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Mac Studio With M5 Ultra Now Available With 512GB RAM for $22,299
Starting today, the Mac Studio with the M5 Ultra chip can be configured with 512GB of RAM, with U.S. pricing starting at $22,299. Apple promised this option would be coming in late October, and it is now available right on schedule. Apple promised this option would be coming in late October, and it is now available right on schedule.
Alaska's governor orders investigation after NYT report on alleged Dem-linked Senate election scheme
Following a New York Times report on an alleged Democrat-linked scheme involving the state's U.S. Senate contest, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a Republican, ordered an investigation.
Ken Paxton's planned Alamo campaign stop raises questions about political activity at historic site
The Alamo's rules prohibit political gatherings on its grounds, raising questions about a planned Nov. 2 campaign stop by Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton that is no longer listed on his public schedule.
Tired of old politicians? Vote.
Since Trump’s first presidency in 2016, no U.S. president has been younger than 70-years-old This current Congress is the third oldest in U.S. history; 24 members are over the age of 80. Age is a serious variable when it comes to someone’s ability to complete a job in any field, especially politics. Our country has...
International fugitive sentenced for one of the largest health care fraud schemes in U.S. history
A man whom federal prosecutors called the architect of one of the largest health care fraud schemes in U.S. history was sentenced Monday.
Bolsonaro arrives in Miami with his family after fleeing Brazil
Flávio Bolsonaro landed in the U.S. on Wednesday after fleeing Brazil, threatening to add new strains to relations between Brasilia and Washington and raising questions about his family’s future as
Employers urged to rethink hiring practices
Iowa employers facing a shrinking pool of available workers will need to look beyond traditional recruiting practices, invest more heavily in developing talent and find new ways to retain experienced employees as retirements accelerate in the coming years, workforce experts said during the Business Record’s recent Jobs Outlook panel discussion. The challenges are significant. U.S.…
Alexandria defense contractor to lay off 65 employees
DCS plans to permanently lay off 65 employees at Fort Belvoir in December after the U.S. Army selected another contractor.
U.S. Dept. of Labor finds that $600,000+ in overtime pay owed to Indy-area vehicle parts manufacturer
INDIANAPOLIS — More than $600,000 in back wages was collected for 829 workers at an Indianapolis-area vehicle parts manufacturer, according to officials with the U.S. Department of Labor. A n…
How much money is spent on U.S. elections? The numbers are staggering
Americans spent $14.8 billion on federal elections in 2024. In the first episode of Follow the Money, we ask USC students to guess the cost of elections and speak with experts from OpenSecrets to understand how political spending has grown, where the money goes and why campaigns cost so much.
AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Pennsylvania on Election Day
In Pennsylvania, three races for U.S. House seats currently held by Republicans are being closely watched for their potential to turn blue. In those three key races, President Donald Trump
Global trading is mixed as worries about AI-related issues grow
Global trading is mixed as worries about the future of artificial intelligence grow after Alphabet’s stock drop dragged on U.S. markets. Shares rose in France and Britain early Friday but
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez vs. John Braun: Two styles of lawmaking
U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and state Sen. John Braun face off in Washington's 3rd, bringing contrasting styles of lawmaking, coalition-building and problem-solving to a tight race.
Your Weekly Michigan Political Brief
State Rep. Sean McCann (D-Kalamazoo), who is seeking to unseat U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga in Michigan’s 4th Congressional District, has been endorsed by six former Republican members of Congress, including former U.S. Senator Gordon Humphrey (R-New Hampshire) and former U.S. Reps. Jim Greenwood (R-Pennsylvania), Claudine Schneider (R-Rhode Island), Chris Shays (R-Connecticut), Peter Smith (R-Vermont), and Steve […]
The Latest: Trump pushing to keep red-state Senate seats in GOP hands
President Donald Trump told Texans they’d better accept data centers in their communities and floated making Venezuela the 51st state as he stumped for Republican Ken Paxton, while Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico said a “corruption crisis” plagues U.S. politics
Wendy’s and IHOP Face Buyout Bids. Going Private Is Easy, Fixing a Business Is Hard.
Private-equity firms are targeting struggling U.S. restaurant chains to revive them away from public-market scrutiny.
WBEZ’s Weekly News Recap, Oct. 30, 2026: Election Day preview, new Bears stadium proposal revealed, and more
As Election Day nears, Gov. Pritzker invests millions of dollars in out-of-state candidates. Here in Illinois, U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros sets up a hotline so voters can report possible fraud and voter intimidation.
