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    College football’s return boosts ratings; Nielsen week in review

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    Clemson tight end Braden Galloway is brought down by Georgie defenders during the second half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 4, 2021, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

    By David Bauder, Media Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    Television viewers are ready for some football.

    Three college matchups scored among the Nielsen company's four most-watched television programs last week. Only an episode of NBC's "America's Got Talent" broke through.

    The most popular game was ABC's Saturday night telecast where Georgia handed third-ranked Clemson a loss in Charlotte, North Carolina. The other popular matchups paired Notre Dame and Florida State and Ohio State and Minnesota.

    It's all a warmup act for pro football, which starts its season this week and promises to dominate live television viewing.

    Since it showed two of the three games, ABC was the week's most-watched network in primetime, with an average of 4.4 million viewers. CBS had 2.6 million, NBC had 2.53 million, Fox had 2.49 million, Univision had 1.5 million, Ion Television had 1.1 million and Telemundo had 1 million.

    Fox News Channel led the cable networks, averaging 2.59 million viewers in primetime. MSNBC had 1.218 million, ESPN had 1.217 million, HGTV had 1.05 million and TLC had 921,000.

    ABC's "World News Tonight" led the evening news ratings race with an average of 8.2 million viewers. NBC's "Nightly News" had 6.9 million and the "CBS Evening News" had 5 million.

    For the week of Aug. 30-Sept. 5, the 20 most-watched programs in primetime, their networks and viewerships:

    1. College Football: Georgia vs. Clemson, ABC, 8.86 million.
    2. College Football: Notre Dame vs. Florida State, ABC, 7.75 million.
    3. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 7.19 million.
    4. College Football: Ohio State at Minnesota, Fox, 6.3 million.
    5. "America's Got Talent" (Wednesday), NBC, 6.1 million.
    6. "60 Minutes," CBS, 5.91 million.
    7. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" (Monday), Fox News, 4.31 million.
    8. "Big Brother" (Thursday), CBS, 4.1 million.
    9. "Big Brother" (Wednesday), CBS, 4.01 million.
    10. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" (Tuesday), Fox News, 3.85 million.
    11. "Hannity" (Monday), Fox News, 3.84 million.
    12. "NCIS," CBS, 3.83 million.
    13. "College Football Pregame" (Sunday), ABC, 3.82 million.
    14. "CMA Summer Jam," ABC, 3.68 million.
    15. "American Ninja Warrior," NBC, 3.67 million.
    16. "Hannity" (Tuesday), Fox News, 3.62 million.
    17. "Tucker Carlson Tonight" (Wednesday), Fox News, 3.52 million.
    18. "The $100,000 Pyramid," ABC, 3.514 million.
    19. "The Neighborhood," CBS, 3.505 million.
    20. "Hannity" (Wednesday), Fox News, 3.393 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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