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Nebraska soccer draws USC for a record-breaking fifth straight scoreless draw

Nebraska soccer drew 0-0 against USC on Thursday, Oct. 22, at Hibner Stadium. This was the Huskers’ fifth straight scoreless draw and 10th of the season. The Huskers haven’t scored in 452 minutes and haven’t given up a goal in over 540.

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Oct 22 • 11:24 PM EDT • Sports • dailynebraskan.com
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Holmen students try casting, tour ambulance during school's Science of Medicine Day

Third, fourth and fifth graders at Sand Lake Elementary stepped into the world of medicine Thursday morning.

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Oct 22 • 10:31 PM EDT • Science • wxow.com
Supreme Court backs Republicans on New Hampshire voter IDs

(Bloomberg) — The U.S. Supreme Court lifted a ruling that would have allowed use of student-ID cards to help show eligibility to vote in New Hampshire, siding with Republicans in a state where Democrats are defending a Senate seat next...

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Oct 22 • 8:44 PM EDT • Politics • seattletimes.com
Holmen students try casting, tour ambulance during school's Science of Medicine Day

HOLMEN, Wis. (WXOW) – Third, fourth and fifth graders at Sand Lake Elementary stepped into the world of medicine Thursday morning.

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Oct 22 • 8:23 PM EDT • Science • wxow.com
Nebraska Health Care Foundation gives Omaha caregiver a car, ending her transit struggle

A surprise gift gives an Omaha caregiver her first car in two years, ending her transit struggle.

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Oct 22 • 5:58 PM EDT • Health • ketv.com
Handcrafted art helps fight hunger

Buy a soup bowl to help combat local hunger, visit a new spot to make pottery, and stock up on some holiday gifts when Rainbow Springs Art in Dunnellon opens

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Oct 22 • 5:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • chronicleonline.com
Arts & Entertainment Agenda, Oct. 23 to 29

‘Día de los Muertos,’ Oct. 7 to31 Celebrate “Dia de los Muertos” with a vibrant three-course meal, available Wednesday to Saturday through Oct. 31 at Toro Snowmass inside the Viceroy Snowmass, 130 Wood Rd. Led...

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Oct 22 • 4:01 PM EDT • Entertainment • aspentimes.com
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Health Care Fraud Arrests

First assistant United States attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli talks after a press conference as he announced the arrests of fifteen defendants for health care fraud

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Oct 22 • 2:57 PM EDT • Health • telegraphherald.com
Trump asked Musk to lift Starlink slowdown, WSJ reports

Elon Musk, a critic of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, had ordered the slowdown of SpaceX's Starlink, The Wall Street Journal previously reported.

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Oct 22 • 2:35 PM EDT • Politics • cnbc.com
Politics: The Midterm Races You Aren’t Hearing About

In just a dozen days, voters across the country will cast their ballots in midterm elections that could shift the balance of power in Washington. A lot of focus has been devoted to the contested races for Congress, with billions of dollars being spent on critical statewide contests and referendums.From governors’ mansions to statehouses to local ballot initiatives, voters will make their voices heard.We gather a panel of experts and zero in on some midterm races that aren’t necessarily making national headlines.Find more of our programs online. Listen to 1A sponsor-free by signing up for 1A+ at plus.npr.org/the1a.

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Oct 22 • 1:41 PM EDT • Politics • npr.org
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UTC student-athletes host Tommie F. Brown Academy students for Sports Camp Day

“Are we going to college today?” a Tommie F. Brown Academy student asked during the walk from the elementary school to UTC’s Aquatic and Recreation Center. The question set the tone Wednesday, Oct. 21, as 46 Brown Academy students in kindergarten through fifth grade spent an hour at the ARC with 14 UTC student-athletes for Sports Camp Day.

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Oct 22 • 1:31 PM EDT • Sports • blog.utc.edu
How well have past GOTY winners sold?

