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Uranium from World War II reveals how close the Nazis were to an atomic bomb

A new look at the uranium and heavy water used by the Nazis reveals whether they were close to making a reactor for an atomic bomb.

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Oct 21 • 12:32 PM EDT • Science • livescience.com
Greater Newport Chamber of Commerce to conduct Seventh Annual Business Walk on Friday, October 23rd, 2026

The Greater Newport Chamber of Commerce, with Connect Greater Newport, the regional economic development division of the chamber, will be hosting its seventh annual Business Walk on Friday, October 23rd from 10:00am to 1:00pm to meet with business owners in Newport County and gather their input on the region’s business climate. Erin Donovan-Boyle, President and

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Oct 21 • 12:31 PM EDT • Business • newportthisweek.com
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Mitten on the mesa: Whitmer stumps for Haaland in Hull’s hometown

By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. — Rio Rancho got a front-row seat to the governor’s race Sunday when Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer campaigned for Democrat Deb Haaland in Republican nominee Gregg Hull’s hometown, just over two weeks before Election Day. The two Democrats talked about cost of living before an invitation-only crowd of about 80 […]

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Oct 21 • 12:21 PM EDT • Politics • nmpoliticalreport.com
What U.S. Senate candidates Rogers, El-Sayed said about lowering health care costs in Michigan

With Election Day less than three weeks away, Michigan U.S. Senate candidates answered a series of questions in Detroit, including one on health care.

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Oct 21 • 12:09 PM EDT • Health • clickondetroit.com
O'Neill clashes with committee members over Garvaghy Road

The First Minister Michelle O'Neill has clashed with unionist politicians at a Stormont committee over her involvement in protests on the Garvaghy Road blocking an Orange Order parade last month.

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Oct 21 • 11:11 AM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com
"100% Not" – Erik ten Hag Gives Michael Carrick Sack Verdict

As winless streaks mount and squad depth thins, Erik ten Hag slams the INEOS hierarchy while offering a surprising defense for his successor ahead of United's trip to Como.

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Oct 21 • 10:59 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
What is Glycidol methacolayte? Breaking down the health risks from Toledo chemical leak

Residents in northern Toledo are reporting varying health symptoms as a result of an active chemical leak in the area. But what's the actual exposure risk?

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Oct 21 • 10:35 AM EDT • Health • clickondetroit.com
Saints GM Loomis in Paris addresses criticism from team owner amid slow start to season

VERSAILLES, France (AP) — New Orleans Saints general manager Mickey Loomis said Wednesday he understands the recent criticism from owner Gayle Benson but asked for patience with what he called a “young developing team.”Benson, in comments before the Saints (2-4) beat the New York Giants last Sunday, said Loomis and his staff are responsible for “building a roster capable of sustained success.

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Oct 21 • 10:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Jordyn Tyson a couple weeks away

New Orleans Saints WR Jordyn Tyson (hamstring) is improving but won't practice this week, general manager Mickey Loomis said.

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Oct 21 • 10:26 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Marvel exhibit brings more than 150 artifacts to Houston Museum of Natural Science

Marvel: The Exhibition – Universe of Super Heroes opens at the Houston Museum of Natural Science Dec. 19, featuring more than 150 artifacts including costumes, props, concept sketches and original-comic book art.

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Oct 21 • 10:11 AM EDT • Science • click2houston.com
Peek into hidden worlds revealed by the 2026 Nikon Small World contest

This year’s photomicrography contest captured the wonders of the very small, from flying ink droplets to the most adorable jumping spider you've ever seen.

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Oct 21 • 10:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencenews.org
Nikon’s Small World photomicrography competition winners

The 52nd annual Nikon Small World competition honours the world’s most remarkable images captured through a microscope

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Oct 21 • 10:00 AM EDT • Technology • theguardian.com
Fleury Michon buys UK business Allplants

Allplants was acquired out of administration last year by the founders of Deliciously Ella, which was sold to Hero Group in 2024.

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Oct 21 • 9:48 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Google Chrome Adds ClickFix Warnings to Stop Users From Running Malicious Commands

Google Chrome adds ClickFix command detection for Enhanced Protection users, warning them before they execute malicious scripts.

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Oct 21 • 9:15 AM EDT • Technology • thehackernews.com
Nvidia’s latest GPU driver brings a new way to speed up PC games

Microsoft’s new Advanced Shader Delivery technology is now part of Nvidia’s drivers.

