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Phantom Blade Zero made $223M on Steam and PS5 in five days
Phantom Blade Zero was always going to be a hit. We’ve been banging on about it for months now. Well, the results are in, and Phantom Blade Zero has indeed been a hit. Yesterday, S-Game reported that Phantom Blade Zero has sold 4M copies. As of this morning, our estimates show that Phantom Blade Zero has generated $223M via 4.3M copies sold across Steam (3.1M) and PlayStation (1.2M). This instantly makes Phantom Blade Zero this year’s #10 new 2026 game by premium revenue across Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation – and without an Xbox release to boot. Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe Combined, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong account for 55% of Phantom Blade Zero’s copies sold – 56% of copies on Steam and 50% on PlayStation. But revenue is slightly different. Phantom Blade Zero actually made more revenue outside of China However, due to regional pricing, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong account for a lower share of revenue, 45%. The three countries account for 40% of Phantom Blade Zero’s revenue on PlayStation, and 47% on Steam. This is due to regional pricing, which you can easily check in our platform: Using the $59.99 USD base price as a starting point, we can see that Phantom Blade Zero costs the equivalent of $40.31 in China (-32.8% of the US price) and $41.80 in Hong Kong (-30.3%). So while Chinese culture is at the heart of Phantom Blade Zero (in terms of theme and player base), it’s actually making more money in non-China markets. In fact, markets outside of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan account for $123M in Phantom Blade Zero revenues via 2M copies. Even when we remove revenues from these markets from the analysis, Phantom Blade Zero remains a top 20 new 2026 title by revenue across Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation. Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe In other words, Phantom Blade Zero is a global hit. It’s not all China – or even majority China, when it comes to revenues. The China spring board helped, but a successful State of Play and – more importantly – positive reviews helped this one land in other markets. Quality sells. China was hyped from the start, but Western players needed more convincing As we wrote back in August, China was always going to show up early for Phantom Blade Zero. Our daily Steam revenue data shows just that, and we can see when S-Game’s banging RPG won over players outside of China: On the day Phantom Blade Zero’s Steam pre-order button went live in mid-August, China accounted for nearly 70% of Phantom Blade Zero’s Steam revenue. The shares hovered around 68% throughout August. This is the hometown-hero effect we’ve covered in the past, with the home market committing first – almost sight unseen – on national pride and a lush-looking trailer alone. Then things get even more interesting. Following the State of Play on August 18, US daily revenue more than doubled (from $72K to $146K), China’s daily take nearly quadrupled ($237K to $892K), and the rest of the world’s revenues also more than doubled. As China spiked so much harder than the others, its share of revenue hardly moved, holding at around 68%. So the by-all-counts-awesome State of Play got non-China markets and the West interested (you can see daily spend jump), but it didn’t move the needle for overall revenue shares. Positive reviews were the Western tipping point. US daily revenue went from $106K on October 25 to $230K when the embargo lifted on the 26th, to $463K on the 27th, to $899K on the 28th. So nearly 8.5x more revenue in four days, boosted by the positive reviews and subsequent word of mouth. When Phantom Blade Zero launched on the 29th, things hit critical mass. On launch day, the US and the rest of the world combined out-earned China for the first time in Phantom Blade Zero’s whole pre-order history. You can see this unfolding pretty nicely in the revenue shifting shares, too. China’s lifetime revenue share sat at 68% in August and was still 65% as late as October 25th, but it dropped to 45% by November 2. Over that same period, the US nearly doubled its share from 10% to 18%, and the rest of the world climbed from 25% to 38%. Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe That’s not to say that China sold less – far from it. The West and non-China markets just showed up later, won over by the reviews and word of mouth. However you look at it, Phantom Blade Zero has become one of this year’s highest-grossing premium games. Daily volume seems to be decelerating a bit (which is natural), so subscribe below for more updates on performance. Speaking of performance and deceleration… Gran Turismo 7 is one of PlayStation’s biggest earners While games like Ghost of Yotei, Helldivers 2, Astro Bot, Wolverine (2.7M now, by the way), and even Marathon and Saros tend to get all the headlines (we hold our hand up there, too!), there’s one PlayStation game from the past five years that’s earned more than all of these games: and it’s one that’s rarely talked about in enthusiast circles. Gran Turismo 7, which launched in March 2022, has sold 12.7M copies. This amounts to $840M in revenue, second only to Spider-Man 2’s $1.3B – if we’re talking PlayStation first-party for this generation. Gran Turismo 7 still brings in around 3M players every month (and between 400K and 700K active players per day). It’s also an evergreen seller every year. For example, Gran Turismo 7 generated: $189.7M in 2023 via 2.9M copies $161.3M in 2024 via 2.7M copies $119.1M in 2025 via 1.7M copies This year, Gran Turismo 7 has already sold 1.3M copies, generating $74.7M And there’s more laps to come Every December is comfortably GT7’s biggest month of the year (except launch), and the gap is widening there. December generated 2.1x a normal month in 2023, and by 2025 that had grown to 2.8x. Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe As the typical months cool off with age, Christmas always holds strong, so the holiday period is becoming a bigger slice of Gran Turismo 7 yearly revenue. For Gran Turismo 7, the week around Christmas does 3x to 5x a typical week – three years running: Christmas week 2023: $14.7M (4.6x the year’s median week) Christmas week 2024: $9.3M (3.3x) Christmas week 2025: $8.5M (4.6x) These Christmas peaks happened at the full $59.99 (Gran Turismo 7 wasn’t discounted at all in December 2023 or December 2025). And although there was a discount late in December 2024, GT7’s peak week that year still happened at full price. You can really see why PlayStation hasn’t added this one to PlayStation Plus, eh? Say it after me: Subscriptions cannibalise premium revenue! On that note… Let’s take a quick look at how Gran Turismo 7 is doing versus its nearest competitor, Xbox console exclusive and long-running sim racer Forza Motorsport (released in 2023 as a reboot for the franchise, about 19 months after GT7). Forza Motorsport has sold around 1.3M copies across Xbox (75.4% for Xbox console and PC) and Steam (24.6%), grossing $89.9M across those platforms. Launch aligned, and on just PlayStation, Gran Turismo 7 had sold 10.2M copies, generating $676.1M, by that point. In other words, Gran Turismo 7 has sold the same number of copies this year as Forza Motorsport has sold since launch. When all is said and done, Gran Turismo 7’s 2026 revenues will have lapped Motorsport’s lifetime, too. It’s worth noting that Forza Motorsport was not released on last-gen consoles, and under a quarter of Gran Turismo 7’s revenue has come from PS4 consoles. Critically, Forza Motorsport is also on Game Pass, where nearly 7M players have accessed it. Meanwhile, the Forza Horizon series has been performing incredibly in terms of revenue. This year’s Forza Horizon 6 has generated $583.7M across Xbox and Steam despite Game Pass cannibalisation, and last year’s Forza Horizon 5 PlayStation port has generated $383.5M on PS5 alone. So two questions, then: How well is Forza Horizon 6 going to do when it launches on PS5 in January? Hit subscribe to get that in your inbox in January (which is in two months somehow!?) Subscribe 2. Open-world arcade Gran Turismo when? Also, if you like arcade racers, go and play Star Wars Galactic Racer. It rules. Like GOTY material, seriously. The last word Reply to this email – or reach out here – if you have any feedback for the newsletter – or want to request a game for us to cover. [Alinea Analytics boasts the most accurate PC and console estimates in the business. Game makers use our platform to understand their audience, keep an eye on the competition, monitor sales trends, and spot new opportunities. We equip game studios and financial institutions with accurate data and the confidence to make smarter, data-driven decisions. Want to talk about all things games market data? We’d love to chat!]