We’re less than two months away from 2026’s The Game Awards, and what a year it’s been for fantastic games, including Resident Evil Requiem, Forza Horizon 6, Slay the Spire II, the Blood of Dawnwalker, and Control Resonant – just to name a few. So as we approach the end of the year, we thought we’d look back on our estimates for the GOTY winners of the past four years. In terms of revenue, Elden Ring (2022 winner), Baldur’s Gate 3 (2023), Astro Bot (2024), and Expedition 33 (2025) have generated a combined $3.8B via 73M copies sold: Let’s have a look, then. Elden Ring has generated $2B in revenue Elden Ring is a phenomenon in every sense. It’s sold a whopping 36.4M copies across Steam (50%), PS5 (35%), and Xbox (15% across console and PC). Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe Elden Ring also just passed an astronomical milestone: $2B in revenue. While PlayStation and Xbox account for half of Elden Ring’s copies sold across these three platforms, they account for 57.5% of revenue. This – as ever – is due to regional pricing and the higher relative share of PC gamers in lower-priced markets. For example, around 17.4% of Elden Ring’s Steam copies sold were in China, where the game costs about 26% less than the price in the States. There’s an … interesting narrative going around these days that console gamers are only interested in ball-and-gun games and have the patience for little else. Well, Elden Ring’s impressive sales prove that is simply not true, and across all platforms. What’s more, over 9.8M people have played Elden Ring for over 100 hours, with nearly 3.5M people getting all of the achievements and trophies. For reference, 10.9% of Elden Ring’s PlayStation players have the platinum trophy, while 10.5% of players on Steam and 3.9% of Xbox players unlocked all the achievements. Git gud, Xbox players! Of the 1.5M people who played Elden Ring on PlayStation last month, 4% also played Dark Souls 3 last month, 4% played Bloodborne, and 3% played Sekiro. There’s those Soulsborne diehards for you. By many accounts, including my own, Elden Ring is one of the best games of all time. It’s an evergreen seller that will continue to be a cash cow for Bandai and FromSoftware for years to come. Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe Elden Ring has sold another 2M copies across Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox this year, generating almost $110M. This means it’s outperforming many of this year’s high-profile releases. Even Elden Ring’s standalone run-based PvE spinoff, 2025’s Nightreign, has sold 7.8M copies and generated $282M in revenue. Baldur’s Gate 3 is another billion-dollar-plus banger Another cross-platform phenomenon is Baldur’s Gate 3, which has sold 23.2M copies and generated over $1.2B in revenue. About 18.7M of these copies (80.6%) are via Steam, 2.9M via PS5 (12.7%), and 1.6M (6.8%) via Xbox. Around 1.3M folks on Steam bought BG3 before it hit 1.0. The PlayStation version launched about a month after the PC 1.0 release, while the Xbox version came four months later due to technical issues around developing local co-op on the Series S. Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe Across platforms, Baldur’s Gate 3’s monthly active users have never dropped below 2M, including 2.2M MAUs last month (68.5% on Steam, 21.9% on PS5, and 9.6% on Xbox). And it still regularly brings in 280K to 400K players every day: About 1% of BG3’s Steam player base has played for over 500 hours! That’s a little under 200K people. Astro Bot is also an evergreen seller, albeit a more niche, family one Astro Bot, 2024’s winner, has now sold 4.7M copies and generated $291M in revenue. The budget, including marketing, is almost certainly under $100M, given the small Japan-based core team and three-year dev timeline. You can really see why the tides are changing toward less expensive hubs. Astro Bot is the only first-party winner on this list, but follows other first-party winners of The Last of Us Part II (2020’s winner), God of War (2018), and Breath of the Wild (2017). Around 46.6% of Astro Bot’s copies sold have been physical, which is far higher than the typical game. This makes sense for a couple of reasons: There’s a large family audience for this one, and physical boxes are an item to wrap when giving Astro as a gift. Astro has collector value for the PlayStation core (this is nostalgia-fueled platformer celebrating PlayStation’s history) Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe Astro is another one of those games that continues selling over time, regularly selling more than 100K a month. It’s sold around 1M more copies this year ($60M in revenue) and is a popular title with families. We can see this using the Alinea platform’s MAU crossover tool: Astro Bot’s top #2, #3, and #4 games by crossover in any given month this year are Minecraft, Fortnite, and Roblox – without fail. The #1 title every month, though, is Astro’s Playroom, a pack-in with all PS5 consoles. For every month this year, between 20% and 30% of Astro Bot players also played Astro’s Playroom that month. So the free pack-in is a noice funnel for converting players to a full paid product. Expedition 33 sells 8.7M despite Game Pass cannibalisation Finally, we have last year’s winner – Expedition 33. The turn-based-RPG banger has generated $366M via 8.7M copies sold, with 58.8% on Steam, 35.7% on PS5, and 5.5% on Xbox. Xbox’s share of copies sold is this low due to Expedition 33 launching on Game Pass, where 4.3M people across console and PC accessed the game. A little under 700K Xbox players used their subscription to play Expedition 33 this year. That said, the game’s 1.5-year Game Pass deal ended last week on October 16, and we’re already beginning to see a positive trend on Expedition 33’s copies sold via Xbox (but the jury’s still out!). There’s understandably a lot of French pride behind this one, as France is the game’s #3 market on both Steam and PlayStation. Vive la France! One thing that stood out to me is that the GOTY winners aren’t $300M Hollywood productions made in the US. They’re mostly mid-budget studios outside the traditional AAA cost centres. Lots to think about there. Also, good games sell well; who’d have thunk it!? And there’s a whole load of them this year, with GTA 6 still to come, too. GTA just made the cutoff point for the VGAs this year. What a coincidence! Loading... Cool links and other stuff Our physical games newsletter from Tuesday was picked up by GameSpot, Eurogamer, TweakTown, and a bunch of others. We’re offering a free trial of our platform for games companies. Send us a message here, or reply right here on Substack/email, and we’ll set you up. Next week, we’ve got some exciting news regarding the future of our newsletter, so stay tuned! The last word Reply to this email – or reach out here – if you have any feedback for the newsletter – or want to request a game for us to cover. Want to see why these companies (and many others) are subscribed to Alinea? Get a free platform trial! [Alinea Analytics boasts the most accurate PC and console estimates in the business. Game makers use our platform to understand their audience, keep an eye on the competition, monitor sales trends, and spot new opportunities. We equip game studios and financial institutions with accurate data and the confidence to make smarter, data-driven decisions. Want to talk about all things games market data? We’d love to chat!]

