Monthly Archives: March 2025

I Went Undercover in Crypto’s Answer to ‘Squid Game.’ It Nearly Broke Me

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Techme101

I spent 10 days competing in Crypto: The Game, a winner-takes-all contest where hundreds of players try to finesse and backstab their way to claiming a $140,000 cryptocurrency prize.

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The Best Programming Language for the End of the World

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Techme101

Once the grid goes down, an old programming language called Forth—and a new operating system called Collapse OS—may be our only salvation.

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The Worm That No Computer Scientist Can Crack

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Techme101

One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called OpenWorm has tried—and utterly failed—to simulate it.

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U.S. blacklists over 50 Chinese companies in bid to curb Beijing’s AI, chip capabilities

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Techme101

The export restrictions come at a time when tensions between Washington and Beijing have been rising with the Trump administration ratcheting up tariffs against China.

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Amazon is testing shopping, health assistants as it pushes deeper into generative AI

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Techme101

With CEO Andy Jassy pushing employees to build AI apps across the company, Amazon is testing new shopping and health assistants.

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Microsoft adds AI-powered deep research tools to Copilot

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Techme101

Microsoft is introducing a “deep research” AI-powered tool in Microsoft 365 Copilot, its AI chatbot app. There’s been a raft of deep research agents launched recently across chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and xAI’s Grok. Powering them are so-called … Continue reading →

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Read the email Jack Dorsey sent when he cut 931 of Block’s staff

Posted on March 25, 2025 by Techme101

Block just laid off 931 employees. Read the email from its co-founder Jack Dorsey for more details on why.

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Databricks Has a Trick That Lets AI Models Improve Themselves

Posted on March 25, 2025 by Techme101

Using several recent innovations, the company Databricks will let customers boost the IQ of their AI models even if they don’t have squeaky clean data.

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Emergence Capital closes on $1B fund to back B2B companies

Posted on March 25, 2025 by Techme101

Emergence Capital has closed its $1 billion seventh fund, it reported on Tuesday It’s the firm’s first raise in nearly four years. In May 2021, the San Mateo, California-based venture firm rounded up nearly a billion dollars in capital commitments … Continue reading →

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Earth AI’s algorithms found critical minerals in places everyone else ignored

Posted on March 25, 2025 by Techme101

The startup uses AI to quickly search for minerals over wide areas, identifying promising potential deposits for exploration.

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