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Prince Harry says return to U.K. was to be 'closer to my family'

Prince Harry spoke out in a recent interview about his return to the United Kingdom months after he and wife Meghan Markle departed Montecito.

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Oct 20 • 8:02 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Bengals Set to Face Former Teammate This Week in Baltimore

The Bengals will face a familiar foe in Baltimore as former Cincinnati edge rusher Trey Hendrickson looks to make an impact against his former team after returning from injury.

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Oct 20 • 7:49 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Mental health support available for San Diego service members and their families

After USS Abraham Lincoln's return to San Diego, service members and families can access mental health resources through Veterans Village San Diego.

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Oct 20 • 7:39 PM EDT • Health • nbcsandiego.com
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AMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) Shares Climbed, What Is Driving Attention Now?

AMC Entertainment Holdings (AMC) reported a strong Q2 earnings surprise, with revenue up 14.2% year on year and the stock climbing 48.7% since the report. AMC Entertainment Holdings has leaned into this momentum, with a 30-day share price return of 14.07% and a 90-day move of 36.89%, supported by the recent debt refinancing and the launch of its AMC Movie Trivia Game Show mobile app. The year-to-date share price return of 91.30% contrasts sharply with a 3-year total shareholder return that...

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Oct 20 • 7:14 PM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
How much does Wurstfest cost in New Braundels?

Wurstfest returns November 6-15 with German food, live music and ticket prices that vary by day.

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Oct 20 • 7:08 PM EDT • Entertainment • mysanantonio.com
Packers OC Makes Feelings Clear on Josh Jacobs Return

Green Bay Packers OC Adam Stenavich didn't mince words when asked about RB Josh Jacobs' return. The post Packers OC Makes Feelings Clear on Josh Jacobs Return appeared first on HEAVY.

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Oct 20 • 5:12 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Palmetto Sports Daily: Big tests ahead for Gamecocks, Tigers

PSD returns with plenty from another “Talkin’ Tuesday” as Clemson and South Carolina prep for huge conference matchups this weekend.

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Oct 20 • 4:46 PM EDT • Sports • wistv.com
Frost: UCF Has 'Awesome Opportunity' Against No. 2 BYU

Coming off a crucial bye week, the Knights look to upend the surging Cougars in a historic Homecoming clash featuring potential quarterback returns and defensive reinforcements.

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Oct 20 • 4:20 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Northwestern's Robert Fitzgerald Earns Multiple All-American Honors

Northwestern safety Robert Fitzgerald earns first-team midseason All-American honors from On3 and AP as the Wildcats await their defensive leader's return from injury.

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Oct 20 • 4:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Kansas to ‘Carry on Wayward Son’ at Hard Rock Feb. 4

With a music catalog that continues to resonate with generations of fans, classic rock band Kansas is making its return to the Hard Rock Live stage inside Hard Rock Hotel

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Oct 20 • 4:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • cherokeephoenix.org
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
Reds Executive Has Message as Popular Tour Returns in 2027

The Savannah Bananas are coming back to Great American Ball Park for a third straight summer.

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Oct 20 • 2:31 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Roper Mountain Science Center star returns to Greenville skyline

The Roper Mountain Science Center star has returned to its pedestal.

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Oct 20 • 2:31 PM EDT • Science • wyff4.com
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Roeper alum returns to educate after long career in science

BIRMINGHAM — Shannon Cass-Calay, 1988 graduate of The Roeper School, said it was always a life goal to return to the school as an educator.

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Oct 20 • 2:18 PM EDT • Science • candgnews.com
Dan Campbell Delivers Encouraging Kerby Joseph Injury Update

Dan Campbell says he expects Kerby Joseph to play for the Detroit Lions this season, but the All-Pro safety still has no return timeline.

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Oct 20 • 2:17 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Trump returning to Georgia as political heavyweights flood state ahead of election

Just over a week after rallying supporters in northwest Georgia, President Donald Trump will return to Georgia on Saturday for an appearance in Macon.

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Oct 20 • 2:12 PM EDT • Politics • walb.com
Tradition! DMTC returns to ‘Fiddler’

Davis Musical Theatre Company will present a special 60 min adaptation of the nine-time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, “Fiddler on the Roof Sr.” The show follows Tevye the milkman as

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Oct 20 • 2:05 PM EDT • Entertainment • davisenterprise.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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Kenny Atkinson Makes Candid Admission About Mario Hezonja’s Cavaliers Role

Kenny Atkinson says Cleveland is still learning how Mario Hezonja fits and does not want to put the returning NBA veteran in a box.