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Oct 22 • 1:02 PM EDT • Technology • alineaanalytics.substack.com
How both Texas parties have shifted their political ad messaging

Democrats have moved from healthcare to taxes and corruption, while Republicans have ramped up ad spending on property taxes, crime and transgender issues, an analysis of AdImpact data shows.

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Oct 22 • 12:37 PM EDT • Politics • texastribune.org
In New Mexico governor’s race, Deb Haaland’s historic bid tests Democrats’ political hold

Republican contender Gregg Hull says the state is “primed for a shift.”

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Oct 22 • 12:16 PM EDT • Politics • mcall.com
In New Mexico governor’s race, Deb Haaland’s historic bid tests Democrats’ political hold

Republican contender Gregg Hull says the state is “primed for a shift.”

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Oct 22 • 12:16 PM EDT • Politics • dailypress.com
How Pittsfield’s Reid Middle School is making STEM learning hands-on

At Reid Middle School, students built scissor lifts as Education Secretary Stephen Zrike Jr. visited during STEM Week,

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Oct 22 • 12:00 PM EDT • Science • berkshireeagle.com
Funding Cuts Push Global Health Partnerships Toward Local Ownership

Speakers at IDWeek 2026 urged shifting global health partnerships from donor-recipient models to shared, locally led ownership as funding contracts.

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Oct 22 • 11:58 AM EDT • Health • ajmc.com
Medicaid work rules lift Molina Healthcare’s pay, CEO says

Molina Healthcare says six states are boosting the Medicaid insurers pay next year in part because of work requirements and more frequent eligibility checks.

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Oct 22 • 11:48 AM EDT • Health • modernhealthcare.com
Larry Gies pledges $100M matching gift to Gies College of Business

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WICS/WRSP) - Larry Gies has announced a new pledge of $100 million to Gies College of Business in Champaign.

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Oct 22 • 11:44 AM EDT • Business • newschannel20.com
Huntington startup creates landmark-inspired pajamas and gifts

Huntington-based Oyster and Arrow creates hand-illustrated pajamas and gifts inspired by Long Island landmarks. Founded by Emily Greany, the company emphasizes local coastal motifs and has grown to 25 retail partners, with wholesale driving most of its revenue. The brand aims to expand along the East Coast while maintaining personal connections.

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Oct 22 • 11:33 AM EDT • Business • libn.com
Witkoff faces backlash for praising Putin as a ‘humanitarian’

The comments were swiftly condemned by U.S. lawmakers who view Russian President Vladimir Putin as responsible for the brutal war in Ukraine.

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Oct 22 • 11:15 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Alumnus honors his father, a longtime Marquette professor, with $2 million gift to advance research in biological sciences

President Kimo Ah Yun announced today that a $2 million gift from alumnus Nanda Alapati will advance undergraduate and graduate research in biological sciences.

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Oct 22 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • today.marquette.edu
Entertainment this week: Tahoe City Zombie Crawl, Steely Dead and more

Friday, October 23 2026 Business Walks – Incline Village. Description Tahoe Property Center October 19-23, the Tahoe Prosperity Center and partners from across the region will visit businesses around the Lake for the 2026 Tahoe...

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Oct 22 • 10:54 AM EDT • Entertainment • sierrasun.com
Alabama governor’s race could be surprisingly competitive, prominent political forecaster says

Sabato's Crystal Ball shifted Alabama's governor's race from "Safe Republican" to "Likely Republican."

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Oct 22 • 9:17 AM EDT • Politics • al.com
Unassuming historic Lafayette house, business destroyed by fire

The history of the small building at 309 N. Fifth St. destroyed by fire includes a time as a Chinese laundry and a visit from a famous movie star.

