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New Richland Lab Could Transform How Scientists Study Microbes and Boost Regional Jobs

The BriefGroundbreaking held Tuesday: PNNL officially began construction on the M2PC lab, a 30,800-square-foot facility funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science that will study soil microbes to improve crop productivity and develop new biotechnology applications. The facility will be open to researchers from around the nation and the world.Research timelines could shrink dramatically: The facility's automation and AI capabilities could reduce experiments that currently take six months to just 72 hours, allowing scientists to explore more possibilities faster than ever before.New jobs coming to the Tri-Cities: The project is expected to create positions for automation engineers, AI experts, roboticists, technicians, and skilled craftspeople, with the facility opening in 2029.RICHLAND, Wash. — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory broke ground Tuesday on a first-of-its-kind facility that could accelerate scientific discoveries about the microscopic organisms living in soil—organisms that may hold the key to growing more food and developing new energy technologies.The Microbial Molecular Phenotyping Capability, or M2PC, represents a significant investment in automation and artificial intelligence to speed up research that traditionally takes years to complete. The 30,800-square-foot facility will house more than 100 connected automated instruments designed to study microbes at a pace and scale never before possible.Reshaping Agriculture's FutureThe M2PC facility will not put a new tool directly into a farmer's hands tomorrow morning, but it is actively reshaping the commercial pipeline to solve agriculture's biggest headache with biologicals: inconsistent field performance. For years, PNNL researchers have explored how microbes work and how they might help produce useful materials, advance energy technologies, and address challenges involving critical materials and minerals. But those experiments have been limited by what researchers could accomplish by hand."They can be used to provide nutrients to a plant so that the plant would grow more. So, like increasing your crop productivity, for example," said Douglas Mans, PNNL's Associate Laboratory Director for Integrated Discovery Sciences.PNNL's own research shows soil microbes can help plants access nutrients and withstand drought—benefits that could prove crucial as farmers face growing environmental pressures. The M2PC facility will allow scientists to identify and optimize useful microbes faster than ever before, accelerating the development of biological solutions that actually work consistently in the field.What Makes M2PC UniqueThe Microbial Molecular Phenotyping Capability differs from traditional research labs because it operates as a first-of-its-kind, AI-enabled autonomous laboratory designed to shrink experimental timelines from years down to months or weeks. The M2PC lab will connect more than 100 automated instruments to grow microbes, prepare samples, measure their behavior, and link observations to the molecular processes behind them. Artificial intelligence will help analyze results and guide the next experiments, allowing scientists to explore more questions faster.Deb Gracio, PNNL Director, emphasized the transformative potential during Tuesday's groundbreaking ceremony: "Research that has taken years will become possible in months and hopefully in weeks."That acceleration is already being demonstrated. PNNL's smaller automated lab, called the Anaerobic Microbial Phenotyping Platform or AMP2, completed three experimental cycles in just 72 hours—a process that normally would have taken about six months."That normally would have taken us about six months … and we were able to do that in 72 hours," Mans said.The AMP2 laboratory is not being closed or replaced. Instead, the current 1,800-square-foot laboratory serves as an active prototype and precursor for the much larger M2PC facility. AMP2 will continue operating as a separate lab designed to run anaerobic experiments—those conducted in the absence of oxygen—while M2PC will focus on aerobic research.Broader Applications Beyond AgricultureWhile improving crop productivity is one important application, the M2PC facility is designed to support research into multiple areas critical to national priorities. The lab will advance research into biofuels, manufacturing materials, and energy technologies. It will also help researchers understand how microbes respond to environmental changes and how to design biological systems for biotechnology applications.As a flagship component of the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, M2PC represents a significant investment in using artificial intelligence and automation to accelerate U.S. scientific discovery. Dorothy Koch, Associate Director of the DOE Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research program, highlighted the facility's importance during the groundbreaking."M2PC will accelerate biological discovery and design," Koch said, noting that the facility is expected to conduct a minimum of 500 strain experiments per week, 100 microbiome experiments per week, and take a million measurements per month.Economic Opportunity for the RegionBeyond the scientific breakthroughs, the M2PC project represents significant economic opportunity for the Tri-Cities region. The facility will require hiring automation engineers, AI experts, technicians skilled in operating robotics, and specialized craftspeople to build and maintain the sophisticated equipment."We're anticipating that type of hiring," Mans said when asked about job creation.PNNL has already begun recruiting talent nationally and internationally for positions related to the smaller AMP2 lab, bringing automation engineers from cities like Boston and San Francisco to work in the region. The M2PC facility is expected to accelerate that trend."This capability won't really exist anywhere else in the world," Mans said, suggesting the facility could become a draw for scientific talent seeking to work on cutting-edge biotechnology research.Timeline and Next StepsThe M2PC facility is expected to open in 2029. Between now and then, construction crews will level and prepare the ground, while the building takes shape. Simultaneously, Ginkgo Bio Works, the automation contractor, will build the facility's automation components off-site so they can be installed as the building is completed.In the interim, PNNL researchers and the broader scientific community will begin planning the first experiments to be conducted in the facility, ensuring research is lined up and ready to begin as soon as the doors open.The groundbreaking ceremony included representatives from the Department of Energy, PNNL leadership, and elected officials at the federal, state, and local levels, underscoring the project's significance to the region and the nation's biotechnology future. News The U.S. Department of Energy Secretary tours Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Dan Hanson, Apple Valley News Now News Beyond DNA: Scientists Explore New Frontiers in Biology Research Dan Hanson, Apple Valley News Now News TRIDEC optimistic that Hanford, PNNL will see funding in national budget Robert Desaulniers News Big picture science: monitoring the Yakima River Basin News PNNL research could shape the future of fighting fentanyl ​COPYRIGHT 2026 BY APPLE VALLEY NEWS NOW. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.

