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Boys, 13 and 15, killed in California beach shooting, officials say

LOS ANGELES — The victims of a fatal shooting at a California state beach early Monday were two teenage boys, according to officials. One of them was days away from

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Nov 4 • 11:38 AM EST • Entertainment • thederrick.com
Hannah Pingree wins governor’s race

Democrat and former Maine House speaker Hannah Pingree has won the gubernatorial election, beating out her Republican adversary Bobby Charles and Independent Rick Bennett.

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Nov 4 • 11:01 AM EST • Politics • ellsworthamerican.com
Fitness studio Swoot with nightclub-inspired classes to open second location Uptown

The upbeat, boutique fitness studio Swoot plans to open a second location this weekend in Uptown New Orleans, near Loyola and Tulane universities.

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Nov 4 • 10:30 AM EST • Entertainment • nola.com
Pritzker won big. Now comes the hard part.

With a third term secured and a possible White House bid looming, Pritzker faces tough fights over Illinois' budget, the Bears and data centers.

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Nov 4 • 10:16 AM EST • Business • chicagobusiness.com
Palm Beach County students help scientists track where trash drifts in local waterways

Shining A Light on Palm Beach and the Treasure Coast

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Nov 4 • 10:08 AM EST • Science • wflx.com
The Big Ten College Football Playoff Picture: Week 10

The Big Ten is beating itself up and isn't being rewarded as another conference may or may not does. Either way, the CFP rankings are here!

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Nov 4 • 10:00 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bean Life Science Museum hosted its annual free Halloween Family Night for students and families

The Bean Life Science Museum hosted its annual Halloween Family Night on Oct. 26, offering families a free evening of hands-on activities, crafts, and opportunities to explore the natural world.

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Nov 4 • 9:55 AM EST • Science • universe.byu.edu
AI in Life Sciences Market to Worth USD 69.34 Billion by 2031, at a CAGR of 26.3%

Delray Beach, FL , Nov. 04, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MarketsandMarkets™ projects the global AI in life sciences market to grow from USD 21.58 billion in 2026 to USD 69.34 billion by 2031, at a CAGR of 26.3% during the forecast period. Market growth is fueled by accelerating adoption of AI in drug discovery, clinical research, diagnostics, and precision medicine, along with increasing investments in AI-powered life sciences solutions and the growing availability of real-world and genomic data. Ge

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Nov 4 • 9:30 AM EST • Science • finance.yahoo.com
Essentia Health supports new playground at Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley elementary school

Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley (CGB) Schools was excited to show off the new playground at its elementary school during a Sept. 21 open house, and is grateful for a $20,000 contribution from Essentia Health that went toward the purchase of new equipment, supporting a safe and active space for the district’s youngest students.

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Nov 4 • 9:25 AM EST • Health • essentiahealth.org
The Miami Heat Are Losing What Made Them Dangerous

The Miami Heat have built their identity around toughness, defensive intensity, and holding opponents accountable. Those qualities have defined the franchise for years, but through the first seven games of the 2026-27 NBA season, the team has struggled to uphold those standards with the Heat's disastrous start. Miami's 138-117 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers …

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Nov 4 • 9:00 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Wednesday Bantering: We’re Definitely Getting a Lockout

So I gather there was an election yesterday? Mark Texiera lost his run for Texas’ 21st district. We don’t talk politics on this site really, there’s enough to shout about just in terms of baseball, but I think we can all agree that the good people of Texas deserve better than a vile Yankee. Former […]

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Nov 4 • 8:55 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Business Beat : Thurston Woods offers financial incentives to fill multiple positions

STURGIS, MI (WTVB) - Thurston Woods Village, a faith-based retirement community in Sturgis, has launched a maj...

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Nov 4 • 8:12 AM EST • Business • wtvbam.com
Video: McKennie joins Juventus group training before AZ Alkmaar clash

Juventus midfielder Weston McKennie trained with his teammates at Continassa this morning, on the eve of a Europa League game against AZ Alkmaar.Juventus are preparing for Thursday’s away Europa Lea...

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Nov 4 • 7:59 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
MSG Entertainment beats estimates on record concert quarter

MSG Entertainment beats estimates on record concert quarter

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Nov 4 • 7:46 AM EST • Entertainment • investing.com
Madison Square Garden Entertainment earnings beat by $1.31, revenue topped estimates

Madison Square Garden Entertainment earnings beat by $1.31, revenue topped estimates

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Nov 4 • 7:39 AM EST • Entertainment • investing.com
CVS Health beats estimates, raises guidance amid split plans

Investing.com -- CVS Health Corporation (NYSE: CVS) reported third-quarter adjusted EPS of $2.09, beating analyst estimates of $1.65, as the healthcare giant announced plans to separate into two independent companies.

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Nov 4 • 7:36 AM EST • Health • finance.yahoo.com
Seahawks Hit Unwanted Milestone After Lopsided Loss to Bears

The Seattle Seahawks have suffered yet another setback in the 2026 NFL season. The team has suffered an embarrassing defeat to the Chicago Bears with a score of 17-34. The reigning Super Bowl champions now have a current record of four wins and four losses. The franchise had a dominant season in 2025, which led […] The post Seahawks Hit Unwanted Milestone After Lopsided Loss to Bears appeared first on Gridiron Heroics.

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Nov 4 • 7:30 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sports on TV/radio listings: Nov. 4

Where to watch and/or listen to today's sporting events that will be televised or broadcast on the radio.

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Nov 4 • 7:00 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
CVS Health (CVS) Beats Q3 Earnings and Revenue Estimates

CVS Health (CVS) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of +29.01% and +3.20%, respectively, for the quarter ended September 2026. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

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Nov 4 • 6:50 AM EST • Health • finance.yahoo.com
Portsmouth 3-1 Swansea

Pompey supporters have their say after Portsmouth's 3-1 win over Swansea City in the Championship.

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Nov 4 • 6:13 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Bears-Seahawks Monday Night Football: Overreaction Or Not?

The Monday Night Football game between the Seattle Seahawks and Chicago Bears produced some shocking results. Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams moved the ball at will on that vaunted Seahawks defense and scored 34 points. It was the most points Seattle had surrendered all season. I have three takeaways from the game, and I’ll decide […] The post Bears-Seahawks Monday Night Football: Overreaction Or Not? appeared first on Stadium Rant.

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Nov 4 • 5:58 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan race for Senate

El-Sayed bested Republican Mike Rogers to become the first Muslim senator in US history.

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Nov 4 • 5:03 AM EST • Politics • bbc.com
A year after UPS plane crash, South End business owners struggle to stay afloat

Near the site of the fatal UPS plane crash in Louisville, some of the area is still closed to vehicular traffic. Business owners there have struggled to pick up the pieces.

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Nov 4 • 5:00 AM EST • Business • lpm.org
“Good Old Days” – Chris Evert Gets Nostalgic as Billie Jean King Celebrates 51 Years Since Her Historic Rise to WTA No. 1

Chris Evert looked back on her tennis career as Billie Jean King marked the 51st anniversary of the WTA introducing its first official rankings and Evert becoming the first-ever World No. 1 in women’s tennis.

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Nov 4 • 2:15 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Texas Politics Enter a New Era After Hinojosa's Win

Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa won the race for governor, the first Democrat to win the office since 1990. She beat incumbent Greg Abbott, who was seeking a fourth term.

