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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. 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Job gains were concentrated in leisure and hospitality (+700), private education and health services (+400) and other services (+300). Job losses for that annual period were reported in the areas of trade, transportation and utilities (-1,500); professional and business services (-1,000); financial activities (-500); mining, logging and construction (-300); manufacturing (-200); and information (-100). The public sector job count rose over 12 months, with most growth concentrated in education, the state Department of Labor reported. Looking ahead, the Central New York economy is expected to benefit from both the Micron and I-81 viaduct projects over a period of several years. Initial job growth is foreseen in construction and computer and electronic manufacturing. Spin-off jobs will be created in the areas of professional and business services, health care and education, the state Department of Labor said in an email response to Oswego County Business magazine. “Population growth tied to the buildout of Micron Technology semiconductor complex in Clay is also expected to bring more workers and residents to the region, increasing demand for transportation services,” the agency said. New York Department of Labor highlighted current or projected job growth trends in various sectors. An increase in defense-related contracts at local high-tech employers has continued to support employment growth in the computer and electronic product manufacturing sector and Micron is expected to generate thousands of direct and indirect jobs as the project progresses. This sector paid an annual average wage of $117,500 in 2025 and employment in the sector is projected to grow by over 60% through 2032, making it the fastest-growing industry in the region. Typical occupations in this industry include electrical, electronic and electromechanical assemblers, software developers and industrial engineers, the state agency reported. Specialty trade contractors include several different types of tradespeople — electricians, plumbers, pipefitters and steamfitters and HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) mechanics and installers. Many of these positions are trained through apprenticeships, the state Department of Labor reported. The Interstate 81 construction project is generating local jobs, including construction laborers, projected to grow at a 6.4% rate, and operating engineers and other construction equipment operators, projected to grow at a 7.3% rate over the next several years. Construction of the Micron Technology facility is also “creating thousands of job opportunities that will continue over the next two decades,” the state agency reported. The specialty trade contractors sector paid an annual average wage of $86,200 in 2025. For Central New York, the challenge isn’t creating jobs, it’s filling them. Amy Stage, a deputy director at the Manufacturers Association of Central New York (MACNY), said meeting this unprecedented growth is a much larger task than just replacing retirees. “We’re seeing workforce gaps at every experience level,” she said. “Companies need entry-level employees, experienced technicians, supervisors, engineers and skilled trades professionals. The opportunity is tremendous, but we need more people entering these career pathways.” Employers are looking for people who can troubleshoot, read technical information, use computers and learn new processes, not just perform repetitive production work, Stage said. To address this demand, the MACNY created the Manufacturers Talent Institute, which aims to connect students and job seekers with meaningful career pathways while helping employers build their workforce. Twenty-one companies have so far signed up to provide opportunities for more than 800 students. “For us, the conversation isn’t just about filling jobs,” Stage said. “It’s about creating sustainable pathways that help people see a future for themselves in manufacturing.” Several manufacturing facilities in the region are in the midst of expansion: • TTM Technologies, a leading U.S. manufacturer of advanced electronics and interconnect solutions for aerospace, defense and high-technology markets, which has a plant in DeWitt, completed its buildout of an additional facility, adding 400 jobs and expanding production of high-tech circuit boards for defense and critical electronics applications. • In Cortlandville, the Byrne Hollow Crossing Plant, a dairy manufacturing and processing facility, is increasing its operations, creating 100 new jobs. • The Chobani yogurt company is building a 1.4-million square foot dairy processing facility in Oneida County. This will create more than 1,000 good-paying jobs and double Chobani’s New York state workforce, Stage said. Stage noted several ways that local, state and federal governments can help spur manufacturing job growth in this region. Elected leaders and public agencies could work with industry representatives to create pre-apprenticeship and registered apprenticeship programs seeking to upskill workers and improve employee retention. New York state has a variety of grants, tax incentives and financing programs to support site preparation, infrastructure, workforce development and capital investment. The U.S. Department of Labor has a pay-for-performance incentive program that provides employers $3,500 per new apprentice hired and retained for 90 days. MACNY was previously awarded an $87,000 federal grant that will cover 25 apprentices at nine companies. The manufacturing skills gap in the United States, at its current rate, could result in 2.1 million unfilled jobs by 2030, according to a study by Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute. In New York state, that gap is on pace to exceed 100,000 unfilled positions within six years. Manufacturing companies will be counting on more women to help fill that gap. While women make up half of the overall U.S. workforce, they only account for 29% of the manufacturing workforce in this country, Stage said. “Pre-apprenticeship programs like Real Life Rosies help to bring awareness to the manufacturing industry to fill some of the gaps, but we have a long way to go and it starts with educating people at younger ages about careers in manufacturing and earn-and-learn opportunities,” she said. As for Micron, that $100 billion-plus project, considered the largest private investment in New York state history, is expected to eventually create up to 50,000 jobs throughout the region, factoring in the spin-off opportunities for construction and supply chains. The plant’s foundation was poured on July 9. “As America celebrates its 250th anniversary, data and memory are foundational to the modern economy — and Micron is increasing our U.S. investments to more than $250 billion through 2035 to meet that moment,” the company’s president and CEO, Sanjay Mehrotra, said in a news release. Bechtel, Micon’s construction partner in the project, reported that 4,500 people will be employed to help build the facility, including skilled craft professionals, local union members representing various trades and apprentices. The Syracuse-based CenterState CEO organization tallies the regional labor force at 397,582 workers (Onondaga, Cayuga, Cortland, Madison and Oswego counties). Job growth isn’t limited to the Central New York region. For the larger area covering portions of the Mohawk Valley, the North Country, the Southern tier, and the western part of the state, there are 155,601 employees in the advanced manufacturing sector, and 155,275 construction workers. The agency’s 2026 Economic Forecast report noted that 41% of community and business leaders surveyed said a shortage of skilled workers in this area remains a problem, though 77% shared a positive economic outlook for the year ahead. Beyond the semiconductor and advanced manufacturing areas, local business leaders also see growth in small manufacturing companies, storage businesses, housing, unmanned flight technology and general construction. “Productive reuse of property,” the report said, “will hopefully continue to preserve unique architecture while driving business.” The report identified several challenges for economic growth in the region, including an aging workforce, outdated equipment, the rising cost of raw materials and “the disconnect between the speed of business needs and the pace of talent readiness.”

