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Paddleboarders make debut in 125-mile canoe race

The Devizes-to-Westminster International Canoe Race has a stand-up paddleboard category this year.

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Apr 4 • 9:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
As Trump orders UFO data released, a question hangs: If aliens exist, what would they think of us?

It came from outer space?

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Apr 4 • 9:24 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
Here’s how NASA cleared the iPhone 17 Pro Max for astronauts on Artemis II

The iPhone 17 Pro Max made it onto Artemis II after NASA cleared it for spaceflight, with each astronaut using one to capture the mission.

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Apr 4 • 9:10 AM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com
Album Review: 6WA by BigXthaPlug & 600 Entertainment

BigXthaPlug spent eight months in Nashville making a country-rap album that debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200, put “All the Way” with Bailey Zimmerman at No. 4 on the Hot 100, got him a Rolling Stone cover, and filled arenas with Jelly Roll. And then he came back to Dallas, rounded up four of his signees, and made a gangsta-rap record with N.W.A’s Straight Outta Compton on the cover. 6WA is the second group release from 600 Entertainment, named after the 600 block of Meadowridge Street in Ferris, Texas, where BigX and his people grew up. The whole thing is loaded with West Coast samples. From N.W.A.’s “8Ball,” Eazy-E’s “Real Muthaphuckkin G’s” and “Boyz-N-The-Hood,” Ice-T’s “6 in the Mornin’,” Snoop Dogg’s “Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang” and more. BigX is staking his name on the lineup he built—Rosama, MurdaGang PB, Yung Hood, KevanGotBandz, KaineMusic—and claiming a lineage from 1,400 miles away while insisting Dallas is its own thing. A million dollars in cash, split and handed straight to his mother. That’s the first place BigX goes on “From the Bottom.” He’d probably still be in the streets if he didn’t have his son and daughter. He only started rapping to make life better for Carter. Couldn’t start his car back then, now people get starstruck at Starbucks, and he throws the whole field away in one sentence: “How you think we competin’? You on the same bag, I just made me some millions off country.” Goyard bags off a Nashville payday, and he wants you to know exactly how far he’s come from everybody else. “Safe to Say” does something similar but looser. It’s a straight Ice Cube “It Was a Good Day” flip, and BigX nails it. Wakes up, checks both phones, nobody’s locked up, kid accounts look good. Gets pulled over, only catches a warning. Pulls up on the squad to liquor, ladies, and haze. Rosama takes the second verse and matches him. Wakes up to his girl cleaning his cuticles, twins playing peekaboo, pays off his car, calls a cousin, sees the opps and they don’t trip. Lawyer calls, he beat his case. Rosama is the strongest voice in the 600 camp after BigX, and “Life of a Gangster” is why. Third person, riding low, blacked-out windows, snub-nose revolver. A character who chose sticking people up over selling dope. “Quick eraser like a number-two pencil.” He never breaks character, and his delivery drops lower and slower than anything he does on the group cuts, like he’s telling you something at a cookout that he probably shouldn’t. Then on “Long Live Fre$h” he’s a completely different rapper. “Short-bus diamonds, these bitches retarded,” wide-body Durango he can’t even park. That kind of range matters on a group record. MurdaGang PB’s best verse is on the title track. Feds at his door at 6 AM, cameras busted, flushing dope, ram truck putting everybody on the floor. Yung Hood on “The Hottest” just lays out four reasons to keep hustling. Who wants to be broke, women cost money, you need bail, and home has to be straight. It’s funnier and more honest than most rappers get when they’re trying to explain why they sell drugs. KevanGotBandz on “Ain’t Never Slowin’ Down” talks about his father getting caught on the dope while he’s sitting on $300K somewhere in the hills, which is a specific kind of guilt that doesn’t usually make it onto crew tapes. KaineMusic, the newest signee, takes the back half of “Who Dunnit” and introduces herself in third person—“Took flight just to show these hoes how to perform”—but it’s too short to know if she can hold a full song. The flex tracks fill the middle of the LP and mostly run together. “I Go” is Rosama and PB trading brands, guns, and food punchlines. Rosama’s “anemic, my iron tucked low in this shirt” is a slick gun bar, PB fires back with “.223 with a clip ‘bout as big as a toddler” and “I go Burger King, stay with that whopper.” Quick, funny sometimes, but it’s all shopping lists. “Dopeman” is a chant. “6ixer Party” brings Snoop Dogg, who does exactly what you’d expect Snoop Dogg to do. BigX contributes the night’s wildest overshare: “She say she brought a friend too, well, I’m tryna put sausage on her dental.” These songs move fast and don’t overstay, but three or four of them could trade verses and nobody would catch it. Midway through, The D.O.C. shows up for a spoken-word interlude. Tracy Curry. West Dallas native, former N.W.A affiliate, co-writer on a lot of the records getting sampled on this very album. He thanks BigX for the tribute and then gets direct: “This your time, this DFW time. You need to do it like we do it down here.” Leave bread crumbs so everybody behind you can eat. Keep God in your life. It’s fatherly and generous, and it does raise the question of whether 6WA follows that advice. The album borrows heavy. The cover art, the Eazy-E samples, “Amerikkka’s Most Wanted” opening with a direct “Boyz-N-The-Hood” lift, Yung Hood rapping “Flag on my left side, Crip until I die.” But the stuff that actually stays with you is Dallas. BigX talking about Pleasant Grove, Rosama calling himself a country boy, PB recounting a raid that could’ve been last Tuesday. The record smells most like itself when it smells like Ferris, Texas, and least like Compton. BigX on “The Hottest” says his father was the first person he knew who had chickens. Not the way rappers usually wave at the drug trade. He means his actual father, his actual family. On “600 Degrees,” Rosama compares his chopper’s stutter to a speech disorder, PB claims he still has the block on his back even after leaving the city. BigX closes that one saying he used to spin and smack, and now the plaques are platinum. Thirty-two minutes was right for this. Nobody overstays, Tony Coles and Rance and Charley Cooks keep the production punchy, and BigX gives his signees real room instead of crowding every song. 6WA doesn’t reinvent anything. Five rappers, good beats, short clock. Most of what they say you’ve heard before. Some of it—the million to his mother, the cuticles and peekaboo, the four reasons to hustle—you won’t forget. Solid (★★★½☆) Favorite Track(s): “Safe to Say,” “From the Bottom,” “The Hottest” Subscribe

