Anthropic’s Claude Is Good at Poetry—and Bullshitting

Posted on March 28, 2025 by Techme101

Researchers looked inside the chatbot’s “brain.” The results were surprisingly chilling.

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CoreWeave CEO says lower IPO pricing was ‘where the buying interest was’

Posted on March 28, 2025 by Techme101

CoreWeave CEO Mike Intrator said on “Squawk Box” that the company had to “rightsize” its pricing ahead of the Friday IPO.

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CoreWeave Scales Back Ambition for Its I.P.O.

Posted on March 28, 2025 by Techme101

The company, which originally expected its shares to be priced between $47 and $55, will ask for $40 a share in a sign of stock market uncertainty.

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WhatsApp users can now add songs to their Status updates

Posted on March 28, 2025 by Techme101

WhatsApp launched a new feature on Friday, where users can include brief music clips in their Status updates, reminiscent of the Myspace era. Status resembles Instagram Stories and allows users to share photos, videos, and text that disappear after 24 hours. When creating a new Status, users can tap on a music note icon to […]

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YC-backed Taxo raises $5M to slash healthcare admin with its AI ‘reasoning engine’

Posted on March 28, 2025 by Techme101

YC-backed startup Taxo has raised a $5m seed round to save doctors time and money on admin work.

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Nikola founder Trevor Milton pardoned by Trump

Posted on March 28, 2025 by Techme101

Trevor Milton, the founder of bankrupt hydrogen trucking startup Nikola who was convicted of fraud, has been pardoned by President Trump, the White House confirmed to TechCrunch. Milton was convicted in October 2022 of one count of securities fraud and two counts of wire fraud related to claims he made about Nikola’s progress to investors. He was […]

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Mozilla patches Firefox bug ‘exploited in the wild’, similar to bug attacking Chrome

Posted on March 28, 2025 by Techme101

The bug fix comes days after Google fixed a similar vulnerability under attack in its Chrome browser.

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Google rolls out user choice billing on Google Play in the UK

Posted on March 28, 2025 by Techme101

Google said today that it will start offering user choice billing in the U.K., giving Google Play developers the ability to use other billing options instead of Google’s own system. The change kicks in on March 29, initially only to non-game developers. If developers opt for it, they cannot replace Google Play billing altogether. Instead, […]

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Taiwan accuses China’s biggest chipmaker SMIC of ‘illegally’ poaching tech talent

Posted on March 28, 2025 by Techme101

Taiwan’s justice ministry alleged that SMIC used a Samoa-based entity as cover to set up an entity on the island and has been “actively recruiting” talent.

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If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born

Posted on March 28, 2025 by Techme101

The brother goes on vision quests. The sister is a former English major. Together, they defected from OpenAI, started Anthropic, and built (they say) AI’s most upstanding citizen, Claude.

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