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Oct 21 • 9:09 AM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
Franciscan Health receives stuffed animals for pediatric patients across Northwest Indiana

Pediatric patients in Franciscan Health emergency rooms, pediatric inpatient units and outpatient surgery centers in Michigan City, Chesterton, LaPorte, Dyer and Munster will now have stuffed animals to help make their hospital experience a little more comfortable, thanks to a donation by The Eva Martin Project. Representatives from The Eva Martin Project recently donated more … Continued

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Oct 21 • 9:07 AM EDT • Health • greatnews.life
Science News unveils its list of 10 scientists making an impact on our world

As a teenager, Gabriela Farfan became fascinated by the shapes and colors of minerals. Now, as curator of gems and minerals at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, she studies what they can reveal about our planet.From corals that preserve chemical signatures of changing oceans to sparkling gemstones, Farfan uses crystal structures, chemistry and spectroscopy to uncover the information trapped inside minerals and show why they’re an essential part of natural history. WASHINGTON, O

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Oct 21 • 9:05 AM EDT • Science • finance.yahoo.com
'Glee' reboot coming to Disney+ and Hulu

Co-creator/writer Ryan Murphy (C) poses in the press room with the cast of 'Glee' with the award for best television series musical or comedy for 'Glee' at the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 17, 2010 in Beverly Hills, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)The hit TV show Glee is coming back.An all-new season of the hit series from Ryan Murphy is coming to Disney+ and Hulu, Disney announced Wednesday.No details about the cast or an official release date have been shared.The studio behind the reboot is 20th Television, which also produced the original series.Glee first aired on Fox for six seasons, from 2009 to 2015.It followed a high school glee club and starred Lea Michele, the late Cory Monteith, the late Naya Rivera, Amber Riley, Chris Colfer, Kevin McHale, Jenna Ushkowitz, Matthew Morrison, Jane Lynch and more.Murphy told ABC News last month that a script for a Glee reboot had been written, and that he is in touch with cast members about returning.“I’ve been quietly having conversations with people on that show … about, ‘What do you think? Should we?,'" Murphy said. "Maybe I shouldn’t, I don’t know. It’s fun just to try."Glee won six Primetime Emmys and several Golden Globes. It also won the GLAAD Media Award for outstanding comedy series in 2010 and 2011.All 121 original episodes of Glee are currently streaming on Hulu.The Walt Disney Co. is the parent company of ABC News, Disney+ and Hulu.Copyright © 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

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Oct 21 • 8:58 AM EDT • Entertainment • willmarradio.com
Microsoft: FSR 4.1 Coming "Very Soon" to Xbox Game Developers for Series X, Series S

How will FSR 4.1 stack up against PS5's QSSR and Pro's PSSR 2?

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Oct 21 • 8:37 AM EDT • Technology • digitalfoundry.net
Taking a closer look at the political landscape in Minnesota

Republicans see hope in former sports broadcaster Michele Tafoya. Can a Republican win a Senate seat in Minnesota for the first time since 2002?

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Oct 21 • 8:06 AM EDT • Politics • wbur.org
Earth’s Core Has Been Quietly Leaking Water for Billions of Years

A new study offers an explanation for unusual chemical signatures found in some volcanic rocks.

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Oct 21 • 7:30 AM EDT • Science • gizmodo.com
Live updates: Trump to rally for Sen. Darline Graham in South Carolina

Live updates and the latest news as Trump rallies for Darline Graham in South Carolina and the candidates for Senate in Michigan and Kansas and governor in Wisconsin debate.

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Oct 21 • 7:27 AM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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Ohio Chemical Leak Forces Home and Business Evacuations

A hazardous chemical leak in Toledo, Ohio, has prompted the evacuation of homes and businesses within a one-mile radius of a pipe factory. Anyone living within three miles of the plant is being asked to shelter in place. There are no reports of any injuries so far.

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Oct 21 • 7:27 AM EDT • Business • today.com
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Marco Rubio and President Mirziyoyev Highlight U.S.–Uzbekistan Economic Cooperation at Business and Investment Council

To publish news and commentary - without fear or favor - in the finest tradition of independent journalism

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Oct 21 • 5:24 AM EDT • Business • america-times.com
Ramaswamy use of Amy Acton's mom vilest thing I've seen in 35 years of politics

Michael Coleman: Vivek Ramaswamy's disgraceful use of Amy Acton's mom shows he deserves no one's respect.

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Oct 21 • 5:22 AM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com
Taiwan Blocks Grab Acquisition of Delivery Hero Business Over Competition Concerns

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

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Oct 21 • 5:14 AM EDT • Business • wsj.com
Actor Christina Applegate says she was misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis

Actor Christina Applegate revealed she was misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis. NPR's A Martínez speaks with neurologist Michael Kornberg about how MS can be misdiagnosed.

