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Apple Music's New Look is Now Live on Apple's Website

As spotted by Hidde Collee, the Apple Music page on Apple's website now has the updated branding that Apple officially introduced earlier today. Apple Music has a new black-and-white logo and app icon, with Apple doing away with the red color scheme that it previously used for the streaming music service. In a YouTube video released earlier today, Apple showed how the new Apple Music visuals were "made by sound".

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Oct 21 • 5:24 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Pope Leo won’t need additional treatment after cancer surgery

Doctors removed the lower lobe of the Chicago-born pontiff's right lung.

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Oct 21 • 5:21 PM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com
AI-powered robots can be tricked into slicing off fingers

One secret code word is all it takes.

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Oct 21 • 4:14 PM EDT • Science • popsci.com
Arizona Science Center brings back Science Skele-bration for Halloween

Arizona Science Center will explore the science behind Halloween with the return of Science Skele-bration from Saturday, Oct. 24, through Saturday, Oct. 31.

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Oct 21 • 4:00 PM EDT • Science • arizonadigitalfreepress.com
BTA Sports Expands into Prediction Markets With AI-Powered Analytics

The fourth quarter rollout pairs independent probability modeling with “Ask BTA” to help users assess sports event contractsHORSHAM, Pa., Oct. 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BTA Sports, a subscription-based sports analytics and decision-intelligence platform, today announced its expansion into sports prediction markets, bringing the data and insights used by its sports betting subscribers to users evaluating sports event contracts. The offering, available in the fourth quarter as part of Version 2

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Oct 21 • 3:31 PM EDT • Sports • finance.yahoo.com
'Nobody knows what to do': How Long COVID left Physics Girl searching for answers

San Diego's Dianna Cowern, also known as Physics Girl, was one of the internet's most popular science communicators. Long COVID left her bedbound and facing a medical mystery with life-and-death stakes.

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Oct 21 • 2:29 PM EDT • Science • kpbs.org
Science magazine’s climate plan is a wealth transfer scheme in disguise

Climate policies too often seem to be schemes to transfer wealth and power to special interest groups and spending programs.

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Oct 21 • 2:22 PM EDT • Science • aei.org
Casper mobile auto repair business puts down roots on Beverly

CASPER, Wyo. –– About a year ago, James Sullivan was employed by an oilfield contractor doing work he enjoyed. There was one problem, however: there

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Oct 21 • 1:47 PM EDT • Business • oilcity.news
Anthropic adds former Harvard science dean to oversight body

Anthropic said on Wednesday that Christopher Stubbs, former dean of science at Harvard University, had joined its oversight body, which holds the power to appoint a majority of the AI startup's board.Here are some details:

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Oct 21 • 1:35 PM EDT • Science • tradingview.com
Baba nabs $40M series A, backed by FirstMark Capital and CVS Health Ventures, for AI-powered Medicare patient navigation

Applied artificial intelligence company Baba

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Oct 21 • 1:15 PM EDT • Health • fiercehealthcare.com
Breast Cancer Awareness: Empowering Better Breast Health

Doctors encourage every women, no matter if they’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer or not, to practice better breast health to limit any complications and risk factors associated with breast cancer.

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Oct 21 • 1:01 PM EDT • Health • whsv.com
I On Politics

HUNDREDS ATTEND ADDA­BBO’S AUTUMN E-WASTE EVENT: State Senator Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. hosted his free bi-annual electronic waste recycling event on October 4, 2026, at the Forest Park Bandshell Parking Lot. The Lower East Side Ecology Center collected electronic waste including new, outdated, and broken devices. A partnership with PaintCare allowed Addabbo’s Office to

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Oct 21 • 12:26 PM EDT • Politics • qgazette.com
Preparing for cascading climate risks

Arizona communities already understand that climate hazards rarely occur in isolation. Extreme heat can drive up electricity demand, drought can increase wildfire risk, and flooding can disrupt transportation, water systems, housing and local economies. Because these systems are connected, a disruption in one can quickly threaten public health and safety.

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Oct 21 • 12:25 PM EDT • Science • news.asu.edu
Supreme Court rebuffs Trump administration restrictions on medical care for transgender inmates

The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to allow the Trump administration to immediately enforce new medical restrictions for transgender people in prison. The decision leaves in place a lower-court block on the policy.

