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Yahoo Top 10: Messy day of blowouts creates cleaner picture of the sport's best

Nov 8 • 1:11 AM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Felicity Porter is messy, earnest and a little cringe. Her Gen Z fans are here for it.

For all her quirks and flaws and rash decisions, Felicity keeps learning to trust herself. It’s another reason Gen Z viewers feel connected to her.

Nov 6 • 3:05 PM EST • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Connor Hellebuyck’s Departure From Jets Nearly Got Much Uglier

Connor Hellebuyck’s divorce from the Winnipeg Jets was messy.But according to one NHL Insider, it nearly got much uglier.Hellebuyck is arguably the best player in the history of the Winnipeg Jets, leading the franchise with 125 point shares.After the star netminder made it clear he no longer wanted to play for Winnipeg, Hellebuyck sat on […] The post Connor Hellebuyck’s Departure From Jets Nearly Got Much Uglier appeared first on HEAVY.

Nov 5 • 4:45 PM EST • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

TREE MAIL BRINGS THE NEWS TO PAIR UP TWO BY TWO KNOWING THEIR PARTNER COULD SEAL THEIR FATE, ON “SURVIVOR,” WEDNESDAY, NOV. 11

“Load the Ark, Two by Two” – A castaway faces major backlash for loose lips and creating a messy post-merge Tribal Council. Then, tree mail brings th

Nov 5 • 3:00 PM EST • Entertainment • paramountpressexpress.com

Dropbox’s New Tools Will Organize Your Messy Files. Business Owners Could Avoid Hours of Busy Work

Agentic capabilities are coming to Dropbox, the cloud storage platform with more than 700 million registered users worldwide.

Nov 5 • 12:16 PM EST • Business • inc.com

'Messy,' 'divided' and 'scary': swing voters rate the country ahead of Election Day

One last check in with the Swing Shift voters before Election Day. All of them voted for President Trump. Now, they're rating his presidency and deciding who to support when he's not on the ballot.

Nov 3 • 5:00 AM EST • Politics • kosu.org

Republicans pour millions into once-safe House seat in bid to save Max Miller

In the closing days of the race, Rep. Max Miller is making the case to voters that divorce is messy and the controversies that surrounded him this summer are behind him.

Oct 31 • 5:30 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

Samsung mercilessly mocks iPhone Duo ‘crackgate’ in Galaxy Z Fold 8 ads [Video]

Samsung isn’t holding back when it comes to the iPhone Duo’s messy start. In new ads, the company mocks iPhone...

Oct 30 • 9:20 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com

‘Table 17’ at Union Arts Center brings rom-com fun

Stage rom-com “Table 17” serves up the messy details of a relationship gone wrong — and very, very right.

Oct 30 • 5:08 PM EDT • Entertainment • yakimaherald.com

Christina Applegate promises MS community she’s ‘still going to speak out’ for them amid misdiagnosis

Applegate addresses those living with multiple sclerosis on her “MeSsy” podcast: “I’m still your warrior,” she said.

Oct 27 • 9:33 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

Pumpkin Science Lab in Reading combines messy fun, learning

Children put their pumpkin predictions to the test during Berks Nature’s first Pumpkin Science Lab at The Nature Place.

Oct 24 • 4:14 PM EDT • Science • readingeagle.com

Blazers' Portland Future Gets Messy as Arena Deadline Closes In

A billion-dollar maintenance dispute and conflicting lease demands jeopardize a massive Moda Center renovation, leaving the franchise’s long-term stability in doubt as a critical state funding deadline looms.

Oct 24 • 8:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Google Messages is working to finally clean up its messy settings menu

Between organizing options into groups and adding some useful illustrations, Google Messages is working on major changes to settings.

Oct 23 • 2:32 PM EDT • Technology • androidauthority.com

VisionQuest Explores the Tension Between Marvel Magic and Marvel Science

VisionQuest makes magic and science messy again in the MCU.

Oct 21 • 10:00 AM EDT • Science • denofgeek.com

Why big insurers are investing in shared provider data

Health insurance partnerships and ventures aim to clean up messy provider directories.

Oct 21 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • modernhealthcare.com

Christina Applegate says she’s ‘scared’ after MS misdiagnosis: ‘I feel lost’

Christina Applegate said on Tuesday’s episode of her ‘MeSsy’ podcast that she is feeling ‘lost’ after being misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis for years.

