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Oct 20 • 1:57 PM EDT • Business • bostonglobe.com

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

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

Oct 20 • 1:47 PM EDT • Technology • bigtechnology.com

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Oct 20 • 12:00 AM EDT • Business • lptv.org

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Oct 19 • 10:52 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Ballots mailed out to Oregon voters: What to do if you didn’t get one

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Election Day is just over two weeks away and ballots in Oregon and Washington were mailed out last week. But there are plenty of voters still wondering where their bal…

Oct 19 • 10:23 PM EDT • Politics • koin.com

In tight WA House race, sparks fly over safety at challenger’s business

Questions about safety at Braun Northwest have become a flashpoint in a Southwest Washington district grappling with a deadly tank collapse at a Longview mill.

Oct 19 • 9:59 PM EDT • Business • seattletimes.com

In tight WA House race, sparks fly over safety at challenger’s business

Questions about safety at Braun Northwest have become a flashpoint in a Southwest Washington district grappling with a deadly tank collapse at a Longview mill.

Oct 19 • 9:59 PM EDT • Politics • seattletimes.com

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

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

Oct 19 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • columbiaspectator.com

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

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

Orange County teachers face ongoing pay and health insurance disputes

The recommendations come as the two sides remain at an impasse over compensation and health care costs

Oct 19 • 7:26 PM EDT • Health • wftv.com

Return of Josh Jacobs should help Packers boost rushing attack

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

Oct 19 • 7:13 PM EDT • Sports • spectrumnews1.com

US ties with Ukraine hit new low as Trump slights Zelenskyy and eases up on Russia

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S.-Ukraine alliance is careening toward a possible breaking point, with Moscow strengthened by President Donald Trump's recent rejection

Oct 19 • 7:08 PM EDT • Politics • wtop.com

Washington Nationals Player Report Cards: Role player edition

Taking a look at how some of the role players for the Washington Nationals' fared during the 2026 regular season

Oct 19 • 6:58 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Brain drain beyond Israel: Scientists are leaving the US, too

Delays in research grants and concerns about the future of American science are pushing researchers to seek opportunities overseas; One scientist who was sure she would spend her entire career in the US: ' I don’t think here is our home anymore '

Oct 19 • 6:54 PM EDT • Science • ynetnews.com

BYU Football Releases Updated Depth Chart Ahead of UCF Game

Fresh off a high-stakes upset, the Cougars shuffle their offensive line and lean on quarterback Bear Bachmeier's rushing mobility to offset key injuries before facing the Knights.

Oct 19 • 6:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Trump administration holds up Patriot missiles for Ukraine

Delays in approving transfers from partner countries coincide with a worsening rupture between President Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky.

Oct 19 • 6:33 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com

‘It’s Disappointing’: John Harbaugh Frustrated by Giants’ Rushing Struggles

Oct 19 • 6:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

KREM 2 News

Welcome to the YouTube channel for KREM 2 News. KREM 2 News is the local CBS-affiliate news station covering Spokane, Eastern Washington and North Idaho. Subscribe for the latest news, weather, features and sports in the Inland Northwest. For the latest news, visit www.krem.com.

Oct 19 • 5:17 PM EDT • Health • youtube.com

First Lady announces NIH Women's Health Division

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump announce an executive order establishing a new Women's Health Division at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a White House Women's Health Task Force, followed by an impromptu Q&A session with White House reporters on the South Lawn.

Oct 19 • 5:06 PM EDT • Health • fox5atlanta.com

Ukrainian skeleton racer, Olympian Vladyslav Heraskevych talks about sports, politics

Ukrainian skeleton racer and Olympian Vladyslav Heraskevych recently visited Washington, D.C., for the Ukraine Action Summit to advocate against Russian aggression.

Oct 19 • 4:00 PM EDT • Politics • voanews.com

Judge grills Trump administration over plans to overhaul Washington golf course

A federal judge hearing testimony about President Donald Trump’s plans to redevelop a Washington golf course is expressing deep skepticism over the government’s claim that the recent mass cutting of

Oct 19 • 3:37 PM EDT • Politics • lancasteronline.com

Pokémon Night Out: Location Backgrounds, Toxtricity, and Unown

Pokémon Night Out is bringing exclusive in-game bonuses to Los Angeles and London, including Location Backgrounds for Pikachu and Gengar, Timed Research featuring Toxtricity, and rare Shiny Unown encounters. The bonuses were revealed on October 19, 2026, and will be available to Trainers attending the Pokémon Night Out concerts: Los Angeles: October 24, 2026, at […]

Oct 19 • 1:39 PM EDT • Technology • pokemongohub.net

Small business takes aim at DISA’s Enclave expansion

Competitive Range Solutions claims the Defense Information Systems Agency sat on the requirement for three years and now claims this is the only contract it can use to meet deadlines.