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Apr 4 • 8:03 AM EDT • Entertainment • shatterthestandards.com
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Does athletic tape really work? Here's what experts say

Kinesiology tape, worn by athletes like Serena Williams, Olympians and the rest of us, may have more of a placebo effect than a performance benefit, new research finds.

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Apr 4 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • nbcnews.com
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Trump Slashed Funding for Science. Now the U.S. Faces a Costly Brain Drain.

The White House’s attacks on academia and budget cuts for research have provided an opening for other countries to poach leading scientists.

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Apr 4 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • nytimes.com
Binge drinking just once a month may triple your risk of liver scarring

Many people think that occasional binge drinking is harmless if they otherwise drink in moderation, but new research suggests that assumption may be dangerously wrong. A large U.S. study found that people with metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), a condition affecting about one in three adults, face a much higher risk of serious liver scarring if they engage in heavy drinking even just once a month.

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Apr 4 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Politics of Black hair: why grooming rules are under scrutiny across the diaspora

From schools in Ghana to workplaces in Britain, underpinned by the colonial roots of ‘respectability’, conversations around natural hairstyle persist

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Apr 4 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
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Julia Letlow faces more questions about past DEI comments in Louisiana Senate campaign

Can U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy raise enough questions about U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow’s conservative credentials?

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Apr 4 • 6:55 AM EDT • Politics • nola.com
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Previously Unknown Human Lineage Discovered In Northern East Asia Survived And Adapted After The Ice Age Ended

The results suggest these hunter-gatherers persisted and adapted to a warming world, rather than being quickly replaced by farmers.

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Apr 4 • 6:30 AM EDT • Science • iflscience.com
How a Louisiana lawyer from the 1800s appeared in the legal fight over birthright citizenship

WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court justices are considering two cases that could change long-established constitutional interpretations concerning race — and Louisiana plays an integral role in both.

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Apr 4 • 6:15 AM EDT • Politics • nola.com
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Naples Community’s Choice Awards business spotlight: Joint Replacement Institute

Nominations for the Naples Community’s Choice Awards are open! It's time to recognize your favorite local businesses.

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Apr 4 • 6:02 AM EDT • Business • naplesnews.com
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Dead insects. Fuzzy white growth. Expired foods. Worst SC Midlands March restaurant inspections

There are plenty of great restaurants in the Midlands, but many don’t meet the state’s health and safety standards.

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Apr 4 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • thestate.com
XAI's cofounder chaos, rebuilding is vintage Elon Musk

xAI lost Ross Nordeen, its final non-Musk cofounder, this month. What does the turnover mean for the startup's looming IPO with SpaceX?

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Apr 4 • 5:22 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Trump endorsed this MAGA congressman's twin. Will he make history?

Trever Nehls could replace his twin brother Rep. Troy Nehls, a loyalist to President Donald Trump. Can the MAGA heir apparent make history?