Oct 20 • 9:58 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

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

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

Oct 20 • 7:53 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

AI, Robots, and Jobs: Why Gardeners May Still Be Safe

Anthropic's robotics research puts more hands-on jobs in AI's path. But messy tasks such as gardening remain hard to automate.

Oct 17 • 10:00 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

Millions of dollars spent on AI-generated political ads as midterms approach

Political action groups and candidates have been using artificial intelligence for campaign ads, spending over $137 million for the midterm elections.

Oct 16 • 1:41 PM EDT • Politics • wset.com

Ana Navarro tried using Matt Damon to set up Ben Affleck and Shakira after actor’s 2nd Jennifer Lopez split

“I want better for Shakira though. From a dating standpoint, he seems a little messy,” Navarro’s “View” cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin added.

Sep 28 • 1:45 PM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com

'Soar' wars: Inside two AI startups' messy fight over a name

A founder known for viral antics sent a LinkedIn request to the CEO of Soar, a travel startup. Days later, he launched a rival — also called Soar.

Sep 25 • 5:37 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

Get messy with Mess Fest at Science Museum of Virginia

8News got a visit from a special guest who brought some special items about a Science After Dark event at the Science Museum of Virginia on Friday.

Sep 24 • 10:42 AM EDT • Science • wric.com

Tove Lo talks new album 'Estrus,' motherhood and giving advice

Before making her newest album, "Estrus," Swedish singer-songwriter Tove Lo felt pressure to make it profound. But after returning to a small village in Sweden, she was instead reminded of who she is at her core: "the same f— messy girl."

Sep 21 • 1:06 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com

Gamethread: Boston College Football vs Maine

The Boston College football team won their first game of the 2026 season last week in a messy game against Rutgers that included seven total turnovers. BC will look to get back to basics against Maine on Saturday, an FCS opponent that they are expected to defeat easily. Who: Boston College Eagles (1-1) vs Maine […]

Sep 19 • 1:42 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

'Youth' review: HBO's coming-of-middle-age comedy is messy and moving, as only Sharon Horgan can

Sharon Horgan's latest is a frank look at a 50-year-old woman's search for love.

Sep 18 • 11:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • mashable.com

Free mad science event Saturday in Apache Junction

Grab your lab coat because it’s going to get messy. There will be more than 30 different fun science experiments to watch, touch and experience at a free mad science event in Apache Junction in …

Sep 17 • 11:01 AM EDT • Science • yourvalley.net

Political disagreement in 719 is becoming more hostile

Something has changed in the way we disagree with each other politically in the 719. Something important. Public debate has always been messy in Colorado Springs. People get angry or protest. They organize. They pack meeting rooms and demand answers. Those things make sense. But lately, I have been watching policy and political disagreement become […]

Sep 17 • 7:00 AM EDT • Politics • gazette.com

‘Very messy eaters’: scientists solve the mystery of when black holes ‘burp’

The astronomical bodies fire off powerful jets in two distinct phases in their feeding cycle, researchers discover

Sep 17 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • theguardian.com

What Does the Science of Climate Change Really Look Like?