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Oct 22 • 8:43 AM EDT • Business • jconline.com
UConn's Queer Science Conference Challenges Stereotypes, Inspires Students

UConn hosts fifth annual event for high schoolers

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Oct 22 • 7:15 AM EDT • Science • today.uconn.edu
Giant iPhone Duo Installations Spotted at Apple Fifth Avenue

Apple is preparing what appear to be giant iPhone Duo displays outside its Fifth Avenue store in New York ahead of the device's launch on Friday, October 23. Photos from users on X show the structures on the plaza beside the glass cube. Their designs are hidden by wrapping and black covers, so it remains unclear exactly how Apple will present the device. October 21, 2026 The outdoor installations accompany a substantial retail push inside the store.

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Oct 22 • 7:02 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Climate change is literally altering the shape of our planet

The melting of the poles is increasingly shifting Earth's shape at a faster rate, with the planet becoming more and more round.

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Oct 22 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • livescience.com
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Employers Shift Rising Health Care Costs Onto Millions of Workers

New surveys show that increases in premiums and deductibles are forcing people to forgo treatments or doctor’s visits while budgets are strained by higher food and gas prices.

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Oct 22 • 5:03 AM EDT • Health • nytimes.com
Mobile science lab

Billy Roden, left, Seattle Children’s Mobile Science Program manager, takes answers to a question he posed to Rasa Conklin’s fifth-grade science class on Wednesday inside the mobile science classroom at Salish Coast Elementary School in Port Townsend. Dr. Noelle Machnick, rear, in lab coat, helped moderate the class.

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Oct 22 • 4:30 AM EDT • Science • peninsuladailynews.com
🔮 The 4️⃣ emerging options for the Manchester United job

It's already a crisis!After the crushing 4-1 defeat to Como in the Champions League, the Manchester United hot seat is under intense scrutiny.With an apparent rift with some senior players and results...

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Oct 22 • 4:17 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Giant iPhone Duo installations spotted at Apple Fifth Avenue ahead of launch

While the iPhone Duo doesn’t launch until Friday, preparations are already underway at Apple’s flagship Fifth Avenue store in New York for the big day.

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Oct 21 • 7:16 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com
Illinois Women's Basketball Ranked No. 23 in Preseason AP Poll

Shauna Green's Fighting Illini are ranked in the AP Poll for the fifth year in a row.

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Oct 21 • 6:35 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Former Oregon QB Bo Nix Faces Uncertain Future With Broncos

Lingering injuries and a mid-season offensive shift have stalled the former first-round pick's momentum, forcing Denver to weigh his long-term potential against a massive looming contract extension.

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Oct 21 • 5:06 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
UNC’s student-led ‘nonpartisan’ politics institute argues with Democrats online

Commenters were swift to point out how the institute’s comments might be at odds with its nonpartisan mission.

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Oct 21 • 4:39 PM EDT • Politics • newsobserver.com
Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI: ‘I’m not a doomer. I think there’s a 1% chance it will destroy us’

The winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics warns of Silicon Valley’s fascist drift and says that if Trump wins the midterm elections, it will be the end of American democracy

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Oct 21 • 3:07 PM EDT • Science • english.elpais.com
Video: How Title IX Became a Political Tool

After a Cornell student’s lawsuit alleging the school failed her when she reported sexual assault, there’s a new focus on Title IX, the federal law barring sex discrimination in federally funded education. Our Washington correspondent Michael C. Bender traces how interpretations of the law shifted between the Obama and Trump administrations.

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Oct 21 • 3:06 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Tired of Being Tired? 7 Science-Backed Ways to Sleep Better

Daylight saving time starts in a few weeks, ushering in the longer nights and shorter days associated with winter. But for many people, the extra hours of darkness aren’t necessarily more restful. Experts say sleep deprivation is on the rise in the U.S. And the combination of stress, shift work and the false bravado of […]

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Oct 21 • 3:02 PM EDT • Science • wordinblack.com
The bone health mistake experts want women to avoid

Experts increasingly recognize resistance training as one of the most effective ways to preserve bone density, maintain muscle mass and support healthy aging.

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Oct 21 • 3:00 PM EDT • Health • wausaupilotandreview.com
Fifteenth Court of Appeals Holds the Texas Business Court’s “Qualified Transaction” Jurisdiction Extends to Any Claim With a But-For Connection to the Transaction

In re Joseph Beard, No. 15-26-00136-CV – Decided October 15, 2026 In a unanimous opinion, the Fifteenth Court of Appeals held that an action “aris out of t

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Oct 21 • 2:46 PM EDT • Business • gibsondunn.com
Travis Kelce recalls early morning phone call from brother Jason that Taylor Swift called ‘f---ed up’

Everyone knows midnights are her afternoons, Jason!

