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    CNN shows post-election surge in viewership; Nielsen week in review

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    This May 15, 2019 file photo shows CNN news anchor Chris Cuomo at the WarnerMedia Upfront in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

    By David Bauder, Media Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    Since the presidential election, CNN has been on one of its best competitive rolls in almost two decades, enough that it is taking out newspaper ads touting its success.

    Between Nov. 4 and Sunday, CNN has averaged 1.73 million viewers, more than double a year ago, the Nielsen company said. Fox News Channel had 1.56 million and MSNBC had 1.53 million.

    It's the first time since December 2001, the newsy period after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, that CNN has beaten Fox News in this measurement for as long as a month, Nielsen said. 

    "Since the day after the election, there has been a clear winner," CNN said in ads over the weekend that boast of their victory while also seeming to gently tweak President Donald Trump's false assertion he beat Democrat Joe Biden.

    CNN has shown improvement across different parts of the day, although Fox News' powerful prime-time lineup has continued on top.

    Fox News seems hurt by a common phenomenon in election years: networks whose audience is dominated by fans of one particular candidate — Trump in this case — see some depressed viewers slip away when that candidate loses.

    That's most apparent during daylight hours, when Fox has been down 10 percent compared to a year ago, Nielsen said.

    In primetime last week, Fox News led all cable networks with an average of 2.65 million viewers. ESPN had 2.45 million, MSNBC had 2.18 million, CNN had 1.92 million and Hallmark had 1.67 million.

    Among the broadcast networks, NBC led last with a primetime average of 6 million viewers. CBS had 5.2 million, ABC had 3.8 million, Fox had 2.1 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Telemundo had 990,000 and Ion TV had 950,000.

    ABC's "World News Tonight" led the evening news ratings race with an average of 9.9 million viewers. NBC's "Nightly News" had 8.3 million viewers and the "CBS Evening News" had 6.4 million.

    For the week of Nov. 30 to Dec. 6, the top 20 programs, their networks and viewerships:

    1. NFL Football: Denver at Kansas City, NBC, 17.07 million.
    2. "NFL Postgame," Fox, 12.31 million.
    3. NFL Football: Seattle at Philadelphia, ESPN, 11.88 million.
    4. "60 Minutes," CBS, 11.47 million.
    5. "NFL Pregame," NBC, 11.14 million.
    6. "Football Night in America" (Sunday, 7:56 p.m.), NBC, 9.09 million.
    7. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 7.58 million.
    8. "Christmas in Rockefeller Center," NBC, 7.41 million.
    9. "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 7.18 million.
    10. "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 7.13 million.
    11. "Football Night in America" (Sunday, 7:30 p.m.), NBC, 7.05 million.
    12. "The Masked Singer," Fox, 6.57 million.
    13. "Blue Bloods," CBS, 6.44 million.
    14. "A Holly Dolly Christmas," CBS, 6.42 million.
    15. "Monday Night Kickoff," ESPN, 6.04 million.
    16. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 5.873 million.
    17. "Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer," CBS, 5.866 million.
    18. "Disney Holiday Singalong," ABC, 5.72 million.
    19. "Station 19," ABC, 5.59 million.
    20. "The Neighborhood," CBS, 5.52 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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