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Oracle AI Agent Studio for Industry Applications Helps Accelerate Business Outcomes

/PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today announced Oracle AI Agent Studio1 for Industry Applications, a no-code and low-code environment for creating, testing,...

Oct 21 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com

QED Science launches Insights Feed to filter research papers

“Researchers don't need another tool that gives them more papers to read,” says QED Science CEO Niv Mastboim, launching Insights Feed.

Oct 21 • 5:20 AM EDT • Science • thenextweb.com

Taiwan Blocks Grab Acquisition of Delivery Hero Business Over Competition Concerns

Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission said the harm of the proposed deal to the island’s food-delivery industry outweighed its ​overall economic benefits.

Oct 21 • 5:14 AM EDT • Business • wsj.com

Commentary: What a new fight over chemical safety reveals about our changing politics

For years, the politics of chemical safety seemed trapped in the same old argument. Environmental advocates called for stronger regulations. Industry warned about costs and government overreach. Democ...

Oct 21 • 3:30 AM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com

Australian Politician Who Was Hit by Car Has Lost Both Legs

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Doctors have amputated both of Australian federal lawmaker Helen Haines ' legs as she remains in critical condition after being repeatedly hit by a car in an apparent act of political violence, her husband said Wednesday. The 65-year-old independent politician is ...

Oct 21 • 3:28 AM EDT • Politics • usnews.com

Australia’s Live Industry Feels The Pinch From Escalating Costs

Australia’s concerts industry posted small single-digit declines in 2025, due to rising costs, changing ticket-buying behavior and more.

Oct 21 • 3:05 AM EDT • Entertainment • billboard.com

How Investors May Respond To PENN Entertainment (PENN) Massachusetts Slot Debate

PENN Entertainment has opposed proposed legislation in Massachusetts that would permit historical horse racing devices that function like slot machines. The company argues these terminals could shift up to US$216 million in annual gaming revenue and affect an estimated 1,074 casino jobs across the state. The company has recently reported earnings that exceeded consensus estimates, with an average surprise of 72.86% over the last two quarters. This highlights an operating profile where...

Oct 21 • 1:36 AM EDT • Entertainment • simplywall.st

Why Albania's political crisis is deepening

Albania's capital, Tirana, has experienced several days of violent confrontations. Student-led protests against PM Edi Rama have become a focal point for wider frustrations over corruption and economic hardship.

Oct 21 • 1:15 AM EDT • Politics • dw.com

TWICE Leader Jihyo Leaves JYP Entertainment After 21 Years

Jihyo joined JYP in 2005 at only eight years old. Her and JYP Entertainment have had one of the longest artist-agency relationships in the industry.

Oct 21 • 1:13 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Australian democracy is usually peaceful. But there’s a homegrown history of political violence

Like other features of our public landscape, both good and bad, political violence has a history in Australia – one from which we may learn

Oct 20 • 10:59 PM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com

Would subsidizing weight-loss drugs make health care fairer?

GLP-1 medicines such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro have transformed the treatment of obesity, but access to them in Australia increasingly depends on something much less medical: whether you can afford ...

Oct 20 • 8:40 PM EDT • Health • medicalxpress.com

NWTI, state office to host industry training luncheon on Thursday

Northwest Technical Institute (NWTI) in Springdale said Tuesday (Oct. 20) that it and the Arkansas Office of Skills Development will jointly host an event Thursday (Oct. 22) on short-term industry...

Oct 20 • 7:00 PM EDT • Business • talkbusiness.net

Museum of Science and Industry Begins South Portico Renovation as North Entrance Plans Draw Scrutiny

The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) on October 13 broke ground on a $22 million renovation to reopen its historic south entrance. The project is part of a broader effort to expand access to the Jackson Park landmark, even as preservation advocates criticize a separate proposal for a massive new north entrance. The...

Oct 20 • 6:58 PM EDT • Science • chicagomaroon.com

The Low Block, Week 9: Confusion and frustration

Not feeling very free in the midst of this fall.

Oct 20 • 6:52 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Some Olathe retirees frustrated after health insurance premiums rise again for 2027

These concerns first surfaced last fall when retirees learned their city health insurance premium costs were going up by 500% to 900% for 2026.

Oct 20 • 6:51 PM EDT • Health • kshb.com

40 Years of Superconductor Science Just Got Turned Upside Down by a Stunning Discovery

A material that carries electricity without resistance may be held back by its own structure, challenging 40 years of assumptions about copper-based superconductors.

Oct 20 • 6:14 PM EDT • Science • scitechdaily.com

Gravity & Other Myths Bringing Acrobatics Show to Eisenhower Auditorium

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

Oct 20 • 5:48 PM EDT • Entertainment • statecollege.com

Sports Entertainment Gaming Global Received Notice of Delisting

On October 14, 2026, Nasdaq staff issued a determination to delist the company’s common stock and warrants after it failed to file its Q2 2026 Form 10-Q, violating Listing Rule 5250(c)(1). Trading would be suspended on October 23, 2026 absent a hearing request; the company has requested a hearing a…

Oct 20 • 5:33 PM EDT • Entertainment • tradingview.com

Round Rock City Council to consider incentive for semiconductor industry business

City of Round Rock officials will vote on an economic development agreement supporting an expansion of PulseForge during their Oct. 22 meeting.

