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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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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

Oct 20 • 6:56 AM EDT • Science • anniedance.substack.com

Names in the News: People shaping the future of Lake Area business

Sowela appoints vice chancellors Sowela Technical Community College is pleased to announce the promotion of two distinguished members of its leadership team, Allison Dering and Dr. David LaFargue, from executive […]

Oct 20 • 6:08 AM EDT • Business • americanpress.com

List of DVD release dates for Oct. 20 and beyond

Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change: OCTOBER 20: Masters of the Universe 20: Hadestown: The Musical 20: One Night Only

Oct 20 • 5:45 AM EDT • Entertainment • recorderonline.com

Garland County Master Gardeners’ October Business Yard of the Month goes to Belvedere Nursing and Rehab

The Garland County Master Gardeners chose Belvedere Nursing and Rehab, 2600 Park Ave., as its October Business Yard of the Month, according to a news release.

Oct 20 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • hotsr.com

Caesars Entertainment (CZR) Projected to Release Quarterly Earnings on Tuesday

Caesars Entertainment (NASDAQ:CZR) will be releasing its Q3 2026 earnings after the market closes on Tuesday, October 27. (View Earnings Report at https://www.marketbeat.com/earnings/reports/2026-10-27-caesars-entertainment-inc-stock/)

Oct 20 • 4:11 AM EDT • Entertainment • marketbeat.com

UFC 333 Embedded, Episode 1: 'I just take their zeros'

The first episode of UFC 333 Embedded was released on Monday.

Oct 20 • 12:33 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Steelers set to reunite with former wide receiver

The Los Angeles Chargers released Valdes-Scantling on Saturday.

Oct 19 • 10:32 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Lakers Depth Chart For Final Roster After Dalton Knecht Release

T he news of the Los Angeles Lakers releasing Dalton Knecht confirms the final roster entering the NBA regular season. Bronny James and Jaden Hardy survived the cut and will make the roster to keep their jobs. Knecht was not expected to get strong playing time, but he removes a player who could give the […] The post Lakers Depth Chart For Final Roster After Dalton Knecht Release appeared first on HEAVY.

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

PS5 console jailbreak on latest 14.10 firmware shared before GTA 6 release date

PlayStation may have hoped it would take longer to compromise the current 14.10 firmware. However, a homebrew developer has found a way to exploit Sony's software. The PS5 console jailbreak could enable piracy of games like GTA 6 that require the update.

Oct 19 • 10:04 PM EDT • Technology • notebookcheck.net

Bears Monday injury report: Latest on Kyle Monangai, Jonah Jackson

The Chicago Bears released their first (estimated) injury report ahead of their Week 7 prime-time game against the New England Patriots.

Oct 19 • 8:05 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

BYU Football Releases Updated Depth Chart Ahead of UCF Game

Fresh off a high-stakes upset, the Cougars shuffle their offensive line and lean on quarterback Bear Bachmeier's rushing mobility to offset key injuries before facing the Knights.

Oct 19 • 6:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Rabid skunk found near Great Plains Regional Medical Center, health officials warn

The Oklahoma State Department of Health and Bcekham County Health DepartmentOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEOct. 19, 2026Contact: Erica Rankin-Rileycommunications@health.o

Oct 19 • 6:26 PM EDT • Health • okcfox.com

Joint Statement for the International Day of Political Prisoners on October 30

On the International Day of Political Prisoners, the October 30 Coalition and NED release a joint statement urging support for political prisoners and those championing their freedom.

Oct 19 • 5:57 PM EDT • Politics • ned.org

TENNESSEE VOLS BASKETBALL: AP poll slots Vols at No. 8

The University of Tennessee men's basketball team is in the preseason top 10 of both major polls, as released Monday afternoon.

Oct 19 • 5:55 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Tisha Campbell Signs With Innovative Artists

EXCLUSIVE: Innovative Artists Entertainment has signed multi-hyphenate Tisha Campbell for representation in all areas. Campbell recently released her memoir, The A Word: A Mother’s Journey Through Aut...