Editor’s Note: This is the second in a three-part series on how the Right should think about environmental and climate policy. Read Chris Barnard on Reclaiming Environmental Policy from the Left. More than a decade ago, the world’s governments negotiated and signed the Paris Climate Agreement, committing to hold global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius. In the following years, climate had immense cultural power. Greta Thunberg emerged. Fortune 500 companies established net-zero plans. The U.S. got the Inflation Reduction Act. Then the pendulum swung back. President Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office, speaking of green energy as a “scam” and carbon footprints as a “hoax” and on all matters of international policy emphasizing bilateral engagement and power over globalism and cooperation. The technology companies that had been at the forefront of net-zero pledges and green leadership discovered the importance of all-of-the-above power to their visions for artificial intelligence and began quietly postponing or removing their targets. On the left side of the political spectrum, rising concerns about inflation and cost pushed climate lower down in the stated priorities of voters and stump speeches of politicians. The moment is ripe for a reset on the politics of climate change and for conservatives especially to chart a course that acknowledges and addresses the real challenges in plausible ways. So what should we think about climate change as we enter a post-peak climate era? If it is neither an apocalypse nor a hoax, what will hold up as a durable view of climate change? And how does it project onto the concerns and priorities of the right-of-center’s emerging coalition? New to Commonplace_? Subscribe below to get the magazine in your inbox._ Subscribe A Solid Foundation As the politics and economics of climate careened over the past ten years, the physics carried on regardless. In 2015, the year the Paris Climate Agreement was adopted, the world emitted 41.2 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide. By 2025, emissions had risen only 2.4%, to 42.2 gigatonnes, because falling emissions from land use offset increasing emissions from fossil fuels. But slow growth in annual emissions is not rapid decline, let alone net-zero, so carbon dioxide kept accumulating in the atmosphere, going from 399 to 426 parts per million. Global temperature kept rising too, from about 1.1 degrees Celsius above the 1850–1900 average in 2015, to 1.4 degrees above it in 2025. None of this should surprise anyone. Even most prominent skeptics, like the authors of the 2025 report commissioned by the Trump administration’s Department of Energy, accept the basic physics. Carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere at industrial volumes accumulates and traps heat that would otherwise escape to space. That heat warms the upper ocean and increases temperatures at the surface. Increased ocean heat and melting of land ice cause sea levels to rise. Changes in the climate become noticeable to us as subtle shifts in temperature and precipitation, seasons arriving early or late, changes in the surrounding ecosystem, and weather extremes. The much more meaningful debate is not about whether these things are happening, but about what it all means for human societies. (While it is a proxy measure of overall risk, no one experiences global surface temperature.) This debate invokes at least three interesting questions: how much today’s warming is showing up in regional climate trends, how much more warming we should anticipate, and how extreme weather events can be understood in the context of climate change. Recent scientific advances give us new insights into each of these, but there is still much to learn. This is the context in which the next generation of conservative leaders will be the first to deal with significant climate change as a fact, not a forecast. It will be with them for their entire careers. Our evolving scientific picture of climate change will come from weather and climate records stretching further into the past, new kinds of observations in the present, better modeling tools for the future, and simply more time to observe the emergence of climate signals and their tangible effects on ecosystems and communities in the United States and around the world. The policy landscape will be shaped by not only the impacts of changes in the climate, but also by the ways in which societies respond and by the emergence of new technologies for both altering the trajectory of emissions and adapting to new climate realities. Global climate records now show the fingerprints of warming in different phenomena around much of the world. The IPCC, in its most recent assessment report, documents warming trends over all land regions, even as natural variability adds substantial variance to local trends. And the highest temperature extremes have become more intense and frequent, almost everywhere, since the 1950s. Scientists are highly confident that these changes are attributable to human influence. But confidence in detecting trends and attributing them to human influence degrades across heavy precipitation events; drought trends are heterogeneous and not attributable to human activity with great confidence. For hurricanes, tornadoes, and other severe storms there is even less confidence in trends or their relationship to climate change. In general, a fair summary of the evidence is that for well-observed phenomena, like surface temperature or heavy rainfall, with a clear relationship to warming, our multidecadal observations are consistent with human influence overcoming natural variability over long time periods and extremes increasing. For regions that are sampled more sparsely, or phenomena with a higher noise-to-signal ratio, we will need to observe them longer to understand the magnitude of the climate signal or improve dynamical understanding using models and observations together. But for Climate For those who can’t wait, we also have new techniques that attempt to understand the role climate change has in influencing particular extreme events. When the climate is changing and disaster strikes, it is natural to ask whether that disaster was somehow “caused” by climate change. For scientists and policymakers acting in good faith, answering that question helps develop a more accurate picture of the problem, how it may be getting worse, and what preparations we should be making to respond to it. It may, at some point, give some weight to how liability is assigned by courts or adaptation funding is distributed by society. But how we ask this question is extremely important. It is easy to get the analysis wrong by discounting the role that meteorology plays. As meteorologist Theodore Shepherd explained in a clear 2016 review of climate attribution methods, “if a weather or climate event is truly extreme in the present climate, then perforce it requires unusual meteorological conditions, which means that climate change is at most a contributing factor.” Share Scientists have two ways to probe climate as a contributing factor, both of which have entered media coverage of extreme weather events. One