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Apr 4 • 5:02 AM EDT • Politics • usatoday.com
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A month of war in Iran prompts clashing political views on Long Island

Polls show that a majority of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump's launching of a military operation against Iran.

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Apr 4 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • newsday.com
Ye attempts a comeback with sold-out LA-area concert, support from Lauryn Hill

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Apr 4 • 3:57 AM EDT • Entertainment • audacy.com
Bayer Leverkusen vs Wolfsburg: Team news and predicted line-up

Relegation-threatened Wolfsburg travel to the BayArena to face top-four candidates Bayer Leverkusen. Leverkusen sit comfortably in sixth place, having an eight-point gap between them and seventh-plac...

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Apr 4 • 3:25 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Young Adults With High Blood Pressure Face Higher Risk of Heart, Kidney Disease

Recent research suggests that adults ages 30 to 40 with high blood pressure may face a higher risk of cardiovascular and kidney disease later in life. These findings highlight the importance of maintaining a healthy blood pressure at a younger age.

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Apr 4 • 3:23 AM EDT • Health • healthline.com
Call for citizen scientists to collect space dust

Resident are urged to join a cosmic quest for micrometeorites from space landing in their gutters.

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Apr 4 • 2:14 AM EDT • Science • bbc.com
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Saturday, April 4, 2026

Saturday, April 4, 2026

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Apr 4 • 1:00 AM EDT • Sports • miamiherald.com
Final Four 2026: Lauren Betts, UCLA shut down Texas in 'ugly' game to reach national championship

Follow along with the latest as the Texas Longhorns and UCLA Bruins face off in the Final Four for a bid to the championship.

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Apr 4 • 12:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Philadelphia businesses brace for shoppers preparing for Easter
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Laie slipper business needs help saving inventory after Kona low flooding

J-Slips Hawaii faces heavy losses from Kona low flooding and is asking for volunteers to help clean and restore affected inventory.

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Apr 3 • 11:08 PM EDT • Business • hawaiinewsnow.com
Laie business seeks community help after flood damages thousands of pairs of slippers

J-Slips Hawaii faces heavy losses from Kona Low flooding and calls on volunteers to help clean and restore affected inventory.

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Apr 3 • 11:08 PM EDT • Business • hawaiinewsnow.com
Colo Colo face Concepción to defend top spot

Colo Colo comes into the Liga de Primera in great form, where it will resume action this Sunday against Deportes Concepción. El Cacique will resume its campaign with five wins and two losses, which...

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Apr 3 • 11:03 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Atlético Madrid vs Barcelona, La Liga: Preview

Barça begin a trio of giant games against Atleti, looking for a big win in the first one to stay in control of the title race

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Apr 3 • 11:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Dover School District doing away with health insurance provider

This comes after the provider has faced numerous problems in the last year, including quoting districts millions of dollars to help pay for a lack of funds.

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Apr 3 • 10:35 PM EDT • Health • wmur.com
In Alaska's U.S. Senate race, Peltola takes aim at 'crooked' political elites

If you follow Mary Peltola on social media, maybe you’ve noticed that the former Alaska congresswoman is talking about more than fish, family and freedom as she runs for U.S. Senate.

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Apr 3 • 9:30 PM EDT • Politics • alaskapublic.org
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Why are people allowed to bet on politics? | California Politics 360

Right now, at least $13 million has been placed in bets on the California governor's race in a state that doesn't allow online sports betting. KCRA's Ashley Zavala on why people are allowed to bet on politics.

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Apr 3 • 9:24 PM EDT • Politics • ktvu.com
UNK to name Health Science Education Center II atrium for Carey and Brian Hamilton

A major new space at the University of Nebraska at Kearney will soon carry the names of two longtime supporters as the university works to expand health educati

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Apr 3 • 9:22 PM EDT • Science • nebraska.tv
UNK to name Health Science Education Center II atrium for Carey and Brian Hamilton

A major new space at the University of Nebraska at Kearney will soon carry the names of two longtime supporters as the university works to expand health educati

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Apr 3 • 9:22 PM EDT • Health • nebraska.tv
Trump Contemplates Other Cabinet Changes as He Faces Political Clock

With the midterms approaching, the president may be running out of time to get new cabinet members confirmed without bipartisan support.

