Monthly Archives: April 2025

Data breach at Connecticut’s Yale New Haven Health affects over 5 million

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Techme101

Yale New Haven Health is Connecticut’s largest healthcare provider.

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Amazon sellers raise prices after Trump’s China tariff: ‘It’s unsustainable’

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Techme101

Amazon third-party sellers are raising prices and looking for new suppliers after President Trump lifted tariffs on goods from China.

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Pony.ai teams up with Tencent for robotaxi services on WeChat, other apps

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Techme101

Pony.ai has announced an agreement with Tencent Cloud to develop autonomous driving and deploy robotaxi services on Tencent applications like WeChat. 

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TechCrunch StrictlyVC in Athens in May will feature a special guest: the Greece Prime Minister

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Techme101

We’re thrilled to announce that Greece Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be joining us at our upcoming StrictlyVC event in Athens, co-hosted with Endeavor, on Thursday night, May 8, at the stunning Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. For those who … Continue reading →

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Bezos-backed Slate Auto debuts analog EV pickup truck that is decidedly anti-Tesla

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Techme101

A new American electric vehicle startup called Slate Auto has made its debut, and it’s about as anti-Tesla as it gets. It’s affordable, deeply customizable, and very analog. It has manual windows and it doesn’t come with a main infotainment … Continue reading →

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Faraday Future founder named co-CEO three years after being sidelined by internal probe

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Techme101

Troubled electric vehicle startup Faraday Future’s board of directors has appointed founder Jia Yueting as the company’s co-CEO, three years after he was sidelined following an internal probe into allegations of fraud — a probe that led to a investigation … Continue reading →

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Alphabet expects ‘slight headwind’ to ads business this year, executives say

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Techme101

The comments come as Alphabet and other tech companies prepare to pay up due to the Trump administration’s trade policies.

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Wait, how did a decentralized service like Bluesky go down?

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Techme101

It turns out that decentralized social networks can go down, too. On Thursday evening, the decentralized social network Bluesky experienced a significant outage, leaving users unable to load the app on both the web and mobile devices for roughly an … Continue reading →

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Anthropic CEO wants to open the black box of AI models by 2027

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Techme101

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay Thursday highlighting how little researchers understand about the inner workings of the world’s leading AI models. To address that, Amodei set an ambitious goal for Anthropic to reliably detect most AI model problems by 2027. … Continue reading →

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Intel CFO says tariffs increase chance for economic slowdown, recession getting likelier

Posted on April 24, 2025 by Techme101

Intel’s revenue forecast included a “wider than normal” range, which the company said was due to uncertainty caused by tariffs

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