All posts tagged: Parallel

Parallel Parenting vs. Co-Parenting | Psychology Today

Parallel Parenting vs. Co-Parenting | Psychology Today

Published by Jenni Sidey

Q: My co-parent and I have been parallel parenting since our breakup. We communicate as little as possible because keeping our lives separate prevents arguments. Recently, our son came home from his father’s house very upset. His grandfather lives with Dad, and they are extremely close. Grandpa has cancer and has become very thin. Our son noticed and was frightened, but he was afraid to ask Dad or Grandpa what was happening. When he came back to my house, he asked if Grandpa was going to die. I didn’t even know Grandpa was sick. I was completely unprepared to help him. How do you know when it’s time to share information? A: After a breakup, parents may choose a parallel parenting approach to limit communication and reduce conflict. But parallel parenting doesn’t eliminate the need to share information about your child. The big question is: When does sharing information really become necessary? A good guideline is this: Your child goes back and forth. At times, the information necessary to support your child may have to …

Netflix Little House on the Prairie Book Adaptation, The Boys Parallel

Netflix Little House on the Prairie Book Adaptation, The Boys Parallel

Published by Daniella Wilson

Some stories refuse to stay on the page. The Hollywood Reporter’s Beyond the Book column explores what happens when books make the leap to screen and beyond — unpacking what changed, how it was done and why it matters with the creatives who made it.  *** The similarities between the upcoming family western Little House on the Prairie and The Boys, a dark and violent satirical take on superheroes, may not be immediately obvious. But for showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine, who is leading the Netflix adaptation of the Laura Ingalls Wilder classic and was a writer, producer and executive producer on the Prime Video hit, the distinct ways they cross over couldn’t be more apparent.  “I really think of them as very similar,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s about the myth of America and the stories we tell ourselves.” Alongside reading Wilder’s book series, essays and columns, Sonnenshine read a more recent take on Wilder’s life — Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser — as part of her research for the series. Published around …

Google’s DiffusionGemma generates 256 tokens in parallel and self-corrects as it goes

Google’s DiffusionGemma generates 256 tokens in parallel and self-corrects as it goes

Published by skeptic

GenAI image generators like Stable Diffusion do not draw a picture pixel by pixel from left to right. They start with noise and iteratively refine the entire image in parallel until it converges, in a process known as diffusion. For years, applying that same principle to text generation had remained out of reach at scale. Standard language models work like a typewriter: one token at a time, left to right, with no ability to revise a committed output. That pattern works in the cloud, where batch sizes keep GPUs saturated. For local inference or low-concurrency deployments, the GPU is idle most of the time. Google’s DiffusionGemma, released this week, is an open source experimental model that applies diffusion to text generation at production scale. Built on the Gemma 4 backbone and released under the Apache 2.0 license, it is the first diffusion language model natively supported in the open source vLLM inference platform. It generates a 256-token block in parallel rather than sequentially, with every token position attending to every other. Google says DiffusionGemma generates …

Walid Daqqa: A Parallel Life | Documentary

Walid Daqqa: A Parallel Life | Documentary

Published by Sam Flores

Walid Daqqa, the Palestinian prisoner who turned decades in Israeli jails into moments of thought, creativity and love. This is the story of Walid Daqqa, one of the longest-serving Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, told by his immediate family and in voice recordings he made behind bars. From a sharp-minded boy in 1948 Palestine to a clandestine PFLP organiser sentenced to life imprisonment, Daqqa turns his cell into a classroom, a think tank and, eventually, a wedding venue when he marries Sanaa Salama inside Ashkelon prison. Through intimate testimonies from family, former prisoners and his lawyer, the film explores Walid’s idea of “parallel time” – living both under “tonnes of concrete” and beyond the walls. It recounts the smuggling of his sperm, the birth of his daughter, Milad, and his powerful message to her: hate oppression, not people. As cancer consumes him and Israel refuses his release, Milad’s final chant, “Freedom for our prisoners. For my father”, echoes a struggle that outlives Walid Daqqa’s life. Published On 21 May 202621 May 2026 Click here to …

Asghar Farhadi’s ‘Parallel Tales’ Premieres to Polite Ovation

Asghar Farhadi’s ‘Parallel Tales’ Premieres to Polite Ovation

Published by Daniella Wilson

Asghar Farhadi, the Iranian master whose films have twice won the best international feature Oscar (2011’s A Separation and 2016’s The Salesman) and twice won prizes at the Cannes Film Festival (The Salesman and 2021’s A Hero), premiered his latest work, Parallel Tales, at Cannes’ Grand Théâtre Lumière on Thursday night. The French-language drama, which is playing in competition at this year’s fest, was greeted with a five-minute standing ovation — which is, by Cannes standards, polite but not especially enthusiastic. Adapted by Farhadi and his brother, Saeed, from a chapter of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s 10-part project for Polish television, Dekalog (1989-1990), Parallel Tales is a study in voyeurism and the sometimes blurry line between fantasy and reality. It boasts an all-star French cast that includes Isabelle Huppert, Virginia Efira, Vincent Cassel and, in a small role, Catherine Deneuve, all of whom do fine work. But, as The Hollywood Reporter’s chief film critic David Rooney noted in his review, the film becomes a bit meandering and arduous over the course of its two-hour-twenty-minute runtime. And by the …