asks a probabilistic question: How much more likely is a particular event (e.g., a temperature record over a particular area) amid global warming? The answer involves using historical records and computer simulations to estimate the likelihood of such an event in both a changed and a preindustrial climate. The findings are less about the specific event, and more about events of that nature. The other question is: How has the changed climate affected the specific event in question? Here, scientists try to understand what a similar event would have looked like in the preindustrial climate. This is sometimes called the storyline approach, where the story is the specific meteorological details of the event. These methods offer ways to test the intuition of scientists about real weather extremes. In late June and early July of 2021, a persistent high-pressure ridge, or heat dome, set up over the Pacific Northwest and an extraordinary heat wave affected the area from Oregon to British Columbia. For six days, it shattered temperature records across the region and hundreds died from heat-related causes, in an area where such high, and persistently high, temperatures were well outside of experience and many live without air conditioning. Scientists have studied its connection to climate change using multiple approaches. This specific event was created by a rare combination of meteorological factors, a strong high-pressure ridge created the conditions for extreme heat, which occurred on top of higher average temperatures in the region from global warming. Probabilistic analyses showed that climate change increased the likelihood of such an event by at least 8-fold to more than 100-fold. One standout example found that such an event had effectively zero probability of occurring in the preindustrial climate. The enormous range in these assessments reflects how hard it is to estimate probabilities of events at the tail of the historical record. Estimates of the effect on the temperature of the event are more clustered. A recent review paper documents how multiple methodologies have found a positive influence, roughly 1-2 degrees Celsius of an anomaly that exceeded 15 degrees, of climate change on the temperature magnitude of the event. Multiple studies have investigated and found some positive influence of climate change in other extreme events. Attribution studies found climate likely increased the heavy rainfall that accompanied Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and surrounding regions in 2024. The extensive fires that struck Los Angeles in 2025 illustrate how the causal chain can become messy, though. Studies do detect a positive influence of climate on the event’s likelihood, but while climate change likely contributed to underlying aridity, it would not have played a role in the heavy winds or land practices that preceded disaster. These event attribution studies will become more common for extreme, or damaging, weather events. They can be produced quickly, and often are reported before peer review. As the Pacific Northwest heatwave example shows, when multiple methods converge on a positive attribution, the finding should probably carry some weight even if you have to be careful about accepting the results from a single study. I expect that as climate change proceeds and the climate thus departs further from a preindustrial counterfactual, the influence will become more detectable across a variety of extreme events and more easily identified. This will be used to cast blame, but can also be used to inform how communities and society adapt to ongoing change. We May Still Be Surprised One positive development, insofar as less climate change is better, has been that our central estimates for future climate change should probably be revised downward. Mostly, that is because the high-end warmings that scientists regularly analyzed about ten to 20 years ago, driven by high emissions throughout the twenty-first century, now appear to be somewhere between unlikely and impossible. At one time, the upper end of mainstream climate projections extended well into 4 to 6 degrees Celsius of warming by the end of this century, which, models suggest, would have wrought enormous real-world damage. Current energy and policy trends now point toward 2.5 or 3 degrees. Damages and risks are commonly modeled as increasing steeply with more warming, so this is already a better-than-previously-expected outcome for the climate (which is independent of the physical response to emissions). But we should maintain a wide range for plausible outcomes and prepare for the possibility of being surprised. Emissions trajectories are subject to deep uncertainty, the physical climate response is still developing, and whatever change occurs in the climate will then be mediated through unpredictable economic, social, and political institutions. Over the past decade, the pace of warming surprised some keen observers and appeared to accelerate, though not yet outside the range of expectation provided by climate models. The reasons for that apparent acceleration are being actively studied (as was the apparent pause in warming from 1998 to 2012), but no single driver has emerged. Some blame it on the El Niño, variability which would have no bearing on climate. Some think it is a result of factories in East Asia and global shipping fleets cutting aerosol emissions, which in the strongest version of the argument would indicate higher climate sensitivity to carbon-dioxide emissions. Others are more measured, not yet ready to draw solid conclusions as to whether climate projections require revision. We will have to see. Long-Term Thinking Climate change asks us to think over long time scales. But the pace of human-driven warming is compressing a large global change into a century. Changing weather patterns and extreme events are already causing adjustment costs and damages and will do more. Adaptation will help, but it is not free. For some communities, these costs will erode livelihoods and well-being, and may force migration. Are we prepared for large-scale managed retreats in the United States? Thankfully, American wealth, geographical diversity, and moderate climates may leave us better prepared than many around the world. But wealthy countries can still suffer serious disruption from narrowly concentrated costs, even if they appear entirely manageable in aggregate. Readers of Commonplace are familiar with the challenges of rapidly adapting to economic forces. The displacement that came from the China Shock is barely perceptible in aggregate GDP and employment data, but it affected millions of people and those people were far less mobile than economic models tended to assume. Deindustrialization rippled through the nation with enormous effects for not only our economic vitality, but also our national security. The forces surrounding climate change may not be so different; the world gets richer and must accept some diffuse costs. Those may be modest overall, but cause all manner of unpredictable effects with which policymakers must cope. In the case of the China Shock, our faith in a growing pie served us poorly. We’ll need to do better on climate. Leave a comment

