As porn sites apply new age checks, will users hand over personal ID?

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Techme101

All websites hosting pornography will have to check the age of their users from Friday.

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Google’s $85 billion capital spend spurred by cloud, AI demand

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Techme101

Executives said the spend will be on tech infrastructure needed to power cloud services.

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Nvidia supplier SK Hynix second-quarter profit and revenue hit record highs, topping estimates

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Techme101

Revenue rose about 35% in the June quarter compared with the same period a year earlier, while operating profit rose 68%, year on year.

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The Chatbot Culture Wars Are Here

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Techme101

Conservatives, including President Trump, are accusing A.I. companies of left-wing bias, following a playbook that worked well against social media platforms.

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A new AI coding challenge just published its first results – and they aren’t pretty

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Techme101

A new AI coding challenge has revealed its first winner — and set a new bar for AI-powered software engineers.  On Wednesday at 5pm PST, the nonprofit Laude Institute announced the first winner of the K Prize, a multi-round AI coding challenge launched by Databricks and Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski. The winner was a Brazilian […]

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Trump’s ‘anti-woke AI’ order could reshape how US tech companies train their models

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Techme101

When DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese firms released their AI models, Western researchers quickly noticed they sidestepped questions critical of the Chinese Communist Party. U.S. officials later confirmed that these tools are engineered to reflect Beijing’s talking points, raising concerns about censorship and bias. American AI leaders like OpenAI have pointed to this as justification […]

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Trump Says He’s ‘Getting Rid of Woke’ and Dismisses Copyright Concerns in AI Policy Speech

Posted on July 23, 2025 by Techme101

The remarks, which came during a keynote speech at a summit hosted by the All-In Podcast, follow President Donald Trump’s newly released AI Action Plan.

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Sundar Pichai is ‘very excited’ about Google Cloud’s OpenAI partnership

Posted on July 23, 2025 by Techme101

The comment came shortly after analysts peppered Pichai and other Google executives with questions about how AI would affect its core search business and why Google is spending an extra $10 billion on capital expenditures this year to catch up in the AI race.

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A troubled SPAC plans to buy iRocket for $400M but it already returned most of its cash

Posted on July 23, 2025 by Techme101

iRocket is aiming to hit the public markets but the SPAC vehicle doesn’t have much cash left.

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Google’s AI Overviews have 2B monthly users, AI Mode 100M in the US and India

Posted on July 23, 2025 by Techme101

Google shared new stats about its AI features’ adoption during its Q2 earnings.

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