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    Dramas score For CBS, NBC; Grammys top weekly Nielsens

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    Billie Eilish, left, and Finneas O'Connell pose in the press room with the awards for best album, best engineered album and best pop vocal album for "We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?," best song and record for "Bad Guy," best new artist and best producer, non-classical at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

    By David Bauder, Media Writer

    NEW YORK (AP) --

    Now that football season is almost finished, the dominant nights in broadcast television are coming into focus.

    As illustrated in the Nielsen company's ratings for last week, that would be CBS' night of drama on Tuesday and Dick Wolf's trilogy of "Chicago" series Wednesday on NBC.

    Even though it has been on the air since 2003, CBS' "NCIS" continues a remarkable streak of popularity. With nearly 11.4 million viewers on the night it aired last Tuesday, it was the only television show aside from the Grammys to pass the 10 million mark last week, at least before delayed viewing is counted in.

    Paired with "FBI," it makes for a strong one-two punch of action for CBS on Tuesdays. The newer "FBI: Most Wanted" has some distance to go before reaching that level.

    Wolf is a proven television hitmaker, and NBC does very well on Wednesdays with his three dramas that focus on a Chicago hospital, police department and fire department. All three finished among Nielsen's top 10 shows last week.

    The third season premiere of "Station 19"on ABC did slightly better than the series it spun off from, "Grey's Anatomy."

    The Grammys took the week's number one ratings slot, reaching nearly 18.7 million viewers on CBS Sunday–but down about a million from each of the last two years.

    CBS won the week in primetime, averaging 7.2 million viewers. ABC eked out a second place showing, averaging 4 million viewers, while NBC had 3.9 million. Fox had 2.4 million, Univision had 1.5 million, ION Television had 1.3 million, Telemundo had 1.1 million and the CW had 690,000.

    News dominated the cable ratings last week with President Donald Trump's impeachment hearings. Fox News Channel averaged 3.32 million ratings in primetime, MSNBC had 1.96 million, ESPN had 1.22 million, TLC had 1.2 million and CNN had 1.18 million.

    ABC's "World News Tonight" won the evening news ratings race, averaging 9.1 million viewers. NBC's "Nightly News" had 7.9 million viewers and the "CBS Evening News" had 5.9 million.

    For the week of Jan. 20-26, the top 20 shows, their networks and viewerships:

    1. "Grammy Awards," CBS, 18.69 million.
    2. "NCIS," CBS, 11.37 million.
    3. "FBI," CBS, 9.25 million.
    4. "Chicago Med," NBC, 8.44 million.
    5. "Chicago Fire," NBC, 8.19 million.
    6. "Grammy Awards Red Carpet," CBS, 7.19 million.
    7. "America's Got Talent Champions," NBC, 7.05 million.
    8. "Station 19," ABC, 7.02 million.
    9. "Chicago PD, NBC, 6.92 million.
    10. "The Neighborhood," CBS, 6.81 million.
    11. "Grey's Anatomy," ABC, 6.67 million.
    12. "This Is Us," NBC, 61 million.
    13. "FBI: Most Wanted," CBS, 6.6 million.
    14. "Bob Hearts Abishola," CBS, 6.51 million.
    15. "The Bachelor," ABC, 6.29 million.
    16. "Bull," CBS, 6.05 million.
    17. "911: Lone Star," Fox, 5.95 million.
    18. "America's Funniest Home Videos," ABC, 5.86 million.
    19. "All Rise," CBS, 5.81 million.
    20. "Young Sheldon," CBS, 5.6 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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