Oct 20 • 5:05 PM EDT • Business • communityimpact.com

Starz Entertainment LLC (STRZ) Restores STARZ on Verizon Fios Under New Distribution Deal

Starz Entertainment LLC reached a new distribution agreement with Verizon Fios, restoring all STARZ channels, STARZ On Demand and the STARZ app for Fios subscribers.Material DetailsContext by AI AnalystThis is a mid-cycle distribution recovery, reinstating a key MVPD partner after prior carriage lo…

Oct 20 • 2:59 PM EDT • Entertainment • tradingview.com

U2 to headline NFL’s first Thanksgiving Eve gameday

U2 performs at Suncorp Stadium on November 12, 2019 in Brisbane, Australia. (Photo by Chris Hyde/Getty Images)

Oct 20 • 2:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • kmaland.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

Rare-earth processing facility to be built at Eastman Business Park

Phoenix Tailings' operation would cull the material from mine waste and other industrial sources in an industrial warehouse complex in Greece.

Oct 20 • 12:11 PM EDT • Business • wxxinews.org

Inside the GOP’s next battle over women’s sports

The Education Department is facing pressure to rescind a policy that’s helped expand women’s athletics — and conservative women leaders are frustrated.

Oct 20 • 12:00 PM EDT • Sports • politico.com

New comet accidentally discovered by space telescope

The ‘happy coincidence’ is currently more than 807 million miles from Earth.

Oct 20 • 11:15 AM EDT • Science • popsci.com

Griffin Gaming Partners launches new joint production company

A prominent game industry fund and Hollywood talent agency are teaming up to adapt games for TV and film.

Oct 20 • 11:10 AM EDT • Entertainment • gamedeveloper.com

Bridging the gap: Western student earns Fulbright to study wildfire science in Australia

“The goal is to identify the drivers behind intense wildfire activity and the ecosystems and communities they could impact” When Dalton Robberson finally got to the point of choosing …

Oct 20 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • gunnisontimes.com

AES Show 2026: Industry Panel Examines Live Entertainment Delivery in Dolby Atmos

As concerts and other live performances reach audiences through global streaming platforms, Dolby Atmos is opening new possibilities for immersive entertainment at home. At the upcoming AES Show Nashville, From...

Oct 20 • 10:24 AM EDT • Entertainment • sportsvideo.org

Too Lost to acquire Australian indie distributor Xelon Entertainment, three months after GYRO.Group deal

Xelon founder Ashley Gay will continue to lead the business as President of Xelon, and will join Too Lost’s leadership team.

Oct 20 • 10:16 AM EDT • Entertainment • musicbusinessworldwide.com

Expanding Iowa State students' poultry knowledge

Dawn Koltes wants to increase Iowa State students’ awareness of the many opportunities available within the poultry industry in Iowa and beyond.

Oct 20 • 9:34 AM EDT • Science • cals.iastate.edu

'Office Space' star Richard Riehle dies at 78

Actor Richard Riehle arrives at the premiere of New Line Cinema's 'A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas' at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on November 2, 2011 in Hollywood, California. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images)Richard Riehle, known for his role in the 1999 film Office Space, has died. He was 78.A statement shared by Artists & Representatives and Wright Entertainment, Inc. announced Riehle's passing on Monday, writing, "Our industry has lost an exceptional talent, and our community has lost a truly wonderful man.""We are deeply saddened to confirm the passing of our beloved client, Richard Riehle, this past weekend," the statement said. "A remarkable actor whose career in theater, film, and television spanned nearly five decades and more than 400 projects, Richard leaves behind an extraordinary legacy."The statement continued, "Beyond his immense talent, he will be remembered for his genuine goodness, boundless kindness, and unwavering generosity, particularly toward emerging actors and filmmakers, whom he encouraged and supported at every opportunity."Born on May 12, 1948, Riehle starred in many television series and films over the years.Notable projects include Casino, The Man from Earth and Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo.He got his start as an actor at the University of Notre Dame, where he was involved in the University Theatre and starred in several stage productions. He went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts in acting and directing from the University of Minnesota.While he's played characters that have an "average Joe" presence, he always made the most of his brief screen time.Some roles that he is remembered for include The Quartermaster in Glory, the train guard in The Fugitive, Reverend Scroggins in Fried Green Tomatoes and Bill Cozbi in Bridesmaids.On television, he starred as Principal Ed Rooney in the 1990 series Ferris Bueller and as grandfather Walt Finnerty in the early 2000s sitcom, Grounded For Life.In 2023, he also played Warden Reynolds in Barry.Riehle is survived by his wife, Jane Latham, and their four children.Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

Oct 20 • 8:56 AM EDT • Entertainment • willmarradio.com

300+ Charleston builders to gather for heart health talk at Hard Hats with Heart event

Hard Hats with Heart will be hosting their annual networking celebration Tueday. They state that theCharleston construction industry leaders build healthier he

Oct 20 • 8:37 AM EDT • Health • abcnews4.com

Too Lost’s latest expansion is a deal with Xelon Entertainment

Distributor and tech firm Too Lost's ambitions in the APAC region continue. It acquired Australian distributor and artist-services company Gyro·Group in July, and now it has announced a partnership with another distributor, Xelon Entertainment.