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Oct 21 • 4:42 AM EDT • Health • npr.org
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Commentary: What a new fight over chemical safety reveals about our changing politics

A new movement for human health is giving people from different backgrounds a reason to stand together.

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Oct 21 • 3:30 AM EDT • Politics • ohiocapitaljournal.com
Commentary: What a new fight over chemical safety reveals about our changing politics

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

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Oct 21 • 3:30 AM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com
'The New Stanford Prison Experiment' review: A project reimagined for TV

Netflix's new reality series is a mix of the 1971 social experiment that investigated power dynamics, 'Big Brother' and 'Wonka's Golden Ticket.'

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Oct 21 • 3:01 AM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Austin Public Health report examines HIV stigma in Central Texas

A new report from Austin Public Health examined how stigma and discrimination affect people living with HIV in Central Texas, including their experiences with family, relationships, health care and…

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Oct 21 • 2:22 AM EDT • Health • kxan.com
Why Albania's political crisis is deepening

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

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Oct 21 • 1:15 AM EDT • Politics • dw.com
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America's butterflies fell 22%, and scientists say it's an early warning sign

"[Be] really cognizant of what chemicals and materials you are using outdoors and indoors."

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Oct 21 • 12:49 AM EDT • Science • yahoo.com
Colorado movie theater reopens after health inspectors find dead mice, droppings
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Oct 21 • 12:34 AM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Darryn Peterson Could Unlock Lauri Markkanen’s Most Dangerous Role Yet

By drawing defensive gravity and facilitating as a playmaker, the dynamic rookie guard can transform Utah’s All-Star forward into a lethal, off-ball threat who punishes scrambled defenses.

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Oct 20 • 11:32 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Jen torches GOP’s ‘vile brand of politics’

MS NOW's Jen Psaki breaks down how Democrats are looking to expand the map while Republicans are falling back on personal attacks.

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Oct 20 • 11:11 PM EDT • Politics • ms.now
Student-produced film captures Ireland sports experience | UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media

The documentary created by a UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media team premieres on campus Oct. 22 and Oct. 23. — This story, written by UNC Hussman alumnus Michael Lananna ’14, was originally published at unc.edu. — Carolina senior Anna Laible came up with the idea about a year ago. At the annual UNC Sports and Entertainment Summit, the journalism student walked up to then-athletic director Bubba Cunningham and took a chance. “Hi, Bubba, I’m not sure if you remember me, but I’m part of the student broadcast team from the Olympics,” Laible told him. “I have this idea to do an Ireland documentary on the football team.” Encouraged by the enthusiastic response to the proposal, Laible and a team of students from the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media worked diligently to turn that vision into reality. In August, Laible and seven peers traveled to Dublin, Ireland, with the Carolina football team and women’s soccer team. Equipped with video cameras, the student journalists covered both teams during their international games — both wins — and filmed scenes throughout Dublin, interviewing Irish locals, Tar Heel fans and key Carolina figures who helped make the trip possible. Back home, Laible’s team put the finishing touches on the documentary, with its first screening at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 22-23 in Carroll Hall room 111. The project is the latest in a long line of sports documentaries produced under the guidance of C.A. Tuggle, John H. Stembler Jr. Distinguished Professor. Since the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Tuggle and the Hussman school have sent journalism students to cover each of the Summer Games, and Tuggle’s students have also produced documentaries on Carolina teams that win national championships. But this Ireland excursion presented a new kind of opportunity. “This trip is really unique,” Tuggle said. “Bubba liked the idea, so we started working on it, and it’s all because Anna was forward-thinking and assertive.” Laible’s team worked to create a holistic depiction of the Dublin trip, billed as “Much More Than a Game.” The documentary’s 12 chapters cover Irish culture, music, trips to the Guiness Storehouse and the myriad connections between Tar Heels and Ireland. “Our main focus was to make sure we gave a whole encompassing idea of what this experience was like,” Laible said. “We wanted to show not just the student-athletes, but other students, other Carolina fans, Carolina alumni, the music and really incorporate that all in the documentary.” Joining Laible in Dublin were juniors Emily Brietz, Cooper Hall, Eliza Jennings and Katherine McCullough and seniors Molly Malek, May Proctor and Merrily Tew. Those students also traveled to Milan for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in February. Those kinds of opportunities wouldn’t be possible without the support of UNC Hussman and, in the case of the Ireland trip, the Carolina athletic department. UNC Hussman students create Ireland trip documentary. (Submitted photo) “Never in a million years did I think I would have the opportunity to go to the Olympics or to the Aer Lingus College Football Classic, and now I’m even being presented with potential opportunities go to the Super Bowl,” said Malek, who served in a leadership role with Laible in Dublin. “I think that Carolina does a terrific job of connecting us to these opportunities that almost no other university does. This is a university where you have the opportunity to have an interdisciplinary education and to learn and experience a lot of things all at once.” With the support of UNC Hussman, Tuggle and fellow students like Malek, Laible turned a spur-of-the-moment idea into a documentary. When the film screens, Laible said she’s not quite sure what emotions to expect. “I’m a little worried that I might cry — not that crying is a bad thing,” Laible said, laughing. “But I’m really grateful for so many people helping, and I’m excited for everyone to see it.”