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Nov 4 • 12:03 AM EST • Politics • governing.com
National Navy SEAL Museum honors courage and commitment

Just north of Palm Beach County, along Florida’s scenic Treasure Coast, the National Navy SEAL Museum brings to life the remarkable stories of courage, sacrifice and service that have shaped

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Nov 4 • 12:00 AM EST • Entertainment • floridaweekly.com
Yankees news: Skubal linked to Yanks

Yankees among several teams in on top FA; Murphy walks back taunt; Chisholm likely to walk

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Nov 4 • 12:00 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
AFGHS co-signatory countries ask health care users to help fill the financing gap

Hundreds of thousands of Ugandans living with HIV on antiretrovirals could be targeted for user fees or community health insurance schemes requiring modest premium payments, according to the April 2026 version of the country’s America First Global Health Strategy implementation narrative.1 As part of the “sustainable financing for the private not for profit sector” strategy, 491 facilities will be targeted for a phased introduction of user fees and scale up of community health insurance programs.2 In the Ugandan context, PNFP facilities include faith-based hospitals and other health facilities, US missionary organizations and centers of excellence—services that are often co-located at government facilities but run with additional financial and technical resources. 402,000 people—or about 28 percent of the total Ugandan adult PLHIV population on treatment—get ART from the private not for profit sector. The selected facilities provide the majority of ART and prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) services. The plan doesn’t give the total number of clients served by the 491 facilities, so it is not possible to give a precise number. But the majority of 402,000 is a figure in the hundreds of thousands—hence the estimate I’m using.3 The April draft of the Ugandan implementation plan narrative is the only one I’ve been able to review. But the government of Uganda is not alone in turning to health care users to help fill the financing gaps caused by the abrupt withdrawal of US funds. In July 2025, the Government of Liberia introduced user fees for previously free services including “registration, accommodation, patient feeding, hospitalization, and a wide range of surgical and diagnostic procedures.”4 Earlier that year, Liberia rolled out a revolving drug fund designed to stabilize drug supplies by “allowing patients to pay a small fee for standardized, quality medications,” according to a Ministry of Health press release.5 (Both of these approaches had been proposed in the National Health Policy 2022-2031; media coverage explicitly connects the launch with the US foreign aid cuts.) The health financing strategies proposed by Uganda and established in Liberia are qualitatively different from user fees officially adopted by specific health facilities to cover funding shortfalls caused by the new US approach.6 The latter is a stopgap, adhoc change. The former is a national governmental adoption of policies that pass costs on to health care users, despite evidence that such approaches can exacerbate inequities and leave deficits unfilled. Two countries does not make a pattern, but they do point to urgent questions: Have other countries, including Liberia, included user fees or community health insurance schemes in their implementation plans? If so, do any of these narratives have what Uganda’s lacks: a fall-back plan in place in case these strategies for sustainable health systems fail to deliver—as they have before? I wonder if you think about it Subscribe Predictable pitfalls Both community-based health insurance and user fees are as old as the hills. And after decades of people climbing up these hills, duking it out, climbing back down—neither strategy has shown the results the Ugandan implementation plan is counting on. This is, in fact, a hill some folks are willing to die on. (You knew I’d get there, right?) In November 2025, an African-led team of health system experts published a paper directed at low- and middle income country governments trying to figure out how to create self-sustaining health systems. The money wasn’t coming back. It had been more than nine months since the season of freezing, waivering and wood-chippering; two months since AFGHS tumbled into the world touting co-financing requirements and reductions in future US government health aid. Governments were looking for strategies for sustainable, self-financed health systems, the authors wrote. For countries considering user fees and community health insurance to fill the financing gaps, they had a simple message: Don’t. On user fees, the paper states: “Reliance on user fees is ultimately a regressive and inequitable approach. It places a disproportionate burden on the poor and undermines health system goals of equity and financial protection. […] There is overwhelming evidence that user fees mobilise very limited resources for the public health sector, making it an inefficient mechanism for revenue mobilisation.” On community health insurance: “Attempting to shift the burden of funding previously donor-funded services, such as HIV care and management, and TB treatment, onto contributory schemes would exacerbate their fragility and fail to protect the population.”7 The WHO says that community-based health insurance “cannot be expected to provide a major source of funding or coverage,” and noted that most schemes offer only moderate benefit to individuals paying into them, and exclude the poorest segment of the population.8 And yet, the US-Ugandan implementation plan says that community health insurance is “the central pillar of this [PNFP] sustainability strategy” and that this approach that will generate “pre-paid pooled funding at facility and community level [that] improves financial risk protection for households, reduces catastrophic out-of-pocket expenditure, and generates structured, transparent revenue streams that can progressively absorb recurrent costs including health worker salaries.” Unfortunately, Uganda’s own history suggests the pillar might not be able to bear this weight. Ugandans Have Been to this Rodeo Before—and Some Want Their Money Back Uganda introduced its first community health insurance scheme in 1996 with support from international donors.9 Thirty years later, somewhere between 0.2 and 0.3 percent of the population is covered by CHI; just over 1 percent has any kind of health insurance.10 User fees were universally introduced in 1993 as a condition of a World Bank loan.11 They were abandoned in 2001, and in 2004—the year I moved to Uganda to watch the free HIV program get underway—a definitive study found that the fees did not improve health systems and outcomes.12 In 2004, most clinics and hospitals had ‘free’ and ‘fee for service’ options for getting care.13 The fee for service, or “cash and carry” programs had often been established in the years prior to PEPFAR and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. People who could afford to paid for the drugs, often at facilities in the private-not-for-profit (PNFP) sector. When free drugs arrived, some people who’d been paying kept on doing so, perhaps because of shorter wait times, greater confidentiality, convenience or other factors. But in the year that I spent visiting the same clinics around the country week after week—including a “center of excellence” that maintained separate days for cash and carry clients and those accessing free ARVs—lots of people who had been paying tried to switch to the free option. They’d paid because they had no other choice. They’d sold pieces of family land, begged family members for loans, bought pills by the week, and sometimes by the day. Or they were just cash-strapped, like most of us, and wanted the funds for other things. 14 Twenty-two years later, this hasn’t changed. Ugandans pay out of pocket for 30-40 percent of their health care costs, leading one paper to declare that “falling ill is more than a health crisis. It is a financial emergency.”15 One recent study found that up to 48.5 percent of households dealing with tuberculosis sold something, took out a loan or dug into savings to defray the costs of TB care—which is supposed to be universally free.16 The Ugandan implementation plan does anticipate challenges. It proposes a phased approach, with 187 facilities introducing user contribution systems in Year 1, 152 in Year 2, and 153 in Year 3. Willingness to pay and feasibility studies will precede roll out; fees will be tiered by region, and a waiver system is proposed to ensure that no one has to pay who is unable to. Moreover, the plan provides for quarterly reviews of epidemiological data to “ensure that user contributions do not compromise epidemic control gains, ART continuity for the client cohort, TB case management, or PMTCT services.” Alt text: A screenshot of a table included in the implementation plan narrative that is the subject of this stack. It’s got a fetching pink bar at the top. It uses the abbreviation “CHI” which is Community Health Insurance, and FBO which is Faith Based Organizations, and it details the number of facilities that will implement user fees with waivers and community health insurance schemes over the five years of the agreement. As I said in the footnote, this is a super interesting document with a lot of other rich material. Tell me what you see—and what you would have focused on. And if you’ve seen something like this, or anything else that strikes you, in another implementation plan, tell me that too. You can use the Substack message platform or try me on Signal at @endaplague_again.25 (because @mercoonfan was, weirdly, taken). But the plan doesn’t fully explain what will happen if this approach doesn’t work out. Yes, progress will be monitored, and corrective action triggered. However, there is no specified funding replacement if premium and fee revenue prove inadequate. Instead, the authors write, “Currently, COEs serve a total client cohort of over 180,000 across 28 facilities. In the initial years, the U.S. Government (USG) will provide financial support for clients; over time, user fees generated by COEs will become the primary source of funding for sustaining their services.” Failure does not really seem to be an option. Health insurance schemes are more acceptable to the Ugandan population than user fees. Members of Parliament and civil society traveled to Ethiopia to see how that country’s scheme worked. In a follow up report, a veteran civil society group recommended allowing the “health insurance ecosystem to grow organically and [to] keep reviewing the law and regulations as this growth takes root.”17 One study found that more than three-quarters of Ugandans were willing to join a health insurance program.18 However, coverage of community-based health insurance is minimal, as is coverage of any kind of insurance—including private plans.19 A national health insurance scheme bill has been stalled for several years and presently sits with President Yoweri Museveni.20 Community-based health insurance scheme that do exist are expanding in number, but losing enrollees. Between 2022 and 2026, the number of community-based health financing schemes across the country increased by 42 percent, while the number of people enrolled decreased by nearly 11 percent.21 None of this means that community-based health insurance should not happen in Uganda—or that people do not want insurance. It doesn’t even mean that user fees and waivers won’t ever work. But there is highly relevant evidence from Uganda and the surrounding region that it is quite optimistic to describe community health insurance and user fees as central supports for sustainable financing in any sector of the health system. And now for the best-case scenario In the best-case scenario22, the Ugandan approach does exactly what it sets out to do, and so does the Liberian fee structure and revolving pharmacy fund—though I’ve not confirmed that these are in the MoU. In one best-case scenario, Uganda is an outlier, and user fees and community health insurance are not recurrent pillars of self-sustaining financing in other countries’ implementation plans. In another best-case scenario, all countries that include these strategies enjoy success beyond anyone’s evidence-informed wildest dreams: reliable funding generated by health care users fees, great health care outcomes for everyone, no exacerbation