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Oct 20 • 7:44 PM EDT • Science • applevalleynewsnow.com
How to become the best sports TV show of the 21st century: MoneyCall

This week's free sports business newsletter from The Athletic, including the new NBA season, a must-see story on NFL headsets and more.

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Oct 21 • 1:48 PM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Duke-UNC children’s hospital receives $100 million award from The Duke Endowment

The project is a collaboration between Duke Health and UNC Health to develop North Carolina’s first standalone children’s hospital, known as NC Children's Hospital. The $100 million grant marks one more step toward the planned facility’s $1 billion private fundraising goal.

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Oct 21 • 12:34 AM EDT • Health • dukechronicle.com
New Sphere project faces crucial PG County vote

Officials, residents and labor groups are asking whether the costs of a proposed Sphere theater at National Harbor outweigh the benefits.

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Oct 21 • 3:08 PM EDT • Entertainment • baltimorefishbowl.com
Scott Eilert named head of K-State animal science department

His professional experience includes employment with Cargill, National Turkey Federation and Meat Institute.

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Oct 21 • 12:59 PM EDT • Science • wattagnet.com
URochester’s response to an ‘oral health crisis’

Eli Eliav, who recently became inaugural dean of URochester’s new Eastman School of Dentistry, says “we have both an opportunity and a responsibility to educate a new generation of dentists.”

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Oct 21 • 10:45 AM EDT • Health • rochesterbeacon.com
Smash Bros and Kirby creator Masahiro Sakurai says AI usage will lead to unoriginal and “unprofitable” games

Masahiro Sakurai believes AI could contribute to an even bigger flood of games that players simply don't want.

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Oct 21 • 10:50 AM EDT • Technology • pcguide.com
Sanae Takaichi took on Japan’s male-dominated politics and won – can she survive a second year in power?

The straight-talking PM’s ability to manage Trump and stand up to China have endeared her to the public, but she may need friends closer to home to survive

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Oct 20 • 8:16 PM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
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Australian democracy is usually peaceful. But there’s a homegrown history of political violence

Like other features of our public landscape, both good and bad, political violence has a history in Australia – one from which we may learn

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Oct 20 • 10:59 PM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
Opinion: Public service, not politics: why I’m running for Boone County Commissioner

Written by John Schickel, candidate for Boone County Commissioner Public service has been the thread running through every chapter of my life. It is also the reason I am seeking to represent you as your county commissioner. People often ask why I got into politics. My answer has always been the same: my job is […]

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Oct 21 • 5:59 AM EDT • Politics • linknky.com
Simone Biles shares surprising detail in recent game-day outfit

Simone Biles wore the outfit for the Tennessee Titans and Indianapolis Colts Sunday matchup.

