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Sundar Pichai: Google’s Frontier Imperative, Compute Scarcity Dilemmas, Future AI Products and Businesses

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

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Parents usually do anything they can to get their kids to take a break from playing video games. Emily Sorger’s parents took a different approach. “When I was younger, my dad would say, ‘No, you can't go outside and play until you finish this level’ or ‘You can't do your homework until you play this game and tell me if you like it or...

Oct 20 • 11:00 AM EDT • Science • news.csusm.edu

Trump takes transactional politics to a new level at latest campaign rally

Trump effectively told Kansans he’s prepared to hurt the state on purpose if he dislikes an election result, which is every bit as remarkable as it sounds.

Oct 20 • 10:58 AM EDT • Politics • ms.now

Trump takes transactional politics to a new level at latest campaign rally

Trump effectively told Kansans he’s prepared to hurt the state on purpose if he dislikes an election result, which is every bit as remarkable as it sounds.

Oct 20 • 10:58 AM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com

Prince Harry reveals real reasons for UK return

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

Oct 20 • 10:42 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com

Comedian Russell Brand anally raped me, woman tells UK trial

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

Oct 20 • 10:42 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com

Trump administration announces $8 billion farm relief plan as fuel, fertilizer costs bite

(CNN) — President Donald Trump announced at a Kansas rally on Monday that his administration is introducing an $8 billion aid package for farmers in the face of high diesel

Oct 20 • 10:30 AM EDT • Politics • wxow.com

Paxton campaign showing ‘desperation’ with manufactured story: Political commentator

In the final days until election, President Trump is set to hold another rally in Texas for Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton. MS NOW National Reporter Rosa Flores shares what she is hearing from voters there. MediasTouch Journalist Adam Mockler, Democratic Strategist Basil Smikle, Bloomberg Businessweek Journalist Max Chafkin, and Rolling Stone Magazine Politics Reporter Nikki McCann Ramirez join the Group Chat with Stephanie Ruhle to share their analysis.

Oct 20 • 10:02 AM EDT • Politics • ms.now

Iain Armitage was ‘very insulted’ when “Young Sheldon ”costar Wendie Malick accidentally compared him to Ted Cruz

“I was like, ‘Did my face look that melty that day?’ What does that mean?”

Oct 20 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Christin Applegate reveals doctors misdiagnosed her with multiple sclerosis 5 years ago

Christina Applegate revealed she was misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis, breaking down in tears as she explained that “something else is going on” after doctors said she actually didn’t have MS.

Oct 20 • 8:59 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

PlayStation Founder Understands Why Players Want to Keep Physical Media Alive

'I really understand that mentality'

Oct 20 • 8:39 AM EDT • Technology • polygon.com

Are transgender sports bans really about protecting women? Survey data tells a different story

In a recent national survey, Americans with the most negative views of women were the biggest proponents of transgender sports bans.

Oct 20 • 8:39 AM EDT • Sports • theconversation.com

Cristante called up for Roma-Slovan clash

A draw against Fenerbahce and a defeat against Real Madrid. Roma’s Champions League tally needs to be increased as soon as possible. To do so, a victory will be crucial in tonight’s match at the O...

Oct 20 • 8:37 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Too Lost’s latest expansion is a deal with Xelon Entertainment

Distributor and tech firm Too Lost's ambitions in the APAC region continue. It acquired Australian distributor and artist-services company Gyro·Group in July, and now it has announced a partnership with another distributor, Xelon Entertainment.

Oct 20 • 8:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • musically.com

Dodgers notes: Shohei Ohtani and what might’ve been

As the baseball world prepares itself for a low-cost World Series, Dodgers fans might still be looking backwards at what might’ve been. Sonja Chen on MLB.com focuses on how the team managed Shohei Ohtani’s injuries, and what perhaps they might’ve done differently. “I haven’t been able to really come to grip in terms of what […]

Oct 20 • 8:18 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Titans Win May Have Inadvertently Helped Colts

Tennessee's dramatic comeback win triggered a long-overdue housecleaning in Indianapolis, finally forcing the franchise to fire General Manager Chris Ballard following years of mediocre quarterback carousels.

Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

AI is Changing Science: Here’s What Journalists Need to Know

Researchers are rapidly adopting AI for everything from data analysis to planning and executing entire research studies. Journalists will need to keep up. That means learning the basic principles, strengths, and weaknesses of the diverse technologies labeled as “AI”—and how to tell when using AI in science is actually noteworthy. Luckily for science reporters, knowing your beat well can help you cut through the hype.

Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • theopennotebook.com

Scientists finally uncover why statins can cause muscle pain

Scientists have uncovered a surprising reason why statins, the widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs that help prevent heart attacks and strokes, can sometimes cause muscle pain, weakness, and even severe muscle damage. Using advanced imaging technology, researchers discovered that statins can attach to a crucial protein in muscle cells and force open a channel that normally controls calcium flow. This causes calcium to leak continuously, potentially damaging muscle tissue.

Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com

AI agents are joining the workforce, so it’s time to rethink the business plan

Once agents take over the grunt work, ask what your team could finally tackle, because adopting AI alone won’t set you apart from competitors.

Oct 20 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • cio.com

NBA games on TV today: Schedule, times, TV channels, live streams to watch every team's season opener

Basketball is finally back. Here's when and where to watch every team's season opener.

Oct 20 • 7:58 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Are UFOs evidence of alien technology? Here’s what science actually says

Oct 20 • 7:58 AM EDT • Science • yahoo.com

Yemen’s critically ill are trapped as war closes the country’s airports

Oct 20 • 7:52 AM EDT • Health • aljazeera.com

The Romans Brings Sports & Entertainment Offering to MENA

The Romans brings its globally award-winning Sports & Entertainment offering to MENA, appoints Sam Buckett as managing director

Oct 20 • 7:36 AM EDT • Entertainment • lbbonline.com

Post-Shanghai ATP Power Rankings: Alexander Zverev Takes Charge

As you already know, this is not the ATP rankings list; rather, these are ATP power rankings that combine 2026 results, recent form, performance against elite opposition, current fitness, and the level each player is realistically capable of producing during the final stretch of the season. The picture has changed considerably since our pre-Wimbledon rankings. …

Oct 20 • 7:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

How Much Of Cisco Stock's Rise Did The Business Earn?

Cisco Systems (CSCO) supplies businesses and the hyperscalers building AI infrastructure with networking and security products, along with services. The company's stock climbed 92% between late July 2021 and mid-October 2026, before dividends. A rally of that magnitude makes it natural to credit a growing business. So take a guess: how much of that rise came from Cisco selling more.

Oct 20 • 7:02 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com

'It makes me feel that we can do a lot about it': ESA official shares striking satellite snap of Europe's record-breaking summer heat waves

The head of ESA's Earth observation program tells Live Science why a striking image of a recent heat wave scorching Southern Europe gives her hope that we can properly monitor ‪— and eventually prevent ‪— similar extreme weather events in the future.

Oct 20 • 7:00 AM EDT • Science • livescience.com

Knicks’ OG Anunoby Drops Unexpected Photo Featuring Anne Hathaway

For Knicks fans, this week feels like Christmas came early.After 53 years of waiting, the championship banner finally goes up at Madison Square Garden, and the players get their rings in front of a crowd that has earned it.The players have spent the last few days at practice, getting ready for LeBron James and the […] The post Knicks’ OG Anunoby Drops Unexpected Photo Featuring Anne Hathaway appeared first on HEAVY.

Oct 20 • 6:58 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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.

Oct 20 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Scientists think they've worked out why anything exists at all. Is this the answer to the oldest problem in the Universe? | BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Could scientists have finally found the particle that explains why matter triumphed over antimatter and why anything exists at all?

Oct 20 • 4:43 AM EDT • Science • skyatnightmagazine.com

Opinion | The science behind leaf peeping

A psychophysiologist explains why fall colors really do help our minds

Oct 20 • 3:35 AM EDT • Science • bostonglobe.com

A materials-first approach to entertainment

It's our duty to tell professionals from the creative industry what it really entails to make 3D printing part of its production environment.