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Oct 20 • 1:24 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Caitlin Clark joins Taylor Swift at Chiefs game

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

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Oct 20 • 1:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Country star Thomas Rhett returning to Omaha for CHI Health Center show

Thomas Rhett will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24 at the CHI Health Center in Omaha.

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AI Had Better Work Out

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Carrot Top returns to Vegas stage with dark jokes 1 month after suicide attempt

Carrot Top was met with love, cheers, and a standing ovation while returning to his Las Vegas residency one month after his sudden hospitalization.

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EXCLUSIVE: SANTOS BRAVOS to return to NYC for one-night-only event at The Paley Museum

SANTOS BRAVOS will appear at The Paley Museum on Nov. 4 for a live music and storytelling event, amNewYork has exclusively learned.

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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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Christian Benford’s play has returned to normal in Bills defense

The Bills CB1 is back to doing normal CB1 things

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Jeremy Renner’s “Mayor of Kingstown” gets final season premiere date: A first look at season 5

The Paramount+ show will return next year.

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Prince Harry reveals real reasons for UK return

LONDON – Prince Harry is finally revealing why he returned to Britain.

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Oct 20 • 10:42 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
Bat Beauty Contest returns October 24

Who will take ‘Hoary Potter’s’ crown?

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Review: Final Fantasy Resonance (PS5) - Square's Series Returns to Its Roots to Fantastic Effect

Crystal clear

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Review: Nintendo Switch Sports Resort (Switch 2) - A Winning Return To Wuhu

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Western Way Entertainment brings trick riding, mounted shooting to ABAC PCA Pro Rodeo

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

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Biotech firm Colossal set to return extinct bird’s egg to New Zealand

The biotech firm trying to bring extinct species back to life, Colossal Biosciences Inc., will return an egg from the flightless moa to its native New Zealand.

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Christina Applegate Reveals She Was Misdiagnosed With MS: ‘I’m Back at Square One’ and It’s a ‘Mindf—’

Christina Applegate returned to her podcast, “MeSsy,” on Tuesday with some shocking news: She was misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis. After taking a break from the podcast for seven months due to he...

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'DWTS' Dedication Night: What each couple will dance to Tuesday night

Dancing with the Stars returns Tuesday night, with the 10 remaining couples participating in the always emotional Dedication Night. The evening allows the celebrity dancers to perform for someone or something important to them, often featuring guest appearances.

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How should the Detroit Lions handle Cade Mays’ return?

A look at the options for how the Detroit Lions can handle the return of Cade Mays to center despite Juice Scruggs strong play.

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Midseason report card grade for USC football special teams

Trent Mosley, in the return game alone (not counting what he does as a receiver), takes the Trojans' special teams unit to the next level

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3 reasons why healthcare organizations ditch tech vendors

Health plans and providers are increasingly inking performance-based contracts with digital health companies to ensure returns on their investment.

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Yankees news: Teruaki Sato will officially be posted

Sato will officially be posted this offseason; Boone returns as skipper for 2027; Wells identifies foul tips as potential cause of headaches.

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Michel Sanchez Provides Injury Update On Ajax Defender Daley Blind

Michel Sanchez has revealed that Daley Blind is nearing a return to action.

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After years of backlash, Apu returns to 'The Simpsons' with a South Asian voice

The Halloween-themed episodes of “The Simpsons” have always been a treat of spooky stand-alone storylines | KNX News 1070 AM

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ALCS MVP Peralta Returning to Face Brewers in World Series

It has been less than a year since the Milwaukee Brewers traded Freddy Peralta. Now, he is going to face them in the World Series.

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COMCARE provides mental health support at Stryker Sports Complex as teams return to field

“It can be really hard to go to the scene of a trauma, and we want to make sure people feel safe," said the director of COMCARE.

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KaVontae Turpin unlikely to play in Week 7

Dallas Cowboys wide receiver/kick returner KaVontae Turpin appears unlikely to play in Week 7 against the Philadelphia Eagles

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Oct 19 • 9:02 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Hopeful DeMarvion Overshown can return in Week 7

Dallas Cowboys linebacker DeMarvion Overshown might be able to return in Week 7 against the Philadelphia Eagles

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Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory open house returns with record turnout as it navigates rocky funding future

Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory held its annual open house on Saturday, opening its doors in Palisades, New York, to more than 2,500 visitors for a day of lab tours, lectures, and hands-on science exhibits amid an uncertain time for science funding.