Oct 14 • 8:23 AM EDT • Business • oswegocountybusiness.com

Robin Divine’s Journey in healthcare leadership

For Robin Divine, a career in healthcare was never far from home. “I grew up around healthcare,” Divine said. As the daughter of a pediatrician in Albuquerque, Divine spent summers working in her father’s office, gaining an early appreciation for the...

Oct 14 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • news.unm.edu

Boosting children's mental health

Signs and symptoms of when you should consult your pediatrician or a mental health counselor.

Oct 14 • 7:18 AM EDT • Health • wbay.com

What to know about childhood vaccines this year: A Q&A with a trusted pediatrician.

We provide resources for parents, and answers about vaccines and vaccine hesitancy from Goldsboro Pediatrics’ David Tayloe III.

Oct 14 • 4:35 AM EDT • Health • northcarolinahealthnews.org

New definition of obesity looks beyond BMI and considers health impacts

Murdoch Children's Research Insitute pediatrician Dr. Danielle Longmore discusses a new global childhood obesity definition from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute that looks beyond BMI to include health impacts.

Oct 13 • 10:14 AM EDT • Health • foxnews.com

I never wanted to join my family business. Now I'm its CEO.

Tricia Wallwork initially pursued law instead of her family's business. She later joined Milo's Tea and became its third-generation CEO.

Oct 12 • 7:42 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

U.S. Health Secretary Kennedy's plan to study vaccine injuries comes under fire from Maine physicians

Dr. Laura Blaisdell says the U.S. already has systems that monitor and track vaccine safety. She said Kennedy should work with medical experts and pediatricians to restore, not dismantle public trust.

Oct 11 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • mainepublic.org

This pediatrician never thought he’d see measles. Now, he treats it every day.

HERSHEY, Pa. — When Evan Shirey learned about the measles virus, it was through medical textbooks and hypotheticals. He never thought it would become...

Oct 9 • 4:00 AM EDT • Health • post-gazette.com

I’m a pediatrician in Michigan, and here’s what I’ve learned about how medical schools can improve community health

In medicine, poverty is often screened for, documented and then ignored as a “social” issue outside the scope of medicine.

Oct 8 • 12:36 AM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com

Pediatricians renew call to ban raw milk as anti-science rhetoric reigns

In renewed policy, pediatricians review the benefits of heating milk to kill germs.

Oct 7 • 2:24 PM EDT • Science • arstechnica.com

Pixar exhibit brings movie magic to Frost Science

Discover The Science Behind Pixar at Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science in Miami — interactive exhibits that explain animation, rigging, simulations and STEM.

Oct 6 • 6:27 PM EDT • Science • miamiherald.com

HOMETOWN HEALTH: Pediatricians warn raw milk can increase risk of life threatening infections

The AAP says the risk is even greater for young children and pregnant women.

Oct 6 • 9:22 AM EDT • Health • wdbj7.com

Teen Corner: Minnesota’s new K-12 health standards

For the first time, Minnesota has statewide K-12 health education standards, covering everything from mental health and nutrition to sexual health and substance use. In another Teen Corner, pediatrician Dr. Maddie Gagnon from Gillette Children’s and founder of Pulse Parenting joins us to break down what’s changing and what it could mean for kids and parents.