Oct 20 • 1:19 AM EDT • Entertainment • 3dadept.com

In Kansas, Trump says a pastor running as a Democrat ‘mocks Jesus’

At a rally, the president likened Democrats to rioters in France, whom he said “hate Christianity” and “Western civilization.”

Oct 20 • 12:54 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com

Rogers argues El-Sayed is vulnerable with 2 traditionally Democratic blocs as Obama heads to Michigan

Mike Rogers argues Abdul El-Sayed may lose Black and Jewish voters in Michigan's Senate race during a Sean Hannity town hall on key demographics.

Oct 20 • 12:03 AM EDT • Politics • foxnews.com

Science key to tackling worldwide challenges

Science and technology are immensely important for addressing shared global challenges and achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, especially in a world where geopolitical tensions are rising, said experts at a global forum in Beijing on Monday.

Oct 19 • 11:37 PM EDT • Science • chinadailyhk.com

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.

Oct 19 • 11:27 PM EDT • Health • kwch.com

Proposed New Visa for Home Health Aides and Nursing Assistants: What Healthcare Staffing Companies Need to Know

A new policy proposal published by the Brookings Institution recommends creating a temporary work visa that would let US employers sponsor foreign home health aides, personal care aides, and nursing assistants to help ease a growing shortage of caregivers. The September 29 proposal, authored by Brookings scholar Tara Watson through the Hamilton Project, would create an “H-1D” visa category built specifically for the direct-care workforce, launching as a pilot program of 30,000 visas per year. It would require employers to pay wages near the top of the local market, guarantee workers a minimum number of weekly hours, and contemplate a potential pathway to permanent residence after six years, although implementing that pathway would require additional changes to immigration law. The H-1D is only a proposal at this point. No H-1D legislation has been enacted, and employers cannot currently sponsor workers under this proposed classification. But if the idea gains traction, healthcare staffing companies could find themselves with both a significant recruiting opportunity and a new set of compliance obligations. This Insight walks through the proposal’s general immigration and employment requirements, then turns to the specific opportunities and challenges it could create for staffing firms.

Oct 19 • 10:59 PM EDT • Health • fisherphillips.com

Adam Levine recounts ‘really uncomfortable’ performance for rock legend on ‘The Voice’

Adam Levine recounts ‘really uncomfortable’ performance for rock legend on ‘The Voice.’ It happened 14 years ago.

Oct 19 • 10:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

Meet Sacramento man accused of voting illegally amid federal voter fraud crackdown

Oct 19 • 9:56 PM EDT • Politics • sacbee.com

Are the Houston Texans Finally Back?

After dropping their first four games, Houston has responded with back-to-back wins.

Oct 19 • 9:50 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

McDaniels strategically secures an additional $40 …

McDaniels strategically secures an additional $40 …

Oct 19 • 9:40 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Trump rally protesters continue to disrupt his campaign trail

President Donald Trump has been warding off protesters at his rallies across battleground states ahead of the midterms in November.

Oct 19 • 8:00 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

Tuskegee University Targets First Aviation Science Cohort Graduation in May 2027

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

Oct 19 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • afm.aero

Toppenish School District receives $7.5 million federal grant to expand mental health services for students