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Blues Defenseman Gets Encouraging Injury Update

Logan Mailloux underwent right-hand surgery at the end of September after a preseason game against the Chicago Blackhawks. The St. Louis Blues defenseman fought Cole Smith in the first period of the Blues’ final preseason game. Mailloux was set to be reevaluated in eight weeks after the surgery. That would put his potential return date […] The post Blues Defenseman Gets Encouraging Injury Update appeared first on HEAVY.

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Return of Josh Jacobs should help Packers boost rushing attack

But how much the three-time Pro Bowl running back will contribute right away remains uncertain.

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Punahou Alumni Share Insights on Public Service and Hawaiʻi Politics

Punahou alumni State Rep. Mike Lee ’00 and State Rep. Jackson Sayama ’15 returned to campus on Oct. 14

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Dan Campbell Reveals Surprising Possibility for Lions Offensive Line

The return of Cade Mays could create an unexpected opportunity for Juice Scruggs. Dan Campbell is considering ways to keep both offensive linemen involved as Detroit prepares for Green Bay.

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Aaron Boone to return as Yankees manager in 2027

The New York Yankees have confirmed that Aaron Boone will retain his position as manager for the 2027 season.

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Oct 19 • 5:44 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Jon Stewart to host “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central through 2028

The comedian-political commentator returned to the program in 2024, after his replacement, Trevor Noah, left to focus on his stand-up career.

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Sneaky politics? Or honest mistake? Election mailer lands Clay GOP in hot water

A letter from the Clay Republican Committee used a return address from the Onondaga County Board of Elections.

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Oct 19 • 4:06 PM EDT • Politics • syracuse.com
PHOTO GALLERY: Via Arte chalks up another fun event

Via Arte returned to The Marketplace over the weekend for a two-day event showcasing the talent of mostly local artists.

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Oct 19 • 3:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • bakersfield.com
'Utica Boo!' Returns to Oneida County History Center

A local mystery play is returning to the stage.

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Oct 19 • 11:03 AM EDT • Entertainment • wktv.com
Does Florida, Jon Sumrall Have a Midseason Quarterback Battle?

Sophomore Tramell Jones Jr. sparked a massive upset over Texas, leaving Jon Sumrall with a high-stakes decision between his dynamic dual-threat backup and returning starter Aaron Philo.

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Katie Hensien Returns to Sölden With Unfinished Business

Katie Hensien, Sölden 2025, GEPA picturesAfter an injury interrupted another promising World Cup season, the Stifel U.S. Ski Team veteran returns to the Rettenbach Glacier healthy, confident, and hungry for more.In October 2024, Katie Hensien pushed out of the starting gate at

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'The Simpsons' shocks with return of Apu after controversy

Apu is back on "The Simpsons." In the animated series' latest episode, the character spoke for the first time in almost 10 years.

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Oct 19 • 10:34 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
Sangertown Square's Trick-or-Treat Street Returns

Families can enjoy an early Halloween celebration at Sangertown Square with the annual Trick-or-Treat Street event.

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Oct 19 • 10:18 AM EDT • Entertainment • wktv.com
Duchess Meghan is reading 'a lot of scripts' as she plans acting return

LONDON – Returning to acting is still a priority for Duchess Meghan.

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Oct 19 • 9:35 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
Japan's sample return mission to Phobos may also collect some Mars dust

Japan’s MMX mission will be the first to the moons of Mars and it aims to bring back precious rock samples — perhaps even indirectly from Mars.

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Oct 19 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencenews.org
Victoria's Secret Fashion Show's biggest moments, including that surprise

LOS ANGELES – The Angels returned to Los Angeles on Sunday, bringing star power, dramatic wings, history-making bling and a big surprise to the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show after previously

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Shyne on his return to music, Belize politics and his next chapter

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New TV shows to watch this week: Tune in to ‘Eternally Yours’ on CBS, stream ‘Yaga’ on AMC+ and revisit ‘Servant’ on Apple TV

Plus, Connie Britton plays a mom under suspicion in "Phony," and "The Diplomat" returns for Season 4.

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Sanrio, F1 Academy Bring Hello Kitty Back to Las Vegas

Hello Kitty and Friends will return to Las Vegas this November for the F1 Academy season finale, featuring a fan zone, cafe takeovers and merchandise.

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Novak Djokovic Set for Basel Return After 15 Years

24-time Major champion Novak Djokovic is all set to make a surprise addition to his season this year. The Serbian, who won his 102nd ATP Tour title in Beijing a couple of weeks ago, has announced that he will be taking part in the ATP 500 in Basel later this month, marking his return to …

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Yankees news: Bombers showed past interest in Padres’ reliever

Yankees eyed Jeremiah Estrada in the past; third base remains a problem; which free agents are likely to return?