Oct 19 • 12:16 PM EDT • Business • washingtontechnology.com

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

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

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

Massachusetts casinos see tax drop from horse racing machines

State tax revenue from casinos could drop by up to $73 million per year, the operators said.

Oct 19 • 11:57 AM EDT • Business • bostonglobe.com

Early Black Friday Deals Already Live on Square Enix Games, Slashing Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and More Down to Brand-New All-Time Lows at Amazon and Best Buy

Amazon and Best Buy have both dropped early Black Friday sales on select Square Enix games that features big price cuts on Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, and loads more.

Oct 19 • 11:31 AM EDT • Technology • ign.com

Steelers PFF grades: Germie Bernard shines; Troy Fautanu stagnates

If cornerback Jamel Dean can stay healthy, he may be a rare veteran acquisition to work out for the Pittsburgh Steelers at the position.

Oct 19 • 11:13 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Los Angeles Business Owner’s Case Seeking Compensation After SWAT Team Destroyed Shop

WASHINGTON—Today, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear a Los Angeles small business owner’s lawsuit seeking compensation after a SWAT team destroyed his print […]

Oct 19 • 11:08 AM EDT • Business • ij.org

US Supreme Court rejects music labels' challenge to copyright termination ruling

By Blake Brittain WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - The US Supreme Court rejected on Monday a challenge by a group of music labels to a judicial decision that said a

Oct 19 • 10:28 AM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com

Scientists Thought Water Carved These Gullies on Mars. Now They Suspect Something Much Stranger

New observations suggest that seasonal dry ice can send soil rushing downhill, carving channels that look deceptively familiar.

Oct 19 • 10:22 AM EDT • Science • zmescience.com

Trump will sign an order aimed at boosting women’s health research, a plan backed by the first lady

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order aimed at bolstering federal research on women's health , a move pushed by first lady

Oct 19 • 10:21 AM EDT • Health • wtop.com

Trump will sign an order aimed at boosting women's health research, a plan backed by the first lady

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order aimed at bolstering federal research on women's health, a move pushed by first lady Melania Trump, the

Oct 19 • 10:17 AM EDT • Health • 2news.com

Steam's #2 Driving Game Sets a New Bar For Realism on PS5

BeamNG.drive is an astonishing sim in search of a game

Oct 19 • 10:01 AM EDT • Technology • polygon.com

39 homers should force the Yankees to rethink third base

Hanshin has agreed to let Teruaki Sato pursue a move to Major League Baseball through the posting system. For the […]

Oct 19 • 9:56 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

CCIA Study Finds South Korea Fines U.S. Companies Up to Seven Times More Than Korean Firms Relative to Business Activity

Washington – A new study by the CCIA Research Center finds that South Korea’s competition authority imposes penalties on U.S. companies at rates four to seven

Oct 19 • 9:28 AM EDT • Business • ccianet.org

Trump to create new NIH division, task force for women's health

WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order alongside first lady Melania Trump on Monday creating a task force and a National Institutes of Health

Oct 19 • 9:27 AM EDT • Health • yahoo.com

Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez fights to keep a foothold in Pacific Northwest's Trump country

Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington has won twice in a district that voted for Trump, making her one of the few rural Democrats in Congress.

Oct 19 • 9:00 AM EDT • Politics • wsls.com

Concentra Expands Occupational Health Access in Greater Washington D.C. Metro with New Arlington Medical Center

Concentra®, the nation’s largest provider of occupational health services, is expanding its Washington, D.C.-area network with a new medical center in Arling...

Oct 19 • 9:00 AM EDT • Health • businesswire.com

The Latest: Democrats gain ground with AAPI adults as trust in GOP fades, poll finds

According to a new AP-NORC/AAPI Data poll, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander adults have become more disillusioned with President Donald Trump and Republicans as the Nov. 3 midterm elections approach, giving Democrats a substantial edge on major issues like the economy and health care

Oct 19 • 8:49 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com

Minnesota has Ilhan Omar’s back

Minnesotans say the raid on Omar’s home was all about politics. They also argue that it will backfire and generate boosted turnout for DFL candidates.

Oct 19 • 8:46 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com

Trump doubles down on golf course renovation plan as legal battle continues

President Donald Trump early Monday doubled down on his plan to close and renovate a Washington, DC, golf course, saying construction would begin “IMMEDIATELY” despite a judge’s order to provide three days’ notice ahead of any construction.