Oct 19 • 5:46 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

HomePod 27.2 Adds Sound Glow to Existing HomePod Models

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

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

Hackers Exploit Plex2Shell Flaws to Install Crypto Miners and Linux Proxy Backdoor

Attackers exploit four Plex Media Server flaws chained as Plex2Shell to deploy XMRig miners and reverse proxy software after PoC release.

Oct 19 • 1:32 PM EDT • Technology • thehackernews.com

Apple rolling out RC for iPadOS 27.2, watchOS 27.2, and more

Apple is rolling out RC (release candidate) versions of iPadOS 27.2, watchOS 27.2, and more. Here’s what that means. iPadOS...

Oct 19 • 1:29 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com

Apple releases iOS 27.2 RC for iPhone

Apple has released the first iOS 27.2 release candidate for iPhone. The update brings Apple’s next iPhone software release one...

Oct 19 • 1:25 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com

Arc Raiders player numbers hit a six-month high following the release of the extraction shooter's huge Frozen Trails update

Embark's Studios' PvEvP phenomenon Arc Raiders is still going strong, and it's all thanks to the game's recent free weekend and huge Frozen Trails update.

Oct 19 • 1:22 PM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net

President Trump Signs Historic Executive Order to Advance Women’s Health, Championed by First Lady Melania Trump

President Donald J. Trump, with the leadership and support of First Lady Melania Trump, signed an executive order, Advancing Women’s Health to Improve Outcomes in All Phases of Life.

Oct 19 • 11:52 AM EDT • Health • hhs.gov

Small Business, Big Lessons® — Shop Local, Shop Small® Top Tips 2026

Here are some fresh ideas—and a little encouragement—to shop and support small businesses. They are vital to the health of our community. Please share this post with friends, family, and, most importantly, small business owners.

Oct 19 • 11:11 AM EDT • Business • chapelboro.com

Falcons release veteran quarterback after Andy Dalton signing

The Falcons sign one veteran QB and release another.

Oct 19 • 11:05 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

One of the rarest GameCube consoles sells for thousands of dollars today

Like most consoles, the GameCube had a few models that were never widely released and thus command a hefty price today.

Oct 19 • 10:45 AM EDT • Technology • engadget.com

Wyze’s latest weight scale has a display you can actually see, Google Health sync

Wyze has released a new BodyScan Plus scale that syncs with Google Health and Android Health Connect while fixing a...

Oct 19 • 10:35 AM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com

Marine Science Center Releases 6 Rehabbed Sea Turtles

Six sea turtles were recently released in Volusia County after being rehabilitated at the Marine Science Center in Ponce Inlet. All of the turtles were juvenile green sea turtles. The release …

Oct 19 • 10:35 AM EDT • Science • newsdaytonabeach.com

Falcons reportedly sign Andy Dalton, release Cooper Rush

Oct 19 • 10:27 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Richie Owens' releases new book Appalachia: Ballads, Bloodlines & the Long Journey Home Vol 2

NASHVILLE — Richie Owens, Nashville-based musician, producer, and multi-instrumentalist known for his work fusing his East Tennessee country roots with punk and alternative rock, has released Appalachia: Ballads, Bloodlines &

Oct 19 • 10:24 AM EDT • Entertainment • themountainpress.com

From Wall Street to Sports and Creators, NAB Show New York 2026 Opens Oct. 21 at Javits Center

Leaders across broadcasting, sports, streaming, technology and the creator economy to convene about the tools shaping the future of media.

Oct 19 • 10:17 AM EDT • Sports • nabshow.com

GM Says Apple Wallet Car Keys Coming to These Vehicles

In a late September press release that we just discovered now, GM announced that it has started rolling out Apple Wallet car key support in select Cadillac, Chevrolet, and GMC vehicle models, with additional models to follow over time. Google Wallet and Samsung Wallet will also be supported, with a related Samsung press release mentioning availability in the U.S. and Canada. GM said the rollout will occur as follows, with model years listed in parentheses.

