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Longtime California punk band's guitarist reveals ‘fairly serious' health issue, steps away from touring

The announcement comes less than three weeks after The Offspring played Sacramento's Aftershock festival, with several more shows still listed on the band's calendar.

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Oct 21 • 1:57 PM EDT • Health • yahoo.com
An exploding baseball and a smashed guitar. What went down at Modesto’s State Theatre

The winners of the annual MAMA Awards were announced Tuesday.

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Oct 21 • 1:57 PM EDT • Entertainment • modbee.com
The Sims Project Rene IS PAUSED - The Sims Project Evergreen / Project X IS NEXT!

Instead, we're getting full focus on The Sims Project Evergreen. Which sounds very much like all The Sims Project X news we've been reporting for more than a

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Oct 21 • 1:31 PM EDT • Technology • simscommunity.info
Longtime Cargill Exec Takes Reins At K-State Animal Sciences Department

Longtime Cargill executive Scott Eilert will take the helm at Kansas State University’s Department of Animal Sciences and Industry in the College of Agriculture, the school announced. The department is home to Kansas State’s largest degree program and one of the nation’s largest animal science academic centers. Eilert, a 1989... Longtime Cargill executive Scott Eilert […]

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Oct 21 • 1:15 PM EDT • Science • meatingplace.com
How will World Series ratings fare for Rays-Brewers?

After riding high on the Los Angeles Dodgers for two consecutive World Series, Major League Baseball will likely fall down to earth a bit this season. The Tampa Bay Rays and Milwaukee Brewers will start their best-of-seven series on Friday in what could be MLB’s last hurrah for quite some time as the league and…

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Oct 21 • 1:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
TRUE RX HEALTH STRATEGISTS BECOMES FIRST PBM TO BRING INSTACART HEALTH FRESH FUNDS TO EMPLOYER PHARMACY BENEFITS

/PRNewswire/ -- True Rx Health Strategists, the family-owned, pharmacist-led pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) based in Indiana, today announced a first-to-market...

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Oct 21 • 1:00 PM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach's exes announce engagement

Marilee Fiebig and actor Andrew Shue, former spouses of newly married journalists T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach, are engaged.

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Oct 21 • 12:56 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Catawba Valley Health System opens Taylorsville Urgent Care

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

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Oct 21 • 12:44 PM EDT • Health • taylorsvilletimes.com
THE OPTIX NETWORK ANNOUNCES NOVEMBER 1 LAUNCH, INTRODUCING A NEW DESTINATION FOR ORIGINAL ENTERTAINMENT AND INDEPENDENT STORYTELLING

/PRNewswire/ -- The Optix Network, a new premium streaming platform dedicated to original entertainment, independent storytelling and creator-focused...

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Oct 21 • 12:38 PM EDT • Entertainment • prnewswire.com
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How Big Tech money is undermining US democracy

US Author Gil Durán warns that Silicon Valley "billionaires have enough money to buy both sides" in any US election.

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Oct 21 • 12:33 PM EDT • Politics • dw.com
Integris Health to become part of Risant Health under new agreement

Integris Health announced it will become part of Risant Health, but it will keep its name, brand and medical staff.

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Oct 21 • 12:19 PM EDT • Health • koco.com
Reno + Sparks Chamber announces Latino Business Council launching in 2027

The Reno + Sparks Chamber of Commerce announced plans to establish a Latino Business Council on Jan. 4, 2027, to expand services, advocacy and networking opportunities for Latino business owners in Northern Nevada. The new council will work to increase chamber membership among Latino business owners and operators while developing programs that address their business […]

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Oct 21 • 12:01 PM EDT • Business • thisisreno.com
Why Pronouns Matter in Science Fiction

Readers should be invited to identify with nonbinary protagonists, and gain a new perspective on old beliefs.

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Oct 21 • 12:00 PM EDT • Science • reactormag.com
‘Glee’ to return in reboot for Disney+ and Hulu

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, Oct 21 (Reuters) - "Glee," the hit musical comedy-drama television series, is set to return in a reboot, streaming services Disney+ and Hulu announced on

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Oct 21 • 11:20 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
Your 2026 NFL Week 7 announcing schedule

The NFL will have its first-ever regular-season game in Paris in Week 7, even amid the civil unrest in France. Dave Pasch, Jason Kelce, and Kurt Warner will return to their international booth duties (after Bob Wischusen and Louis Riddick stepped in for Week 7) to call the Pittsburgh Steelers-New Orleans Saints game for NFL…

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Oct 21 • 11:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Visier Debuts Talent Agents, Closing the Gap Between HR Programs and Business Impact

/PRNewswire/ -- Visier today announced Talent Agents at HR Tech 2026. Built on the Visier Workforce Intelligence Platform, these new AI agents guides every...

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Oct 21 • 11:00 AM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com
Three Six Zero Launches Entertainment & New Media Division Led by Rebecca Dowell

Three Six Zero announced a new Entertainment & New Media division led by Rebecca Dowell, who will represent digital creators and emerging talent including…

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Oct 21 • 10:50 AM EDT • Entertainment • broadwayworld.com
Special Olympics Chief Health Officer Dr. Dimitri Christakis Elected into the National Academy of Medicine

The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) announced the election of 90 regular members and 10 international members during its annual meeting on 19 October 2026. Among them was Special Olympics Chief Health Officer, Dr. Dimitri Christakis. One of the highest honors in the field, Dr. Christakis's election reflects both his work advancing health for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities at Special Olympics and his expertise in child development, particularly related to digital media and its effects on children’s social, emotional, and cognitive health.

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Oct 21 • 10:40 AM EDT • Health • specialolympics.org
Baidu (BIDU) Expands Its AI Business, but the Core Revenue Recovery Remains Uncertain

Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU) is expanding autonomous driving and AI services while its traditional business stays under pressure. That raises a hard valuation question: can the new activities grow fast enough, and profitably enough, to replace what the established business is losing? At roughly 19 times forward earnings, investors pay for that transition to work. They […]

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Oct 21 • 10:07 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
RayNeo Announces Canadian Retail Rollout for Its Next-Generation AR Entertainment and AI Glasses

GT MAX brings a virtual screen of up to 307 inches, while RayNeo iO Smart Glasses puts everyday AI in view, as part of a full Canadian lineup with glasses...

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Oct 21 • 10:07 AM EDT • Entertainment • globenewswire.com
RayNeo Announces Canadian Retail Rollout for Its Next-Generation AR Entertainment and AI Glasses

GT MAX brings a virtual screen of up to 307 inches, while RayNeo iO Smart Glasses puts everyday AI in view, as part of a full Canadian lineup with glasses starting at $429 RayNeo GT MAX RayNeo GT MAX AR glasses pair a 59° field of view with virtual screens of up to 307 inches. Built-in audio is co-tuned by Bang & Olufsen, and Dolby Vision is supported when paired with the separately sold Pocket TV Pro.* MSRP $629 CAD. Screen image simulated. Photo: RayNeo RayNeo iO RayNeo iO AI glasses put live

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Oct 21 • 10:07 AM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
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
Floral City Heritage Council announces October meeting

The Floral City Heritage Council (FCHC) will meet Tuesday, Oct. 27, at the Floral City Community House in the Floral City Town Center. The evening includes a community dinner, a

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Oct 21 • 9:55 AM EDT • Entertainment • chronicleonline.com
Abbott Plans to Separate Nutrition Business Into Publicly Traded Company by End of 2027

Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) has announced plans to spin off its Nutrition division into a separate publicly traded company, with the transaction expected to be completed by the end of 2027, subject to regulatory and corporate approvals. The proposed separation would create an independent business focused on nutritional products while allowing Abbott to concentrate on its medical devices, diagnostics and established pharmaceuticals operations.