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Oct 20 • 10:18 PM EDT • Sports • hussman.unc.edu
Michigan benching Bryce Underwood for Tommy Carr in $12 million QB shakeup

Michigan is handing the keys over to Carr.

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Oct 20 • 9:51 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Michigan State basketball falls in exhibition to UConn

Michigan State basketball fell in an exhibition matchup with UConn.

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Oct 20 • 9:37 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Lombardo check rejected as evidence during Fiore hearing

A Nevada judicial discipline panel rejected Gov. Joe Lombardo’s $5,000 check as evidence in proceedings against suspended Pahrump Justice of the Peace Michele Fiore.

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Oct 20 • 9:12 PM EDT • Politics • reviewjournal.com
Fight for the Black vote intensifies in Michigan, a voting bloc El-Sayed can’t afford to lose
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Oct 20 • 8:41 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Wild Insider Agrees: Dylan Larkin Trade Feels Imminent

Michael Russo has heard about some movement behind the scenes in Detroit, and he thinks a decision on Dylan Larkin is close.

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Oct 20 • 8:40 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Insider Reveals Michigan’s Starting QB vs. Indiana

Michigan is reportedly expected to start Tommy Carr over Bryce Underwood against Indiana after the freshman sparked a comeback win over Penn State.

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Oct 20 • 8:35 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Michigan set to start Tommy Carr vs. Indiana after he took over for Bryce Underwood in second half of win over Penn State
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New Richland Lab Could Transform How Scientists Study Microbes and Boost Regional Jobs

