverage this big change actually got. Credit to Bloomberg for leading with it and Matt Belloni’s The Town for highlighting it with the provocatively titled podcast “Hell Hath Frozen Over”. But after that? Instead of getting as much coverage as, say, the FCC’s latest egregious crackdown on free speech, this news story got crickets. But it’s massively more important for the future business of entertainment. So let’s start with the obvious question… Why Put Your Movies in Theaters? So…why should Netflix put (some!) of their movies in theaters? Well, I’ve already written that in a very, very, very long article from 2022: [ ](https://entertainment.substack.com/p/the-data-is-in-theatrical-films-massively) [ The Data Is In: Theatrical Films Massively Outperform Straight-To-Streaming Films ](https://entertainment.substack.com/p/the-data-is-in-theatrical-films-massively) Entertainment Strategy Guy · April 5, 2023 [ Read full story ](https://entertainment.substack.com/p/the-data-is-in-theatrical-films-massively) To summarize, theatrical runs make much more money, especially blockbusters, because they earn more money per viewing,1 and that helps boost home entertainment sales. Theatrical films also perform as well or better than the streaming-only films. Now, partially this is driven by increased marketing for said films, but said marketing ultimately boosts the awareness of the movies and drives improved streaming and library performance as well. Again, I’ve made this case after reviewing the economic models and streaming data for years. Just last week, Emily Horgan also made the case for kids films! Yes, it is probably conventional wisdom, but that’s also because it’s true! I’d also argue we’ve seen a lot of data in the various studios’ behavior. As I’ve noted before, the more a studio needs to make money, the likelier they are to put films in theaters. As such, Disney, Universal, Warner Bros., Paramount and Sony all send their major films to theaters. Even if they once made a big S-to-S push (*cough* Disney *cough*), they’ve since relented and returned to theaters. The tech companies don’t need to make money, per se, so it took them years to embrace theaters. Apple doesn’t need to make money because it doesn’t disclose their (likely) Quibi-sized losses each year. (They fear bad press more than losing money.) Amazon announced two years ago that they planned to make Amazon-MGM Studios/Prime Video profitable on its own, and guess what? Now they’re putting films in theaters. That leaves Netflix. They’re in between the “no need to make money at all” and the “desperately need to make money to offset linear TV declines”, so they had less pressure to put some films in theaters. Plus, for years, they were the sexy disruptor, and Wall Street rewarded them for that. (Honestly, they still do.) Yet, even Netflix likely saw the money they were leaving on the table (I’ve estimated it at an easy billion dollars before) so they changed their course. I heard one pundit argue that, because Netflix already makes so much money, they don’t need to make more money, which sort of goes against everything I’ve ever learned about business and economics. Again, to be super-nuanced, sending “films to theaters” does not mean EVERY film. TV movies have been a thing for decades. Lifetime films, Hallmark holiday films, Disney Channel Original Movies, and so on, don’t need theatrical runs. But films above a certain budget level (say $25 to 50 million) almost certainly need theaters to maximize their revenue. The Scenarios (with a Dose of Skepticism) Now time for some skepticism: it won’t surprise me at all if Netflix re-changes course. Specifically, Netflix announced that their Narnia film will go to theaters. And I’d bet anything we see KPop Demon Hunters 2: The Huntering2 also goes to theaters, cause it’s the surest hit outside of a Disney animated sequel right now. But how much does Netflix truly commit to theaters? They’ve already tried to emphasize that this is a one-off move. I see three broad scenarios:

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May 18 • 3:27 PM EDT • Entertainment • entertainment.substack.com
Cleveland County Recreational and Entertainment Facilities Authority seeking proposals for underwriters, trustee bank for future arena bond issuance

The Cleveland County Recreational and Entertainment Facilities Authority approved issuing a request for proposals for an underwriter and trustee bank service for future bond issuance related to the new arena

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May 18 • 3:09 PM EDT • Entertainment • normantranscript.com
‘The plight of the American people has only gotten worse’

Opinion, comment and editorials of the day

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May 18 • 3:07 PM EDT • Politics • theweek.com
Does Ukraine need US help anymore?

Russia’s invasion has stalled

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May 18 • 3:04 PM EDT • Politics • theweek.com
Apple might replace aluminum with titanium in future iPhones again, per leak

iPhone 17 Pro switched from titanium to an aluminum-based design, but Apple might be exploring an ‘improved’ titanium for future iPhones.

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May 18 • 1:20 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com
White House hosts Christian prayer rally

Thousands gathered at the National Mall for a religious-political celebration

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May 18 • 1:03 PM EDT • Politics • theweek.com
MAD completes the Hainan Science Museum, which ‘floats’ against the skyline

‘A science museum's job is no longer to deliver facts. It is to teach children how to ask them,’ says Ma Yansong, founder of the firm

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May 18 • 12:55 PM EDT • Science • wallpaper.com
New MatterChat Model Helps AI to ‘See’ the Language of Science