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Oct 21 • 1:09 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Health advisory lifted for Toms Bayou in Valparaiso after water tests clear

Health officials have lifted a water quality advisory for Toms Bayou near Hidden Cove Drive in Valparaiso.

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Oct 21 • 12:46 PM EDT • Health • wjhg.com
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Catawba Valley Health System opens Taylorsville Urgent Care

Catawba Valley Health System (CVHS) is pleased to announce the opening of Catawba Urgent Care of Mountain View in Taylorsville, effective Monday, October 19, 2026. Located at 50 Macedonia Church Road, Suite C, the new clinic becomes the fifth Catawba Urgent Care of Mountain View location. The Taylorsville location joins existing clinics in Sherrills Ford,…

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Oct 21 • 12:44 PM EDT • Health • taylorsvilletimes.com
Target Unwraps the Science of Gift Giving in Holiday Campaign

Created by Mythology and directed by ‘Hacks’ co-creator Lucia Aniello via hungryman, the retailer gives tenure to actor D’Arcy Carden as leader of its ‘Academy of Giftology’, a digital destination beyond its nine bilingual films

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Oct 21 • 12:08 PM EDT • Science • lbbonline.com
Chicago Bears spotlight ‘That’s Caring’ in Small Business All-Pros campaign

The Chicago Bears are highlighting MVPs in the community with their small business all-pros and this year, the campaign features 'That's Caring' which creates curated gift boxes for companies looking to recognize its workers and clients.

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Oct 21 • 11:37 AM EDT • Business • fox32chicago.com
Why Entertainment Industry Layoffs Are Accelerating

Hollywood layoffs are mounting as streaming competition, overseas production and shifting audience habits reshape the entertainment industry.

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Oct 21 • 11:23 AM EDT • Entertainment • lamag.com
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NMSU research centers celebrate fall with outreach events

PHOTO CAPTION: New Mexico State University’s Agricultural Science Center at Clovis hosted about 720 fifth-grade students from Curry County during the center’s Pumpkin Patch Day earlier this month....

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Oct 21 • 11:10 AM EDT • Science • newsroom.nmsu.edu
Rebecca Skloot, Author of "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks", Receives the 2026 NYU/Axinn Foundation Prize

Prize coincides with $5.2 million foundation gift to endow the prize and to support creative writing students at NYU

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Oct 21 • 10:44 AM EDT • Science • nyu.edu
Town of Truckee, Tahoe Institute for Natural Science celebrate Bee City USA Designation

TRUCKEE, Calif. – The Town of Truckee has officially earned designation as a Bee City USA affiliate, joining communities across the country working to support pollinators and expand healthy habitat. The designation is the result...

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Oct 21 • 10:42 AM EDT • Science • sierrasun.com
Mastercard boosts NYC Marathon businesses with spending lift

NYC Marathon boosts LIC Bar's business. Brian Porter and Mastercard use strategic planning to turn event foot traffic into growth.

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Oct 21 • 10:26 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Thune makes bold prediction about Republicans' Senate chances as GOP pulls millions from key races

John Thune says Republicans will outperform the polls in toss-up senate races despite shifting campaign cash away from Georgia and into Kansas.

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Oct 21 • 10:25 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com
CSC Science Team Asks: What Should We Expect to Find in Nature?

The junk DNA paradigm shift is a good example of how an intelligent design framework can serve as a productive guide to scientific research.

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Oct 21 • 9:33 AM EDT • Science • scienceandculture.com
How The New York Times Reports on A.I. Images

A Times reporter and editors discuss the challenges of sifting through what’s real and what’s not in pursuit of the news.

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Oct 21 • 9:21 AM EDT • Technology • nytimes.com
Google Cloud, DeepMind, and the EU: A New Model for AI-Driven Science

Google's latest European research initiative signals a shift toward collaborative AI innovation, where technology developers provide the tools and scientific institutions establish the priorities for discovery.

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Oct 21 • 7:30 AM EDT • Science • cloudwars.com
Iowa City author Lori Erickson’s new book blends travel, art

Travel writer Lori Erickson is trying something new in her fifth book, “Travels with the Muse” — pairing her writings on art and spirituality with her own original sketches. Catch her at the Iowa City Book Festival this Saturday, Oct. 24.

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Oct 21 • 7:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • thegazette.com
Cardi B Is Using Her Music, Her Business and Her Politics to Express Herself

A shape-shifter with talent and personality to spare, the rapper keeps finding new ways to express herself.

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Oct 21 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • nytimes.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...