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Oct 20 • 6:42 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Nikon’s Small World photomicrography competition winners

The 52nd annual Nikon Small World competition honours the world’s most remarkable images captured through a microscope

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Oct 21 • 10:00 AM EDT • Technology • theguardian.com
Meeting Big Challenges with Big Ideas, Health Centers Pitch ‘Y Combinator-Style’ Solutions for Local Healthcare

With challenges looming like Medicaid cuts, workforce shortages, and resource gaps, health centers across the United States are being asked to do more with less, and it would be easy to picture a g…

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Oct 20 • 2:07 PM EDT • Health • directrelief.org
Scott Eilert named head of K-State animal science department

Alumnus and veteran animal protein executive has been with Cargill for 31 years and an adjunct professor in the department since 2010.

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Oct 21 • 9:50 AM EDT • Science • feedstuffs.com
Duke Endowment makes big investment in NC Children’s hospital

By Anne Blythe Key Takeaways: On a heavily wooded tract near the intersection of U.S. 1 and N.C. 540 — a 220-acre spot in southern Apex so void of infrastructure it shows up only as GPS coordinates on a map, the Duke Endowment announced a transformative $100 million grant Tuesday morning. The investment will help […]

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Oct 21 • 4:22 AM EDT • Health • northcarolinahealthnews.org
Ramstad: With DFL nearing trifecta, business hopes Klobuchar keeps excesses in check

A moderate governor will have to rein in the big-spending DFLers in the House and Senate.

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Oct 21 • 6:00 AM EDT • Business • startribune.com
Football Manager 27 will be free to play for five days before its full release, in "industry first" for a game of its kind

FM27 is getting a free trial period with saves that carry over to the full game, with pre-orders not opening until the trial starts.

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Oct 21 • 7:00 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
Resident Evil: Requiem made more money on PlayStation discs than on Xbox in total, reportedly, as Sony's march to a discless future continues

Single-player blockbuster PlayStation games still sell in notable quantities on disc, statistics show. In Japan, the desire for physical is even higher.

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Oct 21 • 5:21 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
How Investors May Respond To PENN Entertainment (PENN) Massachusetts Slot Debate

PENN Entertainment has opposed proposed legislation in Massachusetts that would permit historical horse racing devices that function like slot machines. The company argues these terminals could shift up to US$216 million in annual gaming revenue and affect an estimated 1,074 casino jobs across the state. The company has recently reported earnings that exceeded consensus estimates, with an average surprise of 72.86% over the last two quarters. This highlights an operating profile where...

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Oct 21 • 1:36 AM EDT • Entertainment • simplywall.st
Taiwan Blocks Grab Acquisition of Delivery Hero Business Over Competition Concerns

Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission said the harm of the proposed deal to the island’s food-delivery industry outweighed its ​overall economic benefits.

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Oct 21 • 5:14 AM EDT • Business • wsj.com
Chesapeake Bay Health Reaches 20-Year High, but Work Remains

The Chesapeake Bay earns its highest health grade in 20 years, restoration efforts progress but ongoing challenges remain. The Chesapeake Bay earned its

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Oct 20 • 12:00 PM EDT • Health • conduitstreet.mdcounties.org
How Small Pharmacy Expansion Will Impact CVS Health (CVS) Investors

CVS Health has been rolling out smaller pharmacy focused stores, expanding MinuteClinic sites and raising its 2026 revenue and earnings outlook, alongside new efforts in benefit transparency and women’s midlife health research. The push into underserved neighborhoods with compact pharmacies and clinics points to a tighter focus on access, operating efficiency and aligning physical sites with where prescription demand actually shows up. This article examines how CVS Health’s investment...

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Oct 21 • 1:17 AM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com
Here's our second wave of Xbox Game Pass games for October 2026

The second batch of Xbox Game Pass games this month includes the console debuts of two genuine corkers.

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Oct 21 • 7:11 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
SpaceX's AI business is beating expectations

SpaceX's data centers and Grok agents have been more profitable than investors expected in second quarter of the year, as the company leaves its roots as

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Oct 20 • 4:40 PM EDT • Business • techcrunch.com
Jefferson Health-Independence contract dispute worries Jefferson patients with IBX Medicare Advantage plans

IBX Medicare Advantage customers who are Jefferson Health patients have a choice: switch plans or risk losing access to their Jefferson doctors next year.