From writing emails to generating computer code, much of the artificial intelligence prevalent in our daily lives has succeeded by mastering one domain: text. However, this leaves a major blind spot in the physical sciences, where models depend on the high-resolution, three-dimensional data of the physical world, like the intricate lattice of atoms in a crystal. Delivering on the promise of using AI for science requires teaching these data-driven text models to seamlessly “talk to” physics-based models. Now, a new AI framework from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), called MatterChat, solves this problem by creating a specialized “bridge.” It connects the conversational power of a Large Language Model (LLM) with a physics-based AI that models “interatomic potentials”: the complex physical forces between atoms. The resulting system already significantly outperforms general-purpose AI tools like GPT-4 at predicting material properties, and the team hopes it can accelerate scientific discovery by serving as a robust research partner that provides grounded insights and generates step-by-step instructions for synthesizing novel materials. A paper describing this work was recently published in Nature Machine Intelligence. “Traditional simulations can provide the physical rigor required for materials science, yet their computational cost remains prohibitive for high-throughput screening. Conversely, while LLMs excel at rapid knowledge synthesis, they inherently lack the ‘structural vision’ to interpret materials directly from their underlying atomic coordinates,” said Yingheng Tang, a postdoctoral researcher in Berkeley Lab’s Applied Math and Computational Research Division (AMCR) and lead author on the paper. “MatterChat was built to solve this dilemma, empowering LLMs with a structural ‘vision’ that allows researchers to leverage their full potential for solving complex, real-world materials challenges.” Empowering language models to solve complex challenges in materials science To build MatterChat, the Berkeley Lab team drew inspiration from technologies like Vision Question Answering (VQA) and Text-to-Image (T2I) generation. In these tasks, AI must translate high-level text concepts into visual images, or vice versa. Doing so requires developers to build tools that “bridge” two fundamentally different forms of data. The researchers adapted this concept to the physical sciences. With MatterChat, they created a “bridge model” that successfully connects an LLM’s general knowledge with the deep understanding of the atomic-scale world encoded in scientific interatomic potentials. Until now, researchers using LLMs to solve materials problems usually had to feed them raw data files as if they were just strings of text. It’s like asking an AI to understand a complex 3D engine based only on a parts list: the LLM can read the names, but it can’t “see” how the atoms fit together in space. MatterChat solves this by training a specialized AI bridge model, pre-trained on millions of crystal structures and an LLM, to align the LLM’s representation of the world with the interatomic potential’s representation of the world. The bridge model can translate physical insights into a format the LLM can actually understand. By giving the LLM these “scientific eyes”— a scientific “inductive bias” in the terminology of AI — the Berkeley Lab team has transformed it into a robust research tool capable of providing grounded scientific insights into complex materials challenges, such as predicting thermal stability or analyzing electronic band gaps. “We think of atoms as living in a physical space, but from a machine learning perspective, they are just vectors living in some very non-trivially structured manifold in a high-dimensional Euclidean space; and, of course, the same is true for the sentences and paragraphs that we use to express our ideas about those atoms,” said co-author Michael Mahoney, Berkeley Lab’s Scientific Data Division (SDD) AI Initiative Research Lead. “The bridge model basically gets those two structures to ‘talk with’ each other.” As a proof-of-concept of this general approach, the team trained their bridge model on a dataset curated by pairing nearly 143,000 stable atomic structures from the Materials Project with their corresponding physical properties. This training data was automatically assembled using the Materials Project’s API and deliberately enriched with properties fundamental to microelectronics design — like formation energy and bandgap — allowing MatterChat to learn the complex patterns connecting a material’s atomic blueprint to its functional performance. To validate their model, the researchers benchmarked MatterChat against a suite of other AI systems, from general-purpose LLMs to other specialized scientific AI methods. The results show that MatterChat consistently outperformed its competitors across a range of tasks. The model was more accurate in classifying material types and demonstrated superior precision in predicting numerical properties. For example, it excelled at predicting a material’s bandgap, a property critical for designing new electronics from high-capacity energy storage to next-generation computer chips. “Our design is significantly more efficient because we don’t have to build a massive AI model from the ground up,” said co-author Zhi (Jackie) Yao, a research scientist in Berkeley Lab’s AMCR. “Instead, we take two powerful, pre-trained models — a structural encoder for materials physics and an open-source LLM — and use them off-the-shelf. The only component we actually train is the lightweight ‘bridge model’ that translates between them. It’s the difference between building an entire car factory and simply designing a smart adapter that connects a world-class engine to a world-class navigation system. This approach is not only computationally efficient, but also makes the system modular, so we can easily upgrade components or adapt the bridge for other scientific domains in the future.” Crucially, this modular design highlights exactly how institutions like Berkeley Lab and the Department of Energy are carving out a highly valuable niche in the booming AI landscape. Rather than competing with Silicon Valley tech giants to build ever-larger language models from scratch, the lab is focusing on the specialized connective tissue that makes commercial AI useful for hardcore science. Because the bridge model approach underlying MatterChat is forward-compatible, it is perfectly positioned to leverage these parallel tracks of innovation. As Mahoney pointed out, “We expect that industry will continue to develop improved LLMs, and we expect domain scientists and facilities will continue to generate new data. An important part of scientific machine learning is not simply to solve problems on today’s data, but instead to develop general methods that will be forward-compatible with orders of magnitude more data, whether from scientific domains or from LLMs.” According to Yao, the MatterChat project, which was initially developed and enhanced with funding from a Berkeley Lab Laboratory Directed Research & Development (LDRD) Program, will now expand its capabilities. In a collaboration with Fermilab, MatterChat is already contributing to a U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission project — called Accelerating eXtreme Environment Specs-to-Silicon (AXESS) — that aims to speed up the development of next-generation, high-speed, radiation-hardened detectors for challenging particle physics experiments by using advanced 3D integrated circuits (chiplets) and AI-driven data analysis. In addition to the LDRD support, the team also credits supercomputing resources at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), located at Berkeley Lab, with MatterChat’s success. “We are incredibly grateful to NERSC; this research simply would not have happened without access to the Perlmutter supercomputer through their AI for Science program,” said Tang. Wenbin Xu, a NERSC postdoctoral fellow at the time, was also a major co-author of the work, as was Benjamin Erichson, a research scientist in Berkeley Lab’s SDD, highlighting the benefits of AMCR-SDD collaboration on AI for science. ### Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is committed to groundbreaking research focused on discovery science and solutions for abundant and reliable energy supplies. The lab’s expertise spans materials, chemistry, physics, biology, earth and environmental science, mathematics, and computing. Researchers from around the world rely on the lab’s world-class scientific facilities for their own pioneering research. Founded in 1931 on the belief that the biggest problems are best addressed by teams, Berkeley Lab and its scientists have been recognized with 17 Nobel Prizes. Berkeley Lab is a multiprogram national laboratory managed by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. DOE’s Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit energy.gov/science.

