DeepSeek upgrades its math-focused AI model Prover

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Techme101

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has quietly updated Prover, its AI model that’s designed to solve math-related proofs and theorems. According to South China Morning Post, DeepSeek uploaded the latest version of Prover, V2, to AI dev platform, Hugging Face, late on Wednesday. It appears to be built on top of the startup’s V3 model, which […]

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Cast AI raises $108M to get the most out of AI, Kubernetes and other workloads

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Techme101

The crush of traffic going into training and running AI has quickly turned into a major cost and resource headache for organizations. Today, Cast AI, a startup building tools to ease and optimize workloads for AI and other tasks with automation, is raising a major round of funding on the back of strong growth and […]

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Etsy shares pop on revenue beat as company says it’s ‘staying nimble’ to tariff uncertainty

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Techme101

Etsy shares jumped in premarket trading on Wednesday after the company posted better-than-expected revenue for the first quarter.

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Co-op fends off hackers as police probe M&S cyber attack

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Techme101

The firm said the steps it had taken had had a ‘small impact’ on its call centre.

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Microsoft says it respects European laws as U.S. ramps up trade tensions with EU

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Techme101

Microsoft President Brad Smith says the U.S. tech giant is committed to respecting European laws — even though it may not always agree with them.

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Update that made ChatGPT ‘dangerously’ sycophantic pulled

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Techme101

Users said the chatbot endorsed ideas including stopping medication and getting angry at strangers

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X is rolling out support for 4K video uploads

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Techme101

X is now allowing select creators to upload videos in 4K resolution, and will roll out the feature to all premium subscribers soon.

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Britain at risk of losing ground to rival fintech and crypto hubs, execs warn

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Techme101

“I think the U.K. will get it right — but there is a risk if you get it wrong that you drive innovation to other markets,” Coinbase’s U.K. head told CNBC.

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Sarah Tavel, Benchmark’s first woman GP, transitions to venture partner

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Techme101

Eight years after joining Benchmark as the firm’s first woman general partner, Sarah Tavel announced on X that she is transitioning to a more limited role at the storied venture firm. In her new position as a venture partner, Tavel will continue to make investments and serve on existing company boards, but she will have […]

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OpenAI explains why ChatGPT became too sycophantic

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Techme101

OpenAI has published a postmortem on the recent sycophancy issues with the default AI model powering ChatGPT, GPT-4o — issues that forced the company to roll back an update to the model released last week. Over the weekend, following the GPT-4o model update, users on social media noted that ChatGPT began responding in an overly […]

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