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Oct 21 • 1:36 AM EDT • Entertainment • simplywall.st
LeBron optimistic after launching Sixers era with win

LeBron James said the Philadelphia 76ers still had plenty of room for improvement after launching their NBA season with an impressive opening night victory over the New York Knicks on Tuesday.James, 41, launched his quest for a fifth NBA championship with 14 points and seven assists in a 106-100 defeat of the reigning NBA champions at Madison Square Garden.

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Oct 21 • 12:20 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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The big business of personal shopping

From sourcing rare Hermès bags to organising last-minute gifts, independent personal shoppers will go to extraordinary lengths to keep wealthy clients happy

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Oct 21 • 12:00 AM EDT • Business • ft.com
Leica and Formula 1 Shift Into Gear With Limited Edition Q3 43

The Leica Q3 is the company's most popular model.

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Oct 20 • 11:00 PM EDT • Technology • petapixel.com
💪 Chivas beat Necaxa and snap at América's heels

Chivas de Guadalajara earned a valuable 1-0 win over Necaxa on Matchday 13 of the Liga MX Apertura 2026 tournament, a result that lifts them into second place in the overall standings. An own goal bre...

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Oct 20 • 10:18 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Top forecaster shifts two Senate races in the deep South towards Democrats
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Oct 20 • 7:57 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Is Donald Trump ready to do business with Myanmar?

There are signs the United States is shifting its policy towards Myanmar, formerly a global pariah.

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Oct 20 • 7:21 PM EDT • Business • bbc.com
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Urban Meyer only has one concern about a 24-team College Football Playoff

Urban Meyer won three national titles as a college football head coach, but the game is already very different from his time at Florida and Ohio State. The ways NIL and the transfer portal have shifted the sport’s landscape were hard to predict, and the Fox Sports college football analyst is among those who misread…

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Oct 20 • 6:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Chandler family acquires specialty truck manufacturer

Springdale business owners Chris and Morgan Chandler recently acquired Stephenson Specialty Trucks LLC, a Parsons, Kan.-based manufacturer of vacuum, grapple, roll-off and hook lift trucks. Financial terms of the deal...

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Oct 20 • 4:55 PM EDT • Business • talkbusiness.net
Chandler family acquires specialty truck manufacturer

Springdale business owners Chris and Morgan Chandler recently acquired Stephenson Specialty Trucks LLC, a Parsons, Kan.-based manufacturer of vacuum, grapple, roll-off and hook lift trucks. Financial terms of the deal...

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Oct 20 • 4:55 PM EDT • Politics • talkbusiness.net
Regional Banks Put AI Into Core Operations as Business Lending Grows

Third-quarter results from PNC, U.S. Bancorp, Truist, Fifth Third, Regions and KeyCorp show that regional banks are putting artificial intelligence into

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Oct 20 • 4:07 PM EDT • Business • pymnts.com
Halloween fun with a slice of science

Halloween can be many things: spooky, enchanting, fun, creative, mysterious and…scientific? That last word is what Walking Mountains Science Center hopes to bring to light when kids and families attend Fright at the Museum on...

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Oct 20 • 4:04 PM EDT • Science • vaildaily.com
Thrifting and oysters: Check out 10 business updates in downtown Austin

Businesses that are now open, coming soon, in the news or closing in downtown Austin.

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Oct 20 • 4:00 PM EDT • Business • communityimpact.com
Massanutten operator announces leadership shifts

Charlottesville-based The Resorts Companies names Matthias Smith president as Steve Krohn moves to board vice-chairman

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Oct 20 • 3:40 PM EDT • Business • virginiabusiness.com
The Arizona race for governor revealing rifts in Latter-day Saint politics

The Republican crusade to reclaim control of Arizona has come to a head this year, and some of the key players involved in the race are BYU grads.

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Oct 20 • 3:29 PM EDT • Politics • ksl.com
Does anyone actually want to win the medium-lift race in the United States?

Ars Technica is here to help with a guide to the medium-lift space race.

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Oct 20 • 3:13 PM EDT • Technology • arstechnica.com
Cook Political Report shifts two Senate races toward Democrats, one toward GOP

The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan election handicapper, on Tuesday moved Minnesota’s Senate race from likely to lean Democrat, while also moving South Carolina’s Senate seat from…

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Oct 20 • 2:44 PM EDT • Politics • thehill.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.

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U.S. Senate race in Minnesota moves toward GOP in new Cook rating

The Cook Political Report shifted its rating of Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race between Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (D) and Republican Michele Tafoya, a former NFL broadcaster, toward Republicans.

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Oct 20 • 1:00 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Caitlin Clark joins Taylor Swift at Chiefs game

Caitlin Clark is making the most of her basketball offseason by returning to Arrowhead Stadium and cheering for her longtime favorite NFL team. The Indiana Fever star joined Taylor Swift as the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Los Angeles Chargers, adding another memorable moment to Clark’s well-documented Chiefs fandom.