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May 18 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • newscenter.lbl.gov
From gaming to AI: Allied rebrands as All In FutureTech Alliance

Name change marks Allied’s shift toward AI digital infrastructure, rebranding as All In FutureTech Alliance while it seeks a Nasdaq ticker update.

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May 18 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • stocktitan.net
Is Britain becoming ungovernable?

Difficult trade-offs ahead require a leader who can ‘switch off all the noise and fixate on the real problems’

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May 18 • 8:30 AM EDT • Politics • theweek.com
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Parkinson’s Health Fair Connects Patients, Caregivers, and Future Clinicians

Student-led Midwestern University Clinics event provides hands-on support and resources

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May 18 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • midwestern.edu
Google's new gradient icons for Gmail, Calendar, Drive and more are finally rolling out

Say hello to new icons for Docs, Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Tasks, and more.

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May 18 • 7:11 AM EDT • Technology • androidcentral.com
'Truly significant': James Webb telescope reveals largest-ever map of the universe's hidden megastructures

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have created the most detailed map of the cosmic web ever.

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May 18 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • livescience.com
Free sports physicals eliminating barriers, preventing future injuries

With summer approaching, it’s time for athletes to get their yearly physical.

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May 18 • 5:50 AM EDT • Sports • wgem.com
How AI is helping space exploration now — and what the future holds

The mere mention of AI may make some people want to run for the hills, but when it comes to space exploration, it’s an important tool.

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May 18 • 5:13 AM EDT • Science • wtop.com
GTA 6 pre-orders live updates — Best Buy leak hints at major Grand Theft Auto news today

GTA 6 pre-orders could go live today

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May 18 • 2:58 AM EDT • Technology • tomsguide.com
E. coli could be used to make sunscreen

The bacteria can act as a chemical factory

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May 18 • 2:00 AM EDT • Science • theweek.com
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David Bednar Stat is Very Concerning for Yankees' Future

It's been an ugly past week or so for the New York Yankees, a very concerning sign for a team that was one of the best in Major League Baseball prior to this. Now sitting at 28-19, the Yankees are 3-7 over their last 10 games and are three games behind the first-place Tampa Bay Rays in the American League East.

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May 18 • 12:54 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Sports Sunday: Team USA women’s handball

Team USA handball and Futures Handball stopped by the Quad Cities to host a couple of developmental camps and teach more people about the sport. Hear from former Team USA Olympian Lisa Eagen and cu…

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May 18 • 12:16 AM EDT • Sports • ourquadcities.com
Sioux Falls teams’ success fueling sports scene in the city

The recent success of the city's sports scene is driving even more fan excitement and growth for future events.

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May 17 • 10:36 PM EDT • Sports • dakotanewsnow.com
Report: Gov. Landry in Greenland for business conference

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) – Governor Jeff Landry is in Greenland to attend a business conference. According to Reuters, Landry is there to ​attend the ‘Future Greenland’ business conference w...

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May 17 • 10:24 PM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
ZTE Showcases at GSMA M360 LATAM 2026, Driving Future Business Model Restructuring -- AI & Network Two-Way Integration

/PRNewswire/ -- ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a global leading provider of integrated information and communication technology solutions, participated...

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May 17 • 10:10 PM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com
Philippines to convene court for VP impeachment amid political turmoil

The Philippine Senate was due to convene as ​an impeachment court on Monday that could decide the future of Vice President Sara Duterte, with a heated ‌battle between two rival political camps set to be front and centre in the trial.

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May 17 • 9:14 PM EDT • Politics • reuters.com
Q&A: Rays CEO Ken Babby on the MOU, public investment, and why the future of Tampa Bay is bigger than baseball

Ken Babby sees the new stadium as a regional play that reaches well beyond baseball.

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May 17 • 5:30 PM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
Water Science, Community Conservation Efforts Hold Key To India’s Future: Experts

Nagpur: Padma awardees and experts said that water conservation cannot succeed through infrastructure projects alone and requires a deeper understanding of water science, grassroots participation and stronger public awareness.