The BriefThe Toppenish School District has been awarded up to $7.5 million through Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education), a federal grant administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).The grant will provide up to $1.5 million annually over five years to expand mental health services, strengthen substance use prevention and intervention, and improve access to support for students.District officials say the funding will help address identified gaps in services, particularly drug and alcohol counseling at the high school level, and will allow the district to build capacity for long-term mental health support.TOPPENISH, WASHINGTON — The Toppenish School District has been awarded up to $7.5 million through Project AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education), a federal grant administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), to expand mental health services and substance use prevention for students.District officials said access to mental health resources has been limited, making it difficult for some students and families to get the support they need. The federal Project AWARE grant will help address those challenges by bringing schools and local healthcare providers together to better support students.The grant will provide up to $1.5 million annually over five years to expand mental health services, strengthen substance use prevention and intervention, and improve access to support for Toppenish students. Deputy Superintendent Dr. Jeff Camero said the district is focused on coordinating with service providers in the area to work as a unified team."We made the awareness with the grant. But looking at all the service providers in the area and how can we all together work as a team?" Camero said.Camero said the district wants to use those resources to reach students earlier and provide more support for those struggling with their mental health. The district plans to address a range of mental health challenges, from anxiety and depression to youth suicide risk. Camero emphasized the importance of supporting students in grades eight through twelve, where suicide rates are a particular concern."Making sure from anxiety to depression, making sure that we can help support our students at those levels, but also the youth suicide risk, looking at that as a top in this area, in our grades, you know, eight, for example, eight through 12, looking at suicide rate and looking at how whether we look at the ACES or whatever program we're looking at, that's federal, how that connects and how we can better serve our students with this extra funding," Camero said.The funding will allow the district to bring in additional staff, including mental health and substance use specialists, to work directly with students and connect families with community resources. The district is already posting positions, including a director role, with additional positions expected to follow.District officials are also thinking beyond the grant's five-year timeline. Brittany Kaple, Director of Public Relations for the Toppenish School District, said the intent is to build capacity and establish connections that will sustain mental health services even after the grant funding ends."We do have the director position already posted, with some of our other positions following really close behind that. But the intent is to, you know, it's a five-year grant, so those positions would be funded for that five years. But there's also the intent to build capacity and make those connections so that at the end of the grant, when that money, you know, if that money is not renewed," Kaple said.As student mental health needs continue to evolve, access to drug and alcohol counseling has become an important priority for the district. Kaple said teachers and staff have been raising concerns about the need for more support, especially at the high school level."And that was something that was also an identified need by our high school staff when the superintendent met with them last school year. They said that that was a really great need, something that they felt was a gap in services that we were providing for our students. And so this is going to be one way to help support that need," Kaple said.The Toppenish School District says its goal is to ensure students and families have access to the support they need, both now and in the years ahead. Additional positions, including drug and alcohol counselors and family engagement specialists, are expected to be posted in the coming weeks. News Sunnyside City Council navigates 2027 budget planning Monique Garcia News "Dancing with the Stars" champion J.R. 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Oct 19 • 7:59 PM EDT • Health • applevalleynewsnow.com

“Cellar Door” ending explained: What’s really behind the cellar door?

Laurence Fishburne makes a married couple an offer they should’ve refused in the 2024 horror thriller.

Oct 19 • 7:43 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Ex-GOP Kansas governor compares Trump rally to ‘freak show’ while backing Democrat in Senate race

Oct 19 • 7:34 PM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

Richard Riehle, dependable TV and film character actor who was in ‘Glory and ‘Office Space,’ dies

He often played authority figures but was equally skilled at comedy.

Oct 19 • 7:23 PM EDT • Entertainment • bostonherald.com

Scientists might finally have an answer on the origins of your seasonal allergies

Human-caused climate change is making allergy seasons even worse

Oct 19 • 6:50 PM EDT • Science • yahoo.com

The Angry Elephant politics-themed bar opens new location in Katy

The Angry Elephant, a politically-themed bar and grill, opened its third Greater Houston location on Westheimer Parkway in Katy on Oct. 19.

Oct 19 • 6:30 PM EDT • Politics • communityimpact.com

Stupid Never Dies Is Easily the Worst Game of 2026

Are we really still doing this?

Oct 19 • 6:00 PM EDT • Technology • polygon.com

Kansas AG Kris Kobach speaks ahead of the Trump rally in Park City

Oct 19 • 5:55 PM EDT • Politics • kansascity.com

Why Fort Myers? The politics behind Trump's Southwest Florida rally

President Donald Trump is coming to Southwest Florida Friday to help Congressman Byron Donalds win the governor’s race.

Oct 19 • 5:49 PM EDT • Politics • winknews.com

Steam Fans Are Begging for a No-AI Filter as Steam Next Fest Is Filled With Slop

Steam Next Fest, Valve's festival for indie games and demos, started earlier today, and while there are usually a ton of low-effort games, there seems to be more than usual this time around.