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Great Lakes Science Center’s Robotics Initiative receives $1 million gift

A $1 million endowment from the Thomas F. Peterson Jr. Charitable Trust will fund robotics education and 3-D printed prosthetics for those in need.

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Oct 20 • 11:24 AM EDT • Science • cleveland.com
As Summer Crowds Fade, Keystone Businesses Navigate the Annual Shift to Winter

After a summer defined by packed streets, Fourth of July festivities, and celebrations marking America’s 250th anniversary at nearby Mount Rushmore, the tourist hub of Keystone is settling into its quiet off-season

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Oct 20 • 11:20 AM EDT • Business • kotatv.com
Army-Navy Game Could Shift Dates to Accommodate 24-Team CFP

The game could take place the Saturday left open without conference championships.

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Oct 20 • 11:17 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Gravity Media Drives Lifted Entertainment’s <i>I’m A Celebrity… The Wild Frontier</i>, Through Rapid-Deployment IP Production

Gravity Media has rapidly deployed complete IP-based broadcast infrastructure for Lifted Entertainment (part of ITV Studios) on I'm A Celebrity... The Wild Frontier, supporting production in the remote mountain environment...

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Oct 20 • 10:08 AM EDT • Entertainment • sportsvideo.org
Western Way Entertainment brings trick riding, mounted shooting to ABAC PCA Pro Rodeo

When the PCA Pro Rodeo returns to Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Nov. 13-14, the competition inside the arena won’t be the only thing keeping fans on the edge of their seats.

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Oct 20 • 8:32 AM EDT • Entertainment • tiftongazette.com
A note to readers: Science, accountability and elections

Dear readers, As early voting begins, I wanted to share some news — and why it connects to the decisions we make at the ballot box. I’ve been selected for the inaugural cohort of the South Atlantic Climate Journalism Hub mentorship program, hosted by Covering Climate Now. I’m excited to join this group, learn from scientists and fellow journalists, and expand my science reporting. Science directly ties to governance. Local officials make decisions about where development goes, how infrastructure is maintained, what emergency preparations receive funding, and how communities rebuild after disasters. Understanding the evidence behind those decisions helps us evaluate whether our government is serving us well. Here in western North Carolina, those connections are all around us, in Lake Lure and beyond. Flood maps inform decisions about property and development. Engineering assessments help identify risks at dams and bridges. Rainfall forecasts guide emergency preparations. Geological information helps explain landslide hazards. Water testing gives communities information they need to assess conditions. Meteorologists’ knowledge and public perception of weather events shape public safety. Each involves scientific or technical knowledge. Each also raises questions about public responsibility: What did officials know? How did they use that information? What did they tell the public? What did taxpayers receive for their money? A study can identify a problem. Elected officials still have to decide what to do about it, how to pay for it, and how to explain their choices. Reporting should examine both the evidence and the response. That is where I want to strengthen my work. My reporting on Helene recovery, infrastructure, flooding, public safety, and public spending has repeatedly brought me to questions that require scientific expertise alongside public records. This mentorship may help me better understand the research, ask more precise questions, and explain the answers clearly. I also bring the perspective of someone living with these concerns. I live downstream of Lake Lure Dam, and landslides affected my property during Helene. Those experiences bring urgency to my questions. Careful reporting helps establish the answers. Readers deserve to know what the evidence shows, where uncertainty remains, and whether officials accurately describe the information guiding their decisions. You also deserve scrutiny of proposed solutions: what they cost, what they are expected to accomplish, and what risks remain. Access to that information matters. As a mostly deaf journalist who relies on written communication, I will continue pressing for written public warnings, records, and explanations that people can read and use in real time. As you consider the candidates seeking your vote, consider how they approach evidence, preparedness, and transparency. Do they support local journalism, even when it’s not parroting a press release? Do they explain weather events clearly in plain English and explain their decisions after them? Make supporting records available? Acknowledge uncertainty? Follow through when a report identifies a risk? Those are practical questions about governing. Thank you for supporting Cops & Congress and the work that makes these questions part of the public conversation. I’m grateful to David Dickson and the CC Now team for this opportunity, and I look forward to bringing what I learn back to you. Annie DanceEditor & Publisher, Cops & Congress — Learn more about this newsletter, ethics policy, how you can help shape this work, and support it. Follow on X and Facebook. Send constructive criticism, fan mail, and tips with public documents for future stories: CopsandCongress@gmail.com ICYMI: View the Cops & Congress archive — Annie Dance is the publisher of Cops & Congress, a newsletter that analyzes what happens when crime, courts, disaster, democracy, and small-town policies collide. Views expressed here are covered by the First Amendment. Dance has a Bachelor of Arts from Manhattan University in Communication with a focus in Journalism and Government. She has been a journalist for over 20 years. Share Upgrade now or give a gift subscription

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Oct 20 • 6:56 AM EDT • Science • anniedance.substack.com
$42 million Purdue donor wants support for Black and Hispanic students

McDonald's millionaire and Purdue alum Roland Parrish says, \

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Oct 20 • 5:03 AM EDT • Business • jconline.com
France Protests Show Europe’s Shift Away From Centrist Politics

Europe’s centrist parties are losing ground among young people and workers, who are increasingly tempted by populist promises of radical change.