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Oct 21 • 5:01 AM EDT • Health • inquirer.com
TRUE RX HEALTH STRATEGISTS BECOMES FIRST PBM TO BRING INSTACART HEALTH FRESH FUNDS TO EMPLOYER PHARMACY BENEFITS

/PRNewswire/ -- True Rx Health Strategists, the family-owned, pharmacist-led pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) based in Indiana, today announced a first-to-market...

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Oct 21 • 1:00 PM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
First-Person Soulslike Valor Mortis an Official Success, Now Turning a Profit

Game breaks even after one week

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Oct 21 • 8:15 AM EDT • Technology • pushsquare.com
Erik ten Hag interview: Man United’s use of data, impact of legends’ criticism, and ‘special’ Mainoo

In part two of our interview, the ex-United manager reveals more about his time at the club and discusses his three-game reign in Germany

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Oct 21 • 2:45 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Student-produced film captures Ireland sports experience | UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media

The documentary created by a UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media team premieres on campus Oct. 22 and Oct. 23. — This story, written by UNC Hussman alumnus Michael Lananna ’14, was originally published at unc.edu. — Carolina senior Anna Laible came up with the idea about a year ago. At the annual UNC Sports and Entertainment Summit, the journalism student walked up to then-athletic director Bubba Cunningham and took a chance. “Hi, Bubba, I’m not sure if you remember me, but I’m part of the student broadcast team from the Olympics,” Laible told him. “I have this idea to do an Ireland documentary on the football team.” Encouraged by the enthusiastic response to the proposal, Laible and a team of students from the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media worked diligently to turn that vision into reality. In August, Laible and seven peers traveled to Dublin, Ireland, with the Carolina football team and women’s soccer team. Equipped with video cameras, the student journalists covered both teams during their international games — both wins — and filmed scenes throughout Dublin, interviewing Irish locals, Tar Heel fans and key Carolina figures who helped make the trip possible. Back home, Laible’s team put the finishing touches on the documentary, with its first screening at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 22-23 in Carroll Hall room 111. The project is the latest in a long line of sports documentaries produced under the guidance of C.A. Tuggle, John H. Stembler Jr. Distinguished Professor. Since the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Tuggle and the Hussman school have sent journalism students to cover each of the Summer Games, and Tuggle’s students have also produced documentaries on Carolina teams that win national championships. But this Ireland excursion presented a new kind of opportunity. “This trip is really unique,” Tuggle said. “Bubba liked the idea, so we started working on it, and it’s all because Anna was forward-thinking and assertive.” Laible’s team worked to create a holistic depiction of the Dublin trip, billed as “Much More Than a Game.” The documentary’s 12 chapters cover Irish culture, music, trips to the Guiness Storehouse and the myriad connections between Tar Heels and Ireland. “Our main focus was to make sure we gave a whole encompassing idea of what this experience was like,” Laible said. “We wanted to show not just the student-athletes, but other students, other Carolina fans, Carolina alumni, the music and really incorporate that all in the documentary.” Joining Laible in Dublin were juniors Emily Brietz, Cooper Hall, Eliza Jennings and Katherine McCullough and seniors Molly Malek, May Proctor and Merrily Tew. Those students also traveled to Milan for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in February. Those kinds of opportunities wouldn’t be possible without the support of UNC Hussman and, in the case of the Ireland trip, the Carolina athletic department. UNC Hussman students create Ireland trip documentary. (Submitted photo) “Never in a million years did I think I would have the opportunity to go to the Olympics or to the Aer Lingus College Football Classic, and now I’m even being presented with potential opportunities go to the Super Bowl,” said Malek, who served in a leadership role with Laible in Dublin. “I think that Carolina does a terrific job of connecting us to these opportunities that almost no other university does. This is a university where you have the opportunity to have an interdisciplinary education and to learn and experience a lot of things all at once.” With the support of UNC Hussman, Tuggle and fellow students like Malek, Laible turned a spur-of-the-moment idea into a documentary. When the film screens, Laible said she’s not quite sure what emotions to expect. “I’m a little worried that I might cry — not that crying is a bad thing,” Laible said, laughing. “But I’m really grateful for so many people helping, and I’m excited for everyone to see it.”

