In this Friday, Jan. 22, 2016, file photo, co-writer, actor-director Don Cheadle speaks during an interview at the premiere of "Miles Ahead" during the 2016 Sundance Film Festival on in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Arthur Mola/Invision/AP, File)
CINCINNATI (AP) --
Actor-director Don Cheadle says he's considering doing another film project in Cincinnati.
He was in town for a special showing Saturday of "Miles Ahead," his new movie about jazz great Miles Davis shot in the Ohio city in 2014. Cheadle says the city really welcomed the cast and crew and its historic architecture helped produce a period film that felt authentic.
He tells The Cincinnati Enquirer that the city's layout and Ohio's motion picture incentives also were reasons to film in Cincinnati. He says he was thinking Saturday: "Should we come back here again?"
Cheadle says locally based musicians appear in the movie, which he describes as having a jazz-like, free-form storytelling style.
The movie "Carol" that was nominated for multiple Academy Awards is among other recent Cincinnati-shot films.
Suchir Balaji poses for a photo in Hawaii in 2018. Balaji was a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who died in November 2024. (Balaji Ramamurthy via AP)
Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He was 26.
Balaji worked at OpenAI for nearly four years before quitting in August. He was well-regarded by colleagues at the San Francisco company, where a co-founder this week called him one of OpenAI's strongest contributors who was essential to developing some of its products.
"We are devastated to learn of this incredibly sad news and our hearts go out to Suchir's loved ones during this difficult time," said a statement from OpenAI.
Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26 in what police said "appeared to be a suicide. No evidence of foul play was found during the initial investigation." The city's chief medical examiner's office confirmed the manner of death to be suicide.
His parents Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy said they are still seeking answers, describing their son as a "happy, smart and brave young man" who loved to hike and recently returned from a trip with friends.
Balaji grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and first arrived at the fledgling AI research lab for a 2018 summer internship while studying computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He returned a few years later to work at OpenAI, where one of his first projects, called WebGPT, helped pave the way for ChatGPT.
"Suchir's contributions to this project were essential, and it wouldn't have succeeded without him," said OpenAI co-founder John Schulman in a social media post memorializing Balaji. Schulman, who recruited Balaji to his team, said what... Read More