Oct 19 • 9:51 AM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com

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

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

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

Delancey Street Launches Free Two-Minute Self-Assessment for Business Owners Carrying Stacked MCA Debt

Delancey Street, a New York based MCA relief company, today released a free self-assessment that shows small business owners their exposure to merchant cash advance debt in about two minutes. It requires no credit check and carries no obligation.

Oct 19 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com

UN climate panel head wants swift end to deadlock over key scientific report

The world's top climate scientists will reconvene at the earliest opportunity, the panel's chair said on Monday, after member states failed to agree when to release its crucial new findings on global ...

Oct 19 • 8:36 AM EDT • Science • yahoo.com

Veteran quarterback reportedly refused to sign with Eagles

The Philadelphia Eagles have been scrambling at quarterback ever since Jalen Hurts landed on injured reserve with a blood clot, and Sunday’s 25-14 loss to the Carolina Panthers only added to the urgency. However, there is one longtime NFL quarterback who seemingly has no interest in offering his asstance. Veteran quarterback Andy Dalton was released…

Oct 19 • 8:35 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Nintendo "Underestimated" Zelda Switch 2 Console Sales, But Promises Restocks Are On The Way

"Please be patient"

Oct 19 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • nintendolife.com

Law firm inks deal for big Fulton Market office

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has leased nearly 94,000 square feet for its first Chicago office, continuing the neighborhood’s evolution into a corporate hub with white-collar professional services firms.

Oct 19 • 6:00 AM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com

FCM Travel Releases ‘Sam for Browser’ Digital Assistant

Tool enables travelers to quickly redirect from external flight-search sites into their corporate booking tool

Oct 19 • 5:52 AM EDT • Business • businesstravelexecutive.com

Nutex Health Schedules 2026 Third Quarter Financial Results Release and Conference Call

Nutex Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUTX), a physician-led, integrated healthcare delivery system comprised of 28 state-of-the-art micro hospitals and hospital outpatient departments in 12 states and primary care-centric, risk-bearing physician networks, today announced that it plans to file its Form 10-Q for the third fiscal quarter ended Sept. 30, 2026, on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026, after the market close. The Company will also issue a corresponding press release summarizing financial results on the same

Oct 19 • 5:30 AM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com

At 9:30 a.m. Central time on Nov. 6, Nutex Health will discuss its results.

After the planned Nov. 5 after-market filing, Nutex will discuss financial performance and provide a business update; a transcript and recording will follow online.

Oct 19 • 5:30 AM EDT • Health • stocktitan.net

Toca Boca World x KPop Demon Hunters: Release date, outfits, music

Finally, your avatar can wear HUNTR/X outfits while listening to "Golden" on loop.

Oct 19 • 5:14 AM EDT • Entertainment • mashable.com

WV Hive highlights power of small business at Bridge Day booth

PRESS RELEASE Made in West Virginia: Six WV Hive Clients Exhibited at 46th Annual Bridge Day Fayetteville, W.Va. (October 17, 2026) – The New River Gorge

Oct 19 • 5:10 AM EDT • Business • therealwv.com

Cucurella: “We cannot relax for a minute”

Real Madrid left-back Marc Cucurella talked to the press after the team’s convincing 4-1 win over Sevilla in La Liga. The Spanish defender was pleased with the effort. “I think we played a very good game from the start. We had quite a bit of control and knew when to attack quickly and when to […]

Oct 19 • 5:09 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Does Brian Fitzpatrick’s challenger, Bob Harvie, have ‘FBI files’ to release? Pa. legal experts say it’s unlikely.

Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick's campaign has repeatedly called his Democratic challenger the "subject" of an FBI investigation in attack ads. Here's what to know.

Oct 19 • 5:01 AM EDT • Politics • inquirer.com

Album featuring Ephrata oboist, and partially recorded at Abbey Road, to get local release show

A central Pennsylvania musical duo will soon release an album featuring orchestral sessions recorded at Abbey Road Studios.

