Night Owls Wiser Than Early Risers

In a world where “early to bed and early to rise” is a celebrated mantra for success, a groundbreaking study led by researchers at Imperial College London claims that late sleepers might actually be cognitively sharper than their early-rising counterparts. The researchers studied data from the UK Biobank on more than 26,000 people who had … Read more

Edelweiss Alternatives: Tapping The Credit Opportunity

Venkat Ramaswamy, Co-founder and Vice Chairman, Edelweiss Financial Services. Image: Bajirao Pawar for Forbes India At a time when some of the Edelweiss group companies had come under scrutiny of the regulator, Edelweiss Alternative Asset Advisors, one of its fastest growing businesses—with assets under management of $6.8 billion (Rs 57,120 crore)—has outpaced growth in retail … Read more

Palestinians tell of Israeli jail abuse

Israeli Prison Service Israeli prisons have become overwhelmed with the number of Palestinian detainees doubling to about 10,000 since October Warning: This article contains details which some readers may find upsetting Israel’s leading human rights organisation says conditions inside Israeli prisons holding Palestinian detainees amount to torture. B’tselem’s report entitled “Welcome to Hell”, contains testimony … Read more

Epic moves forward on health app interoperability

The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement directory has made it possible for consumers to clear the hurdle of joining data from multiple electronic health record (EHR) sources. And now Epic is offering new functionalities that capitalize on that fact. “We’ve opened up an API so that our customers can allow patients to connect with … Read more

Euphoria in Bangladesh after PM flees country

Getty Images Protesters stormed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s palace after she fled the country Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned after weeks of deadly anti-government protests, putting an end to more than two decades at the top of the country’s politics. Ms Hasina, 76, fled the country, reportedly landing in India on Monday. Jubilant … Read more

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute shares lessons on using secure LLMs

The famous Dana-Farber Cancer Institute built a secure and private exploratory environment to evaluate, test and deploy large language models for non-clinical applications such as clinical and basic research and operations. The provider organization overcame governance, ethics, regulatory and technical challenges, and deployed a secure API to enable its developers to embed AI into their … Read more