How Katie Lee channeled a chaotic coming of age into a business empire
Katie Lee is a success, by any metric. She has four bustling Katie’s restaurants to her name in St. Louis and a line of packaged goods—jarred sauces and pasta bakes and frozen pizzas—selling at retailers across the U.S. She also boasts 500 employees and a brand synonymous with Italian chic. Keep up with local business […]
U.S. WEED CHANNEL Appoints E! Entertainment Co-Founder Larry Namer as Global Strategy Advisor
USWC Group, Inc., operator of U.S. WEED CHANNEL (USWC), has appointed Larry Namer, co-founder of E! Entertainment Television, as global... Read More
Monterey Data Conference Looks to Future of Computing in Science
Leaders from the national laboratories, academia, and industry gathered in Monterey, California August 24–27 for the 2026 Monterey Data Conference, sharing expertise on HPC, quantum, AI, and the future of computing for science. Oct. 28, 2026 — Initiated in 2019 and now in its sixth year, the Monterey Data Conference brings together researchers from U.S. Department […]
American Express Connects Cash Back to High Yield Savings Accounts and Business Checking Accounts
NEW YORK, October 29, 2026--Today, American Express introduced a new way for eligible U.S. Consumer and Business Cash Back Card Members to redeem rewards for a deposit into eligible American Express bank accounts, creating a more integrated experience across their Card and banking products and giving customers more options in how to redeem the rewards they earn.
Great Lakes Sports & Entertainment Network to air MSU Hockey game Saturday
No. 4 Michigan State will play No. 8 North Dakota on Saturday night in the 2026 U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game in Austin, Texas, and there’s a new way to watch.
Top U.S. Health Official Backed a Medication Policy Shift That Benefited a Company She Has Stock In
Alicia Jackson endorsed a key FDA policy change on hormone replacement therapies while holding at least $115,000 in stock in a company providing access to menopause treatments. Ethics experts called her endorsement an “obvious conflict of interest.”
Editorial: State police powers don’t eclipse the Bill of Rights
The midterm elections have largely overshadowed the U.S. Supreme Court’s most recent term, which began this month. Last week, the justices missed a prime opportunity to invigorate the Fifth Amendment’s
The Latest: Trump Pushing to Keep Red-State Senate Seats in GOP Hands
President Donald Trump told Texans they'd better accept data centers in their communities and floated making Venezuela the 51st state as he stumped for Republican Ken Paxton, while Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico said a “corruption crisis” plagues U.S. politics. Social media videos ...
The Bolsonaro clan is still strong in Brazilian politics despite Flávio's defeat and flight to U.S.
Flávio Bolsonaro has left Brazil for the United States after losing the presidential runoff
International fugitive sentenced for one of the largest health care fraud schemes in U.S. history
A man whom federal prosecutors called the architect of one of the largest health care fraud schemes in U.S. history was sentenced Monday.
English rugby wants U.S. money. Its women’s team are leading the sales pitch
A game against USA Eagles in New Jersey has deeper implications for a sport that wants to capitalise on its Stateside momentum
The Fast-Cash Advances Draining America’s Small Businesses | The 10-Point for October 30
Plus, Ukraine pauses strikes on Russian refineries after pressure from the U.S., and Binance probes what may be the biggest-ever crypto heist.
SC business leaders at Florence conference discuss battle against poverty amidst rapid growth
South Carolina had the most population growth in the U.S. in 2025, but many families struggle with poverty. Business leaders came together in Florence to plan for progress.
Bolsonaro saga deepens after Argentina says he left for Ecuador
Flávio Bolsonaro entered and left Argentina Tuesday evening, Argentine migration authorities said, countering media reports that he’d already reached the U.S. and deepening questions about the whereabouts of the defeated
Marsh Netherlands appoints new chief
U.S. firm Marsh McLennan Companies Inc. has appointedKristof De Bremme as chief executive officer of Marsh Netherlands, succeeding David Sanderse, who will become chairman of the Netherlands business…
King tides inundate streets and flood homes and businesses along both US coasts
King tides have inundated parts of both U.S. coasts
Political analysts shift Spartz-Ford race to the left ahead of Election Day
The change is the latest sign that U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz, who won reelection by 18 points last cycle, may not have as swift a route to victory.
Ken Paxton's political rise, from the Tea Party to Trump's MAGA movement
Ken Paxton built a loyal conservative following long before Donald Trump entered politics. That support has helped him survive scandals, criminal charges and impeachment. Now he's counting on it to help him win a competitive U.S. Senate race.
International fugitive sentenced for one of the largest health care fraud schemes in U.S. history
A man whom federal prosecutors called the architect of one of the largest health care fraud schemes in U.S. history was sentenced Monday.
Apple Releases Redesigned Mac Chargers and 'World Travel Adapter Kit'
Apple today began selling updated versions of its 70W Power Adapter, 140W Power Adapter, and Power Adapter Extension Cable, all with a new "AC Connector 2". The updated power adapters and extension cable are available on Apple's online store in the U.S. and many other countries around the world. Apple also released an updated version of its World Travel Adapter Kit that had disappeared from its online store in 2025, with U.S. pricing set at $39.
Ken Paxton’s political rise, from the Tea Party to Trump’s MAGA movement
Ken Paxton built a loyal conservative following long before Donald Trump entered politics. That support has helped him survive scandals, criminal charges and impeachment. Now he's counting on it to help him win a competitive U.S. Senate race.