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Oct 21 • 12:17 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
What U.S. Senate candidates Rogers, El-Sayed said about lowering health care costs in Michigan

With Election Day less than three weeks away, Michigan U.S. Senate candidates answered a series of questions in Detroit, including one on health care.

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Oct 21 • 12:09 PM EDT • Health • clickondetroit.com
2026 Bowl Projections After Week Seven

Hello everyone, and welcome back to our weekly picks of who's in the playoffs and all the bowl games. This past week was circled on calendars since the schedules were revealed, with several top-25 matchups. However, it's doubtful anyone could have predicted what we saw, where five of the top seven teams in the AP …

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Oct 21 • 12:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Week 7 Cincinnati Bengals Power Rankings Roundup

Though they didn’t play, they ended up in last place in the division.

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Oct 21 • 12:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Maryland fires Mike Locksley after 2-5 start as Terrapins become first Power Four opening

Maryland ended the Locksley era before the conclusion of his eighth season, after years of declining results

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Oct 21 • 11:22 AM EDT • Sports • cbssports.com
Morgantown native Emily Calandrelli brings science to Marvel's 'Iron Man and His Awesome Friends'

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — For Emily Calandrelli, science is a superpower — one she hopes to inspire the next generation to discover for themselves.

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Oct 21 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • wvnews.com
Three Six Zero Launches Entertainment & New Media Division Led by Rebecca Dowell

Three Six Zero announced a new Entertainment & New Media division led by Rebecca Dowell, who will represent digital creators and emerging talent including…

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Oct 21 • 10:50 AM EDT • Entertainment • broadwayworld.com
The Medical Minute: The link between obesity and breast cancer recurrence

For breast cancer survivors, managing obesity may do more than improve overall health. A Penn State Health bariatric surgeon explains how it can help lower the risk of cancer recurrence.

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Oct 21 • 10:41 AM EDT • Health • pennstatehealthnews.org
Inside Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4: The New Game-Changing Tech Powering Every Mode

Smoke, weather and animation have all seen huge upgrades.

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Oct 21 • 10:21 AM EDT • Technology • digitalfoundry.net
NEAR Rebounds After Launching A Business Wallet That’s ‘Confidential From The Market’, With XRP, Bitcoin And Solana Support

NEAR Business allowed teams to pay staff and vendors, swap assets, and allocate capital across more than 35 chains, including BTC, ETH, and SOL.

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Oct 21 • 10:01 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
ACC Football Power Rankings after week 7

That failed Hail Mary was likely Norvell’s Hail Mary to return in 2027

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Oct 21 • 10:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Orlando Health dietitian shares tips to manage Halloween candy hauls

An Orlando Health dietitian shares tips for managing Halloween candy hauls and promoting moderation in children.

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Oct 21 • 9:47 AM EDT • Health • wftv.com
More output isn’t better business: Workday’s CFO Zane Rowe on how finance chiefs should really measure AI

Zane Rowe discusses the company’s approach to AI agents, finance transformation, and measuring the impact of new technologies.

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Oct 21 • 9:21 AM EDT • Business • fortune.com
Elevance raises full-year guidance on lower medical costs

Elevance spent less premium revenue on medical care in the quarter than Wall Street anticipated.

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Oct 21 • 9:17 AM EDT • Health • modernhealthcare.com
Area Events & Entertainment Community Calendar

Oct. 22 - Lincoln County Outdoor Recreation Community Workshop (brainstorming and action planning) - 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Room 255, Lincoln County Service Center, Merrill Oct. 22 - Veterans Coffee …

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Oct 21 • 9:13 AM EDT • Entertainment • merrillfotonews.com
Kroger pledges to cut grocery prices by $5B by 2029

Kroger shoppers could soon see lower prices at checkout as the grocery giant’s new CEO looks to cut costs.