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OpenAI: ChatGPT Search Is About 20% of Google’s, 250 Million People Speak With ChatGPT, and Chat Is Merging With Work
OpenAI says ChatGPT growth is accelerating. The company added 200 million users over just the past two months, jumping from 1 billion to 1.2 billion weekly active users in 60 days. Its search volume, it says, is approximately 20% of Google’s. Its users create 1.5 billion images with it per week. And its voice mode, between dictation and speaking with ChatGPT, now has 250 million combined weekly active users. ChatGPT consumer product lead Adam Fry told me this during a brief fireside chat at an OpenAI-hosted dinner in New York City on Monday night. “The growth is just going big,” he said. During our conversation, Fry also revealed plans to merge ChatGPT’s Chat and Work modes (so that confusing toggle up top will soon go away), agreed with feedback that ChatGPT-created restaurant signage looks too uniform, and addressed the cost to serve its personal assistant Dots. Here’s a look at our full conversation, lightly edited for clarity and length. We also cover image generation, interactive interfaces, advertising, education, and public unease about AI: Alex Kantrowitz: OpenAI has analyzed ChatGPT’s search volume and compared it with Google’s. What did you find? Adam Fry: ChatGPT has been growing quite quickly. ChatGPT’s volume of search-like queries is now roughly one-fifth the volume of queries of Google. It’s a pretty amazing statistic when you think about it, mainly because we started just about a year and a half ago. It’s hard to remember this, but ChatGPT at a time didn’t have any up-to-date information. You’d ask a question, it would say something like, “It’s past my training date,” and nobody had any idea what that meant. You’re saying ChatGPT’s search volume is one-fifth of Google’s. Bing’s share of the search market is around 5%. Does that make you multiple times larger than Bing? To say that more directly, ChatGPT has gone from one billion to 1.2 in just the last two months. That’s roughly 100 million users in 30 days, and another 100 million in another 30 days. The growth is just going big, and we’re staying very focused on how fast ChatGPT is growing. What counts as a search? I might have 20 prompts back and forth in a ChatGPT conversation. Does each one count as a query? Story continues below… A MESSAGE FROM OUR SPONSOR Move upmarket without a rebuild Moving upmarket means saying yes to what enterprise buyers ask for first: SSO, directory sync, and audit logs. WorkOS gives you all three, so your team keeps building the product instead of the checklist. Get enterprise-ready. Continued from above…. Adam Fry: What people came to ChatGPT for to start, if you go back about two years, is really writing help and coding help. Those wouldn’t be things that you really search for. What we’ve seen over the last year is people have grown into all these other topics. Things like you’re looking up a person or people or a place or a thing, and it requires up-to-date information. That’s a key element. Another big part is finance questions or health questions, where you really want to make sure it’s up-to-date information that’s quite factual, and we’ll do a web search for those questions. It’s basically anything that a user would have traditionally gone to a traditional search engine for, but is now deciding to go to ChatGPT for. Does each conversation with a search embedded count as one search, or does every question that requires a web search count? Every time you ask a question and go search the web, that’s a search. You used to work at Google. How would you say the nature of search is changing? One of the things that people really love about ChatGPT is this personalization and this understanding of the broader journey. If you look in the past, people would go for a Q&A box, and you’d ask a one-off question, like how tall is the Eiffel Tower. But there’s so much context in our lives around, “Maybe I’m taking a trip to Paris.” It’s actually helpful for ChatGPT to respond, “Here’s how tall the Eiffel Tower is, but I know you’re going on a trip to Paris.” It’s that ability for people to actually maintain context over time that has led them to start using ChatGPT in this way. You’ve also announced 250 million weekly active users of voice input, including dictation and conversations with voice mode. We are at 250 million weekly active users. What’s amazing about this is, if you look at those 250 million, what we’re seeing is it’s actually also incremental to the product. It’s no longer just a novelty. People aren’t just trying out voice. We’re seeing them use voice input day to day in their daily life, and it’s grown so quickly. Those 250 million users are using voice input, and that could just be a quick question or a long conversation. We’re seeing both behaviors. We’re seeing people just not want to type. You just hold it and start talking to it, or it turns into a longer conversation where people just sit with it. The big reason for this is the frontier capabilities of our models that we’ve shipped. We shipped what we call GPT Live 1, and then we shipped GPT Live 1.1. The big change with this is that it’s much more natural to speak with. It’s something we call backchanneling and interruptibility. Mhhhm… What you just did there is what the model does, because it’s really good at having a bidirectional conversation. That push to the frontier—we were the first to really release this at scale—has made it so much more natural for people to chat. That’s still only about 20% of the user base. From the outside, that looks small. Why is it exciting from the inside? It’s very exciting for a few reasons. We see from the data that when people start