Bucyrus business owner pleads guilty to role in obtaining nearly $900,000 in pandemic funds
BUCYRUS – A 56-year-old man has pleaded guilty in federal court to devising a scheme to obtain pandemic government stimulus funds meant to assist small businesses, which he instead used for his personal benefit, according to a press release issued Friday by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio. Jeffrey Skinner, […]
Pope Leo XIV Just Made American Political History From the Vatican
Pope Leo XIV made U.S. political history by voting in the upcoming midterm elections from the Vatican. The Chicago-born pontiff, who remains an American citizen, submitted a mail-in ballot in Illinois...
Disaster loans available for small businesses, nonprofits, residents affected by Sept. storms
The U.S. Small Business Administration announced the availability of low-interest federal disaster loans for Indiana small businesses, private nonprofits, and residents affected by severe storms and flooding on Sept. 17.
Corning’s American Tradition of Knowledge in Materials Science
Founded in 1851 in upstate New York, where it remains, Corning is a manufacturer of specialized glass that has a market capitalization of over $100 billion as of October 2026 (GLW), annual revenues approaching $20 billion, and nearly 70,000 employees worldwide.1 Corning is the world’s leading manufacturer of touchscreen glass, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of optical fiber for long-distance telecommunication, the leading U.S. manufacturer of polysilicon for solar panels, and one of two suppliers of glass for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photomasks needed to make the world’s most powerful chips with ASML machines. Optical fiber is also increasingly crucial to expand the computational capacity of AI data centers with optical networking. Corning is a rare jewel of the American Industrial Revolution that has not just remained competitive to the present day but repeatedly enabled technological transformations: it developed the glass for Thomas Edison’s first light bulbs in the 1880s, invented optical fiber cable in the 1970s, and developed the “Gorilla Glass” touchscreens for Apple’s iPhones that kicked off the global smartphone revolution in the 2000s. Corning’s leading tradition of knowledge in materials science has allowed it to stave off successive waves of competition over the decades from Europe, Japan, and now China.
Gallup: Economy, Health Care and Iran Top Voter Concerns Ahead of Midterms
The economy, healthcare, and the war in Iran rank highest in importance to U.S. voters ahead of this week's midterms, according to the latest Gallup poll. With the election five days away, voter responses reflect pushback against President Donald Trump's economic platform and foreign policy agenda.
Iran sentences acclaimed film director Jafar Panahi to new prison term after his return home
Iran has sentenced acclaimed film director Jafar Panahi to five years and one month in prison, following his return to the country earlier this year, after the start of U.S. and Israeli attacks on the Islamic Republic | Talk 1370
Mapping birth control access: Dataset captures 12-year state policy trends
Explore how state laws on birth control mandates, 12-month prescription refills and pharmacist prescribing vary across the U.S. in a post-Dobbs landscape.
United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America
The labor union representing workers in auto, aircraft and agricultural implement manufacturing and other industries in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico.
Trump cheers Canadian provincial election wins, but analysts say they're no rebuke of Carney
U.S. President Donald Trump is facing criticism for celebrating election wins by a Quebec separatist and a British Columbia Conservative
Alaska's governor orders a probe into Peltola's Senate campaign over spoiler candidate controversy
Republican Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has ordered an investigation into Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola's campaign.
U.S. economy grew at a fast clip in 3rd quarter, thanks to consumer spending
The economy grew at an annual rate of 3.4 percent.
Federal financial assistance now available to businesses impacted by BWCAW closures and wildfires
Several months after closures in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and surrounding wildfire impacts disrupted businesses across northeastern Minnesota, some are still dealing with the summer’s financial fallout. This week, Cook County officials announced that small businesses and nonprofit organizations that experienced financial impacts can now access federal financial assistance through the U.S. Small...
Nearly 30% of US adults admit to lying about or exaggerating their symptoms to get antibiotics from doctors, survey finds
In two new surveys, U.S. adults report lying to their doctors and their children's doctors about symptoms in hopes of being prescribed antibiotics.
Leo XIV has become the first pope in history to vote in a U.S. general election
Leo XIV has become the first pope to vote in a U.S. general election, casting a mail-in ballot in a contest that will decide America's future as the Trump era slowly comes to an end.
E! Entertainment Co-Founder Larry Namer Named Global Strategy Advisor to U.S. WEED CHANNEL
USWC GROUP, INC. U.S. WEED CHANNEL (USWC) today announced the appointment of Larry Namer, co-founder of E! Entertainment Television, as Global Strategy Advisor.
A Blackburn governor win could trigger a domino effect in Tennessee politics. UT expert breaks down possibilities
Republican nominee Marsha Blackburn’s race for governor means her U.S. Senate seat may need filling; a University of Tennessee expert outlines what could happen if she wins.
DEA approvals could bring big tax benefits for medical marijuana businesses
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has for the first time issued registrations to medical marijuana businesses. It is a bureaucratic maneuver under President Donald Trump’s historic rescheduling of the drug that could pave the way for the dispensaries to receive tax benefits long denied the...