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Apr 3 • 9:03 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Oregon gave millions in erroneous benefits for state health plan, audit says

By Shaanth Nanguneri, Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM, Ore. -- A free Oregon health care program for adults who make too much money to qualify for Medicaid could have improperly given out $15 million in payments related to benefits for recipients, according to a recent audit of state-managed federal programs. The “questioned” funds surfaced in an 124-page

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Apr 3 • 8:20 PM EDT • Health • ktvz.com
MXene breakthrough boosts conductivity 160x with perfect atomic order

A new breakthrough is transforming MXenes—ultra-thin, high-tech materials—into something far more powerful and precise. Researchers have developed a cleaner, more controlled way to build these materials using molten salts and iodine, eliminating the messy chemical processes that once left their surfaces disordered. The result is a perfectly arranged atomic structure that lets electrons flow with remarkable ease, boosting conductivity by up to 160 times.

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Apr 3 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
New Business: Slightly Crooked Pies opens on Manchester’s Elm Street, The Mallard lands in Londonderry

Entering Slightly Crooked Pies on Elm Street in Manchester, customers are taken back in time. The homey wallpaper features cherries in the design to fit the theme, and the space

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Mangat Group bets $250M on West Valley small business spaces

A developer plans to invest $250 million in small industrial units, targeting small business squeezed out by large warehouses.

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90 Painfully Relatable Programming Memes That Might Just Break Your Brain (New Pics)

Every job has its quirks. But some feel almost like a world of their own. Like programming—we (indirectly) interact with it every day, yet many of us know surprisingly little when it comes to what actually goes on behind the screens. The subreddit ‘Programmer Humor’ is the perfect place to bridge this gap. It allows them—and pretty much everyone involved in computer science—to air their frustrations and give the rest of us a better understanding of what their day-to-day really looks like. Here a

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Business looking up inside Bakersfield's office market

A pattern repeats itself along Bakersfield's California Avenue professional services corridor west of downtown: Building after building has signs out front advertising space for lease.

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Apr 3 • 6:00 PM EDT • Business • bakersfield.com
Small Business Cybersecurity Training Program Scales Nationwide

The national Small Business Development Center is taking a program that was started in Delaware and offering it through its full 1,200-center network across the country.

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Apr 3 • 5:57 PM EDT • Business • govtech.com
Central Oregon’s Mt. Bachelor resort gets into the hotel business

"Right place, right time" led the resort to jump on a long-term lease on the road to its lifts.

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Apr 3 • 5:22 PM EDT • Business • opb.org
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President Trump signs order intended to stabilize college sports

President Donald Trump signs executive order aimed at curbing the 'financial arms race that threatens' college sports.

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Apr 3 • 5:10 PM EDT • Sports • swxlocalsports.com
Election 2026: Brown hopes for a political comeback; Challenger says Ohioans want something new

Sherrod Brown has not lost a primary election in his 50-year political career and he hopes to keep that streak alive next month when he faces Ronald Kincaid, a retired

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Brooklyn Park To Offer Rent, Business Assistance After ICE Surge

An assistance program will soon be in place to help relieve some of the financial strain businesses faced during Operation Metro Surge.

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Apr 3 • 4:06 PM EDT • Business • ccxmedia.org
William Staggers on music, creativity, and Staggers Music Entertainment

William Staggers joins us to share his story of writing and arranging his own songs, building a creative space for other artists, and the work he is doing through Staggers Music Entertainment to in…

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COLCLESSER COLLECTS STEEPLE WIN AT PACESETTER SPORTS INVITE

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - IU Indianapolis women's track sophomore Ella Colclesser earned an individual win in the 3,000m steeplechase as the Jaguars opened competition in the two-day Pacesetter Sports Invitational on Friday night (Apr. 3). Colclesser topped the 10-runner field, competing primarily against runners from across the state.

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WA to sue Trump over national voting list, vote-by-mail restrictions

The lawsuit argues that the Constitution places states in charge of administering elections and says Trump's order violates the separation of powers.

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Apr 3 • 2:14 PM EDT • Politics • seattletimes.com
Steelers could face competition for Aaron Rodgers, per report

The Pittsburgh Steelers may face stiff competition from the Denver Broncos for Aaron Rodgers, according to a new report from Mike Florio.

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Apr 3 • 2:09 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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COA senior class hosts contra dance

BAR HARBOR — The College of the Atlantic Class of 2026 invites all to a community contra dance on Sunday, April 19, from 3–5 p.m. The dance takes place in

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Big Banks Seeking a Piece of SpaceX’s I.P.O. Must Subscribe to Elon Musk’s Grok

Mr. Musk is requiring Wall Street firms to purchase subscriptions to his A.I. chatbot if they want to advise on one of the largest initial public offerings in history.

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Politics Friday: 3 congressional candidates vying for their party's endorsement

Friday at noon, a check-in on the only Minnesota congressional race guaranteed to send a new person to Washington. MPR News politics editor Brian Bakst speaks with three candidates seeking to represent the 2nd Congressional District.