Oct 5 • 4:51 PM EDT • Health • fox9.com

Childhood Housing Assistance Linked to Better Health Decades Later, Children's Mercy Study Finds

A child’s home may shape their health well into adulthood. New research led by Dr. Jeffrey D. Colvin, pediatrician, health services researcher and principal investigator at Children’s Mercy found that children who receive housing assistance are significantly less likely to develop diabetes and high blood pressure, also known as hypertension,...

Oct 5 • 4:05 PM EDT • Health • news.childrensmercy.org

Tracking health misinformation helps pediatricians provide targeted patient education

Pediatric clinicians can learn useful information by tracking the health misinformation that their patients encounter, according to research presented during the American Academy of Pediatrics 2026 National Conference & Exhibition Oct. 2-6, 2026, at the San Diego Convention Center.

Oct 5 • 8:36 AM EDT • Health • news-medical.net

State House candidates talk class size, vouchers, mental health in education forum

Candidates for three Tennessee House seats addressed voters at a candidate forum hosted by Clarksville Voices for Education this week.

Oct 2 • 7:00 PM EDT • Health • clarksvillenow.com

Bishop’s computer science chair says AI is eliminating ‘grunt work’ and reshaping digital jobs

Dr. Russell Butler, chair of Bishop’s University’s Department of Computer Science, says artificial intelligence is increasingly taking over routine digital “grunt work,” changing the skills students and workers may need in the years ahead. Photo courtesy of Bishop’s University. Click here to read our platform! Get local news like this every morning. Subscribe free below. Subscribe Pulse Newsroom Artificial intelligence is already taking over some of the routine digital work once performed by entry-level employees, according to Bishop’s University Computer Science chair Dr. Russell Butler — a shift he believes will make expertise, judgement and the ability to evaluate AI-generated work increasingly important. Butler described the change as automation reaching what he calls the “bottom of the cognitive pyramid” during an interview with The Pulse about AI, university education and the future of digital work. His argument is not that humans are disappearing from the workplace. Instead, he sees their role changing as AI becomes capable of handling more of the repetitive tasks involved in computer-based work. “Everything’s converging on just AI basically doing all the grunt work,” Butler said. The bottom of the cognitive pyramid Butler is from Lennoxville, completed his undergraduate studies at Bishop’s and later earned his PhD at the Université de Sherbrooke. He joined Bishop’s in 2019 and now chairs its Department of Computer Science. He uses AI in research, teaching and other creative work, and said the technology is increasingly capable of handling routine digital tasks that once required substantial human time. “You’ve got the grunt work, like moving things around in Excel, doing basic programming tasks,” Butler said. “That’s like the bottom grunt work that the entry-level worker would have done two or three years ago.” Butler went further, saying in his view that much of this type of work has already been absorbed by AI tools. He connected that change to a shift he sees taking place in computer science, where entry-level roles have declined while experienced workers can use AI to increase what they can produce. “A senior developer now has access to essentially an unlimited amount of junior developers on demand,” Butler said. He was describing AI systems metaphorically, not literal employees. His point was that one experienced developer can now ask AI tools to produce code or other technical work that might previously have been assigned to more junior workers. That raises a broader question for universities and employers. If some of the simpler work traditionally given to newcomers can now be done by machines, how do people gain the experience needed to become senior workers themselves? Students doing work that once required years of programming Butler said he is already seeing the change inside his classroom. He created a Bishop’s course called CS208, Coding in Plain English, to show students — including those without traditional programming backgrounds — what they can accomplish using AI. Some come from disciplines such as psychology or neuroscience with no previous programming experience. “What I’m finding is that students who have zero programming experience, they come in from another discipline like psychology or neuroscience or something, they are now able to get up and running with real data sets,” Butler said. Butler’s own doctoral work involved neuroimaging, and he said he has assigned students work he considers comparable to the kinds of analysis he performed during his PhD. He described giving students a real dataset, an expected result and instructions to use AI to complete the analysis. Butler said those students have been able to carry out work at a level he associates with tasks he once performed after years of programming experience. That does not mean a student using AI instantly acquires the same knowledge as an experienced computer scientist. But Butler sees it as evidence that AI can dramatically lower the technical barrier between having a problem to solve and producing a working result. The role of the person using the system then changes. They need to know what to ask for, understand enough about the subject to judge the answer and take responsibility for what is ultimately produced. What about AI hallucinations? One persistent concern surrounding generative AI is hallucination — when a system produces information that sounds convincing but is false or unsupported. Butler said that problem has improved substantially in newer systems and is not as severe as it was with earlier models. He pointed in particular to newer AI systems’ ability to search the web, consult scientific databases and return source links rather than simply generating a citation from their internal model. Butler nevertheless said users should verify what AI produces. “You should verify,” he said while discussing citations generated with AI. His position is that hallucinations have become less common in the systems he uses, not that incorrect AI output is impossible. Human checking remains part of the process. Hours of work compressed Butler offered another example from