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Anxiety about reinjury can derail a return to sports

Psychological factors are critical in bouncing back from a sports injury. Researchers find that many people cleared to play don't actually return to sports.

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Players on Steam so far seem delighted with Modern Warfare 4's campaign, making it one of the most well-received Call of Dutys in recent history

Modern Warfare 4 may signal Call of Duty's return to form, at least judging by player sentiment on Steam so far.

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Ghosts return to walk the streets of New Bern

Ghosts will be walking the streets of New Bern for the 36th year as the annual Ghostwalk returns with a new theme to continue the Historical Society’s celebration of America’s

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NFL Week 6 INSTANT Reactions: Rams' complete collapse, Caleb Williams' dominant return
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Liwa International Festival 2027 Returns to Al Dhafra Region with New Experiences, Global Entertainment and More to Discover

/PRNewswire/ -- Liwa International Festival 2027 (Liwa 2027), Al Dhafra Region's flagship winter celebration, will return from 11 December 2026 to 2 January...

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Victoria's Secret Fashion Show struts through the seasons in Los Angeles

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, Oct 15 (Reuters) - The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show returned to Los Angeles on Sunday with a celebration of the changing seasons, as the brand's

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As Michigan flu vaccinations drop, health risks increase

LANSING – Flu season is returning to Michigan as declining vaccination rates have become an important public health concern. Annual vaccinations help protect individuals from serious illness and reduce the risk of complications that can lead to hospitalization and death, medical experts say. However, fewer Michigan residents have been receiving flu vaccines in recent years, […]

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‘The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call’ Seasons 2 & 3 Production Confirmed — Ju Ji-hoon and the Team Return

Netflix has confirmed the production of Seasons 2 and 3 of its hit Korean medical series 'The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call'.

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Carrot Top shares positive message after reported suicide attempt, plans return to stage

Comedian Carrot Top recently broke his month-long silence to share a positive message following his reported suicide attempt. The Las Vegas-based performer, whose real name is Scott Thompson, was h…

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OBIC Business Consultants (TSE:4733) Stock Could Be 23% Overvalued On Cash Flow

OBIC Business Consultants has delivered a strong share price run in recent years, which naturally raises a question about what investors are paying for its underlying cash flows today. With a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) estimate available, the focus shifts to how its current price lines up with the cash the business is expected to generate over time. Over the past 5 years the stock has returned 78.1%. Anyone looking at OBIC Business Consultants now is effectively asking whether that kind of...

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Newsom announces mental health support for USS Abraham Lincoln sailors

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced expanded mental health support for Sailors and Marines returning to San Diego following a 321-day deployment on the USS Abraham Lincoln.

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Oct 18 • 5:10 PM EDT • Health • fox5sandiego.com
Canines on the Creek will return to downtown Frederick

The Francis Scott Key Lions Club will host its seventh annual Canines on the Creek from noon to 5 p.m. Oct. 24 at Carroll Creek Linear Park in downtown Frederick,

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A.J. Brown deserves patience despite disappointing return

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

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

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Returning samples from a Mars moon: Inside the science of Japan's bold MMX mission

MMX could be the first spacecraft to ever return from orbit around the Red Planet.

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Disney Villains Boo Buckets, VisionQuest, and Banana Ball Returns: This Week at TMSM

McDonald’s confirms Disney Villains Boo Buckets, VisionQuest premieres, Six Ravens opens at Disney Springs, and Banana Ball heads back to Disney World. Here’s everything you missed.

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Scientists Solve a Quantum Mystery Hidden Inside Crystals

Tiny flaws in crystals could become building blocks for quantum sensors, and scientists can now better predict how these imperfections lose energy. A laser can excite electrons at a tiny flaw in diamond or silicon carbide, but the energy does not always return as light. As the defect relaxes toward its lowest-energy, or ground, state,

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Scientists discover a way to reverse coral bleaching at record speed

For the first time, scientists have observed bleached corals on the brink of death fully recover through brief contact with healthy clones. Ghostly white corals returned to full health in a laboratory ...

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Live Nation Entertainment (LYV) Could Be 16% Undervalued As It Resets Its Debt Clock

Live Nation Entertainment (LYV) has just priced a sizeable dual currency bond offering that reshapes its debt calendar. Fresh 2032 USD and euro notes are earmarked to redeem 2027 secured bonds and support broader financing needs. Against this refinancing backdrop, Live Nation Entertainment’s share price has moved to $170.51, with a 30-day share price return of 2.03% and a year-to-date share price gain of 17.34%. The 3-year total shareholder return of 113.27% points to longer term momentum...

