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Dodgers Should Jump on Proposed Trade for Abrams, Wood

After a disappointing postseason exit, the Los Angeles Dodgers could secure a dynasty by trading for the Washington Nationals' young stars.

Oct 20 • 8:08 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Green Bay Packers: Matt LaFleur on the safety trio and Evan Williams’ interception

Green Bay Packers coach Matt LaFleur said Monday he would put safeties Xavier McKinney, Javon Bullard and Evan Williams “up against anybody in the league” after the trio helped hold the Dallas Cowboys to 13 points. Williams intercepted Dak Prescott in the second quarter of Green Bay’s 23-13 win Sunday night. Bullard broke up three [...]

Oct 20 • 7:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

New Richland Lab Could Transform How Scientists Study Microbes and Boost Regional Jobs

The BriefGroundbreaking held Tuesday: PNNL officially began construction on the M2PC lab, a 30,800-square-foot facility funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science that will study soil microbes to improve crop productivity and develop new biotechnology applications. The facility will be open to researchers from around the nation and the world.Research timelines could shrink dramatically: The facility's automation and AI capabilities could reduce experiments that currently take six months to just 72 hours, allowing scientists to explore more possibilities faster than ever before.New jobs coming to the Tri-Cities: The project is expected to create positions for automation engineers, AI experts, roboticists, technicians, and skilled craftspeople, with the facility opening in 2029.RICHLAND, Wash. — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory broke ground Tuesday on a first-of-its-kind facility that could accelerate scientific discoveries about the microscopic organisms living in soil—organisms that may hold the key to growing more food and developing new energy technologies.The Microbial Molecular Phenotyping Capability, or M2PC, represents a significant investment in automation and artificial intelligence to speed up research that traditionally takes years to complete. The 30,800-square-foot facility will house more than 100 connected automated instruments designed to study microbes at a pace and scale never before possible.Reshaping Agriculture's FutureThe M2PC facility will not put a new tool directly into a farmer's hands tomorrow morning, but it is actively reshaping the commercial pipeline to solve agriculture's biggest headache with biologicals: inconsistent field performance. For years, PNNL researchers have explored how microbes work and how they might help produce useful materials, advance energy technologies, and address challenges involving critical materials and minerals. But those experiments have been limited by what researchers could accomplish by hand."They can be used to provide nutrients to a plant so that the plant would grow more. So, like increasing your crop productivity, for example," said Douglas Mans, PNNL's Associate Laboratory Director for Integrated Discovery Sciences.PNNL's own research shows soil microbes can help plants access nutrients and withstand drought—benefits that could prove crucial as farmers face growing environmental pressures. The M2PC facility will allow scientists to identify and optimize useful microbes faster than ever before, accelerating the development of biological solutions that actually work consistently in the field.What Makes M2PC UniqueThe Microbial Molecular Phenotyping Capability differs from traditional research labs because it operates as a first-of-its-kind, AI-enabled autonomous laboratory designed to shrink experimental timelines from years down to months or weeks. The M2PC lab will connect more than 100 automated instruments to grow microbes, prepare samples, measure their behavior, and link observations to the molecular processes behind them. Artificial intelligence will help analyze results and guide the next experiments, allowing scientists to explore more questions faster.Deb Gracio, PNNL Director, emphasized the transformative potential during Tuesday's groundbreaking ceremony: "Research that has taken years will become possible in months and hopefully in weeks."That acceleration is already being demonstrated. PNNL's smaller automated lab, called the Anaerobic Microbial Phenotyping Platform or AMP2, completed three experimental cycles in just 72 hours—a process that normally would have taken about six months."That normally would have taken us about six months … and we were able to do that in 72 hours," Mans said.The AMP2 laboratory is not being closed or replaced. Instead, the current 1,800-square-foot laboratory serves as an active prototype and precursor for the much larger M2PC facility. AMP2 will continue operating as a separate lab designed to run anaerobic experiments—those conducted in the absence of oxygen—while M2PC will focus on aerobic research.Broader Applications Beyond AgricultureWhile improving crop productivity is one important application, the M2PC facility is designed to support research into multiple areas critical to national priorities. The lab will advance research into biofuels, manufacturing materials, and energy technologies. It will also help researchers understand how microbes respond to environmental changes and how to design biological systems for biotechnology applications.As a flagship component of the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, M2PC represents a significant investment in using artificial intelligence and automation to accelerate U.S. scientific discovery. Dorothy Koch, Associate Director of the DOE Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research program, highlighted the facility's importance during the groundbreaking."M2PC will accelerate biological discovery and design," Koch said, noting that the facility is expected to conduct a minimum of 500 strain experiments per week, 100 microbiome experiments per week, and take a million measurements per month.Economic Opportunity for the RegionBeyond the scientific breakthroughs, the M2PC project represents significant economic opportunity for the Tri-Cities region. The facility will require hiring automation engineers, AI experts, technicians skilled in operating robotics, and specialized craftspeople to build and maintain the sophisticated equipment."We're anticipating that type of hiring," Mans said when asked about job creation.PNNL has already begun recruiting talent nationally and internationally for positions related to the smaller AMP2 lab, bringing automation engineers from cities like Boston and San Francisco to work in the region. The M2PC facility is expected to accelerate that trend."This capability won't really exist anywhere else in the world," Mans said, suggesting the facility could become a draw for scientific talent seeking to work on cutting-edge biotechnology research.Timeline and Next StepsThe M2PC facility is expected to open in 2029. Between now and then, construction crews will level and prepare the ground, while the building takes shape. Simultaneously, Ginkgo Bio Works, the automation contractor, will build the facility's automation components off-site so they can be installed as the building is completed.In the interim, PNNL researchers and the broader scientific community will begin planning the first experiments to be conducted in the facility, ensuring research is lined up and ready to begin as soon as the doors open.The groundbreaking ceremony included representatives from the Department of Energy, PNNL leadership, and elected officials at the federal, state, and local levels, underscoring the project's significance to the region and the nation's biotechnology future. News The U.S. Department of Energy Secretary tours Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Dan Hanson, Apple Valley News Now News Beyond DNA: Scientists Explore New Frontiers in Biology Research Dan Hanson, Apple Valley News Now News TRIDEC optimistic that Hanford, PNNL will see funding in national budget Robert Desaulniers News Big picture science: monitoring the Yakima River Basin News PNNL research could shape the future of fighting fentanyl ​COPYRIGHT 2026 BY APPLE VALLEY NEWS NOW. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.