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Oct 21 • 9:11 AM EDT • Business • springfieldnewssun.com
'Glee' reboot coming to Disney+ and Hulu

Co-creator/writer Ryan Murphy (C) poses in the press room with the cast of 'Glee' with the award for best television series musical or comedy for 'Glee' at the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 17, 2010 in Beverly Hills, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)The hit TV show Glee is coming back.An all-new season of the hit series from Ryan Murphy is coming to Disney+ and Hulu, Disney announced Wednesday.No details about the cast or an official release date have been shared.The studio behind the reboot is 20th Television, which also produced the original series.Glee first aired on Fox for six seasons, from 2009 to 2015.It followed a high school glee club and starred Lea Michele, the late Cory Monteith, the late Naya Rivera, Amber Riley, Chris Colfer, Kevin McHale, Jenna Ushkowitz, Matthew Morrison, Jane Lynch and more.Murphy told ABC News last month that a script for a Glee reboot had been written, and that he is in touch with cast members about returning.“I’ve been quietly having conversations with people on that show … about, ‘What do you think? Should we?,'" Murphy said. "Maybe I shouldn’t, I don’t know. It’s fun just to try."Glee won six Primetime Emmys and several Golden Globes. It also won the GLAAD Media Award for outstanding comedy series in 2010 and 2011.All 121 original episodes of Glee are currently streaming on Hulu.The Walt Disney Co. is the parent company of ABC News, Disney+ and Hulu.Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

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Oct 21 • 8:58 AM EDT • Entertainment • willmarradio.com
The power of being local in the immigration debate

A new book from Bethany Lacina interrogates how the struggle over who counts as local shapes migration politics.

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Oct 21 • 8:47 AM EDT • Politics • rochester.edu
Three friends bring “Dr. Adams’ House of Terror” to Warrenton

Longtime Warren County friends Douglas Carter and Jason Jackson have been bringing spooky Halloween fun to the local community for the past two years, first with “Frightmare,” and last year,

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Oct 21 • 8:47 AM EDT • Entertainment • warrenrecord.com
A train was delayed by a solar storm. But something didn't add up.

Scientists have cracked a 178-year-old mystery surrounding a train delayed by a solar storm, revealing that the famous incident happened in 1848 rather than 1841. The discovery rewrites the early history of space weather and highlights a threat that still endangers modern power grids, satellites, and communication systems.

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Oct 21 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
AI-generated political ads have appeared in Pennsylvania. Are these kind of ads allowed?
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Oct 21 • 7:26 AM EDT • Politics • cbsnews.com
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AI-generated ads are on the rise in politics. Are they allowed to be used?
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Oct 21 • 7:20 AM EDT • Politics • cbsnews.com
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A Semiquincentennial of Apathy … and AI

My generation has never experienced politics untouched by algorithms. Every election I have been old enough to follow has unfolded, at least in part, on social media. From Obama’s historic victory in 2008 to Trump’s unconventional win for a second term in 2024, these campaigns showed how pol

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Oct 21 • 7:13 AM EDT • Politics • cpreview.org
Marshall faces final debate in fight for political life

In today’s issue: Marshall, Hamilton meeting in final debate Trump unveils fraud whistleblower program Big midterm spending in final weeks Backlash to controversial Ramaswamy ad Sen. Roge…

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Oct 21 • 7:08 AM EDT • Politics • thehill.com
Honda’s engine business goes from lawnmowers to jets

Honda’s reach stretches from everyday equipment to business jets, with endurance racing revealing the challenges behind dependable power.

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Oct 21 • 7:01 AM EDT • Business • kxan.com
Honda’s engine business goes from lawnmowers to jets

Honda’s reach stretches from everyday equipment to business jets, with endurance racing revealing the challenges behind dependable power.

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Oct 21 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • wavy.com
Three Six Zero Launching Entertainment Biz Under Rebecca Dowell

Three Six Zero is launching a New Media and Entertainment biz under Rebecca Dowell, rep of Amelia Dimoldenberg and Munya Chawawa.

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Oct 21 • 7:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • deadline.com
The Raptor that Didn’t Return Home: Norman Powell

It’s February 1, 2026, one week before the newly implemented formula of the 2026 All-Star Game takes place. 12-minute quarters, four games in one night, and three teams: USA Stars, USA Stripes, and Team World. The rosters became official that same day, and debates among individuals and analysts began. However, one All-Star stood out above …

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Oct 21 • 6:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE:LYV) Cut to "Strong Sell" at Zacks Research

Zacks Research lowered shares of Live Nation Entertainment from a "hold" rating to a "strong sell" rating in a research report on Monday.