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Oct 20 • 10:18 PM EDT • Sports • hussman.unc.edu
'GTA 6' at Risk as PS5 Hackers Officially Claim Major New Breakthrough

Fans are hoping GTA 6 will be playable on PC soon, but PS5 jailbreak hackers still face hurdles

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Oct 20 • 12:09 PM EDT • Technology • polygon.com
Griffin Gaming Partners launches new joint production company

A prominent game industry fund and Hollywood talent agency are teaming up to adapt games for TV and film.

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Oct 20 • 11:10 AM EDT • Entertainment • gamedeveloper.com
Here’s what to expect if you’re taking a month off from drinking

Pausing drinking, even for just a few weeks, can have noticeable health benefits. Experts explain what you can expect if you’re trying Sober October or Dry January.

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Oct 21 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • washingtonpost.com
After a few hours with Yakuza studio's soulful Stranger Than Heaven, I'm smitten, but I suspect this ambitious role-playing epic will be a divisive game

I played RGG Studio's Stranger Than Heaven, and came away impressed by the bold new direction its younger team is taking.

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Oct 21 • 10:00 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
Greenwich Entertainment Buys Philip Byron’s ‘Spin Wars’

EXCLUSIVE: Spin Wars, a documentary about the billion-dollar boutique fitness revolution, has landed a buyer. Greenwich Entertainment has acquired the North American distribution rights to the doc, wh...

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Oct 21 • 11:04 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Trump's crackdown on immigrant voting in California is a ploy to influence election

President Donald Trump wants California to segregate 20,000 ballots, claiming they may come from noncitizens. Federal officers charged 28 suspects with voter fraud this week.

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Oct 21 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • calmatters.org
SpaceX turns a profit after a string of losses as its satellite and computer leasing businesses soar

SpaceX reported a bigger quarterly profit than expected Tuesday as its satellite communications operations and its business of leasing computing power to other companies boomed.

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Oct 20 • 4:49 PM EDT • Business • clickondetroit.com
Xbox's next-gen console to reportedly cost up to $1,800, with a Helix handheld coming in 2027 and a full release in holiday 2028

There will be two next-gen Xboxes, a handheld and a more traditional console, and they'll reportedly cost up to $1,800.

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Oct 21 • 4:40 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
‘A powerful warning’: will Europe’s angry protests lead to real political change?

Hamstrung governments seem to have no answer to the public’s furious demands, making further discontent likely

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Oct 21 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
SpaceX touts possible Tesla merger after profits soar

After a stellar SpaceX earnings announcement, chief executive Elon Musk said the rocket company is considering a merger with Tesla, the electric car company he also helms.

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Oct 20 • 7:31 PM EDT • Business • latimes.com
Set Your Calendar, T-Mobile Giving Out Free iPads For One Day Only

In an unusual move, T-Mobile appears to be giving out free iPad A16s for one day only next week, with qualifying service plan.

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Oct 21 • 11:53 AM EDT • Technology • tmo.report
Troy Aikman and Joe Buck: what next for the NFL’s $165m TV power couple as they head for a split?

The duo have carved out lucrative and successful careers as TV audiences elsewhere are falling. It seems they won’t be together for much longer

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Oct 21 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • theguardian.com
Soft-spoken David Pocock has big ambitions – but first he wants politicians to ‘double down’ on kindness

Independent senator’s goals ‘much bigger’ than prime ministership, he reveals in first speech to national press club

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Oct 21 • 3:55 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
Homebase Assistant Wants to Give Small Business Owners Their Time Back

Homebase Assistant uses AI to help small business owners automate everyday tasks, save time, and reduce administrative burdens.

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Oct 21 • 1:00 PM EDT • Business • inc.com
Meet the adorable cougar kittens joining the Wildlife Science Center

The center in Stacy, Minn. has welcomed three new cougar kittens

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Oct 21 • 7:00 AM EDT • Science • startribune.com
Finding his way: Caleb Bonemer adds another route to Chicago

After a 37-homer season, the organization’s No. 2 prospect is learning the outfield to give the White Sox more ways to fit his bat into the lineup

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Oct 21 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Baidu (BIDU) Expands Its AI Business, but the Core Revenue Recovery Remains Uncertain

Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU) is expanding autonomous driving and AI services while its traditional business stays under pressure. That raises a hard valuation question: can the new activities grow fast enough, and profitably enough, to replace what the established business is losing? At roughly 19 times forward earnings, investors pay for that transition to work. They […]

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Oct 21 • 10:07 AM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.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.