Oct 20 • 7:44 PM EDT • Science • applevalleynewsnow.com

‘Pretty gruesome’: Local business owners speak out after more human remains found in Downtown Portland

PORTLAND, Ore (KOIN) — Portland Police are investigating a second set of human remains found inside a homeless camp. These remains were discovered on Monday, only a week after remains were fo…

Oct 20 • 7:32 PM EDT • Business • koin.com

From Our Partners: The Hidden Devices Putting Your Small Business at Risk

During Small Business Month 2026 alone, Comcast Business detected and blocked 230 cyber threats targeting small businesses per second. That finding carries added weight across the Eastside.

Oct 20 • 6:08 PM EDT • Business • 425business.com

Augusta gets $305K grant for firefighter mental health, cancer screening

The Augusta Fire Department has secured more than $305,000 to expand mental health support and launch advanced cancer screening for its firefighters.

Oct 20 • 5:35 PM EDT • Health • wrdw.com

Tracy McGrady strikes two-year partnership with NBC Sports

Five months ago, Tracy McGrady wasn’t sure NBC wanted him back for a second season, and now the network is effectively going into business with him. In an exclusive interview with The Athletic’s Jerry Brewer published Tuesday, McGrady unveiled a two-year strategic partnership with NBC Sports that puts his Ones Basketball League games on Peacock,…

Oct 20 • 5:35 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

SpaceX revenue soars 161% as AI business grows

Elon Musk-led SpaceX issued its second-ever quarterly earnings report on Tuesday.

Oct 20 • 5:34 PM EDT • Business • abcnews.com

A community health initiative in low-income areas may reduce hospital admission rates

In this longitudinal cross-sectional RCT, 30 low-income apartment buildings in Ontario received visits from the community paramedicine clinic, resulting in…

Oct 20 • 5:00 PM EDT • Health • 2minutemedicine.com

PHP warns admins of two critical flaws, emergency patches coming tomorrow

The PHP security team is warning administrators to prepare for emergency security updates tomorrow to address two critical vulnerabilities, as information about the flaws has reportedly leaked ahead of their scheduled disclosure.

Oct 20 • 4:56 PM EDT • Technology • bleepingcomputer.com

Seniors Left Waiting as Treatment Bill Faces Uphill Climb

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

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

Seniors Left Waiting as Treatment Bill Faces Uphill Climb

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

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

SpaceX's AI business is beating expectations

SpaceX's data centers and Grok agents have been more profitable than investors expected in second quarter of the year, as the company leaves its roots as

Oct 20 • 4:40 PM EDT • Business • techcrunch.com

On the Money: Small business cybersecurity

Oct 20 • 4:19 PM EDT • Business • kval.com

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

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

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

How Is Imanol Alguacil Improving Olympiacos

Imanol Alguacil has revitalised Olympiacos through tactical ball retention and defensive stability, securing vital victories while maximising squad depth to narrow the gap at the summit.

Oct 20 • 4:07 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Grading Phoenix Suns' Decision To Extend Oso Ighodaro's Contract

Phoenix secures a versatile defensive anchor by locking down the Marquette alum with a high-value extension, betting on his elite rim protection and playmaking to solidify their future.

Oct 20 • 4:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

TENNESSEE LADY VOLS VOLLEYBALL: Top 10 showdown on the horizon

Food City Center will host a top-10 matchup on Wednesday when the No. 9 Tennessee volleyball team welcomes No. 4 Kentucky. First serve is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET and will be televised on SEC Network.

Oct 20 • 2:40 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

The Secret to Life on Earth Was What Made It Stop Being a Poisonous Ice Ball

Ancient South African rocks expose the chain reaction behind life’s first real growth spurt.

Oct 20 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • popularmechanics.com

Is This a Make-or-Break Year for Amy Williams?

Amy Williams has spent a decade at the helm of Nebraska women's basketball. Her teams have made the NCAA Tournament more often over the last five years, but she has only made the second round once.

Oct 20 • 1:58 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Sundar Pichai: Google’s Frontier Imperative, Compute Scarcity Dilemmas, Future AI Products and Businesses

