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Game on for Science Stadium at Buffalo Museum of Science

The Buffalo Museum of Science has opened its $3 million Science Stadium interactive exhibit. Developed in partnership with the Buffalo Bills, Buffalo Sabres, and Buffalo Bandits, the permanent exhibit brings

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Sep 25 • 2:05 PM EDT • Science • lockportjournal.com
Quick hitters: O-line health, safety depth and Dan Campbell’s first days in Detroit with Glenn

Allen Park — Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell and quarterbacks coach Mark Brunell met with the media on Friday. Here are the noteworthy items from those conversations. Healthier up front, banged up in the back It’s good news, bad news on the injury front. First, the offensive line is going to be far closer to full strength with starters Blake Miller (knee) and Christian Mahogany (hip) on track to return to the lineup. That provides stability the offense lacked against Buffalo, particularly at right tackle, where backup Larry Borom allowed 11 quarterback pressures and committed a trio of penalties. Subscribe However, with that same unit, veteran Ben Bartch (foot) is likely to miss Sunday’s matchup with the Jets. The left guard competition that’s been ongoing since May has effectively been whichever option is healthy that week. In the back end, safety Thomas Harper (ankle) is also unlikely to be available on Sunday. That leaves the team precariously thin at the position following Avonte Maddox going on injured reserve this week. Christian Izien is expected to get the start alongside Chuck Clark. “Izzy's been working a lot back there and had a full week,” Campbell said. “And he's gotten a ton of work this week, a ton of reps, full-speed reps. ‘This is what you're going to do, this is the calls’ and just dousing him with full-speed reps and he's done a good job this week.” Safety depth is the bigger concern. The team is expected to count on some combination of Jalen Mills, who signed to the practice squad on Monday, Bishop Fitzgerald, the undrafted rookie poached off the Steelers’ practice squad on Tuesday, and rookie cornerback Keith Abney, who doesn’t have experience at safety. “I'll say this about Abney, man, for a rookie, he's a pretty dang smart, conscientious, aware football player that's got a ton of room to really take off,” Campbell said. “…He's young. He's another one, he just needs reps and reps. But, if we need it, that'll be a guy who may have to go in for us.” You can check here for the full injury report, with game designations, later this afternoon. Reflecting on the past Responding to comments made by Jets coach Aaron Glenn this week, Campbell reflected on his earliest days with the Lions, before the coaching staff had been fleshed out and it was just he and Glenn at the facility working through what they wanted things to look like. “It was just he and I in the lab,” Campbell said. The coach said the two would fill the whiteboard that remains in current coordinator Kelvin Sheppard’s office top to bottom with notes about philosophy, coaching style, team identity and the type of players they wanted to target. “He looks different than me,” Campbell said. “I'm taller, I'm whatever. He's quicker. All these different things, man, but we're really the same. I mean we're so much the same. And he's the defensive version, I'm the offensive version. He was my right hand man. …It was fun, man. Those were good days.” Campbell said it was one of the best and worst days of his life when the Jets hired Glenn to be their coach. “AG means the world to me,” Campbell said. “He's one of my dearest friends because I know what he's made of. “…It's because you know you're losing a little piece of you. That's what he meant to me and to us. So, that's hard.” Traits under center A couple of weeks back, Sheppard noted that Brunell had identified Saints quarterback Tyler Shough as the best prospect at the position ahead of the 2025 draft. On Friday, Brunell confirmed his evaluation and explained what he looks for when studying a young quarterback. Here’s the full answer: “Young quarterbacks, you have to look at everything, you know? I look at guys coming out of college just like I look at any free agents that we might be looking at, or guys that we might add to our roster. Do they take care of the ball? Are they on time? How is their decision-making? How are their feet? “It's tough because you look at a college player, you don't understand what they're trying to do offensively, what their reads are, but you can identify when a guy is accurate, obviously, and when the ball's getting there on time. If there are a lot of interceptions, it raises a red flag. And I think with a lot of the spread offenses of what you're seeing, when you see a young player and they're running some pro concepts and he's having to make protection calls, and he's getting the right play out of the run game, and when there's a lot on his plate and he's executing it very well, and he's managing all of that, that really jumps out at you. It’s really hard to find. “That's one thing we saw with Luke Altmeyer. He had a lot of experience. We call it, ‘Hey, he's playing quarterback.’ And what does that mean? It's not just completing passes. It's getting guys lined up, getting the right play, getting the protection call right, just fixing some problems, being able to progress (through reads). And there's still some young guys out there that can do that at a high level, which is good to see.” Regarding Altmyer, who competed for the team’s backup job through the offseason and currently resides on the practice squad, Brunell acknowledged physical development slows once the season starts, because there aren’t reps to go around. However, there’s still extensive mental development that’s ongoing. “The key for him is approach the game as if you're the starter, mentally,” Brunell said. “And that's really all you can do. Approach the game as if you're the starter and be good in the (class)room. You come in alongside Jared (Goff), and you come in alongside Josh (Dobbs) and (do) whatever they need. And if you get an opportunity to talk to Luke, he'll tell you he does have a lot of responsibilities besides just getting donuts for us on Saturday. “For him, it's mentally staying focused, and even though there's really no chance this Sunday of him playing, he has to approach it as if he's taking the first snap and playing the whole game. So what's our game plan? What are our checks? What are we anticipating? And then during the game, we keep him involved as far as looking at coverages and pressures. And so, really, for him, it's just a mental game. And for now, that's all we can do.” Reason for more zone The Lions have significantly increased their usage of zone coverage on defense this season. I asked Campbell if that was a reaction to their personnel or driven by the focus to generate more turnovers, given it can be easier to produce interceptions when you can keep eyes on the quarterback while playing zone. “I think it was a little bit of both,” Campbell said. “We just felt like this would suit us a little bit better up to this point, and then be disruptive and get takeaways, which worked well Week 1. We had two (opportunities) last week against Buffalo we weren’t able to get, but they’re there.” I followed up by asking how much the combination of heavy blitzing with the back end playing zone has contributed to some of the early-season coverage woes, since adding extra players to the pass rush means leaving the coverage short-staffed. “I mean, it’s challenging, and that’s why a lot of the things we’ve done in zone, for the most part, have been to reduce that stress level back there,” Campbell said. “But that also requires the front getting there. And if you don’t get there, we already kind of talked about that, but there (has to be) a trust there.” The alternative, Campbell explained is sending four and it taking longer for the rush to get home, which can create different problems for a defense. “You can bleed yards,” Campbell said about the strategy. “It gets a little longer and it’s dink-and-dunk and run after catch. …So, we do what we think is right by what we feel like our personnel (does well). But also the game plan, who you’re going in to play, the matchups, their offense. “We’re not stuck on one way.” Detroit Football Network is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe

