Israel launches new strikes on Lebanon as leaders draw closer to ceasefire with HezbollahASPI Investors Have Opportunity to Lead ASP Isotopes Inc. Securities Fraud Lawsuit

Glenview passes budget without property tax increases for homeownersThe health care company formerly known as Bright Health, which benefited from Minnesota’s largest-ever initial public offering of stock less than three years ago, is going private again as executives retool the business. NeueHealth, as the company is now known, is being taken private by a group of investors including venture fund New Enterprise Associates (NEA) in a deal that values the firm at $1.3 billion. The business has switched from selling health insurance plans to providing care to patients and accountable-care contracting solutions to providers. The company moved its corporate headquarters from Bloomington to Doral, Fla., earlier this year. The deal, announced late Monday , will provide holders of common stock $7.33 per share — a 70% premium over the stock’s closing price on Monday. NEA and the dozen other investors who own the company’s preferred shares will exchange their existing NeueHealth stock for equity in the private company. NeueHealth’s existing loan facility with Hercules Capital will remain in place. “We are pleased to announce this transaction as we believe it places NeueHealth in a strong position for continued growth while maximizing value for all of NeueHealth’s public stockholders,” NeueHelath CEO Mike Mikan said in a press release announcing the deal . Bright Health was founded in 2015 as a health insurer that quickly grew to cover more than 1 million people through Obamacare individual insurance exchanges and 125,000 seniors in Medicare Advantage plans. In 2021, the company raised $924 million in an IPO that made it Minnesota’s must lucrative. But going public during the COVID-19 pandemic proved challenging for the new insurer. The company stumbled by not accurately paying claims or calculating risk-adjustment payments. Mikan said in 2021 that the company grew faster than it had capacity to handle. The timing of the pandemic coincided with difficulties in obtaining accurate data on the health status of individuals it was covering, as well as scaling up the company’s organizational capabilities and technologies. The company jettisoned it insurance business and in January announced its move to Florida, changing its name in the process. Today, NeueHealth says it provides care to more than 500,000 “health consumers” through a network of clinics it owns and partnerships with more than 3,000 affiliated clinicians. The company says it works with patients with Medicare and Medicaid coverage and Obamacare, or Affordable Care Act, plans. It also partners with independent doctors and medical groups to provide the advanced technology and services needed to enter “value-driven” payment arrangements, which are intended to align the costs and benefits of care by varying payments based on patients’ health outcomes. In the most recent quarter , NeueHealth reported a $6 million operating loss on $152 million in revenue in the solutions business, and $16 million in profits from $83 million in revenue in its segment providing care.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. Balaji worked at OpenAI for nearly four years before quitting in August. He was well-regarded by colleagues at the San Francisco company, where a co-founder this week called him one of OpenAI’s strongest contributors who was essential to developing some of its products. “We are devastated to learn of this incredibly sad news and our hearts go out to Suchir’s loved ones during this difficult time,” said a statement from OpenAI. Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26 in what police said “appeared to be a suicide. No evidence of foul play was found during the initial investigation.” The city’s chief medical examiner’s office confirmed the manner of death to be suicide. His parents Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy said they are still seeking answers, describing their son as a “happy, smart and brave young man” who loved to hike and recently returned from a trip with friends. RELATED COVERAGE Trump hosts Apple CEO at Mar-a-Lago as big tech leaders continue outreach to president-elect OpenAI’s legal battle with Elon Musk reveals internal turmoil over avoiding AI ‘dictatorship’ OpenAI’s Altman will donate $1 million to Trump’s inaugural fund Balaji grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and first arrived at the fledgling AI research lab for a 2018 summer internship while studying computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He returned a few years later to work at OpenAI, where one of his first projects, called WebGPT, helped pave the way for ChatGPT. “Suchir’s contributions to this project were essential, and it wouldn’t have succeeded without him,” said OpenAI co-founder John Schulman in a social media post memorializing Balaji. Schulman, who recruited Balaji to his team, said what made him such an exceptional engineer and scientist was his attention to detail and ability to notice subtle bugs or logical errors. “He had a knack for finding simple solutions and writing elegant code that worked,” Schulman wrote. “He’d think through the details of things carefully and rigorously.” Balaji later shifted to organizing the huge datasets of online writings and other media used to train GPT-4, the fourth generation of OpenAI’s flagship large language model and a basis for the company’s famous chatbot. It was that work that eventually caused Balaji to question the technology he helped build, especially after newspapers, novelists and others began suing OpenAI and other AI companies for copyright infringement. He first raised his concerns with The New York Times, which reported them in an October profile of Balaji . He later