of inequities, no crippling household debt. No sold land, repurposed school tuition or high-interest loans. In the best-case scenario, not one of the hundreds of thousands of Ugandans living with HIV receiving antiretrovirals from 491 PNFP facilities misses a refill or leaves care because of user fees or community health insurance premiums. This is the best-case scenario for these people for their own health, and for their families. It is also the best-case scenario if Uganda wants to stay on the path to eliminating HIV as a public health threat. According to the country’s most recent data, 96.5 percent of people living with HIV on antiretrovirals are virologically suppressed. Epidemic control depends ensuring that 95% of people living with HIV know their status, 95 percent of those individuals are on ART, and 95% of those individuals are virologically suppressed. Uganda is still struggling with the first “95"—a frankly abysmal 85.3 percent. If HIV epidemic control and the attendant prevention of new infections, avoidable suffering and premature death matter, the country cannot afford to lose any clients who are currently in care.23 As I write this a couple hours before the polls close for the US elections in the city I live in, I say with soul-deep sincerity: I am rooting for the best-case scenario. I think it’s safe to say that we all are.24 I think it’s also safe to say that if the US and co-signatory governments have inked plans that lead to successful expansion of community health insurance and strategic use of user fees, we all would like to know, now, so that we don’t miss the opportunity to celebrate when success happens. The implementation plan narratives have to enter the public domain. They are the fullest expression of a strategy co-created by two governments. There are assumptions and details that people living in the US and co-signatory countries need to understand that are not available in the MoUs or, to date, in the Congressional Notifications. Some of these details can help other countries that are, as I write this, still working on implementation plans. Others, like a solid count of how many other countries have plans for expanding user fees or health insurance, are important for regional and global health architecture reform initiatives. No matter how this election night turns out, there will be a slew of new Congressional member orientations, briefings and talking points papers in the next few months. Release of implementation narratives should be a bullet point in every context that AFGHS is discussed. These documents can be redacted so that procurement sensitive information isn’t disclosed. There is much more historical precedent for sharing such documents than there is for relying on user fees to fill health financing gaps. Let’s look at the information together so we can hope for the best and prepare for, you know, the other thing. Alt text: A substack first: a bicep selfie! It’s my arm - peachy-white skin, black shirt (flannel, notch neck, too hot for this appallingly balmy November weather, if you’re wondering) and a sticker that says I VOTED 2026. Beige letters on red for I voted. Beige on blue for 2026. You bet I did.25 In your wildest dreams. Subscribe 1 This is a really, really rich 95 page document. There are fascinating ideas and detailed plans in it. It is all worth reading AND I have, in this post, highlighted an instance of content that could pose challenges and certainly posits success of strategies that haven’t worked before. I would love to hear what readers’ see that’s interesting and should be lifted up as something to check for in other implementation plans. I will also shortly be adding a static page to the substack site where implementation plan documents will live. I will put the url into this footnote and it will also be there on emilybass.substack.com by the end of the week. Uganda Implementation Narrative Section 4 April 22 2026 Draft 1.51MB ∙ PDF file Download Download 2 User fees are costs charged for visits, labs, medicines or other health services, usually at the time they are provided. Community health insurance, or community-based health insurance, is what the World Health Organization calls “micro insurance,” which is health insurance targeted at low-income people. 3 As usual (by which I mean always), please prove me wrong. 4 https://smartnewsliberia.com/liberias-ministry-of-health-announces-2025-hospital-service-fees-for-public-facilities/?utm 5 https://moh.gov.lr/news/2025/grand-cape-mount-leaders-residents-embrace-new-community-pharmacy-program/?utm 6 https://www.christianitytoday.com/2026/09/hiv-usaid-pepfar-africa-foreign-aid-cuts-mission-hospitals/?utm 7 https://gh.bmj.com/content/10/11/e021270 8 https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/community-based-health-insurance-CBHI 9 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2827475/ 10 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10861328/#b3-jpmph-23-110 11 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC527704/ 12 Same citation as the footnote 2 - the article is called “Learning from failed health care reform in Uganda.” To which I say: If only. If. Only. 13 There is a whole taxonomy of user fees to be aware of, if not commit to memory. Out of pocket costs are everything that someone pays for themselves. In this Stack, user fees are planned and policy-supported out of pocket costs. There are also out of pocket costs that people pay to buy drugs or receive tests or health care assessments that would be free if the drugs were on the shelves, or the machines or kits were available, or the staff were on site. A user fee is usually designed to be modest, pegged to willingness to pay, and may be waiveable at the point of care for anyone who is unable to do so. The costs for things that would otherwise be free are whatever the market will bear and people either have to pay them or go without. Out of pocket costs for services and stuff that aren’t available in public facilities are different again from bribes or unofficial fees that some health workers may impose, even though most are indefatigable, tireless and tired, and devoted to their clients. 14 For the record—which really is these footnotes—I would give a whole stack of fridge magnets for a systematic analysis of the economic and social impact of the Mass Unemployment Event in AFGHS countries among the very people who used to be able to afford and cover user fees, both for themselves and vast family networks. Locally employed USAID technical staff, house cleaners, caregivers, drivers and technicians were financial anchors for cousins, friends, friends’ children, friends’ childrens’ cousins, teachers, pastors, neighbors and so many other kinds of kin. Aid recipients lost direct funding; many other people who had not been aid recipients, but parts of the elaborate care webs that function as safety nets for so many people, lost crucial support too. And that’s even before we get to the people who worked at the hotels and restaurants and bars where people employed by the US and its implementing partners used to spend disposable income. Those businesses have lost revenue; those folks have lost jobs. It will be some time coming—and someone will have to fund this work—but I do hope it happens. And I hope, as usual, to be proven wrong. 15 https://eprcug.org/blog/how-out-of-pocket-healthcare-costs-keep-driving-ugandans-into-poverty/ 16 Another straight-to-the-point journal article title. Households experiencing catastrophic costs due to tuberculosis in Uganda: magnitude and cost drivers. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32938411 17 https://www.cehurd.org/download/technical-policy-brief-on-community-health-insurance-scheme/?wpdmdl=13661&refresh=6ae9122f5d4ed1793659439 18 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10125197/ 19 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10861328/#b3-jpmph-23-110 20 https://ugandapost.news/uganda-to-make-health-insurance-mandatory-by-2026/ 21 https://shu.org.ug/download/235 22 With a nod, tip of the stack hat, and wag of the Mercoon tail to a deeply valued reader who told me that I have a tendency to speculate about the worst-case scenarios a little too much of the time. 23 https://news.mak.ac.ug/2026/10/uphia-2025-shows-ugandas-hiv-status-awareness-gap-despite-strong-treatment-outcomes/ As you’ll see in the next footnote, I’ve already written a subSubstack on another topic, so I will be brief with regard to the study referenced in this article. The Uganda Population-Based HIV Impact Assessment, or UPHIA, will never happen in this way again. For more than a decade, PHIAs have been supported by the US government as a way to generate accurate estimates of country progress on key HIV indicators. They are a holdover from the PEPFAR program that was laser focused on ensuring US taxpayer dollars subsidized progress in pandemic control. There may be other population-level surveys and the data may even be publicly released, as the entire set of FY2026 MER data have not. But PHIAs will never happen again. If you’re wondering whether the estimates of HIV progress at country level might get less reliable….you’re not alone. 24 Ooh baby, I hate “we” in almost all forms. But sometimes I go there, when I am looking for company, which I am. Because this Stack moves into the somewhat-uncharted territory of assessing what the implementation plan narratives may suggest about co-signatory countries’ roles and responsibilities to the people living within their borders. The MoUs, specimen and data sharing agreements were templates. Countries’ answers fit into pre-specified questions that did not include, “how are you going to fill financing gaps and stabilize your health system as this plan unfolds?” In contrast, the implementation narratives are open form—the product of co-creation between the two governments. Co-creation can mean lots of things, but nothing leads me to believe that implementation plans are ghost-written by the US government, or that contents were imposed by the US counterparts. Instead, I think the parts of the plans that read like country government initiatives are endorsed, if not initiated by, those governments. For instance, the Ugandan implementation plan narrative describes plans for revenue-generation through fees charged for equipment calibration, repair and maintenance provided through Uganda’s National Equipment Calibration Laboratory, and laboratory accreditation through the Uganda National Accreditation Service (UGANAS), targeting private sector, PNFP, research and academic clients. That’s super specific and also quite ambitious. It doesn’t read like an American idea. There’s also a provision for solar panels, and other stuff that feels country owned and driven. This is where it gets interesting. If co-creation is the case, then both the US and co-signatory governments are accountable for the contents and the outcomes. Most discourse about AFGHS to date has focused on the decisions that America has made, or demanded that other countries make. The AFGHS architects have monopolized the hot seat. As they should, in so many ways. America absolutely created the conditions under which countries needed to come up with health financing strategies to fill unanticipated, catastrophic funding gaps. And with not-too-long a lens, we can look back and see that America is also on the hook for its role in the Bretton Woods institutions that made user fees and health system fiscal austerity conditions of loans during the era of structural adjustment. But in the here and now, it is not at all clear to me that the US is requiring Uganda or any other country to implement specific approaches to sustainable financing. Instead, it is as the authors of that paper up in footnote 6 suggest: African governments have agency. As implementation plans roll out—whether or not the narratives are shared—it will be important to understand what this agency looks like and what it means for people, including the poorest of the poor. And it will be important to figure out how to talk about it safely, respectfully and critically in places other than the literal and metaphorical footnotes. 25 This week’s song is “Once upon a time” by the Moody Blues. (I know, this is gonna be a weird, largely banger-free end of 2026 playlist. HMU with requests.) AND please do watch the video and appreciate the truly amazing opening sequence—a drum kit wasteland, a coupla plastic bags, a bit of sand. Sort of like the hill where fiscal austerity policies that put costs on health care users might go to perish. But then there’s a lady with amazing hair. It’s worth it.