Oct 20 • 8:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • musically.com

CAS collaborates with Microsoft to enable faster innovation in pharmaceutical, life sciences, and chemical industries

/PRNewswire/ -- CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, today announced the availability of CAS Connections in Microsoft Copilot. The connector gives...

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

Tecsys delivers AI capabilities to help health systems anticipate and act on pharmacy and supply chain risks

/PRNewswire/ -- Tecsys Inc. (TSX: TCS), an industry-leading supply chain management company, today announced the availability of AI solutions that help health...

Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com

Australian Visitor Grateful to Holy Cross Health for Saving Her Life During Fort Lauderdale Visit - Florida Hospital News and Healthcare Report

Nearly 10 months after receiving emergency treatment at Holy Cross Health for a ruptured brain aneurysm, Australian resident Sarah Frost is reflecting on her recovery and the care that helped […]

Oct 20 • 7:27 AM EDT • Health • southfloridahospitalnews.com

Water shortages will threaten growth within five years, say over half of European industrial leaders

Water stress is already hitting operating costs, supply chains and infrastructure across European industryWater shortages now rank as high as cybe...

Oct 20 • 5:31 AM EDT • Business • markets.businessinsider.com

Xbox 'Business Strategist' Claims Video Game Industry Is 'Pretending to Not Use AI,' Deletes Twitter Account After Deluge of Replies

An Xbox staff member went viral this week for taking to social media to tell "the truth that nobody wants you to know": that the video game industry is "pretending" to not use AI.

Oct 20 • 5:30 AM EDT • Technology • ign.com

The AI industry’s race for influence includes $100 million in campaign cash

Leading AI companies have set up political action committees to support both Republican and Democratic candidates in the midterm elections. The effort by…

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

Threats of political violence soar in Australia’s ‘online echo chamber’

Independent lawmaker Helen Haines was in critical condition after being struck deliberately by a car.

Oct 20 • 4:46 AM EDT • Politics • japantimes.co.jp

Can Real Estate Out-Organize Tenants in New York? This Group Will Try.

A new organization, Built for New York, plans to raise money to mobilize voters in the real estate industry, which has endured several political losses in recent years.

Oct 20 • 3:00 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) on X

WTF India?!?! Your entertainment industry needs a revamp Writer: Ian

Oct 20 • 2:25 AM EDT • Entertainment • x.com

Apple explains new Safari ad tracking privacy restrictions

Apple's latest privacy crackdown is rattling the online ad industry. And it isn't backing down.

Oct 20 • 2:24 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

A materials-first approach to entertainment

It's our duty to tell professionals from the creative industry what it really entails to make 3D printing part of its production environment.

Oct 20 • 1:19 AM EDT • Entertainment • 3dadept.com

$22M renovation begins at Griffin Museum of Science and Industry’s historic entrance

Chicago Construction News staff writer Construction has begun on a $22-million project to renovate the historic South Portico entrance at Chicago’s Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, adding accessible entryways […]

Oct 20 • 12:49 AM EDT • Science • chicagoconstructionnews.com

‘Open your doors for AI’: German chancellor urges businesses to embrace AI as Nvidia announces new investments

Nvidia announced planned investments in four German startups as Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged businesses to embrace AI at an industry summit in Berlin.

Oct 19 • 10:16 PM EDT • Business • cnbc.com

REMSA Health recruits Australian paramedics to address Reno-area shortage

REMSA health partners with International Medic Solutions as nearly 60% of U.S. EMS agencies report staffing shortages

Oct 19 • 8:48 PM EDT • Health • kolotv.com

Trump’s Push for Deals With Russia Powers His Frustration With Ukraine

The series of recent steps by the president that seem to favor Vladimir Putin reflect his intensifying desire to normalize the relationship with Moscow even if it means further undercutting Ukraine.

Oct 19 • 8:33 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

Fruit and sugary drinks stood out in a three-year study of teenage mental health

A three-year study of 6,537 Australian adolescents found that higher fruit consumption was associated with a lower risk of elevated depression and anxiety symptoms, while greater sugar-sweetened beverage intake was associated with increased risk. Vegetable consumption showed no significant association with either outcome, and the observational findings cannot establish cause and effect.