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Sep 25 • 1:08 PM EDT • Health • detroitfootball.net
Deion Sanders addresses Colorado player behavior following first loss

Ringo Chiu/Shutterstock.com Deion Sanders addresses Colorado player behavior Deion Sanders addressed Colorado players after the Buffaloes lost 41–7 at Northwestern on September 19, 2026. The defeat ended Colorado’s 2–0 start and dropped the team to 2–1 ahead of Big 12 play. Sanders said he confronted players he saw laughing after the 34-point loss. His criticism…

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Sep 25 • 12:15 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Alex DeBrincat’s Fight Earns Strong Response From Todd McLellan

Todd McLellan called Alex DeBrincat’s fight against Buffalo a sign of leadership as Detroit pushes for a tougher team identity.

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Sep 25 • 9:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
NFL gameday: Brock Purdy 'in prime' for San Francisco 49ers, Patrick Mahomes chases Tom Brady record and Dexter Lawrence leads Cincinnati Bengals Super Bowl charge

Watch the Los Angeles Chargers against the Buffalo Bills exclusively live on Sky Sports from 5.30pm on Sunday, before the Dallas Cowboys face the Baltimore Ravens in the first NFL game to be played at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 9.25pm

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Sep 25 • 9:30 AM EDT • Sports • skysports.com
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Brady unsatisfied with Bills' 2-0 start as Buffalo prepares to host Chargers

The Bills have hardly been perfect and their new-look defense has issues to sort after allowing 31 points and 24-plus first downs in each of its first two outings.

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Sep 25 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com
Good Morning, Buffalo: The science of sports

Sept. 25, 2026

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Sep 25 • 6:00 AM EDT • Science • buffalonews.com
Red Wings Rubbing Opponents the Wrong Way

The Red Wings opened up their preseason home schedule with a bang, beating out the Buffalo Sabres 2-3 with an […]

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Sep 25 • 12:38 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Alex DeBrincat Fights, Then Wins It in Overtime

Alex DeBrincat fought Trevor Kuntar, then won it in overtime as Detroit beat Buffalo 3-2. #RedWings

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Sep 24 • 10:35 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Alex DeBrincat, Moritz Seider Get in Double Fight vs. Sabres

Alex DeBrincat and Moritz Seider dropped the gloves in a wild double fight during Detroit’s preseason game against Buffalo.

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Sep 24 • 9:22 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Local business celebrates 30 years of bringing Mexican Western wear to north Georgia

Boots may be her business, but selling her culture is her passion.

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Sep 24 • 7:10 PM EDT • Business • wsbtv.com
‘It’s been transformational’ | Ribbon cut for Science Stadium, celebrating partnership between Bills, Sabres, Bandits and Buffalo Museum of Science

Science Stadium, the new Buffalo Museum of Science (BMS) exhibit created in partnership with the Buffalo Bills, Buffalo Sabres, and Buffalo Bandits, was celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday – in a very Buffalonian way.

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Sep 24 • 7:00 PM EDT • Science • buffalobills.com
Buffalo Museum of Science unveils new STEAM activities for WNY sports fans

Buffalo Museum of Science unveils new STEAM activities for WNY sports fans

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Sep 24 • 6:14 PM EDT • Science • wivb.com
Buffalo Museum of Science opens $3M Science Stadium exhibit with Bills, Sabres and Bandits

The Buffalo Museum of Science is opening a new $3 million exhibit that combines STEM education with the world of professional sports. The exhibit is in partnership with the Bills, Sabres and Bandits.

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Sep 24 • 5:51 PM EDT • Science • wkbw.com
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‘It’s been transformational’ | Buffalo Museum of Science cuts ribbon on Science Stadium

New exhibit, a collaboration with Sabres, Bills, Bandits, celebrates Buffalo sports and explores career options in the field.

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Sep 24 • 4:23 PM EDT • Science • nhl.com
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Sabres defenseman Mattias Samuelsson is listed as week to week

Buffalo could be down another blue liner with Olen Zellweger placed in the concussion protocol

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Sep 24 • 3:52 PM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com
Interactive sports exhibit set to open at Buffalo Museum of Science

The new $3 million exhibit at the Buffalo Museum of Science includes a new sports simulator, an anchor desk that allows visitors to record their own highlight reel as a broadcaster, a sports medicine lab, and a mascot design studio.

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Sep 24 • 3:28 PM EDT • Science • btpm.org
From Congress to County Commissioner: Kentucky State Council Urges Multilevel Political Power

A packed room of IAM delegates attended the fall session of the Kentucky State Council in Calvert City, Ky. Local political candidates, who are running for positions like local commissioner to U.S. Congress, courted coveted labor votes in the IAM. The keynote speaker was retired IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger who talked about the importance

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Sep 24 • 2:18 PM EDT • Politics • goiam.org
Bills vs. Chargers: Wednesday injury reports for both teams

Here are the latest injury reports from Wednesday for both the Bills and Chargers.

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Sep 24 • 6:45 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bills’ Landon Jackson Already Faces Second NFL Punishment of 2026

Bills edge rusher Landon Jackson faces his second NFL punishment of 2026, adding another disciplinary issue for the Buffalo defender. The post Bills’ Landon Jackson Already Faces Second NFL Punishment of 2026 appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 24 • 12:06 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Jared Goff Has Blunt Message for Lions ‘Vultures’

Jared Goff says the Detroit Lions welcome outside doubt after their loss to the Buffalo Bills and are ready to respond at Ford Field.