HYDRINITY Accelerated Skin Science Announces Expansion into Spain Through Strategic Partnership with UniSthetic
HYDRINITY Accelerated Skin Science, the fastest-growing professional skincare brand in the U.S., announces its expansion into Spain through a strategic partnership with UniSthetic, a leading provider in the country's professional aesthetics and skincare industry. This partnership marks another significant milestone in HYDRINITY's continued global growth, introducing its portfolio of clinically backed, advanced regenerative skincare solutions to one of Europe's most established medical aesthetics
The Key: Politics in Research a Danger to Innovation
Since the Bayh-Dole Act passed in 1980, the commercialization of federally funded research has contributed trillions of dollars to the American economy and made possible the launch of tens of thousands of start-ups, according to the Bayh-Dole Coalition. Inventions like Google’s search engine, tests for cervical cancer, lithium car battery recycling and high-definition video and audio are all products of the Bayh-Dole system. U.S.
‘Political manipulation’: Trump admin alleges Chinese ‘biotech companies of concerns’ use ‘forced labor’ to source materials, barring imports
The latest trade actions precede an expected meeting next month between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump.
Intuit (INTU): Exiting Amid AI-Driven Business Model Uncertainty
Matrix Asset Advisors, an asset management company, released its Q3 2026 investor letter. The letter can be downloaded here. U.S. equities increased by 2.30% in Q3 and 12.75% year-to-date through September 30, despite challenges including volatility, high oil prices, inflation, and elevated interest rates. The Federal Reserve’s short-term rates rose to 3.75%–4.00%, with the 10-year […]
Global Health & WASH
The US National Institutes of Health reopened its center and program-project machinery in force. NIGMS is funding Collaborative Program Grants for interdisciplinary teams, NIAID opened both its Immune Tolerance Network and a next-generation R&D call, the NCI runs its Carcinogen Hazard Assessment Monographs program, the National Library of Medicine is funding institutional training in biomedical AI and data science, and NIH reopened its Centers for AIDS Research. The tell: these pay for standing centers and multi-year consortia at institutions with an existing funded research base, not one-off projects, so the fit is an established US research institution, not a single investigator. Disease-specific foundations are again funding the researcher, not just the research. The Parkinson’s Foundation opened its Paul Oreffice Innovations in Care Award and the National Ataxia Foundation its Research Seed Money Grant. The tell, the same one we flagged last cycle, is a named early-career or seed award that builds a pipeline of scientists committed to one condition, so what wins is a researcher willing to specialize. The post-USAID global-health money is routing through a State Department program statement and multilateral innovation funds. The US Department of State’s Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy opened its Advancing Global Health Annual Program Statement, Grand Challenges Canada opened Nexa Lighthouse for climate and health innovation in Asia and the Pacific at USD $250,000 to $2,000,000, and CEPI opened a rolling call on vaccine-manufacturing analytics. The tell: the largest health money this cycle sits in a standing program statement and in staged innovation vehicles, not in a single bilateral grant. Total Estimated Funding Pool: ~$35.4M across discrete grants. (Separately, large national-formula envelopes not counted in this total: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy (GHSD).) This post is for paid subscribers. This helps support the time and effort it takes to curate and organize these opportunities. Subscribe To keep this accessible to everyone who needs it, we’re happy to offer pay what you can rates. You can find more details here. New opportunities: Paul Oreffice Innovations in Care Award, Parkinson’s Foundation. *New!* *Closing soon!* The Parkinson’s Foundation created the Paul Oreffice Innovations in Care Award to fund clinicians rethinking how people with Parkinson’s disease receive care. The Foundation is using pilot funding to move promising ideas into testable projects, backing work across four lanes: strengthening community clinician capability, redesigning care models, building patient-centered technologies, and defining the minimum clinical datasets that make better standards possible. It wants hypothesis-driven, clinically grounded projects that can generate evidence strong enough to attract further funding. By opening the door to clinicians at every career stage and strongly preferring projects that involve people with Parkinson’s in their design, the Foundation signals that it values practical, patient-shaped innovation over prestige. The strongest fits are US-licensed clinicians with a focus on Parkinson’s and an institutional home for applied care research. Geographies: united states. Who can apply: Clinicians of all career stages, from fellows to established faculty, who are licensed to care for patients in the United States and have a significant focus on Parkinson’s disease. Physicians must have completed a neurology residency (or justify how their training pathway benefits people with PD); allied health professionals must hold an advanced degree, typically a PhD. Fellows, those in mentored positions, and those within two years of starting an independent position require a mentor and a mentor support letter. The sponsoring institution’s grants office is the authorized recipient and funds are disbursed to the institution. Funding amount: Maximum of $200,000 over two years; up to three awards. Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Innovation; Science & Technology. Deadline: November 1, 2026. Learn more and apply here. Design and Deliver the Next EIT Health Bootcamps, EIT Health. *New!* *Closing soon!* EIT Health is opening its call for consortia to design and deliver the next generation of its health start-up bootcamps, funding the curriculum, masterclasses, mentoring, and investor engagement that turn early health ventures into fundable companies. The organization is using these learning paths to strengthen Europe’s health innovation pipeline across digital health evidence, deep tech and AI commercialization, cross-border investment, and patient access. What EIT Health wants to back is not a single course but durable delivery capacity built by partners who span industry, education, and research. Requiring multi-country consortia and a revenue-sharing stake in the programs signals that EIT Health expects these bootcamps to outlast the grant. The strongest fits are established training providers, universities, and industry partners with proven reach into health entrepreneurs. Geographies: Europe. Who can apply: Consortia only (individuals cannot apply), comprising a minimum of two and a maximum of five independent legal entities. Partners must cover at least two sides of the Knowledge Triangle (industry, education, research), including at least one industry organisation, and at least two entities must be legally established in different Horizon Europe countries. Funding amount: Foundational Learning Path: up to EUR €112,000; Thematic Learning Paths: up to EUR €124,500 per path (up to four thematic projects); up to EUR €610,000 total EIT Health funding available under the call. Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Innovation; Science & Technology; Economic Development & Livelihoods. Deadline: November 2, 2026. Learn more and apply here. Technology Transfer Offices & Entrepreneurship Support Call (Beyond the Lab: From Research to Venture), EIT Health. *New!* *Closing soon!* EIT Health is opening its Technology Transfer Offices and Entrepreneurship Support Call to fund consortia that will deliver the Beyond the Lab: From Research to Venture program for healthcare researchers. EIT Health is using the grant to build local capacity for turning laboratory science into incorporated start-ups, paying experienced technology transfer offices and entrepreneurship support providers to run masterclasses, structured mentoring, and a closing Pitch Day across two cohorts. It wants to back organizations that can walk researchers from discovery to company formation, not just teach theory. Requiring two transfer offices plus one venture-building provider signals that EIT Health values proven commercialization experience alongside academic reach. The strongest fits are European research-commercialization teams with a track record of moving health innovations toward investable ventures. Geographies: Europe. Who can apply: A consortium of two Technology Transfer Offices (representing higher education institutions or research organisations) and one Entrepreneurship Support Provider with demonstrated experience in venture building and start-up support. Applicants may apply for more than one learning path where they can demonstrate the required expertise and capacity for each. Funding amount: Up to EUR €77,000 in 2027 and up to EUR €77,000 in 2028 (up to EUR €154,000 total per consortium over two years). Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Innovation; Science & Technology; Economic Development & Livelihoods. Deadline: November 2, 2026. Learn more and apply here. EIT Health RIS Country Representatives Call (2027-2028), EIT Health. *New!* *Closing soon!* EIT Health is seeking organizations to serve as Country Representatives across eleven Regional Innovation Scheme countries in central and eastern Europe for the 2027 to 2028 period. The money funds a national anchor in each country, an organization that maps the local health innovation ecosystem, connects startups and researchers to EIT Health programs, and builds the stakeholder relationships that let health ventures grow. EIT Health is backing local capacity rather than individual projects, which is why it accepts both single organizations and national consortia that span education, research, and industry. The requirement for co-financing signals that it wants representatives already embedded in their national systems. The strongest fits are established ecosystem builders with deep ties to health innovation stakeholders in one eligible country. Geographies: Croatia; Czech Republic; Estonia; Greece; Hungary; Latvia; Malta; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia; Turkey. Who can apply: Registered legal entities established in one of the eligible EIT RIS countries. Single organisations or national consortia may apply. Consortia must include at least two sides of the Knowledge Triangle (education, research and industry), and all consortium partners must be established in the same eligible country. Suitable applicants have demonstrated experience in healthcare innovation ecosystem development, innovation support and entrepreneurship, start-up acceleration, technology transfer, research and higher education, business support, and stakeholder engagement, with strong links to national innovation stakeholders. Funding amount: Up to EUR €182,000 per Country Representative (maximum funding per project); total call budget up to EUR €1,274,500; EIT Health funds up to 60% of total eligible project costs. Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Innovation; Science & Technology; Economic Development & Livelihoods. Deadline: November 2, 2026. Learn more and apply here. Architects of Trust: Community-Driven Demand Creation for New TB Vaccines, Treatment Action Group (TAG). *New!* *Closing soon!* Treatment Action Group, with funding from Wellcome, is opening its Architects of Trust call to help communities prepare for the new tuberculosis vaccines now moving through late-stage trials. The money backs civil society and community-based organizations to raise awareness, surface local questions and concerns, and press policymakers toward equitable national rollout. By pairing each grantee with an advocacy mentor and running a strategy workshop alongside the Global TB Vaccine Forum, Treatment Action Group is building a durable advocacy bench rather than funding one-off outreach. The two-stage design, starting with a short expression of interest, signals that fit and community rootedness matter more than polished proposals. The strongest fits are locally trusted groups with real TB, immunization, or health advocacy experience and a committed project lead. Geographies: Brazil; Ethiopia; India; Indonesia; Kenya; Malawi; Mozambique; Nigeria; Peru; Philippines; South Africa; Tanzania; Vietnam; Zambia. Who can apply: National, subnational, or regional civil society organizations (CSOs) or community-based organizations based in one of the 14 eligible countries or in Eastern Europe/Central Asia regional networks, with experience in TB, immunization, or other health advocacy and in community engagement or policy advocacy; well integrated into stakeholder networks with membership or affiliation to other CSO or community networks; naming a dedicated project lead (’architect of trust’) who can attend the April 2027 Zaragoza forum in person; and holding (or committing to adopt) organizational policies on safeguarding (bullying, harassment, abuse, and harm), equity, diversity and inclusion, and legal compliance, research practice and governance. Funding amount: Grants of up to US$45,000 will be awarded to 8 CSO partners across 14 high-TB-burden countries plus regional networks in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; each grant funds 12 months of work. Targeted Sectors / SDGs: Health; Governance; Policy & Advocacy. Deadline: November 4, 2026. Learn more and apply here.