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Kenny Atkinson Makes Candid Admission About Mario Hezonja’s Cavaliers Role

Kenny Atkinson says Cleveland is still learning how Mario Hezonja fits and does not want to put the returning NBA veteran in a box.

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Oct 20 • 1:24 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
United misses estimates, squeezed by soaring jet fuel costs

High fuel costs threaten to overwhelm the benefits for U.S. airlines of higher fares and robust spending by wealthier travelers.

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Republican lawmaker vows ‘consequences’ for Musk over Ukraine’s Starlink access
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Making Marie Antoinette review – sweet Coppola home movie indulges the family business

Shot by Sofia’s mother Eleanor this documentary shows something of the strain of shooting a period piece, but is a far cry from the tumultuous portrait of her husband in Hearts of Darkness

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Spurred by Pulitzer Prize-winner's visit, business leaders grapple with state's housing crisis

The capital of Georgia — a city of more than 500,000 people nearly 1,200 miles away, where African-Americans outnumber their white counterparts — bears a striking similarity to New Hampshire’s capital. In Atlanta, like in Concord and countless municipalities across the country, housing costs have far eclipsed what working people can afford. Brian Goldstone, journalist […]

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Local nonprofit empowers individuals with disabilities through pet treat business

The Ella and Bella Pet Company, a nonprofit founded by Kristine Flora, creates unique opportunities for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This innovative initiative not …

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Kagan says supreme court conservatives have made US political system ‘a nightmare’

Liberal justice says recent decisions on redistricting and campaign finance have undermined democracy and polarized US even more

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Medicare for All, Medicaid cuts and rising costs: Where Flanagan and Tafoya stand on health care

The U.S. Senate candidates differ over Medicare for All, Medicaid funding and the federal government’s role in making health care more affordable.

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Popular olive oil shot trend has Americans chasing health benefits as doctor questions the hype

Should you take olive oil shots to boost health? Harvard-trained doctor Nick Norwitz, M.D., Ph.D., shares what you need to know about the trending wellness habit.

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SpaceX Swings to a Profit, Even as A.I. Spending Soars

Elon Musk’s rocket company also said its revenue had more than doubled, driven by its Starlink internet satellite service and artificial intelligence products.

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Oct 20 • 4:32 PM EDT • Business • nytimes.com
The humble one-celled alga that helped scientists win the Nobel prize

Chlamydomonas and its light-sensing protein help show how memories, feelings and behaviour form in our brains

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This week in Santa Cruz County business: Cruz Foam ceases operations; West Coast Community Bank celebrates Nasdaq listing

Santa Cruz-based Cruz Foam, which developed a biodegradable packaging made from shrimp shells and other natural materials, has closed and sold off its intellectual property, Jessica M. Pasko reports in her weekly look at local business. Meanwhile, Santa Cruz-based West Coast Community Bancorp has moved its stock listing to the Nasdaq Stock Market, a milestone executives say is more than two decades in the making.

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Oct 21 • 6:29 AM EDT • Business • lookout.co
Partners, not family: How 3 college buddies built dairy business

Austin Copenhaver and his partners turned a shared dream into three dairy operations, and a model for the next generation of farmers.

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States Are Forcing Hospitals To Offer More People Financial Aid. In Oregon, It’s Working.

Oregon passed a law to require hospitals to proactively screen patients to see if they qualify for financial aid. Patients got immediate relief. Hospitals pushed to roll back the law following federal cuts to Medicaid and Affordable Care Act subsidies.

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Lions Named Trade Fit for Chargers’ Young Defender

The Los Angeles Chargers are sitting at 0-6 and likely to be sellers at the trade deadline. After Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press suggested the team call the Chargers for cornerback Tarheeb Still or Donte Jackson, Mike Payton of A to Z Sports suggests the Chargers’ other cornerback is the best fit of […] The post Lions Named Trade Fit for Chargers’ Young Defender appeared first on HEAVY.