Oct 19 • 5:38 PM EDT • Technology • ign.com

Percival AI can uncover unseen health issues in CT scans

When analyzed by a new artificial intelligence model developed at Penn Medicine, CT scans reveal much about a patient's health beyond the specific condition they were originally ordered for, according ...

Oct 19 • 5:30 PM EDT • Health • medicalxpress.com

Sen. Roger Marshall is at the Trump rally in Park City, Kansas

Oct 19 • 5:28 PM EDT • Politics • kansascity.com

What Does a Human Heart Need to Grow? Scientists Found the Answer in a Bioprinted Model

Heart problems that babies are born with, called congenital heart defects, often begin developing early in pregnancy. Approximately three weeks after fertilization, the human heart is still a simple, straight tube of cells and, over the course of about five weeks, this tiny structure must undergo a remarkable transformation to reshape itself into the complex organ that eventually pumps blood throughout the body.

Oct 19 • 3:46 PM EDT • Science • pcrm.org

A gene variant triples the risk of getting Alzheimer's disease — fat buildup in brain cells may be to blame, study finds

A gene variant called APOE4 is the biggest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. Scientists are finally figuring out how it works.

Oct 19 • 3:35 PM EDT • Science • livescience.com

Apple Starts Moving Up iPhone Duo Delivery Dates

Apple has started bumping up estimated delivery dates for some customers who pre-ordered the iPhone Duo in countries such as the U.S. and Japan. In the U.S., for example, well-known YouTuber Matt Gonzalez today said his iPhone Duo pre-order initially showed a December delivery estimate, but Apple's online store now shows him an earlier delivery estimate of between November 20 and November 30. He ordered a Star White model with 512GB of storage.

Oct 19 • 3:31 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com

We Might Finally Know What's Written On That Mysterious Plaque In Super Mario 64

The plaque's message has haunted the internet for 30 years.

Oct 19 • 2:10 PM EDT • Technology • engadget.com

Human-Animal Bond Reaches New High as the Science on the Health Benefits of Pets Goes Mainstream

/PRNewswire/ -- The Human Animal Bond Research Institute (HABRI) today announced the results of its new benchmark survey of Americans showing that the health...

Oct 19 • 2:05 PM EDT • Science • prnewswire.com

Sounds Like GTA 6 Will Be Full of Details Like Red Dead's Infamous Horse Balls

A decade of silence, finally broken

Oct 19 • 1:54 PM EDT • Technology • polygon.com

Trump Wades into Israeli Politics

Netanyahu is stumbling toward the finish line of this election cycle with Israel isolated internationally more than ever before, as major European partners have all but turned their backs on the Jewish state, and a majority of Americans view Israel negatively.

Oct 19 • 1:48 PM EDT • Politics • momentmag.com

I needed to see the new Windows 11 Photos app in action to fathom how fast it is — it's like switching from dial-up to broadband

Microsoft rebuilt key parts of Photos, and the result appears dramatically faster than the sluggish app Windows users know today.

Oct 19 • 12:58 PM EDT • Technology • windowscentral.com

PlayStation founder Ken Kutaragi says discs became "metaphor for 'owning' games", and that upset at their discontinuation is a "mentality issue"

The founder of PlayStation has weighed in on Sony's decision to end game discs, saying it isn't "economically reasonable" to continue supporting them.

Oct 19 • 12:07 PM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net

Trump's new pitch for Republican candidates? They're really good looking

Aesthetics have long been part of the president's measuring stick, either as a source of praise or target for ridicule.

Oct 19 • 12:01 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org

Who is Elias the lighthouse keeper? AI fiction tells the same old story

Like a hack writer or a friend rehashing their glory days over and over, artificial intelligence tends to tell the same old story. For AI agents instructed to write fiction, that tale usually involves ...