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Oct 21 • 6:36 AM EDT • Entertainment • marketbeat.com
What new insurer entrants think they can do differently

New insurer entrants are promising lower costs and closer care coordination, but analysts warn becoming a health plan remains one of healthcare’s toughest plays.

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Oct 21 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • modernhealthcare.com
Steelers’ Mike McCarthy named one of best new coaches

Despite a strong start, McCarthy still ranked the lowest of the three new head coaching hires in the AFC North.

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Oct 21 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Becerra's time in Washington: Steady rise with a bumpy final ascent

In his more than 25 years in Washington, Xavier Becerra built important alliances and amassed power on Capitol Hill, but had some stumbles along the way.

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Oct 21 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
Local nonprofit empowers individuals with disabilities through pet treat business

The Ella and Bella Pet Company, a nonprofit founded by Kristine Flora, creates unique opportunities for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This innovative initiative not …

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Oct 21 • 5:49 AM EDT • Business • cbs17.com
Can James Carville Please Just Be Quietly Wrong Somewhere Else?

The omnipresent consultant-cum-tantrum-thrower has long outlived whatever relevance he once had, but cable producers, podcast hosts, and Democratic campaigns haven’t got the memo.

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Oct 21 • 5:30 AM EDT • Politics • thenation.com
‘A powerful warning’: will Europe’s angry protests lead to real political change?

Hamstrung governments seem to have no answer to the public’s furious demands, making further discontent likely

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Oct 21 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
Troy Aikman and Joe Buck: what next for the NFL’s $165m TV power couple as they head for a split?

The duo have carved out lucrative and successful careers as TV audiences elsewhere are falling. It seems they won’t be together for much longer

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Oct 21 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • theguardian.com
New Arrivals in the ER? Georgia Gears Up To Solve Rural Maternal Health Crisis

Most of Georgia’s counties are without a labor and delivery unit. To fill the gap, the state is looking to equip emergency rooms to handle obstetric emergencies. Advocates and doctors worry, however, that the ER is being used as a stopgap.

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Oct 21 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • kffhealthnews.org
“We were told…”: Why Dortmund stars fled before showering

After their narrow 2–1 win over Azerbaijani champions FK Sabah, Borussia Dortmund’s players left the Olympic Stadium in Baku without showering. The immediate departure on the BVB team bus was appa...

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Oct 21 • 4:13 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
'The New Stanford Prison Experiment' review: A project reimagined for TV

Netflix's new reality series is a mix of the 1971 social experiment that investigated power dynamics, 'Big Brother' and 'Wonka's Golden Ticket.'

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Oct 21 • 3:01 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Free Agent Centers Put Bronny James Lakers Future in Doubt

The Los Angeles Lakers cutting Dalton Knecht over Bronny James sees the current roster finalized for opening night. However, there are rumors that the team would like to add another center to have flexibility in today’s NBA. Most other teams have a noteworthy center who the Lakers will have to defend. Walker Kessler’s injury history […] The post Free Agent Centers Put Bronny James Lakers Future in Doubt appeared first on HEAVY.

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Oct 21 • 1:48 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Extratropical Cyclone Whips Past Iceland

The powerful low-pressure system formed over the North Atlantic out of the remnants of Hurricane Isaias.

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Oct 21 • 12:01 AM EDT • Science • science.nasa.gov
Prepare to be scared at Maggie Valley's ScreamFest

Ready for a frightfully fun Halloween weekend? Maggie Valley is turning up the scares with ScreamFest Friday and Saturday, Oct. 30 and 31, from noon-midnight both days, at Maggie Valley

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Oct 21 • 12:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • themountaineer.com
Chargers Now Sit Near the Bottom in Latest Power Rankings

Following yet another loss, the Los Angeles Chargers sit near the bottom of the NFL in the latest power rankings.

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Oct 20 • 11:37 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Alyson Hannigan uses real ‘Buffy’ set pieces as Halloween decorations, including iconic Spike prop

‘Buffy’ star Alyson Hannigan decorates her house for Halloween with set pieces from the show, including iconic Spike prop.

