You're listening to Tech Beat. Three scientists have won the two thousand twenty six Nobel Prize in Medicine for optogenetics, a technique that turns nerve cells on and off with light. Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel pioneered the method, letting researchers link specific neuronal activity to behavior in living animals, and opening a new window into the brain's mysteries.
In the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence, Nvidia-backed Reflection has unveiled Beam, its first open-weight model. The company says Beam rivals Chinese systems like GLM five point two on reasoning while using far less inference compute, and the weights are due out this month.
And a changing of the guard in media. David Zaslav is bidding farewell to Warner Bros. employees, on the eve of the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount. The deal creates another entertainment giant carrying even more debt, closing out Zaslav's four and a half years at the helm.
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