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has little patience for doubts about Google’s willingness or capacity to compete at the frontier of AI. His company’s latest Gemini 4 Argon model — long-promised and recently delivered — beats OpenAI and Anthropic’s latest public models on coding, math, science, and knowledge-work benchmarks and has placed Google’s AI back among the world’s best. Amid chatter that Google was fine with good-enough lightweight ‘Flash’ models, Pichai pushed back hard against any suggestion that company is limiting its research ambitions. “We won’t do it any other way,” he told me in a Big Technology Podcast interview recorded this week at Google’s Mountain View headquarters. Pursuing cutting-edge research is costly for Google, requiring compute and chips that otherwise could be sold at a high markup by its cloud business. But Pichai said allocating resources to frontier AI development is “ground zero” for Google. “Our cloud business is at any given moment in time forgoing short-term revenues because we are making compute trade-offs to support frontier AI development,” Pichai told me. In our conversation, we discussed Argon (which Pichai says processed three times as many tokens as Gemini 3 in the 72 hours after launch), AI’s role in developing better models, the AI interface of the future, competition with OpenAI, Google’s partnerships with Anthropic and Apple, data centers in space, and the nature of his optimism. You can read the full conversation, lightly edited for length and clarity, below, or listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice. Alex Kantrowitz: Google is back at the frontier with Gemini 4 Argon, which beats OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s public models on benchmarks spanning coding, math, science, and knowledge work. The conventional wisdom was that Google had given up on the frontier to focus on fast, good-enough models for its products. That was wrong? Sundar Pichai: Very wrong. Look, we are so committed to being at the frontier. It’s in our DNA. We won’t do it any other way. We’ve been thinking about the AI frontier for well over a decade now. The frontier is very dynamic. It’s very competitive. It’s very exciting. I couldn’t be more pleased with how Argon has come together. We took our time with it. We made sure we tested it safely and deployed it carefully. We took a bit longer than our other models, given its capabilities. Across the board, be it for agentic work, knowledge work, coding, creative tasks, Argon is one of the really good frontier models. The first 72 hours since we launched, it’s almost up to 25 trillion tokens used, which is about three times what Gemini 3.0 had in the first 72 hours. And we are capacity constrained as we are serving it. Excited, but there are always areas….. You know, the frontier is very dynamic, and you have to keep evolving the models. There are areas which we can see we need to improve as well. We’ll be at work on all of that as well. Which areas? On any given model, Argon would be across the board better at everything if you just look even two months back. But the space is so evolving. Even on coding, for example, there are pockets where we know we need to do better, and there’s clear feedback. We’ll make it better. The argument for standard models is that they’re already good enough to build great products, with the frontier valuable only for certain tasks. Meta built Muse with good models rather than the best, and Google could put standard models into Maps, Gmail, and Search. Why isn’t that sufficient? It’s definitely not how I have thought about it at all. We are deeply committed to driving the state of the art and actually pushing where this technology can go, all the way from transformers. That’s a journey we’ve been on. You will see us continue to do that. When you’re at the frontier, you get an earlier look into the emerging capabilities, earlier than others, which helps you better prepare for the future. We are fortunate to have a wide set of opportunities across consumer and enterprise. Some of our cloud customers, for sure, want the model at the frontier. The frontier models will be better at developing the next set of models in an era of recursive self-improvement. I would argue it matters there. Internally, we have definitely seen a steep point of inflection by deploying Argon to our developers. It definitely tackles problems which our previous models could not do. Being at the frontier puts you at the innovation frontier and helps you drive that as well. There is room for models of all sizes and capabilities. That’s why we did Flash, Flash-Lite, etc. I agree with you that you can develop very good product experiences with not necessarily the most frontier model, because they tend to be slower and more expensive too. But we care about the Pareto frontier, and we’re committed to doing all of that. You said developing frontier models gives you a look at what’s coming. What do you see on the horizon? What makes this moment so exciting is you build something which you think is a culmination of months of work, and you put it out. You already see clear headroom ahead. We’ve all been working on these agentic, long-horizon capabilities, but clearly the frontier is going to have multiple of these agents working together to do things. That’s an example of an exciting paradigm underway. It’s also clear to me that users, both in consumer and enterprise, will have access to some multi-agent framework for them, working all the time doing things. It feels like a moment of infinite possibilities. Sergey Brin said one of Argon’s core innovations was relying more on the model to help develop the model. Yet incidents involving OpenAI’s bots breaking containment and Google’s bots accessing a site they shouldn’t have suggest these systems still aren’t perfectly aligned. Isn’t there reasonable cause for concern about accelerating toward recursive self-improvement? There are three parts to your question. Let’s first talk about RSI itself. You’re right, Sergey mentioned RSI being a critical contributor as we are developing Argon. But to be very clear, today, in a continuum, we are pretty far from the end state of RSI or something like that. The right way to describe it is you have RSI loops along with AI researchers in various aspects of model development. You almost have agents helping AI researchers in some automated way work together to build these models. It’s good to at least understand where we are today, and it’s super exciting. I expect that continuum to keep making progress as we go into next year. The second question is around safety. Security comes from defense in depth. You’re talking about alignment, obviously. We all are doing a lot of work to make sure the models are as aligned as possible. But it’s an active area of research, and there are clear gaps. That’s not the only thing we rely on. You have the work you do on alignment, but beyond that, we put a lot of effort into real-time monitoring as these models are working. Making sure you have good telemetry into what’s happening so that you can intervene in real time if you see unexpected behaviors. How you do that, the architecture with which you do that, how you make sure it’s all sandboxed and isolated in a way that it can continue doing its job during real-time monitoring — these are all areas of investment. Obviously, when we deploy these models, giving customers, enterprises, control, both with real-time monitoring, but their ability to decide where they deploy, what type of data which models ever have access to, etc. All that work is very, very important, and we are doing a lot of that. As an industry, we need to constantly up our game and take the time to do all this stuff, including dedicating the compute required to make sure you can safely deploy these models. The third part is: Is it all enough? This is why there are a lot of conversations in the industry, and I think it’s reasonable to be worried. The right way to approach something you worry about is early on thinking about what more we can do. As an industry, you’re definitely seeing increased levels of work on alignment, testing for safety, etc., as we deploy these models. The next step would be developing better standards so there are cross-industry standards of how we do these things, including the ability to evaluate using independent evaluators. If you look at areas like financial controls, we have accounting standards, we have independent auditors. Those are all the next natural steps for us as an industry to work toward, and regulation will end up playing a role as we go through all of that as well. Google pursues both language models and world models, while some other AI companies like OpenAI have focused more heavily on LLMs as the path to AGI. Why is world-model research important to you? As humans, you obviously perceive the world around you, and you’re taking all those inputs. Making sure these models are able to understand the laws of physics, simulate the world in high fidelity. All that, I think, are key enabling blocks for intelligence. We are working across all possible applications of this. Take an area like robotics. It’s not an accident: If you look at embodied reasoning benchmarks, Argon is state of the art. That all comes from our experience building world models. Inherently, I would expect there will be architectures which will converge all of this in the future. But for us, we view this as, today, this jagged frontier that is intelligence. We want to be at the