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The new, handmade Apple Music logo leans into the science of sound

Liquid glass UI design hits a high note.

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Commentary: Collapse of NJ's health plan for public workers could raise costs for all residents

The state-run benefits plan for public workers is on the verge of collapse. There are ways it can be fixed.

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Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake File Size Officially Confirmed

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Victor Wembanyama says ‘this is not the sport I like’ after rough loss to OKC

The Spurs' star had the worst shooting game of his career on opening night, as the Thunder beat the Spurs.

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Surest shares tips to better understand your health insurance benefits
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Wisconsin’s seasonal migrant workers lack access to healthcare — until a mobile clinic pulls up to the farm

Thousands of Wisconsin’s migrant seasonal workers face barriers to getting basic healthcare. A Wautoma-based charity is helping fill that gap by taking its mobile clinic to farm fields, providing low-cost primary care medicine to workers mostly from Mexico.

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What goes wrong? Why most entertainment, sports celeb brands fail, struggle to make profits - These might be key reasons

New Delhi, Oct. 21 -- Celebrity brands often attract attention, but turning that interest into profit is harder. Fans may celebrate a launch without becoming regular customers. A famous name helps people notice products while quality decides whether they return. Experts say fame alone cannot build…

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Starbucks Just Ruled Out Buying Chipotle. Small-Business Owners Should Take Notice

Starbucks’ turnaround offers small business owners a powerful lesson: communicate your value to customers before changing your price.

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Northwestern's Robert Fitzgerald Earns Multiple All-American Honors

Northwestern safety Robert Fitzgerald earns first-team midseason All-American honors from On3 and AP as the Wildcats await their defensive leader's return from injury.

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Cruz Foam had a promising idea. Why couldn’t it make its sustainable packaging business work?

Cruz Foam's biodegradable packing material made from shrimp shells and food waste attracted wide attention and big-name investors, but the Santa Cruz-based company has closed up shop after what one former exec says were struggles to solve the full range of problems its customers needed packaging to address.

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Texas Republicans Used to Debate. Not This Cycle.

With early voting already underway, we're likely to close out this election cycle without a single debate between top-of-the-ticket candidates. Why?

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Integris Health sold to Kaiser Permanente Division

Kaiser Permanente’s Risant Health would add the 16-hospital Oklahoma system to its growing nonprofit network

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Ban ‘intrusive’ cameras on mental health wards in England, say bereaved families

Lawyers tell inquiry ‘patients’ lives are at stake’ through improper use of Oxevision system for most vulnerable

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Netflix slides as weak profit, ad outlook intensify investor anxiety

Oct 21 (Reuters) - Netflix shares dropped 6% in premarket trading on Wednesday after the company cut its full-year advertising forecast and issued a tepid fourth-quarter profit outlook, deepening

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Mayer Hillman obituary

Pioneer of ideas about the climate crisis and road safety, and a champion of walking, cycling and children’s mobility

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Weight loss in middle age can restore cardiovascular health, research suggests

UK study of 6,000 patients shows shedding 5% of body weight may help cut the risk of stroke and heart disease

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Tea has benefits for heart health — but not if it’s scalding hot

The way you prepare and drink your tea could influence your cardiovascular health, according to a new study.

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After three decades at the helm, Pete Mueller passes boutique fitness business to his daughter

Pete Mueller, founder of Milwaukee-based boutique fitness business Body Mechanics, later known as Pete Mueller Performance Group, launched his training

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The big business of personal shopping

From sourcing rare Hermès bags to organising last-minute gifts, independent personal shoppers will go to extraordinary lengths to keep wealthy clients happy

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US extreme weather survivors are a growing group – now they want to be a political force

At a gathering in Texas, near where floods killed 136 people last year, survivors are united on the need for urgent action

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The Town of Truckee and Tahoe Institute for Natural Science Celebrate Bee City USA Designation

Truckee earns Bee City USA status through a student-led effort, partnering with TINS to boost pollinator habitat, and community conservation initiatives.

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VisionQuest Explores the Tension Between Marvel Magic and Marvel Science

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Pulpit Politics: Johnson Amendment Rarely Enforced

Oklahoma religious leaders are navigating a murky legal landscape around the Johnson Amendment, which bars tax-exempt churches from endorsing candidates but is rarely enforced. With a recent Texas lawsuit failing and Congress considering changes, some pastors endorse candidates without consequences while others see political neutrality as a theological obligation, not just a legal one.

