Kumar Shahani, Indian cinema pioneer, breathes his last at 83 Kumar Shahani, one of the most prime people for India’s arthouse parallel cinema movement, passed away due to prolonged illness. As reported by Variety, the pioneer of Indian cinema was 83-years-old when he breathed his last on February 24, 2024, after feeling ill for some … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave While making the rounds at a London hospital in 1950, a medical student named Roy Calne was presented with a young man dying from kidney failure. Make him comfortable, Dr. Calne was told, because the patient would be dead within two weeks. The order troubled Dr. Calne … Read more
Cody Glenn/Sportsfile via Getty Images Generative artificial intelligence, like the kind that powers OpenAI’s DALL-E, ChatGPT, and other popular programs, is going to be an important tool for breakthroughs in oncology, the study of cancer, according to Daphne Koller. Koller is an AI pioneer and co-founder and CEO of life sciences AI firm Insitro. “What … Read more
Dusty Street, the radio disc jockey arguably best known for her work at Los Angeles’ KROQ-FM, died Saturday (October 21), the Los Angeles Times reports. The news was confirmed by SiriusXM Deep Tracks; Street finished her radio career DJing at the satellite radio station. “We are heartbroken,” the station shared. “Fly Low Dear Friend and … Read more
Traders work under monitors displaying Exxon Mobil Corp. signage on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Exxon Mobil said Wednesday it agreed to buy shale rival Pioneer Natural Resources for $59.5 billion in an all-stock deal, or $253 per share. As part … Read more
In February, Sogou founder Wang Xiaochuan stated on Weibo that “China wants its personal OpenAI.” The Chinese language entrepreneur is now inching nearer to his dream as his nascent startup Baichuan Intelligence rolled out its next-generation massive language mannequin Baichuan-13B at present. Baichuan is being touted as one in all China’s most promising LLM builders, … Read more