Study pinpoints states with steepest warming trends since 1980
A new MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy study pinpoints U.S. states with the steepest warming trends from 1980 to 2022, indicating where climate adaptation measures are needed most.
AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Kansas on Election Day
Kansas Democrats are looking to Methodist megachurch pastor Adam Hamilton to pull off what no one from their party has done since 1932: win one of the state’s U.S. Senate
DEA Refuses To Approve Marijuana Businesses In States That Allow Dual Medical And Recreational Licensing
While the Department of Justice announced on Friday that it has given federal registration and protections to more than 900 medical cannabis businesses across the U.S., it is also refusing to extend such approvals to cannabis operators in certain states. According to an order DEA officials sent to a marijuana business in Minnesota, the agency […]
Survey: 51% of US shoppers boycotted companies over politics
More U.S. shoppers are boycotting companies over politics, while many want greater transparency into corporate donations and positions.
Small Business Administration loan program available to WV residents affected by August flood
West Virginians affected by severe storms and flooding in August still have time to apply for federal assistance through the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Disaster Recovery.
Nominations open for SBA’s 2027 National Small Business Week awards
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — West Virginia’s small businesses could soon earn national recognition as nominations are now open for the 2027 National Small Business Week awards. The U.S. Sm…
Apple Avoids Showing Pinched Fingers on iPad Mini Page in South Korea
In the U.S. and most other countries, Apple's website shows the new iPad mini being held by pinched fingers, but this is not the case in South Korea. The new iPad mini shown with pinched fingers on Apple's website in the U.S. On its South Korean website, Apple simply shows an image of the iPad mini on its own.
Brazilian political drama unfolds as defeated Flavio Bolsonaro arrives in Miami
Defeated presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro and his family have arrived in the U.S. after Brazilian authorities ordered him to surrender his passport. He is facing multiple investigations in Brazil.
Small Business Administration loan program available to WV residents affected by August flood
West Virginians affected by severe storms and flooding in August still have time to apply for federal assistance through the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Disaster Recovery.
ACA premiums are going up again. See what it means for you.
The Post analyzed insurers’ finalized and proposed 2027 rate increases across the U.S. See what costs will look like where you live.
A golden age of science is coming
It’s almost hard to remember, but just a few years ago, a lot of very smart people thought that science was in terminal decline. Respected researchers were writing papers with titles like “Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?”, “Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time”, and “Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science”. In 1996, science writer John Horgan even published a book called The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The Scientific Age. The fundamental idea was that the Universe only has so many insights to discover, and that we’ve picked the low-hanging fruit. It was the idea that Joseph-Louis Lagrange expressed when he said that “we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.” As the big ideas and the simple ideas get mined out, we’re forced to throw ever more brains at the mysteries of nature just to keep scientific progress going at a fraction of its old pace: It looked like science was hitting a wall. Then along came AI. It’s far too early to tell how much AI will eventually speed up the growth of total factor productivity. But already we can see signs of a speedup in science. Anthropic Founder Jack Clark assembled some of the hopeful data points in a recent lecture: [ Dror Poleg@drorpoleg "If you pick different parts of science, you see the same pattern show up: Progress is accelerating, and it has started to accelerate in the last two years." Jack Clark @jackclarkSF I’m speaking at the IMF in an hour about the singularity and why I believe it has begun and the choices we'll need to make. Watch live here: https://t.co/Hj9HzcXx5h 6:08 PM · Oct 18, 2026 · 21.2K Views 2 Replies · 10 Reposts · 123 Likes ](https://x.com/drorpoleg/status/2111882070376980529) Anthropic is accelerating its investment into drug discovery, and is already announcing some impressive preliminary results: [ BioTender@Junioryu136689 BREAKING: Anthropic unveils early results from six Claude-powered drug development collaborations. • 70% shorter CAR-T signaling domain • ~35,000 antibody designs • >10× tighter antibody binding • 89% less batch-record review time Still largely preclinical. Anthropic @AnthropicAI Over the past few months, Anthropic scientists have engaged in deep research partnerships with six organizations developing new medicines. We've also begun drug discovery efforts of our own. In doing so, we’ve learned much more about how Claude can support the many stages of 9:43 PM · Oct 27, 2026 · 11.2K Views 3 Replies · 24 Reposts · 205 Likes ](https://x.com/Junioryu136689/status/2115197821150495150) Claude also appears to be enabling rapid progress toward a treatment for food allergies. OpenAI, meanwhile, announced a possible breakthrough treatment for neurodegenerative disease. Meanwhile, Google Cloud Chief Scientist Pushmeet Kohli has a list of recent scientific advances that have been enabled by its new Gemini model, including breakthroughs in nuclear fusion reactor design, rare disease research, and quantum computing: [ Pushmeet Kohli@pushmeet Gemini 4 Argon is a step change in model performance. In recent weeks, it has had a transformative impact on the Science projects in our team at @GoogleDeepMind and our external collaborators, and helped make a number of remarkable advances across scientific disciplines. 