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May 17 • 4:27 PM EDT • Science • timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Analysis: Wolves waiting for season of misery to end

Just one more game and then Wolves can put a truly miserable season behind them. The energy and enthusiasm that was present after back-to-back wins over Aston Villa and Liverpool a couple of months ago has well and truly gone – even the boos at full-time felt weary. Relegation was an inevitability even back then but Rob Edwards' side were at least showing something to give fans optimism for the future.

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Microsoft is rebuilding XBOX and Windows 11 while Surface collects dust

Xbox and Windows 11 are finally getting the leadership and fixes fans have asked for. Surface is still waiting for its turn.

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SpaceX Dragon capsule delivers science and supplies to space station

The cargo spacecraft docked at 6:37 a.m. EDT on Sunday (May 17).

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MRN BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: ONE Event Venue

Today on Business Spotlight brought to you by Bank of Springfield, Crissie Caccamo sits down with Garrett Riley, the new owner of ONE Event Venue, to talk about what this new ownership means for the future of the venue and to give viewers a chance to get to know Garrett a little better. ONE Event...

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‘Pressures are real’: Colleges grapple with future of Olympic sports amid football spending boom
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Conte set for showdown talks with Napoli within 10 days

Napoli are in a hurry to know Antonio Conte’s plans for the future and according to Gazzetta, the Italian tactician will meet with club owner Aurelio De Laurentiis and director Giovanni Manna within...

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The Iran War Is Crippling One of the World’s Wealthiest Nations

Iranian attacks have paralyzed Qatar’s vital gas exports and are stalling the tourism and business pivots that were intended to anchor its future growth.

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Pep Guardiola ends TNT Sports interview abruptly after Manchester City future question

Guardiola deflects question on his future with a characteristically witty “Have a lovely evening!”Man City boss insists “the future is bright” after his side beat Chelsea in the FA Cup finalCa...

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Why aren't brain transplants possible?

Lining up donor and recipient nerves for a potential brain transplant is one thing. Getting them to communicate is another.

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China unveils a giant rideable robot straight out of sci-fi movie

A Chinese robotics company has started selling a giant pilotable robot. It costs €500,000, walks on two legs, and can also smash through walls. Welcome to the future?

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Are gilt markets acting as ‘the UK’s political police’?

Bond markets smell a crisis from a potential lurch to the left in the Labour Party

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Trump sent a message by targeting Bill Cassidy. In defeat, Cassidy delivered one back

Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy wanted his reelection campaign to be about the “present and the future.” President Donald Trump had other plans. Cassidy became the first GOP senator to lose renomination in close to a decade, a remarkable downfall that shows again how Trump dominates the party. He signaled in his concession speech, without mentioning Trump, that he could spend the final months of his term being more of a thorn in Trump’s side – or at least more openly critical.

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Aaron Rodgers returning to Steelers for 2026 season

Aaron Rodgers is returning to the Pittsburgh Steelers for the 2026 season, league sources confirmed to The Athletic, giving the franchise another year with the future Hall of Fame quarterback under center. After months of uncertainty surrounding his future and speculation about retirement, Rodgers and Pittsburgh are set to run it back following a season that delivered both stability and flashes of vintage production. Rodgers arrived in Pittsburgh in 2025 on a one-year deal after a lengthy free-agency process and quickly became a central figure in the Steelers’ offense.

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Spotlight: NWA Space and Science opens office space, public astronomy library and geology collection in Rogers

Inside a modest room nestled on the second floor of the Jones Community for Nonprofits in Rogers, the future of the Northwest Arkansas Space and Science Center is taking shape.

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Inside a modest room nestled on the second floor of the Jones Community for Nonprofits in Rogers, the future of the Northwest Arkansas Space and Science Center is taking shape.

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Now What? With Carbon Pricing Eroded and Pipeline Politics Advancing, Here Are the Pathways for Climate Success