Oct 19 • 8:24 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com

Senator Urges FCC to Reject Conservative Group's Bid to Use Political AI-Generated Robocalls

WASHINGTON, Oct ⁠19 (Reuters) - ⁠Senate Democratic ⁠leader Chuck Schumer on Monday ‌urged the Federal ‌Communications ⁠Commission ⁠not to approve a petition to allow political AI-generated robocalls from conservative political ⁠group Club ⁠for ⁠Growth ahead of the November congressional ...

Oct 19 • 8:23 AM EDT • Politics • usnews.com

WA Department of Social and Health Services eyes cuts, modernization for 2027

Washington’s largest state agency is preparing for a difficult 2027 budget by pursuing two strategies at once: pulling back where it can while trying to modernize how it delivers services.

Oct 19 • 7:00 AM EDT • Health • yahoo.com

WA Department of Social and Health Services eyes cuts, modernization for 2027

Washington’s largest state agency is preparing for a difficult 2027 budget by cutting back on expenses and modernizing its services.

Oct 19 • 7:00 AM EDT • Health • washingtonstatestandard.com

Washington Commanders vs. San Francisco 49ers: How to watch Monday Night Football, start time, where to stream free and more

Oct 19 • 6:25 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Titans vs Colts winners, losers as defense carries the day, Carnell Tate shines

Carnell Tate continues to stake the claim as the Titans' top receiver among Titans vs. Colts winners and losers.

Oct 19 • 6:06 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Mass. nail salon workers face low pay, health hazards

A survey of Massachusetts nail technicians found that most earn less than $40,000 and suffer from headaches, asthma, and nausea.

Oct 19 • 6:01 AM EDT • Health • bostonglobe.com

Washington Commanders vs San Francisco 49ers: Three Stats to Know

Diving into three numbers that stick out ahead of the week six matchup between the Washington Commanders and San Francisco 49ers

Oct 19 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Opinion | Warning signs are flashing for Minnesota’s health care system

"However, having a strong health care system and having a sustainable health care system are two different things. Increasingly, Minnesota is struggling to achieve both," state Rep. Danny Nadeau writes.

Oct 19 • 5:59 AM EDT • Health • startribune.com

West Village bars, restaurants face city scrutiny over zoning, licenses at council member’s request

A Detroit City Councilmember is pushing for a review of a handful of businesses.

Oct 19 • 5:45 AM EDT • Business • crainsdetroit.com

Analysis | Home heating oil is a sleeper campaign issue across cold-weather battlegrounds

As the weather grows cold in key battlegrounds nationwide, sky-high home heating oil prices could tilt a series of tight races.

Oct 19 • 5:24 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com

Researchers have uncovered a likely origin of our allergies

While bacteria and viruses set off immediate alarm in our immune system, allergies follow a different path.

Oct 19 • 5:00 AM EDT • Technology • washingtonpost.com

Researchers have uncovered a likely origin of our allergies

While bacteria and viruses set off immediate alarm in our immune system, allergies follow a different path.

Oct 19 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com

Inside a Republican’s business safety record, under scrutiny in key House race

Public records and interviews with ex-workers shed light on a company run by John Braun, who is challenging Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Washington).

Oct 19 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • washingtonpost.com

Analysis | Republicans’ grip on state power is also at risk in elections

The GOP has had a majority of governorships for more than a decade.

Oct 19 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com

IOPP and China Science Publishing & Media announce partnership

Collaboration will make IOP Publishing's journal metadata available through SciEngine, improving research discoverability in China

Oct 19 • 4:17 AM EDT • Science • researchinformation.info

Opinion | Has Hyannis found the secret to a fun, thriving downtown?

Zoning changes plus beautification money raised from local businesses spur housing construction and attract businesses.

Oct 19 • 4:00 AM EDT • Business • bostonglobe.com

TraceLink Expands Global Investment in Track & Trace and Supply Chain Agentic Business Processes

/PRNewswire/ -- TraceLink, the world's largest Agentic Business Network, today announced a major organizational investment, establishing dedicated global...

Oct 19 • 3:00 AM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com

Expansion of the security segment wholesale business through the acquisition of shares in companies

The security segment of TKM Grupp AS is expanding its operations across the Baltics by establishing a subsidiary in Latvia and acquiring companies engaged in the wholesale distribution of security systems in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. In 2023, TKM Grupp AS acquired a 100% shareholding in Walde AS, a company engaged in the wholesale distribution of security systems in Estonia (stock exchange announcement of 23 December 2022). On 16 October 2026, Walde SIA, a 100% subsidiary of Walde AS, was e

Oct 19 • 2:30 AM EDT • Business • uk.finance.yahoo.com

Jordan Love accounts for two total touchdowns in win

Jordan Love had three touchdown passes dropped on SNF, finishing with 276 yards, one TD and one INT in the win over Dallas.