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Schmaltz scores game-winner in Mammoth 3-2 win

TORONTO (ABC4 Sports) – Nick Schmaltz scored the winner on a power play with 6:48 left in regulation and the Utah Mammoth beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 on Tuesday night. Dylan Guenther and Andrew Peeke also scored for Utah. Sebastian Cossa made 27 saves. Clayton Keller added three assists and Mikail Sergachev had a […]

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Former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra wins California governor’s race

Becerra, a longtime fixture in Democratic politics in the state, beat Republican Steve Hilton, NBC News projects.

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Former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra wins California governor’s race

Becerra, a longtime fixture in Democratic politics in the state, beat Republican Steve Hilton, NBC News projects.

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Nov 3 • 11:00 PM EST • Health • nbcnews.com
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Alabama Dealt Surprising News Days Before SEC Showdown vs. LSU

Alabama was just dealt some major news days before the team's showdown against LSU. The post Alabama Dealt Surprising News Days Before SEC Showdown vs. LSU appeared first on HEAVY.

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Nov 3 • 10:56 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Xbox Debuts the Series X-BITE: A Working Console Swallowed by an Alligator

Creature specialists behind 'Jurassic World' bring Florida folklore to life in a custom hardware giveaway.

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Nov 3 • 10:50 PM EST • Technology • hypebeast.com
Bruins Among Teams Talking To Red Wings About Blockbuster Trade

Reports say the Boston Bruins aren’t among the six to eight teams on Dylan Larkin’s list. That said, they want to be, and general manager Don Sweeney is kicking tires.Pierre LeBrun of TSN reports that the Bruins have called the Detroit Red Wings about a Larkin trade. Unfortunately, of the ten teams Larkin’s camp has […] The post Bruins Among Teams Talking To Red Wings About Blockbuster Trade appeared first on HEAVY.

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Nov 3 • 10:12 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Wyandotte, KCK voters deny sales tax increase for parks, health

Voters' rejection of the items means that no additional money will go toward parks, pools and services like mental health and temporary housing.

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Nov 3 • 10:07 PM EST • Health • thebeaconnews.org
Hochul beats Blakeman to win another term as NY governor

NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul beat Republican Bruce Blakeman Tuesday to win reelection for a second full term as governor as New York Democrats turned out in droves in

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Nov 3 • 9:57 PM EST • Entertainment • thederrick.com
Vic Fangio: J.J. McCarthy was a "steal" for the Giants
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Nov 3 • 9:52 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Syracuse AD Wants to Beat Clemson in The Worst Way

Athletic Director Bryan Blair is rallying Orange fans to turn the JMA Wireless Dome into a hostile environment, aiming to derail the Tigers and prove Syracuse belongs.

