Microsoft reportedly ramps up AI efforts to compete with OpenAI

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Techme101

Microsoft is accelerating its push to compete with OpenAI, its longtime collaborator, by developing its own powerful AI models and exploring alternatives to power products like Microsoft’s Copilot bot. Microsoft has developed its own AI “reasoning” models comparable to models like OpenAI’s o1 and o3-mini, the The Information reports. OpenAI is said to have refused […]
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SXSW 2025: What we’re paying attention to

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Techme101

TechCrunch will be on the ground at SXSW 2025 — the annual tech, music, comedy, and film conference that kicked off Friday in Austin — in search of the zeitgeist of this AI-centric era. Yup, we’re one sentence in and AI has already made its entrance. And why not? A quick scan of the massive […]
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AppLovin short-seller urges exclusion of the stock from S&P 500 index

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Techme101

Short-seller firm Fuzzy Panda Research is trying to keep shares of AppLovin out of the S&P 500, accusing the company of fraudulent ad-tech practices.

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Sam Bankman-Fried Lobbies Trump Associates in Hopes of a Pardon

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Techme101

Mr. Bankman-Fried’s family and allies are trying to help him escape a 25-year prison sentence for fraud related to the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange, FTX.

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Salesforce Drops DEI Commitments, Reframes Equality as Legal Compliance

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Techme101

Salesforce removes DEI commitments from its latest filing, shifting focus to legal compliance with equal pay and anti-discrimination laws.

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Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Techme101

Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy. Speaking on stage at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, the advocate for secure communications, referred to the use of AI agents as “putting your brain in a jar,” and cautioned that this new paradigm of computing — […]
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Intuitive Machines’ second moon lander is dead

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Techme101

Intuitive Machines’ Athena lunar lander is dead, just one day after it touched down at the moon’s south pole and tipped over. Luckily, the company says it was able to “accelerate several program and payload milestones” and deploy a few of the experiments that were riding shotgun before Athena’s lander ran out of juice. The […]
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‘Startup Nation’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Techme101

The architects of projects like Próspera are drafting legislation to create US cities that would be free from federal regulations.

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Apple delays Siri AI improvements to 2026

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Techme101

“It’s going to take us longer than we thought to deliver on these features and we anticipate rolling them out in the coming year,” the company said Friday.

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Discord is discussing an IPO

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Techme101

Discord is in early stage discussions with bankers to IPO.
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