Oct 19 • 5:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • lancasteronline.com

Andrew Hastie blasts One Nation’s ‘MAGA-style politics’ after cartoon mocking Jacqui Lambie’s vaginal prolapse

The 'Please Explain' cartoon series from Pauline Hanson's One Nation continues to depict Hastie as a traitor.

Oct 19 • 12:58 AM EDT • Politics • politico.com

ITZY's Chaeryeong to make solo debut with 'Lovesick' EP on Nov. 9

Chaeryeong will release her first solo EP, ‘Lovesick,’ on Nov. 9, becoming ITZY’s third member to pursue a solo career.

Oct 18 • 9:49 PM EDT • Entertainment • koreajoongangdaily.com

Family of man shot, killed by police in downtown Portland says he struggled with mental health

On Sunday, police released the name of a 36-year-old man who was shot and killed by Portland officers after he allegedly attacked two people with a box cutter.

Oct 18 • 7:49 PM EDT • Health • kptv.com

Ex-Jet Damien Woody shares health scare months after ESPN exit: 'Please get your checkups'

Former NFL player and TV personality Damien Woody shared a surprising health update with fans in a recent Instagram post.

Oct 18 • 5:16 PM EDT • Health • nypost.com

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

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

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

New Tools Let Users Edit and Load Modified VBIOS on GeForce RTX GPUs Without Flashing

A developer who goes by Panchovix has released three tools that let NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50, RTX 40, and RTX 30-series owners run a modified VBIOS without writing anything to the card's flash chip. The first is a VBIOS editor for Windows and Linux that can change power limits, voltage ceilings,...

Oct 18 • 2:35 PM EDT • Technology • techpowerup.com

Mosaic Health Launches Public Phase of Conners Campus Capital Campaign - The Source

Mosaic Community Health launched the public phase of its Conners Campus capital campaign on Tuesday, inviting neighbors, businesses and community members to help build a new primary hub for comprehensive health services on Bend’s east side. The launch event, held at the construction site at 2790 NE Conners Ave., brought together state legislators and Mosaic […]

Oct 18 • 2:13 PM EDT • Health • bendsource.com

Apple Expected to Release New Products on Next Four Fridays

Apple likely plans to release MacBook Pro models with OLED displays, 14-inch MacBook Pro and iMac models with M6 chips, and/or an iPad mini 8 with an OLED display on Friday, November 6, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The devices are expected to be announced on Tuesday, October 27 or Wednesday, October 28. If this timeframe proves to be accurate, then Apple will be releasing new products for the next four Fridays, with the other dates already announced.

Oct 18 • 2:01 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com

Apple Accidentally Confirms a Redesigned iPad Mini on Its Own Site

Apple's regulatory site leaked an unreleased Smart Folio case, hinting at physical design changes for the upcoming iPad mini.

Oct 18 • 12:26 PM EDT • Technology • androidheadlines.com

Netflix reports box office numbers for first time with 'La Bola Negra'

Netflix reported box office figures for the first time this weekend, with its theatrical release of the Spanish-language queer drama, "La Bola Negra."

Oct 18 • 11:31 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com

Pope Leo Gives Health Update After Lung Cancer Surgery

The remarks came during the pontiff's Sunday appearance at the Vatican following his release from Rome's Gemelli Hospital.

Oct 18 • 11:06 AM EDT • Health • newsweek.com

Simu Liu’s Underrated Underwater Thriller & More Hulu Releases This Week

Hulu‘s lineup this week features Simu Liu’s gripping deep-sea thriller, plus more fresh releases. Set to premiere on October 25, Last Breath is a survival thriller from director Alex Parkinson. It rev...