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Oct 20 • 10:42 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
How 'DWTS' Dedication Night addressed Val Chmerkovskiy's suspension

For the first time in "Dancing with the Stars" history, a pro was not allowed to dance with their celebrity partner.

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Oct 20 • 10:21 PM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
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Buccaneers Again a Bottom-5 Team in NFL Power Rankings

Tampa Bay is once again a bottom-5 team in NFL power rankings after its latest loss.

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Oct 20 • 9:38 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Dusty May Says Dwight Powell ‘Exemplified Everything’ Mavericks Want

Dusty May says Dwight Powell exemplified what the Mavericks want and believes the veteran still has “some miles in the tank.”

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Oct 20 • 9:33 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sanae Takaichi took on Japan’s male-dominated politics and won – can she survive a second year in power?

The straight-talking PM’s ability to manage Trump and stand up to China have endeared her to the public, but she may need friends closer to home to survive

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Oct 20 • 8:16 PM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
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SpaceX’s Musk Lauds Its Soaring Cloud Business and Possible Tesla Merger

SpaceX put on a bit of a show for shareholders today—and I’m not referring to the sizzle reel of rocket and space videos it showed on its earnings call. No, the big attention grabber was the update from CEO Elon Musk on the progress of SpaceX’s contemplated merger with Tesla and just how ...

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Oct 20 • 8:01 PM EDT • Business • theinformation.com
'In the race for the right reasons': Bill Clinton lends starpower to David Jolly, Gwen Graham

'They are in this race for what I believe are the right reasons.'

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Oct 20 • 8:00 PM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
A massive asteroid slammed into the North Sea and unleashed a 330-foot tsunami

A decades-long mystery beneath the North Sea has finally been solved. Scientists have confirmed that the Silverpit Crater, buried 700 meters below the seabed, was created when a 160-meter-wide asteroid struck Earth roughly 43 to 46 million years ago. The violent collision blasted a towering curtain of rock and water 1.5 kilometers into the air and triggered a tsunami more than 100 meters high.

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Oct 20 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Area school business managers recognized

BISMARCK – The North Dakota School Boards Association (NDSBA) recognized Velva School District Business Manager Skyler Helseth and Powers Lake School District Business Manager Shayna Johnson as graduates of the North Dakota School Business Managers Certification Program (NDSBMCP) during its annual convention on Oct. 8 in Bismarck. The certification program offers 20 college level courses […]

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Oct 20 • 8:00 PM EDT • Business • minotdailynews.com
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 Review: Iteration Overshadowed By Innovation

Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 8 might be the best clamshell foldable smartphone on the market for the money, but it's just not much of an upgrade over the Z Flip 7.

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Oct 20 • 8:00 PM EDT • Technology • bgr.com
Officials Work to Improve Boardman River Health

The Traverse City Downtown Development Authority (DDA) and City of TC are working on multiple fronts to improve the Lower Boardman River – including habitat and shoreline improvements, repairs to a deteriorating retaining wall, and public placemaking projects. However, one of the main challenges to the urban river’s health – its proximity to so many …

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Oct 20 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • traverseticker.com
Rule breaking by just a few people can be contagious

People are more likely to mimic — or even surpass — rule breakers than rule followers, a study finds. But real-world consequences may keep people in line.

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Oct 20 • 7:01 PM EDT • Science • sciencenews.org
Earlville Opera House plans paranormal investigations, Halloween concert

Earlville Opera House will host paranormal investigations Oct. 23-24 and a Grateful Dead tribute concert Oct. 30. Find ticket and registration details.

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Oct 20 • 7:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • romesentinel.com
Toy Story 5, Backrooms and The Breadwinner Vie to Become the Second Biggest Film This Year...