At the end of a whirlwind week of news on carbon pricing and electricity strategy, capping a madcap year of pretty much non-stop, dramatic change, the word across much of Canada’s climate and energy transition community is that climate policy in this country has been shredded. Eviscerated. Hit with a sledgehammer by policy rollbacks that have pushed the country’s 2050 net zero target “well out of reach”. That means it’s never been more important to look for the rays of hope and glimmers of possibility. To glimpse the seeds of the next set of strategies to get Canada’s climate pollution under control and the country into the accelerating global dash away from fossil fuels. And then, once we’ve spotted those possibilities, get on with the hard, day-to-day slog of trying to make them a reality. Nothing takes away from the frustration and the deep disappointment so many climate and energy hawks are expressing, the sense of betrayal by the author of Value(s) and the former UN special envoy for climate action and finance. But we knew two things as the week drew to a close. We’re looking at the world as it most definitely is. And we don’t get to give up finding the pathways to confront climate change and deliver faster, deeper carbon cuts that leave no one else behind. So really, the first question we all have to ask ourselves is: What’s next? Subscribe All the Oxygen in the Room The outpouring of anger and grief over the carbon pricing deal between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been absolutely understandable. So much of the climate community poured years, more than a decade, into dragging the current federal pricing regime across the finish line, then defending it from a deluge of three-syllable rhymes after the Trudeau government proved utterly incapable of delivering its own message. The policy foisted on us by neo-classical economists took up all the oxygen in the room, burned through years of climate response time that we won’t get back, while cornering climate hawks into the position that the best response to the crisis of our lifetimes is a new tax…in an era of historic anti-tax sentiment. I mean, really—what could possibly have gone wrong? Against that history, let’s appreciate columnist Max Fawcett’s point that even a modest carbon pricing agreement with a government as off-the-wall libertarian/conspiracist as Danielle Smith’s—those adjectives are mine, not Max’s—is a win worth savouring (as long as Smith keeps her promises for a change). But part of living in the world as it is (no, I’m not letting that go) is to be clear-headed about what we can and can’t control. And one thing we get to decide, after seeing this week’s carbon price festivities take up all the oxygen yet again, is whether we want to keep letting that happen. Particularly when success down that road depends on a factor that no one with a climate agenda can control or influence—a provincial carbon pricing mechanism that has been manipulated and eroded beyond its lowest possible denominator. Thankfully, that’s not the way it has to go. Not when we have so many other powerful, practical tools at our disposal, including the ones still available to us through this abominable Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Canada and Alberta. Tools In Our Toolbox When I started roughing out this list, I didn’t expect it to grow to nearly a dozen bullet points. It’s probably still incomplete. Some of the greatest hits in today’s climate solutions toolbox include: • No Carbon Capture, No Pipeline: On Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney explicitly stated that there’s been no change to the MOU provision that there will be no West Coast pipeline without an industry commitment to build its massive, $16.5-billion carbon capture and storage (CCUS) hub in Northern Alberta, and vice versa. The two megaprojects were joined at the hip when the MOU was signed Nov. 27, and the implementation agreement this week affirmed that they still are. A parade of independent analysts have spent years pointing to the economic and technical flaws in CCUS, while the industry kept postponing its investment decision until it could arm-twist the government for more “clarity” (by which it meant even more lavish taxpayer subsidies) on the project. Now the industry itself is running away from the CCUS hub and insisting the pipeline should proceed without it, but Carney doesn’t seem to be budging from a central tenet of the MOU to which Smith has signed on. • No Subsidies, No Investors: Climate analysts and advocates have quite rightly been hammering away at Carney and his team, insisting that any new capacity the industry wants to build must proceed without new subsidies. The government has responded with a growing collection of funding and financing mechanisms for the very wide menu of industrial development and nation-building projects they say they want to take on, and that menu always includes fossil fuel infrastructure. But it’s hard to see how even the combined fiscal clout of the federal and supportive provincial governments will deliver the financial backing private investors would need when the business case for new fossil fuel development is evaporating before their eyes. Particularly when… • No Market, No Demand, No Investors: As our friend Markham Hislop at Energi Media (our apparently sleepless friend, given the massive volume of great material he’s been churning out) points out this morning, the biggest vulnerability in any pipeline deal is the assumption that Asian buyers will want the oil or liquefied natural ga that our fossil industry is so keen to send them. Hislop writes in part: Ottawa and Alberta are effectively betting that countries like China and India will continue increasing oil imports for decades as their economies grow and energy consumption rises. That assumption underpins the entire economic rationale for expanding oil sands production and building billions of dollars in new export infrastructure. But Asian energy systems are changing rapidly… China, India, South Korea, and other major hydrocarbon importers are now investing hundreds of billions of dollars into electricity systems built around wind, solar, batteries, nuclear, hydro, and expanded transmission infrastructure. Domestic “energy sovereignty” is increasingly replacing the old energy-security model based on stable oil and gas imports. Those investments are expected to sharply slow oil demand growth and eventually reverse it, even as overall energy consumption continues rising. There are also refining constraints. Many Asian refineries and petrochemical complexes are already optimized to process discounted heavy crude from the Middle East and Latin America. That raises serious questions about how much additional Canadian bitumen Asian markets can absorb at profitable prices. Small wonder that there’s still no private sector investor for the project, despite Smith’s government desperately beating the bushes to put together a deal. For now, Alberta is acting as proponent and covering early start-up costs for a pitch to the federal Major Projects Office, which could actually turn into the next tough hurdle for Smith and her pipeline to jump. • Canada Day Looms: How ironic that Canada’s birthday this year could become a major chokepoint for the provincial premier who’s been working so diligently to tear the country apart! The July 1 target date for Alberta’s pipeline proposal is baked into the MOU, was reaffirmed by the implementation plan, but it hadn’t dawned on me that it cuts both ways. As one very smart colleague wrote in an email yesterday, “they’ve thrown the ball into Alberta’s court to get the project proposal on the table really quickly and to have to do a whole pile of work to put together a massive, complicated project that would typically take years to assemble, and they’ve given them weeks to do it.” That makes July 1 a looming deadline that Smith won’t be able to run away from politically, especially with the separatists in her party and her caucus breathing down her neck. (See previous ref to off-the-wall.) But if Alberta comes in with a sloppy, incomplete submission, even after Carney bent over backwards to simplify the application process and the rules that govern it, it may be harder for the province or the industry to blame Ottawa and insist on the faster process they claim their investors are demanding. (Oh, wait—which investors would those be??) • We’ll See You In Court (Then We’ll See You Again): If Carney did cave, that would be just one more reason for Indigenous and other affected communities to take the government and the process to court—Just as Alberta First Nations did, successfully, in response to Smith’s half-baked separation referendum. Veterans of the Harper era have been warning that a shoddy process around fossil fuel infrastructure or other major projects will be a recipe for the very delays that process seeks to avoid. And now more than ever, with renewable energy and energy storage eating fossil fuels’ lunch in import markets around the world, a delayed pipeline or LNG terminal may be as good as a cancelled one. • Charged Up, Ready to Go: With its goal of doubling Canada’s electricity supply to meet a doubling of demand by 2050, the national electricity strategy that Carney unveiled Thursday has a lot to like. With its explicit language about speeding the shift from fuels to more efficient and affordable electricity, global investment and deployment patterns that already favour that shift, an emerging bidirectional power grid, the role of front-line options like rooftop solar and heat pumps, the emergence of electric vehicles as behind-the-meter energy storage, and the domestic jobs and manufacturing to make it all happen, the document doubles down on the essential cornerstone of a faster shift off fossil fuels. The strategy envisions a more prominent role for gas and nuclear power. But some of those provisions were already in the Clean Electricity Regulations that climate hawks are now