using voice, they stay around using voice. One of the things, transparently, we can do a better job of is bringing more people into discovering it. We see that the number of people who discover it could be a lot higher. But once they do, it’s a really new way for people to interact with AI. We’ve made a lot of improvements to it too, where we’re just going to see the number go up. You have background mode, so now by default, if you close the app, it’ll show, “Hey, the conversation’s still going.” If you want to walk around the house or you’re putting away the groceries, you can still have a chat. That kind of continuity has also changed how much people use it. Dots launched on September 29 and is about a month old. How’s it doing? It’s doing great. We talk to people about their Dot, and the first thing that everyone says is, “I love my Dot.” One of the reasons we’re seeing this is the proactivity, its ability to reach out to you and figure out things. The biggest use case I see all the time is, “Did I forget something today that I was supposed to do?” You can just say to your Dot, “Remind me of things at the end of the day that I may have forgotten. Somebody emailed me or messaged me,” and it’ll do that. This Dot changes the paradigm of the relationship with AI, where it’s actually helping you and giving you time back. You’re more conservative with permissions than some competitors. I tried to give my Dot my credit card, and it wouldn’t take it. With the creator of OpenClaw in-house, why are Dots’ permissions more limited? This is a space where we want to be very thoughtful and conservative because it’s a new space where you’re entrusting your Dot to take care of things on behalf of you that matter and are meaningful. We’ve just talked about how you go to this 1.2 billion user growth and asking questions. Now we’re asking people, “Can you ask ChatGPT or your Dot to help get things done?” But when you ask it to help get things done, it’s a whole new level of trust. We’ve built up a tremendous amount of trust in giving the right answers to your questions, and we want to make sure that when we build this new product, it has a high degree of trust. It’s a long game. We think this is going to be a new market for a very long time, and we want to make sure that we’re being this trusted player in the market to start. I initially thought Dots would be available on my $20 plan, then realized I had to spend $100 a month to get it. I upgraded, but I’d like to downgrade at some point…. We hope to keep earning your business and make the value good enough. It’s a really good point. ChatGPT’s goal more broadly, which I think is unique for us in the market, is we are focused on bringing intelligence to everyone safely across the entire world. For Dots in particular, there’s no difference. We don’t have anything to share tonight about the date of when Dots will go to a broader set of users. But you can rest assured we’re working very hard, and there are a couple things we have to get right. Over time we’re going to work on more efficient, agentic models that are able and capable of doing things for you. The first one is, right now we wanted to make sure that your Dot is actually really helpful. We started with some of our best models, but over time we’re going to work on more efficient, agentic models that are able and capable of doing things for you. The second thing is around proactivity. We’re still dialing in: How much do I message you to help you get things done? We can always play around with that to understand how much usage should a user use to have a successful Dot. We’re going to work on both, and our goal and ambition is to bring it out to all users. How much background computing does a Dot require? I’ve read estimates that serving a $100 subscriber might cost OpenAI $3,000 in compute, and mine seems to read every email that arrives. How often is it checking connected data sources? Right now, Dots are on the compute-heavier side, and this is one of the things we want to make sure that we can dial back over time. But the goal is to give you the best product. This is our premium, always-on personal assistant. Once we nail that, we’ll figure out how to dial back the compute needs. The thing we’re seeing also from our models, as we train frontier models, is just how—I can’t even keep up with how quickly we have a new model, and each new model is more efficient. If you looked at 6.1 Sol when it came out relative to Astra, much more efficient. I’m very excited about the next set of models we have coming too that’ll be even more efficient that we can use. Elon Musk said the cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue. Is efficiency the key to winning against competitors, or is there more to it? There are a couple of factors that go into it. One is the cost side, but the other is the revenue side. On ChatGPT and on our consumer business, we’ve been extremely proud of our ability to diversify different revenue streams in a way that’s growing really fast. To give you another stat, we announced several months back that we had passed 50 million subscriptions, and the number has grown considerably since then. On ads, within 200 days, we reached more than a billion in ARR, and that business is growing extremely quickly. We also have credits. Rather than paying for subscriptions, users can buy more credits. Between credits, subscriptions, and ads, I’m confident that the value of a Dot is going to be able to pay for itself. Elon has subscriptions too. This is clearly an expensive product to serve. One thing we continue to bet on at OpenAI and ChatGPT more broadly is that the models will continue to get much better and much cheaper, way faster than any of us think. If you look back at the historicals on