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Sep 23 • 10:06 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Aidan Hutchinson Makes His Stance on Kelvin Sheppard Clear

Aidan Hutchinson says he still has faith in Kelvin Sheppard and Dan Campbell after the Lions’ defensive collapse against Buffalo.

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Sep 23 • 9:08 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Shorthanded Lions Suddenly Bring Back Familiar Face

The Detroit Lions are all kinds of banged up right now as they continue preparations to host the New York Jets in Week 3 of the 2026 NFL season, hoping to rebound from their frustrating 41-31 loss on the road to the Buffalo Bills last week.The Lions, who were already without the likes of Cade […] The post Shorthanded Lions Suddenly Bring Back Familiar Face appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 23 • 8:56 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Chargers-Bills Game Preview: Josh Allen, BUF offense looks unstoppable

Check out how the Chargers matchup this week with their opponent!

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Sep 23 • 2:57 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
2 Elmwood businesses broken into, no arrests made yet

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Two Elmwood Avenue businesses, Mr. Greek and The Cereal Spot, were both broken into in the past two days, Buffalo police said Wednesday. Mr. Greek, located at 1122 Elmwood Av…

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Sep 23 • 2:37 PM EDT • Business • wivb.com
Sabres Youngsters Shine In Preseason Victory Over Blue Jackets
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Sep 23 • 11:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Trump is prepping DC for invasion. But by whom?

The Trump administration is leaning into national security arguments to remake parts of Washington in line with the president’s fancy and creating a buffer around him.

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Sep 23 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
Bills Safety Damar Hamlin Makes Personal News Before Chargers Game

Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin hosted a charity home run derby in Rochester on Tuesday evening. The post Bills Safety Damar Hamlin Makes Personal News Before Chargers Game appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 23 • 2:46 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Catholic Health to eliminate 40 positions systemwide

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Catholic Health says it’s implementing staffing changes at select locations to address patient needs, including the elimination of 40 positions systemwide. In a r…

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Sep 22 • 11:02 PM EDT • Health • wivb.com
Buffalo Sabres’ Trade Pitch Could Land $25 Million Veteran Center

The Buffalo Sabres have hope and potential, but is it enough to push them into the Stanley Cup race during their 2026-27 campaign?Some NHL insiders are putting the possibility on the table, but one key player could turn that far-fetched possibility into reality.Buffalo Sabres Named Top Landing Spot for Edmonton Oilers CaptainAdam Gretz of Bleacher […] The post Buffalo Sabres’ Trade Pitch Could Land $25 Million Veteran Center appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 22 • 10:09 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bills Roundtable Podcast Ep 49: An Unstoppable Offense

Josh Allen’s high-powered unit is dismantling defenses, but major defensive lapses and key injuries threaten Buffalo’s perfection. Mike Straw and Anthony Moeglin debate if this formula is sustainable.

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Sep 22 • 9:38 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ex-Bills WR Brandin Cooks Signs With Super Bowl Contender

Former Buffalo Bills WR & 1st-round pick Brandin Cooks signs with Super Bowl contender. The post Ex-Bills WR Brandin Cooks Signs With Super Bowl Contender appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 22 • 9:19 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Merck Life Science Expands Bengaluru Manufacturing with €13 Million Investment

Merck Life Science is expanding its manufacturing capabilities in Bengaluru with an investment of approximately €13 million, strengthening the company’s ability to supply critical materials to customers across India and the wider Asia-Pacific region. The expansion at Merck Life Science’s Jigani site in Bengaluru will introduce biological buffer manufacturing alongside the facility’s established chemistry capabilities. The investment is designed to enable faster and more reliable access to critical materials used by customers across research, diagnostics, biotechnology and biopharmaceutical manufacturing. The development further advances Merck Life Science’s “in-region, for-region” approach, under which the company is expanding manufacturing capabilities closer to the markets and customers it serves. By adding biological buffer production in India, the Jigani expansion will broaden the site’s manufacturing capabilities while strengthening Merck Life Science’s regional supply infrastructure for the rapidly developing life sciences sector across India and Asia-Pacific. The company said the expansion reflects both the contribution of its teams and its collaboration with government and industry stakeholders. Merck Life Science acknowledged the support of India’s Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), the German Embassy New Delhi, and Invest India in helping strengthen life science manufacturing capabilities in the region. The investment comes as India continues to expand its role across pharmaceutical, biotechnology, diagnostics and biomanufacturing value chains, increasing demand for dependable regional access to materials supporting research and manufacturing operations. The Bengaluru expansion reinforces Merck Life Science’s focus on building manufacturing capacity within Asia-Pacific and supporting customers through a more regionalised supply network.

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Sep 22 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • biopharmaapac.com
Common Council moving forward with proposed 2-year data center moratorium

A full Buffalo Common Council vote on the moratorium is now set for next Tuesday.

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Sep 22 • 4:33 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Sabres Drop Preseason Opener In Pittsburgh, Ex-Sabres News
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Sep 22 • 1:52 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Buffalo Sabres hungry for more a season after ending playoff drought

It won’t be easy in a highly competitive Atlantic Division, but the Sabres are leaning on their youthful core to take yet another step after the team closed last year on a 39-9-5 surge to win its first Atlantic title.