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How to Watch Grimsburg Season 3, Episode 3

Grimsburg is back after a week off with Season 3, Episode 3, "Breaking Badly." Jon Hamm returns to Grimsburg as Detective Marvin Flute to solve the town's

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Carrot Top breaks silence 1 month after reported suicide attempt: ‘Thank you for being there for me’

The prop comedian also revealed when he will make his return to the Las Vegas Strip to continue his residency at Luxor Hotel & Casino.

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PALM CARD: For suburban congressman, hate hits home

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Georgia-Carolina State Fair returns to downtown

The Georgia-Carolina State Fair returns downtown this week with rides, entertainment, and food.

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Caleb Williams Injury Update: Bears QB’s Week 6 Status Revealed

Caleb Williams missed the past three games with a hamstring injury, but the Chicago Bears franchise quarterback will make his return to the field in Week 6. Originally selected with the first-overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, the USC product was widely believed to be a generational prospect coming out of college. While he …

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Oct 18 • 7:04 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Prague Science Film Fest brings world premieres and fresh perspectives

The free Prague festival returns Oct. 19-22 with science documentary premieres, filmmaker discussions, outdoor cinema and an unusual conference.

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Oct 18 • 6:55 AM EDT • Science • praguereporter.com
Is Universal Health Services (UHS) Fairly Valued Or Is More Upside Left?

Universal Health Services: Stock Performance Snapshot With no single headline event driving trading, Universal Health Services (UHS) has been moving on recent performance data, including a last close of US$185.10 and mixed short and longer term returns. Over the past week the share price gained 4.4%. The move builds on a gain of 4.8% over the past month and 22.9% over the past 3 months, set against a year to date decline of 15.8%. For investors tracking the bigger picture, Universal Health...

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Oct 18 • 6:33 AM EDT • Health • simplywall.st
He retired after student-loan forgiveness. Then his payments returned.

A 71-year-old student-loan borrower got notified that he was approved for Public Service Loan Forgiveness. Now, he's fighting to keep that relief.

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Oct 18 • 6:00 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Springfield barbecue spot re-opens for business after fire

This week in 417 foodie news, a barbecue spot returns, a food truck goes up for sale and a speakeasy gets in the Halloween spirit. Plus, 7 Brew expands to another Ozarks town.

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Oct 18 • 5:05 AM EDT • Business • kansascity.com
Brunswick County fair returns with rides and fun

The Brunswick County Agricultural Fair and Expo is coming back with amusement rides, livestock and live shows.

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Oct 18 • 5:04 AM EDT • Entertainment • starnewsonline.com
Circleville Pumpkin Show returns for its 119th year. Dates and details

Name an orange fruit with edible seeds that's not an orange. If you're stumped, visit Circleville from Oct. 21-24 and you're sure to find out.

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Oct 18 • 5:02 AM EDT • Entertainment • dispatch.com
MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings (TSE:8725) Highlights Its US Business, Is The Upside Already Priced In?

MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings (TSE:8725) put its U.S. operations in the spotlight at its recent Investor Relations Day, giving shareholders fresh detail on how that overseas unit fits into the wider insurance group. The recent Investor Relations Day lands after a strong run in the share price, with a 1-day share price return of 2.49%, a 7-day share price return of 5.05% and a 90-day share price return of 14.70% that points to building momentum. A 1-year total shareholder return of 63.73% and...

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Oct 18 • 4:07 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Is Teladoc Health (TDOC) Cheap Following Its New AI Tools?

Teladoc Health (TDOC) just rolled out two AI tools inside its Solo platform, SoloVitals and SoloScribe, aimed at contactless vital sign tracking and streamlined clinical note taking for hospital and health system clients. Despite Teladoc Health unveiling AI tools aimed at making virtual visits smoother for hospitals, the 30-day share price return is down 10% and the 90-day move has fallen 41.24%. The 5-year total shareholder return has declined 95.88%, pointing to longer term momentum that...

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Oct 18 • 3:29 AM EDT • Health • simplywall.st
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Is International Business Machines (IBM) A Bargain Or Fully Priced?

International Business Machines has delivered a strong multi year share price run. With the stock recently at US$232.14 and cash flows in focus, the live question is whether that price still lines up with what the business can earn and return over time. Over the past 5 years the share price has gained 130.1%, which puts a lot of weight on the idea that IBM’s future cash flows can justify a much higher valuation than in the past. Fresh commitments in areas such as quantum computing and...

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Oct 17 • 11:38 PM EDT • Business • simplywall.st