frontier of all the possible approaches, and that will help us both drive better research, better insights, and develop a much better AGI model, is how we think about it. Some people argue Google should focus on selling its computing resources rather than using them for AI research. Cloud wants to sell compute at a high markup, while researchers need a very big computer to build the best models. How do you balance those demands? Ground zero for us is making sure we are investing in the compute that’s needed to be at the AI frontier. In 2015, I set the company to be AI-first. AI is that key horizontal ingredient across everything we do, all the way from Search to Cloud to Waymo. That is ground zero for us, making sure both for research and developing the models that we have enough compute needed. Beyond that, we have these independent businesses which each have their own long-range plans. They’re using those long-range plans to project forward, and we plan for compute for all of them. The cloud team, they have a business and they have a projection and they have demand signals. They have committed contracts. With that help, we can plan on a long-term compute trajectory for them. We’re fortunate to have this wide set of opportunities. There’s no company in the world which isn’t making trade-offs at any given moment in time. But the first principles we operate on is making sure we have enough compute to invest in the frontier, and that’s non-negotiable, and everything else works on top. Remember, we are building our own compute, our own data centers. There are long lead times. The compute we have today is a function of decisions I made in 2024. Even if you think back to a year from today, last year the agentic coding takeoff hadn’t happened. Today, obviously, when you sit and look at anything, everyone is short—not just us, other companies—and everyone wishes you had two times what you had planned for. That comes with the territory. At any given moment in time, we are planning for what we would need two to three years out in the future. You’re going to find some decisions you make may look suboptimal two years out, depending on where the state of the art is. I don’t spend too much time thinking about it. The way I think about compute allocation is making sure Google DeepMind, both for research and frontier model development, is cutting edge in terms of compute access. After that, we plan for all our businesses. It’s great we can provide our compute to other people too, like we have done. It allows us to scale that up, get real tests for it in the widest application set possible, test it in the real world, and make sure we are at the cutting edge of technology at every layer of our AI stack as well. Ben Horowitz relayed on a podcast that Andy Jassy had said compute was sold out until 2028. Are you seeing the same thing? If today a customer is coming out and asking us for compute in ’27, that is incredibly difficult to do. Even last year we went out and leased some short-term compute to accommodate some customers and help them out. But yes, we are all dealing with similar timelines. Every major technology shift seems to involve overbuilding, from railroads to fiber. Do you think that’s happening here? It depends on the time frames you’re looking at. This level of build, if I take a long enough time frame, it makes complete sense to me. We are at early stages of the most consequential technology ever, and this is not like fiber. It’s not dark. We are using it. We are capacity constrained on a daily basis. The applications, the underlying technology is improving rapidly. But running a company, the way I work through the moment is you look at your demand signals. You look at your committed revenue opportunities that you’re getting in the form of contracts. You balance that with the underlying technical capability, or internally you balance how we are using it internally, the model trajectories. Based on all that, you take a disciplined approach—a confident, aggressive, but disciplined approach—to plan out compute. But when you talk about the broader economy as a whole, you’re having people operate with various levels of risk. I focus on what I can control as a company and plan through it. If your question is, can there be an overbuild? Yes, because you can have some constrained components. Remember, what matters is a set of everything you need to build out that compute. Memory, electricity, electricians…. Land. Like 2,000 components or more. You could get constrained at some point. There could be things which cause bottlenecks, and then you could have overbuilds. There could be external shocks to the economy. There are macro risks. All that is possible at any given time. But am I confident that the compute we are planning for, we will have uses for it given enough time? Absolutely, yes. I was in the room when you said AI would be as profound as fire and electricity. If you believe that, shouldn’t you give researchers the biggest possible computer, even at the expense of today’s cloud profits? We’re all doing some form of that. Our cloud business is at any given moment in time forgoing short-term revenues because we are making compute trade-offs to support frontier AI development. What you’re seeing is true already. But you want to be thoughtful. Even our AI researchers have some constraints, which are also good. That’s what inspires creativity. That’s what helps you come up with a more efficient algorithmic breakthrough, maybe to use less memory. What we are committed to is to invest what’s needed to stay at the frontier. OpenAI President Greg Brockman told me a few months ago that the ideal AI product might have no interface at all—just as natural as conversation. What do you think the interface looks like in the age of AI? Computing historically has been humans adapting to computing. With AI, it’ll be the other way around. The technology will adapt seamlessly to how humans live and go about their day-to-day life. You want to be able to speak to that AI when you want to. It has context. It can be persistently running somewhere, give you continuity. You’re not dealing with a lot of complexity. It’s natural. All that makes sense to me. That doesn’t mean it won’t have any interface, however. Nowadays, even on my phone, Gemini voice models are so good. I can just press the microphone button. I can just ramble. That’s why we call it Rambler. I can ramble. It intelligently corrects with my personal context. Even my friends’ names, weird names, it gets it right, even if it first guesses it wrong. It’s amazing. I’m not going in, backspacing, editing once I finish saying it. It’s remarkable how good it’s gotten. But there are going to be moments you will need an interface. You may want to entertain yourself. You may want to watch a video. You may ask your AI to create something, and you want to watch it, consume it. The way I think about it is, you want it to be as seamless and as natural as possible, and that you are not doing the hard work adapting to whatever the interface is. The technology is adapting to how you’re working at any given moment in time. When I asked Sam Altman about competition from Google, he argued that OpenAI was building AI-native products and implied Google was bolting AI onto existing ones. Do you accept that framing, and can a “bolt-on” compete with an AI-native product? First of all, it’s a very dynamic moment. We are all pushing each other. OpenAI has pushed us as a company too. This is not just we are doing something to them. Far from it. Yes, Google went into its own version of a code red too. In the AI moment, all of us have to respond with varying levels of urgency at any given moment in time. We are constantly building new products as well. Gemini was built from the ground up as a product—the Gemini app I’m talking about. Or tomorrow, as all of us are adapting to agents, are you bolting agents onto ChatGPT, or are they building it natively? How would you think about that? You can always put these questions back. I don’t think of it that way. I think of it as you want to build world-class product experiences that are AI-native and they are winning. Some of it is adapting products, some of it is rethinking new experiences. They will all be part of how you approach this moment. How do you expect to make money from these AI interfaces? If an agent recommends a product and I buy it, should it take a cut of the sale, even if that’s disclosed? I’m going to put enterprise aside. Consumers are going to increasingly value this technology. Take software developers today. Developers are willing to pay for these coding models because it really helps make them more productive. Nobody would want to code the way they were coding three years ago, or even the same time last year. When you’re delivering value, there’s value to be had. I’ve never seen examples where consumer products really scale to billions of users, where people are using it intensely, and haven’t had monetization to go along with it. If you’re providing value to people, there is inherent value to be had. The nature of it may change. You’re asking a scenario in which agents are doing stuff for you. At the end of the day, you will have commercial needs. The agents need to fulfill those commercial needs. The providers on the other side are going to see value in that. There’s going to be some mechanism by which it gets fleshed out. That’s what an efficient system does. But what matters is that you’re building those world-class consumer experiences. I promised myself