The BriefGroundbreaking held Tuesday: PNNL officially began construction on the M2PC lab, a 30,800-square-foot facility funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science that will study soil microbes to improve crop productivity and develop new biotechnology applications. The facility will be open to researchers from around the nation and the world.Research timelines could shrink dramatically: The facility's automation and AI capabilities could reduce experiments that currently take six months to just 72 hours, allowing scientists to explore more possibilities faster than ever before.New jobs coming to the Tri-Cities: The project is expected to create positions for automation engineers, AI experts, roboticists, technicians, and skilled craftspeople, with the facility opening in 2029.RICHLAND, Wash. — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory broke ground Tuesday on a first-of-its-kind facility that could accelerate scientific discoveries about the microscopic organisms living in soil—organisms that may hold the key to growing more food and developing new energy technologies.The Microbial Molecular Phenotyping Capability, or M2PC, represents a significant investment in automation and artificial intelligence to speed up research that traditionally takes years to complete. The 30,800-square-foot facility will house more than 100 connected automated instruments designed to study microbes at a pace and scale never before possible.Reshaping Agriculture's FutureThe M2PC facility will not put a new tool directly into a farmer's hands tomorrow morning, but it is actively reshaping the commercial pipeline to solve agriculture's biggest headache with biologicals: inconsistent field performance. For years, PNNL researchers have explored how microbes work and how they might help produce useful materials, advance energy technologies, and address challenges involving critical materials and minerals. But those experiments have been limited by what researchers could accomplish by hand."They can be used to provide nutrients to a plant so that the plant would grow more. So, like increasing your crop productivity, for example," said Douglas Mans, PNNL's Associate Laboratory Director for Integrated Discovery Sciences.PNNL's own research shows soil microbes can help plants access nutrients and withstand drought—benefits that could prove crucial as farmers face growing environmental pressures. The M2PC facility will allow scientists to identify and optimize useful microbes faster than ever before, accelerating the development of biological solutions that actually work consistently in the field.What Makes M2PC UniqueThe Microbial Molecular Phenotyping Capability differs from traditional research labs because it operates as a first-of-its-kind, AI-enabled autonomous laboratory designed to shrink experimental timelines from years down to months or weeks. The M2PC lab will connect more than 100 automated instruments to grow microbes, prepare samples, measure their behavior, and link observations to the molecular processes behind them. Artificial intelligence will help analyze results and guide the next experiments, allowing scientists to explore more questions faster.Deb Gracio, PNNL Director, emphasized the transformative potential during Tuesday's groundbreaking ceremony: "Research that has taken years will become possible in months and hopefully in weeks."That acceleration is already being demonstrated. PNNL's smaller automated lab, called the Anaerobic Microbial Phenotyping Platform or AMP2, completed three experimental cycles in just 72 hours—a process that normally would have taken about six months."That normally would have taken us about six months … and we were able to do that in 72 hours," Mans said.The AMP2 laboratory is not being closed or replaced. Instead, the current 1,800-square-foot laboratory serves as an active prototype and precursor for the much larger M2PC facility. AMP2 will continue operating as a separate lab designed to run anaerobic experiments—those conducted in the absence of oxygen—while M2PC will focus on aerobic research.Broader Applications Beyond AgricultureWhile improving crop productivity is one important application, the M2PC facility is designed to support research into multiple areas critical to national priorities. The lab will advance research into biofuels, manufacturing materials, and energy technologies. It will also help researchers understand how microbes respond to environmental changes and how to design biological systems for biotechnology applications.As a flagship component of the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, M2PC represents a significant investment in using artificial intelligence and automation to accelerate U.S. scientific discovery. Dorothy Koch, Associate Director of the DOE Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research program, highlighted the facility's importance during the groundbreaking."M2PC will accelerate biological discovery and design," Koch said, noting that the facility is expected to conduct a minimum of 500 strain experiments per week, 100 microbiome experiments per week, and take a million measurements per month.Economic Opportunity for the RegionBeyond the scientific breakthroughs, the M2PC project represents significant economic opportunity for the Tri-Cities region. The facility will require hiring automation engineers, AI experts, technicians skilled in operating robotics, and specialized craftspeople to build and maintain the sophisticated equipment."We're anticipating that type of hiring," Mans said when asked about job creation.PNNL has already begun recruiting talent nationally and internationally for positions related to the smaller AMP2 lab, bringing automation engineers from cities like Boston and San Francisco to work in the region. The M2PC facility is expected to accelerate that trend."This capability won't really exist anywhere else in the world," Mans said, suggesting the facility could become a draw for scientific talent seeking to work on cutting-edge biotechnology research.Timeline and Next StepsThe M2PC facility is expected to open in 2029. Between now and then, construction crews will level and prepare the ground, while the building takes shape. Simultaneously, Ginkgo Bio Works, the automation contractor, will build the facility's automation components off-site so they can be installed as the building is completed.In the interim, PNNL researchers and the broader scientific community will begin planning the first experiments to be conducted in the facility, ensuring research is lined up and ready to begin as soon as the doors open.The groundbreaking ceremony included representatives from the Department of Energy, PNNL leadership, and elected officials at the federal, state, and local levels, underscoring the project's significance to the region and the nation's biotechnology future. News The U.S. Department of Energy Secretary tours Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Dan Hanson, Apple Valley News Now News Beyond DNA: Scientists Explore New Frontiers in Biology Research Dan Hanson, Apple Valley News Now News TRIDEC optimistic that Hanford, PNNL will see funding in national budget Robert Desaulniers News Big picture science: monitoring the Yakima River Basin News PNNL research could shape the future of fighting fentanyl ​COPYRIGHT 2026 BY APPLE VALLEY NEWS NOW. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.

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Sen Slotkin committed a 'cardinal sin' in this era of politics: Ben Domenech

A 'Kudlow' panel breaks down Sen. Elissa Slotkin's, D-Mich., controversial comments about targeting Trump administration officials.

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Oct 20 • 7:31 PM EDT • Politics • foxbusiness.com
Rule breaking by just a few people can be contagious

People are more likely to mimic — or even surpass — rule breakers than rule followers, a study finds. But real-world consequences may keep people in line.

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Oct 20 • 7:01 PM EDT • Science • sciencenews.org
Vikings Face Criticism Over J.J. McCarthy From Unexpected Voice

Barstool Sports owner and Michigan alum Dave Portnoy went to bat for former Minnesota Vikings and current New York Giants quarterback J.J. McCarthy. Portnoy spoke out about McCarthy’s time at the Vikings, as the latter made his debut with the Giants. McCarthy stepped in for Jameis Winston in the Giants’ game against the New Orleans […] The post Vikings Face Criticism Over J.J. McCarthy From Unexpected Voice appeared first on HEAVY.

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Oct 20 • 6:27 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The Hollywood Reporter Power Business Managers Event to Honor Michael Ullman, Feature Conversations With David Kramer and Lisa Callif

Sugar Ray Leonard will present THR’s Business Manager Icon Award to Ullman, CEO of Platinum Financial Management, at the 16th annual event.

