Amazon boss says AI will replace jobs at tech giant

Posted on June 18, 2025 by Techme101

Andy Jassy tells staff to embrace artificial intelligence (AI) as he warns the workforce will get smaller.

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Trump to extend US TikTok ban deadline, White House says

Posted on June 18, 2025 by Techme101

The app was supposed to be banned in the US after its Chinese owner refused to sell it by a January deadline.

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Police shut down Cluely’s party, the ‘cheat at everything’ startup

Posted on June 18, 2025 by Techme101

The latest San Francisco startup culture drama happened on Monday night. And it occurred over “the most legendary party that never happened.”

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Trump to extend TikTok deadline for third time, pushing decision out another 90 days

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Techme101

President Donald Trump plans to again extend the deadline requiring China’s ByteDance to divest TikTok’s U.S. business or be effectively banned in the country.

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Senate passes GENIUS stablecoin bill, giving crypto industry first major legislative win

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Techme101

This is the first legislative victory for the digital asset industry, which put around $250 million in the 2024 election cycle.

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Sam Altman says Meta tried and failed to poach OpenAI’s talent with $100M offers

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Techme101

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on something of a hiring spree lately, trying to staff up Meta’s new superintelligence team with top-tier AI researchers from competing labs. To work on a team led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and at a desk physically near Zuckerberg, Meta has reportedly offered employees from OpenAI […]

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OpenAI’s $200M DoD contract could squeeze frenemy Microsoft

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Techme101

The contract could put the model maker in competition with the OpenAI services that Microsoft wants to sell to the DoD.

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AWS’ custom chip strategy is showing results, and cutting into Nvidia’s AI dominance

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Techme101

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 is trained on Trainium2 GPUs, according to AWS, and Project Rainier is powered by over half a million of its own.

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EVs dominate the most American-made cars index and it’s not just because of Tesla

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Techme101

Tesla, Kia, and Volkswagen took six of the top 10 spots in the 2025 American-Made Index, which ranks vehicles built and bought in the U.S.

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Google’s Gemini panicked when playing Pokémon

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Techme101

AI companies are battling to dominate the industry, but sometimes, they’re also battling in Pokémon gyms. As Google and Anthropic both study how their latest AI models navigate early Pokémon games, the results can be as amusing as they are enlightening — and this time, Google DeepMind has written in a report that Gemini 2.5 […]

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