Oct 19 • 12:00 PM EDT • Technology • techxplore.com

WATCH LIVE: Trump heads to rally in Kansas as Republican voters' frustrations deepen

Oct 19 • 11:44 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org

This Week: Politics 101, 20th Street Bikeway, Muni Trivia

Here is a list of events this week. Monday/Tonight! SF Politics 101 with Joel Engardio. Learn how local politics shaped San Francisco. Monday/tonight, October 19, 5:30-6:45 p.m. SPUR Urban Center, 654 Mission Street, S.F. Wednesday 20th Street Protected Bikeway Ribbon Cutting. The Oakland Department of Transportation, city officials, Bike East Bay and other community partners will celebrate the completion of the 19th Street BART to Lake Merritt Urban Greenway. Wednesday, October 21, 1:30 p.m. 400 Thomas L Berkley Way, Oakland. Thursday 2026 Silver SPUR Awards. This SPUR event brings together elected officials and business, civic, and philanthropic leaders to celebrate four individuals and their contributions. Thursday, October 22, 4-7:30 p.m. Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA, 700 Howard Street, S.F. Get tickets here. Friday Woman and Non-Binary Morning Ride. Join the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition for a socially distanced bike ride for women and nonbinary cyclists. Friday, October 23, 7:15-8:45 a.m. McLaren Lodge, 501 Stanyan Street, S.F. Friday Muni Trivia Night. Bring your friends or come solo and make some new ones. Friday, October 23, 7:30 p.m. Standard Deviant Brewing, Pier 70, suite 195, 1070 Maryland Street, S.F. RSVP here. Saturday Fifth Annual Firefighter Family Ride. Join SFFD, SF Safe Routes to School, and the SF Bicycle Coalition for a fun, low-stress bike ride through one of the city’s most beautiful routes. Saturday, October 24, 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Panhandle Park Blacktop (Fell & Ashbury) to JFK Promenade (Whale’s Tail). Sunday Canvas for No on Prop G. Join the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition to canvas for No on ‘G’ to save Sunset Dunes Park. Sunday, October 25, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Marina Blvd & Laguna Street, S.F. Got an event we should know about? Drop us a line.

Oct 19 • 11:38 AM EDT • Politics • sf.streetsblog.org

Louisiana ranks 9th nationally for business competitiveness for second consecutive year

Louisiana is once again ranked among the nation's top 10 states for business competitiveness. The publication ...

Oct 19 • 11:32 AM EDT • Business • louisianaradionetwork.com

Jon Stewart's 'Daily Show' future has been decided through 2028 election

One looming question late night question has been officially answered: Jon Stewart is staying at "The Daily Show," at least through 2028.

Oct 19 • 11:19 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com

Why Thinking About Divorce Is Actually Good for Your Marriage, According to Science

Researchers say imagining life without your spouse can sometimes serve as a wake-up call to address problems before they get worse.

Oct 19 • 11:15 AM EDT • Science • vice.com

Business Monday: Family-operated food truck boosts health with smoothies made from aloe they grow

“We wondered what we were going to do with all of (the aloe),” said Crystal Mukai, owner of Aloe Kine Smoothies. “My husband was actually the one who started making it into smoothies and we thought it was a wonderful way to use our local produce.”

Oct 19 • 11:00 AM EDT • Health • bigislandnow.com

Business Monday: Family-operated food truck boosts health with smoothies made from aloe they grow

“We wondered what we were going to do with all of (the aloe),” said Crystal Mukai, owner of Aloe Kine Smoothies. “My husband was actually the one who started making it into smoothies and we thought it was a wonderful way to use our local produce.”

Oct 19 • 11:00 AM EDT • Business • bigislandnow.com

Justice Department charges more than 2 dozen in California sweep targeting noncitizen voters

Federal authorities are arresting more than two dozen foreign nationals in California who authorities said have illegally registered and voted in U.S. elections | KCBS All News 106.9FM and 740AM

Oct 19 • 10:46 AM EDT • Politics • audacy.com

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

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

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

Flu activity is rising earlier than usual in El Paso County, health officials say

Respiratory illness season is underway in El Paso County, and local health officials say flu activity is already increasing earlier than typically expected.

Oct 19 • 10:13 AM EDT • Health • kktv.com

Helen Haines: Australian MP critically injured after apparent car attack

The independent politician is in hospital after what the prime minister says may have been a deliberate attack.

Oct 19 • 10:09 AM EDT • Politics • bbc.com