OpenAI adopts rival Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to data

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Techme101

OpenAI is embracing rival Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data resides. In a post on X on Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI will add support for Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol, or MCP, across its products, including the desktop app for ChatGPT. MCP is an open-source standard that […]

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Bradley Tusk says he makes more money with ‘equity-for-services’ than he did as a traditional VC

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Techme101

Bradley Tusk, co-founder and managing partner at Tusk Venture Partners, told TechCrunch in today’s episode of Equity that VC as we know it is dead. And it has been for the last four years.  “Maybe there’s some VC that I’ve never heard of that’s awash with liquidity the last couple of years, but we haven’t […]

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Fintech Mercury lands $300M in Sequoia-led Series C, doubles valuation to $3.5B

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Techme101

Digital banking startup Mercury has raised $300 million in primary and secondary funding at a $3.5 billion post-money valuation, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Wednesday. The valuation is more than double the startup’s valuation when it last raised capital — a $120 million Series B round in 2021 that valued the company at $1.62 […]

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How Extropic Plans to Unseat Nvidia

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Techme101

Challenging the world’s most successful chipmaker with an entirely new type of computer chip may seem absurd—but it is no more ridiculous than the AI race itself.

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23andMe users struggle to delete their highly sensitive data

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Techme101

Multiple users said they had problems after the DNA-testing firm filed for bankruptcy protection.

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Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro is Better at Coding, Math & Science Than Your Favourite AI Model

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Techme101

Gemini 2.5 Pro is a multimodal, reasoning model that outperforms competitors from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek on key benchmarks.

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Nuclear startup Terrestrial Energy goes public via SPAC, netting $280 million in merger

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Techme101

The Canadian company is developing small modular reactors. It previously raised nearly $100 million.

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Has GetReal cracked the code on AI deepfakes? $18M and an impressive client list says yes

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Techme101

The proliferation of scarily realistic deepfakes is one of the more pernicious byproducts of the rise of AI, and falling victim to scams based on these deepfakes is already costing companies millions of dollars — not to mention the implications these could have on national security. A startup that’s built a toolset aimed at governments […]

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Waze removes Google Assistant from iOS due to ongoing issues

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Techme101

Since the integration of Google Assistant for Waze on iOS in 2020, iPhone users have faced ongoing issues that the company has struggled to resolve for “over a year,” Waze wrote in a post, apologizing for the “prolonged inconvenience.”  On Wednesday, the navigation app officially discontinued the feature. Many users had previously reported on Reddit […]

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Amazon’s Alexa Fund is now backing AI startups

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Techme101

Amazon started the Alexa Fund in 2015 to back early-stage voice startups. With the advent of large language models and Amazon launching Gen AI-powered Alexa+ along with a family of multimodal AI models, the fund now wants to broaden its scope and invest more in AI startups. In a blog post Amazon shared with TechCrunch […]

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