it, it continues to be true. From what I’ve seen, I see no slowing down of that. What is Meta doing right with Muse? It has spent a lot of time atop the App Store charts. There are a couple of things they’ve done well. The first is people have been craving simplicity in their products. One of the things we have stated publicly as well is, at times AI products can be too complex. We’ve announced we’re merging ChatGPT’s Chat and Work. We’re making it much more simple in the products. You don’t have as many toggles or sliders between efforts and different model pickers. One of the things they’ve done well is this simplicity. You just go in and you can ask a question. You don’t have to think too much about what you’re doing. That’s one thing that seems to have resonated with users, which we also believe in. Second, there’s something really nice about being able to access your agent across many different channels. We just announced and launched Dots on iMessage. Whether you talk to your Dot on email or iMessage or within the ChatGPT app, the ubiquity in getting your assistant out there is going to be key. Those are two things that, if I had to be nice to our competitors, I would say were two big ones. So Alexandr Wang’s meme-tweeting strategy isn’t something you’re going to emulate? I have a different tweeting style. ChatGPT still asks me to choose between Chat and Work, even though some people call this technology AGI. Will that distinction go away? Couldn’t agree more. We have to solve this. Asking users to choose — we’ve heard repeatedly from all of our users it’s too much to understand. When should you go to Chat? When should you go to Work? It’s solvable. There’s real research to solve to make sure the models can understand what your intent is. Are you asking for a fast, quick reply? Are you asking me to go do a long agentic task? We’re going to solve it, and the plan is to bring Chat and Work together. So one interface will work out whether I’m asking for a conversation or a task. When? Coming soon. You told me the majority of ChatGPT’s 1.2 billion users are using image functionality. What are they doing? Today, 1.5 billion images are created per week. It’s hard to even wrap my head around that number. They’re doing a wide range of things. One of the most interesting things they’ve started to do is really use it for productivity use cases. The first thing it started with—I don’t know if you saw the ’80s trend, but it was quite fun. You could take a photo of yourself and say, “Put me and my family in ’80s outfits.” I did this for my family, and it was a really fun poster. But what we’re also seeing is businesses for their menus, or posters for birthdays. People are using it almost in a productivity-like fashion to create visual diagrams of what they would like to see. We’ve actually brought the latency down on images as well, so it’s gotten a lot faster. It went from a very high number of seconds to getting much faster. As it comes down even further, the number of images people are creating and the number of use cases is going to grow a lot. My feature request: When a restaurant makes a menu or sign, prompt it for more specificity so it doesn’t look like every other AI-generated restaurant sign. Or offer a shuffle button for a different style. I agree with the feedback, and we’ll take it to the team. I’m seeing ChatGPT generate little interactive interfaces within its answers. What’s the direction for Intelligent UI, and how are people using it? I am extremely excited about Intelligent UI. If you go back a couple years, these chat apps were all text, and now that’s changing. They’re going to be visuals. Intelligent UI and our first attempt at this with GPT-6 Intelligent UI is really just the beginning. As you go to the extreme, what you can imagine is, let’s say you’re using voice mode, and you just say, “Show me how offside works.” Immediately it should show you a visual diagram, and you say, “No, I don’t quite understand it.” It should just repopulate. That’s where the future of this technology goes. It’s almost like you’re talking to a canvas that will update and change. People are finding it helpful for a lot of things. My favorite one is—it’s hard to admit that I had no idea how hearts work. The last biology course I took was in high school. I just asked it, “How does the heart work?” and it instantly gave me a beautiful interactive diagram of where blood flows and how it goes through. I’m really, really bullish on this for learning in particular. You’ve described useful applications in finance, health, and learning, and ChatGPT has 1.2 billion users. If people are getting so much value, why is public polling on AI so negative? The reality with AI is it is going to change the nature of how work gets done. For a lot of people, that is something that can feel scary at times, and we’ve all felt that. But I remain confident that when people actually use the product and they use AI, it very quickly changes how they perceive it. We’re at 1.2 billion, but there are still a lot of people who haven’t used it. The more people use it, get familiar with it, how it can actually help you in your life, it’s going to feel a lot less scary. Big Technology is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Thanks!! Subscribe
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Voters in four Berkeley City Council districts will decide races where housing, bike lanes and Israel emerged as top issues.
Politics & Power: Has President Trump changed democracy forever? A moment of reckoning for US institutions
Nick Allard, dean of the Jacksonville University College of Law, joins News4JAX anchor Bruce Hamilton on this Election Day episode of Politics & Power to discuss "Democracy in the Balance: The Trump Effect."