his administrative work at Bishop’s. The university has been comparing CEGEP courses with first-year Bishop’s courses to determine where students may qualify for advanced standing. Traditionally, Butler said, that means reviewing two sets of course descriptions and manually matching one institution’s courses with another’s. As department chair, that could require hours of reading and comparison. He said AI can now be given both sets of material and asked to generate an initial mapping automatically. “It saves me hours and hours of work,” Butler said. Butler said the AI-generated mapping can also produce a better result than he would produce himself. He sees similar opportunities in businesses. A company may receive specifications, drawings, emails or other digital material from customers and then have employees convert that information into an internal format before anything can be manufactured or delivered. AI can increasingly perform parts of that intermediate processing. In Butler’s view, the employee does not necessarily disappear. Instead, the job becomes more about checking the result. “The human is still there,” he said. Judgement could become more valuable That change is central to Butler’s view of where digital work may be headed. If AI can produce a first draft, write basic code, compare documents or process large amounts of information, he argues that knowledge and judgement become increasingly important. “The real scarce resource going forward is going to be domain knowledge, expertise, and… credentials, authority, the ability to work with other people,” Butler said. He is therefore encouraging students not only to learn AI tools but also to broaden their education. He mentioned acting, fine art and photography as examples of courses that can help develop what he described as taste and intuition — the ability to recognize what is good, what is not and what should be changed. “And that’s the skill that they need now because the grunt work has been automated and now it’s about evaluating what the AI produces and telling it how to improve or expand the output,” Butler said. That does not remove the need for technical knowledge. Butler’s argument is that the emphasis may shift away from manually completing every step of a task and toward directing, checking and improving work produced with AI assistance. He also stressed that humans remain responsible for final decisions. “At the end of the day, the human has to make the final call,” Butler said, pointing to the question of accountability. Physical work may be different Butler draws a distinction between digital work and jobs requiring people to manipulate the physical world. He expects AI to continue advancing quickly in tasks performed almost entirely on computers. He is more cautious about claims that humanoid robots will soon be able to replace workers such as plumbers or electricians. Butler said those trades would not be replaced “anytime soon” in his view and described some current robotics demonstrations as overhyped. He described the situation as counterintuitive. “It’s almost like we solved the highest level first,” he said, contrasting advances in digital AI with the harder problem of building robots capable of operating reliably in the physical world. Butler’s argument is that some digital occupations could face automation sooner than trades requiring complex physical work. The wider AI shift in the Townships Butler’s comments come as local institutions are increasingly grappling with how AI should be used. The federal government recently announced up to $162 million over five years for 10,000 AI-related placements through Mitacs. The Université de Sherbrooke told The Pulse that the number of its collaborative research and innovation projects supported through Mitacs has approximately doubled since 2018-19, while the number of placements has approximately tripled. UdeS also said it already has projects involving both AI adoption and the application of AI to other fields. At Bishop’s, Butler said part of his role involves building the Computer Science department’s local presence, connecting students with regional partners and strengthening relationships with the Sherbrooke technology ecosystem. Those developments put universities in a difficult position. They have to prepare students to use the tools employers increasingly have available while also making sure graduates understand enough to recognize when those tools are wrong, incomplete or being applied to the wrong problem. The risk of losing human skills Butler does not see AI as risk-free. Later in the interview, he raised a separate concern: as AI becomes better at reading, writing, programming and other cognitive tasks, people could lose some of the underlying skills that historically helped produce new ideas. “The other danger is that we’re going to lose the human skills,” Butler said. He specifically mentioned reading and writing and argued that people could lose some of the lower-level understanding that contributes to breakthroughs. Butler said AI systems are based on existing human knowledge and argued that they become much more powerful when paired with a capable person. That tension runs through his view of the technology. AI can remove hours of routine work. It can allow beginners to perform tasks that once required substantial technical training. It can give experienced workers significant leverage. But the more capable the technology becomes, the more important it may be for people to develop the judgement needed to decide what should be done in the first place. For Butler, that is where education may have to change. Students still need to understand their field. They still need to know when something is wrong. And they still need to be able to make the final decision. But if AI increasingly handles the bottom of the cognitive pyramid, the value of a worker may depend less on how quickly they can perform the grunt work and more on whether they understand what the work is supposed to accomplish. Don’t miss the next story that affects your community. Join thousands of readers getting The Pulse every morning—plus breaking news alerts when it matters most. If you value this kind of local journalism, consider supporting it. Subscribe, share and like! Subscribe Share

Oct 2 • 1:57 PM EDT • Science • publisherpt.substack.com

A Democrat hasn’t won a South Carolina Senate seat since 1998. A pediatrician thinks she can change that.