Parallel Web Systems hits B valuation five months after its last big raise

Parallel Web Systems hits $2B valuation five months after its last big raise

Published by skeptic

Parallel Web Systems, the AI agent-tool startup founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, has raised a $100 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation led by Sequoia. Existing investors Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Spark Capital, and Terrain Capital also participated, the company said. This raise comes just five months after the startup announced its $100 million Series A at a $740 million valuation led by Kleiner and Index, and brings the total capital it raised to $230 million. Parallel offers a suite of web search and research APIs specifically for AI agents and names customers such as Clay, Harvey, Notion, and Opendoor. It says its customers include banks and hedge funds (though it has not named them). The confidence of investors in Agrawal’s startup has to be particularly gratifying for him after his time at Twitter ended with a subsequent lawsuit. Elon Musk famously fired him and all the top execs after he bought Twitter. Those execs, including Agrawal, sued, alleging that Musk failed to pay the $128 …

Anthropic Rebuilds Claude Code Desktop App Around Parallel Sessions

Anthropic Rebuilds Claude Code Desktop App Around Parallel Sessions

Published by skeptic

Anthropic has released a redesigned Claude Code experience for its Claude desktop app, bringing in a new sidebar for managing multiple sessions, a drag-and-drop layout for arranging the workspace, and more. The new sidebar displays every active and recent session in one place, and users can filter by status, project, or environment, with the option to group sessions by project. A new side chat shortcut (Command + 😉 also lets users branch a question off a running task without feeding extra context back into the main thread. Anthropic has also dropped more of the developer workflow into the app itself. There’s now an integrated terminal for running tests and builds, an in-app file editor for spot edits, a rebuilt diff viewer aimed at large changesets, and an expanded preview pane that handles HTML files and PDFs alongside local app servers. Each pane is also drag-and-drop friendly, so the layout can be arranged to suit. In addition, the desktop app now matches Claude Code’s CLI for plugin support, while SSH sessions are supported on Mac as …

New OpenAI Codex App for macOS Handles Parallel Coding Workflows

New OpenAI Codex App for macOS Handles Parallel Coding Workflows

Published by skeptic

What if you could delegate your most tedious tasks to a virtual assistant that not only understands your workflow but actively improves it? OpenAI has today launched its new Codex app for macOS, a release that promises to redefine how developers and technical teams collaborate with artificial intelligence. With features like multi-agent management and advanced task automation, Codex isn’t just another productivity booster, it’s a bold step toward a future where AI becomes an indispensable partner in tackling complex challenges. This isn’t about replacing human ingenuity but amplifying it, and the possibilities are as exciting as they are fantastic. Learn how the OpenAI Codex app has been designed to improve workflows by automating repetitive tasks, streamlining team collaboration, and offering customizable interaction styles to suit diverse working preferences. Whether you’re a developer juggling multiple projects or a technical professional looking to standardize processes, this app offers something uniquely tailored to your needs. But Codex isn’t just about efficiency, it’s about empowering users to focus on what truly matters: solving problems, innovating, and creating. As we …

OpenAI launches a Codex desktop app for macOS to run multiple AI coding agents in parallel

OpenAI launches a Codex desktop app for macOS to run multiple AI coding agents in parallel

Published by skeptic

OpenAI on Monday released a new desktop application for its Codex artificial intelligence coding system, a tool the company says transforms software development from a collaborative exercise with a single AI assistant into something more akin to managing a team of autonomous workers. The Codex app for macOS functions as what OpenAI executives describe as a “command center for agents,” allowing developers to delegate multiple coding tasks simultaneously, automate repetitive work, and supervise AI systems that can run for up to 30 minutes independently before returning completed code. “This is the most loved internal product we’ve ever had,” Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, told VentureBeat in a press briefing ahead of Monday’s launch. “It’s been totally an amazing thing for us to be using recently at OpenAI.” The release arrives at a pivotal moment for the enterprise AI market. According to a survey of 100 Global 2000 companies published last week by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, 78% of enterprise CIOs now use OpenAI models in production, though competitors Anthropic and Google are gaining ground …