Sep 16 • 4:30 PM EDT • Science • commonplace.org

BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: Get messy at Slime Time Studios Marblehead

The following is an interview with Stacey Barnes, co-owner of Slime Time Studios Marblehead, conducted by Discover Marblehead. Slime Time Studios MHD on Spring Street offers a fun, hands-on experience where kids can create their own craft project and mix up a custom batch of slime. With plenty of opportunities to personalize their creations, kids

Sep 16 • 10:08 AM EDT • Business • marbleheadcurrent.org

Book Review: The Messy Business of Making Science Happen

Roberta Kwok’s “Lost in Curiosity” makes the case for luck and hard work over eureka moments in advancing science.

Sep 16 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • gavi.org

God of War Laufey Now Has a Lot To Prove After Wolverine’s Messy Launch

2027 will be a big test for PlayStation

Sep 15 • 3:31 PM EDT • Technology • polygon.com

The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn't make it

From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy 'super app' launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.

Sep 15 • 3:00 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com

Sweden faces ‘very messy’ political situation after election, expert says

Sweden faces ‘very messy’ political situation after election, expert says. Lars Trägårdh, Professor of History at Ersta Sköndal University College in Stockholm, said Sweden’s election-winning Social Democrats would have to rely on “a very unwieldy coalition”, warning that the country faces a “very messy” political situation.

Sep 14 • 6:33 AM EDT • Politics • pubaffairsbruxelles.eu

Video. Sweden faces ‘very messy’ politics after election, expert says

Video. Lars Trägårdh, Professor of History at Ersta Sköndal University College in Stockholm, said Sweden’s election-winning Social Democrats would have to rely on “a very unwieldy coalition”, warning that the country faces a “very messy” political situation.

Sep 14 • 3:26 AM EDT • Politics • euronews.com

Rosalind Eleazar crushes 'risqué' role as Chris Rock's 'Misty Green'

TORONTO – Chris Rock draws laughs when he admits that he “likes a messy woman.” Casting for one in a movie can be serious business.

Sep 13 • 10:54 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com

Paul Levine: The Common Sense Guide to the Messy Business of Writing

Harlan Coben, one of our most accomplished spinners of suspense yarns, makes no promise that his hybrid writing manual and memoir will turn you into a

Sep 12 • 4:30 PM EDT • Business • noozhawk.com

Richarlison running out of options for Tottenham exit

Tottenham and forward Richarlison are running out of options for an amicable conclusion to a messy transfer saga. Richarlison started Spurs’ opening-day loss at Brentford on August 22, but was left out of the club’s 25-man Premier League squad list named by Roberto De Zerbi on Thursday.

Sep 8 • 5:33 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Free mad science event in September in Apache Junction

Grab your lab coat because it’s going to get messy. There will be more than 30 different fun science experiments to watch, touch and experience at a free mad science event in Apache Junction in …

Sep 7 • 11:01 AM EDT • Science • yourvalley.net

‘NFL Is Ridiculous,’ ‘Rigging Things in Favor of the Rams’ — Fans Raise Suspicions, Question League’s Handling of Puka Nacua Situation for Week 1

Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Puka Nacua has had a messy offseason. He is recovering from a groin injury.

Sep 7 • 9:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Book Review: The Messy Business of Making Science Happen

Roberta Kwok’s “Lost in Curiosity” makes the case for luck and hard work over eureka moments in advancing science.

Sep 6 • 12:00 AM EDT • Science • goodmenproject.com

Book Review: The Messy Business of Making Science Happen

Roberta Kwok’s “Lost in Curiosity” makes the case for luck and hard work over eureka moments in advancing science.

Sep 4 • 3:54 AM EDT • Science • undark.org

House Votes to Avert Government Shutdown Before Midterm Elections

Lawmakers sent the legislation to President Trump in an overwhelming vote, reflecting bipartisan enthusiasm around punting a messy spending fight until after the midterms.

Sep 1 • 2:06 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

Josh Shapiro is battling RFK Jr. over measles, and the politics are getting messy

A feud between the Pennsylvania governor and health secretary sparked by this week's reports of measles-related deaths laid bare the increasingly polarized politics of public health.