Sep 30 • 1:39 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

‘Online sex workers literally have to bare it all’: why Patricia Nilsson is exposing the world’s biggest porn bosses

As a business journalist, Nilsson began rigorously reporting on the power players of the adult industry, who prefer to remain in the shadows. Along the way, she uncovered how porn has shaped the internet – and our lives as a whole

Sep 29 • 5:01 AM EDT • Technology • theguardian.com

Pensacola pediatrician appointed to federal health task force

Dr. Patrick Hunter was named to the U.S. Preventive Services Task, which is tasked with improving the health of Americans through evidence-based recommendations about preventive services.

Sep 29 • 1:30 AM EDT • Health • wusf.org

Sanford Health Welcomes New Pediatrician to Rapid City Clinic

Elizabeth Farnsworth, M.D., has joined Sanford Black Hills and is providing care to patients at the Sanford Health Jordan Drive Clinic in Rapid City, offering pediatric primary care services for infants, children and adolescents in the Black Hills region.

Sep 28 • 3:29 PM EDT • Health • kotatv.com

'Home Improvement' star reveals why Patricia Richardson left show

Taran Noah Smith is sharing his perspective on why Patricia Richardson walked away from "Home Improvement," a decision that brought the hit ABC sitcom to an end after eight seasons.

Sep 28 • 9:24 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com

'Home Improvement' star says Patricia Richardson got 'tired' of fighting for sitcom

Taran Noah Smith reveals Patricia Richardson fought to keep "Home Improvement" realistic as new writers pushed scripts in a different direction.

Sep 27 • 4:42 PM EDT • Entertainment • foxnews.com

How to construct the optimal diet for brain health

Dr. Patricia Egwuatu, a family physician for Kaiser Permanente, explains how eating certain foods can lead to a healthier body and brain.

Sep 27 • 12:52 PM EDT • Health • fox13seattle.com

Patricia Smith named as president and CEO of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation

Smith stepped in as interim president and CEO of the corporation in April, when Dan Winkelman stepped down from his role after 12 years. Now she has been formally appointed to the role.

Sep 25 • 9:44 PM EDT • Health • kyuk.org

Poitras Center to fuel early careers of 50 young scientists dedicated to psychiatric disorders research

Patricia and James Poitras launched a fellowship program for MIT graduate students and postdocs studying major mental illness, expanding their philanthropy to directly support early-career scientists.

Sep 22 • 3:00 PM EDT • Science • news.mit.edu

Serenity Mental Health Centers Co-Founders Ben and Tricia Pease Named 2026 Salt Lake City Titan 100 Honorees

SALT LAKE CITY, September 22, 2026--Serenity Mental Health Centers co-founders and chief executives Ben and Tricia Pease have been named 2026 Salt Lake City Titan 100 honorees.

Sep 22 • 10:00 AM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com

Ask the Pediatrician: How to protect children and teens with chronic health conditions

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Sep 21 • 4:20 AM EDT • Health • newsobserver.com

Ask the Pediatrician: How to protect children and teens with chronic health conditions

Influenza (flu) is an infection caused by the influenza virus that infects the respiratory tract inc...

Sep 21 • 4:20 AM EDT • Health • bradenton.com

Women's health: what physicians say, in their own words

What obstetricians, gynecologists, and the women they treat have written on KevinMD about pregnancy, maternal mortality, postpartum care, fertility, contraception and abortion, menopause, and the conditions dismissed for years. Every claim named, dated, and linked.

Sep 20 • 4:33 PM EDT • Health • kevinmd.com

'A Talent for Murder' review: Alden Ehrenreich gives sexy menace in this Patricia Highsmith-inspired thriller

All hail Helen Mirren, who is perfectly cast as an iconically vicious dame.

Sep 19 • 5:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • mashable.com

Pennsylvania health officials urge early measles vaccinations as outbreak grows

Pediatricians are urging families to vaccinate their children against measles earlier than usual as Pennsylvania continues to see rising case counts.

Sep 18 • 4:53 PM EDT • Health • 6abc.com

Political newcomers vie for Family Court bench

Attorney Patricia Marr and prosecutor Gwynneth Smith are hoping to fill the Clark County Family Court Dept. D vacancy resulting from Judge Bob Teuton’s decision not to seek reelection. Marr moved to Las Vegas from Ohio in 1985. She worked in the hospitality industry, and as a single parent, obtained a psychology degree from UNLV. […]

Sep 16 • 7:55 AM EDT • Politics • nevadacurrent.com

Doctors say children of immigrants are missing healthcare

Four in 10 pediatricians reported kids in immigrant families are avoiding coming in for healthcare out of concerns around immigration status, according to a new survey published Tuesday.

Sep 15 • 3:20 PM EDT • Health • stateline.org

Iris Telehealth Data Reveals 60% of Parents Seek Children's Behavioral Health Information from Pediatricians

/PRNewswire/ -- Iris Telehealth, a leading provider of telepsychiatry and behavioral health solutions for health systems and community organizations, today...

Sep 15 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com

How myth-busting science changed cerebral palsy

Research from Adelaide continues to play a major role in changing the world's understanding of cerebral palsy, tracing its causes back to genetics and reducing costly litigation against obstetricians. ...

