SoftBank Expands AI Portfolio with $6.5B Acquisition of Chip Startup Ampere

Posted on March 21, 2025 by Techme101

Ampere designs high-performance processors tailored for cloud computing, AI workloads, and data centers.

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Elon Musk tells Tesla employees ‘hang onto your stock,’ urges vandals to ‘stop being psycho’

Posted on March 21, 2025 by Techme101

In an all-hands livestreamed meeting on Thursday night, Tesla CEO Elon Musk commented on some of protests and instances of vandalism the company has faced.

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Why startups and tech giants are racing to build a practical quantum computer

Posted on March 21, 2025 by Techme101

Amazon, IBM, Google, Intel and Microsoft are all working on quantum technology. Governments around the world have also invested over $55 billion in the tech.

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Gmail’s AI Update Resembles Mail for iOS 18, And Not in A Good Way

Posted on March 21, 2025 by Techme101

When you input a search term, Gmail will no longer list the related emails in chronological order, but based on a relevancy ranking determined by AI.

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OpenAI Gives Its Agents a Voice – Now a ‘Medieval Knight’ Can Read Your Work Emails

Posted on March 21, 2025 by Techme101

The text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools are all based on GPT-4o. OpenAI hinted it may take a similar path with video.

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TechCrunch has, yes, personal news!

Posted on March 21, 2025 by Techme101

If you haven’t heard the news, TechCrunch has a shiny new home. After years under Yahoo’s ownership — which, in turn, is backed by Apollo Group — the brand is now in fresh hands. Its new parent company: Regent, a dynamic private equity firm with a diverse portfolio spanning media, retail, and manufacturing. Regent was […]

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Anthropic appears to be using Brave to power web search for its Claude chatbot

Posted on March 21, 2025 by Techme101

Earlier this week, Anthropic rolled out a web search feature for its AI-powered chatbot platform, Claude, bringing the bot in line with many of its rivals. It wasn’t immediately clear which search index might be powering the feature — one possibility was that Anthropic had developed its own. But evidence suggests it’s Brave Search, the […]

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Uber offers 20 hours of free childcare in bid to lure female drivers

Posted on March 21, 2025 by Techme101

A union says it should instead pay drivers more so they can take time off with their families.

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Yahoo Is Still Here—and It Has Big Plans for AI

Posted on March 21, 2025 by Techme101

Even as Yahoo turns 30, CEO Jim Lanzone says the company is still in “building mode.”

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The Magnificent 7’s lousy year, by the numbers

Posted on March 21, 2025 by Techme101

It’s been a painful year so far for megacap technology giants and 2025 is only getting started.

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