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2026 Health Care Congressional Voter Guide

At NC Health News, we care about you and your family’s health and we think our elected officials should too. We started in September to reach out to all of North Carolina’s Congressional candidates asking them to answer a series of questions about health care issues that you care about: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, […]

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Open enrollment season under way for health insurance, other benefits
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Oct 21 • 10:28 AM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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The fitness test that predicts your risk of death

How quickly your heart rate returns to normal after exercise can reveal a surprising amount about your underlying health.

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Oct 21 • 5:02 AM EDT • Health • bbc.com
Why the political ambition gap between men and women persists even at the local level

Women are less ambitious for local office than men, mirroring an ambition gap that exists at the state and federal level, too. A group of scholars documented this gap and investigated why it exists.

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Oct 21 • 8:45 AM EDT • Politics • theconversation.com
Connections: Sports Edition today: Hints and answers for Oct. 21, 2026, puzzle No. 758

Welcome to Connections: Sports Edition Coach — a spot to gather clues and discuss (and share) scores.

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Oct 21 • 12:00 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Packers Named Trade Fit for $22 Receiver at Deadline

The Green Bay Packers are thinner than they would like at wide receiver. Meanwhile, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are sitting at 1-5 with Chris Godwin at wide receiver. It would make sense for the Packers and the Bucs to work out a potential trade, according to Matt Verderame of Sports Illustrated. Verderame notes that the […] The post Packers Named Trade Fit for $22 Receiver at Deadline appeared first on HEAVY.

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Oct 21 • 10:36 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
'The Russians were the problem in the end': Sailor Matt Rutherford on being intercepted by the FSB while attempting to circumnavigate the Arctic Ocean solo

Live Science spoke with Matt Rutherford, a sailor and founder of the environmental nonprofit Ocean Research Project, about his attempt to circumnavigate the Arctic Ocean and why he'll have to try again next year.

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Oct 21 • 11:34 AM EDT • Science • livescience.com
2 studies look at health benefits of blueberries, cranberries
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Oct 20 • 11:45 PM EDT • Health • cbsnews.com
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Bayern Announce Fresh Injury Concerns Ahead Of Arsenal Clash

Vincent Kompany faces a selection crisis at the Allianz Arena as fitness doubts over Manuel Neuer and Jamal Musiala threaten to derail Bayern’s clash against record-chasing Arsenal.

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Oct 20 • 2:12 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Why Coco Gauff’s appearance in Gunna’s ‘Pop It’ music video is much more than a serve

Her role in rapper Gunna's “Pop It” video emphasizes her celebrity across music and fashion as much as tennis.

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Oct 21 • 5:01 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Businesses Report Flat Summer Tourism Despite Inflation, Smoke and Airport Runway Closure

In August, when an active wildfire season in the Pacific Northwest choked the Flathead Valley in a dome of smoke, Glacier Guides and Montana Raft owner Denny Gignoux started getting cancellation requests and noticed lower demand for rafting and hiking trips at his outfitting business. While the smoky skies deterred some visitors from traveling altogether, […]

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Oct 20 • 2:19 PM EDT • Business • flatheadbeacon.com
From Trauma to Hope: Supporting Mental Health in Ukraine

As the war in Ukraine continues, access to mental health care remains critical for people living with the psychological effects of the conflict, including the healthcare workers serving affected co…

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Oct 21 • 6:00 AM EDT • Health • directrelief.org
College football mega boosters used to fund buildings. Now they buy QBs. What’s the payoff?

“It's absolutely a non-sustainable business model," said SMU booster Bill Armstrong. "But nobody can control themselves."

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Oct 21 • 5:00 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
How Alzheimer’s and dementia patients teach Wisconsin’s next generation of health care workers

Through the New Friends program, students get experience connecting with people living with cognitive changes, and mentors get social connection during a particularly lonely time.

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Oct 21 • 7:00 AM EDT • Health • wisconsinwatch.org
Xbox reportedly planning three more rounds of layoffs, with the first wave coming as early as this month

Xbox is said to be laying off some employees this month, with two more waves planned for the near future.

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Oct 21 • 6:47 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net