told The Associated Press he would “try to testify” in the strongest copyright infringement cases and considered a lawsuit brought by The New York Times last year to be the “most serious.” Times lawyers named him in a Nov. 18 court filing as someone who might have “unique and relevant documents” supporting allegations of OpenAI’s willful copyright infringement. His records were also sought by lawyers in a separate case brought by book authors including the comedian Sarah Silverman, according to a court filing. “It doesn’t feel right to be training on people’s data and then competing with them in the marketplace,” Balaji told the AP in late October. “I don’t think you should be able to do that. I don’t think you are able to do that legally.” He told the AP that he gradually grew more disillusioned with OpenAI, especially after the internal turmoil that led its board of directors to fire and then rehire CEO Sam Altman last year. Balaji said he was broadly concerned about how its commercial products were rolling out, including their propensity for spouting false information known as hallucinations. But of the “bag of issues” he was concerned about, he said he was focusing on copyright as the one it was “actually possible to do something about.” He acknowledged that it was an unpopular opinion within the AI research community, which is accustomed to pulling data from the internet, but said “they will have to change and it’s a matter of time.” He had not been deposed and it’s unclear to what extent his revelations will be admitted as evidence in any legal cases after his death. He also published a personal blog post with his opinions about the topic. Schulman, who resigned from OpenAI in August, said he and Balaji coincidentally left on the same day and celebrated with fellow colleagues that night with dinner and drinks at a San Francisco bar. Another of Balaji’s mentors, co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, had left OpenAI several months earlier , which Balaji saw as another impetus to leave. Schulman said Balaji had told him earlier this year of his plans to leave OpenAI and that Balaji didn’t think that better-than-human AI known as artificial general intelligence “was right around the corner, like the rest of the company seemed to believe.” The younger engineer expressed interest in getting a doctorate and exploring “some more off-the-beaten path ideas about how to build intelligence,” Schulman said. Balaji’s family said a memorial is being planned for later this month at the India Community Center in Milpitas, California, not far from his hometown of Cupertino. —————- EDITOR’S NOTE — This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. —————-- The Associated Press and OpenAI have a licensing and technology agreement allowing OpenAI access to part of the AP’s text archives.

New Delhi [India], December 24 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday chaired a review meeting on the implementation of three new criminal laws in Uttarakhand and urged Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami to ensure their full implementation as soon as possible. Highlighting that the new laws are victim- and citizen-centric and must be implemented with this spirit, Shah directed the Uttarakhand Chief Minister to review the progress of the laws' implementation every 15 days. Additionally, he advised the Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police (DGP) to conduct weekly reviews with officials from all relevant departments. Shah also instructed the DGP to ensure thorough investigations by all Superintendents of Police. Also Read | Mahakumbh Mela 2025: Super Deluxe and Villa Tent Houses Ready in Prayagraj, Online Bookings for Stays at 'Mahakumbh Gram' Set To Begin From January 10. The Home Minister emphasised that the Uttarakhand government should address technological and other deficiencies to achieve 100 per cent implementation of the new laws. He stressed prioritising the complete enforcement of the laws in police stations and jails, particularly in areas with higher numbers of FIRs. Also Read | Pushkar Singh Dhami Meets Amit Shah in Delhi, Discusses Implementation of 3 Criminal Laws in Uttarakhand (See Pics). Underscoring the importance of technology, Shah stated that each district should have more than one forensic mobile van. "For forensic operations, teams should be categorised as serious, normal, and less urgent, enabling better utilisation of resources. A protocol should also be established to designate locations for video conferencing, ensuring cameras installed at all sites are of excellent quality," the Home Ministry statement quoted Shah as saying. Shah called for regular and continuous monitoring of Zero FIRs, including tracking how many have been resolved and how many have been transferred to other states. The meeting reviewed the implementation and current status of various new provisions related to policing, jails, courts, prosecution, and forensics in Uttarakhand. The Union Home Secretary, Chief Secretary, DGP of Uttarakhand, Director General of the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D), Director General of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), and several senior officials from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and the Uttarakhand government attended the meeting. The new criminal laws--Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS), Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA)--were implemented nationwide on July 1, 2024, to make India's legal system more transparent, efficient, and adaptable to contemporary societal needs. (ANI) (This is an unedited and auto-generated story from Syndicated News feed, LatestLY Staff may not have modified or edited the content body)Starmer’s obsession with the EU alongside his incompetence will send Britain backwards and betray Brexit