Oct 19 • 2:20 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Ryan Flournoy scores late touchdown in Week 6 defeat

Ryan Flournoy was targeted nine times in Week 6, finishing with 40 yards and a touchdown on seven receptions versus Green Bay.

Oct 19 • 1:37 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Weekly Recap: Open-science AV partnership and benchmark performance pledge

Valeo SE (EURONEXT:FR) is partnering with KE:SAI to co-develop an open-science autonomous driving system for general vehicles, aiming to match and surpass major public driving benchmarks while committing to reproducible AI research and openly publishing results.Previous Week RecapThis is an AI-gene…

Oct 19 • 1:00 AM EDT • Science • tradingview.com

Democrats gain ground with AAPI adults as trust in Republicans fades, AP-NORC/AAPI Data poll finds

A new AP-NORC/AAPI data poll finds that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander adults have become more disillusioned with President Donald Trump and Republicans as the midterm elections approach

Oct 19 • 12:16 AM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com

Four-catch day for Chris Godwin in Week 6

Chris Godwin was held under 40 yards receiving for a fourth straight game, finishing with 37 in Week 6 against the Steelers.

Oct 18 • 9:01 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Larson Keeps Cup Points Lead After Crashing Out at Phoenix

Kyle Larson hung on to the NASCAR Cup Series championship lead after a crash-out of a race ended with a crash Sunday at Phoenix Raceway.

Oct 18 • 8:58 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

Scientists Discover Metals That Refuse To Crack at an Astonishing -424°F

Two experimental alloys resisted cracking at −424°F by forming new crystal defects, offering a possible route to tougher metals for extreme cold. Most metals become stronger as they cool, but some also become more vulnerable to breaking. Iron, tungsten, and chromium belong to a class called body-centered cubic metals, whose atomic arrangement can make them

Oct 18 • 8:51 PM EDT • Science • scitechdaily.com

AI Breach of Australian Healthcare Website Sparks Regulation Debate

Nearly three months after a June attack involving OpenAI on the Australian Medicare website, the Australian government received a five-paragraph email from the company informing officials of the breach. Although the Australian government has promised to take further action, such as establishing task

Oct 18 • 7:07 PM EDT • Health • carolinapoliticalreview.org

Obama says Trump officials’ pursuit of Rep. Omar should ‘outrage all Americans’

In a statement Sunday, the former president said the administration is targeting the Minnesota Democrat based on her political beliefs.

Oct 18 • 2:55 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com

New Tools Let Users Edit and Load Modified VBIOS on GeForce RTX GPUs Without Flashing

A developer who goes by Panchovix has released three tools that let NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50, RTX 40, and RTX 30-series owners run a modified VBIOS without writing anything to the card's flash chip. The first is a VBIOS editor for Windows and Linux that can change power limits, voltage ceilings,...

Oct 18 • 2:35 PM EDT • Technology • techpowerup.com

Obama Defends Rep. Ilhan Omar Amid Trump Administration Inquiry

Federal agents searched Ms. Omar’s Washington home last week and issued subpoenas to some family members in search of evidence of fraud in immigration paperwork.

Oct 18 • 2:34 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

The Elizabeth Holmes documentary is crushing it at the box office. See how much it's made so far.

Nathan Fielders nearly three-hour documentary about disgraced entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes is running up numbers at the box office

Oct 18 • 1:56 PM EDT • Entertainment • africa.businessinsider.com

'You Can See Everything' is crushing it at the box office

Lance Oppenheim and Nathan Fielder have a hit with their new film, "You Can See Everything." It's the highest-grossing documentary of the year.

Oct 18 • 1:56 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

OnPoint Helps Small Businesses in Oregon and SW Washington Defend Against Latest Cyber Scams - The Source

Cyber threats are becoming harder for small businesses to detect as criminals use artificial intelligence, stolen credentials, and increasingly sophisticated impersonation tactics. Half of small and midsize businesses reported a cybersecurity incident in the past year, according to the National Cybersecurity Alliance’s 2026 Small Business Cybersecurity Awareness & Practices Survey. OnPoint Community Credit Union is highlighting emerging […]

Oct 18 • 1:51 PM EDT • Business • bendsource.com

El-Sayed gets into testy exchange with man who presses him on Muslim Brotherhood

“I think it’s you who needs to understand the Constitution, not me,” El-Sayed told the man, who identified himself as “Tommy.”

Oct 18 • 12:04 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com