Oct 19 • 7:39 PM EDT • Health • news-medical.net

‘It’s Disappointing’: John Harbaugh Frustrated by Giants’ Rushing Struggles

Oct 19 • 6:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Melco Resorts & Entertainment Limited Stock 12‑Month Price Target Cut to $6.14, Implies 48% Upside

Explore more price target data and ratings for Melco Resorts & Entertainment Limited on the Forecasts tab, and track all previous and future analyst recommendations for Melco Resorts & Entertainment Limited in the dedicated News Flow.Select reference data provided by FactSet. Copyright © 2026 FactS…

Oct 19 • 6:20 PM EDT • Entertainment • tradingview.com

Did Sports Resorts Expansion Just Shift Wyndham Hotels And Resorts (WH) Investment Narrative?

Travel + Leisure Co. and Wyndham Hotels & Resorts expanded their partnership, creating a framework to build and scale Sports Illustrated Resorts hotels as a sports focused hospitality and mixed use development platform that spans hotel only projects and larger destination concepts. The arrangement pairs Travel + Leisure’s brand and mixed use development capabilities with Wyndham’s global distribution, development engine and commercial infrastructure, which could influence how Wyndham grows...

Oct 19 • 6:16 PM EDT • Sports • finance.yahoo.com

The Music Industry Must Change How It Does Business (Guest Column)

The music industry must change how it does business amid increasing consolidation, EMPIRE president Tina Davis argues in a new guest column.

Oct 19 • 5:14 PM EDT • Business • billboard.com

Sahara Ray, model once linked to Justin Bieber, dies at 34

NEW YORK — Model Sahara Ray is dead at 34. The family of the Australian fashionista once linked to Justin Bieber told TMZ that Ray died Sunday night “surrounded by

Oct 19 • 4:19 PM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com

Florida Gators get new bowl destination in SI's latest projections

Sports Illustrated projects Florida to face Wake Forest in the Gator Bowl following UF's upset win over Texas in Week 7.

Oct 19 • 3:44 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

How Behavioral Science Can Get Shoppers To Buy (and Eat) More Fresh Produce

Industry leaders at IFPA’s Global Produce and Floral Show revealed that overcoming flat fruit and vegetable consumption requires shifting away from clinical health messaging toward flavor-forward marketing, cultural rituals and frictionless convenience.

Oct 19 • 3:29 PM EDT • Science • thepacker.com

WATCH LIVE: Trump heads to rally in Kansas as Republican voters' frustrations deepen

Oct 19 • 11:44 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org

800 Guests, 40 Countries: Chongqing Forum to Unveil Top 10 Science and Tech Foresights

The 2026 World Science and Technology Development Forum will be held in Chongqing from October 21 to 23, bringing together about 800 guests from nearly 40 countries and regions, including leading experts, international science and technology organization heads, and high-tech executives, to discuss “Co-evolution: Shaping a New Ecosystem for Future Industries.”

Oct 19 • 10:42 AM EDT • Science • ichongqing.info

Helen Haines: Australian MP critically injured after apparent car attack

The independent politician is in hospital after what the prime minister says may have been a deliberate attack.

Oct 19 • 10:09 AM EDT • Politics • bbc.com

AirComp: U.S. Business Aviation Pay Climbs 8% in U.S.

Analysis shows industry salary gains are outpacing national rate of 3.4%

Oct 19 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • ainonline.com

Agassi Sports Entertainment Converts $1M Note, Raises $1.5M From Andre Agassi Affiliate at $5 Units

Agassi Sports Entertainment executed multiple financing actions, converting a $1,000,000 insider note into equity and warrants and raising $1,500,000 in a new unit purchase by Investments AKA at $5.00 per unit. The conversion yielded 200,000 common shares and 200,000 three-year cash-only warrants w…

Oct 19 • 8:33 AM EDT • Entertainment • tradingview.com

The David Moyes Frustrations Continue at Everton

Everton manager David Moyes is someone who splits opinion among the fanbase, despite only recently suffering their first loss of the Premier League season.

Oct 19 • 8:28 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Industry Insights: Beauty, Science and the Boardroom

Beauty companies can make more of two high-value assets they already possess: their scientific organizations and their boards. The key is to connect them deliberately.

Oct 19 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • cosmeticsandtoiletries.com

Bo French, Jon Rosenthal battle over culture, job duties in bid to regulate the oil and gas industry

Controversial remarks by the GOP candidate Bo French cast a national spotlight on the typically quiet race for a spot on the Texas Railroad Commission.

Oct 19 • 7:52 AM EDT • Politics • kera.org

The GOP counts on farmers' votes. As a costly harvest season raises concerns, Trump heads to Kansas

Rising fuel prices coinciding with harvest season are frustrating farmers across the Midwest and raising concerns for Republicans ahead of the midterm elections.

