Monthly Archives: April 2025

White House replaces covid.gov website with ‘lab leak’ theory

Posted on April 18, 2025 by Techme101

The government-run website covid.gov used to host information about COVID-19 vaccines, testing, and treatment. Now, under President Trump’s purview, the page redirects to a White House website espousing the unproven theory that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese laboratory. The theory, … Continue reading →

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ChatGPT is referring to users by their names unprompted, and some find it ‘creepy’

Posted on April 18, 2025 by Techme101

Some ChatGPT users have noticed a strange phenomenon recently: occasionally, the chatbot refers to them by name as it reasons through problems. That wasn’t the default behavior previously, and several users claim ChatGPT is mentioning their names despite never having … Continue reading →

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Judge Blocks DOGE From Laying Off 90 Percent of CFPB

Posted on April 18, 2025 by Techme101

The Trump administration and DOGE tried to cut more than 1,400 employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. An employee union and other groups are fighting to keep the regulator intact.

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Microsoft Releases Largest 1-Bit LLM, Letting Powerful AI Run on Some Older Hardware

Posted on April 18, 2025 by Techme101

Microsoft’s model BitNet b1.58 2B4T is available on Hugging Face but doesn’t run on GPU and requires a proprietary framework.

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Unified AI Stacks: The End of Fragmented Automation

Posted on April 18, 2025 by Techme101

A tech executive explains how a unified AI strategy helps businesses reduce complexity, boost efficiency, and avoid the costly pitfalls of fragmented tools, driving long-term innovation.

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Startups Weekly: Mixed messages from venture capital

Posted on April 18, 2025 by Techme101

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week brought us mixed messages. A fresh IPO filing, but a … Continue reading →

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OpenAI’s New AI Models o3 and o4-mini Can Now ‘Think With Images’

Posted on April 18, 2025 by Techme101

OpenAI’s o3 and o4-mini models are available now to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team users. Enterprise and education users will get access next week.

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TikToker sues Roblox over her Charli XCX ‘Apple’ dance

Posted on April 18, 2025 by Techme101

TikTok content creator Kelley Heyer sued the video game Roblox for using her dance to Charli XCX’s “Apple” without permission. Heyer posted the viral dance in June 2024, which fed off of the hype of Charli XCX’s hit summer album … Continue reading →

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ChatGPT will now use its ‘memory’ to personalize web searches

Posted on April 18, 2025 by Techme101

OpenAI is upgrading ChatGPT’s “memory” again. In a changelog and support pages on OpenAI’s website Thursday, the company quietly announced “Memory with Search,” a feature that lets ChatGPT draw on memories — details from past conversations, such as your favorite … Continue reading →

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ICE Is Paying Palantir $30 Million to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’ Surveillance Platform

Posted on April 18, 2025 by Techme101

In a document published Thursday, ICE explained the functions that it expects Palantir to include in a prototype of a new program to give the agency “near real-time” data about people self-deporting.

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