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Sep 22 • 1:01 PM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com
This Week In Happy Valley: Defense Leads The Way

Penn State football’s secondary exits non-conference play as one of the team’s most dominant position groups. Who should be Penn State’s starting running back as Big Ten play begins? The most important stats behind Penn State’s quick 3-0 start. Saturday’s win over Buffalo was the lowest recorded attendance at Beaver Stadium since the start of […]

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Sep 22 • 12:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
‘Monster’ $80 Million Buffalo Bills Defender Singled Out

Fox Sports singled out $80 million Buffalo Bills edge rusher after torrid start to season. The post ‘Monster’ $80 Million Buffalo Bills Defender Singled Out appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 22 • 11:33 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
$10M Ill. fire station puts firefighter health, safety at center of design

Buffalo Grove's new Fire Station 25 features cancer-reduction measures, sleep-focused bunk rooms, expanded apparatus bays and a larger fitness area

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Sep 22 • 9:37 AM EDT • Health • firerescue1.com
35 Random Thoughts On Buffalo

1. Matt Millen on the call for BTN. Terrific. 2. Disappointed we only got “There’s no fear in McPherson” twice. I for sure thought Millen had that tee’d up for one more during the game. 3. (The joke here is that “McPherson” is usually pronounced “Mc-fear-son” but Alex McPherson pronounces his last name “Mc-furr-son” thus […]

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Sep 22 • 9:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Penguins announce Crosby, Malkin return for Tuesday preseason game

Some more notable starters are seeing preseason action tonight for the Penguins after Bryan Rust and Kris Letang took the ice in Monday night’s win over the Buffalo Sabres. Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin will both be playing Tuesday night against the Detroit Red Wings’ preseason squad, according to the Penguins. They’ll be joined by […]

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Sep 22 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Pens Points: Preseason Positives

Back on PPG Paints Arena ice for the first time since April, the Pittsburgh Penguins opened their preseason slate with a 4-1 victory over the Buffalo Sabres. Sergei Murashov got the nod in goal and pitched a shutout, stopping 13 shots, in his 30 minutes of action before Joel Blomqvist took over. Connor Dewar, Bryan […]

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Sep 22 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
How lip-syncing to AI let Forced Entertainment ‘play the game of theatre’

