Monthly Archives: July 2025

Meta built its AI reputation on openness — that may be changing

Posted on July 14, 2025 by Techme101

Top members of Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab discussed pivoting away from the company’s powerful open source AI model, Behemoth, and instead developing a closed model. This would mark a major philosophical shift for Meta.

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Reddit starts verifying ages of users in the UK

Posted on July 14, 2025 by Techme101

The platform will bring in the measures from 14 July to stop under-18s looking at “certain mature content”.

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Former Sequoia partner Matt Miller raises $355M for new fund — with Sequoia’s backing

Posted on July 14, 2025 by Techme101

Former Sequoia partner Matt Miller has already locked in $355 million for his new fund, Evantic, which is also backed by Sequoia, TechCrunch learned.

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Following YouTube, Meta announces crackdown on ‘unoriginal’ Facebook content

Posted on July 14, 2025 by Techme101

Like YouTube, Meta says it won’t penalize users who are engaging with other people’s content, doing things like making reaction videos, joining a trend, or adding their own takes.

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Cognition to buy AI startup Windsurf days after Google poached CEO in $2.4 billion licensing deal

Posted on July 14, 2025 by Techme101

AI startup Cognition on Monday said it’s acquiring Windsurf in a deal that will include the coding company’s IP and user base.

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Musk’s xAI faces European scrutiny over Grok’s ‘horrific’ antisemitic posts

Posted on July 14, 2025 by Techme101

Grok generated and spread antisemitic hate speech across X and praised Adolf Hitler.

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Episource is notifying millions of people that their health data was stolen

Posted on July 14, 2025 by Techme101

The UnitedHealth-owned medical coding service was hacked earlier this year by a ransomware gang.

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Meta removes 10 million Facebook profiles in effort to combat spam

Posted on July 14, 2025 by Techme101

Meta on Monday said it’s removed about 10 million Facebook profiles for impersonating large content producers so far in 2025, in an effort to reduce spam.

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Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, acquires Windsurf

Posted on July 14, 2025 by Techme101

Cognition, the startup behind the viral AI coding agent Devin, announced in a blog post on Monday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AI coding startup Windsurf. The announcement comes just days after Google hired away Windsurf’s … Continue reading →

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Trump administration to spend $1 billion on ‘offensive’ hacking operations

Posted on July 14, 2025 by Techme101

A top Democrat criticized the move to spend a billion on offensive hacking operations as the budget guts a billion from U.S. cyber defense.

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