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    Adele, NFL perform well in ratings; Nielsen week in review

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    Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) throws against the Las Vegas Raiders during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021, in Las Vegas. This Sunday Night Football game on NBC finished first in the week's NIelsen ratings. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)

    By David Bauder, Media Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    Adele attracted 10.3 million viewers to a busy Sunday night special where she debuted new music, facilitated a marriage proposal and dished with Oprah Winfrey about her divorce and workout routine.

    The Nielsen company said the CBS show nearly had a bigger audience than April's Oscars ceremony and, when delayed viewers are eventually figured in, will likely exceed it.

    Probably the two most popular musicians of the day both had weekend television spotlights to hawk new material. Taylor Swift's 10-minute performance of her song "All of Me" on "Saturday Night Live" reached 5.8 million viewers, and the clip has already been seen more than 2.5 million times on YouTube.

    The Academy Awards reached 10.4 million viewers on the night it was televised in April, the audience increasing to 10.7 million adding people who saw it on tape within seven days.

    Live events generally do poorly in delayed viewing, leading to CBS' confidence that Adele will eventually pass Oscar. CBS is likely to rerun the musician's special, too.

    Sunday was strong for CBS. The late afternoon Green Bay-Seattle football game, with 22.7 million viewers, was the most-watched event on television all week. That helped "60 Minutes," which directly followed the football game, to its biggest audience since January.

    CBS led all of the networks with an average of 6.1 million viewers in primetime. NBC had 5.7 million, Fox had 3.83 million, ABC had 3.75 million, Univision had 1.5 million, Ion Television had 920,000 and Telemundo had 850,000.

    ESPN led the cable networks with a primetime average of 2.91 million viewers last week. Fox News Channel had 2.37 million, Hallmark had 1.44 million, MSNBC had 1.12 million and Paramount had 897,000.

    ABC's "World News Tonight" led the evening news ratings race with an average of 8.3 million viewers. NBC's "Nightly News" had 7.1 million and the "CBS Evening News" had 5.2 million.

    For the week of Nov. 8-14, the 20 most popular programs, their networks and viewerships:

    1. NFL Football: Kansas City at Las Vegas, NBC, 16.74 million.
    2. NFL Football: Baltimore at Miami, Fox, 12.92 million.
    3. "60 Minutes," CBS, 12.55 million.
    4. NFL Football: Chicago at Pittsburgh, ESPN, 12.11 million.
    5. "NFL Pregame," NBC, 11.83 million.
    6. "NFL Postgame," Fox, 11.34 million.
    7. "Adele: One Night Only," CBS, 10.33 million.
    8. "Football Night in America, Part 3," NBC, 9.56 million.
    9. "NFL Pregame," Fox, 7.68 million.
    10. "Yellowstone," Paramount, 7.49 million.
    11. "NCIS," CBS, 7.32 million.
    12. "FBI," CBS, 7.17 million.
    13. "NFL Pregame," ESPN, 7.07 million.
    14. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 7.04 million.
    15. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 6.85 million.
    16. "CMA Awards," ABC, 6.833 million.
    17. "Football Night in America, Part 2," NBC, 6.83 million.
    18. "Chicago Fire," NBC, 6.63 million.
    19. "Chicago Med," NBC, 6.46 million.
    20. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 6.18 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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