Oct 19 • 7:52 AM EDT • Politics • clickondetroit.com

The GOP counts on farmers' votes. As a costly harvest season raises concerns, Trump heads to Kansas

Rising fuel prices coinciding with harvest season are frustrating farmers across the Midwest and raising concerns for Republicans ahead of the midterm elections.

Oct 19 • 7:52 AM EDT • Politics • wsls.com

Australian lawmaker critically injured by car is 'no accident,' prime minister says

Helen Haines, 65, was struck by a Toyota Land Cruiser SUV outside her electoral district office mid afternoon in the city of Wangaratta in Victoria state, a police said.

Oct 19 • 7:45 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org

Whitlam would push Australian PM Albanese to go ‘bigger and bolder,’ biographer says

Albanese read the biography in office, calling its author to discuss Whitlam’s political mistakes as he encountered them.

Oct 19 • 7:14 AM EDT • Politics • politico.com

"We're using AI": Xbox business strategist claims he could be fired "because I told you the truth that nobody wants you to know"

Xbox's Brandon Stirrup says the gaming industry is already using AI, despite widespread negative sentiment among players.

Oct 19 • 7:05 AM EDT • Technology • windowscentral.com

CVC: Between science fiction and practicality

Corporate investors bring a real-world industry lens to the innovations they look at, which often means not going after the most overtly popular options.

Oct 19 • 7:03 AM EDT • Science • globalventuring.com

Elizabeth Holmes documentary stuns entertainment industry with $15 million opening weekend

CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin reports on the latest news.

Oct 19 • 7:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • cnbc.com

Newcastle’s fundamental problems and how to fix them

Newcastle United have not started the season well and the boos that rang out after their home defeat by Aston Villa were an amalgamation of frustration and concern that has been building for weeks.

Oct 19 • 6:52 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Australian lawmaker Helen Haines in critical condition after vehicle attack

Australian lawmaker Helen Haines was in a critical condition on Monday ​after being deliberately struck by a ​car outside her office.

Oct 19 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnbc.com

Solon’s mayor finds new ways to grow city even as it runs out of land

Solon Mayor Eddy Kraus credits early zoning, tax incentives and a 'Say Yes' culture for turning the suburb into a 900-company industrial powerhouse.

Oct 19 • 5:45 AM EDT • Business • crainscleveland.com

Imagicaaworld sells hotel, acquires water park stake, eyes indoor entertainment push

Imagicaaworld Entertainment Limited on Monday disclosed a clutch of strategic moves, including the sale of its hotel asset and a new park acquisition, as it reported a 6 per cent dip in visitor footfalls for the July-September quarter of FY27.The Mumbai-listed amusement and water park operator said…

Oct 19 • 4:19 AM EDT • Entertainment • tradingview.com

Weekly Recap: Open-science AV partnership and benchmark performance pledge

Valeo SE (EURONEXT:FR) is partnering with KE:SAI to co-develop an open-science autonomous driving system for general vehicles, aiming to match and surpass major public driving benchmarks while committing to reproducible AI research and openly publishing results.Previous Week RecapThis is an AI-gene…

Oct 19 • 1:00 AM EDT • Science • tradingview.com

Bob on Business: More industrial space in the construction pipeline

Also, HistoryHomes acquisition; dealership construction; and Panther Island progress.

Oct 19 • 12:43 AM EDT • Business • fortworthreport.org

NJBIZ In the Lead 2026: Women-Owned Businesses

NJBIZ celebrates women entrepreneurs across industries who have built successful businesses, overcome funding challenges and contributed to their communities.

Oct 19 • 12:10 AM EDT • Business • njbiz.com

How Investors May Respond To Encompass Health (EHC) First Maine Hospital Opening

Encompass Health has opened Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bangor, a 50 bed inpatient facility in Maine that delivers intensive therapy, frequent physician oversight and 24 hour nursing for patients recovering from complex conditions across a 54,000 square foot site with a wide range of on campus clinical amenities. This Bangor facility is Encompass Health's first wholly owned hospital in Maine. It adds owned capacity in a new state alongside its existing joint venture presence...

Oct 18 • 11:39 PM EDT • Health • simplywall.st

REM Hotel Launch Might Change The Case For Investing In Melco Resorts And Entertainment Stock

Melco Resorts & Entertainment recently saw analysts reduce its fair value estimates after reassessing debt levels, margin assumptions and the outlook for Macau gaming revenue. The launch of REM, a privacy-focused luxury hotel brand at City of Dreams Macau, signals a push to reshape how higher-end guests experience the resort. We will now look at how Melco Resorts & Entertainment's investment narrative could be influenced by the REM hotel launch in Macau. Compare how Melco Resorts &...

Oct 18 • 10:28 PM EDT • Entertainment • simplywall.st

Rincon tribe to close brewery, ending nearly a decade in craft beer

The Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians will close its tribally owned brewery at October’s end, citing changes and challenges in the craft beer industry.

