Chinese artificial intelligence startup MiniMax today announced the release of M2.1, a significantly enhanced performance for real-world complex tasks and agentic capabilities across more programming ...

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In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...

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Actor-politician Pawan Kalyan weighs in on the rising Hindi language row in India. In an exclusive interview with India Today Group's Rajdeep Sardesai and Akshita Nandagopal, he calls Hindi a ...

The Maharashtra government has officially cancelled its amended resolution on the three-language policy after strong criticism and protests. This resolution had raised concerns among many people ...

Hedge funds will go to great lengths in pursuit of profits, whether it is by counting cars in satellite photos of parking lots or shipping gold across the Atlantic. Building a compiler—a piece of ...