Aug 28 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com

Josh Shapiro is battling RFK Jr. over measles, and the politics are getting messy

A feud between the Pennsylvania governor and health secretary sparked by this week's reports of measles-related deaths laid bare the increasingly polarized politics of public health.

Aug 28 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com

Congress is Back. Science Policy is About to Get Messy.

As we head into the fall and the end of the 119th session, we face significant S&T issues of concern. Here is what we’re tracking.

Aug 27 • 2:13 PM EDT • Science • fas.org

Fifty years on the prep beat, Eric Sondheimer is a local legend

He's worked on messy sidelines and in crowded bleachers while juggling impossible deadlines to write about future Hall of Famers and unknown benchwarmers.

Aug 23 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • latimes.com

Google Keep's new Gemini voice feature saved me hours of organizing messy grocery lists

A different way to use Keep

Aug 23 • 6:00 AM EDT • Technology • androidpolice.com

How Republicans Embraced Brandon Herrera, a Texas Republican Candidate and Gun Influencer

Brandon Herrera, long an anti-establishment outsider, is trying to help the party defend a red-leaning House district in West Texas. It’s proving messy.

Aug 16 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

Dissecting the Messy College Sports Landscape with Ross Dellenger of Yahoo! Sports

Aug 14 • 4:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

The Friday Checkout: Can Kroger’s new e-commerce chief sort out its messy online business?

Nate Faust brings a founder’s energy and an outsider’s perspective to a digital business that has become overly complex.

Aug 14 • 7:50 AM EDT • Business • grocerydive.com

Gemini now turns your messy spreadsheets into interactive mini-apps

Sheets canvas is rolling out now

Aug 14 • 2:24 AM EDT • Technology • androidpolice.com

The secret AI-startup project I’ve been working on the last six months

In this edition of STAT's AI Prognosis: The messy reality of hastily developing and selling AI tools to clinics, and other health AI news.

Aug 12 • 8:09 AM EDT • Health • statnews.com

Inside a $7 billion Silicon Valley startup’s mad dash to automate the business of health care

Commure wants to automate health care's administrative tasks with AI. An inside look at the messy realities of the startup's ambitious quest.

Aug 12 • 4:30 AM EDT • Business • statnews.com

Bamboo toilet paper intrigued me. Reality turned out to be messy

What makes a greener wipe? Researchers have more to say about bamboo's ecological risks, given limited carbon footprint data.

Aug 11 • 12:00 PM EDT • Science • sciencenews.org

Free mad science event in September

Grab your lab coat because it’s going to get messy. There will be more than 30 different fun science experiments to watch, touch and experience at a free mad science event in Apache Junction in …

Aug 10 • 11:01 AM EDT • Science • yourvalley.net

The Messy Mixture of Old Age and Political Power

Is it really true that the excessive influence of the elderly is corrupting government? If so, it raises the question of what we can — or should — do about it.

Aug 10 • 12:05 AM EDT • Politics • governing.com

Is population growth still necessary for startup growth? Louisiana offers a messy test case

Every parish saw new business filings rise, but data from New Orleans, Lafayette and Baton Rouge shows why founder support matters in a shrinking region.

Aug 7 • 6:15 AM EDT • Business • technical.ly

Building a better politics after Wisconsin’s messy primary

Immigrant rights, labor and progressive groups are working to get out the vote and to organize people who feel overrun so they can lead

Aug 7 • 4:15 AM EDT • Politics • wisconsinexaminer.com

The messy politics behind Google’s big AI shakeup

Google’s AI leadership changes may have come down to pressure to speed up products — and internal ethical conflicts.

Aug 6 • 9:26 AM EDT • Politics • theverge.com

Answer Man: Helene Business Recovery Fund borrowers facing skyrocketing rates? Messy I-26 median?

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: You should look into the disaster bridge loans a lot of people took out through Mountain BizWorks and the Golden Leaf Foundation after Helene. These were loans with a 1 percent interest rate for 12 months, which was later extended to 24 months. […]

Aug 4 • 7:17 AM EDT • Business • avlwatchdog.org

Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ an epic emotional outburst of present politics, pains

Rather than a dry historical retelling, Christopher Nolan's mammoth take on "The Odyssey" is an emotional, messy, and angry statement of modern politics and posturing.

Jul 26 • 10:30 AM EDT • Politics • freepressokc.com

I Only Needed One Episode of This Show to Know We're in for Some Messy Chaos

Looking for your next TV obsession? This binge-worthy series delivers messy drama, unforgettable personalities and a premiere that ends on a major cliffhanger. Find out more here.