Lonza bets big on US growth, snaps up Merck KGaA’s CDMO business
In a major reshaping of the pharmaceutical contract manufacturing landscape, Lonza has struck a deal to acquire the CDMO business of Merck KGaA. | Lonza will purchase the German Merck’s U.S.-based CDMO network for mid-triple-digit million euros. Besides five sites, the deal will bolster Lonza’s prowess in rapidly growing sectors such as cell and gene therapy, bioconjugates, viral vectors and advanced drug-delivery technologies.
Midterm elections come to a close in referendum on Trump's presidency
Midterm elections that will serve as a referendum on President Donald Trump’s second term are coming to a close. Americans angry over high prices and an unpopular war with Iran decide on Tuesday whether to drastically shift power in Washington.
Martian Dust Is Much Finer Than Scientists Thought and That's Bad News for Astronauts
Perseverance has found extraordinarily fine dust that could complicate life inside a Martian habitat.
Michael Wilbon Steps Away From ESPN for Health Reasons
'This isn’t retirement, but it is a trip to the injured list,' Wilbon wrote in a statement.
Should California voters be required to show their ID to cast a ballot?
California voters are weighing a GOP-backed ballot measure that would require residents to prove their citizenship to vote
Cristiano Ronaldo’s son earns Portugal U-17 call-up
Like father, like son. Portugal legend and captain Cristiano Ronaldo’s son, Cristiano Jr. has earned himself a call-up to the country’s under-17 squad. The Al-Nassr superstar’s eldest son, Cristiano Ronaldo Júnior, has been selected to play for Portugal’s Under-17 side for the first time. Ronaldo Jr., 16, was included in Filipe Ramos’ 23-man squad […] The post Cristiano Ronaldo’s son earns Portugal U-17 call-up appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Always leave windows open when you fly, says flight attendant: Why
As a flight attendant, I have good reasons why passengers should keep window shades open during a flight while in the air rather than leave them shut.
Citizen-led ballot initiatives seek to limit electricity firms’ political donations in Michigan
One motion considers reining in political spending while another proposes to municipalize the grid in sign of anger with datacenters and high bills
Bills show different defensive tendencies against Ravens
Inside how the Bills defense was different vs. Ravens… will it continue?
Today in White Sox History: November 3
The South Siders pickpocket a superb swingman from Boston
Cats and dogs in restaurants: cute or a health hazard?
Critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan ate at a restaurant with a resident cat. Cute, or a health hazard?
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure: Arcade announced for PS5, Xbox Series, Switch, and PC
Art of Play has announced side-scrolling arcade action adventure game Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure: Arcade for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Switch, and PC (Steam). A release date was …
What's at stake in the 2026 midterms for Elon Musk, tech, economy
From inflation and AI backlash to Elon Musk's record spending on Republicans, here's what's at stake in the 2026 midterm elections.
Many WV SNAP recipients will have two sets of work requirements to keep food assistance, healthcare
Many low-income state residents will soon be required to meet two sets of work requirements — one to keep healthcare and another for food assistance.
Midterms 2026 live updates: Election Day voters head to the polls as Democrats look to flip GOP control of the House and Senate
Democrats need a net gain of four seats in each chamber to take control of Congress as Republicans fight to hold on to their majorities and President Trump looks to help the GOP avert a so-called blue...
Wharton economist says his AI views 'radically shifted'
Wharton Associate Professor of Finance Sylvain Catherine says AI tools can boost the economy, but the AI race risks a "wild level of uncertainty."
DoorDash tells workers not to connect to Instacart peers on LinkedIn.
DoorDash told employees not to connect with Instacart peers on LinkedIn until their deal is closed.
Meet the 32 US senators with fraternity and sorority ties
Nearly a third of US senators have ties to Greek life sororities and fraternities. See the 32 sitting senators and their affiliations.
Meta's AI crawler nearly took an artist's business offline
An artist said Meta bots hit her site 550,000 times in days, overwhelming her host and leaving her struggling to keep her business online.
The Gen Z playbook for ultrarich reputation makeovers
When the ultrarich want a reputation makeover, they call these Extremely Online Gen Zers.
Live Results: Maine Senate midterm election
Maine's Senate election pits incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins against Democratic former state Senate President Troy Jackson.
Live Results: Ohio governor midterm election
Democrat Amy Acton, a physician, is running against former Republican presidential candidate and Trump ally Vivek Ramaswamy in the race.