one product feature request: Can you make Gemini-powered search in Gmail as good as searching Gmail through ChatGPT? What’s going on here? One of the exciting things we announced recently is the unified Gemini agent for enterprise, and we’re bringing that to consumers. These are persistent agents which run 24/7 in the cloud. We’re spinning up a micro VM effectively for every query, and from the runtime, the harness, the model—it’s all a headless service. It’ll work everywhere, and it has your context with you. You can address this agent whether you’re in Workspace, in Search, in Gemini. Agents are going to drive this unification from a customer experience, which people are looking for. When you have a broad product portfolio and you’re moving forward fast, there are always areas where you’re moving forward faster than some other areas. That’s valid feedback. But we are putting a lot of time and effort into making sure, as we build out our agentic experience, that unification and that capability works well across all these services. People have asked where Google’s equivalent of Muse or Dots is. Do you anticipate creating a new product to compete with them? Our goal with Gemini is to be a personal, proactive, and powerful assistant. That’s what we are working toward. You saw us describe the early versions of it at Google I/O this year with Spark. Effectively, already, if you open the Gemini app as a Pro or an Ultra user, you see Chat and Task, and they start giving you that agentic experience. With Argon now, that capability is dramatically accelerated. What we announced recently in our enterprise event, we are bringing that to consumers as well. Soon in Gemini, you will be able to ask something, and it’s a continuum. You don’t need to think about whether you’re asking a chat or an agentic task. It’ll just automatically do the right thing, and it can work persistently in the background securely and get things done for you. Already, empirically, when I look at what’s coming into Gemini in our app, last year you would have tagged them and most of them would have been chats. But a steadily growing percentage is already agentic tasks in Gemini. Yes, we are going to bring personal agents to our consumers. It’ll work in the Gemini app. It’ll work in Google Search. It’ll work in Gmail. You can address it, call it, etc. We want to make sure we’re getting it right. It’ll be powered by Argon, and we are very excited to bring it to our users. Google has invested and committed tens of billions of dollars to Anthropic. What do you see in Dario Amodei that makes you want such a deep investment and partnership? Very early on, when we looked at the founding team of Anthropic, it was very clear to us this was a world-class team which was involved in some of the earliest GPT models. We were quickly able to assess that they would be at the frontier. We’ve always tried to identify and partner with companies which would be at the cutting edge of technology. We’ve done that with SpaceX. We’ve done that with Anthropic. That’s what we saw, and we had a chance to partner. Is your partnership with Apple to license Gemini for Siri expanding, contracting, or standing still? For both us and Apple, that partnership was about translating the capabilities of AI into better experiences for users. I thought Apple has done a phenomenal job of incorporating—they customize these models and build it into Siri—and it’s been great to see the reception. We are committed to doing more. You’re going to do more with them? There’s nothing specific to comment, but it’s a partnership. It’s working well. What have you learned so far about the feasibility of data centers in space? It’s a very exciting project. Projects like this remind me—I still recall that moment in the desert for the DARPA Grand Challenge, watching the Stanley car compete in it, which ended up being the basis for Waymo. With all these technologies, you’re at a moment in time where it looks a bit like sci-fi, but 10 to 20 years down the line, it’s actually working in a meaningful way. I feel the same in space. We’ve always believed in betting big on these technologies. Quantum has been a great example of it. We’re probably 10 years into the journey. Waymo, we are almost 20 years into the journey. Space, we are two to three years into the journey. It’s clear to me that it’s an approach which will make a lot of sense in the future. Being in sub-synchronous orbits with 24/7 access to the most abundant form of energy we have access to will make a lot of sense for this exponential increase in compute that we are going to need. Having said that, this is a challenging project. The team has disciplined milestones. It was a super exciting milestone to send the TPUs up to space. Sometime, as we are speaking, we are expecting a “hello world” moment from them. I look forward to seeing that happen, and we’ll continue investing here too. You previously said 25% of the code written within Google was written by AI. What’s the number today? That number in our world today is meaningless in the sense that every part of what we now touch is influenced by AI deeply. What we are tracking with Argon, for example, it’s been a point of inflection. People are using Argon to really go tackle complex projects, including projects which affect millions of lines of code. In the four weeks since we have launched Argon, we have seen a 30% increase in CLs, and more importantly, almost a similar increase—a one-third decrease in rollbacks. People are writing code more productively and better code with it. We are tracking it with newer metrics now. How are you dealing with opposition to data centers? If you can’t build in the U.S. the way you want to, where else do you go? We’re very committed to building our data centers very responsibly. When I look at our largest data centers in some of the communities where we have been the longest, I visit them, I talk to people. There are people who come and tell us their kids have gone to college because of our investments in these communities, and we’ve grown in those communities. To me, this is about doing it right. Engaging with the communities early, doing it transparently. We are committed to making sure we are bringing incremental power, and we cover 100% of the cost of our power needs for these projects. It’s understanding the impact on neighborhoods and making sure you’re working thoroughly to address them. Done rightly, you can continue making progress. But we are constantly taking feedback into account. I do worry not everyone operates the same way. People have been surprised by data centers showing up in their backyard. Those are all important. As an industry, we should continue to do better. But part of the reason, in a 20-year time frame, we are thinking about things like data centers in space is making sure we are able to put these data centers where maybe the trade-offs will be different. What unproven area of AI is Google working hardest to crack? Is it continual learning—getting models to keep updating after release—or something else? There are multiple parallel paths. You saw with Argon we have a million output tokens. With our Gemini models early on, we had a one-million context window on the input side. These are all examples of breakthroughs we are constantly working on. How do you think about synthetic data? How do you think about continual learning? How do you think about more efficient architectures? We do dedicate a meaningful percentage of our compute to these research bets too. It always goes hand in hand, including our world models. Those are all bets we are placing. Sometimes, as part of these bets, there are ideas that emerge which just make their way into the mainline models. Maybe we don’t fully talk about it, but we have multiple steps in these areas. Working in technology requires optimism that building something will improve the world, but those bets can leave real consequences when they fail. I recently returned to a town in El Salvador where enthusiasm for Bitcoin had given way to unfinished construction and something resembling a ghost town. How do you maintain the optimism you spoke about in your Stanford commencement address while accounting for those risks? I genuinely have a deep conviction that improving technology and improving access to technology makes people’s lives better. It’s been my personal experience in my life, out of which comes that deep conviction, optimism. But with that, I’ve always felt humanity’s journey is always about working hard to harness that technology to make it work well for society. The optimism is not an optimism that you just build whatever you want, whenever. You work hard to make sure you’re building technology in the service of humanity, to make the human condition better. That’s got to be the defining goal as we are approaching it. With that framework, I’m very, very optimistic. We are in very early stages of the kind of progress that we are going to see on many areas. We’re all talking about areas like healthcare. A lot of the progress is ahead. The ability to make things in a fundamentally cheaper way on many things where things have been getting expensive for a long, long time, discovering new materials, etc., which really bend the curve—it’s tough to step today and understand the impact of all that, but they’re going to be very profound. I’m very optimistic, but we have to be rightfully concerned about all the ways this technology can go wrong. Sundar, I know you don’t do many of these. Thank you. Thanks, Alex. Appreciate it.