Jul 23 • 9:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • purewow.com

Messy primaries plague both major political parties, causing chaos and confusion in the midterms

As midterm campaigning heats up, both major political parties face unexpected challenges

Jul 22 • 7:12 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com

Messy primaries plague both major political parties, causing chaos and confusion in the midterms

As midterm campaigning heats up, both major political parties face unexpected challenges.

Jul 22 • 7:07 AM EDT • Politics • newsday.com

When does 'My Life With the Walter Boys' season 3 come out? All about the Netflix hit's next chapter

Netflix's messy teen drama 'My Life With the Walter Boys' ended its second season with not one, but two major cliffhangers. Watch the season 3 trailer now.

Jul 19 • 8:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com

"There has to be a reason for people to buy an Xbox": Making sense of Microsoft's messy return to console exclusivity

The Saturday Read | Senior leaders across Xbox detail why the platform is returning to console exclusivity, and explain why Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution are only the beginning

Jul 18 • 8:56 AM EDT • Technology • gamesradar.com

Lost in Curiosity reveals the messy reality of doing science

In her new book, science journalist Roberta Kwok takes readers behind the scenes to understand how researchers get nature to give up its secrets.

Jul 10 • 10:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencenews.org

The Politics of Provocation: The ECtHR’s Ruling in Miladze v Georgia

A recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights concerning a TikTok video published by a Georgian self-defined civil activist adds another layer to the Court’s increasingly messy Article 10 case law. The applicant repeatedly insulted public officials in crude and sexually explicit terms while broadcasting to a large online audience. Domestic courts imposed only a modest administrative fine, later reduced on appeal. The ECtHR did not find a violation of the applicant’s right to freedom of expression – raising several questions about the limits of legitimate political speech online.

Jul 7 • 11:27 AM EDT • Politics • verfassungsblog.de

New York Yankees' Potential Catcher Trade Could Get Very Messy

Will the New York Yankees make a trade for a catcher before the MLB trade deadline?

Jun 30 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Moving ‘Casey and Diana’ plumbs the messy layers of hope

Nick Green’s dramatization of Princess Diana’s visit to an AIDS hospice is darkly funny and life-affirming, onstage at American Players Theatre through Sept. 24.

Jun 29 • 6:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • captimes.com

How should European scientists respond to the US AI kill switch?