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Nov 3 • 7:42 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Unbeaten Utah Hosts BYU In A Holy War That Could Shape The Big 12 Title Race

The final month of the college football season in the Big 12 will shake loose a tight race and determine the teams that will play in the championship game.

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Nov 3 • 7:30 PM EST • Sports • foxsports.com
Former Duke QB Daniel Jones Named as Surprise Trade Candidate

There could be a big surprise at the trade deadline involving a former Duke player.

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Nov 3 • 6:36 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bulldog Business: Gonzaga Beats Purdue in Season Opener; Reactions and Takeaways

Bulldog Business Podcast: Episode 5

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Nov 3 • 6:20 PM EST • Business • sports.yahoo.com
Mental health evaluation ordered for man accused of assaulting police officer

On Monday afternoon, the man was allegedly involved in a violent encounter with police near Armory and Cleveland streets

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Nov 3 • 5:12 PM EST • Health • westernmassnews.com
Health advisory for fecal bacteria lifted at Palm Beach oceanside park

Lifting a health alert on Nov. 3 came a week after officials issued an advisory for the waters off R.G. Kreusler Memorial Park in Palm Beach.

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Nov 3 • 4:55 PM EST • Health • palmbeachdailynews.com
AIG beats profit estimates on premium growth, investment income

American International Group swept past analysts’ estimates for third-quarter profit on Tuesday, as higher investment income and premium growth helped offset a jump in catastrophe losses.

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Nov 3 • 4:32 PM EST • Business • businessinsurance.com
AMD beats Q3 estimates with data center business booming

Patrick Moorhead, Moor Insights & Strategy Founder, CEO, and Chief Analyst, joins Yahoo Finance Breaking Business News Reporter Jake Conley to discuss AMD's (AMD) third quarter earnings beating estimates, with data center revenue nearly doubling to $8.55 billion.

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Nov 3 • 4:28 PM EST • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Cardinals officially place Jeremiyah Love, Kendrick Bourne on IR
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Nov 3 • 4:26 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Two big office building sales show strength of owner-occupiers in Cleveland market

The buildings, in Independence and Beachwood, were purchased by local groups that, like other owner-occupiers, enjoy a financing advantage when it comes to office buildings.

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Nov 3 • 4:00 PM EST • Business • crainscleveland.com
“He’s Driving Aaron Rodgers Nuts” “He’s Washed”: Colin Cowherd Delivers Brutal Verdict On DK Metcalf After Steelers’ Win

The Pittsburgh Steelers extended their winning streak to four games with a 27-6 win over the Cleveland Browns. However, wide receiver DK Metcalf’s disappointing performance became a major talking point after the game.

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Nov 3 • 3:57 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Esteban Ocon will not race for Haas again this season as Rafael Camara replaces him at Sao Paulo Grand Prix

Esteban Ocon will no longer compete for Haas this season; Formula 2 championship leader Rafael Camara will now partner Ollie Bearman at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix

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Nov 3 • 3:47 PM EST • Sports • skysports.com
Kurtley Beale's 'unfinished business' 17 years after Test debut

Kurtley Beale is honoured and humbled to be back in the Wallabies squad, 17 years after his Test debut, but the veteran utility back isn't there to hold pads -- he is adamant he can still add value.

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Nov 3 • 3:09 PM EST • Business • espn.com
Chicago Cubs Claim Struggling Pitcher Off Waivers
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Nov 3 • 3:00 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Galatasaray end Stuttgart's unbeaten run, Sporting shine

VfB Stuttgart lost for the first time in the Champions League this season after Aleksei Batrakov scored twice in a 2-0 win for Galatasaray on Tuesday. The Germans threatened early on in the hostile Istanbul atmosphere when Jamie Leweling's shot came off both posts.

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Nov 3 • 2:48 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Giants trade candidate: Jets RB Breece Hall

Would the Giants and Jets do business?

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Nov 3 • 2:42 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Cher responds after Michael Douglas shaded her 1988 Oscars victory over Glenn Close

Cher responded after Michael Douglas shaded her 1988 Oscars victory for ‘Moonstruck,’ after Douglas took a dig at the pop icon for beating Glenn Close at the 60th Academy Awards.

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Nov 3 • 2:29 PM EST • Entertainment • ew.com
Top 3 Streaming Stocks to Watch as Digital Entertainment Demand Grows

Alphabet, Sony and Fox stand to benefit from the streaming boom as live sports, premium content and rising connected-TV ad spending reshape digital entertainment.

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Nov 3 • 1:40 PM EST • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
How Matthew Broderick ended up living at Warren Beatty’s house for months

Before working together on the 2016 movie ‘Rules Don’t Apply,’ Matthew Broderick had a long meeting with Warren Beatty — which led to him moving into the legend’s house.

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Nov 3 • 1:31 PM EST • Entertainment • ew.com
Chicago Bears Stock Watch: Offense making plays; secondary struggles

The Bears moved to 6-2 with a huge MNF win. @SamHouseholder has this week’s stock watch.

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Nov 3 • 1:00 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Business Beat : MCCU welcomes back Michelle Kappen as Lending Manager

MARSHALL,MI (WTVB) - A home is more than a place to live. It's where families grow, new chapters begin, and pe...

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Nov 3 • 12:41 PM EST • Business • wtvbam.com
UPS logo fails to deliver on copyright protection

United Parcel Service may deliver millions of packages bearing its familiar brown-and-gold shield, but the company’s iconic logo doesn’t have enough originality to qualify for federal copyright…

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Nov 3 • 11:37 AM EST • Business • businessinsurance.com
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OpenAI: ChatGPT Search Is About 20% of Google’s, 250 Million People Speak With ChatGPT, and Chat Is Merging With Work