Oct 18 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Regional Science Consortium Researching Harmful Algal Blooms

If you've noticed large buoys or boats out on the bayfront and wondered what they were, you're not alone. The Regional Science Consortium is collaborating with Princeton Hydro on a research project funded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to study ways to control harmful algal blooms. Dr. Jeanette Schnars, the Executive Director of the Regional Science Consortium, explained the goal of the research."We are researching different ways to control blue-green algae, which creates harmful algal blooms and releases toxins," Dr. Schnars said.The project aims to identify potential techniques for controlling harmful algal blooms in Presque Isle Bay.Schnars explained that people may notice circular floats in the water near Perry's Landing and Liberty Park. Those floats are part of the testing process."You might see a circular float, almost like a hula hoop, that is out in the bay, near Perry's Landing and Liberty Park area, and those limn corrals go all the way to the bottom. And what we will do are some treatments within the limn corral in the bottom," Schnars said.After samples are collected, they are brought back to the laboratory at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center for analysis."A lot of those samples are coming back here. We are going to test them for the harmful algal bloom toxins before, during, and after, and see how effective the testing was," Schnars said.Sarah Magyan, an aquatic biologist with the Regional Science Consortium, explained that the team also collects samples from locations throughout the region."We pull samples every week from 30 different sites, and then we bring those back here, we preserve them and run them through the ELISA test," Magyan said.Schnars said researchers hope the results will help them develop effective ways to reduce harmful algal blooms in the future."If we can do some treatments over space and time in upcoming seasons, we may be able to reduce the number of harmful algal blooms we have in this area," Schnars said.The research is also important for public and animal safety. Magyan explained that toxins produced by certain algae can affect the skin, nervous system or liver.While toxin levels may be low for people, she emphasized the importance of protecting pets that swim in local waterways."Toxins can either be skin toxins, nerve toxins, or liver toxins. While we have low levels for people, it is important that we are keeping our pets safe because we recreate with our animals in the water, and we see hundreds and hundreds of dogs on Presque Isle and the rest of the shoreline," Magyan said.Testing began in September, and Schnars said researchers expect to conduct at least another six to eight weeks of testing to better understand the effectiveness of the treatments.

Oct 18 • 9:19 AM EDT • Science • erienewsnow.com

14 Cool New Gadgets to Keep on Your Radar

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Oct 18 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • gearpatrol.com

Chinese scientists develop nanoparticles to improve pesticide

In a study published in the Journal of Controlled Release, researchers mimicked gut bacteria pili-hair-like structures that function as hooks-to design hollow, rough-surfaced silica nanoparticles

Oct 18 • 2:05 AM EDT • Science • tbsnews.net

Guardant Health (GH) After Shield And Reveal Data Is The Undervalued Story Still Intact

Guardant Health (GH) is back in focus after new data on its Shield blood test for colorectal cancer screening and Guardant Reveal test for melanoma residual disease were released in October 2026. Investors have taken notice of this Shield and Guardant Reveal data, even as the Guardant Health share price has eased in the short term. The 1-month share price return is down 9.32% and the 7-day share price return is down 5.30%. At the same time, the 1-year total shareholder return of 142.29% and...

Oct 17 • 8:20 PM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com

County Health Releases Immunization Recommendation

(SANTA BARBARA, CA.) – This fall season, the County of Santa Barbara Health Department (County Health) is reminding community members to protect

Oct 17 • 3:55 PM EDT • Health • independent.com

Health Department releases food inspection reports for week of Oct. 4

Scores for the recent Health Department food inspection ranged from 69 to 100.

Oct 17 • 12:30 PM EDT • Health • myleaderpaper.com

These 20+ Games Are Coming To Xbox Next Week (October 19-23)

Including one of the biggest Xbox first-party releases of 2026!

Oct 17 • 8:00 AM EDT • Technology • purexbox.com

Casa Grande author releases new book

CASA GRANDE — Casa Grande author Jacqueline McDonald has released a new book about sin, redemption and the world-wide fight for Christianity.

Oct 17 • 3:15 AM EDT • Entertainment • pinalcentral.com

Darius Slayton released by Indy

Indianapolis Colts WR Darius Slayton released on Friday

Oct 16 • 8:52 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Popular Wisconsin restaurant to close after nearly 65 years in business

VAN DYNE, Wis. (WFRV) — A Wisconsin bar and restaurant is closing after serving residents for nearly 65 years, according to a press release. After a dispute among family members, Wendt’…

Oct 16 • 6:31 PM EDT • Business • wearegreenbay.com

New details emerge in US probe of Chinese-American scientists over China ties

House committee on China releases results of investigations into some 30 scientists as chairman pushes for stricter research security rules.