Earlier in June, Europe’s worst fears of technological dependence were confirmed when the White House ordered the AI firm Anthropic to stop non-US citizens using its leading models. This kill-switch moment crystalised anxieties in Brussels that the continent, lagging the US on the creation of leading-edge AI models, is now a technological of vassal of Washington. The shock has specific implications for European scientists and universities. Some governments are now worried that with AI being integrated into labs, Donald Trump now has his finger hovering over an off switch for European science. “Having restrictions on this tool, it can have an impact on our own research,” said France’s research minister, Philippe Baptiste, at the VivaTech conference in Paris on June 18.Baptiste, himself a former academic, said that colleagues in mathematics had recently warned him they were now cut off from leading-edge US models, risking their work. “This model is not available anymore now because of the US restriction, and for the first time this had an impact on mathematics,” a field where large language models (LLMs) are making a significant contribution, said Baptiste. So, should European scientists avoid relying on US models in the future? Or would this be a self-harming overreaction? And how is AI being used in science, anyway? What happened?On June 12, it emerged that Washington, citing cybersecurity concerns, had ordered Anthropic to stop non-US citizens using two models: Claude Mythos 5, and Claude Fable 5, a version of Mythos but with guardrails to prevent abuse. Anthropic said Washington’s concerns were overblown. But forced to follow the order, yet with no way to check who was using the models, the company suddenly shut down access for everyone, US citizens included. There’s still no agreement on how to restore broad access. But last week, Bloomberg reported that select US companies, and the US government, still had access to Mythos despite the ban, but the EU’s cybersecurity agency Enisa had been shut out. Class division of researchersIn the longer term, access outside the US should be restored, said Marcel Salathé, co-director of the AI centre at the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne (EPFL), because a permanent restriction would be financially ruinous to US AI firms. “Even Trump will eventually budge to economic pressure,” he said.However, US AI firms might end up operating rather like banks, doing due diligence on users of their leading-edge AI models, he went on.European scientists are unlikely to fall foul of such checks, he said. But having a Chinese postgraduate in their lab, or doing a type of research the US disapproved of, could potentially result in access being denied. “It will create a sort of class division of researchers,” he said. More than frontier modelsHowever, successfully deploying AI in science is about far more than just having access to leading LLMs such as Mythos.Instead, many science-specific tools, most famously Alphafold, which predicts protein folding structures, require “far less” computing power to train than frontier models, well within the capabilities of European supercomputers, according to a recent analysis by the Arq Foundation, a Brussel-based AI think tank. Instead, tools such as Alphafold are possible because certain fields, like protein folding, weather prediction or astronomy, have large, clean, standardised datasets that can be used to train predictive models. Rather than compute, “data is the central constraint for AI for science,” the report says. For example, a less powerful physics model trained on CERN’s data “will be more valuable than the best model without certain data,” said Bengüsu Özcan, author of the report. European advantage?Europe could therefore steal a march by using its scientific data and infrastructure to create models US digital giants cannot. “They might actually match or go even beyond what these big [US] companies are doing,” said Özcan.Indeed, some European start-ups hope to create automated testing labs to create the kind of standardised data that could speed up the discovery of new materials. Materials scientists say there’s currently too little data to train models. AI scientistsHowever, even if the bottleneck for AI in science is often data, rather than compute, being at the mercy of the US for LLM access could still become a problem for European scientists. A new class of “AI scientists” based on leading LLMs is also emerging, Özcan’s report says.Unlike domain-specific tools like Alphafold, these try to automate day-to-day scientific work, by providing an overarching tool that coordinates specific models to synthesise existing literature, generate hypotheses or run analysis of data. The problem for Europe, however, is that these tools are sometimes based on US leading models. Google Deepmind’s AI Co-Scientist, for example, is built on Google’s Gemini LLM. Systematic failureThese scientific automation tools are still in their early stages, and still exhibit “systematic failures on scientific tasks,” Özcan’s report says. One of the problems is that the messy, day-to-day process of scientific discovery is largely not documented, meaning LLMs don’t have a good source of data to learn how scientists actually work. Meanwhile, some tasks, such as literature synthesis, don’t typically require access to leading edge models.However, the performance of AI scientific assistants could improve as companies such as Google pour resources into developing them. Rely on US“Unfortunately, for scientific assistants, there is not much we can do right now except rely on US frontier AI,” said Antoine Bosselut, a natural language processing expert based at EPFL. Chinese-built open models, which can run on local computers, lessening the risk of a shutdown, are touted as one alternative to US dependence. There’s also Mistral, once seen as Europe’s main AI hope, but the Paris-based company has seen its recent models fall behind in performance. But the Chinese alternatives are generally not as capable as US frontier AI models, said Bosselut, unless paired with fiddly, custom tools that allows them to act as independent agents. “Most scientists do not have the time,” he said. Don’t jump ship yetAlthough the kill switch moment is seen a warning shot for European scientists, it doesn’t mean labs should abandon US AI tools immediately. “I do not think the right response is simply to abandon US-based models and systems under the banner of sovereignty or independence,” said Mattias Björnmalm, secretary general of the Cesaer university association. “That would be an overreaction.”Related articlesEuropean sovereignty in AI requires ‘ugly trade-offs,’ say experts Robotic lab start-up makes case for €500M EU-funded materials testing facilityAI in science: is it useful? Instead, European researchers need to ask themselves whether they’re becoming dependent on technology that could be turned off in Washington, said Özcan. “They might not see this today, but they should really start asking this question,” she said. European researchers need a plan B, said Salathé. “I would recommend to every researcher, very proactively explore alternatives.”Own toolsIn addition, Björnmalm and others want European research institutions to develop their own scientific AI tools.Instead of signing AI deals with US digital giants, European universities should be using this money to create their own models, which may end up being superior for research, said Sabine Leonelli, an expert on the use of AI in science at the Technical University of Munich. “Universities in Europe seem to be happy to sign commercial contracts with US companies on the assumption [their AI tools] are better,” she said. But US frontier LLMs are typically opaque, and have been developed without independent scientific input, she said. “This is not good enough for science.”Last year, Swiss researchers released Apertus, an LLM designed to be completely transparent, from its development methods to its training data. The idea is that this makes scientific tools built on top of the model far more reproducible than with closed, commercial alternatives.“Europe needs more of this: serious capacity-building that gives researchers, universities and companies credible options,” said Björnmalm.

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