(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Often, people blame “data” for ruining Hollywood, when I’d argue that hype (which can often be debunked by data) is often worse, as you can see in these two headlines. To use a common meme, here’s how it started: and how it’s going: Earlier this year, I read countless (and I mean countless) articles (in almost every mainstream media outlet) about how Heated Rivalry was a huge hit and that it “heated” interest in hockey. But Heated Rivalry wasn’t a huge viewership hit compared to the hype: [ ](https://entertainment.substack.com/p/you-cant-eat-buzzdid-heated-rivalrys) [ You Can’t Eat Buzz…Did Heated Rivalry’s Buzz Translate into Actual Viewership? ](https://entertainment.substack.com/p/you-cant-eat-buzzdid-heated-rivalrys) Entertainment Strategy Guy · Jan 22 [ Read full story ](https://entertainment.substack.com/p/you-cant-eat-buzzdid-heated-rivalrys) In this case, the hype (Heated Rivalry is really popular) belied the data (It didn’t make the top ten charts, meaning it wasn’t a huge hit.1) Even worse, every time I write about this, I get a lot of negative feedback, hence why I only sparingly mention the show these days or add lots of caveats when I write about it, but this just further cements the hype. But companies, and the executives leading them, have to determine strategy based on reality, not media coverage. The NHL committed real marketing dollars to a campaign that didn’t work. Sure enough, the latest NHL season opened to under a million viewers. At some point, you have to focus on what the data says, because real dollars are at stake. And that’s why we have the Streaming Ratings Report! To provide and analyze cold, hard data. Luckily, this week, I can be positive and take a look at a huge opening on streaming, along with a very buzzy horror film that customers kind of like, but don’t really love. And a comedy that tried to rebound on streaming. Today, I’m covering two weeks—21-Sep and 28-Sep—so we have a lot to discuss (nearly 5,000 words worth), including a series of film misses for Netflix, another argument for weekly-released TV shows on streaming, another sitcom tries to avoid the comedy curse, Netflix has two new game shows (one powered by AI), Reacher falling off the charts after a huge run, Prime Video tries its hands at the romcom game**,** a look at the WNBA’s big season, a big night for the VMAs on CBS and MTV, all the flops, bombs and misses, and a whole lot more. (Reminder: The streaming ratings report focuses on the U.S. market and compiles data from Nielsen’s weekly top ten viewership ranks, Luminate’s Top Ten Data, JustWatch and Reelgood interest data, Samba TV household viewership, company datecdotes, Netflix hours viewed data, Google Trends, and IMDb to determine the most popular content. While most data points are current, Nielsen’s data covers the weeks of September 14th to October 4th, 2026. You can find a link to my terminology here.) Subscribe Film - Two Hits and a Miss Come to Streaming… Three very interesting films came to streaming in one week, and I like comparing them since they show the range of theatrical films. One was a huge blockbuster, one was popular, and one was neither. One is a horror film, a buzzy genre; one is a comedy, a struggling genre; and one is an animated family film, the king of the box office. One went to a tiny streamer (HBO Max), one went to a second-tier streamer (Disney+), and one went to the biggest (Netflix). So… If you just went by box office, you’d expect Backrooms—the $197 million grosser, and partner of Obsession for “YouTube Horror Summer”—to dominate on streaming. If you read this report, though, you know that horror films don’t do great on streaming, and that’s the case again. Backrooms opened at 3.8 million hours according to Nielsen, and had 3.9 million hours in its second week. Here’s how that stacks up to other HBO Max films: We’re just getting started with this issue, but the rest is for paid subscribers of the Entertainment Strategy Guy, so if you’d like to find out… ...why I don’t buy Backrooms budget… …two new games shows arrive on streaming… …another sitcom struggles… ...another argument for putting out shows weekly on Netflix... ...and a whole lot more, nearly 5,000 words more... ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support. If you want an idea of just how much content you’d get in a full issue, check out this older issue. Coming Soon! Next week, I’ll be taking a look at the eighth season of Hulu’s The Kardashians, answering the question: will this show ever make the charts? If Mormon wives can make it, surely one of social media’s most popular families can as well. Also, Prime Video has a new horror show based on popular IP, Carrie, Netflix has a horror show starring Josh Hartnett, Below, and Apple TV has a UK import, Small Prophets. Plus a bunch of movies like Disclosure Day heading to Peacock, The Housemaid coming to HBO Max, Ben Affleck’s latest on Apple TV, Animals, and Matchbox the Movie on Apple TV, a John Cena action comedy inspired by Hasbro’s toy cars. The week after is even busier! I’ll look at another IP-based horror show, Crystal Lake, a new MCU show on Disney+, VisionQuest, season two of The Lowdown on FX/Hulu, the fourth seasons of The Diplomat on Netflix and Tulsa King on Paramount+, another season of Love is Blind, and four straight-to-streaming films: Netflix’s Sacrifice (starring Chris Evens, Anya-Taylor-Joy, Vincent Cassel, John Malkovich, Salma Hayek. Charlie XCX), Apple TV’s Tenzing (starring Tom Hiddleston and Willem Defoe), Prime Video’s Love of Your Life (Margaret Qualley) and Masterplan (Stanley Tucci) and a whole lot more, somehow. Long term, here’s some huge IP news: a Game of Thrones movie is coming to theaters, Game of Thrones: Aegon’s Conquest in 2029, while Jon Watts (who helmed three of the most recent Spider-Man movies) is directing the next Star Wars trilogy, to be written by Simon Kinberg. I’m cautiously optimistic for both. It feels obvious to say that making good movies matters, but for bets this big (Star Wars is on a swoon, Game of Thrones hasn’t been to theaters yet), the quality has to be there.