fighting so hard to defend, inserted as a compromise in a futile attempt to mollify the industry and its political representatives in Alberta and Saskatchewan. But once again, gas will be a tougher sell when it’s more expensive and now so much more unpredictable than the clean alternatives. The new nuclear technologies are still speculative and deeply vulnerable to cost overruns. Increasingly, utilities, developers, and investors know it. Carney declared Thursday that “it doesn’t do us good to be sitting in court all the time with provinces. It doesn’t do us good to be talking past each other. What does do us good is to come together with specific projects.” There are no guarantees, but so much of the language and narrative-building in the electricity strategy suggests the lion’s share of those projects will be renewable. • The Party Has Already Started: The electricity strategy only rarely digs down to specific projects, but provinces representing three-quarters of Canada’s population are already embracing a faster transition. Hydro-Québec is working on a 10-year, $185-billion renewable energy and grid buildout by 2035. Ontario recently brought 10 provinces and territories together in a National Energy Corridor Agreement to boost interprovincial and -territorial transmission infrastructure. And the MOU implementation agreement commits Alberta to facilitate investment in renewable energy projects, a big step back from its continuing, punitive restrictions on renewables development. The electricity strategy envisions much of the financing and infrastructure that will be needed to pull those advances together into an integrated whole. • Delivering on Affordability: The MOU implementation plan has little or nothing to say about affordability (are you surprised?), but the electricity strategy does, with a top-line pledge to reduce home energy costs for seven out of 10 Canadian households by 2050, a total saving of $15 billion across the board. It’s just a start, but it puts affordability on the government’s narrative map. If they’re serious and deliberate about patching together a least-cost energy strategy, it’ll have little if any room for oil, gas, or nuclear—not with powerful evidence, for example, that electricity prices are higher when those prices are set by gas. • Smith Proves that Canada Works: By signing a deal that makes it harder to claim the federal government is blocking a new pipeline, Smith has helped prove Carney’s constant anti-separatist refrain that “Canada works”—incurring the rage, no doubt, of her own political base. Canada also needs to work for anyone who depends on a clean environment, healthy and thriving ecosystems, and safe, stable climate. But with Smith and her separatist constituents setting up as a fifth column for annexation by Donald Trump’s United States, let’s set aside any notion that 51st state status for Canada is a recipe for anything other than climate disaster (and so much else). Resisting and withstanding Trump (just 170 more sleeps until mid-term elections, which is a damn sight better than the 730 we started with) doesn’t mean a free pass for a pipeline, but we can still appreciate it that keeping Canada whole and sovereign is still Carney’s Job One. • The Words Not Spoken: Apart from a commitment to export a million barrels of “low-emission” Alberta bitumen per day (memo to Smith and Carney: You realize that that’s less than the industry is already exporting??), the MOU implementation plan says nothing about the international trade and economic sovereignty deals that Carney has been travelling the world to negotiate. It didn’t have to. Carney doesn’t need permission from Danielle Smith, her American enablers, or her separatist allies to continue building the alliances that will ratchet down our economic dependency on our unstable, unreliable neighbour to the south. But every connection he builds with countries outside North America helps align our economy and our future with a faster shift off fossil fuels. Little if any of this was on our bingo cards a year or two ago. But it’s the pathway that has opened up to us. And if it gives Canada any climate or energy gains at all in an era still dominated by Trump and his increasingly ridiculous tariffs, his loutish trade negotiations and his continuing annexation threats, we have to take the wins. Not least because they’ll be the point of departure for what we can achieve in 2027, 2029, and beyond, as Trump’s grip and this era begin to loosen and then fade. What is Carney Doing? If this line of thought is right—and it’s a possibility, not a prediction—it means that Carney’s actions and decisions are largely about buying time. Time for Trump’s power to wane. Time for Alberta’s separatist/conspiracist virus to spread, mutate, die out, or at least die back, with help from a vaccine of federal steadiness and calm (appropriate enough, for a movement populated largely by vaccine deniers) that no conspiracy theory can dismiss. And time for the government’s trade and investment agenda to deliver results—even knowing that some of those results will bring impacts that front-line communities will not and should not accept. In the immediate moment, none of this changes the way the wider climate community has to respond, from campaigners to investors to front-line practitioners. All of our voices are still essential. But those voices will be stronger and more confident if we have a clearer sense of the brutal game we’ve been pulled into, and a plausible path (or two it three) for playing it to the win we need. This conversation also underscores our biggest task for the remaining years of what was supposed to be the “decisive” decade for climate response: if we can shift the energy narrative in Canada, make it a mainstream view that the country’s preoccupation with oil and gas has us falling farther behind a changing world, we’ll see far better results in the 2030s and beyond. For many veteran climate advocates, taking on that part of the fight will begin with recognizing that most of our friends and family, neighbours and colleagues already understand that climate change is real and right in front of us: they’re looking away and staying silent because they don’t have what climate communicator Katharine Hayhoe calls “efficacy”. As Hayhoe recently pointed out in a feature interview with The Energy Mix, it amounts to science denial to keep hammering away at the dire news about global warming without also helping audiences understand what they can do about it, with multiple studies telling us why that won’t work. Far better to open those conversations with the dominant crises like energy security, food security, emergency preparedness and business continuity, affordability, and financial security that have knocked climate change far lower on the list of public priorities, and will likely keep it there. We Knew This Would Happen Climate hawks have always known this day would come. For decades, we warned that everyone had to pay attention to climate change right now, because it would be much tougher to respond once the crisis itself started affecting our daily lives. We were right, and here we are. But now, thanks to decades of hard work, communities and countries have an alternative to doubling down on fossil fuels. “In 10 years everyone will have ‘always known’ that solar and batteries were going to win,” Morgan Solar Executive Chair Mike Andrade writes on LinkedIn. With the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz roiling energy priorities around the world, Canada and the United States are among the shrinking number of countries that are still very keen on fossil fuel development. Understanding that gap is a first, essential step in spotting the opportunities ahead, and averting the deep economic as well as environmental and social risk we face if we don’t seize them. Thanks for reading The Energy Mix Weekender! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work. Subscribe Mitchell Beer traces his background in renewable energy and energy efficiency back to 1977, in climate change to 1997. Now he and the rest of the Energy Mix team scan 1,200 news headlines a week to pull together The Energy Mix and The Energy Mix Weekender. Chart of the Week BYD Eyes 20 Dealership Locations After Canada Greenlights Chinese EV Imports ‘Sledgehammer’ Carbon Price Deal Boosts Emissions by 230Mt, Aims for Fall 2027 Pipeline Approval ‘Worse Than Harper’: Regulatory Rollback Would Stop Canada from Assessing Project Impacts, Critics Warn Electricity Strategy Aims for Doubling by 2050, Allows ‘Flexibility’ for Gas Power Plants Opposition Mounts as O’Leary’s Data Centre Approved in Drought-Stricken Utah Diluted Carbon Price Misses ‘Reality of the World We’re In’, Could Impede Diversified Trade: Climate Institute $200B in Clean Energy Investment Will Need On-Time Delivery, Reliable Policies, Trade Association Says ‘Sovereign Pipeline’: CEO Pitches to Keep Trans Mountain in Government Hands What a Supercharged El Niño Could Mean for Canada Canada’s future is electric, and here’s how a power grid superhighway would get us there (Toronto Star) The Perilous Waters of Hecate Strait (Globe and Mail) Saudi Aramco profits jump despite conflict in Middle East (The Guardian) Farmers confront rising cost of fertilizer and fuel as spring seeding under way (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Clarkson forecasts 24% decline in offshore oil, gas capital expenditures (Oil & Gas Journal) Pipe Dreams: How Oil and Gas Fail to Deliver Economic Development in Africa (Oil Change International) Developing countries must hold the pen to script the fossil fuel transition (Climate Home News) Iran war threatens the dream of a post-oil economy in the Gulf (Washington Post) U.S. Oil, Gas Work Force Hits Lowest Level Since 2022 (Rigzone) Why Polestar Is Doubling Down on Net Zero as Rivals Pull Back on EVs (Bloomberg) Why this Michigan utility plans to sell its hydro dams for $13 (E&E News/Politico) Levees can no longer save New Orleans (Vox)