Oct 20 • 1:47 PM EDT • Technology • bigtechnology.com

Cleveland office vacancy hits record high: report

Newmark’s latest report shows the sector ended August with a vacancy rate of 25.2%, which the firm says is an all-time high for the city's core.

Oct 20 • 1:24 PM EDT • Business • crainscleveland.com

A special art project reveals the beauty of science to parkgoers in Virginia Beach

A temporary installation at Mount Trashmore transforms a section of the park into a landscape of sound, color and movement.

Oct 20 • 1:03 PM EDT • Science • whro.org

CBS Sports projects Florida for Citrus Bowl after Week 7 Texas win

After securing a signature road win over Texas in Week 7, CBS Sports now projects Florida football to play in the Citrus Bowl against Iowa.

Oct 20 • 12:27 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Romanian lawmakers back a minority government to end monthslong stalemate

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian lawmakers sought Tuesday to end a monthslong political impasse by voting for a minority government led by an independent diplomat, who now faces the challenge of securing support in a fragmented Parliament while tackling a large budget deficit. Prime Minister Luca Niculescu won 280 votes for his proposed Cabinet in

Oct 20 • 12:13 PM EDT • Politics • mymotherlode.com

Philadelphia Union's Cavan Sullivan tops 22 Under 22 Rankings

By Justin Ruderman22 Under 22: Cavan Sullivan tops 2026 rankingsAmid a breakout 2026 season, Philadelphia Union midfielder Cavan Sullivan has secured the No. 1 spot on the annual MLS 22 Under 22 ranki...

Oct 20 • 11:55 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Georgia: Secretary General Alain Berset calls for safeguarding democracy and political pluralism ahead of opposition ban hearings

Council of Europe to closely follow developments and continue dialogue with Georgia

Oct 20 • 11:42 AM EDT • Politics • coe.int

Georgia: Secretary General Alain Berset calls for safeguarding democracy and political pluralism ahead of opposition ban hearings

Council of Europe to closely follow developments and continue dialogue with Georgia

Oct 20 • 11:31 AM EDT • Politics • coe.int

Bleu Provence hosts wine event to support local charities

SWFL Children’s Charities, Inc. recently hosted their second wine series event in Naples geared at bringing like-minded women together around a great cause and supporting restaurant & winery partners during

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

France could face even worse destruction with second weekend of planned riots, State Dept warns

An internal State Department document warns antifascist protests near Marine Le Pen's National Rally congress in Orléans could spark new unrest.

Oct 20 • 11:14 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com

Engling plans to sue Bayh for defamation in secretary of state race over 'reckless' claim

After the Bayh campaign rebuffed Engling's call to retract and correct a campaign attack ad, the Republican says he's filing a defamation lawsuit.

Oct 20 • 10:57 AM EDT • Politics • indystar.com

Bucs second half collapse should cost someone their job

Bucs second half collapse should cost someone their job

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

Meta (META): Can WhatsApp Become a Meaningful Business Beyond Advertising?

Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is turning business conversations into revenue. Paid WhatsApp messaging helped Family of Apps other revenue grow 73% to $1.01 billion in the second quarter of 2026, following 74% growth in the first. That category includes subscriptions and other services and represented just 1.7% of group revenue. Expanding messaging alternatives make merchant […]

Oct 20 • 9:43 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com

Looted French goods are popping up on resale site Vinted

The second-hand online marketplace Vinted has removed listings of looted French goods and stepped up checks on “suspicious” adverts, as the country’s authorities seek to prevent goods stolen during riots from being sold online.

Oct 20 • 9:28 AM EDT • Business • cnn.com

Schalmont girls' soccer eyes a 7th straight Section 2 title

Schalmont is one of the top seeds for the Section 2 tournament.

Oct 20 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Silicon Valley GTM and Business Development Veteran Dylan Gittleman Joins Dialogica's Founding Sales Team

/PRNewswire/ -- Dialogica ("Dia"), the voice-first AI secretary for the world's top law firms, today announced that Silicon Valley go-to-market business...

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

Xbox is struggling for stock so bad that it's encouraging lapsed users to trade-in their dormant consoles ahead of GTA 6

The console stock situation is so dire now that Microsoft is targeting lapsed users with second, dormant Xbox consoles to recommend trading-in. The RAM crisis continues.

Oct 20 • 8:55 AM EDT • Technology • windowscentral.com

Planning commission lauds work on ‘complex’ Lake Fairfax Business Center development plan

Plans to transform most of the Lake Fairfax Business Center in Reston into a mixed-use neighborhood are heading to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors for a final vote. Developer EYA secured a supportive recommendation from the Fairfax County Planning Commission last Wednesday (Oct. 14) after its legal representative confirmed that any lingering disagreements with

Oct 20 • 8:30 AM EDT • Business • ffxnow.com

‘These risks are real’: the threat of AI bioweapons

In his annual speech on threats to the nation, Sir Ken McCallum, the head of the UK’s intelligence service, MI5, warned that AI had the potential to ‘change the stakes’ on existing and even new bioweapons. To find out why, and how, Ian Sample speaks to Dr Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He explains what has governments so worried and what measures could be put in place to reduce the risks

Oct 20 • 8:14 AM EDT • Science • theguardian.com

Titans Win May Have Inadvertently Helped Colts

Tennessee's dramatic comeback win triggered a long-overdue housecleaning in Indianapolis, finally forcing the franchise to fire General Manager Chris Ballard following years of mediocre quarterback carousels.

Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Astronomers uncover new secrets of the Universe’s first five minutes

Scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in understanding the Universe’s earliest moments, measuring the amount of helium formed in the first five minutes after the Big Bang with unprecedented precision. Using one of the world’s most powerful telescopes, an international team studied 15 remarkably pristine galaxies that act as cosmic time capsules, preserving clues from nearly 13.8 billion years ago.

Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com

Woman Indicted In Alleged $612,000 Theft Scheme From Great Mills Business

GREAT MILLS, Md. — An Odenton woman has been indicted on six theft charges after prosecutors alleged she stole approximately $612,758.92 from a Great Mills business through unauthorized payments and credit card transactions spanning several years. Heather Lynne Payton, 50, was indicted by a St. Mary’s County grand jury on September 28, 2026, in connection […]

Oct 20 • 7:39 AM EDT • Business • thebaynet.com

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

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

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

How Much Of Cisco Stock's Rise Did The Business Earn?

Cisco Systems (CSCO) supplies businesses and the hyperscalers building AI infrastructure with networking and security products, along with services. The company's stock climbed 92% between late July 2021 and mid-October 2026, before dividends. A rally of that magnitude makes it natural to credit a growing business. So take a guess: how much of that rise came from Cisco selling more.

