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    World Series lifts Fox ratings; Nielsen week in review

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    Atlanta Braves' Travis d'Arnaud points at the dugout while rounding the bases on his solo home run in the eighth inning against the Houston Astros in Game 3 of the baseball World Series on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021, in Atlanta. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

    By Lynn Elber, Television Writer

    LOS ANGELES (AP) --

    Baseball was especially good to Fox, with the Atlanta-Houston World Series lifting the network to its first weekly ratings win in the young TV season.

    The series rebounded from last year's contest, which hit an all-time viewership low that was attributed to the pandemic and competition from the 2020 presidential election.

    The Houston Astros must-have win Sunday over the Atlanta Braves, then leading the series 3-1, was the standout so far in the potential seven-game series, according to Nielsen figures out Tuesday. 

    The 9-5 Astros victory drew 13.6 million viewers — a 35% jump over the 10 million who watched 2020's Los Angeles Dodgers Game 5 defeat of the Tampa Bay Rays.

    Last year, the Dodgers went on to a six-game win over the Rays that posted a TV rating down 32% from the previous World Series low, the San Francisco Giants' four-game sweep of the Detroit Tigers in 2012.

    Bragging rights also went to football and NBC last week, with NFL regular-season games earning the top two spots for the week. 

    Overall, Fox averaged 11.9 million viewers in primetime, followed by NBC with 5.4 million. CBS had 3.9 million, ABC had 3.5 million, Univision had 1.3 million, ION Television had 970,000 and Telemundo had 930,000.

    Fox News Channel was the most-watched cable channel in primetime with an average 2.21 million viewers. It was followed by ESPN with 2.17 million, Hallmark with 1.28 million, MSNBC with 1.11 million and HGTV with 857,000.

    ABC's "World News Tonight" led the evening news ratings competition, averaging 8.1 million viewers. NBC's "Nightly News" had 7 million, and the "CBS Evening News" had 5.2 million.

    For the week of Oct. 25-31, the top 20 primetime programs, their networks and viewerships:

    • NFL Football: Green Bay at Arizona, Fox, 20.3 million.
    • NFL Football: Dallas at Minnesota, NBC, 15.7 million.
    • MLB World Series Game 5, Fox, 13.6 million.
    • "The OT," Fox, 13.3 million.
    • MLB Pregame (Sunday), Fox, 12.5 million.
    • NFL Pregame (Sunday), NBC, 11.8 million.
    • MLB World Series Game 3, Fox, 11.2 million.
    • NFL Football: New Orleans at Seattle, ESPN, 11.19 million.
    • MLB World Series Game 1, Fox, 10.8 million.
    • MLB World Series Game 4, Fox, 10.5 million.
    • NFL Pregame (Thursday), Fox, 10.46 million.
    • MLB World Series Game 2, Fox, 10.3 million.
    • NFL Pregame (Sunday), NBC, 9.2 million.
    • "Young Sheldon," CBS, 7.2 million.
    • "60 Minutes," CBS, 7.11 million.
    • "Saturday Night Football: Penn State at Ohio State," ABC, 7.1 million.
    • "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 6.9 million.
    • "Chicago Fire," NBC, 6.801 million.
    • "Chicago Med," NBC, 6.8 million.
    • "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 6.7 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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