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Oct 21 • 9:47 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Misericordia University Announces New Partnership with Northeast College of Health Sciences

Misericordia University recently announced a new educational partnership with Northeast College of Health Sciences designed to provide students with a streamlined pathway toward earning a Doctor of Chiropractic degree.

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Oct 21 • 9:43 AM EDT • Health • misericordia.edu
Chamber announces Four Under 40 winners

The Greater Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce has announced this year's Four Under 40 winners.

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Oct 21 • 9:19 AM EDT • Business • siouxfalls.business
HCA Healthcare to Host Eighth Annual “Crush the Crisis” National Prescription Drug Take Back Day - Florida Hospital News and Healthcare Report

October 21, 2026 – HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE:HCA), one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers, today announced it will host its eighth annual “Crush the Crisis” national prescription drug take […]

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Oct 21 • 9:18 AM EDT • Health • southfloridahospitalnews.com
Shingles vax: A cash cow? | Investors Lab

Nobody had to twist my arm to convince me to get the shingles vaccine. A few scary anecdotes about the horrors of contracting herpes zoster (pain, unsightliness and potentially permanent nerve damage, for starters) were good enough reasons for me. Turns out the two little jabs I received a few years back may offer big returns: unexpected multiyear protection for the ticker. Science News’s Meghan Rosen delivers the good news.

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Oct 21 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencenews.org
Dylan Scott Joins Science in Sport as Global Ambassador and Elite Hybrid Athlete

/PRNewswire/ -- World leader in performance nutrition Science in Sport today announces Dylan Scott as its newest global ambassador and member of its elite...

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Oct 21 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • prnewswire.com
Daniel Edney, MD, State Health Officer for Mississippi, Announced as Next ASTHO President

/PRNewswire/ -- The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) named Daniel Edney, MD, as the organization's 84th president. Dr. Edney,...

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Oct 21 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.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
REG - Light Science Tech.

RNS Number : 9234Z Light Science Tech. Holdings PLC 21 October 2026 THE INFORMATION CONTAINED WITHIN THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS DEEMED BY THE COMPANY TO CONSTITUTE INSIDE INFORMATION AS STIPULATED UNDER THE MARKET ABUSE REGULATION (EU NO. 596/2014) AS IT FORMS PART OF UK DOMESTIC LAW PURSUANT TO…

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Oct 21 • 8:55 AM EDT • Science • tradingview.com
Longitude Health Appoints Chris Shea as Chief Legal and Administrative Officer

/PRNewswire/ -- Longitude Health, a health system-led company focused on advancing healthcare innovation, announced that Chris Shea has joined as Chief Legal...

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Oct 21 • 8:47 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
10X Health Launches Metabolism Genetic Test

A saliva-based test provides genetic insights to help inform personalized nutrition and weight-management plansSCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Oct. 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 10X Health, a leader in personalized health optimization and performance-driven wellness solutions, today announced the launch of its Metabolism Genetic Test. For individuals looking to optimize their wellness routines, 10X Health’s Metabolism Genetic Test gets at the root of why and how your body responds to food, exercise and appeti

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Oct 21 • 8:30 AM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com
TreviPay Expands Pay by Invoice Availability for Walmart Business Customers

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., October 21, 2026--TreviPay announces the general availability of Pay By Invoice for eligible Walmart Business customers.

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Oct 21 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
A Semiquincentennial of Apathy … and AI

My generation has never experienced politics untouched by algorithms. Every election I have been old enough to follow has unfolded, at least in part, on social media. From Obama’s historic victory in 2008 to Trump’s unconventional win for a second term in 2024, these campaigns showed how pol

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Oct 21 • 7:13 AM EDT • Politics • cpreview.org
Kirk Ferentz press conferences offer unpredictable entertainment

The starting quarterback announcement was just part of an entertaining, bizarre and unpredictable Kirk Ferentz press conference.

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Oct 21 • 7:01 AM EDT • Entertainment • hawkcentral.com
ChristianaCare opens Health Center, completing next phase of Aston campus

Plus, Ridley’s Goodwill store to reopen, Delaware County Down Syndrome Interest Group merges with The Down Syndrome Association of Delaware, library book sale, Christmas bazaar, Birding Club walk, and enough events to keep you busy…

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Oct 21 • 7:00 AM EDT • Health • delcotimes.com
Oracle AI Agent Studio for Industry Applications Helps Accelerate Business Outcomes

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

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Oct 21 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com
Delta Dental commits nearly $3 million to strengthen the future oral health workforce

/PRNewswire/ -- Today, Delta Dental announced the five 2026 Delta Dental Future Workforce Fund awardees, with funding committed for the next three years. The...

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Oct 21 • 5:55 AM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
TWICE’s Jihyo leaves JYP Entertainment after 21 years to launch new company, vows to remain with the group (VIDEO)

SEOUL, Oct 21 — TWICE member Jihyo has announced her departure from JYP Entertainment after 21 years with the agen...

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Oct 21 • 5:31 AM EDT • Entertainment • malaysia.news.yahoo.com
Rural Health Transformation implementation begins; Here’s what the money will do

Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced the first allocations of the Rural Health Transformation Program Awards, totaling nearly $2.4 million, on Sept. 4, 2026, to fund worksite clinics and employer-based healthcare services across West Virginia.

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Oct 21 • 5:30 AM EDT • Health • wvgazettemail.com
In this Florida district, politicians battle over who most loves Israel

Singer criticized Moskowitz for not doing enough to back the Iran war at a synagogue debate ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms.

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Oct 21 • 5:29 AM EDT • Politics • jta.org
UNF poll gives Ashley Moody 4-point lead over Angie Nixon as turnout takes center stage

Nixon is polling well among Dems and up 15 points with NPAs, but Republicans' voter registration advantage keeps Moody in front.

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Oct 21 • 5:01 AM EDT • Politics • floridapolitics.com
Star-studded entertainment announcements feature Frankie Moreno, the Eagles, Alanis Morissette and Jim Gaffigan

Frankie Moreno, Alanis Morissette, Train, the Eagles and other acts announced Las Vegas shows Monday and Tuesday, with dates running from New Year’s Day into November 2027. Most tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday …

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Oct 21 • 5:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • lasvegassun.com
Duke Endowment makes big investment in NC Children’s hospital

By Anne Blythe Key Takeaways: On a heavily wooded tract near the intersection of U.S. 1 and N.C. 540 — a 220-acre spot in southern Apex so void of infrastructure it shows up only as GPS coordinates on a map, the Duke Endowment announced a transformative $100 million grant Tuesday morning. The investment will help […]

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Oct 21 • 4:22 AM EDT • Health • northcarolinahealthnews.org
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Picture a press room full of journalists, a new signing at the desk, and an executive stepping up to announce: 'I can confirm that this is not an Inter player yet. He will be in a few weeks, once we o...