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Gemma 4 and what makes an open model succeed

Having written a lot of model release blog posts, there’s something much harder about reviewing open models when they drop relative to closed models, especially in 2026. In recent years, there were so few open models, so when Llama 3 was released most people were still doing research on Llama 2 and super happy to get an update. When Qwen 3 was released, the Llama 4 fiasco had just gone down, and a whole research community was emerging to study RL on Qwen 2.5 — it was a no brainer to upgrade. Today, when an open model releases, it’s competing with Qwen 3.5, Kimi K2.5, GLM 5, MiniMax M2.5, GPT-OSS, Arcee Large, Nemotron 3, Olmo 3, and others. The space is populated, but still feels full of hidden opportunity. The potential of open models feels like a dark matter, a potential we know is huge, but few clear recipes and examples for how to unlock it are out there. Agentic AI, OpenClaw, and everything brewing in that space is going to spur mass experimentation in open models to complement the likes of Claude and Codex, not replace them. Especially with open models, the benchmarks at release are an extremely incomplete story. In some ways this is exciting, as new open models have a much higher variance and ability to surprise, but it also points at some structural reasons that make building businesses and great AI experiences around open models harder than the closed alternatives. When a new Claude Opus or GPT drops, spending a few hours with them in my agentic workflows is genuinely a good vibe test. For open models, putting them through this test is a category error. Something else to be said about open models in the era of agents is that they get out of the debate of integration, harnesses, and tools and let us see close to the ground on what exactly is the ability of just a model. Of course, we can’t test some things like search abilities without some tool, but being able to measure exactly the pace of progress of the model alone is a welcome simplification to a systematically opaque AI space. Share The list of factors I’d use to assess a new open-weight model I’m considering investing in includes: Model performance (and size) — how this model performs on benchmarks I care about and how it compares to other models of a similar size. Country of origin — some businesses care deeply about provenance, and if a model was built in China or not. Model license — if a model needs legal approval for use, uptake will be slower at mid-sized and large companies. Tooling at release — many models release with half-broken, or at least substantially slower, implementations in popular software like vLLM, Transformers, SGLANG, etc due to pushing the envelope of architectures or tools. Model fine-tunability — how easy or hard it is to modify the given model to your use-case when you actually try and use it. The core problem is that some of these are immediately available at release, e.g. general performance, license, origin, etc. but others such as tooling take day(s) to week(s) to stabilize, and others are open research questions — with no group systematically monitoring fine-tunability. In the early era of open models, the days of Llama 2 or 3 and Qwen pre v3.5, the architectures were fairly simple and the models tended to work out of the box. Some of this was due to the extremely hard work of the Llama, Qwen, Mistral, etc. developer teams. Some is due to the new models being genuinely harder to work with. When it comes to something like Qwen 3.5 or Nemotron 3, with hybrid models (either gated delta net or mamba layers), the tooling is very rough at release. Things you would expect to “just work” often don’t. I’ve been following this area closely since we released Olmo Hybrid with a similar architecture, and Qwen 3.5 is just starting to work well in the various open-source tools that need to all play nice together for RL research. That’s 1.5 months after the release date! This is just to start really investing more into understanding the behavior of the models. Of course, others started working on these models sooner by investing more engineering resources or relying on partially closed software. The fully open and distributed ecosystem takes a long time to get going on some new models. All of this is lead-in for the most important question for open models — how easy is it to adapt to specific use-cases? This is a different problem for different model sizes. Large MoE open-weight models may be used by entities like Cursor who need complex capabilities in their domain, e.g. Composer 2 trained on Kimi K2.5. Other applications can be built on much smaller models, such as Chroma’s Context-1 model for agentic search, built on GPT-OSS 20B. The question of “which models are fine-tunable” is largely background knowledge known by engineers across the industry. There should be a thriving research area here to support the open ecosystem model. The first step is to understand characteristics of different base and post-trained models to understand what they look like. The second step is to tune pretraining recipes for open models so they’re more flexible. Interconnects AI is a reader-supported publication. Consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe For The ATOM Project and other Interconnects endeavors, we’ve put in substantial effort to measuring adoption trends in the open ecosystem. Everything takes a long time to unfold after a model is first publicly available — and adaptability is why. What we know for sure now, when Qwen has been going from strength to strength with its releases, is that technical staff across the industry has gotten comfortable working with Qwen models. Countless research methods and datasets were made to work with Qwen. It’ll take patience for any other model family to get to this point — a patience I’m not sure many open model builders have. This takes us to Gemma 4, Google’s latest open models. Gemma 3 was released more than a year ago, in March of 2025, and is a bit underrated. Gemma 4 comes in 4 sizes for now, with a bigger, MoE model of over 100B total parameters rumored but not released yet. The models we have today come in sizes of ~5B dense, 8B dense, 26B total 4B active MoE, and 31B dense. I’m most excited that they’re finally adopting a standard Apache 2.0 open source license. This’ll massively boost adoption. The standard of better licenses for strong open-weight LLMs was set by mostly Chinese open model labs in the last 1-2 years, and now U.S. companies are following suit. I will personally be so happy if the horrible Llama licenses and Gemma terms of service were an ~18-month transient dynamic of the industry being nervous about releasing strong open models. The Gemma 4 scores look very solid, the small models have incredible benchmark scores (especially in general domains like LMArena) and the 31B model rivals the recent Qwen 3.5 27B, which is the leading member of that class. The ~30B size range is an important one, as it’s accessible both to researchers and to enterprises looking to deploy the model in real use-cases. Where the 7B model scale is the default for tinkering and research, a 30B model is the default for seeing if an open model can unlock substantial value in your specific workflow — a good mix of intelligence, low price, tractability for downstream training, etc. This takes us back to the above adoption criteria I mentioned for open models and the bigger question — do I think Gemma 4 will be an overwhelming success? Previous Gemma models have been plagued by tooling issues and poorer performance when being finetuned. Gemma 4’s success is going to be entirely determined by ease of use, to a point where a 5-10% swing on benchmarks wouldn’t matter at all. It’s strong enough, small enough, with the right license, and from the U.S., so many companies are going to slot it in. I’m cautiously optimistic that Gemma 4 is going to work better here. Winds are shifting for open models built in America. We saw GPT-OSS go through a bumpy launch to become an overwhelming success. There’s a collective energy around the likes of Reflection, Arcee, Nemotron, Gemma, Olmo, and peers that show substantial demand for building new stacks around open models. There’s capital to be spent on AI stacks across the economy by those who want more ownership of everything, including the model. After launching The ATOM Project 240 days ago, the conversation is shifting into the next stage. Summer of 2025 was a crisis moment where the U.S. AI scene realized it can’t wait and figure out open models after building AGI. The two markets will capture different areas and proceed in parallel. Now that more companies in the U.S. are releasing strong models, we need to improve the ecosystem so that these models are easy to use, understand, and build value around. It’s the hard work to build another inflection point in these adoption plots I’ve been updating consistently, but that’s the work to be done. Join me in it. More data coming soon! Here’s a sneak peek:

