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Amazon’s palm-scanning payment technology is coming to all 500+ Whole Foods

Amazon One, a palm-scanning payment system, is set to expand nationwide. The retailer announced this morning that the payment tech will be in all 500+ Amazon-owned Whole Foods Market stores by year-end. Hovering a palm over a reader device activates the biometric payment system. The device then matches the customer’s …

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Open-source large language model from China’s search engine pioneer rivals OpenAI

“China needs its own OpenAI,” Sogou founder Wang Xiaochuan tweeted in February. Today, Chinese entrepreneur Baichuan Intelligence launched its next-generation large language model Baichuan-13B. Due to its founder’s history as a computer science prodigy from Tsinghua University and founding Sogou, which Tencent later acquired, Baichuan is considered one of China’s …

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Celebrity-led learning platform FrontRow closes

Confirmed that FrontRow, an Indian celebrity-focused hobby-learning and community platform, has closed. The three-year-old startup created a community where famous artists and athletes taught consumers. Elevation Capital, Eight Roads Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Not Boring Capital backed the $18 million startup. FrontRow co-founder Ishaan Preet Singh told that the …

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