OpenAI says ChatGPT growth is accelerating. The company added 200 million users over just the past two months, jumping from 1 billion to 1.2 billion weekly active users in 60 days. Its search volume, it says, is approximately 20% of Google’s. Its users create 1.5 billion images with it per week. And its voice mode, between dictation and speaking with ChatGPT, now has 250 million combined weekly active users. ChatGPT consumer product lead Adam Fry told me this during a brief fireside chat at an OpenAI-hosted dinner in New York City on Monday night. “The growth is just going big,” he said. During our conversation, Fry also revealed plans to merge ChatGPT’s Chat and Work modes (so that confusing toggle up top will soon go away), agreed with feedback that ChatGPT-created restaurant signage looks too uniform, and addressed the cost to serve its personal assistant Dots. Here’s a look at our full conversation, lightly edited for clarity and length. We also cover image generation, interactive interfaces, advertising, education, and public unease about AI: Alex Kantrowitz: OpenAI has analyzed ChatGPT’s search volume and compared it with Google’s. What did you find? Adam Fry: ChatGPT has been growing quite quickly. ChatGPT’s volume of search-like queries is now roughly one-fifth the volume of queries of Google. It’s a pretty amazing statistic when you think about it, mainly because we started just about a year and a half ago. It’s hard to remember this, but ChatGPT at a time didn’t have any up-to-date information. You’d ask a question, it would say something like, “It’s past my training date,” and nobody had any idea what that meant. You’re saying ChatGPT’s search volume is one-fifth of Google’s. Bing’s share of the search market is around 5%. Does that make you multiple times larger than Bing? To say that more directly, ChatGPT has gone from one billion to 1.2 in just the last two months. That’s roughly 100 million users in 30 days, and another 100 million in another 30 days. The growth is just going big, and we’re staying very focused on how fast ChatGPT is growing. What counts as a search? I might have 20 prompts back and forth in a ChatGPT conversation. Does each one count as a query? Story continues below… A MESSAGE FROM OUR SPONSOR Move upmarket without a rebuild Moving upmarket means saying yes to what enterprise buyers ask for first: SSO, directory sync, and audit logs. WorkOS gives you all three, so your team keeps building the product instead of the checklist. Get enterprise-ready. Continued from above…. Adam Fry: What people came to ChatGPT for to start, if you go back about two years, is really writing help and coding help. Those wouldn’t be things that you really search for. What we’ve seen over the last year is people have grown into all these other topics. Things like you’re looking up a person or people or a place or a thing, and it requires up-to-date information. That’s a key element. Another big part is finance questions or health questions, where you really want to make sure it’s up-to-date information that’s quite factual, and we’ll do a web search for those questions. It’s basically anything that a user would have traditionally gone to a traditional search engine for, but is now deciding to go to ChatGPT for. Does each conversation with a search embedded count as one search, or does every question that requires a web search count? Every time you ask a question and go search the web, that’s a search. You used to work at Google. How would you say the nature of search is changing? One of the things that people really love about ChatGPT is this personalization and this understanding of the broader journey. If you look in the past, people would go for a Q&A box, and you’d ask a one-off question, like how tall is the Eiffel Tower. But there’s so much context in our lives around, “Maybe I’m taking a trip to Paris.” It’s actually helpful for ChatGPT to respond, “Here’s how tall the Eiffel Tower is, but I know you’re going on a trip to Paris.” It’s that ability for people to actually maintain context over time that has led them to start using ChatGPT in this way. You’ve also announced 250 million weekly active users of voice input, including dictation and conversations with voice mode. We are at 250 million weekly active users. What’s amazing about this is, if you look at those 250 million, what we’re seeing is it’s actually also incremental to the product. It’s no longer just a novelty. People aren’t just trying out voice. We’re seeing them use voice input day to day in their daily life, and it’s grown so quickly. Those 250 million users are using voice input, and that could just be a quick question or a long conversation. We’re seeing both behaviors. We’re seeing people just not want to type. You just hold it and start talking to it, or it turns into a longer conversation where people just sit with it. The big reason for this is the frontier capabilities of our models that we’ve shipped. We shipped what we call GPT Live 1, and then we shipped GPT Live 1.1. The big change with this is that it’s much more natural to speak with. It’s something we call backchanneling and interruptibility. Mhhhm… What you just did there is what the model does, because it’s really good at having a bidirectional conversation. That push to the frontier—we were the first to really release this at scale—has made it so much more natural for people to chat. That’s still only about 20% of the user base. From the outside, that looks small. Why is it exciting from the inside? It’s very exciting for a few reasons. We see from the data that when people start using voice, they stay around using voice. One of the things, transparently, we can do a better job of is bringing more people into discovering it. We see that the number of people who discover it could be a lot higher. But once they do, it’s a really new way for people to interact with AI. We’ve made a lot of improvements to it too, where we’re just going to see the number go up. You have background mode, so now by default, if you close the app, it’ll show, “Hey, the conversation’s still going.” If you want to walk around the house or you’re putting away the groceries, you can still have a chat. That kind of continuity has also changed how much people use it. Dots launched on September 29 and is about a month old. How’s it doing? It’s doing great. We talk to people about their Dot, and the first thing that everyone says is, “I love my Dot.” One of the reasons we’re seeing this is the proactivity, its ability to reach out to you and figure out things. The biggest use case I see all the time is, “Did I forget something today that I was supposed to do?” You can just say to your Dot, “Remind me of things at the end of the day that I may have forgotten. Somebody emailed me or messaged me,” and it’ll do that. This Dot changes the paradigm of the relationship with AI, where it’s actually helping you and giving you time back. You’re more conservative with permissions than some competitors. I tried to give my Dot my credit card, and it wouldn’t take it. With the creator of OpenClaw in-house, why are Dots’ permissions more limited? This is a space where we want to be very thoughtful and conservative because it’s a new space where you’re entrusting your Dot to take care of things on behalf of you that matter and are meaningful. We’ve just talked about how you go to this 1.2 billion user growth and asking questions. Now we’re asking people, “Can you ask ChatGPT or your Dot to help get things done?” But when you ask it to help get things done, it’s a whole new level of trust. We’ve built up a tremendous amount of trust in giving the right answers to your questions, and we want to make sure that when we build this new product, it has a high degree of trust. It’s a long game. We think this is going to be a new market for a very long time, and we want to make sure that we’re being this trusted player in the market to start. I initially thought Dots would be available on my $20 plan, then realized I had to spend $100 a month to get it. I upgraded, but I’d like to downgrade at some point…. We hope to keep earning your business and make the value good enough. It’s a really good point. ChatGPT’s goal more broadly, which I think is unique for us in the market, is we are focused on bringing intelligence to everyone safely across the entire world. For Dots in particular, there’s no difference. We don’t have anything to share tonight about the date of when Dots will go to a broader set of users. But you can rest assured we’re working very hard, and there are a couple things we have to get right. Over time we’re going to work on more efficient, agentic models that are able and capable of doing things for you. The first one is, right now we wanted to make sure that your Dot is actually really helpful. We started with some of our best models, but over time we’re going to work on more efficient, agentic models that are able and capable of doing things for you. The second thing is around proactivity. We’re still dialing in: How much do I message you to help you get things done? We can always play around with that to understand how much usage should a user use to have a successful Dot. We’re going to work on both, and our goal and ambition is to bring it out to all users. How much background computing does a Dot require? I’ve read estimates that serving a $100 subscriber might cost OpenAI $3,000 in compute, and mine seems to read every email that arrives. How often is it checking connected data sources? Right now, Dots are on the compute-heavier side, and this is one of the things we want to make sure that we can dial back over time. But the goal is to give you the best product. This is our premium, always-on personal assistant. Once we nail that, we’ll figure out how to dial back the compute needs. The thing we’re seeing also from our models, as we train frontier models, is just how—I can’t even keep up with how quickly we have a new model, and each new model is more efficient. If you looked at 6.1 Sol when it came out relative to Astra, much more efficient. I’m very excited about the next set of models we have coming too that’ll be even more efficient that we can use. Elon Musk said the cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue. Is efficiency the key to winning against competitors, or is there more to it? There are a couple of factors that go into it. One is the cost side, but the other is the revenue side. On ChatGPT and on our consumer business, we’ve been extremely proud of our ability to diversify different revenue streams in a way that’s growing really fast. To give you another stat, we announced several months back that we had passed 50 million subscriptions, and the number has grown considerably since then. On ads, within 200 days, we reached more than a billion in ARR, and that business is growing extremely quickly. We also have credits. Rather than paying for subscriptions, users can buy more credits. Between credits, subscriptions, and ads, I’m confident that the value of a Dot is going to be able to pay for itself. Elon has subscriptions too. This is clearly an expensive product to serve. One thing we continue to bet on at OpenAI and ChatGPT more broadly is that the models will continue to get much better and much cheaper, way faster than any of us think. If you look back at the historicals on it, it continues to be true. From what I’ve seen, I see no slowing down of that. What is Meta doing right with Muse? It has spent a lot of time atop the App Store charts. There are a couple of things they’ve done well. The first is people have been craving simplicity in their products. One of the things we have stated publicly as well is, at times AI products can be too complex. We’ve announced we’re merging ChatGPT’s Chat and Work. We’re making it much more simple in the products. You don’t have as many toggles or sliders between efforts and different model pickers. One of the things they’ve done well is this simplicity. You just go in and you can ask a question. You don’t have to think too much about what you’re doing. That’s one thing that seems to have resonated with users, which we also believe in. Second, there’s something really nice about being able to access your agent across many different channels. We just announced and launched Dots on iMessage. Whether you talk to your Dot on email or iMessage or within the ChatGPT app, the ubiquity in getting your assistant out there is going to be key. Those are two things that, if I had to be nice to our competitors, I would say were two big ones. So Alexandr Wang’s meme-tweeting strategy isn’t something you’re going to emulate? I have a different tweeting style. ChatGPT still asks me to choose between Chat and Work, even though some people call this technology AGI. Will that distinction go away? Couldn’t agree more. We have to solve this. Asking users to choose — we’ve heard repeatedly from all of our users it’s too much to understand. When should you go to Chat? When should you go to Work? It’s solvable. There’s real research to solve to make sure the models can understand what your intent is. Are you asking for a fast, quick reply? Are you asking me to go do a long agentic task? We’re going to solve it, and the plan is to bring Chat and Work together. So one interface will work out whether I’m asking for a conversation or a task. When? Coming soon. You told me the majority of ChatGPT’s 1.2 billion users are using image functionality. What are they doing? Today, 1.5 billion images are created per week. It’s hard to even wrap my head around that number. They’re doing a wide range of things. One of the most interesting things they’ve started to do is really use it for productivity use cases. The first thing it started with—I don’t know if you saw the ’80s trend, but it was quite fun. You could take a photo of yourself and say, “Put me and my family in ’80s outfits.” I did this for my family, and it was a really fun poster. But what we’re also seeing is businesses for their menus, or posters for birthdays. People are using it almost in a productivity-like fashion to create visual diagrams of what they would like to see. We’ve actually brought the latency down on images as well, so it’s gotten a lot faster. It went from a very high number of seconds to getting much faster. As it comes down even further, the number of images people are creating and the number of use cases is going to grow a lot. My feature request: When a restaurant makes a menu or sign, prompt it for more specificity so it doesn’t look like every other AI-generated restaurant sign. Or offer a shuffle button for a different style. I agree with the feedback, and we’ll take it to the team. I’m seeing ChatGPT generate little interactive interfaces within its answers. What’s the direction for Intelligent UI, and how are people using it? I am extremely excited about Intelligent UI. If you go back a couple years, these chat apps were all text, and now that’s changing. They’re going to be visuals. Intelligent UI and our first attempt at this with GPT-6 Intelligent UI is really just the beginning. As you go to the extreme, what you can imagine is, let’s say you’re using voice mode, and you just say, “Show me how offside works.” Immediately it should show you a visual diagram, and you say, “No, I don’t quite understand it.” It should just repopulate. That’s where the future of this technology goes. It’s almost like you’re talking to a canvas that will update and change. People are finding it helpful for a lot of things. My favorite one is—it’s hard to admit that I had no idea how hearts work. The last biology course I took was in high school. I just asked it, “How does the heart work?” and it instantly gave me a beautiful interactive diagram of where blood flows and how it goes through. I’m really, really bullish on this for learning in particular. You’ve described useful applications in finance, health, and learning, and ChatGPT has 1.2 billion users. If people are getting so much value, why is public polling on AI so negative? The reality with AI is it is going to change the nature of how work gets done. For a lot of people, that is something that can feel scary at times, and we’ve all felt that. But I remain confident that when people actually use the product and they use AI, it very quickly changes how they perceive it. We’re at 1.2 billion, but there are still a lot of people who haven’t used it. The more people use it, get familiar with it, how it can actually help you in your life, it’s going to feel a lot less scary. Big Technology is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Thanks!! Subscribe

