Monthly Archives: May 2025

Microsoft’s most capable new Phi 4 AI model rivals the performance of far larger systems

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Techme101

Microsoft launched several new “open” AI models on Wednesday, the most capable of which is competitive with OpenAI’s o3-mini on at least one benchmark. All of the new pemissively licensed models — Phi 4 mini reasoning, Phi 4 reasoning, and … Continue reading →

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Sam Altman’s Eye-Scanning Orb Is Now Coming to the US

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Techme101

At a high-profile event in San Francisco, World announced it is launching a series of Apple-like stores, as well as a partnership with dating giant Match Group.

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Sam Altman’s World unveils a mobile verification device

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Techme101

Tools for Humanity, the startup behind the World human verification project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, unveiled Wednesday a mobile device designed to help people determine the difference between a human and an AI agent. Rich Heley, Tools for … Continue reading →

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World partners with Tinder, Visa to bring its ID-verifying tech to more places

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Techme101

World, the biometric ID company best known for its eyeball-scanning Orb devices, on Wednesday announced several partnerships aimed at driving sign-ups and demonstrating the applications of its tech. World is partnering with Match Group, the dating app conglomerate, to verify … Continue reading →

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Meta forecasted it would make $1.4T in revenue from generative AI by 2035

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Techme101

Meta made a prediction last year its generative AI products would rake in $2 billion to $3 billion in revenue in 2025, and between $460 billion and $1.4 trillion by 2035, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday. The documents, submitted … Continue reading →

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Epic Games just scored a win against Apple

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Techme101

Epic Games notched a win in an ongoing legal dispute with Apple. The result could be Fortnite returning to the U.S. iOS app store as early as next week. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said in a ruling Wednesday that Apple … Continue reading →

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Apple May Face Criminal Charges for Allegedly Lying to a Federal Judge

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Techme101

A US judge says Apple deliberately chose not to comply with an order requiring it to loosen App Store rules—then tried to cover up its disobedience.

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Judge Rebukes Apple and Orders It to Loosen Grip on App Store

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Techme101

The ruling was a stinging defeat for Apple in a long-running antitrust case brought by Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite, on behalf of app developers.

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Amazon launches Nova Premier, its most capable AI model yet

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Techme101

Amazon on Wednesday released what the company claims is the most capable AI model in its Nova family, Nova Premier. Nova Premier, which can process text, images, and videos (but not audio), is available in Amazon Bedrock, the company’s AI … Continue reading →

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Study accuses LM Arena of helping top AI labs game its benchmark

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Techme101

A new paper from AI lab Cohere, Stanford, MIT, and Ai2 accuses LM Arena, the organization behind the popular crowdsourced AI benchmark Chatbot Arena, of helping a select group of AI companies achieve better leaderboard scores at the expense of … Continue reading →

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