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Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw

a crash in the area of 132nd Avenue and 82nd Street at 4:39 p.m. on Sunday. Investigators believe a man was driving a car west on 132nd Avenue at a high speed it went through a red light and hit another car that was being driven by Delaney’s friend.

Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near «human level robustness and accuracy.» But Whisper has a major flaw: It is prone to making up chunks of text or even entire sentences, according to interviews with more than a dozen software engineers, developers and academic researchers. Those experts said some of the invented text — known in the industry as hallucinations — can include racial commentary, violent rhetoric and even imagined medical treatments. Experts said that such fabrications are problematic because Whisper is being used in a slew of industries worldwide to translate and transcribe interviews, generate text in popular consumer technologies and create subtitles for videos.

A food poisoning outbreak tied to McDonald's Quarter Pounders has expanded, with at least 75 people sick in 13 states

U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that 75 persons have been infected from the E.coli outbreak linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers. The infections had killed one person, sickened 49 and hospitalized 10 across the U.S. West and Midwest, the CDC had said on Oct. 22. The FDA said 22 persons out of the 61, on whom information was available, have been hospitalized. Two of them have developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a serious condition that can cause kidney failure.

Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 72 people since Thursday night and Israeli forces launched a night-time raid on a hospital in the north of the enclave, Palestinian officials said. The Gaza health ministry said a strike on houses in the southern city of Khan Younis killed at least 38, many of them women and children. The Israeli military said its forces had killed a number of Palestinian gunmen in air and ground strikes in the southern Gaza Strip and dismantled military infrastructure.

telemedicine, AI-driven diagnostics, and mobile health apps have made headlines, they address only part of the issue. The real obstacles lie much deeper. Infrastructure and human resources: the missing pieces The solution to India's vast healthcare gap lies not solely in technology but in a broader, more human-centric approach. «Healthcare innovation is not just about technology; it's about creating solutions that serve the most vulnerable and underserved populations,» leading healthcare industrialist and philanthropist Prakash Hinduja said.

A California-based produce company is the source of fresh onions linked to a deadly E

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Artillery thudded nearby one recent evening as medics rushed a soldier with blast wounds into a new type of Ukrainian field hospital buried underground. In the relative safety of their bunker, which lies under 10 feet of sandbags, earth, steel and pine logs, surgeon Yevhen Antoniuk and his team got to work.

Oyo achieved a profit after tax of Rs 158 crore in the second quarter of the current fiscal ended September, founder Ritesh Agarwal told employees in a townhall on Thursday, sources said. Oravel Stays Ltd, the parent company of Oyo, had posted a loss of Rs 50 crore in the same period of the previous year. During the first quarter, Oyo's profit after tax stood at Rs 132 crore. This brings the company's H1 FY25 net profit to Rs 290 crore ($35 million), marking a turnaround from the Rs 91 crore net loss reported in the same period of the previous fiscal, the sources said.

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«We like the CDMO space, no doubt about that and that is why we have only one player out there, which is probably one of the best players within that space as such,» says Dinshaw Irani, CEO, Helios Mutual Fund. Are you keen on pharma at all and which end of pharma, is it hospitals, diagnostic, domestic facing companies, CDMO players, export players, where is that you are finding value and comfort right now? Dinshaw Irani: So, basically, it is kitchen sinking out there. I mean, the way you stated. So, I do not know. We are very keen on obviously hospitals. We have got a couple of players there that we like and that is more of a call on the per capita is moving up in our country and obviously health becoming a bigger spend, that is what one saw in China or any other economy which was picking up as such, so that is one call that we have taken.

A food poisoning outbreak tied to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders was caused by a common type of E

Outbreaks of foodborne illnesses are pretty rare for well known restaurant chains, but they do happen

Hezbollah escalate, a missile strike on an apartment building in Beirut was captured live by Bilal Hussein, an Associated Press (AP) photographer. The incident is part of Israel's ongoing military campaign in Lebanon, aimed at targeting Hezbollah strongholds in the region. The dramatic moment occurred after an Israeli warning allowed the building to be evacuated. Hussein, who was positioned behind a tree for cover, was able to document the missile’s descent just moments before it struck, capturing the projectile’s final approach.

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Even Healthcare, which provides facilities such as consultation and hospitalisation to its members, has raised $30 million (about Rs 252 crore) in funding led by Silicon Valley-based Khosla Ventures. The round saw participation from other US-based investors such as Founders Fund, 8VC and Lachy Groom. The funds will be used to launch hospital operations in Bengaluru and scale up patient care and recourse processes. This round brings the company’s funding till date to $50 million.

Surgery schedules around the country may be washed out for several more weeks while a crucial IV and sterile fluids factory remains closed after a hurricane-related shutdown

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Go First, the grounded airline entangled in bankruptcy proceedings, is seeking permission for a foreign funding lifeline to pursue a high-stakes arbitration case against Pratt & Whitney. If granted, the move would mark an unprecedented shift in India’s Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), potentially reshaping how distressed companies fund litigation.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For Sonia Mathur, 33, an IT professional from Delhi, the idea of preserving her fertility for the future seemed empowering on the surface, but the reality was anything but straightforward. “From the moment the doctor laid out the process—hormone injections, egg retrieval, the possibility that it might not even work—there was a knot in my stomach and questions milling in my mind.

neutral call on Oberoi Realty with a target price of Rs 2,056. The current market price of Oberoi Realty is Rs 1963. Oberoi Realty Ltd., incorporated in 1998, is a largecap company with a market cap of Rs 71869.62 crore, operating in the Real Estate sector. Oberoi Realty's key products/revenue segments include income from project development, lease rentals, income from hospitality and other operating revenue for the year ending 31-Mar-2023.