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Health Care Roundup: Market Talk

Find insight on Eli Lilly, Hansoh Pharmaceutical Group and more in the latest Market Talks covering the Health Care sector.

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NHL Playoff Race: What the Penguins need to do

The Penguins lost to Tampa last night but still remain incredibly well-positioned to secure a playoff spot this season. Here’s the relevant standings for them as of now. While there could be other avenues with a Wild Card spot, for now we’ll keep it simple on the most straight-forward path available to Pittsburgh: finishing in […]

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'Trust us; you look amazing': Artemis II crewmembers share first message from space

As Artemis II begins humanity's first return to the moon in over 50 years, the four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft shared their first message from deep space.

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Missouri sports betting market officially launched: $5,000 in sportsbook sign-up bonuses, promos in April

Missourians can now place sports bets with mobile sportsbooks and get Missouri sports betting offers for the Missouri betting launch

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FY2027 Budget Request Slashes Billions in Science Funding

The Trump administration is requesting the cancellation of billions of dollars in funds for space science, renewable energy, carbon removal, and climate change education in its FY 2027 budget.

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Apr 3 • 11:26 AM EDT • Science • eos.org
Starfield details PS5 features

Publisher Bethseda Softworks and developer Bethesda Game Studios have released a new trailer and information for Starfield introducing the open-world space action RPG’s PlayStation 5-specific…

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How the Apple Watch defined modern health tech

You can trace the state of health tech today to this single gadget.

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Iowa City business owner purchases former SpareMe bowling property

A new business plans to take over the former SpareMe Bowl & Arcade space at the Chauncy building in Iowa City.

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iPhone 18 Pro Launching Later This Year With These 12 New Features

While the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are not expected to launch for more than five more months, there are already plenty of rumors about the devices. It was initially reported that the iPhone 18 Pro models would have fully under-screen Face ID, with only a front camera visible in the top-left corner of the screen. However, the latest rumors indicate that only one Face ID component will be moved under the screen on the devices, which will result in merely a smaller Dynamic Island.

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I Personally Guarantee You Won't Be Able To Keep A Straight Face While Looking At These 31 Pictures That Are Impossible Not To Laugh At

Just what the doctor ordered.

