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    2 NFL games score ratings win for Fox; Nielsen week in  Review

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    Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott, center, is brought down by a host of Baltimore Ravens defenders during the second half of an NFL football game, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

    By David Bauder, Media Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    Two weekday football games were enough to lift Fox to victory in the weekly ratings race.

    The network's coverage of Tuesday's game between Dallas and Baltimore, and Thursday's New England-L.A. Rams matchup took up their entire primetime schedules for the nights.

    The Nielsen company said CBS' "60 Minutes" was the most-watched non-football program for the week. The venerable drama "NCIS" was the most popular entertainment program.

    Fox averaged 7.3 million viewers in primetime for the week. NBC was second with 5.2 million viewers, CBS had 4.6 million, ABC had 3.8 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Telemundo had 1.01 million and Ion Television had 960,000.

    Fox News Channel led among the cable networks, averaging 2.69 million viewers in primetime. ESPN had 2.22 million, MSNBC had 2.09 million, CNN had 1.77 million and Hallmark had 1.6 million.

    ABC's "World News Tonight" led the evening news ratings race with an average of 9.4 million viewers. NBC's "Nightly News" had 7.9 million and the "CBS Evening News" had 5.7 million.

    For the week of Dec. 7-13, the 20 most-watched programs, their networks and viewerships:

    1. NFL Football: Pittsburgh at Buffalo, NBC, 17.05 million.
    2. NFL Football: New England at L.A. Rams, Fox, 13.64 million.
    3. NFL Football: Dallas at Baltimore, Fox, 13.54 million.
    4. "NFL Pregame," NBC, 13.03 million.
    5. "The OT," Fox, 10.43 million.
    6. "Football Night in America," NBC, 9.13 million.
    7. "60 Minutes," CBS, 9.1 million.
    8. "NFL Pregame," Fox, 9.07 million.
    9. "NCIS," CBS, 8.53 million.
    10. NFL Football: Buffalo vs. San Francisco, ESPN, 7.76 million.
    11. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 6.95 million.
    12. "FBI," CBS, 6.71 million.
    13. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 6.64 million.
    14. NFL Football: Buffalo vs. San Francisco, ABC, 6.41 million.
    15. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 6.38 million.
    16. "NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 6.04 million.
    17. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 5.69 million.
    18. "Magnum, P.I., CBS, 5.685 million.
    19. "Station 19," ABC, 5.58 million.
    20. "Bob Hearts Abishola," CBS, 5.28 million.

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    Ex-OpenAI engineer who raised legal concerns about the technology he helped build has died

    Saturday, December 21, 2024
    Suchir Balaji poses for a photo in Hawaii in 2018. Balaji was a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who died in November 2024. (Balaji Ramamurthy via AP)

    Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He was 26.

    Balaji worked at OpenAI for nearly four years before quitting in August. He was well-regarded by colleagues at the San Francisco company, where a co-founder this week called him one of OpenAI's strongest contributors who was essential to developing some of its products.

    "We are devastated to learn of this incredibly sad news and our hearts go out to Suchir's loved ones during this difficult time," said a statement from OpenAI.

    Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26 in what police said "appeared to be a suicide. No evidence of foul play was found during the initial investigation." The city's chief medical examiner's office confirmed the manner of death to be suicide.

    His parents Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy said they are still seeking answers, describing their son as a "happy, smart and brave young man" who loved to hike and recently returned from a trip with friends.

    Balaji grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and first arrived at the fledgling AI research lab for a 2018 summer internship while studying computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He returned a few years later to work at OpenAI, where one of his first projects, called WebGPT, helped pave the way for ChatGPT.

    "Suchir's contributions to this project were essential, and it wouldn't have succeeded without him," said OpenAI co-founder John Schulman in a social media post memorializing Balaji. Schulman, who recruited Balaji to his team, said what... Read More

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