Oct 20 • 7:02 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com

Michigan State Spartans Football fan survey on Pat Fitzgerald

Gauging Pat Fitzgerald’s job security

Oct 20 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Betterworks Named an Inc. Power Partner for Second Consecutive Year

Betterworks, a leading enterprise performance management platform, has been named a 2026 Inc. Power Partner Awards winner, recognizing the company among the ...

Oct 20 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • businesswire.com

'We recreate the Big Bang here on Earth' – scientists know what happened during the first few seconds of the Universe | BBC Sky at Night Magazine

What happened after the Big Bang? How much do scientists know about the formation of the first stars and galaxies during those first seconds?

Oct 20 • 6:39 AM EDT • Science • skyatnightmagazine.com

Scientists get funding to tackle 'biosecurity threat'

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

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

New coalition aims to keep Virginians covered as Medicaid rules tighten

Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources Marvin Figueroa on Monday announced the Virginia United Coalition, formalizing a partnership that builds on a series of roundtable meetings with him and Gov. Abigail Spanberger throughout the summer, as well as an executive order she signed.

Oct 20 • 5:20 AM EDT • Health • virginiamercury.com

Two candidates compete to succeed a New Orleans constable who served for over 20 years

The race pits the incumbent’s second-in-command, and his cousin, against a New Orleans East businessman.

Oct 20 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • nola.com

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

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

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

Whither Vladimir? (Part 1)

It’s no secret that a big part of the Blue Jays’ disappointing 2026 was the result of a disastrous season by superstar first baseman Vladimir Guerrero jr. Vlad’s offensive production cratered, from an average wRC+ of 139 from 2023-2025 to 95 this past season. If the team’s going to get back into contention in 2027 […]

Oct 20 • 3:24 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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

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

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

Arkansas football commitments excited about win over Vanderbilt

Several Arkansas football commitments liked what they saw of the Razorbacks’ 31-21 road victory over Vanderbilt while ending a 14-game SEC losing streak.

Oct 20 • 3:00 AM EDT • Sports • wholehogsports.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

Baseus’ new security camera has a spotlight that tracks and follows moving targets

Smile for the camera.

Oct 20 • 12:00 AM EDT • Technology • theverge.com

Texas Health Fort Worth Earns Commitment to Quality Award for Second Consecutive Year

FORT WORTH, TEXAS, Oct. 16, 2026 – Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth has once again earned the American Heart Association’s Commitment to Qu

Oct 19 • 11:53 PM EDT • Health • fortworthbusiness.com

Jayden Daniels' second TD throw pulls Washington within 23-17

Oct 19 • 10:52 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

McDaniels strategically secures an additional $40 …

McDaniels strategically secures an additional $40 …

Oct 19 • 9:40 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Advanced materials firm founded by LANL veteran moves into Nambé facility

Discovery 2 Scale is working with AI to develop new materials for national security applications and using robotics to test and manufacture them.

Oct 19 • 9:30 PM EDT • Business • santafenewmexican.com

Republic Claims Associates, Public Adjuster in Manhattan NY, Secures Licenses in Five New Jurisdictions, Reinforcing Its Position as a Trusted Firm for Homeowners and Businesses

Manhattan, NY, Oct. 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Republic Claims Associates, a public adjuster in Manhattan NY, has secured public adjuster lice...

Oct 19 • 9:25 PM EDT • Business • markets.businessinsider.com

FNCS Solos Last Chance Qualifier in NA West: Session 1

Keep your FNCS Solos journey alive in the Last Chance Qualifier! LCQ Round 1 is open to eligible players who participated in an FNCS Solos Qualifier Round 1 session but have not already advanced to the LCQ Final or the FNCS Solos Finals. Players will compete in a single three-hour session with up to 11 matches. After the session concludes, the top 70 players in each region will advance to the LCQ Final. The LCQ Final lasts approximately two and a half hours and features up to five matches. Every match provides a direct path to the Finals: the player who earns the Victory Royale will receive 1,000 points and immediately qualify for the FNCS Solos Finals. Once qualified through a Victory Royale, that player may not compete in any remaining LCQ Final matches. After the LCQ Final concludes, the next 17 highest-scoring players who have not earned a Victory Royale will also advance to the FNCS Solos Finals. This is your last chance to secure a spot—good luck and have fun!

Oct 19 • 9:00 PM EDT • Technology • fortnitetracker.com

Meeting Candice Swanepoel, spotting Timothée Chalamet: Inside the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

Getting to attend the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show? Talk about a millennial Tumblr girl's dream come true.

Oct 19 • 7:14 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

‘The user is hacking himself’: How AI exposes Israel’s political inner circles

The Urich leak raises concerns about AI-assisted programming, third-party messaging services, and the potential for personal accounts to expose sensitive political communications. Every 90 seconds, an...

Oct 19 • 6:54 PM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com

Syracuse Football: Halloween Game Time Finalized

The Orange host SMU on Oct. 31, marking the second consecutive home game on the holiday.

Oct 19 • 6:46 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Brentwood business owner admits failing to pay employee taxes to IRS, prosecutors say

A Brentwood business owner pleaded guilty to failing to pay federal taxes tied to his employees' wages, a case prosecutors say involved nearly a decade of unpai

Oct 19 • 6:24 PM EDT • Business • fox17.com

Advancing Women's Health to Improve Outcomes in All Phases of Life

The Executive Order (“EO”) makes it federal policy to prioritize turning women’s health research into better clinical care at every life stage, and it directs HHS, through NIH, to set up a new Women’s Health Division within 90 days. In coordination with the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health, the Division will focus on, among other things, understudied women’s health conditions, greater inclusion of women and girls in clinical trials and grant recipients’ adherence to NIH's policy on sex as a biological variable. The EO also creates a White House Women’s Health Task Force, co-chaired by the Secretary of HHS and the Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff and composed of officials from other departments and agencies.

Oct 19 • 6:13 PM EDT • Health • akingump.com

Five Cybersecurity Areas for Review This Month » CBIA

Cybersecurity conversations often stay with IT until a disruption affects operations, reporting, customer relationships, or decision-making.

Oct 19 • 6:06 PM EDT • Business • cbia.com

Iowa 55-hour ‘FilmSprint’ comes to Cedar Rapids this fall

Cedar Rapids Independent Filmmakers launches the Iowa 55-Hour FilmSprint, Nov. 6-8, 2026, challenging teams to write, shoot and edit a short film with Iowa-themed secret elements.