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Your Galaxy's Weather app just got a facelift: Here is what's new

Samsung updated its Weather app to v1.7.30.8 with new UI icons and radar toggles. See what has changed for your Galaxy smartphone.

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A look inside the digital backbone of business

AI and data systems are transforming the modern Midwestern workplace

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Even Astronauts Need IT Help. Artemis II Faces Microsoft Outlook Login Issues

Commander Reid Wiseman had two Microsoft Outlook accounts on his personal computer, and neither were working. Houston Mission Control stepped in to fix the issue remotely.

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US economy added 178,000 jobs in March, well above expectations

The Labor Department released the March jobs report on Friday which showed the economy added jobs at a solid pace last month after an unanticipated decline in February.

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Sky Sports: Liverpool must pay £87m to sign electric forward

Leipzig valuation puts Diomande among elite targetsLiverpool and Man Utd have been placed firmly on alert after RB Leipzig set a striking £87.3 million (€100m) valuation on highly-rated winger Yan ...

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What do you want to know about how space affects human health?

The Artemis II is flying astronauts to orbit the moon. The deep-space flight is a major opportunity to gather data for even longer, riskier missions, especially Mars. What are your questions about how the body copes with radiation, isolation, or weightlessness, and what scientists hope to learn from the mission?

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Killie players 'needed a telling off', says Deas

Robbie Deas says Kilmarnock players "needed a telling off" to help turn around their form this season. Killie travel to face Hibs on Saturday with the chance to exit the relegation play-off spot following their back-to-back wins over Livingston and table-toppers Hearts before the international break.

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Ranking Member Lofgren Blasts Trump Budget Request

The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

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Report: Yakima Valley air quality sees improvements, but health concerns remain

The report highlights East Yakima and Lower Yakima Valley as communities disproportionately impacted by air pollution. Ellensburg and the Moxee area also are mentioned.

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WHO’s head of emergencies reaffirms support to Lebanon’s health system amid escalating needs

Lebanon’s health system continues to function despite the mounting pressures of conflict, displacement and repeated attacks on health care – but without urgent action and sustained international support, access to essential health services is increasingly at risk.

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Assistant Beamline Scientist Grace Luo is facilitating next-generation science at the Advanced Photon Source

At Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source (APS), Grace Luo helps scientists understand atomic‑scale dynamics in functional devices to discover ways of creating more robust and efficient technologies.

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Todd Blanche takes over justice department after Pam Bondi sacking

Trump announced deputy attorney general, who was his former personal attorney, would act up until permanent replacement is confirmed

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Slay the Spire 2 nerfs card removal, buffs shivs, and adds a new reward system

New Slay the Spire 2 patch notes include a rework for Borrowed Time, a replacement for the Gloom Ascension, and a system called Badges.

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The newest entertainment facility in central Nebraska is now open in Kearney

Drop Zone features an 18-hole putt-putt course, 32 top tracer bays and four pickleball courts.

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Far from the Final Four, a protest in track spells out NCAA’s drug-fighting issues across all sports

It was supposed to be a time to celebrate as the top finishers in the NCAA Division III 5,000-meter title race lined up on the eight-tiered podium to receive their trophies. Instead…

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NBA MVP rankings: How does Luka Doncic injury shake up race?

Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Spurs big man Victor Wembanyama are the favorites for the 2025-26 NBA MVP award.

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Maui Mental Health Providers Face Stress And Uncertainty About State Jobs

Staff at a state-run clinic serving wildfire survivors in Hawai‘i have waited months for permanent jobs. Instead, they got another temporary contract.

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Trapanovski question mark as injury ends 'difficult campaign'

Dundee United manager Jim Goodwin has lamented the loss of "one of the best wingers in the league" for the rest of the season, leaving a question mark over the North Macedonia international's future at Tannadice. Goodwin confirmed Kristijan Trapanovski "underwent some surgery" on Wednesday on a knee injury the 26-year-old sustained in last month's Scottish Cup defeat away to Falkirk. Trapanovski, who has two caps for his country, is out of contract this summer having signed a two-year deal when arriving from Shkupi in his homeland in 2024.

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Importance of mental health is emphasized at event for Alachua County student athletes

The third annual Alachua County Public Schools Student-Athlete Resiliency Summit took place Thursday at the University of Florida Champions Club at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.