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Oct 20 • 6:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • entertainment.substack.com
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The Academy Museum opens 'The Horror Show' exhibit

The exhibit includes film favorites like “Halloween,” “The Exorcist” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street”

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Oct 20 • 6:25 PM EDT • Entertainment • spectrumnews1.com
The Hollywood Reporter Power Business Managers Event to Honor Michael Ullman, Feature Conversations With David Kramer and Lisa Callif

Sugar Ray Leonard will present THR’s Business Manager Icon Award to Ullman, CEO of Platinum Financial Management, at the 16th annual event.

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Oct 20 • 6:22 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
THR Power Business Managers Event to Honor Michael Ullman

Sugar Ray Leonard will present THR’s Business Manager Icon Award to Ullman, CEO of Platinum Financial Management, at the 16th annual event.

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THR Power Business Managers Event to Honor Michael Ullman

Sugar Ray Leonard will present THR’s Business Manager Icon Award to Ullman, CEO of Platinum Financial Management, at the 16th annual event.

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Gravity & Other Myths Bringing Acrobatics Show to Eisenhower Auditorium

An Australian physical theater troupe will bring a performance built around acrobatics, repetition and the pursuit of mastery to Penn State next

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Oct 20 • 5:48 PM EDT • Entertainment • statecollege.com
SpaceX turns a profit after a string of losses as its satellite and computer leasing businesses soar

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

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Oct 20 • 4:49 PM EDT • Business • clickondetroit.com
When I was 8 years old, Carl Sagan showed me the universe I want you to see

I have always tried to pattern my interactions with my program audiences like Carl might have done. Every chance I get to do that is one more opportunity I have to spark someone else’s interest in science.

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Oct 20 • 4:36 PM EDT • Science • adlerplanetarium.org
SpaceX earnings soar past expectations as AI business surges

Elon Musk's company is one of the most powerful companies in the AI economy.

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Oct 20 • 4:34 PM EDT • Business • axios.com
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Steelers Week 7 power rankings roundup: Starting to believe yet?

Pittsburgh Steelers Week 7 power rankings roundup.

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Oct 20 • 4:27 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Trump to rally in North Carolina, even as GOP pulls its money

Michael Whatley, the state’s Republican Senate candidate, owes his nomination to Trump; the president continues to invest time, if not cash, on his behalf.

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Oct 20 • 4:07 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Halloween fun with a slice of science

Halloween can be many things: spooky, enchanting, fun, creative, mysterious and…scientific? That last word is what Walking Mountains Science Center hopes to bring to light when kids and families attend Fright at the Museum on...

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Munson After Dark Halloween Event Oct. 31

Munson After Dark is bringing Halloween festivities to downtown Utica with a night of music, dancing, costumes and cocktails.

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Oct 20 • 3:04 PM EDT • Entertainment • wktv.com
Idealab’s Bill Gross thinks AI could help launch 1 million new businesses, making up for any job losses it causes

The Idealab CEO thinks AI-powered entrepreneurship could compensate for any job losses AI causes

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Oct 20 • 3:01 PM EDT • Business • fortune.com
Riots leave France divided and shadowed by debt as Macron enters his final run

The tensions are festering in the street but also in a presidential race that will determine Emmanuel Macron’s successor.