Today we have a fascinating piece by long-time Forced Entertainment fan Ben Kulvichit, speaking to Tim Etchells about their latest show Cold Sweat, how they are integrating lip-sync and AI voices into their work, the question of ‘authenticity’ on stage, and how lip-sync has even opened the door for them to make “something a little bit like drama”. This piece is a paid partnership with the Southbank Centre, where you can see Cold Sweat next month – we’re very grateful to the Southbank Centre for their ongoing support for Exeunt. Holly Williams ‘It was immediately interesting and uncanny’ **By Ben Kulvichit** “Is the microphone on?” So goes one of the opening lines of Signal to Noise, delivered by a human performer lip-syncing to an AI-generated voice. The voice is American, cheery but sluggish, slowed down into a gelatinous drawl. It repeats ad infinitum in a farce of stuckness; an answer never materialises. I find myself asking the same question as I hop on a Google Meet call with Tim Etchells, the artistic director of Forced Entertainment. We spend five or ten minutes frowning at each other, muting and unmuting, me gesticulating in semaphore into my webcam, checking if I am coming through now, restarting the laptop. To Etchells, I appear exaggeratedly mouthing words, my voice missing. In this gloopy purgatory of broken communication, life imitates art imitates life imitates art. We try a Zoom instead. Forced Entertainment, the pioneering British theatre company who have been at the avant-garde of performance since the 1980s, turned an interesting artistic corner with Signal to Noise, created on the occasion of their 40th anniversary. The whole performance employed this lip-sync technique to AI voices; on the face of it a left-field move from a company whose identity has long been grounded in the earthy, immediate presences of its performers and its unassuming, low-tech approach to theatricality. The technique, however, turned out to provide the company with a “rich new seam” of artistic enquiry, and has now spawned a trilogy of works. The second instalment, Cold Sweat, plays at Sheffield Theatres, Southbank Centre, and Lancaster Arts in October, while the third part, Everything Must Go, has been touring in Europe and is slated to come to the UK in 2027. As is often the case with Forced Entertainment shows, the main conceit for this work didn’t arrive until quite late. They were “four or five weeks into rehearsals for Signal to Noise,” Etchells recalls, and getting nowhere. Away from rehearsals, he had been playing around with feeding “weird texts” to AI voices to see how they would cope with them – “basically for my own amusement” – and was compelled by the uniformly “serviceable, benign, good-natured” tone they would read in, no matter how poetic, fractured or experimental the writing. On a hunch, he brought some examples into rehearsals and the performers gave lip-syncing a go. “It was immediately interesting and uncanny,” he recalls, with the performers having to deal in the moment with the problem of mapping themselves onto another artificial ‘performer,’ which itself was dealing with the problem of a very human text. “Almost all the writing for these projects would be useless to us unless it was done in this way,” says Etchells. “We wouldn’t know what to do with it. It’s too poetic. It’s too fictional. It’s too tangled.” But exploring lip-syncing along to the text has opened “an enormous reservoir of ways of thinking about writing and performing.” Subscribe to Exeunt, and get two in-depth pieces on theatre a week, direct to your inbox Subscribe Forced Entertainment have long been sifting through the detritus of popular culture, from daytime TV to end-of-the-pier vaudeville, magic acts and clown shows, to find frameworks for their own unusual entertainments. Lip-syncing, then, makes sense for them to experiment with. As a mode of performance, it’s wired into popular consciousness through pop stars trying to convince stadium audiences of their liveness, or those same voices as channeled through the made-up lips of contestants on RuPaul’s Drag Race, or movie dialogue spreading virally through the host bodies of TikTok users. For Etchells, lip-syncing is often about “approaching real voices and trying to take on their aura,” subsuming that original human presence into yours. “There’s a very basic, elemental sort of theatre magic to it, produced in this very easy way.” This broad approach resonates with instances of lip-syncing within contemporary performance, too. In works like Re-Member Me and Showmanism, performance artist Dickie Beau acts as a kind of spirit medium for archival recordings (this process of re-membering – as in, giving corporeal form to voices – relies on his masterfully precise actor’s technique), while Frankie Thompson is similarly possessed by a host of characters ranging from a nine-year-old Jacob Rees-Mogg to Cliff Richards, all of whom she finds compellingly nauseating, in the exorcism ritual that is her latest show, Horrible Things. What’s different about Forced Entertainment’s use of lip-syncing is that here, there is no original presence to be channeled. The performers are instead taking on what Etchells describes as “the voices of nobody,” or rather the “phantasmic, aggregated echoes” of the many many voices on whose data the AI has been trained, and which are now conjuring into existence words they never actually said. There is a sort of mournful, empty quality to these voices, having “washed up” far away from the people they originally belonged to, to find themselves in stranger’s mouths listing objects, wondering if anyone can hear them and glitching in interminable loops. There is a cold, sad anonymity to it all. Etchells remarks that occasionally the software company he used has notified him that particular people are withdrawing their voices from the platform, instructing him to cease use of those voices. Using these technologies in performance certainly brings up ethical questions around digital rights, consent, identity and ownership, although in the grand scheme of things, Etchells is fairly blasé about it: of all the purposes someone’s voice might be put to without their knowledge, “an avant-garde performance is probably the least of their worries.” [ ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) [ Frankie Thompson: How I manage my own ‘horrible things’ at the Edinburgh Fringe ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) Exeunt · Aug 25 [ Read full story ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/frankie-thompson-horrible-things-essay-mental-health-compulsive-behaviours-pleasance-courtyard-soho-theatre) For the performers, though, lip-syncing to these strange, artificial voices is an odd task, requiring them to bend their live, human presence into the shapes produced by machines. Politically, it mirrors processes that are already at play in the continued computational automation of human life. Etchells brings up James Bridle’s writings on new technologies as a reference point: one example Bridle gives is of “chaotic storage”, a logistics technique employed by Amazon fulfilment centres whereby items are stored not according to traditional methods of categorisation or alphabetisation, but in a way that an algorithm determines to produce the most efficient routes for ‘picking’ based on customer purchase patterns. This appears completely random and incomprehensible to humans, with paddling pools sitting next to USB sticks sitting next to blowtorches, and so for the warehouse workers, the process of picking items becomes completely reliant on technology which tells them where to go. Our world is increasingly being designed not with humans in mind, but rather machines. As Etchells puts it, “technology malforms the space, and then you end up having to live in it.” Initially, Forced Entertainment tried their best to live in the world of machines: “I was in the it’s-got-to-be-perfect school of lip-sync,” says Etchells. But with their aesthetic being so tied to the failing act, the slipping mask, the shoddy costume, “it’s no surprise really that that didn’t last.” Instead, the performers got to enjoy being late for a line, or playing games with each other, “stealing” each other’s voices. Etchells compares it to the principles of ventriloquism, in which a free-floating voice unattached to a body is fundamentally discomforting and “sort of traumatic”. That discomfort is equally as alluring to Forced Entertainment as the satisfaction of precision, the pretence of authenticity only interesting if shown to be a pretence. Lip-sync has also opened up new avenues for the company. Having been allergic all their lives to Plays-with-a-capital-P, with Cold Sweat Forced Entertainment find themselves approaching something a little bit like drama. Rather than the presentational arena of Signal to Noise’s open white stage, Cold Sweat places us more decisively in a “fictional locale”: what appears to be “the aftermath of some disastrous party or backyard drinking binge” where three figures – family members, or neighbours, perhaps – are the last ones standing. “It’s all quite acrimonious and accusatory, everyone’s talking over each other.” For Etchells, this more fictional mode is “a door that we’ve never been able to open. We’ve just never really gone there.” Perhaps it is the technique of lip-syncing, an extra buffer of mediation, that allows them to venture away from the here-and-now without feeling that they have to commit to the “psychological claptrap” that comes along with acting; to be able to “play the game of theatre, without getting one’s hands too dirty.” As I wonder how else the impulses behind Forced Entertainment’s work have changed over time, it occurs to me that over the last ten years of new creations, with the exception of If All Else Fails, the company’s performers haven’t ever spoken on stage: there were two shows without any language at all, Out of Order and Under Bright Light, and then this trilogy of lip-sync works. Etchells agrees it’s a shift away from earlier productions, that were so often about “the actual voices of the performers and their actual presences. We had a lot of money, in some ways, on an authentic approach to what it might mean to speak on the stage.” But this sense of authentic presence itself had a fakeness to it; these days, Etchells can’t stand that mode of being onstage where performers “are here to be cheeky and witty versions of themselves. I don’t want to be charmed.” Pulling back into a more anonymous space has resulted in works that feel slightly sharper-edged, more brutal in a way. “All of these shows are post-Brexit, post-Trump, post-truth, post-everything,” Etchells notes. Speech, charisma, authenticity – these things feel politically loaded, and perhaps warmth and openness just don’t feel like the right tools to reflect the world we’re living in. “It feels like the space is closing down, and we’re trying to deal with the fact that the system, the structure that you’re in, is more oppressive and more powerful. It probably always was, but I think we’re just more tuned to it now.” Yet even without their voices, the performers’ distinctive presences – ones that many audiences have followed around for years, if not decades – still, inevitably, shine through as they physically navigate whatever unending task the system of the piece has set for them. They’re still trying to keep up with the onslaught of text, still running about, changing costumes, moving stuff around. The human is always stuck in the teeth of the machine, jamming the smooth, frictionless cheeriness of the not-real, gesticulating silently, trying desperately to communicate. Cold Sweat is at Sheffield Theatres, 2 to 3 October; Southbank Centre, London, 9 to 10 October; Lancaster Arts, 14 October [ ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) [ Exeunt recommends... the best autumn theatre ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) Exeunt · Sep 16 [ Read full story ](https://exeuntmagazine.substack.com/p/exeunt-recommends-the-best-autumn-theatre-2026-lives-of-others-standard-of-living-our-friends-in-the-north-lanny-) This piece was paid for by the Southbank Centre. Such support helps Exeunt to keep publishing the most interesting writing, about the most exciting theatre. Interested in partnering with Exeunt? 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Werner Herzog's 'Ghost Elephants' Lands Deal With Buffalo 8

Buffalo 8 Distribution acquires home entertainment rights to Werner Herzog's documentary 'Ghost Elephants,' with Sobey Road Entertainment.