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Oct 21 • 2:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Twice’s Jihyo officially leaves JYP Entertainment after 21 years

The 29-year-old singer announced on Wednesday (Oct 21) that she will be departing her longtime agency, JYP Entertainment, making her the latest Twice member to do so.

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Oct 20 • 11:39 PM EDT • Entertainment • cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com
Bob Chesney announces that QB Nico Iamaleava is undergoing surgery

UCLA head coach Bob Chesney announced on Monday that quarterback Nico Iamaleava will undergo surgery this week.

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Oct 20 • 10:11 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
“The Bachelorette ”alum Tyler Cameron announces fiancée Tate Madden is pregnant during “DWTS ‘”Dedication Night’

The reality star dedicated his contemporary routine to mothers everywhere.

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Oct 20 • 9:44 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Twin County Regional Healthcare responding to increased volume of patients related to community incident Tuesday night

Twin County Regional Healthcare announced on its Facebook page Tuesday evening that it is currently responding to an increased volume of patients related to what it called a “community incident”.

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Oct 20 • 9:00 PM EDT • Health • wsls.com
UW Health announces $140 million expansion at East Madison Hospital will open on Nov. 2

UW Health announced the East Madison Hospital will open a $140 million expansion on Nov. 2.

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Oct 20 • 8:22 PM EDT • Health • wmtv15news.com
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Healthcare and Life Sciences Leaders Build on NVIDIA to Advance Drug Discovery and Expand Patient Care

NVIDIA today announced collaborations with leading global healthcare and research organizations to advance protein design — including through a newly released open model, RFD4-Proteina — accelerate drug discovery and bring greater precision to cancer care.

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Oct 20 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • nvidianews.nvidia.com
The SUEZ Foundation and the Institut Pasteur join forces to promote women's access to scientific careers

The Institut Pasteur and the SUEZ Foundation have announced a three-year partnership designed to inspire young women to pursue scientific careers, support female scientists in their professional development, and foster the emergence of a new generation of women in the fields of health and the environment.

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Oct 20 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • suez.com
SpaceX touts possible Tesla merger after profits soar

After a stellar SpaceX earnings announcement, chief executive Elon Musk said the rocket company is considering a merger with Tesla, the electric car company he also helms.

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Oct 20 • 7:31 PM EDT • Business • latimes.com
Ryan Day Reveals Concerning Julian Sayin Injury Update

Ohio State coach Ryan Day announces Julian Sayin is out indefinitely and reveals the Buckeyes are preparing for a potentially season-long absence.

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Oct 20 • 7:25 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Nearby business bracing for impact after PepsiCo plant closure announced

PepsiCo is closing its South Knoxville bottling plant, laying off more than 100 employees.

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Oct 20 • 7:09 PM EDT • Business • wvlt.tv
Celta Vigo Officially Announce Bad News for Game vs Celtic

Celta Vigo have officially announced some bad news for them heading into the game against Celtic this week.

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Oct 20 • 6:53 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Toy Story 5, Backrooms and The Breadwinner Vie to Become the Second Biggest Film This Year...

(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.) Often, people blame “data” for ruining Hollywood, when I’d argue that hype (which can often be debunked by data) is often worse, as you can see in these two headlines. To use a common meme, here’s how it started: and how it’s going: Earlier this year, I read countless (and I mean countless) articles (in almost every mainstream media outlet) about how Heated Rivalry was a huge hit and that it “heated” interest in hockey. But Heated Rivalry wasn’t a huge viewership hit compared to the hype: [ ](https://entertainment.substack.com/p/you-cant-eat-buzzdid-heated-rivalrys) [ You Can’t Eat Buzz…Did Heated Rivalry’s Buzz Translate into Actual Viewership? ](https://entertainment.substack.com/p/you-cant-eat-buzzdid-heated-rivalrys) Entertainment Strategy Guy · Jan 22 [ Read full story ](https://entertainment.substack.com/p/you-cant-eat-buzzdid-heated-rivalrys) In this case, the hype (Heated Rivalry is really popular) belied the data (It didn’t make the top ten charts, meaning it wasn’t a huge hit.1) Even worse, every time I write about this, I get a lot of negative feedback, hence why I only sparingly mention the show these days or add lots of caveats when I write about it, but this just further cements the hype. But companies, and the executives leading them, have to determine strategy based on reality, not media coverage. The NHL committed real marketing dollars to a campaign that didn’t work. Sure enough, the latest NHL season opened to under a million viewers. At some point, you have to focus on what the data says, because real dollars are at stake. And that’s why we have the Streaming Ratings Report! To provide and analyze cold, hard data. Luckily, this week, I can be positive and take a look at a huge opening on streaming, along with a very buzzy horror film that customers kind of like, but don’t really love. And a comedy that tried to rebound on streaming. Today, I’m covering two weeks—21-Sep and 28-Sep—so we have a lot to discuss (nearly 5,000 words worth), including a series of film misses for Netflix, another argument for weekly-released TV shows on streaming, another sitcom tries to avoid the comedy curse, Netflix has two new game shows (one powered by AI), Reacher falling off the charts after a huge run, Prime Video tries its hands at the romcom game**,** a look at the WNBA’s big season, a big night for the VMAs on CBS and MTV, all the flops, bombs and misses, and a whole lot more. (Reminder: The streaming ratings report focuses on the U.S. market and compiles data from Nielsen’s weekly top ten viewership ranks, Luminate’s Top Ten Data, JustWatch and Reelgood interest data, Samba TV household viewership, company datecdotes, Netflix hours viewed data, Google Trends, and IMDb to determine the most popular content. While most data points are current, Nielsen’s data covers the weeks of September 14th to October 4th, 2026. You can find a link to my terminology here.) Subscribe Film - Two Hits and a Miss Come to Streaming… Three very interesting films came to streaming in one week, and I like comparing them since they show the range of theatrical films. One was a huge blockbuster, one was popular, and one was neither. One is a horror film, a buzzy genre; one is a comedy, a struggling genre; and one is an animated family film, the king of the box office. One went to a tiny streamer (HBO Max), one went to a second-tier streamer (Disney+), and one went to the biggest (Netflix). So… If you just went by box office, you’d expect Backrooms—the $197 million grosser, and partner of Obsession for “YouTube Horror Summer”—to dominate on streaming. If you read this report, though, you know that horror films don’t do great on streaming, and that’s the case again. Backrooms opened at 3.8 million hours according to Nielsen, and had 3.9 million hours in its second week. Here’s how that stacks up to other HBO Max films: 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… ...why I don’t buy Backrooms budget… …two new games shows arrive on streaming… …another sitcom struggles… ...another argument for putting out shows weekly on Netflix... ...and a whole lot more, nearly 5,000 words more... ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support. If you want an idea of just how much content you’d get in a full issue, check out this older issue. Coming Soon! Next week, I’ll be taking a look at the eighth season of Hulu’s The Kardashians, answering the question: will this show ever make the charts? If Mormon wives can make it, surely one of social media’s most popular families can as well. Also, Prime Video has a new horror show based on popular IP, Carrie, Netflix has a horror show starring Josh Hartnett, Below, and Apple TV has a UK import, Small Prophets. Plus a bunch of movies like Disclosure Day heading to Peacock, The Housemaid coming to HBO Max, Ben Affleck’s latest on Apple TV, Animals, and Matchbox the Movie on Apple TV, a John Cena action comedy inspired by Hasbro’s toy cars. The week after is even busier! I’ll look at another IP-based horror show, Crystal Lake, a new MCU show on Disney+, VisionQuest, season two of The Lowdown on FX/Hulu, the fourth seasons of The Diplomat on Netflix and Tulsa King on Paramount+, another season of Love is Blind, and four straight-to-streaming films: Netflix’s Sacrifice (starring Chris Evens, Anya-Taylor-Joy, Vincent Cassel, John Malkovich, Salma Hayek. Charlie XCX), Apple TV’s Tenzing (starring Tom Hiddleston and Willem Defoe), Prime Video’s Love of Your Life (Margaret Qualley) and Masterplan (Stanley Tucci) and a whole lot more, somehow. Long term, here’s some huge IP news: a Game of Thrones movie is coming to theaters, Game of Thrones: Aegon’s Conquest in 2029, while Jon Watts (who helmed three of the most recent Spider-Man movies) is directing the next Star Wars trilogy, to be written by Simon Kinberg. I’m cautiously optimistic for both. It feels obvious to say that making good movies matters, but for bets this big (Star Wars is on a swoon, Game of Thrones hasn’t been to theaters yet), the quality has to be there.