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Nov 3 • 10:00 AM EST • Technology • bigtechnology.com
Georgia Bulldogs Robbed of No. 1 After Crushing Gators

Georgia just beat Florida 27-8 and climbed to No. 2. Per Yahoo Sports, the Bulldogs have the wins to top Miami. It is time to move them to the top.

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Nov 3 • 9:45 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sotera Health Company’s (NASDAQ:SHC) Q3 2026 sales top estimates, stock jumps 12.9%

Healthcare services company Sotera Health (NASDAQ:SHC) beat Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q3 2026, with revenue rising 4.4% year on year to $324.9 million. The company expects the full year’s revenue to be around $1.24 billion, close to analysts’ consensus estimates. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.29 per share was 8% above analysts’ consensus estimates.

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Nov 3 • 8:33 AM EST • Health • finance.yahoo.com
Commanders Beat Eagles 27-10, But Deeper Flaws Still Lingering

Washington’s victory over the Eagles bought some breathing room, but it also exposed deep structural flaws the Commanders must fix before the Rams come to town.

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Nov 3 • 8:14 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Bears felt "profound" impact from Jeffery Simmons in his debut
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Nov 3 • 8:06 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Century-old fossil helps ETSU scientists rethink short-faced bear evolution

ETSU paleontologists used modern imaging to re-examine a century-old fossil, revising the known history of short-faced bears by more than one million years.

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Nov 3 • 8:00 AM EST • Science • news.etsu.edu
Warriors' Charles Bassey plays big role in win over Phoenix
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Nov 3 • 7:57 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sports on TV/radio listings: Nov. 3

Where to watch and/or listen to today's sporting events that will be televised or broadcast on the radio.

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Browns Could Trade Shedeur Sanders for Paltry Return

The Cleveland Browns could accept a bargain trade return for Shedeur Sanders. The post Browns Could Trade Shedeur Sanders for Paltry Return appeared first on HEAVY.

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Nov 3 • 6:39 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Johnny Depp Says He Would Return as Jack Sparrow to "Send Them Off on a Better Note"

Johnny Depp told Entertainment Tonight he is open to playing Jack Sparrow again so he can give the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise a better ending, Variety and Deadline reported. He stopped short of confirming a return.

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Nov 3 • 6:19 AM EST • Entertainment • northeasttimes.com
Queen Camilla ignores health warning with £4 snack on Caribbean tour

Queen Camilla tucked an unexpected £4 packet of sweets into her car door during her visit to Antigua, just months after King Charles did the same thing in England

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Nov 3 • 6:17 AM EST • Health • yahoo.com
Commentary: Whatever happened to the big film score?

History’s most beautiful film scores always find a way to escape the cinema. They weave their way into our lives, dissolving the boundary between the screen and our collective memories.

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Nov 3 • 6:00 AM EST • Entertainment • recorderonline.com
Hollywood's King of Culture Is Building a Billion-Dollar Entertainment Empire

Macro CEO Charles D. King is the 2027 ADWEEK | Adcolor Beacon Award winner.

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Nov 3 • 6:00 AM EST • Entertainment • yahoo.com
How a Democrat in Iowa and a Republican in Oregon are making education a campaign issue

In two states where the political odds seem stacked against them, candidates have found an unexpected way to appeal to voters: talking about schools.