Oct 16 • 6:00 PM EDT • Science • scmp.com

New Mexico judge tosses charges against actor Timothy Busfield, citing prosecutor misconduct

(AP) — A New Mexico judge has dismissed an indictment against “West Wing” and “Field of Dreams” actor Timothy Busfield that accused him of criminal sexual contact with a child, citing prosecutorial misconduct and errors that undermined the grand jury process.State District Judge Joseph Montano granted a defense motion to toss the charges in a decision released Friday.

Oct 16 • 4:38 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Collin Gosselin slams mom Kate for mental health claims, says ‘maybe it’s time’ she get psychiatric evaluation

Collin Gosselin and his mother, Kate Gosselin, have been locked in a bitter feud after he accused her of abuse in his memoir, ‘In the Shadow of Eight,’ which released on Oct. 13.

Oct 16 • 4:38 PM EDT • Health • ew.com

The ASUS Xbox ROG Ally X20 Handheld Gaming PC Is Officially Released and Orders Are Now Shipping Out

The most powerful Ryzen-based gaming handheld version 2.0.

Oct 16 • 3:50 PM EDT • Technology • ign.com

Business Community Update: Fall 2026 - City of West Chicago, Illinois

The City of West Chicago is pleased to welcome several new businesses to our community, along with businesses that have recently changed ownership, relocated, or expanded their operations. These investments reflect the continued growth and diversity of West Chicago's business community. New Businesses Please join us in welcoming the following businesses to West Chicago: ALM

Oct 16 • 3:00 PM EDT • Business • westchicago.org

Pokémon TCG Pocket Is Finally Fixing One Of Its Most Frustrating Features

Alongside slowing its release cadence, trading and immersive cards are also getting improvements

Oct 16 • 1:00 PM EDT • Technology • kotaku.com

Tiny, critically endangered bat rescued and released in Pennsylvania

A fungal disease has wiped out up to 97 percent of northern long-eared bats in North America.

Oct 16 • 1:00 PM EDT • Science • popsci.com

Small business optimism dips in September NFIB survey

Small business optimism slipped in September as owners grappled with rising costs, higher interest rates and a persistent shortage of qualified workers, according to a monthly survey released by the National Federation of Independent Business. The NFIB Small Business Optimism Index fell 0.8 points to 97.9, just below the survey’s 52-year average of 98.0. The […]

Oct 16 • 12:54 PM EDT • Business • corridorbusiness.com

We have reached a new threshold in genAI gloom, with a game dev cancelling a demo for fear of copycats ripping them off before release

The creators of Drunken Goddess Reflux have cancelled a demo for fear of genAI copycats making a clone before they release the game.

Oct 16 • 12:50 PM EDT • Technology • rockpapershotgun.com

Alliance for Health releases H.R. 1 predictions | The Pajaronian

About one in three people who rely on Santa Cruz County Alliance Medi-Cal—25,000 people—will lose benefits by the end of 2028, said Central California Alliance for Health CEO Michael Schrader.

Oct 16 • 12:09 PM EDT • Health • pajaronian.com

“Musk” distributor Bleecker Street acquired by Outerlight Entertainment

Outerlight Entertainment, previously First Look Entertainment, has acquired indie studio Bleecker Street Media, fresh from its release of Alex Gibney’s new documentary, Musk, on Friday (October 16). Financial terms of ...

Oct 16 • 12:07 PM EDT • Entertainment • realscreen.com

OU football head coach contracts details: What is Brent Venables' buyout?

OU football head coach Brent Venables’ contract extension details were released Friday morning, which the OU Daily obtained.

Oct 16 • 11:30 AM EDT • Sports • oudaily.com