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Oct 20 • 6:30 PM EDT • Entertainment • entertainment.substack.com
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Nearby business bracing for impact after PepsiCo plant closure announced

Pepsi Co. is shutting down its South Knoxville bottling plant, laying off more than 100 workers.

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Oct 20 • 6:13 PM EDT • Business • wvlt.tv
Urban Meyer only has one concern about a 24-team College Football Playoff

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

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Oct 20 • 6:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bank OZK posts quarterly declines in income and revenue

Little Rock-based Bank OZK on Tuesday (Oct. 20) announced declines in quarterly net income and revenue, and in its management comments noted that some of the bank’s commercial real estate...

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Oct 20 • 6:05 PM EDT • Business • talkbusiness.net
Tracy McGrady strikes two-year partnership with NBC Sports

Five months ago, Tracy McGrady wasn’t sure NBC wanted him back for a second season, and now the network is effectively going into business with him. In an exclusive interview with The Athletic’s Jerry Brewer published Tuesday, McGrady unveiled a two-year strategic partnership with NBC Sports that puts his Ones Basketball League games on Peacock,…

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Oct 20 • 5:35 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Detroit Lions Announce Two Roster Moves Ahead of Packers Showdown

The Detroit Lions have signed Aidan Keanaaina to their practice squad and released Chris Smith ahead of Sunday's game against the Packers.

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Oct 20 • 5:31 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Sphere Entertainment jumps as investors appear to bet on a short-covering rebound

Sphere Entertainment Co. (SPHR) is up 9.4% today. Here is some analysis on what might have caused this price movement.Analysis: There does not appear to be a single fresh company announcement driving Tuesday’s move, so the rally looks most likely tied to short covering and bargain hunting after a steep pullback earlier this month. Investors may also be revisiting Sphere’s underlying growth story, including strong performance from its Las Vegas ve

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Oct 20 • 5:20 PM EDT • Entertainment • quiverquant.com
Hickory Tavern Announces New Daily Specials and Refreshed Entertainment Calendar

With football season in full swing, Hickory Tavern, the modern American tavern and neighborhood gathering spot with 16 locations across North and South Carolina, has introduced new daily food and drin...

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Oct 20 • 5:14 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Atlanta Hawks strike in-market streaming deal with Prime Video

As the Atlanta Hawks prepare to tip-off their season Wednesday against the Orlando Magic, the team has moved to create one of the more fan-friendly streaming arrangements in the entire league. The Hawks announced Tuesday that all local broadcasts will stream on Amazon Prime Video for fans within the team’s regional footprint at no extra…

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Oct 20 • 4:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Hackensack Meridian Health signs definitive agreement to acquire Hunterdon Health, commits $230M

Hackensack Meridian Health has signed a definitive agreement to pick up Central New Jersey’s Hunterdon Health, a $230 million deal that would grow the state’s largest health system to 19 total hosp | The announcement did not outline a potential timeline for the merger, which would add a nineteenth hospital to New Jersey's largest health system.

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Oct 20 • 4:24 PM EDT • Health • fiercehealthcare.com
Edinburg Veterans Day Parade Entry Deadline is Oct. 29th

The City of Edinburg is proud to announce the upcoming Veterans Day Parade, honoring past and present members of the U.S. Armed Forces. The parade will take place along Closner Boulevard—affectionately known as the "Boulevard of Heroes"—on Saturday, November 7, 2026, beginning at 10 a.m.

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Oct 20 • 4:12 PM EDT • Business • texasborderbusiness.com
INOVIO Announces Favorable Judgment in Litigation with VGXI, Inc. and GeneOne Life Science

/PRNewswire/ -- INOVIO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: INO), a biotechnology company focused on developing and commercializing DNA medicines to help treat and...

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Oct 20 • 4:05 PM EDT • Science • prnewswire.com
BayMark Completes Out-of-Court Debt Restructuring

Lewisville, Texas-based BayMark Health Services announced Monday that it completed its new-money recapitalization and a debt-for-equity

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Oct 20 • 4:01 PM EDT • Business • bhbusiness.com
Massanutten operator announces leadership shifts

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

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Oct 20 • 3:40 PM EDT • Business • virginiabusiness.com
NYC Health + Hospitals/Coler Appoints New Chief Nursing Officer

New York, NY – Today NYC Health + Hospitals announced the appointment of Verna Mitchell, BSN, RN as the new Chief Nursing Officer at NYC Health +

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Oct 20 • 3:15 PM EDT • Health • nychealthandhospitals.org
Governor Moore Announces $25 Million to Support Health Care Access for Uninsured Marylanders, Touts Public Health Wins at Bloomberg American Health Summit

Governor Moore Announces $25 Million to Support Health Care Access for Uninsured Marylanders, Touts Public Health Wins at Bloomberg American Health Summit

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Oct 20 • 3:05 PM EDT • Health • governor.maryland.gov
EA Sports Announces Return of 'Fight Night' Boxing Video Game, 'The Fight Is Never Over'

Retro gaming fans were given a treat on Tuesday.

