Now a top actor, Ahn Bo Hyun revealed he was working part-time in a construction even after appearing in the hit drama Descendants of the Sun. Ahn Bo Hyun guested on JTBC‘s Knowing Bros alongside Park Han Na and Lee Hak Joo, and shared his story about how during his early days, he struggled with […]
Drip Capital, a fintech that provides working capital to SMBs, picks up $113M
For over two decades, Jay Chandarana relied on commercial banks to meet the day-to-day, working capital needs of his family business, the sesame seed exporter Dhaval Agri. It was an arrangement that basically worked: The company grew to have a 13% share of the country’s total exports, making it the largest sesame seed exporter in […]
Google is working on AI that can hear signs of sickness
Given everything you’ve already heard about AI, you may not be surprised to learn that Google is among other outfits beginning to use sound signals to predict early signs of disease. How? According to Bloomberg, Google has trained its foundation AI model with 300 million pieces of audio that included coughs, sniffles, and labored breathing, […]
Apple reportedly cuts 100 jobs working on Books and other services
Apple is conducting layoffs affecting around 100 employees working for the company’s digital services group, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The main group affected by the cuts is the team working for the Apple Books app and its related store. Originally introduced in 2010 by then-CEO Steve Jobs in conjunction with the iPad’s debut, Apple […]
Stephen Wolfram thinks we need philosophers working on big questions around AI
Mathematician and scientist Stephen Wolfram grew up in a household where his mother was a philosophy professor at Oxford University. As such, his younger self didn’t want anything to do with the subject, but an older and perhaps wiser Wolfram sees value in thinking deeply about things. Now he wants to bring some of that […]