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Midshipmen Play Host to Holy Cross Saturday Afternoon on CBS Sports Network

Navy (6-4, 2-2 Patriot League) returns home to play host to Holy Cross (5-5, 2-3 Patriot League) on Saturday in a nationally-televised Patriot League contest. Faceoff is slated for 3:06 pm at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium and the game is presented by Navy Mutual. Navy is led by Joe Amplo, who has put together a 49-37 record in his 7 seasons at the helm of the Mids' program, while Holy Cross' J.L. Reppert has posted a 15-57 record in 6 seasons as the Crusaders' head coach. The contest marks the 22nd meeting in a series that dates back to 2004.

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Where to watch UConn vs. South Carolina in March Madness Final Four: Time, TV Channel

The No. 1 UConn Huskies face the No. 1 South Carolina Gamecocks in the Final Four of the women's NCAA Tournament. Here's how to see all the action.

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Apr 3 • 5:31 AM EDT • Sports • usatoday.com
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Madness in the city: Indy's dominance as Final Four host took 40 years, basketball magic

As the Final Four comes to Indy for the ninth time, look back at the moments that secured the city's place as premier host for basketball's big stage.

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Six Easter egg hunts on Cape Cod for kids and dogs

A half-dozen places on Cape Cod offer free Easter egg hunts -- some with a visit from the Easter Bunny himself.

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Takeaways from Trump's tough week, as war and gas prices take a toll

President Trump faces mounting political pressure on multiple fronts, particularly when it comes to his handling of the war and the consequences it's having on the economy.

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Artemis science team recruits Stony Brook planetary geologist to help analyze moon's structure

Timothy Glotch is one of 10 scientists who will shape the research plan for upcoming Artemis moon exploration missions, including the one that will put U.S. astronauts on the moon for the first time since Apollo 17, in 1972.

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Amazon considering purchase of Covington-based satellite company, reports say

The $9 billion deal between Amazon and Globalstar would give Amazon a boost as it tries to build a satellite network to compete with that of Starlink, a subsidiary of Elon Musk's company SpaceX.

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Maui Mental Health Providers Face Stress and Uncertainty About State Jobs

Staff at a state-run clinic serving wildfire survivors in Hawaii have waited months for permanent jobs. Instead, they got another temporary contract.

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Certain radiology subspecialties less likely to score promotions than others

In particular, rads working in breast imaging and pediatrics appear to score the lowest rates of career advancement, experts write in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology.

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How Israel is destroying healthcare infrastructure in southern Lebanon

Israel's attacks on hospitals, medical centres and healthcare workers are fuelling displacement and a health crisis.

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From sidewalks to systems: UK celebrates Public Health Week

Public health is all around us — from the sidewalks we walk on to the food we eat and the care we can access. National Public Health Week at the University of Kentucky College of Public Health celebrates that work while highlighting the students and faculty shaping it every day. Running April 5-11, this year’s events focus on community and connection.

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Morning Sports: April 3, 2026

Sheridan/Johnson County HS Spring Sports: Most of the Wyoming High School sports action took place during the mid-week to avoid conflicting with the Easter Holiday weekend. On the soccer field, the Sheridan boys and girls both won at Worland yesterday, by scores of 10-1 and 5-nil respectively. Buffalo split games at Powell. The Bison won […]

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West Bromwich vs Wrexham – Predicted lineup and team news

West Bromwich Albion host Wrexham this Good Friday, aiming to record three consecutive league victories for the first time this season.The Baggies have moved into 20th place following back-to-back win...

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New Mexico Wellness Wire: Health officials warn against baby birds as Easter gifts

Salmonella infections often occur after consuming contaminated food or water or touching animals, their waste or places they live.

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I replaced 7 daily tasks with NotebookLM — how the mobile app actually saves me time

NotebookLM is great on desktop but it’s even better on your phone

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Nebraska thrower Axelina Johansson dominates shot put at the world stage

Husker senior Axelina Johansson placed first in the Big Ten Tournament, first in the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championship and won bronze at the Indoor World Championships held in Poland.

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Apr 3 • 1:00 AM EDT • Sports • dailynebraskan.com
NIT bracket, scores, schedule 2026: No. 1 seeds Auburn, Tulsa to meet in title game Sunday with semifinal wins

The Tigers will face Tulsa in the NIT championship game Sunday in Indianapolis

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Punjab face Mohammedan in ISL; Indians at Asian Boxing Championships: Indian Sports LIVE, April 3

Here are all the updates from Indian sports on April 3, 2026.

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Apr 3 • 12:07 AM EDT • Sports • africa.espn.com
Spoiler Alert! Devils Rout Caps Behind Bratt, Hughes

Look at the Devils delivering maximum damage to a pair of Metropolitan Division rivals this week, although in very different ways. First, on Tuesday, they rolled over and played dead for a hapless Rangers team that got two points that won’t help them in their race to the bottom for Gavin McKenna. Forty-eight hours later […]

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