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Oct 20 • 2:56 PM EDT • Technology • bleacherreport.com
Atlanta Hawks reach streaming deal with Amazon Prime

The Atlanta Hawks announced Prime Video will become the new streaming home for the team for the 2026-27 season.

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Oct 20 • 2:36 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
‘High Potential’ star Matthew Lamb, 14, reveals his mother died: ‘Still doesn’t feel real’

‘High Potential’ star Matthew Lamb, 14, shared a heartbreaking message announcing the death of his mother: ‘There’s so much she is going to miss in my life.’

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Oct 20 • 2:36 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Businesses Report Flat Summer Tourism Despite Inflation, Smoke and Airport Runway Closure

In August, when an active wildfire season in the Pacific Northwest choked the Flathead Valley in a dome of smoke, Glacier Guides and Montana Raft owner Denny Gignoux started getting cancellation requests and noticed lower demand for rafting and hiking trips at his outfitting business. While the smoky skies deterred some visitors from traveling altogether, […]

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Oct 20 • 2:19 PM EDT • Business • flatheadbeacon.com
Bayern Announce Fresh Injury Concerns Ahead Of Arsenal Clash

Vincent Kompany faces a selection crisis at the Allianz Arena as fitness doubts over Manuel Neuer and Jamal Musiala threaten to derail Bayern’s clash against record-chasing Arsenal.

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Oct 20 • 2:12 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
The Secret to Life on Earth Was What Made It Stop Being a Poisonous Ice Ball

Ancient South African rocks expose the chain reaction behind life’s first real growth spurt.

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Oct 20 • 2:00 PM EDT • Science • popularmechanics.com
Sundar Pichai: Google’s Frontier Imperative, Compute Scarcity Dilemmas, Future AI Products and Businesses

