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11.05 / 01:25

UPS students Universities country Schools Colleges The only thing harder than getting into college is getting off the wait list

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.The University of California, Berkeley had almost 6,500 students on its wait list last year. It ended up admitting none of them.The only thing harder than getting into college, it seems, is getting off the wait list. At some schools, the wait list is far more selective than the college’s overall acceptance rate.

22.02 / 19:19

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Elon Musk’s aggressive cost-cutting measures in the federal government.

05.02 / 16:57

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Maurice Obstfeld, former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. Speaking to Srijana Mitra Das, he discusses burgeoning tariffs — and their effects on prosperity:

04.01 / 13:21

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Jagdeep Singh, the CEO of Quantumscape, who has made a name for himself as the highest-paid employee in the world, with an annual income of Rs 17,500 crore. His remarkable success highlights the rising influence of Indian talent on the global stage.

26.12 / 06:29

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Aravind Srinivas, the co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI, stands at the center of a broader conversation on the contributions of skilled immigrants to the United States. Chennai-born Srinivas, who graduated from IIT Madras and later did his PhD from University of California, Berkeley, worked at OpenAI before launching Perplexity AI in 2022. Dmitry Shevelenko, chief business officer at Perplexity AI, pointed to Srinivas’s contributions, noting that the company’s growth under his leadership has created over 100 American jobs.

22.12 / 08:01

Opinion Death Nov Research love Courts rights Ex-OpenAI engineer who raised legal concerns about the technology he helped build has died

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.

18.12 / 00:31

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Japanese tycoon Masayoshi Son has joined President-elect Donald Trump in announcing plans by technology and telecoms giant SoftBank Group to invest $100 billion in projects in the United States

14.12 / 06:37

Twitter CEO Platform Death 2020 reports Profiles Who was Suchir Balaji? Elon Musk’s cryptic reaction to Open AI scholar’s suicide goes viral

OpenAI scholar Suchir Balaji has sent shockwaves throughout the Internet. The 26-year-old was found dead in his San Francisco apartment. “The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) has identified the decedent as Suchir Balaji, 26, of San Francisco. The manner of death has been determined to be suicide,” a spokesperson said in a statement to TechCrunch. “The OCME has notified the next-of-kin and has no further comment or reports for publication at this time.” Billionaire Elon Musk, known for his ongoing rivalry with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, responded to the development with a mysterious «hmm» post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

14.12 / 06:37

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Suchir Balaji, a 26-year-old former researcher at OpenAI, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on November 26, 2024, a day after Thanksgiving. The San Francisco Police Department confirmed that the cause of death was suicide, with no foul play suspected. Balaji’s tragic death has left the tech community in shock, especially given his high-profile departure from OpenAI earlier in the year due to his ethical concerns about the company’s AI practices.

12.12 / 13:23

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19.11 / 09:35

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. “WE WORK for the nation, not for the cabinet minister," crows Kazagoshi Shingo, the hero of “The Summer of Bureaucrats", a Japanese novel. Kazagoshi, an official at the ministry of trade and industry, refuses to rise from his seat to greet his minister, a politician only nominally above him in the hierarchy.

19.11 / 00:31

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Fossil fuel executive Chris Wright, Donald Trump's choice for Energy secretary, is a strong supporter of oil and gas development, including fracking, a key pillar of the president-elect’s quest for U.S. “energy dominance” in the global market

30.10 / 18:31

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A study trumpeting the value of applying rigorous standards to scientific research was retracted, in part because the authors didn’t follow their own advice. In the sprawling project, scientists in four labs designed and tested experiments and then tried to replicate one another’s work.

16.10 / 13:17

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Some of the lowest-paid health care workers in California are getting a pay bump under a state law

07.10 / 05:39

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An international yoga business founder whose chain of yoga studios promoted themselves as “Yoga to the People” has pleaded guilty to a tax charge in a New York federal court

25.09 / 13:19

UPS Dreams Discover Research IBM electronic testing Meet the four musketeers of India’s quantum computing dream

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bengaluru: If you ever visit the website of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), be prepared to be tested. A series of historical facts flash by.

01.09 / 18:47

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JERUSALEM (AP) — Grieving and angry Israelis surged into the streets Sunday night after six more hostages were found dead in Gaza, and demanded — chanting “Now! Now!” — that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reach a cease-fire with Hamas to bring the remaining captives home.

20.08 / 11:59

Target FIVE Food Research wellness band Abandoning RBI's inflation target regime could be risky, counterproductive: Research paper

RBI's) inflation targeting regime has worked well and need not be abandoned in favour of a more discretionary regime that could be risky and counterproductive, a new research paper has said. The paper titled 'Inflation Targeting In India: A Further Assessment' said the weight of food-price inflation in the CPI inflation basket should be reduced to better reflect the circumstances of Indian households. «The RBI's inflation targeting regime has worked well. Given this record, radical changes such as broadening its mandate or abandoning the target in favour of a more discretionary regime would be risky and counterproductive,» it said. The paper is authored by economists Barry Eichengreen (University of California, Berkeley) and Poonam Gupta (NCAER).

13.08 / 15:15

UPS Provident Waters Analysis Research cover Mars crust has vast groundwater reserve but cannot supply future colony: Study

Mars stores enough groundwater to form oceans on the planet's surface, an analysis of the data collected by NASA has suggested. However, the water is present several kilometres the surface, so extracting it to «supply a future Mars colony» is not feasible, the researches said. The amount of groundwater it contains can cover the entire planet, which is about half of Earth's size, to a depth of up to two kilometres, according to the research team. For those tracking the fate of water after the planet's oceans disappeared over three billion years ago, the study's results are «good news,» the researchers, including those from the University of California (UC) in Berkeley, US, said.

28.07 / 09:45

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PARIS—The Americans have a secret advantage in doubles badminton at these Olympics: None of their opponents have any idea which player on the court is which. Annie and Kerry Xu developed their chemistry not on the badminton court but in the womb. They are identical twins, a fact that is more than just a fun piece of trivia.

23.07 / 23:25

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