Oct 19 • 6:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • thegazette.com

LJ McCray Named SEC Defensive Lineman of the Week

After missing a full season, the junior standout ignited Florida's historic road upset.

Oct 19 • 5:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Entergy, Google announce second phase partnership

Entergy Arkansas announced Monday (Oct. 19) as part of its continued partnership with Google, a second phase of its service to support Google’s $4 billion data center project in West...

Oct 19 • 4:32 PM EDT • Business • talkbusiness.net

Entergy, Google announce second phase partnership

Entergy Arkansas announced Monday (Oct. 19) as part of its continued partnership with Google, a second phase of its service to support Google’s $4 billion data center project in West...

Oct 19 • 4:32 PM EDT • Politics • talkbusiness.net

HomePod 27.2 Adds Sound Glow to Existing HomePod Models

Apple's latest software update for the HomePod brings a new Sound Glow feature to the HomePod, HomePod mini, and HomePod mini 2. Apple introduced Sound Glow as a HomePod mini 2 feature, but it's available for the second-generation HomePod and the original HomePod mini too. HomePod Software 27.2 is available as a release candidate update for developers and public beta testers, but it should launch next week.

Oct 19 • 4:31 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com

Newsweek names Encompass Health America's Most Awarded Leader in Inpatient Rehabilitation for seventh consecutive year

/PRNewswire/ -- Encompass Health today announced it has been named America's Most Awarded Leader in Inpatient Rehabilitation by Newsweek for the seventh...

Oct 19 • 4:30 PM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com

Embattled cannabis business CEO accused of failing to pay $1.5 million in federal payroll taxes

Her company, La Mota, is linked to the 2023 resignation of former Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan.

Oct 19 • 4:02 PM EDT • Business • oregonlive.com

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to visit Eau Claire Tuesday with Small Business Administrator

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WQOW) — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will visit Eau Claire on Tuesday as part of the Arsenal of Freedom Tour.

Oct 19 • 4:00 PM EDT • Business • wkow.com

Your HomePod has a colorful new party trick: how to enable Sound Glow

Apple is rolling out a new feature for HomePod mini and the second-gen big HomePod called Sound Glow. This lights...

Oct 19 • 3:24 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com

50 Cent Calls Cardi B a 'Hit,' Says She Escaped the 'Dead Hip-Hop Section'

The rapper and entertainment mogul chronicled Cardi's "bulletproof" rise from reality television to mainstream music.

Oct 19 • 2:45 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Prosecutors: Saudi government supported ex-OpenAI employee

Abdulrahman Alfozan had been in contact as recently as October 5 with a member of the Saudi Royal Family, prosecutors said.

Oct 19 • 11:56 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

Louisiana ranks 9th nationally for business competitiveness for second consecutive year

Louisiana is once again ranked among the nation's top 10 states for business competitiveness. The publication ...

Oct 19 • 11:32 AM EDT • Business • louisianaradionetwork.com

The Crucial Questions Facing Business Services

Sector insiders offer their take on four big challenges.

Oct 19 • 11:26 AM EDT • Business • wired.com

Duo Andalus Will Perform in Wellfleet

As part of Cape Symphony Presents “Secret Planet Cape Cod” music series, Duo Andalus will play at Wellfleet Preservation Hall on Saturday, November 7, at 7 PM.

Oct 19 • 11:15 AM EDT • Entertainment • capenews.net

Giannoulias opens big lead in Chicago mayoral poll as Johnson loses support

The secretary of state leads in first- and second-choice preferences, while just a quarter of Brandon Johnson's 2023 voters say they'd support him again.

Oct 19 • 11:14 AM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com

The Knox Regional Health Science Education Center over the years

Here's photos that The Oak Ridger has run over the years from Roane State Community College of the Knox Regional Health Science Education Center.

Oct 19 • 10:52 AM EDT • Science • oakridger.com

The Knox Regional Health Science Education Center over the years

Here's photos that The Oak Ridger has run over the years from Roane State Community College of the Knox Regional Health Science Education Center.

Oct 19 • 10:52 AM EDT • Health • oakridger.com

Pakistan suspends Iran border trade, amid violence on both sides

Islamabad cites security concerns, while Tehran points to technical issues as Pakistan mediates between Iran and the US.

Oct 19 • 10:43 AM EDT • Politics • aljazeera.com

THE WEEK OF OCT 19, 2026

- Lawmakers eyeing university research security - DHS proposes more visa changes - NIH considers hiding peer review scores

Oct 19 • 10:31 AM EDT • Science • aip.org

F5 releases out-of-band patches for critical NGINX vulnerabilities

F5 has released out-of-band security patches to address multiple NGINX web server flaws, including three critical-severity vulnerabilities that can let attackers execute code on vulnerable systems.

Oct 19 • 9:49 AM EDT • Technology • bleepingcomputer.com

Supreme Court backs Pentagon decision to throw out plea deals for 9/11 alleged conspirators

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s decision to cancel plea agreements with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants accused of plotting the 9/11 terror attack.

Oct 19 • 9:37 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

eMazzanti Technologies Named NJBIZ 2026 Business of the Year Finalist

eMazzanti Technologies, a leading Hoboken, NJ-based Cybersecurity, managed services, and digital transformation provider with a national footprint, announced today that it has been selected as a finalist in the NJBIZ 2026 Business of the Year Awards program. The recognition highlights organizations that demonstrate sustained growth, innovation, leadership, and a positive impact on New Jersey's business community. An independent panel of judges comprised of previous program honorees selected the

Oct 19 • 9:15 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com

Predicting Knicks’ Full Rotation for Opening Night vs. 76ers

The defending champion Knicks' starting five is no secret to anybody, but who will make up the rest of the rotation on opening night Tuesday?

Oct 19 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Victoria's Secret Fashion Show's biggest moments, including that surprise

LOS ANGELES – The Angels returned to Los Angeles on Sunday, bringing star power, dramatic wings, history-making bling and a big surprise to the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show after previously

Oct 19 • 8:59 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com

How the Brewers got to the World Series

Despite playing in MLB's smallest market, the Brewers posted the best record in the majors for a second straight year, earned their eighth playoff berth in nine seasons and won a fourth straight NL Central title.

Oct 19 • 8:47 AM EDT • Sports • spectrumnews1.com

Rank them: Browns among top AFC teams, but how high?

As the Cleveland Browns secure another division win, where does this place them amongst the rest of the AFC?

Oct 19 • 8:18 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com