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Ridley Scott Directorial Continues Its Solid Run Despite A Slash In The Number Of Screens!

Ridley Scott Directorial Continues Its Solid Run Despite A Slash In The Number Of Screens!

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Gladiator 2 Worldwide Box Office Collection (Photo Credit – Instagram) There’s no slowing down for the Ridley Scott directorial Gladiator 2 at the box office. The Christmas holiday further gave a good boost to the collection. Let us take a look at the latest box office performance of the movie. According to a report by Luiz Fernando, Gladiator 2 continued to witness a solid performance at the box office amid the Christmas holidays. The movie earned $1.5 million on what marked its biggest 5th Wednesday (December 25). Not only this but the Paul Mescal starrer also witnessed an impressive 63.2% jump from the collections of last Wednesday (December 18). Interestingly, Gladiator 2 continues to impress at the box office despite a major slash on the number of screens. According to the report, the movie lost around 827 theatres last Friday (December 20). The movie is only screening in 2.397 screens currently. The Paul Mescal starrer earned $157.6 million cume in the US. The next significant target of the film is to amass $175 million in …

Judge moves to slash million verdict in New Hampshire youth center abuse case

Judge moves to slash $38 million verdict in New Hampshire youth center abuse case

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CONCORD, N.H. — The judge who oversaw a landmark civil trial over abuse at New Hampshire’s youth detention center has issued a preliminary order slashing the $38 million verdict against the state to $475,000. Rockingham County Superior Court Judge Andrew Schulman previously said reducing the amount awarded to plaintiff David Meehan by nearly 99% would be an “unconscionable miscarriage of justice,” He reiterated that belief in a Nov. 4 order, but “reluctantly” granted the state’s request to the cap the award and said he would enter a final judgement to that effect on Friday barring any last-minute requests from attorneys. Judge moves to slash $38 million verdict in New Hampshire youth center abuse case Meehan’s allegations of horrific sexual and physical abuse at the Youth Development Center in 1990s led to a broad criminal investigation resulting in multiple arrests. His civil lawsuit seeking to hold the state accountable was the first of more than 1,100 to go to trial. Although jurors sided with him in May after a monthlong trial, confusion arose over how much …

Alibaba, Baidu Slash Prices of Large-Language Models Used to Power AI Chatbots

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Chinese tech giants Alibaba and Baidu slashed prices on Tuesday of large-language models (LLMs) used to power generative artificial intelligence products, as a price war in the cloud computing sector heats up in China. Alibaba’s cloud unit announced price cuts of up to 97 percent on a range of its Tongyi Qwen LLMs. Its Qwen-Long model, for instance, will cost only CNY 0.0005 per 1,000 tokens – or units of data processed by the LLM – after the price cut, down from CNY 0.02 per 1,000 tokens. It was quickly followed by Baidu, which hours later announced that its Ernie Speed and Ernie Lite models would be free for all business users. A price war in China’s cloud computing space has been ongoing for the past few months, with Alibaba and Tencent recently lowering prices of their cloud computing services. Many Chinese cloud vendors have relied on AI chatbot services to boost sales, after China saw a wave of investment in large language models in response to the hit debut of US-based OpenAI’s ChatGPT in …

‘Sleight of hand’: P Chidambaram reacts to Centre’s decision to slash petrol, diesel prices | Latest News India

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Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday reacted to the BJP-led Central government’s decision to cut petrol and diesel prices by ₹2 per litre, saying the same kind of “sleight of hand” was witnessed in increasing the LPG price and then reducing it before elections. Congress leader P Chidambaram in New Delhi.(ANI) “I had said at a media briefing last week that prices of petrol and diesel will be reduced. It was done today,” Chidambaram wrote on X. “Will the government say that the prices will not be increased after the elections (if the BJP comes to power again)?” Hindustan Times – your fastest source for breaking news! Read now. He claimed that earlier the price of LPG cylinders was increased by ₹700 by the BJP government and then reduced by ₹100 ahead of the elections. “The same kind of sleight of hand has been practised in the case of Petrol and Diesel,” Chidambaram said. Petrol, diesel prices slashed State-run oil marketing companies slashed pump prices of petrol and diesel by ₹2 per litre from Friday, …

A Ryan Gosling And Slash Collab We Didn’t Know We Needed

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Ryan Gosling and Slash performed together at the Oscars. (Image courtesy: Getty) New Delhi: Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre was beaming with ken-ergy at the 96th Academy Awards. While Oppenheimer took home the top prize, team Barbie served well on the performance front. Ryan Gosling performed his iconic track I’m Just Ken from Barbie with, wait for it…Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash. They were joined by Mark Ronson. The moment eclipsed almost everything else (not John Cena’s gig though, who ironically presented the Best Costume Award almost sans clothes). But yes, pretty much, everything else. This collaboration at the Oscars was bound to catch the Internet’s attention and it did. Here are some of the many posts: Popular opinion on X: “Ryan Gosling and Slash! Single handedly just saved the Oscars.” More fan posts incoming. Ryan Gossling and Slash!!!! Single handedly just saved #TheOscars#ken#slash#Barbie#greta we love you! pic.twitter.com/sG2JEBjxRn — Stoned Gen Xer (@oceanviewamy771) March 11, 2024 Slash and Ryan fans unite. “I’m Just Ken” live at the #Oscars2024 with Ryan Gosling amazing @Slash‘s guitar solo #Slash#Oscars2024#RyanGoslingpic.twitter.com/YC6njA9a3v …