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Console Archives dev talks release plans and goals, wants to release over 800 games

Console Archives developer Hamster has spoken further about what’s planned going forward, including how many games we could ultimately see. Satoshi Hamada, the CEO and founder of Hamster Corporation, was talking about Console Archives in a recent Famitsu interview. He mentioned how during the planning stage, the company’s goal was “to reproduce every home console and every game ever”. Hamster...

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Celebrating 50 Years Of L.A.'s Department of Consumer and Business Affairs (DCBA) ~ L.A. TACO

DCBA is marking its 50th anniversary with a yearlong celebration honoring the accomplishments that helped earn its reputation as “The People’s Department,” while also reflecting on the agency’s ongoing impact and future role in serving Los Angeles County residents.

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AI Is Forcing Businesses to Adapt. Here’s What Actually Works

Here are six ways founders can be defensive and AI-proof their revenue streams and future business growth.

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NASA’s New AI Processor Is 500x Faster Than Current Space Computers

NASA’s new AI-ready space chip could give future spacecraft a brain of their own.

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Scientists reversed memory loss by recharging the brain’s tiny engines

Researchers have shown for the first time that malfunctioning mitochondria — the cell’s energy generators — may directly cause cognitive decline in neurodegenerative diseases. By creating a new tool that temporarily boosts mitochondrial activity in the brain, scientists restored memory performance in mouse models of dementia. The discovery hints that energy failure inside neurons could happen before brain cells die, potentially offering a new target for future Alzheimer’s treatments.