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has little patience for doubts about Google’s willingness or capacity to compete at the frontier of AI. His company’s latest Gemini 4 Argon model — long-promised and recently delivered — beats OpenAI and Anthropic’s latest public models on coding, math, science, and knowledge-work benchmarks and has placed Google’s AI back among the world’s best. Amid chatter that Google was fine with good-enough lightweight ‘Flash’ models, Pichai pushed back hard against any suggestion that company is limiting its research ambitions. “We won’t do it any other way,” he told me in a Big Technology Podcast interview recorded this week at Google’s Mountain View headquarters. Pursuing cutting-edge research is costly for Google, requiring compute and chips that otherwise could be sold at a high markup by its cloud business. But Pichai said allocating resources to frontier AI development is “ground zero” for Google. “Our cloud business is at any given moment in time forgoing short-term revenues because we are making compute trade-offs to support frontier AI development,” Pichai told me. In our conversation, we discussed Argon (which Pichai says processed three times as many tokens as Gemini 3 in the 72 hours after launch), AI’s role in developing better models, the AI interface of the future, competition with OpenAI, Google’s partnerships with Anthropic and Apple, data centers in space, and the nature of his optimism. You can read the full conversation, lightly edited for length and clarity, below, or listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice. Alex Kantrowitz: Google is back at the frontier with Gemini 4 Argon, which beats OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s public models on benchmarks spanning coding, math, science, and knowledge work. The conventional wisdom was that Google had given up on the frontier to focus on fast, good-enough models for its products. That was wrong? Sundar Pichai: Very wrong. Look, we are so committed to being at the frontier. It’s in our DNA. We won’t do it any other way. We’ve been thinking about the AI frontier for well over a decade now. The frontier is very dynamic. It’s very competitive. It’s very exciting. I couldn’t be more pleased with how Argon has come together. We took our time with it. We made sure we tested it safely and deployed it carefully. We took a bit longer than our other models, given its capabilities. Across the board, be it for agentic work, knowledge work, coding, creative tasks, Argon is one of the really good frontier models. The first 72 hours since we launched, it’s almost up to 25 trillion tokens used, which is about three times what Gemini 3.0 had in the first 72 hours. And we are capacity constrained as we are serving it. Excited, but there are always areas….. You know, the frontier is very dynamic, and you have to keep evolving the models. There are areas which we can see we need to improve as well. We’ll be at work on all of that as well. Which areas? On any given model, Argon would be across the board better at everything if you just look even two months back. But the space is so evolving. Even on coding, for example, there are pockets where we know we need to do better, and there’s clear feedback. We’ll make it better. The argument for standard models is that they’re already good enough to build great products, with the frontier valuable only for certain tasks. Meta built Muse with good models rather than the best, and Google could put standard models into Maps, Gmail, and Search. Why isn’t that sufficient? It’s definitely not how I have thought about it at all. We are deeply committed to driving the state of the art and actually pushing where this technology can go, all the way from transformers. That’s a journey we’ve been on. You will see us continue to do that. When you’re at the frontier, you get an earlier look into the emerging capabilities, earlier than others, which helps you better prepare for the future. We are fortunate to have a wide set of opportunities across consumer and enterprise. Some of our cloud customers, for sure, want the model at the frontier. The frontier models will be better at developing the next set of models in an era of recursive self-improvement. I would argue it matters there. Internally, we have definitely seen a steep point of inflection by deploying Argon to our developers. It definitely tackles problems which our previous models could not do. Being at the frontier puts you at the innovation frontier and helps you drive that as well. There is room for models of all sizes and capabilities. That’s why we did Flash, Flash-Lite, etc. I agree with you that you can develop very good product experiences with not necessarily the most frontier model, because they tend to be slower and more expensive too. But we care about the Pareto frontier, and we’re committed to doing all of that. You said developing frontier models gives you a look at what’s coming. What do you see on the horizon? What makes this moment so exciting is you build something which you think is a culmination of months of work, and you put it out. You already see clear headroom ahead. We’ve all been working on these agentic, long-horizon capabilities, but clearly the frontier is going to have multiple of these agents working together to do things. That’s an example of an exciting paradigm underway. It’s also clear to me that users, both in consumer and enterprise, will have access to some multi-agent framework for them, working all the time doing things. It feels like a moment of infinite possibilities. Sergey Brin said one of Argon’s core innovations was relying more on the model to help develop the model. Yet incidents involving OpenAI’s bots breaking containment and Google’s bots accessing a site they shouldn’t have suggest these systems still aren’t perfectly aligned. Isn’t there reasonable cause for concern about accelerating toward recursive self-improvement? There are three parts to your question. Let’s first talk about RSI itself. You’re right, Sergey mentioned RSI being a critical contributor as we are developing Argon. But to be very clear, today, in a continuum, we are pretty far from the end state of RSI or something like that. The right way to describe it is you have RSI loops along with AI researchers in various aspects of model development. You almost have agents helping AI researchers in some automated way work together to build these models. It’s good to at least understand where we are today, and it’s super exciting. I expect that continuum to keep making progress as we go into next year. The second question is around safety. Security comes from defense in depth. You’re talking about alignment, obviously. We all are doing a lot of work to make sure the models are as aligned as possible. But it’s an active area of research, and there are clear gaps. That’s not the only thing we rely on. You have the work you do on alignment, but beyond that, we put a lot of effort into real-time monitoring as these models are working. Making sure you have good telemetry into what’s happening so that you can intervene in real time if you see unexpected behaviors. How you do that, the architecture with which you do that, how you make sure it’s all sandboxed and isolated in a way that it can continue doing its job during real-time monitoring — these are all areas of investment. Obviously, when we deploy these models, giving customers, enterprises, control, both with real-time monitoring, but their ability to decide where they deploy, what type of data which models ever have access to, etc. All that work is very, very important, and we are doing a lot of that. As an industry, we need to constantly up our game and take the time to do all this stuff, including dedicating the compute required to make sure you can safely deploy these models. The third part is: Is it all enough? This is why there are a lot of conversations in the industry, and I think it’s reasonable to be worried. The right way to approach something you worry about is early on thinking about what more we can do. As an industry, you’re definitely seeing increased levels of work on alignment, testing for safety, etc., as we deploy these models. The next step would be developing better standards so there are cross-industry standards of how we do these things, including the ability to evaluate using independent evaluators. If you look at areas like financial controls, we have accounting standards, we have independent auditors. Those are all the next natural steps for us as an industry to work toward, and regulation will end up playing a role as we go through all of that as well. Google pursues both language models and world models, while some other AI companies like OpenAI have focused more heavily on LLMs as the path to AGI. Why is world-model research important to you? As humans, you obviously perceive the world around you, and you’re taking all those inputs. Making sure these models are able to understand the laws of physics, simulate the world in high fidelity. All that, I think, are key enabling blocks for intelligence. We are working across all possible applications of this. Take an area like robotics. It’s not an accident: If you look at embodied reasoning benchmarks, Argon is state of the art. That all comes from our experience building world models. Inherently, I would expect there will be architectures which will converge all of this in the future. But for us, we view this as, today, this jagged frontier that is intelligence. We want to be at the frontier of all the possible approaches, and that will help us both drive better research, better insights, and develop a much better AGI model, is how we think about it. Some people argue Google should focus on selling its computing resources rather than using them for AI research. Cloud wants to sell compute at a high markup, while researchers need a very big computer to build the best models. How do you balance those demands? Ground zero for us is making sure we are investing in the compute that’s needed to be at the AI frontier. In 2015, I set the company to be AI-first. AI is that key horizontal ingredient across everything we do, all the way from Search to Cloud to Waymo. That is ground zero for us, making sure both for research and developing the models that we have enough compute needed. Beyond that, we have these independent businesses which each have their own long-range plans. They’re using those long-range plans to project forward, and we plan for compute for all of them. The cloud team, they have a business and they have a projection and they have demand signals. They have committed contracts. With that help, we can plan on a long-term compute trajectory for them. We’re fortunate to have this wide set of opportunities. There’s no company in the world which isn’t making trade-offs at any given moment in time. But the first principles we operate on is making sure we have enough compute to invest in the frontier, and that’s non-negotiable, and everything else works on top. Remember, we are building our own compute, our own data centers. There are long lead times. The compute we have today is a function of decisions I made in 2024. Even if you think back to a year from today, last year the agentic coding takeoff hadn’t happened. Today, obviously, when you sit and look at anything, everyone is short—not just us, other companies—and everyone wishes you had two times what you had planned for. That comes with the territory. At any given moment in time, we are planning for what we would need two to three years out in the future. You’re going to find some decisions you make may look suboptimal two years out, depending on where the state of the art is. I don’t spend too much time thinking about it. The way I think about compute allocation is making sure Google DeepMind, both for research and frontier model development, is cutting edge in terms of compute access. After that, we plan for all our businesses. It’s great we can provide our compute to other people too, like we have done. It allows us to scale that up, get real tests for it in the widest application set possible, test it in the real world, and make sure we are at the cutting edge of technology at every layer of our AI stack as well. Ben Horowitz relayed on a podcast that Andy Jassy had said compute was sold out until 2028. Are you seeing the same thing? If today a customer is coming out and asking us for compute in ’27, that is incredibly difficult to do. Even last year we went out and leased some short-term compute to accommodate some customers and help them out. But yes, we are all dealing with similar timelines. Every major technology shift seems to involve overbuilding, from railroads to fiber. Do you think that’s happening here? It depends on the time frames you’re looking at. This level of build, if I take a long enough time frame, it makes complete sense to me. We are at early stages of the most consequential technology ever, and this is not like fiber. It’s not dark. We are using it. We are capacity constrained on a daily basis. The applications, the underlying technology is improving rapidly. But running a company, the way I work through the moment is you look at your demand signals. You look at your committed revenue opportunities that you’re getting in the form of contracts. You balance that with the underlying technical capability, or internally you balance how we are using it internally, the model trajectories. Based on all that, you take a disciplined approach—a confident, aggressive, but disciplined approach—to plan out compute. But when you talk about the broader economy as a whole, you’re having people operate with various levels of risk. I focus on what I can control as a company and plan through it. If your question is, can there be an overbuild? Yes, because you can have some constrained components. Remember, what matters is a set of everything you need to build out that compute. Memory, electricity, electricians…. Land. Like 2,000 components or more. You could get constrained at some point. There could be things which cause bottlenecks, and then you could have overbuilds. There could be external shocks to the economy. There are macro risks. All that is possible at any given time. But am I confident that the compute we are planning