🧵👇 4:47 PM · Oct 13, 2026 · 36.5K Views 8 Replies · 41 Reposts · 497 Likes ](https://x.com/pushmeet/status/2110049807385702623) But as cool as these stories sound, they’re just very minor, preliminary efforts. There are a number of reasons to think that AI is going to propel us into a golden age of scientific discovery. That age might not last forever — AI might still run into diminishing returns eventually. But the next few decades are probably going to be an absolutely amazing time for human science. The number of “effective researchers” is no longer limited The most important input into science is scientists themselves. Until this year, that meant human brains — talented, highly trained human brains. The number of trained human brains could be increased by sending more people to grad school, but only to a point — the smartest people tend to be sent into the hardest research fields first, and if you 10x the number of researchers, the average quality will go down. This constraint was already starting to bite, as Ekerdt and Wu argued in 2024: We argue that a substantial portion of the downward historical trend in U.S. research productivity is a composition effect resulting from self-selection in researcher ability and the dramatic expansion of the research sector…[W]e find that this composition effect has lowered average researcher ability by between 37% and 53%[.] And of course, low fertility was making the problem worse, because fewer children meant fewer people who were able to become future scientists. AI just blows up this constraint completely. If an AI agent can function as an autonomous researcher, there’s no constraint on the number of researchers in the world — you can just build more of them, by building more computer chips and data centers that enable the running of more AI agents. Whether or not massive hordes of agents can collaborate to solve individual problems much faster, increasing the number of agents allows them to tackle many different research questions in parallel. What’s more, these AI “researchers” can be trained incredibly quickly compared to human beings. A human scientist takes decades to train, and more years to reach the frontier of their research field by diligent reading and conversation. This is the “burden of knowledge”, and it’s commonly believed to be one reason ideas have been getting harder to find — by the time human scientists can get up to speed, they’re often so old that their ideas are no longer novel. AI just annihilates this constraint — it can assimilate the entire literature and reach the frontier of research extremely quickly, and it can also tell human scientists where the frontier lies without forcing them to discover that for themselves. It can also pivot to new research directions more easily than humans can. And there’s also a self-reinforcing economic cycle here. Because scientific advances enable higher GDP, they enable more resources to be invested into the creation of yet more electronic “scientists”. Now that doesn’t mean the amount of scientific research goes to infinity — there may still be some essential bottleneck task that human researchers are still needed to perform. There are some indications that AI’s progress on open-ended conceptual research tasks is slower than in other dimensions, and it may be that humans are still needed to provide some of this long-term conceptual thinking. I’d bet against this being true for much longer, but it might be true for a long time. Even in this most “pessimistic” case, though, the amount of effective capital that scientists can use to leverage their work just went up by a lot. AI eliminates the theory bottleneck Science proceeds by an iterative process of theory and experiment. The theory part of that cycle is typically short, but non-trivial — it took a couple of years after the blackbody radiation spectrum was observed for Max Planck to come up with the quantum hypothesis to explain it, and decades longer before quantum theory as we now know it was created. It took about a year for Watson and Crick to figure out the shape of DNA after the requisite data was gathered. AI will basically eliminate the theory bottleneck entirely — or at least shorten the turnaround time between experiment and theory by an order of magnitude. AI is an absolute beast at math. Recently, an OpenAI model solved some of the most important open problems in computer science, math, and theoretical physics, and no one even batted an eyebrow because that sort of triumph is becoming increasingly commonplace. One of those solutions was a proof that the Standard Model of Particle Physics could be mathematically well-defined — a problem that human theorists had so far been unable to tackle. Not all research relies equally on theory, but understanding novel experimental results almost always involves some important component of either mathematical or spatial reasoning. That part of the task has now been made much, much faster. And on top of that, science is now open to a greater number of humans who aren’t naturally good at theorizing. AI can read the whole literature Much of the work of human scientists involves reading and understanding endless amounts of papers and going to endless conferences and seminars. The purpose of that work is to understand the existing scientific literature. Understanding the literature allows scientists to do the following things: Come up with new ideas for hypotheses to test Avoid doing research that someone else has already done Synthesize approaches from different areas or fields AI can reduce this effort to almost zero. Consider this excerpt from OpenAI’s blog post about their new research into neurodegenerative disease: The team divided the analysis among thousands of AI agents powered by GPT‑Rosalind, an approach we call distributed biological reasoning. The agents examined a whole-brain CRISPR