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Lewandowski confirms future at Barcelona ⚠️

Polish striker Robert Lewandowski has officially confirmed his departure from FC Barcelona.After four seasons wearing the blaugrana shirt, the center-forward decided to bring his time at the Catalan c...

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Science news this week: PCOS has a new name, Neanderthals were the world's oldest dentists, and the first nuclear bomb explosion spawned an 'alien' crystal

May 16, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

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Newly discovered, blue-whale-size asteroid will fly super close to Earth Monday — and you can watch it live

Newly spotted asteroid 2026 JH2, which could be up to 115 feet wide, will fly past Earth closer than some satellites on Monday (May 18). The close approach will be visible to stargazers and can be viewed via livestream.

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Can people catch infections from plants?

Catching diseases from plants may not just be the domain of science fiction.

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Future of hockey at Bridgeport arena unclear as bidders tour facility

The Wonderland of Ice manager joined the final tour of the municipal entertainment arena for potential new operators now that Islanders hockey is off to Canada.

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Scientists discover tiny gut particles that may drive aging and chronic disease

A new study suggests microscopic particles from the gut may actively drive inflammation and chronic diseases associated with aging. Remarkably, gut particles from young animals appeared to counter some aging-related damage in older animals, hinting at new possibilities for future treatments.

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Disruption in Science: Threats and Opportunities

Cincinnati Children’s 2026 Research Symposium explored how AI, exposome science, and innovative pediatric research are reshaping discovery, workforce strategy, and the future of medicine.

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‘Shaping Connecticut’s Future’: Business leaders, lawmakers gather at SCSU for summit

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Business leaders and lawmakers from across Connecticut gathered Friday at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) for the “Shaping Connecticut’s Future…

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Axios Future of Health Summit: Maternal mortality solutions within reach, experts say

High maternal mortality in the U.S. is preventable, according to advocates, physicians, policy leaders and executives

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The movable Taskbar is back on Windows 11 — here is how to test it now

Microsoft is now testing the option to move the Taskbar to the side of your screen on Windows 11.

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Axios' Future of Health talks ACCESS, AI and regulatory environment

Clear sees health care authentication driving more long term growth than its travel business.

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Jefferson Health had a $252.6 million operating loss in the nine months ended March 31

The loss included $94.6 million in restructuring charges related to layoffs last fall and other moves designed to improve the nonprofit’s future financial performance.

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Ferrari Celebrates Twin-Turbo V8s With A Car Only One Person Can Own

The latest one-off, called HC25, is based on the F8 and is presented as a "bridge" between Ferrari's past and future.

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Congressman Cohen Announces Plan for His Political Future

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen, who has represented Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District for more than 19 years, held a press conference at his office in Washington this morning to announced that he will not be a candidate for any of the newly drawn Congressional seats carved out of the 9th. His majority-Black district was gerrymandered into three Republican-leaning districts by the state General Assembly last week.He made the following statement:

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A ‘Man With No Country,’ Cassidy Fights for Political Future

Senator Bill Cassidy, targeted by President Trump, is walking a political tightrope as he battles other Republicans for the chance to seek a third term.

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‘Each feminist advance in American public life has prompted an equally strong backlash’

Opinion, comment and editorials of the day

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BMW’s bonkers six-cylinder Vision K18 concept hints at wild future bagger plans

The Vision K18, while wild to behold, may be the Munich firm hinting at a future six-cylinder bagger model.

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A Year Ago, Experts Worried About NAEP’s Future. Now, the Test is Expanding

The results would drill down on what students know in their senior year, as well as in civics and science.

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Dallas weighs City Hall’s future as potential Mavericks sports, entertainment site

There were 418 submissions from residents, developers, architects, business leaders and others who responded to the city’s call for concepts favored repairing or restoring the Dallas City Hall.

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MBAs are on sale: Business schools slash tuition by up to 50% as workers scramble to future-proof careers against AI

Save tens of thousands of dollars on an MBA while learning AI-specific skills.

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A Conversation on the Future of the UCF College of Business

Paul Jarley, dean of the College of Business, shares his vision after the largest gift in university history positions UCF to lead the future of technology-driven business education.

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May 15 • 10:06 AM EDT • Business • ucf.edu
Marathon "overwhelming" for newcomers, director admits as plans for PvE and PvP-lite modes revealed

Game director Joe Ziegler has written a lengthy article about the future of Marathon.

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May 15 • 9:46 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
Axios Future of Health Summit: U.S. health care prices are unsustainable, leaders agree

Health care costs and how to address them dominated the conversations at Axios' second annual Future of Health Summit this week

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May 15 • 9:12 AM EDT • Health • axios.com
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Antarctica’s sudden sea ice loss is one of the most extreme and confusing events in the modern climate record. Scientists now know why it's happening.

In 2015, after decades of relative stability, Antarctica's sea ice suddenly began to disappear. Sea ice extent reached a record low in 2023, and scientists have now figured out what happened in that period.

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May 15 • 8:51 AM EDT • Science • livescience.com
Future of Sports Analytics: Building Trust and Intelligence with SūmerSports and Cisco

Cisco and SūmerSports demonstrate how on-premise AI infrastructure gives sports organizations the security and trust they need to turn proprietary data into a real competitive edge.

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May 15 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • blogs.cisco.com
Ferrari blends past and future with new HC25 supercar

Special based on F8 Spider introduces thinner headlights and vertical daytime running lights

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May 15 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • autocar.co.uk