Oct 18 • 10:17 PM EDT • Business • tribalbusinessnews.com

Jordon Steele-John: Australian senator denies claims of misconduct against women

Jordon Steele-John says the timing of the claims motivated by "nasty political games" within the Greens.

Oct 18 • 9:32 PM EDT • Politics • bbc.com

St Vincent's Australia convenes first national AI Clinical Council

The council will guide the evaluation and adoption of AI technologies across its hospitals, aged care facilities and home-based services.

Oct 18 • 9:06 PM EDT • Health • healthcareitnews.com

AI Breach of Australian Healthcare Website Sparks Regulation Debate

Nearly three months after a June attack involving OpenAI on the Australian Medicare website, the Australian government received a five-paragraph email from the company informing officials of the breach. Although the Australian government has promised to take further action, such as establishing task

Oct 18 • 7:07 PM EDT • Health • carolinapoliticalreview.org

HTA workshop in Wailuku offers Maui businesses guidance on reaching visitors

A two-day workshop for Maui farmers, makers, small-business owners, cultural practitioners and nonprofits interested in working with the visitor industry will take place Oct. 30–31 at the J. Walter Cameron Center in Wailuku.

Oct 18 • 6:00 PM EDT • Business • mauinow.com

Revenue And Earnings Growth Could Be A Game Changer For agilon health (AGL)

agilon health has reported strong annual revenue and earnings growth from its model of partnering with primary care physicians to deliver value-based care for Medicare patients through long-term, globally capitated contracts. The combination of accelerating financial performance and the scaling of its value-based primary care network indicates that agilon health is gaining share where payers and physicians seek partners willing to take on population-level risk. We will now look at how agilon...