for, we will have uses for it given enough time? Absolutely, yes. I was in the room when you said AI would be as profound as fire and electricity. If you believe that, shouldn’t you give researchers the biggest possible computer, even at the expense of today’s cloud profits? We’re all doing some form of that. Our cloud business is at any given moment in time forgoing short-term revenues because we are making compute trade-offs to support frontier AI development. What you’re seeing is true already. But you want to be thoughtful. Even our AI researchers have some constraints, which are also good. That’s what inspires creativity. That’s what helps you come up with a more efficient algorithmic breakthrough, maybe to use less memory. What we are committed to is to invest what’s needed to stay at the frontier. OpenAI President Greg Brockman told me a few months ago that the ideal AI product might have no interface at all—just as natural as conversation. What do you think the interface looks like in the age of AI? Computing historically has been humans adapting to computing. With AI, it’ll be the other way around. The technology will adapt seamlessly to how humans live and go about their day-to-day life. You want to be able to speak to that AI when you want to. It has context. It can be persistently running somewhere, give you continuity. You’re not dealing with a lot of complexity. It’s natural. All that makes sense to me. That doesn’t mean it won’t have any interface, however. Nowadays, even on my phone, Gemini voice models are so good. I can just press the microphone button. I can just ramble. That’s why we call it Rambler. I can ramble. It intelligently corrects with my personal context. Even my friends’ names, weird names, it gets it right, even if it first guesses it wrong. It’s amazing. I’m not going in, backspacing, editing once I finish saying it. It’s remarkable how good it’s gotten. But there are going to be moments you will need an interface. You may want to entertain yourself. You may want to watch a video. You may ask your AI to create something, and you want to watch it, consume it. The way I think about it is, you want it to be as seamless and as natural as possible, and that you are not doing the hard work adapting to whatever the interface is. The technology is adapting to how you’re working at any given moment in time. When I asked Sam Altman about competition from Google, he argued that OpenAI was building AI-native products and implied Google was bolting AI onto existing ones. Do you accept that framing, and can a “bolt-on” compete with an AI-native product? First of all, it’s a very dynamic moment. We are all pushing each other. OpenAI has pushed us as a company too. This is not just we are doing something to them. Far from it. Yes, Google went into its own version of a code red too. In the AI moment, all of us have to respond with varying levels of urgency at any given moment in time. We are constantly building new products as well. Gemini was built from the ground up as a product—the Gemini app I’m talking about. Or tomorrow, as all of us are adapting to agents, are you bolting agents onto ChatGPT, or are they building it natively? How would you think about that? You can always put these questions back. I don’t think of it that way. I think of it as you want to build world-class product experiences that are AI-native and they are winning. Some of it is adapting products, some of it is rethinking new experiences. They will all be part of how you approach this moment. How do you expect to make money from these AI interfaces? If an agent recommends a product and I buy it, should it take a cut of the sale, even if that’s disclosed? I’m going to put enterprise aside. Consumers are going to increasingly value this technology. Take software developers today. Developers are willing to pay for these coding models because it really helps make them more productive. Nobody would want to code the way they were coding three years ago, or even the same time last year. When you’re delivering value, there’s value to be had. I’ve never seen examples where consumer products really scale to billions of users, where people are using it intensely, and haven’t had monetization to go along with it. If you’re providing value to people, there is inherent value to be had. The nature of it may change. You’re asking a scenario in which agents are doing stuff for you. At the end of the day, you will have commercial needs. The agents need to fulfill those commercial needs. The providers on the other side are going to see value in that. There’s going to be some mechanism by which it gets fleshed out. That’s what an efficient system does. But what matters is that you’re building those world-class consumer experiences. I promised myself one product feature request: Can you make Gemini-powered search in Gmail as good as searching Gmail through ChatGPT? What’s going on here? One of the exciting things we announced recently is the unified Gemini agent for enterprise, and we’re bringing that to consumers. These are persistent agents which run 24/7 in the cloud. We’re spinning up a micro VM effectively for every query, and from the runtime, the harness, the model—it’s all a headless service. It’ll work everywhere, and it has your context with you. You can address this agent whether you’re in Workspace, in Search, in Gemini. Agents are going to drive this unification from a customer experience, which people are looking for. When you have a broad product portfolio and you’re moving forward fast, there are always areas where you’re moving forward faster than some other areas. That’s valid feedback. But we are putting a lot of time and effort into making sure, as we build out our agentic experience, that unification and that capability works well across all these services. People have asked where Google’s equivalent of Muse or Dots is. Do you anticipate creating a new product to compete with them? Our goal with Gemini is to be a personal, proactive, and powerful assistant. That’s what we are working toward. You saw us describe the early versions of it at Google I/O this year with Spark. Effectively, already, if you open the Gemini app as a Pro or an Ultra user, you see Chat and Task, and they start giving you that agentic experience. With Argon now, that capability is dramatically accelerated. What we announced recently in our enterprise event, we are bringing that to consumers as well. Soon in Gemini, you will be able to ask something, and it’s a continuum. You don’t need to think about whether you’re asking a chat or an agentic task. It’ll just automatically do the right thing, and it can work persistently in the background securely and get things done for you. Already, empirically, when I look at what’s coming into Gemini in our app, last year you would have tagged them and most of them would have been chats. But a steadily growing percentage is already agentic tasks in Gemini. Yes, we are going to bring personal agents to our consumers. It’ll work in the Gemini app. It’ll work in Google Search. It’ll work in Gmail. You can address it, call it, etc. We want to make sure we’re getting it right. It’ll be powered by Argon, and we are very excited to bring it to our users. Google has invested and committed tens of billions of dollars to Anthropic. What do you see in Dario Amodei that makes you want such a deep investment and partnership? Very early on, when we looked at the founding team of Anthropic, it was very clear to us this was a world-class team which was involved in some of the earliest GPT models. We were quickly able to assess that they would be at the frontier. We’ve always tried to identify and partner with companies which would be at the cutting edge of technology. We’ve done that with SpaceX. We’ve done that with Anthropic. That’s what we saw, and we had a chance to partner. Is your partnership with Apple to license Gemini for Siri expanding, contracting, or standing still? For both us and Apple, that partnership was about translating the capabilities of AI into better experiences for users. I thought Apple has done a phenomenal job of incorporating—they customize these models and build it into Siri—and it’s been great to see the reception. We are committed to doing more. You’re going to do more with them? There’s nothing specific to comment, but it’s a partnership. It’s working well. What have you learned so far about the feasibility of data centers in space? It’s a very exciting project. Projects like this remind me—I still recall that moment in the desert for the DARPA Grand Challenge, watching the Stanley car compete in it, which ended up being the basis for Waymo. With all these technologies, you’re at a moment in time where it looks a bit like sci-fi, but 10 to 20 years down the line, it’s actually working in a meaningful way. I feel the same in space. We’ve always believed in betting big on these technologies. Quantum has been a great example of it. We’re probably 10 years into the journey. Waymo, we are almost 20 years into the journey. Space, we are two to three years into the journey. It’s clear to me that it’s an approach which will make a lot of sense in the future. Being in sub-synchronous orbits with 24/7 access to the most abundant form of energy we have access to will make a lot of sense for this exponential increase in compute that we are going to need. Having said that, this is a challenging project. The team has disciplined milestones. It was a super exciting milestone to send the TPUs up to space. Sometime, as we are speaking, we are expecting a “hello world” moment from them. I look forward to seeing that happen, and we’ll continue investing here too. You previously said 25% of the code written within Google was written by AI. What’s the number today? That number in our world today is meaningless in the sense that every part of what we now touch is influenced by AI deeply. What we are tracking with Argon, for example, it’s been a point of inflection. People are using Argon to really go tackle complex projects, including projects which affect millions of lines of code. In the four weeks since we have launched Argon, we have seen a 30% increase in CLs, and more importantly, almost a similar increase—a one-third decrease in rollbacks. People are writing code more productively and better code with it. We are tracking it with newer metrics now. How are you dealing with opposition to data centers? If you can’t build in the U.S. the way you want to, where else do you go? We’re very committed to building our data centers very responsibly. When I look at our largest data centers in some of the communities where we have been the longest, I visit them, I talk to people. There are people who come and tell us their kids have gone to college because of our investments in these communities, and we’ve grown in those communities. To me, this is about doing it right. Engaging with the communities early, doing it transparently. We are committed to making sure we are bringing incremental power, and we cover 100% of the cost of our power needs for these projects. It’s understanding the impact on neighborhoods and making sure you’re working thoroughly to address them. Done rightly, you can continue making progress. But we are constantly taking feedback into account. I do worry not everyone operates the same way. People have been surprised by data centers showing up in their backyard. Those are all important. As an industry, we should continue to do better. But part of the reason, in a 20-year time frame, we are thinking about things like data centers in space is making sure we are able to put these data centers where maybe the trade-offs will be different. What unproven area of AI is Google working hardest to crack? Is it continual learning—getting models to keep updating after release—or something else? There are multiple parallel paths. You saw with Argon we have a million output tokens. With our Gemini models early on, we had a one-million context window on the input side. These are all examples of breakthroughs we are constantly working on. How do you think about synthetic data? How do you think about continual learning? How do you think about more efficient architectures? We do dedicate a meaningful percentage of our compute to these research bets too. It always goes hand in hand, including our world models. Those are all bets we are placing. Sometimes, as part of these bets, there are ideas that emerge which just make their way into the mainline models. Maybe we don’t fully talk about it, but we have multiple steps in these areas. Working in technology requires optimism that building something will improve the world, but those bets can leave real consequences when they fail. I recently returned to a town in El Salvador where enthusiasm for Bitcoin had given way to unfinished construction and something resembling a ghost town. How do you maintain the optimism you spoke about in your Stanford commencement address while accounting for those risks? I genuinely have a deep conviction that improving technology and improving access to technology makes people’s lives better. It’s been my personal experience in my life, out of which comes that deep conviction, optimism. But with that, I’ve always felt humanity’s journey is always about working hard to harness that technology to make it work well for society. The optimism is not an optimism that you just build whatever you want, whenever. You work hard to make sure you’re building technology in the service of humanity, to make the human condition better. That’s got to be the defining goal as we are approaching it. With that framework, I’m very, very optimistic. We are in very early stages of the kind of progress that we are going to see on many areas. We’re all talking about areas like healthcare. A lot of the progress is ahead. The ability to make things in a fundamentally cheaper way on many things where things have been getting expensive for a long, long time, discovering new materials, etc., which really bend the curve—it’s tough to step today and understand the impact of all that, but they’re going to be very profound. I’m very optimistic, but we have to be rightfully concerned about all the ways this technology can go wrong. Sundar, I know you don’t do many of these. Thank you. Thanks, Alex. Appreciate it.