Chinese AI models fall behind Anthropic, OpenAI in new AI rankings
Chinese AI models fell behind US rivals after Artificial Analysis revamped its tests, raising questions about open-weight AI's performance.
Inside an Amazon warehouse where people and robots work side by side
Amazon's warehouse in Tracy, California, uses robots like Hercules, Pegasus, and Cardinal to enhance efficiency, but human workers remain crucial.
A Few Miles From the US Capitol, Dozens Slept in Their Cars, Waiting for Free Care
If you’ve heard about how people are struggling with affording healthcare but haven’t been touched by it or seen it, then this pop-up clinic just outside Washington, D.C., put the problem on full display.
'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.
The Election-Denier Backpedal
The president is not getting the political cover he once enjoyed from Republicans.
Wilmington artist remixes pop culture and politics to tell two sides of the American story
By creating collisions between iconography and stark reality, Oscar Eduardo de Paz hopes to inspire the viewer to think critically.
See which House districts have the biggest shifts this midterm election
How far has each House district moved since the 2024 presidential race? Watch the shift as votes are counted.
Commentary: When leaders disagree, ceremony plays an important role
When Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived at the White House on Sept. 24, the U.S. welcomed him with an elaborate display of ceremony. The Army Herald Trumpets sounded a fanfare,
Seventeen's Joshua and Jeonghan hit the road on a besties' tour
Business Insider attended JxJ's South Korea tour opening, where Seventeen's Joshua and Jeonghan showcased their 12-year friendship onstage.
Martinsville Is Everything That Makes NASCAR Great. America’s Short Track.
Martinsville Speedway Remains NASCAR’s True Short-Track Treasure, From Grandfather Clocks to All-the-Way Hot Dogs MARTINSVILLE, Va. — NASCAR has changed dramatically since its earliest days. The cars are faster, the technology is more advanced and the sport’s schedule looks considerably different. But Martinsville Speedway still feels like Martinsville. The Virginia short track has been part…
Pivot Enters the Road Bike World with the Pravia, ‘A Race Bike for Humans’
The first road bike from the Arizona-based brand looks to bridge the gap between high-performance, aggressive road bikes and the more approachable geometry of a modern endurance bike.
Push harder. Go further. The science of collagen peptides for endurance
Randomised controlled trials examine how daily supplementation alongside structured training influences running performance, physiological responses and recovery following exercise-induced muscle damage
Every Man United player to also play for Aston Villa
Manchester United will welcome Aston Villa to Old Trafford on Sunday.The two sides have seen numerous players represent both clubs over the years, particularly in recent seasons.Here is a list of the ...
Walt Disney layoffs: Thousands of job cuts likely; company asks managers to target 20% savings
Cost reduction: Walt Disney is considering cutting thousands of jobs and has directed managers to target 20% annual savings to reinvest in films and theme parks.
UC Riverside political expert examines polling uncertainties and voter turnout ahead of midterms
Dr. Andy Crosby, a professor at UC Riverside's School of Public Policy, warns of statistical uncertainties in key battleground states and highlights fluid voter trends.
Jazz Drop Fifth Straight Game in Blowout Loss to Spurs
A stagnant offense and defensive lapses fueled a 1-6 start as Utah crumbled in San Antonio, leaving Lauri Markkanen’s 22-point effort wasted in a lopsided transition battle.
Universal Health Services (UHS) Stock Looks Cheap Following Its 44% Five Year Run
Universal Health Services has seen its share price rise over the last few years even as recent returns have slipped, which puts fresh focus on whether the current valuation lines up with what the business is earning. With investors weighing hospital operations alongside a growing behavioral health footprint, the question now is how much of those earnings the market is already pricing in. Over the past 5 years the stock has gained 43.5%, which makes the link between that long run in the share...
China's AI trade has crashed; Beijing is trying to stop the stock rout
China's AI-stock rout adds to pressure from weak consumer spending, a property slump, and sluggish growth.
Hurricanes Favorites to Land Dylan Larkin, Odds Show
The market is currently pricing in the Carolina Hurricanes as the favorites to land Dylan Larkin, but that's just one side of the story. The post Hurricanes Favorites to Land Dylan Larkin, Odds Show appeared first on HEAVY.