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Bills QB Josh Allen Faces Big Prediction Against Struggling Chargers

Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen is expected to have another strong performance against the Los Angeles Chargers. The post Bills QB Josh Allen Faces Big Prediction Against Struggling Chargers appeared first on HEAVY.

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BKL Nightly: Greg Connors on the Bills, Business and Life Behind the Curtain

Connors & Ferris co-founder Greg Connors joins Thad on BKL Nightly to talk Buffalo Bills football, from the team’s early-season start to the players making an impact. Connors also takes viewers behind the curtain of his longtime relationship with the Bills as a business partner and shares more about the career and community work that have shaped his life.

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Vikings Hot Start Earns Major Recognition From FOX Sports

The Minnesota Vikings came in at the third spot on Fox’s NFL Power Rankings on Monday afternoon. The outlet put the rankings on social media.The Buffalo Bills and Seattle Seahawks were the two teams ahead of the Vikings. In the meantime, the team has a ton of momentum after beating the Chicago Bears by a […] The post Vikings Hot Start Earns Major Recognition From FOX Sports appeared first on HEAVY.

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907 Sports: Week 6 kicks off, father & son from Homer go coast-to-coast for ultimate NFL experience

In this edition of 907 Sports, Week 6 of the high school football season has arrived and we check in on a Division II showdown between Lathrop and Chugiak. Plus, Homer’s biggest Buffalo Bills fan gets the ultimate NFL experience.

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BKL Nightly: Greg Connors on the Bills, Business and Life Behind the Curtain

Connors & Ferris co-founder Greg Connors joins Thad on BKL Nightly to talk Buffalo Bills football, from the team’s early-season start to the players making an impact. Connors also takes viewers behind the curtain of his longtime relationship with the Bills as a business partner and shares more about the career and community work that have shaped his life.

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Kickoff time, channel announced for Colorado vs. Texas Tech

The kickoff time for Colorado football's Week 5 matchup against a likely top 15 Texas Tech has been announced.

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Miami Dolphins sign defender from Buffalo Bills practice squad

Miami signs Andre Jones Jr. following defeat at San Francisco.

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Buffalo Bills Lose Linebacker To AFC East Rival

Miami poaches linebacker Andre Jones Jr. from Buffalo’s practice squad, securing a versatile special teams asset while leaving the Bills with a fresh vacancy to fill immediately.

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‘Thursday Night Football’ opener secures 18.6M for Lions-Bills

Opening night in the new Highmark Stadium set a new high mark for a Thursday Night Football opener on Prime. 18.60 million viewers tuned in for the Buffalo Bills’ win over the Detroit Lions that christened the new Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, marking a five percent increase over last year’s TNF opener between the Washington…

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Big 12 football receiving leaders after Week 3

Here is a look at the top receivers in the Big 12 after Week 3, with Joseph Williams in the top 10 for the second week in a row.

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Big 12 football rushing yardage leaders after Week 3

Iowa State's Aiden Flora leads the Big 12 in rushing yards, with a pair of West Virginia backs in the top 10 in yards and touchdowns after Week 3.

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Penguins announce lineup for first preseason game

The Penguins listed the players who will take part in the first preseason game on Monday night against Buffalo. Below is the Penguins’ lineup for Monday night’s preseason game against the Buffalo Sabres at PPG Paints Arena. Puck drop is set for 7:00 PM ET, and fans can watch the game on SportsNet Pittsburgh, or […]

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Matt Campbell praises emergence of Penn State run game

Penn State's run game finally clicked as Quinton Martin Jr. emerged with a big day vs. Buffalo.

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Colorado football report card after blowout loss to Northwestern

Colorado committed four turnovers and struggled defensively in a 41-7 loss to Northwestern. Here are the Buffaloes' Week 3 grades by position.

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Penn State Breezes Past Buffalo: Post-Game Link Dump

Koby Howard has put in the work to become the Nittany Lions’ go-to receiver. Penn State’s secondary was near perfect in the non-conference slate. The Nittany Lions defense had another strong performance, this time forcing four turnovers. Penn State’s ground game took a major step forward with a 100-yard day for Quinton Martin Jr….has Martin […]

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One game later, Bills' new stadium finally feels like home

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BSD YouTube Postgame Show: Penn State Blasts Buffalo

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Week 3 Game Predictions: Northwestern Wildcats vs. Colorado Buffaloes

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Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway chairman

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Engrams Embedding Entendre: Codesign for Efficient DRAM/SSD Offloading

