Monthly Archives: April 2025

Britain at risk of losing ground to rival fintech and crypto hubs, execs warn

“I think the U.K. will get it right — but there is a risk if you get it wrong that you drive innovation to other markets,” Coinbase’s U.K. head told CNBC.

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Sarah Tavel, Benchmark’s first woman GP, transitions to venture partner

Eight years after joining Benchmark as the firm’s first woman general partner, Sarah Tavel announced on X that she is transitioning to a more limited role at the storied venture firm. In her new position as a venture partner, Tavel … Continue reading

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OpenAI explains why ChatGPT became too sycophantic

OpenAI has published a postmortem on the recent sycophancy issues with the default AI model powering ChatGPT, GPT-4o — issues that forced the company to roll back an update to the model released last week. Over the weekend, following the … Continue reading

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Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday said that as much as 30% of the company’s code is now written by artificial intelligence.

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Samsung’s first-quarter operating profit and revenue beat expectations on smartphone, chip sales

The South Korean company posted a record quarterly revenue, up 10% from a year earlier, while its first-quarter operating profit climbed 1.5%.

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Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI — during a fireside chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Meta’s LlamaCon conference on Tuesday. Nadella gave the figure … Continue reading

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Meta’s LlamaCon was all about undercutting OpenAI

On Tuesday, Meta held its first-ever AI developer conference, LlamaCon, at its Menlo Park, California headquarters. The company announced the launch of a consumer-facing Meta AI chatbot app, which will compete with ChatGPT, as well as a developer-facing API for … Continue reading

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Waymo, Toyota strike partnership to bring self-driving tech to personal vehicles

It comes after Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said the company is exploring personal ownership of vehicles with Waymo technology.

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Robot vacuums ‘could water plants or play with cat’

Scientists, including researchers in Bath, have come up with 100 proposed uses for the robots.

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Waymo and Toyota are dating. If they get serious, a new autonomous vehicle could be created.

Waymo and Toyota have agreed to explore a possible deal that could one day lead to a new vehicle designed for ride-hailing and even bring self-driving tech into consumer cars. The two companies have signed a preliminary agreement to look … Continue reading

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