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Oct 20 • 5:01 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Drifting sailboats hamper business for north-end restaurant

Two sailboats dragging anchor have cost Mar Vista precious dock space and led to police action.

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Oct 20 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • yourobserver.com
ARK Invest Bets One Business Can Lift Tesla Stock to $4,400

ARK Invest’s open-source model values Tesla at about $4,400 per share in 2031, with robotaxis at 80% of enterprise value.

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Oct 20 • 4:00 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
China’s new 0.1-nanometre electron microscope ready to challenge US and Japan

Model marks shift from R&D to commercialisation and aligns with country’s effort to cut reliance on imported tech.

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Oct 20 • 12:00 AM EDT • Science • scmp.com
$55 million gift to fund Marietta College housing, health sciences facility

MARIETTA — Marietta College plans to renovate three first-year residence halls, remove several campus buildings and open a graduate health sciences facility on Fourth Street with support from a $55 million gift commitment from Joe and Linda Chlapaty. President Kathleen Poorman Dougherty announced the commitment Friday during her State of the College address, held during […]

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Oct 19 • 8:00 PM EDT • Health • mariettatimes.com
Tuskegee University Targets First Aviation Science Cohort Graduation in May 2027

Alabama, USA – Tuskegee University, a historically Black university operating an FAA-certificated...

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Oct 19 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • afm.aero
Tincher Foundation gift brings record donation to Med Center Health

The Tincher Foundation donated more than $4 million to Med Center Health last month before dissolving in September, part of a gift supporting a program that provides medical and dental care to children regardless of a family's ability to pay.

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Oct 19 • 6:25 PM EDT • Health • wbko.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...

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Oct 19 • 6:16 PM EDT • Sports • finance.yahoo.com
Covenant Health helicopters take flight to speed up medical transport in East Tennessee

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Covenant Health Air is lifting off the ground, saving lives in East Tennessee. It unveiled two new medical helicopters on Monday, one based out of Rockwood and the other o…

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Oct 19 • 6:12 PM EDT • Health • wate.com
Fifth annual ¡ARTE VIVA! celebrates Hispanic arts, culture

Embark on a journey into the vibrant heart of Hispanic arts and culture as Florida's Paradise Coast offers another year of exhilarating celebration of ARTE VIVA! , presented by the

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Oct 19 • 5:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • floridaweekly.com
Republicans pull funding in Ohio’s 1st District as race shifts toward Democrats

The district was once considered one of the most competitive in the country, with both parties viewing it as key to maintaining control of the House.

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Oct 19 • 5:15 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumnews1.com
Academy Museum Gala: 10 best-dressed stars on the red carpet

Taylor Swift, Kendall Jenner, Jessica Biel and Teyana Taylor were among the best-dressed stars at the Academy Museum Gala.

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Oct 19 • 5:01 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Marshfield Clinic invites community-led groups to apply for behavioral health grants

Applications will be accepted until 5 p.m. Dec. 7 and selected awardees are anticipated to be notified the week of Jan. 4, 2027.

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Oct 19 • 4:32 PM EDT • Health • weau.com
Supreme Court may strike down school policies that limit Asian students

The court agreed to hear an appeal from parents in Montgomery County, Md., who were upset by a sharp drop in Asian students at its four magnet schools for gifted students.

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Oct 19 • 4:27 PM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
Panama City Beach Senior Center Announces Upcoming Craft Fair and Community Health Fair

Senior crafters are getting a head start on the holidays, with tables full of handmade Christmas gifts, decor, and more up for grabs.

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Oct 19 • 3:39 PM EDT • Health • wjhg.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.

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Oct 19 • 3:29 PM EDT • Science • thepacker.com
How a controversial lift on 'Dancing With the Stars' and a reference to Will Smith's Oscars slap led to pro dancer Val Chmerkovskiy's suspension

The controversy began when judge Carrie Ann Inaba told Harry Shum Jr. and Jenna Johnson that their routine included a move that is not allowed in traditional samba.

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Oct 19 • 3:25 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com