Oct 18 • 5:31 PM EDT • Health • simplywall.st

Streaming’s Biggest Show Returns…and a Buzzy Genre Struggles

(Welcome to my weekly streaming ratings report, the single best guide to what’s popular in streaming TV and what isn’t. I’m the Entertainment Strategy Guy, a former streaming executive who now analyzes business strategy in the entertainment industry. If you were forwarded this email, please subscribe to get these insights each week.) Obviously, the big news of the week (if not month) is Netflix letting go of executive Bela Bajaria, their chief content officer. I’m going to cover this in my next “Most Important Story of the Week”, but I also have a data angle that I might publish before then. (Too much news this month, am I right?) But first, I have a bonus Streaming Ratings Report issue for you. Today’s article is a bit of a grab bag of topics I’ve wanted to write about, but couldn’t squeeze into the (already very long) Streaming Ratings Report issues. The NFL drives huge viewership numbers, so I’ve got a look at that. A whole bunch of TV shows returned to the traditional broadcast channels, and I have thoughts. And I have a quick look at adult animated shows, since a couple flopped earlier this month. Plus, the Emmys aired earlier this month, and we got some fun data bout how popular those nominated shows are and why I’m not optimistic about the show’s future. That’s a lot, so let’s dive right in. Subscribe Sports - Football Remains the King of Streaming Over the last two Streaming Ratings Reports, I sorta ignored the biggest “show” each week. (I was tempted to say “piece of content” but I know that word bugs folks.) In my database, I call these “specials”, and they sure are special. I speak of the king of American TV: football!!! Streaming football is back and, unlike some other sports, it routinely dominates all viewership. Probably the best way to show this is to update one of my favorite graphics, the “40 Million Hour Club”1 since football games have joined that club each week they’ve premiered: (Yep, that’s the data through 28-Sep, the first four weeks of the season. As a reminder, I take the average minute audience provided by Nielsen, factor out a percentage of linear TV viewers in home markets, and multiply the run time by the three-hour runtime.) Again, the numbers are huge. Let’s start with Netflix. They grabbed the rights to the bonus opening week NFL Kickoff game (which was on YouTube last year) and it put up 18.5 million viewers on average. That nets out to 47.4 million hours of estimated streaming hours. That’s good! Though, notably, it’s well below Christmas Day games from previous years. Compared to other streamers/broadcasters, that’s a bit of a mixed result. On one hand, Netflix’s 18.5 million average is about what YouTube claimed last year, though Nielsen used a bespoke methodology at that time, so I trust this viewership figure more. So that’s good. (The game also shifted from a Friday to a Thursday and that could have helped the viewership as well.) And Netflix continues to best Prime Video in total viewership—as you’ll see next—though Netflix has had much higher-profile (opening week and Christmas Day) games. NBC/Peacock’s opening game the night before averaged 25.1 million average viewers, which is just much bigger than Netflix (or Prime Video). That’s the big caveat to all streaming viewership records: even in success, they can’t compete with traditional linear TV. Previously, I called this my “hierarchy of viewership”, and the data keeps supporting that thesis. The downside for NBC is that this game’s viewership was down compared to previous years, though it may be a counting issue. Here’s a great chart from Sports Media Watch: Indeed, looking at all the opening week games across all windows, Netflix still lags the other primetime windows, but does well compared to the afternoon games: I saw a few folks make the case that streamers still lag traditional broadcasters in reach, and I’d add they really lag compared to “broadcast plus streaming” options like NBC/Peacock, ESPN/Disney+ and CBS/Paramount+. The best data I saw for this came from Samba TV, who charted reach through the 2025 season, and, wow. (Samba TV’s numbers are historically lower than Nielsen’s, so don’t compare their household figures to Nielsen’s hours, but use them as a proxy for the relative reach of the streamers.) The good news is Prime Video is NOT having a down year. Their opening Thursday Night Football game reached 18.6 million viewers (about what Netflix got), but that’s a high for Prime Video on Thursdays and the biggest Thursday night game since 2015. The TNF games the weeks of 21-Sep and 28-Sep continued this streak, getting 43.1 (16.8 million average viewers) and 42.5 total hours (16.6 million average viewers), which were both up from last year. Still, that continues the (typical) season slide: (For those new-to-streaming-football-numbers folks, the viewership declines for Thursday Night Football as the year goes along.) Overall, it appears as if Prime Video is now part of the “football habit”, be it for customers at home or out at places like bars and restaurants. And its viewership is slowly catching up to broadcast. One last chart shows this. Last season, Nielsen started adding out-of-home viewership to the charts, so I try not to do season-to-season comparisons as I did for the first few years. And while Nielsen added Big Data viewing this year, I’m going to compare the last two seasons. Here’s that chart, which shows the season-over-season gains: When it comes to streaming football, we have to keep a few seemingly contradictory thoughts in our head… First, streaming doesn’t come close to matching broadcast’s reach and, thus, viewership. Second, even with that gap, football is still the biggest “thing” on streaming. It’s very, very popular. Third, while some methodology changes have likely helped Prime Video’s numbers, their viewership does appear to be growing. Lastly, yeah, the NFL started the season off poorly, with week one dragging down the numbers in year-over-year comparisons. However—and again, methodology changes may have helped this—the viewership grew compared to previous seasons over the next couple of weeks. So football is still king. On streaming and off. Television - Adult Animation Continues to NOT Make the Streaming Charts In the last two reports, two adult-animated shows whiffed: Netflix’s animated comedy, Dang! Paramount+’s Sega-video-game-inspired fantasy/comedy, Golden Axe. Neither made the charts, but that’s usually the case for animated shows. I mean, here’s literally every animated show that’s made the Nielsen Original charts since the start of 2025: And one of those shows is G_abby’s Dollhouse_! A kids show! The problem with charts like this is that they don’t give you a sense of how many shows miss the charts. Netflix had at least eleven animated flops, including comedies like Big Mouth (a show everyone assumed was popular in the pre-Streaming Ratings Era), Long Story Short, Haunted Hotel, Mating Season, Strip Law, and Alley Cats, and action shows like Blood of Zeus, Castlevania: Nocturne, Devil May Cry, Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, and Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft. Prime Video had at least six animated misses, two in the same universe (Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss), three more comedies (#1 Happy Family USA, The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy and Kevin) and an action show (The Mighty Nein). Disney+ had MCU and Star Wars animated misses (Eyes of Wakanda, Marvel Zombies, Star Wars: Visions, Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord, and Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld) but I can’t tell how many of those shows were geared towards adults. HBO Max had Harley Quinn and Hulu had Solar Opposites. None of these shows made the charts! That’s a lot of misses! If I remade the chart with all those misses, here’s how it would look: Listen, I know the counter arguments. First, it’s cheaper to produce animated shows than live action. Fair enough, but with viewership this low, even that cheaper price point starts to not matter. Second, just look at the acquired charts. Hit animated comedies can generate viewership for years! Shows like The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, and Bob’s Burgers do really, really well. Fair enough, but streaming has failed to recreate the dynamic that Fox has mastered so well. That’s a problem for streaming still. Television - Emmys! The annual Emmys broadcast was a few weeks ago, and I’ve got data on how the nominees performed on streaming, plus hot takes on this year’s viewership (and the big news about the broadcast’s, er, streamcast’s future). We’re just getting started with this issue, but the rest is for paid subscribers of the Entertainment Strategy Guy, so if you’d like to find out… The top Emmy-nominated shows… ...why I’m worried about the future of the Emmys telecast... ...the pros of broadcast television ...and the cons... ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support. Coming Soon! Next week, we’ve got a double issue (since the weeks of 21-Sep and 28-Sep were so light), but then I’ll be all caught up after a deluge of streaming ratings data from Nielsen in September. In the meantime, I’m going to try to take a look at Netflix’s stats to explain why Bela Bajaria is out. But even light weeks give me plenty to talk about. The Great British Baking Show returns to Netflix and Apple TV has a buzzy new star-studded comedy. And Netflix has a controversial-but-appears-to-be-popular new game show. Plus big films like Toy Story 5, Backrooms and The Breadwinner head to streaming. And is East of Eden a hit? After that, The Kardashians return to Hulu, Prime Video has a reboot of Carrie, and Netflix has a horror show, Below. Disclosure Day heads to Peacock, The Housemaid heads to HBO Max_,_ a new Ben Affleck film, Animals, lands on Netflix, and Apple TV has a new John Cena action film based on, checks notes, Hasbro’s Matchbox toys. Okay. Longterm, some interesting TV production news. HBO Max ordered How to Survive Without Me, starring Kaley Cuoco, Joshua Jackson, Ray Romano and Rita Wilson, for fifteen episodes! I love that some streamers (or, at least, HBO Max) are finally ordering TV shows with more than eight episodes. In less wise production news, Landman does not appear to be coming back this year, since it just started production. Frankly, I don’t love this (get your shows out on time) but Landman is so popular, I doubt it matters.