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Oct 20 • 6:22 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
THR Power Business Managers Event to Honor Michael Ullman

Sugar Ray Leonard will present THR’s Business Manager Icon Award to Ullman, CEO of Platinum Financial Management, at the 16th annual event.

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Oct 20 • 6:22 PM EDT • Entertainment • hollywoodreporter.com
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THR Power Business Managers Event to Honor Michael Ullman

Sugar Ray Leonard will present THR’s Business Manager Icon Award to Ullman, CEO of Platinum Financial Management, at the 16th annual event.

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Microsoft is now scaling back Copilot in Windows 11 amid Microslop backlash, pulling 8 AI actions from File Explorer and calling it “simplifying”

Microsoft says it's retiring "Copilot actions" from the File Explorer context menu, which it recently began rolling out.

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Oct 20 • 5:45 PM EDT • Technology • windowslatest.com
Windows and Xbox teams reportedly clashed over OS experience for gaming, as next-gen Xbox Helix console slips into 2028

A new report claims the Windows and Xbox teams have clashed over the direction of the OS for Microsoft's next-gen Xbox consoles.

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Oct 20 • 5:44 PM EDT • Technology • windowscentral.com
Michigan Senate Candidates Make Dueling Pitches to Business Leaders in Detroit

Mike Rogers and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the candidates in the tight race, defended their economic policies at the Detroit Economic Club.

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Report: Microsoft's Project Helix planned for 2028 at $1,200 to $1,800 price

Xbox maker is also apparently planning its own gaming handheld for next year.

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Oct 20 • 5:14 PM EDT • Technology • arstechnica.com
Round Rock City Council to consider incentive for semiconductor industry business

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

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Oct 20 • 5:05 PM EDT • Business • communityimpact.com
Creator Economy Minor Builds the Business Skills Behind the Content

The first academic pathway into the creator economy pairs Newhouse and Whitman expertise to help students master both the creative and business sides of digital content.

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Oct 20 • 4:35 PM EDT • Business • news.syr.edu
Michigan State basketball forward Cam Ward to play vs. UConn

Michigan State forward Cam Ward set to play in exhibition vs. UConn

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Oct 20 • 4:32 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Supermicro Provides First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2027 Preliminary Business Update

SAN JOSE, Calif., October 20, 2026--Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI) ("Supermicro" or the "Company"), an AI, Enterprise, Storage, and 5G/Edge IT Total Solution Provider, featuring Data Center Building Block Solutions® (DCBBS), today is providing a preliminary business update for the first quarter of fiscal year 2027 (Q1’27), ended September 30, 2026, and schedules earnings call for November 3rd at 5pm EST.

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Oct 20 • 4:30 PM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Democrats fear slippage with Black voters makes Michigan Senate race feel ‘far closer than it should’

Michigan's Senate race could decide control of the chamber — and it may come down to Black voters in Detroit and Flint. Where do you think the race stands?

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Oct 20 • 4:16 PM EDT • Politics • scrippsnews.com
Former sheriff accused of killing judge wins pause on second mental health evaluation

LETCHER COUNTY, Ky. (WJHL) — The former Letcher County sheriff accused of killing a judge in his chambers has managed to temporarily halt an order that would have required him to undergo a second m…

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Oct 20 • 4:15 PM EDT • Health • wjhl.com
Trump to rally in North Carolina, even as GOP pulls its money

Michael Whatley, the state’s Republican Senate candidate, owes his nomination to Trump; the president continues to invest time, if not cash, on his behalf.

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Oct 20 • 4:07 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Kaiser Permanente Hawaiʻi invites Maui students to explore health care careers

Kaiser Permanente Hawaiʻi is helping inspire the next generation of health care professionals through its upcoming Career Exploration Day on Saturday, Nov. 14, in partnership with Maui Economic Development Board’s STEMworks program.

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Oct 20 • 4:00 PM EDT • Health • mauinow.com
Police: Robbery, homicide investigation underway at business along Dixie Highway

Officers are investigating after a man was found dead inside a business along Dixie Highway, according to Fairfield police.

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Oct 20 • 3:58 PM EDT • Business • wcpo.com
Apple's Touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro: Everything We Know

Apple is working on a high-end MacBook Pro, and it's nearly ready to launch. It will have several firsts in a Mac, including an OLED display and a touchscreen. Design Apple hasn't redesigned the MacBook Pro since the launch of the M1 Pro and M1 Max models in 2021, so it's due for a new look. The new MacBook Pro is expected to feature some minor design changes.