Sep 15 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • medicalxpress.com

Electrician Jason Carlton hopes to spark City Council with his business owner expertise - Santa Barbara News-Press

Four candidates are running to take over Meagan Harmon’s seat as District 6 city council member. Carlton is running against Anabella Lehne, Alexander Stoeber and Gabe Escobedo

Sep 13 • 3:26 PM EDT • Business • newspress.com

Previewing the 2026 Science of Skin Summit

Patricia K. Farris, MD, co-founder of the Science of Skin Summit and Co-host of the Science of Skin Podcast, previews the upcoming 2026 meeting. which is slated to take place from Sept. 17 to 20, 2026 in Austin, TX.

Sep 10 • 6:06 PM EDT • Science • thedermdigest.com

I’m a pediatrician in Michigan who created Rx Kids, one of the nation’s largest anti-poverty programs – here’s what I’ve learned about how medical schools can improve community health

More than 15,000 families in Michigan have received cash support from Rx Kids. Participants say the program helps them pay bills and maintain their health.

Sep 10 • 8:44 AM EDT • Health • theconversation.com

Shaping the Future of Public Health and Policy in Mexico

Mexico is transforming public health into a strategic pillar, linking healthcare reform with investment, research, regulation and domestic production.

Sep 9 • 12:15 PM EDT • Health • mexicobusiness.news

Pediatrician-soprano to headline Bayfield concert finale

Soprano Dr. Tiffany Darling will headline the season finale of Bayfield Summer Concerts with an evening of arias and art songs Wednesday, Sept. 9, at 5:30 p.m. at Bayfield Presbyterian

Sep 8 • 7:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • apg-wi.com

Richard Pan running for Congress on decade-old fight with RFK Jr.

The pediatrician and former state senator has long battled with the U.S. Health and Human Services secretary over California’s vaccine laws.

Sep 8 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • sfchronicle.com

Longtime Baxter Health nurse joins gastroenterology clinic as nurse practitioner

Kirsten Cotter, a registered nurse at Baxter Health since 2001, will begin seeing patients Tuesday, Sept. 8, as an advanced practice registered nurse at the Baxter Health Gastroenterology Clinic. Cotter joins Dr. Abodunrin S. Badejo, Dr. William S. Dyer Sr., and nurse practitioners Patricia Acklin, Kimber Jensen and Amanda Stricklin at the clinic, according to

Sep 8 • 2:56 AM EDT • Health • mhobserver.com

Video Pediatrician on postpartum mental health

With the Lindsay Clancy murder case ending in a mistrial, ABC News' Dr. Alok Patel discusses postpartum health and checking in on parents with newborns.

Sep 5 • 1:13 PM EDT • Health • abcnews.com

This Overlooked Type of Friendship Promotes Healthy Aging, Expert Says

In TODAY.com’s Expert Tip of the Day, a geriatrician reveals how this type of friendship can promote healthy aging, both for younger and older adults.

Sep 4 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • today.com

Guest Commentary: Screen time isn’t to blame for youth mental-health issues

The narrative tying youth depression to smartphone use and screen time may not be accurate — the passing of the school year or other factors are shown to be more of an indicator.

Sep 4 • 5:30 AM EDT • Health • orlandosentinel.com

Patricia Heaton Reveals Secret Code Hollywood Conservatives Used to Find Each Other

Patricia Heaton says Hollywood conservatives once felt so uncomfortable discussing their political beliefs at work that they created a secret group to find out who was “safe” to talk to on set. The Ev...

Aug 31 • 5:27 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

A pediatrician is running for Senate. Can doctors change the political debate over health and science?

After Lindsey Graham’s death, Democrat Annie Andrews finds herself in a closely watched race as she seeks to flip his Republican seat

Aug 31 • 10:08 AM EDT • Health • theguardian.com

A pediatrician is running for Senate. Can doctors change the political debate over health and science?

After Lindsey Graham’s death, Democrat Annie Andrews finds herself in a closely watched race as she seeks to flip his Republican seat

Aug 31 • 10:08 AM EDT • Science • theguardian.com

A pediatrician is running for Senate. Can doctors change the political debate over health and science?

After Lindsey Graham’s death, Democrat Annie Andrews finds herself in a closely watched race as she seeks to flip his Republican seat

Aug 31 • 10:08 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com

Marshall Health Network adds five pediatricians to its care team

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Marshall Health Network recently welcomed five pediatricians to its team of providers. Rita M. Ryan, M.D., professor and chair of pediatrics at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, is a board-certified neonatologist and nationally recognized neonatal lung specialist. She brings extensive experience as a clinician and pediatric leader, including previous service as pediatrician-in-chief at the Medical […]

Aug 31 • 8:12 AM EDT • Health • news.marshallhealth.org

Seattle Children’s names new CIO

Dr. Natalie Pageler has been appointed senior VP and chief information officer after years spent as a pediatrician and clinical informaticist at Stanford Children’s Health and Stanford University School of Medicine.