Oct 18 • 3:59 PM EDT • Entertainment • entertainment.substack.com

Learn Why The Bull Case For Madison Square Garden Entertainment Stock Could Change Following Revenue Jump

Madison Square Garden Entertainment reported revenue of US$1.1b, up 13% year on year, supported by the New York Knicks’ NBA Championship run and record sales for its Christmas Spectacular. The 30 day Harry Styles residency now under way at the Garden underscores how concentrated, high profile bookings can deepen event utilization across an already busy venue portfolio. We will look at how Madison Square Garden Entertainment’s investment narrative is affected by this 13% revenue jump and...

Oct 18 • 2:43 PM EDT • Entertainment • simplywall.st

‘This is disgusting’: Nebraska’s independent Senate candidate rips dark money in politics

Democrats are hoping to whittle away at the Republican Senate majority in unexpectedly vulnerable red states like Nebraska. Incumbent Senator Pete Ricketts, a multimillionaire former governor, is defending his seat against independent challenger Dan Osborn, a Navy veteran and industrial mechanic. Osborn says he wants Congress to take back its power, end the war in Iran, lower fuel costs, so we “can worry about little league and bake sales.”

Oct 18 • 1:46 PM EDT • Politics • ms.now

Fair Value Cut Raises Fresh Questions For Flutter Entertainment Stock (FLUT)

Flutter Entertainment has recently seen analyst fair value estimates marked lower following repeated guidance resets and ongoing regulatory pressures across key betting markets. The split between confidence in FanDuel’s customer momentum and concern over heavier promotions and regulation highlights growing uncertainty around Flutter Entertainment’s near term profitability profile. We will now look at how this more cautious tone on regulation and costs could reshape Flutter Entertainment’s...

Oct 18 • 1:26 PM EDT • Entertainment • simplywall.st

Esther McGregor and Emilio Sakraya reportedly set to star in ‘Fourth Wing’ TV series

(CNN) — Esther McGregor and Emilio Sakraya are set to star in the small-screen adaptation of Rebecca Yarros’ hit romantasy novel “Fourth Wing” when it lands on Prime Video, industry

Oct 18 • 1:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • wqow.com

Scientists Solve a Quantum Mystery Hidden Inside Crystals

Tiny flaws in crystals could become building blocks for quantum sensors, and scientists can now better predict how these imperfections lose energy. A laser can excite electrons at a tiny flaw in diamond or silicon carbide, but the energy does not always return as light. As the defect relaxes toward its lowest-energy, or ground, state,

Oct 18 • 12:18 PM EDT • Science • scitechdaily.com

Live Nation Entertainment (LYV) Could Be 16% Undervalued As It Resets Its Debt Clock

Live Nation Entertainment (LYV) has just priced a sizeable dual currency bond offering that reshapes its debt calendar. Fresh 2032 USD and euro notes are earmarked to redeem 2027 secured bonds and support broader financing needs. Against this refinancing backdrop, Live Nation Entertainment’s share price has moved to $170.51, with a 30-day share price return of 2.03% and a year-to-date share price gain of 17.34%. The 3-year total shareholder return of 113.27% points to longer term momentum...

Oct 18 • 11:41 AM EDT • Entertainment • simplywall.st

‘The Field Is Atrocious,’ ‘Risking Players’ Health’ — Super Bowl Champion, NFL Fans Rip Playing Surface in London for Jaguars-Texans Game

The NFL’s 2026 international series has gotten off to a solid start, with games in Australia and Brazil followed by two matchups in London. Now, the fifth international game of the season, and third in London, features the Jacksonville Jaguars and Houston Texans at Wembley Stadium in Week 6.

Oct 18 • 11:35 AM EDT • Health • sports.yahoo.com

The 20 best “Bluey” episodes of all time

Even adults love the hit Australian animated series.

Oct 18 • 11:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Tripp Skipper: What Alabama Republicans should remember about Doug Jones and Roy Moore

I regularly talk with elected officials, business leaders, farmers, and everyday voters. Many are longtime Republicans who have helped elect conservative candidates for decades. They’re frustrated.

Oct 18 • 9:00 AM EDT • Politics • al.com