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By Krystal Hu (Reuters) – Hippocratic AI, a startup building artificial intelligence models for the healthcare industry, has raised $50 million in a larger-than-usual seed funding round, signaling strong investor interest in betting on AI models for specific industries. Silicon Valley venture firms General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz (A16z) co-led the round, which funded the cost of hiring and training large language models since entrepreneur Munjal Shah founded Hippocratic earlier […]

Colombian Descendants of Crypto-Jews Rediscover Their Roots  In less than 30 years, a fully functional Jewish community has developed in Bello, Colombia, composed mostly of converts to Judaism whose families were once Jewish  By Debbie Mohnblatt/The Media Line  About 300 Jews belong to the Jewish community in Bello, a small city in Colombia. They attend synagogue, keep the Jewish dietary laws, and study the Torah. Less than 30 years ago, […]

By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) – Anti-corruption authorities in Ukraine said on Tuesday they had detained the head of the country’s Supreme Court in an investigation they cast as an important step in Kyiv’s fight against high-level graft. Kyiv has redoubled efforts to clamp down on corruption despite Russia’s invasion, and doing so is vital to meet the conditions for joining the European Union. Oleksandr Omelchenko, a prosecutor at the […]

By Steven Grattan and Leonardo Benassatto SAO PAULO (Reuters) – At one of Latin America’s largest commuter bus terminals in Brazil’s gritty downtown Sao Paulo, 84-year-old Rerizenil de Paula Santos waits on a bus decorated with neon lights and bright graffiti amid the hustle and bustle of rush hour. It is the 10th time she has boarded this first-of-its-kind project, known as the cultural center on wheels. Its aim: to […]

By Krystal Hu (Reuters) – Hippocratic Health, a startup building artificial intelligence models for the healthcare industry, has raised $50 million in a larger-than-usual seed funding round, signaling strong investor interest in betting on AI models for specific industries. Silicon Valley venture firms General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz (A16z) co-led the round, which funded the cost of hiring and training large language models since entrepreneur Munjal Shah founded Hippocratic earlier […]

(Reuters) – Zoom Video Communications Inc said on Tuesday it has invested an undisclosed sum in Anthropic and will integrate the artificial intelligence start-up’s technology into its video-conferencing platform. The move marks the latest effort by Zoom to spruce up its offerings with AI as it competes against Microsoft Teams, the dominant video-conferencing tool for enterprises. Under the collaboration, Anthropic’s Claude – a large language model that competes directly with […]

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s annual inflation rate surprisingly ticked up to 4.4% in April, as higher shelter costs contributed to the first acceleration in the consumer price index in 10 months, Statistics Canada data showed on Tuesday. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected the annual inflation rate to edge down to 4.1% from 4.3% in March. Month-over-month, the consumer price index was up 0.7%, higher than the forecast 0.4% gain. […]

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States on Monday urged Mali’s transition government to pursue an “independent, impartial, efficient, exhaustive, and transparent investigation” to hold accountable those responsible for the likely execution of hundreds of people in one village. “The United States is appalled by the disregard for human life exhibited by elements of the Malian Armed Forces in cooperation with the Kremlin-backed Wagner Group – a transnational criminal organization […]

OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada’s annual inflation rate surprisingly ticked up to 4.4% in April, as higher shelter costs contributed to the first acceleration in the consumer price index in 10 months, Statistics Canada data showed on Tuesday. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected the annual inflation rate to edge down to 4.1% from 4.3% in March. Month-over-month, the consumer price index was up 0.7%, higher than the forecast 0.4% gain. The […]