Aug 21 • 9:56 AM EDT • Health • healthcareitnews.com

Paid paternity leave is pediatric preventive care

“A growing body of evidence shows that fathers make unique, independent contributions to children's health and development,” writes pediatrician Nishant Pandya.

Aug 17 • 4:30 AM EDT • Health • statnews.com

Opinion: Politics may change. Our commitment to New Hampshire’s children does not.

NH pediatricians warn against a recent federal executive order changing vaccination schedules, citing potential risks to public health.

Aug 15 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • concordmonitor.com

ResQ Says Missed Calls Are Killing Trade Businesses. Its Fix Starts With a $50-a-Month Toolkit

ResQ is moving beyond its restaurant marketplace with tools that help plumbers, HVAC contractors, and electricians capture missed demand and repeat business.

Aug 12 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • inc.com

North Carolina politician says Democrats are coddling criminals

WARNING: Graphic content—State Rep. Tricia Cotham, R-N.C., criticizes soft-on-crime policies on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’

Aug 7 • 8:22 PM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com

Back-to-school health (Aug. 7, 2026)

On Friday's show: As school begins for many students, a pediatrician offers advice for keeping kids healthy throughout the school year. And we break down The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the week.

Aug 7 • 7:00 AM EDT • Health • houstonpublicmedia.org

Pediatricians and Health Departments Sidestep Trump’s CDC on Vaccine Guidance

When the Trump administration upended years of vaccine advice, it left pediatricians in a quandary. Many say they can no longer direct families to the CDC as a trusted source of information. So some are creating their own.

Aug 5 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • kffhealthnews.org

In Philly, roughly 1 out of 3 adults are obese. How should doctors, pediatricians talk to their patients about it?

Health care providers say initiating conversations about weight and nutrition is a key aspect to tackling obesity-related health problems.

Aug 3 • 5:45 AM EDT • Health • whyy.org

Pediatricians and health officials are sidestepping Trump's CDC on vaccine advice

The rupture of scientific trust in the Atlanta-based CDC has put many pediatricians and health officials in a bind, as they no longer turn to the U.S.'s preeminent public health agency and instead search for ways to fill the information gap.

Jul 31 • 12:49 PM EDT • Health • wabe.org

Kenton County Mayors: Rick Wurth of One Quest Health talks about expanded vision and need to 'transform health'

By Patricia A. Scheyer NKyTribune reporter Rick Wurth is the chief executive officer for One Quest Health, formerly the Children’s Home of Northern Kentucky, and he visited the July monthly meeting of the Kenton County Mayors, held in Ludlow, to give an update on the new vision for the organization. He said the new identity...

Jul 20 • 12:42 AM EDT • Health • nkytribune.com

Dr. Hillary Porter of Marshall Health Network named 2025 West Virginia Pediatrician of the Year

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Hillary N. Porter, D.O., associate professor of pediatrics at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine and board-certified pediatrician, psychologist and child and adolescent psychiatrist with Marshall Health Network, has been named the 2025 West Virginia Pediatrician of the Year by the West Virginia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics in recognition of her dedication to children’s […]

Jul 15 • 12:39 PM EDT • Health • news.marshallhealth.org

Lindsey Graham’s Death Transforms the Race for His Democratic Challenger

Annie Andrews, a pediatrician, has offered condolences to those who loved Mr. Graham while considering the political fallout from his death. Republicans are scrambling to arrange a new primary election.

Jul 13 • 5:07 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

We turned 80-year-olds into trained health monitors to save lives and boost senior dignity

As a career geriatrician, I’ve long known that some of society’s finest minds are being underappreciated while living in senior communities. So I helped to develop a new health program to help put older adults on the watch as health monitors.

Jun 28 • 9:00 PM EDT • Health • mcknightsseniorliving.com

Louisville pediatrician, nurse also federally charged in 'healthcare fraud takedown'

More Louisville health professionals have been criminally charged as a part of a federal healthcare fraud crackdown.

Jun 24 • 2:53 PM EDT • Health • wlky.com

Warton grad who used to pressure wash homes raises $40M to help plumbers, electricians run businesses with AI

George Eliadis, 24, raised venture capital funds from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital for Probook, his AI platform for home service businesses.

Jun 23 • 3:06 PM EDT • Business • foxbusiness.com

Wharton grad who used to pressure wash homes raises $40M to help plumbers, electricians run businesses with AI

George Eliadis, 24, raised venture capital funds from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital for Probook, his AI platform for home service businesses.

Jun 23 • 3:06 PM EDT • Business • foxbusiness.com

New Mexico lawmakers press Presbyterian Health Plan over changes

"When the need is great but the money’s not, there’s an exodus," said Rep. Patricia Roybal Caballero, D-Albuquerque.