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Oct 20 • 3:40 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Xbox Game Pass Reportedly Getting 'Major Overhaul,' Will Feature 'À La Carte' Options

Microsoft is reportedly planning a substantial revamp of Xbox Game Pass that will allow subscribers to choose the features they want in an à la carte fashion. The report comes by way of a new Fortune profile piece on Xbox CEO Asha Sharma.

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Oct 20 • 3:40 PM EDT • Technology • ign.com
From ‘50 bucks and a 423 credit score’: Family popcorn business marks 8 years

The founder of Robinson’s Popcorn, a family-run West Michigan business, is celebrating eight years in business by passing the keys to his daughter.

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Oct 20 • 3:36 PM EDT • Business • woodtv.com
Democrats fear slippage with Black voters makes Michigan Senate race feel ‘far closer than it should’

Abdul El-Sayed often talks about building a new and broad coalition of Michigan voters. A looming question in the state’s pivotal Senate race is whether he can keep the old one intact — particularly with the Black voters who are pivotal to any Democratic victory.

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Oct 20 • 3:29 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Kalamazoo commission opposes health board ballot measure

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — Kalamazoo city commissioners are telling voters to be wary of a ballot proposal that would create a citizen-led healthcare advisory board. The commissioners voted unanimo…

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Oct 20 • 3:10 PM EDT • Health • woodtv.com
Microsoft reportedly plans Xbox handheld in 2027, next-gen console in 2028

The next Xbox could cost between $1,200 and $1,800 if Microsoft doesn’t subsidize it.

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Oct 20 • 2:45 PM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
Going with the Flow - College of Arts and Sciences

Scott Gifford studies the microscopic organisms that shape water quality, ecosystems, and Earth’s climate.

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Oct 20 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • college.unc.edu
Genesee Health Plan celebrates 25 years after serving thousands of county residents

Genesee Health Plan celebrated a huge milestone Tuesday morning.

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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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Westminster AMC theater forced to temporarily close due to ‘imminent health’ hazard posed by mice

“Ratatouille” might have been an endearing movie to watch at the theater, but a real-life mice problem left health officials in Jeffco no choice but to close the curtains this weekend.

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Entertainment & Media Publicity Veterans Laura Puig & Michelle Ciciyasvili Join Forces to Launch Maeve

New Publicity and Strategic Communications Company to Focus on Entertainment, Media, and Talent Services

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Phoenix among best markets for small business expansion

Phoenix is one of the nation’s stronger markets for small-business expansion, but Tucson is facing a more challenging economic outlook, according to a new study comparing 56 major U.S. metropolitan areas.

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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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Harms of Public Health Measures Overlooked in COVID-19 Policy Reviews

Investigators link oversight with eroding trust in health authorities and call on future pandemic inquiries to weigh trade-offs.

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Berrien County Health Department warns parents, teens about kratom risks

The Berrien County Health Department is launching a campaign warning parents and teens about the risks of kratom. According to the health department, kratom contains a chemical called 7-hydroxymitragynine, or 7-OH, that acts like an opioid and can cause severe withdrawal symptoms.

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Michigan Medicine, UM Health-Sparrow expand precision oncology program

University of Michigan Health-Sparrow and Michigan Medicine are expanding the use of precision oncology in Lansing.

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Michigan Medicine, UM Health-Sparrow expand precision oncology program in Lansing

University of Michigan Health-Sparrow and Michigan Medicine are expanding the use of precision oncology in Lansing.

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Ice Cream Shop Owner Brought Her Kids to Work. Then the Health Department Arrived

“I’m sick of people acting like kids don’t belong,” the Michigan business owner tells TODAY.com.

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The non-gamer CEO racing to save Microsoft’s Xbox

Asha Sharma has cut thousands of jobs, consolidated studios, and rewritten the playbook. Insiders wonder if she’s saving the brand or preparing it for a non-Microsoft future.

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AMD and Microsoft Bring FSR 4.1 to Xbox Series X|S, FSR Diamond Teased for Project Helix

AMD and Microsoft have confirmed that FSR Upscaling 4.1 is coming to the Xbox Series X and Series S. The news came in an AMD video presentation led by Jack Huynh, joined by Xbox CTO Scott Van Vliet and ASUS. The ROG Xbox Ally handhelds are getting it too, and it looks like they will be first in...

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Police investigating homicide after woman found dead in Dauphin County business

DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM)– Police launched a homicide investigation after a woman was found dead inside a Dauphin County business on Tuesday morning, according to the Swatara Township Police…

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Oct 20 • 12:00 PM EDT • Business • abc27.com
Scientists Built a Membrane That Breaks Down ‘Forever Chemicals’ Instead of Just Trapping Them

The membrane uses hydrogen and palladium to dismantle troublesome PFAS.