atlas…a dataset showing how gene disruptions affect different types of cells across the mouse brain. Each agent investigated a gene disruption, analyzed cellular responses, searched scientific literature, and proposed explanations for the results. Their reports were combined into a reasoning atlas linking genes, cellular effects, relevant publications, and possible biological mechanisms. The research team estimated that comparable human analysis and literature review, conducted one perturbation at a time, would take months to a year. The agents reproduced findings from human analyses while uncovering additional leads. Their assessments of novelty and scientific value also aligned with judgments from blinded human experts. These findings help prioritize further experiments needed to test the proposed biological mechanisms. Some of these insights point to new leads for understanding brain disease. [emphasis mine] This is one case in which parallel work by a large number of agents really does make a huge difference: [ Haider.@haider1 this is actually insane openai deployed thousands of GPT-Rosalind agents to analyze millions of mouse brain cells in 32 minutes, work that could take human researchers months to a year also the agents uncovered new leads for brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's OpenAI @OpenAI GPT-Rosalind surfaced a new lead for drug discovery: could restoring cholesterol transport protect neurons from degeneration? DCTN1 is a gene linked to Perry syndrome, a rare neurodegenerative disorder. In mouse-brain data, disrupting it increased expression of genes involved in 2:41 PM · Oct 21, 2026 · 51.5K Views 26 Replies · 95 Reposts · 1.26K Likes ](https://x.com/haider1/status/2112917197903540516) Not only does instantaneous literature review vastly speed up the research process, but it allows AI to make novel conceptual leaps from combining approaches from wildly different fields of research. AI regularly does this in math research, combining results, approaches, and theorems from far-flung places that no human mathematician would have thought to combine. It can do it in science, too. Much of scientific innovation, historically, has been “recombinant” innovation — scientists applying insights from one field to another. With AI, essentially all research is now cross-disciplinary — AI can read not just the literature on a particular subject, but the literature on a million other subjects that might have produced useful techniques or insights for the problem at hand. Superscience So far, all of the factors I’ve listed are ways that AI can speed up science as it’s already done. I’ve basically described how AI can send gigantic hordes of superhumanly fast, superhumanly well-read, superhumanly mathematically gifted researchers to re-accelerate scientific discovery. But it’s also possible that AI will enable types of discovery — and ways of understanding the natural world — that no network of humans, no matter how large or how brilliant it was or how long it had to work, would ever be able to discover. In a post back in July, I wrote about how that might work: What if there are lots of…aspects of the Universe that [are] too complex to understand in terms of simple laws, but not so complex that they just dissolve into unknowable chaos? It’s possible that we can reliably control these complex phenomena with AI, even if we never reduce them to the kind of principles that we can teach a grad student in a textbook… Another way of saying this is that there may be laws of the universe that humans can’t understand but AI can. I call these “cloud laws” — causal regularities that can be exploited by technology, but which are too diffuse and complex for an individual human being to either intuit or communicate… Perhaps social sciences like economics, sociology, and political science obey similarly complex regularities, and AI can help us find them. Perhaps there are physical processes — plasma, or topological materials, or aerial turbulence, etc. — that obey cloud laws instead of chaos?… [H]uman collaboration is bottlenecked — it’s limited by our ability to intuit patterns at an individual level, and to communicate these patterns from one individual to another. AI, being a computer, just doesn’t have this sort of limitation; it can work with vast, diffuse patterns without having to break them into pieces or simplify them in order to compress them into the tiny pipelines of person-to-person explanation… If much of the Universe turns out to be ruled by cloud laws, we could be on the precipice of a scientific renaissance. In order to discover cloud laws, AI will need huge amounts of data about the natural world. AI figured out human speech by assimilating essentially all of the text humans have ever written. If it’s going to figure out hidden patterns in biology, neuroscience, materials science, etc., it’s going to need similarly massive amounts of data from physical instruments. That data will be far, far more than humans — individually or collectively — would be able to parse, label, characterize, or model. But AI was built to do this. If scientists simply build huge arrays of sensors to measure complex phenomena like the brain, the cell, the economy, etc., they may be able to feed this flood of data to AI directly and bypass human cognitive intermediation entirely. AI would then learn about the world directly, and it might learn things that humans never could. This “superscience”, if you want to call it that, would actually go beyond the kind of science humans have done heretofore. Many of the technologies it yielded would be beyond human comprehension — indistinguishable from magic. But to the AIs, they would make perfect scientific sense. In any case, it seems clear that the scientific slowdown that threatened human progress will now be delayed — at least for a while. Unless humans have somehow found most of the actual exploitable regularities in our Universe, we’re about to enter a new golden age of science. Subscribe Share
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