Jun 19 • 11:13 AM EDT • Health • searchlightnm.org

Most Women Give Birth at Night—Scientists Reveal the Surprising Reason Why - Futura-Sciences

The Night Owl Mystery of Labor This isn’t just a feeling shared by midwives and obstetricians doing overnight shifts. Research, including studies published by University College London in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, confirms this trend: spontaneous births cluster significantly during the nighttime hours. Behind this pattern lies our...

Jun 19 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • futura-sciences.com

Women in Medicine and Science Host 9th Annual Spring Dinner

Provost Patricia Prelock served as a keynote speaker at the organization's established event

Jun 18 • 5:56 AM EDT • Science • phoenixmed.arizona.edu

AI’s growing appetite for power is a public health issue. Here’s a fix

“AI is creating a new and largely overlooked strain on something fundamental to health,” write Sten H. Vermund and Patricia J. Kissinger.

Jun 18 • 4:30 AM EDT • Health • statnews.com

Holiday Inn Clarksville Northeast Showcases New Amenities During Chamber Business After Hours - Clarksville Online - Clarksville News, Sports, Events and Information

Clarksville, TN - “Today, I think we're hosting our 4th Business after Hours in our Holiday Inn Burger Theory restaurant,” GM Patricia Allende said.

Jun 17 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • clarksvilleonline.com

Americans are living longer, increasing the need of geriatricians. Does Louisiana have enough?

As the baby boomer generation reaches older adulthood and average lifespans continue to increase, the number of geriatricians needed to meet demand is also rising. Here's where the data currently stands in each state.

Jun 14 • 4:00 PM EDT • Health • nola.com

Tennessee health department warns parents their children will be reported to immigration officials

Pediatricians warned of dire consequences for kids with critical illnesses who rely on a specialized Tennessee public health care program.

Jun 11 • 6:02 AM EDT • Health • tennesseelookout.com

Bleecker Street, LD Entertainment acquire Anton Corbijn’s ‘A ...

Oscar winner portrays celebrated novelist Patricia Highsmith in new thriller.

Jun 9 • 2:54 PM EDT • Entertainment • screendaily.com

Exclusive | The U.S. Needs Mechanics and Electricians. Big Business Is Spending to Create Some.

Bloomberg Philanthropies is launching a new $90 million program that includes a partnership with Ford, which is contending with a shortage of mechanics at its dealerships.

Jun 6 • 7:37 PM EDT • Business • wsj.com

U doctor booted from conference for handing out editorial opposing Trump health policies

Pediatrician said he was “chest-bumped” several times in standoff with conference security and police in New Orleans after passing out an editorial.

Jun 5 • 6:37 PM EDT • Health • startribune.com

“Everybody Loves Raymond”'s Patricia Heaton fires back at critics of her gray hair

"The people in my life love me no matter what color my hair is," she said.

May 28 • 3:32 PM EDT • Entertainment • nz.news.yahoo.com

'Everybody Loves Raymond' star Patricia Heaton fires back at critics of her gray hair

'Everybody Loves Raymond' star Patricia Heaton fired back at critics of her gray hair: 'The people in my life love me no matter what color my hair is.'

May 28 • 3:32 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Hawaii Business Spotlight: Electrician entrepreneur eyes expansion with franchise model

Kalihi native and electrician Johny Le founded Grand Hawaii Electric in 2018 after spending over 15 years working on major construction projects throughout Hawaii.

May 25 • 1:35 AM EDT • Business • hawaiinewsnow.com

Mental health, anxiety visits more common at Mass. pediatrician's offices

Visits for anxiety grew more than any other prominent mental health diagnosis.

May 24 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • bostonglobe.com

New report highlights health benefits of school recess

MADISON, Wis.— A new report from a leading pediatricians' group is promoting the positive health benefits of school recess. The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued new guidance stating that

May 13 • 6:13 PM EDT • Health • channel3000.com

Matt Patricia Shares Major Health Update Following Neurosurgeon Visit During Ohio State Offseason Break

The offseason is usually when players get time to recover, but this time, Ohio State defensive coordinator Matt Patricia also needed some medical care of his own. Over the weekend, he shared a personal health update, giving fans a clear look at what he was dealing with during the break.

May 12 • 12:05 AM EDT • Health • sports.yahoo.com

Pediatricians group finds kids of all ages need regular recess for physical and mental health

For the first time in more than a decade, a leading pediatricians group has put out new guidance about recess, saying it’s crucial for good health and good grades and should be part of the school day for students of...

May 11 • 12:05 AM EDT • Health • seattletimes.com

Pediatricians group finds kids of all ages need regular recess for physical and mental health

For the first time in more than a decade, a leading pediatricians group has put out new guidance about recess, saying it’s crucial for good health and good grades and should be part of the school day for students of all ages.

May 11 • 12:01 AM EDT • Health • clickondetroit.com