Engram extends standard token embeddings with learned multi-token lookups. Recurring local patterns retrieve vectors directly, reducing the need to reconstruct them through attention and feed-forward layers. With Engram model architecture optimization, it allows for lower HBM capacity to be needed for models at the same quality. This does not mean there won’t be an insane demand for HBM but it just means that model architecture will continue to innovate around constraints. This model architecture design is naturally codesigned for parameter offloading: each token accesses a few embedding rows whose addresses depend on token IDs, not hidden states. The runtime can prefetch those rows from host DRAM while earlier layers compute, keeping the table outside HBM without transferring entire weight matrices. Our Memory model contains our latest estimates of quarter by quarter HBM, DRAM, & NAND supply and demand. Offloading frees HBM for model weights and KV cache, potentially supporting larger batches or more concurrent sessions. When DRAM becomes the next constraint, NVMe offers another tier. Recommendation systems already cache frequently or recently accessed embedding rows in faster memory while backing colder rows with SSDs. After NVIDIA roadmap had to change due to massively despec’ing Rubin Ultra from 1024GB to now ~200GB of HBM per chip, model architecture optimizations like emgram maybe helpful. Our DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash configuration uses roughly 189 GiB of memory for Engram. We replace it with a memory-mapped (mmap) file and measure serving performance with offload to SSD. Later on in our report, we will show our Engram offloading experiments along with the official InferenceX agentic inference serving results on Engram models like DeepSeekv4.1 Flash across all 6 NVIDIA GPU SKUs along with MI355X. Unsurprisingly, the CUDA Moat is still mogging MI355X on the ultra popular DeepSeekV4.1 Flash model. We also show how even on high capacity HBM SKUs, offloading emgrams to DRAM could result in even better performance for most of the pareto than keeping the emgram in HBM. Our benchmark has been widely reproduced, validated and/or supported by almost every major buyer of compute from Google Cloud to Microsoft Azure to Oracle, to Meta and many more. Furthermore, it has the support of the ML community including from vLLM, LMCache, SGLang, PyTorch, Huggingface and the support of major labs like OpenAI, MiniMax, ZAI, Qwen, Moonshot Kimi, etc. Star the InferenceX GitHub repository if you find the open-source benchmark and data useful!. InferenceX is the only inference benchmark in the world to have TPUv7, Jalapeño, Nvidia Rubin NVL72, AMD, and soon, SambaNova and Trainium. Due to how realistic AgentX scenario is to real world agentic inference workloads, AMD has committed to collaborating on MI455X UALoE72 too. DeepSeek did not release the original paper’s two trained Engram models. We replicated its setup on fineweb-edu using the released code and training hyperparameters, at an estimated 6E18 FLOPs per run. We observed the same U-shape scaling: Engram improved performance over pure MoE baselines. We also reproduced DeepSeek’s results, where earlier-layer representations with Engram resembled those of later layers. Like the original Engram paper, it is possible to probe Engram’s gate scores to see what n-grams DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash makes the most use of. Our gate scan finds names, code fragments, relational phrasing, and boilerplate. These examples prioritize interesting-ness over gate strength. One unexpected result was Wright : Ace Attorney. These examples suggest learned memory optimizes the training objective, not a judgment of which facts deserve storage. Licenses, bibliography fragments, API scaffolding, and website furniture can provide prediction shortcuts, so the value of additional Engram capacity may depend on what survives data preparation. This does not show that table capacity is “wasted”: the evaluation-corpus scan establishes neither training exposure nor the capacity occupied by each category. For offloading, strong gates do not identify cache-hot rows. Low gates do not automatically save reads either: computing the gate requires the retrieved key and undoes the performance gain of a fused kernel. Skipping reads would require a separate usefulness predictor before retrieval. In the original paper’s inference-time ablation, factual-knowledge benchmarks retained just 29–44% of their original performance, while reading comprehension retained 81–93%. This is due to the training–inference mismatch. The resulting degradation therefore measures this trained model’s dependence on Engram, not the performance difference between models trained with and without it. In our ablations, suppressing Engram worsens token likelihood across all evaluated domains, especially encyclopedia text and several code corpora. Surprisingly, GSM8K accuracy stays within measured run-to-run variation and removing Engram has no effect. Engram is not a detachable dictionary beside an unchanged MoE. Removing it changes downstream features and expert selection. We tested whether rerouting hurts or compensates by holding tokens fixed in a teacher-forced experiment on CRUXEval, a code-reasoning benchmark of small Python functions where the model predicts a function’s output from its code and an input, and scoring the reference answer. Removing Engram raised answer loss from 0.2848 to 0.3093 bits/token. Forcing the ablated model to use the original Engram-on expert choices made it worse still, at 0.3375 bits/token. Rerouting partially compensates for the missing memory. Memory features and expert selection work together, rather than following a clean “memory stores facts; experts reason” division. On the same CRUXeval, removing Engram during either phase reduced accuracy and increased generated tokens; removing it throughout produced the largest changes. Keeping Engram for prefill leads to more correct answers than keeping for decode likely due to semantically richer KV cache transferred to decode workers, allowing it to mitigate some of the performance loss. Engram’s table is large, but each lookup is small. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash requests 24 rows at each of two Engram layers, about 12.4 KiB per processed token position across the model, or 3.1 KiB per GPU when split across four GPUs. Currently as of Day 7 since Model Release, MI355X is still 2-4x worse performance per dollar compared to B200 even when normalized by Mi355X’s lower TCO. Our full total cost of ownership breakdown comes from our AI Cloud TCO Model along with monthly market surveys of over 100+ gpu clouds & gpu cloud customers. On the Day 0 release of DeepSeekv4.1 Flash, NVIDIA vLLM works out of the box with zero issues across all 6 SKUs: H100, H200, B200, B300, GB200, GB300! This was thanks to the amazing work by the NVIDIA & Interact teams! In comparison, AMD vLLM did not work on day 0 for DeepSeekv4.1 Flash.Source: SemiAnalysis InferenceX AMD’s vLLM documentation points to using vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:deepseekv41-flash-0909, but from hour 0 of the model release to hour 23, AMD has not publicly released the image. AMD claims, “SPEED IS THE MOAT,” yet it has still not released it by the 23rd hour. We wish that, going forward, the AMD team has a better process for hour 0 model releases. Eventually when they did publicly release for “day 0” image support, performance-wise, it is currently up to 14.8x worse perf per dollar than H200 and up to 42x worse perf per dollar than B200/B300. The power of the CUDA MOAT is NVIDIA’s collaboration with its massive 6 million-developer community ecosystem including most of the vLLM & SGLang & Tokenspeed maintainers which means that CUDA is optimized on day 0. Overall, AMD did make significant improvements but the performance per dollar is still currently 2-4x worse than B200. AgentX Engram DRAM Offloading Improving Performance The HBM and DRAM offload use the same GPU kernel to select and dequantize rows. With HBM, it reads GPU memory; with Unified Virtual Addressing (UVA), it reads pinned host memory directly. Both support full decode graphs. Moving the table into HBM accelerates only the sparse lookup, leaving decoder computation and communication unchanged, resulting in little overall benefit while consuming memory otherwise available to KV cache. Another benefit of Engram offloaded to DRAM which means you can reduce the communication overhead by using less HBM GPUs per replica. For example, when enabling Engram offloading on B300, we are able to switch from TP4 to now TP2 which improves the pareto curve by up to 1.6x. When iso-model quality, less HBM is required as the engrams could be offloaded to host DRAM. Thus HBM bandwidth matters way more than HBM capacity. For inference workloads where memory bandwidth matters the most, 4-hi HBM provides the best $/bandwidth and therefore lowest cost per token. If China continues to make more and more revolutionary model architecture innovations, soon it could potentially 0Hi HBM stacks. [ ](https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/long-live-the-short-king-why-4-hi) [ Long Live the Short King: Why 4-hi HBM Wins ](https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/long-live-the-short-king-why-4-hi) Myron Xie, Bryan Shan, and 3 others · Sep 13 [ Read full story ](https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/long-live-the-short-king-why-4-hi) Moreover, on B300 and week-0 stack, moving the Engram table back to HBM did not improve results and stay within run-to-run variance. This is a result of the work optimizing DRAM offload, such as async, and overlap. SSD Offloading On B200, we created a unoptimized vLLM fork and stored the Engram tables in memory-mapped files on local SSDs. File backing lets the OS reclaim table pages when other applications need RAM. Pages already cached in memory can be served without reading the SSD again. Furthermore, note that we were unable to turn on GDS The unoptimized SSD implementation changes how rows reach the GPU. It copies row IDs to the CPU, deduplicates them, gathers the requested rows into pinned buffers, copies those rows back to the GPU and dequantizes them. This work runs between segments of the GPU execution graph. Native UVA performs row selection and dequantization directly on the GPU, avoiding the CPU round trip. A warm filesystem cache removes physical SSD reads, but leaves the coordination, row gathering and transfers. This is why a file already cached in RAM can still perform worse than a pinned DRAM table. The comparison measures the whole serving path; it does not separate the time spent on each of these operations. B200 DRAM dominates both measured SSD serving curves in total tokens per dollar and P90 interactivity. Near 125 tokens/s/user, DRAM delivers 121 million total tokens per dollar versus 52 million for SSD. For production serving, SSD offloading is likely not worth the tradeoff. On the B200 configurations we measured, SSD offloading loses on both measures: every observed SSD point has a DRAM alternative that delivers higher P90 interactivity and more total tokens per dollar. The only points where Cheaper storage does not automatically produce a cheaper inference service. Moving Engram to SSD leaves the same four expensive GPUs and the rest of the server in place. Reclaiming RAM only creates an economic benefit if it enables a cheaper server configuration or additional useful capacity. The current unoptimized path provides neither benefit, and the filesystem cache still consumes RAM when table pages are resident. Next we will look at the mechanisms and specific implementation of ngrams from DeepSeekv4.1 Flash, LongCat, Qwen3.8 Flash Next.