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Oct 20 • 2:49 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Phillies Mentioned as Possible Landing Spot for Teruaki Sato

The Philadelphia Phillies could look to add a power hitter to the lineup.

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Oct 20 • 2:49 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Has Lowered Expectations for Flutter Entertainment (NYSE:FLUT) Stock Price

JPMorgan Chase & Co. decreased their price target on Flutter Entertainment from $114.00 to $110.00 and set a "neutral" rating on the stock in a research note on Tuesday.

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Oct 20 • 2:42 PM EDT • Entertainment • marketbeat.com
Amazon buys billions in Nvidia AI GPU racks, then waits for power

AWS is ordering billions in Nvidia AI racks early and staging some in warehouses while data centers await power.

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Oct 20 • 2:29 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Businesses Report Flat Summer Tourism Despite Inflation, Smoke and Airport Runway Closure

In August, when an active wildfire season in the Pacific Northwest choked the Flathead Valley in a dome of smoke, Glacier Guides and Montana Raft owner Denny Gignoux started getting cancellation requests and noticed lower demand for rafting and hiking trips at his outfitting business. While the smoky skies deterred some visitors from traveling altogether, […]

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PENN Entertainment (NASDAQ:PENN) Stock Price Target Lowered at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. lowered their price objective on shares of PENN Entertainment from $27.00 to $24.00 and set an "overweight" rating on the stock in a research report on Tuesday.

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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.

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The big questions about who’s to blame for Starshield disruptions in Ukraine

So, who slowed down a crucial satellite communications system used by Ukraine, making the country more vulnerable to Russian attacks in recent days?

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Oct 20 • 1:20 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Nintendo announces Halloween 2026 sale for Switch 2 and Switch

Nintendo just started a new Halloween 2026 sale for Switch 2 and Switch, and here's the full list of deals.

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Oct 20 • 12:38 PM EDT • Technology • nintendoeverything.com
Powerhouse UCSB team awarded big grant to investigate mathematical foundations of AI

Researchers Nina Miolane, Haewon Jeong, Sanjuka Krishnagopal and Yao Qin win $1 million from NSF for their collaborative investigation

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Ice Cream Shop Owner Brought Her Kids to Work. Then the Health Department Arrived

“I’m sick of people acting like kids don’t belong,” the Michigan business owner tells TODAY.com.

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Oct 20 • 12:21 PM EDT • Health • today.com
UC Davis Experts Share Worries, Hopes for 2026 Midterm Elections

The 2026 U.S. midterm election is among the most contentious elections ever without a candidate running for president. This year voters will determine the balance of power in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, potentially reshaping the nation’s political landscape.

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Oct 20 • 12:20 PM EDT • Politics • ucdavis.edu
Pirates Learn Projected Price Tag for Potential Target Seiya Suzuki

The Pittsburgh Pirates need to add another power bat this offseason.

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Oct 20 • 12:18 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Almost iconic? Political violence and the making of symbolic figures in Brazil’s 2018 elections by Katherine Jensen

Ethnic and Racial Studies ABSTRACT Confederate memorialization is not limited to the United States. After the Civil War, thousands of former Confederates emigrated to Brazil where slavery continued. Santa Bárbara d’Oeste and Americana, in São Paulo State, long celebrated this Confederate heritage. Local memory politics, however, have become unsettled. This article examines local Black movement …

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Oct 20 • 12:14 PM EDT • Politics • sociology.wisc.edu
AMD and Microsoft Bring FSR 4.1 to Xbox Series X|S, FSR Diamond Teased for Project Helix

AMD and Microsoft have confirmed that FSR Upscaling 4.1 is coming to the Xbox Series X and Series S. The news came in an AMD video presentation led by Jack Huynh, joined by Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet and ASUS. The ROG Xbox Ally handhelds are getting it too, and it looks like they will be first in...

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Oct 20 • 12:10 PM EDT • Technology • techpowerup.com
Mice cause ‘imminent health hazard closure’ at Westminster movie theater

AMC Westminster Promenade 24 was reinspected on Monday and allowed to reopen, Jefferson County Public Health records show.

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Oct 20 • 11:39 AM EDT • Health • denverpost.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.

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