A referendum on Trump, election monitors and a Democratic shift: What to watch on Election Day
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has repeatedly encouraged voters to pretend he's on the ballot this Election Day. He's not, of course. But there is rea
Why your mental health needs an annual checkup, too
Near holidays and the year's end, patients squeeze in last-minute appointments, prompting experts to vie for mental health checks, alongside physical checkups.
Republicans hope to stave off predictions of midterm losses amid high costs and the Iran war
President Donald Trump has spent most of the last month trying to shore up red states that will decide the Senate today. Follow for live updates
Americans vote in midterms that could define Trump's closing chapter
The midterms will shape Congress for the last years of his presidency, writes Sarah Smith, but they are also a test of what politics may look like without him.
University announces plans for new interdisciplinary science building
The University will construct a new building to aid collaborative scientific research, UT President Jim Davis announced in his 2026 State of the University address on Oct. 21. The University has not released any details on the future location or design of the building and a University spokesperson was also unable to provide additional information....
Washington Commanders Lose Jeremy McNichols to Long-Term Injury
The Washington Commanders have a big absence to fill in its running back rotation with news that Jeremy McNichols will be sidelined for months
American went to China after college; now he's back to grow his career
Alex Greenberg says the time he spent in China in his 20s shaped his social life, career, and the way he sees the world.
Monday's Connecticut high school sports roundup: Amity girls soccer advances to SCC final
A look at the Connecticut high school sports scene for Monday, November 2, 2026.
Villa Vie Odyssey halted operations. Their belongings are still aboard.
Dwight and Sheila Greene say they are on another cruise, waiting to see what happens to Villa Vie Odyssey.
A Path Forward for Health Care in the Imperial Valley
Written by Sergio Uriarte. Last Updated November 2, 2026 in Healthcare. I grew up in the town of Imperial. While my career in medicine led to a prolonged residence in North Carolina and a recent return to San Diego, my ties to
Will Venable named AL Manager of the Year finalist
The leader of the South Siders is deservedly being recognized for a fantastic season, making history along the way.
‘We locked the door’: Business owners pull dozens to safety during Magic City Classic shooting
Business owners near Legion Field rushed dozens of people inside their restaurant Saturday night to protect them after gunfire erupted during the Magic City Classic, killing one person and injuring eight others.
Adam Robinson's tragic Florida Learjet crash shakes the tech community
Tech founder Adam Robinson, 45, died in a Learjet crash in Florida on Sunday. Robinson's bootstrapping philosophy inspired many entrepreneurs.
Joe Biden makes surprise appearance at Dornsife’s Center for the Political Future
The former president spoke with students about democracy over ice cream.
UTSA opens season with lopsided loss at San Jose State
The Roadrunners were dominated on the interior, tipping off the 2026-27 season with a blowout loss on the road against San Jose State.
Michigan Opens New Season With 84–68 Victory Over Oakland
Mike Boynton Jr. secures a debut win as transfer J.P. Estrella dominates inside, launching the Wolverines’ title defense ahead of a high-stakes championship rematch against UConn.
Sacramento postal worker charged with withholding more than 1,000 pieces of political mail
A Sacramento postal worker is facing federal charges after prosecutors say he withheld more than 1,000 pieces of political campaign mail intended for residents ahead of California's Nov. 3 general election.
Apple says it can't predict when iPhone Duo supply will meet demand
Apple's chief operating officer said during Monday's earnings call that "it's really hard to predict when supply and demand will be in balance."
Packers add ex-Raiders QB to practice squad
The Green Bay Packers pulled off one roster move Monday. But they’re not moving running back Josh Jacobs despite his name being linked to trade rumors. Instead, coach Matt LaFleur and company are bringing in former Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Cam Miller The past NFL Draft pick for the Raiders is heading to Lambeau Field , per ESPN NFL insider […] The post Packers add ex-Raiders QB to practice squad appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Hundreds of homes, businesses without power in Richmond’s Northside
Hundreds of homes and businesses in Richmond’s Northside are without power Monday evening, with Dominion Energy saying it may take hours to restore customers’ electricity.
The midterms will change US politics. But NZ will keep feeling the Trump effect
Donald Trump’s presidency has seen unprecedented executive power, meaning Democratic gains could have limited impact on oil prices and tariffs.
Report Details “Patterns” of Trump’s Censorship of Science
An analysis of 244 articles identified the administration’s conditional funding of federal grants as the most-cited mechanism that has constrained public health research.