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Buffalo Bills Get Good News On DJ Moore's Injury

Buffalo's star wideout dodged a long-term setback after landing awkwardly against Detroit. Reports indicate the shoulder stinger is day-to-day, potentially keeping Moore active for next week.

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Who is Howard Buffett? Meet Berkshire Hathaway's new chairman

Warren Buffett's son Howard is Berkshire Hathaway's new chairman. Here's a look at his career in farming, business, and philanthropy.

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Aidan Hutchinson Reveals Concerning Problem After Loss to Bills

Aidan Hutchinson expected Josh Allen to make plays. Buffalo’s success with conventional running concepts was the bigger concern after Detroit allowed 203 rushing yards.

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Three keys for Northwestern football vs. Colorado

The Wildcats look to stop the Buff Stampede.

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Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway chairman

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Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway chairman, a post he has held since 1970

Warren Buffett is stepping down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway after serving in the role for more than 50 years. The company said Friday that the 96-year-old Buffett will take

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Warren Buffett steps down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway

Warren Buffett, who ended his decades-long tenure as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway at the end of last year, is giving up the chairman post he has held since 1970.

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Warren Buffett steps down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway

Howard Buffett will take over, effective immediately

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Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him

“Father Time always wins,” the 96-year-old, who turned Berkshire Hathaway into an investing powerhouse, said in a letter to shareholders. “He has, however, been generous with me.”

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Sports doctor raises ‘significant concerns’ for Bills WR DJ Moore over injury

The latest concern surrounding Buffalo Bills wide receiver DJ Moore could be devastating news for the team's offense.

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Sep 18 • 5:02 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Jack Campbell Fights Back Tears After Brutal Lions Loss

Before they could blink, the Detroit Lions found themselves trailing by a 14-0 score in the first quarter of Thursday evening’s contest against the Buffalo Bills, who were playing in front of a sold-out crowd in their first regular season game at the new Highmark Stadium.Josh Allen and the Bills racked up 399 yards of […] The post Jack Campbell Fights Back Tears After Brutal Lions Loss appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 18 • 4:33 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
James Cook III delivers in prime time

James Cook III had 21 carries for 135 yards and a touchdown during Buffalo's Thursday night win over the Lions.

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Sep 18 • 2:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Allen stars as Bills open new stadium in style

The Buffalo Bills open their new stadium in style with a 41-31 win over the Detroit Lions, as Josh Allen again impresses.

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Sep 18 • 2:14 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Allen leads way as Bills opened stadium with a convincing win over Lions

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Sep 18 • 1:25 AM EDT • Sports • audacy.com
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Buffalo struggles to cover Sam LaPorta on Thursday night

Sam Laporta posted a 6-52-1 line during the team's 10-point loss to the Buffalo Bills.

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Sep 18 • 1:19 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Bills WR DJ Moore Gets Dire Outlook From Sports Doctor After Lions Injury

Buffalo Bills wide receiver DJ Moore had a dire outlook after suffering an injury against the Detroit Lions. The post Bills WR DJ Moore Gets Dire Outlook From Sports Doctor After Lions Injury appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 18 • 12:54 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
3 winners, 8 losers from Lions’ loss to Bills

The Detroit Lions got thrashed by the Buffalo Bills in primetime. What led to this failure?

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Sep 18 • 12:12 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Another Bills legend is now in James Cook’s rearview mirror

James Cook has passed Joe Cribbs for fifth place on the Buffalo Bills’ all-time rushing list

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Sep 18 • 12:06 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com