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Nov 3 • 5:34 AM EST • Politics • chalkbeat.org
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Country music singer and actor dies at 84: ‘Leaves behind a beautiful legacy’

He died at home surrounded by family.

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Nov 3 • 5:00 AM EST • Entertainment • pennlive.com
‘Lot of Us Concerned About You,’ ‘Sending You Love’ — NFL World Reacts As ESPN Reporter Announces She’s Stepping Away Due to Health Issues

Jenna Laine has been a familiar face on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat for years, so her absence from the press room did not go unnoticed. The ESPN reporter has now explained that she needs time away to deal with medical issues, though she has not said when she will return.

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Nov 3 • 4:30 AM EST • Health • sports.yahoo.com
Colorado Basketball Beats Abilene Christian in Season Opener

Jalin Holland’s career-high 18 points sparked a dominant second-half surge as the Buffaloes imposed their will defensively to secure a commanding 11th consecutive season-opening victory in Boulder.

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Nov 3 • 3:40 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
1 trade Seahawks must make after MNF mauling by Bears

Coach Mike Macdonald’s team lost a 34-17 game to the Chicago Bears at home in Week 8 that led to stark comments from the Seahawks coach afterward . Defensive end Leonard Williams left the game with a stinger that gave him a questionable status for the future. The Seahawks are now 4-4 on the season, suddenly tied with Matt Stafford’s Los Angeles […] The post 1 trade Seahawks must make after MNF mauling by Bears appeared first on ClutchPoints.

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Nov 3 • 2:42 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bears QB Caleb Williams blacks out logo on cleats, says he wants 'to calm things down' after risking $12,000 in NFL fines
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Nov 3 • 2:24 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Lakers predicted to trade for $150M high-intensity defensive menace to pair with Luka Doncic

The Los Angeles Lakers are slowly becoming a tough team to beat. They could get even tougher by getting this defensive pest in a potential deal.

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Nov 3 • 1:42 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Jazz Drop Fifth Straight Game in Blowout Loss to Spurs

A stagnant offense and defensive lapses fueled a 1-6 start as Utah crumbled in San Antonio, leaving Lauri Markkanen’s 22-point effort wasted in a lopsided transition battle.

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Nov 3 • 1:25 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Luka Dončić shows how unbeatable Lakers can be in rout of Heat
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Nov 3 • 12:44 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Emraan Hashmi’s Musical Horror Film ‘Rooh’ Adds Tips Films and Tips Music (EXCLUSIVE)

Bollywood star Emraan Hashmi’s musical horror film “Rooh” has added Tips Films and Tips Music to its producing team, with Kumar Taurani boarding the project ahead of a 2027 theatrical release across t...

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Nov 3 • 12:30 AM EST • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Game Balls in Bears' Statement Primetime Victory vs Seahawks

The Chicago Bears just put the rest of the NFL on notice, and these players deserve the most credit.

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Nov 3 • 12:24 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
CHI Health offering personalized ‘Tree of Love’ ornaments to benefit central Nebraska hospital foundations

Community members in Kearney and Grand Island can honor loved ones while giving back to local healthcare initiatives this holiday season through CHI Health’s annual Tree of Love.

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Nov 3 • 12:18 AM EST • Health • ksnblocal4.com
Caleb Williams efficient in road win over Seattle on MNF

Caleb Williams passed for 247 yards and a touchdown as the Bears won in Seattle on MNF.

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Nov 2 • 11:55 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Swift, Simmons star as Bears maul Seahawks

D'Andre Swift rushed for three touchdowns as the Chicago Bears overpowered the Seattle Seahawks 34-17 in a statement road victory over the reigning Super Bowl champions on Monday.Seattle responded with a Cooper Kupp touchdown early in the fourth quarter but Chicago's defense took over and Swift bagged two touchdowns to seal victory. rcw/pst

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Nov 2 • 11:47 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bears answer Seahawks, up lead to 27-17
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Nov 2 • 11:01 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Chicago Makes A Statement: 3 Takeaways From The Bears' Win Over The Seahawks

The Bears made a statement with a win on the road against the reigning-champion Seahawks. Here are our takeaways.

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Nov 2 • 10:57 PM EST • Sports • foxsports.com
Beaver Dam’s Marshfield Medical Center becomes a part of UW Health system

UW Health announced Monday that the Marshfield Medical Center in Beaver Dam will become a part of the UW Health system.

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Nov 2 • 10:48 PM EST • Health • wmtv15news.com
AMC Entertainment earnings: what to look for from AMC

Theater company AMC Entertainment NYSE:AMC will be reporting earnings this Wednesday after the bell. Here’s what you need to know.AMC Entertainment beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.60 billion, up 14.2% year on year. It was an incredible quarter for the comp…

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Nov 2 • 10:28 PM EST • Entertainment • tradingview.com
Commentary: Alaska fishers need clean energy solutions to lower fuel costs

The war in Iran has sent fuel prices soaring, and that increase took a toll on my business and all the other small-scale fishing businesses that power Alaska’s rural economy.

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Nov 2 • 10:21 PM EST • Business • alaskabeacon.com
Cavs fall at home to the Thunder 117-112

On a night when both teams were missing key rotational pieces, it was the Oklahoma City Thunder who found a way to win, beating the Cleveland Cavaliers 117-112. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander dropped 40 points and hit the go-ahead three-pointer with 32 seconds to go to clinch the game. Donovan Mitchell and Maleek Thomas, who was starting […]

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Nov 2 • 9:56 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Apple’s tightening margins overshadow upbeat holiday forecast

Apple Inc. delivered a mixed outlook to investors in its first quarterly report under Chief Executive Officer John Ternus, with narrower profit margins overshadowing an upbeat sales forecast. Though Apple

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Nov 2 • 9:53 PM EST • Entertainment • thederrick.com
Monday Night Football: Bears lead Seahawks 13-9 at halftime
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Nov 2 • 9:51 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Johnny Depp would only return to ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ for 1 reason

Johnny Depp said that he’d only return to play Captain Jack Sparrow in another ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movie for this single reason.

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Nov 2 • 8:21 PM EST • Entertainment • ew.com
Same Miles, new mileage

Tim Miles has coached 30 teams. On Monday, the 30th looked a lot like the one he’s been sketching in his head for years. San Jose State beat UTSA 95-74 in the season opener at the Provident Credit Union Event Center. The Spartans shot 59% and won the glass 43-22. It’s too early to tell […]

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Nov 2 • 8:00 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Monday Night Football live discussion: Bears at Seahawks

Our Monday Night Football live thread is now open.

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Nov 2 • 8:00 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Brian Sabean Humbled by Hall Of Fame Bid

Brian Sabean admits he is the "least iconic" on his Hall of Fame ballot. His honest reaction to the 2027 vote is a rare moment of clarity in baseball.

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Nov 2 • 7:46 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Monday Night Football: Bears vs. Seahawks live chat

Watch MNF live with us!

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Nov 2 • 7:45 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Packers add ex-Raiders QB to practice squad

The Green Bay Packers pulled off one roster move Monday. But they’re not moving running back Josh Jacobs despite his name being linked to trade rumors. Instead, coach Matt LaFleur and company are bringing in former Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Cam Miller The past NFL Draft pick for the Raiders is heading to Lambeau Field , per ESPN NFL insider […] The post Packers add ex-Raiders QB to practice squad appeared first on ClutchPoints.

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Nov 2 • 7:42 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com