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ID@XBOX x IGN Showcase Recap: All the News and Announcements

We've just wrapped up another fantastic ID@XBOX and IGN Showcase, bringing the latest news and updates on many brilliant indie titles heading to XBOX.

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Oct 20 • 1:45 PM EDT • Technology • news.xbox.com
DreamWorks Shrek 2 Remastered announced for PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, Switch, and PC

Aspyr has announced DreamWorks Shrek 2 Remastered for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, Switch, and PC (Steam, Epic Games Store). It will launch on November 10 for $29.99.

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Oct 20 • 1:33 PM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
Google says Chrome’s Safe Browsing Enhanced Protection mode makes users 10x safer

Chrome today announced the latest features for Safe Browsing Enhanced Protection. Google says this mode makes users ten times safe...

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Oct 20 • 1:00 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com
Maximus to acquire IT contractor for $660M

Tysons government contractor Maximus announced Monday that it plans to acquire Agile Defense for $660 million in cash.

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Oct 20 • 12:52 PM EDT • Business • virginiabusiness.com
Democrats jump into Mississippi Sente race

Senate Majority PAC announced it is launching a new ad campaign in Mississippi, where Democrat Scott Colom is challenging GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.

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Oct 20 • 12:48 PM EDT • Politics • nbcnews.com
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Zurich names North America energy leaders

Zurich North America on Tuesday announced four executive appointments within its U.S. energy business.

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Oct 20 • 12:48 PM EDT • Business • businessinsurance.com
Nintendo announces Halloween 2026 sale for Switch 2 and Switch

Nintendo just started a new Halloween 2026 sale for Switch 2 and Switch, and here's the full list of deals.

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Oct 20 • 12:38 PM EDT • Technology • nintendoeverything.com
NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst and Queens Public Library Expand Partnership to Bring Health Education and Library Resources to Queens Residents

Elmhurst, NY – NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst and Queens Public Library (QPL) today announced an expanded series of collaborative programs designed to

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Oct 20 • 12:32 PM EDT • Health • nychealthandhospitals.org
AMD Announces FSR 4.1 for Xbox Series X/S, Z2 Extreme and Z2A Handhelds, RX 6000 GPUs and More

Plus: FSR 4 will soon support Vulkan games.

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Oct 20 • 12:28 PM EDT • Technology • digitalfoundry.net
Christina Applegate, a leading MS advocate, says doctors found she doesn’t have the disease after all

In her podcast about living with multiple sclerosis, the actor announced she’s actually been living with some other, unknown condition.

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Oct 20 • 12:14 PM EDT • Entertainment • cnn.com
Axena Health Named Finalist for the Digital Health Hub Foundation - Digital Health & AI Awards 2026 at HLTH

NEWTON, Mass., October 20, 2026--Axena Health, Inc. (Axena Health), a women’s health company redefining the standard of care for pelvic health conditions through clinically proven, non-invasive treatments, today announced it has been named a finalist for the Digital Health Hub Foundation – Digital Health & AI Awards 2026 at HLTH. Selected from a pool of more than 1,300 participating companies across all tracks and categories, Axena Health is recognized in the Best in Class Track for Women’s and

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Oct 20 • 11:59 AM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com
First Clade I Mpox case reported in Clark County resident

The Southern Nevada Health District announced Tuesday the first confirmed case of Clade I Mpox in a Clark County resident.

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Oct 20 • 11:57 AM EDT • Health • fox5vegas.com
NED and Partners Launch October 30 Coalition, Issue Global Call for Release of Political Prisoners

NED and partner organizations announce the formation of the October 30 Coalition and released a joint statement to rally support for political prisoners and champion their freedom.

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Oct 20 • 11:36 AM EDT • Politics • ned.org
Giants are releasing running back Najee Harris, AP source says

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Giants are releasing running back Najee Harris, according to a person with knowledge of the decision.The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Tuesday because the move, which was first reported by NFL Network, had not been announced.

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Oct 20 • 11:29 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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
Johnson’s winning coalition fractures as two SEIU locals back Giannoulias

Mayor Brandon Johnson had all three SEIU locals in 2023, but they broke from his coalition after he took office

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Oct 20 • 11:19 AM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com
BBC closures make business sense, but far more savings are needed, says Katie Razzall

The BBC announced it will close its BBC Three, BBC Scotland and Radio 4 Extra broadcast channels.

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Oct 20 • 11:17 AM EDT • Business • yahoo.com
Announcers revealed for Patriots' Week 7 matchup against Bears

The announcers have been revealed for the New England Patriots' Week 7 game against the Chicago Bears on Thursday.

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Oct 20 • 11:16 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Perot Museum announces $185 million expansion, plans outdoor science center in downtown Dallas

A 4-acre downtown Dallas parking lot could become an outdoor science center with exhibits, water features, and gardens, with a 2028 opening goal.

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Oct 20 • 11:13 AM EDT • Science • nbcdfw.com