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Oct 20 • 11:58 AM EDT • Science • zmescience.com
Mice cause ‘imminent health hazard closure’ at Westminster movie theater

AMC Westminster Promenade 24 was reinspected on Monday and allowed to reopen, Jefferson County Public Health records show.

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Oct 20 • 11:39 AM EDT • Health • denverpost.com
Gimmick or giveback? Even some Trump supporters don't expect to get $5,000 checks after midterms

The offering of government checks has become a go-to tactic for President Donald Trump when he faces a political jam.

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Oct 20 • 11:27 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
AMD and Microsoft announce FSR 4.1 support for Xbox Series X|S and Xbox Ally, bringing huge performance gains

In a video address, AMD revealed FSR 4.1 support is coming "soon" to Xbox consoles, and this week to Xbox Ally.

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Oct 20 • 11:22 AM EDT • Technology • windowscentral.com
Opinion: A Bears stadium deal must deliver more than a home for football

Keeping the Bears in Chicago could create opportunities for local businesses, but a stadium deal must also deliver measurable economic returns and inclusion.

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Oct 20 • 11:13 AM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com
Business Breakfast with Consul General of Mexico

The Latin American Chamber of Commerce of Georgia is honored to welcome Rafael Laveaga, Mexico’s Consul General in Atlanta, as our featured guest speaker for the October Business Breakfast. In this special presentation, Consul General Laveaga will discuss the growing economic, trade, and cultural relationship between Georgia and Mexico and highlight the impact of this ... Read more

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Oct 20 • 11:11 AM EDT • Business • globalatlanta.com
2027 Wide Receiver Yuto Kawamura-Johnson Flips Commitment to Michigan

The Wolverines poach an explosive Florida playmaker from Toledo after a dominant visit. Boasting a staggering 24 yards per catch, the dynamic slot receiver brings elite vertical speed to Ann Arbor.

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Oct 20 • 11:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The Tenacious Collective leads independent artists to New York Comic Con success

Deep within the chaos of the 20th New York Comic Con’s Exhibit Hall sits one of the convention’s largest and most unique booths: the Tenacious Collective.

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Oct 20 • 11:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • amny.com
Smucker, Mannion to go head to head in debate this Friday

Republican Congressman Lloyd Smucker and Democratic challenger Nancy Mannion will debate Friday afternoon at a forum hosted by the Lancaster Chamber and York County Economic Alliance.

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Oct 20 • 10:57 AM EDT • Politics • lancasteronline.com
Comedian Russell Brand anally raped me, woman tells UK trial

By Michael Holden LONDON, Oct 20 (Reuters) - British actor and comedian Russell Brand anally raped a woman who had willingly gone to his house for consensual sex, ignoring her

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Oct 20 • 10:42 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
Green Science Alliance opens Swiss battery recycling lab

The Japanese chemical and greentech firm has opened a battery recycling laboratory at the Switzerland Innovation Park Biel/Bienne (SIPBB) in the canton of

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Oct 20 • 10:00 AM EDT • Science • electrive.com
Xbox is struggling for stock so bad that it's encouraging lapsed users to trade-in their dormant consoles ahead of GTA 6

The console stock situation is so dire now that Microsoft is targeting lapsed users with second, dormant Xbox consoles to recommend trading-in. The RAM crisis continues.

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Oct 20 • 8:55 AM EDT • Technology • windowscentral.com
Beyond Moneyball: What the Milwaukee Brewers Can Teach Businesses About Teamwork

The Milwaukee Brewers’ sweep of the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers stunned the baseball world. But the series also showed that assembling the biggest collection of stars isn’t the only path to success, says University of Delaware researcher Kyle Emich. The Brewers' run to the World Series – which continues this week against the Tampa Bay Rays – demonstrates how a team can combine its strengths, adapt to an opponent and operate as a system, Emich says. That same p

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Oct 20 • 8:30 AM EDT • Business • newswise.com
Michigan State Gets Stunning Quarterback News Ahead of UCLA Showdown

Michigan State will face a different UCLA offense Saturday after quarterback Nico Iamaleava suffered a severe knee injury. Here's what his absence means for the Spartans.

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Oct 20 • 8:16 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Trump continues midterm campaign blitz in North Carolina

President to stump for Michael Whatley, who is facing an uphill battle against Democrat Roy Cooper for the Senate, as elections are just two weeks away

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Oct 20 • 8:10 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com