Monthly Archives: July 2025

Xiaomi’s YU7 Is an SUV-Sized Middle Finger to Tesla’s Model Y

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Techme101

In just three minutes Xiaomi took 200,000 pre-orders for only its second ever EV—four times what Cybertruck has sold in its 18-month lifetime. But at $35,000, it’s really gunning for Elon’s family SUV.

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Cloudflare Introduces Blocking of A.I. Scrapers By Default

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Techme101

The tech company’s customers can automatically block A.I. companies from exploiting their websites, it said, as it moves to protect original content online.

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Genesis AI launches with $105M seed funding from Eclipse, Khosla to build AI models for robots

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Techme101

Genesis AI, which aims to build a foundational model for powering all kinds of robots, has emerged from stealth with $105M in seed funding.

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xAI raises $10B in debt and equity

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Techme101

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has raised $5 billion in debt and $5 billion in equity, Morgan Stanley said on Monday.

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Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Techme101

The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end. At least if Cloudflare gets its way.

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Web giant Cloudflare to block AI bots from scraping content by default

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Techme101

Starting Tuesday, every new web domain that signs up to Cloudflare will be given the option to allow — or block — AI crawlers.

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Cloudflare launches a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Techme101

Cloudflare, a cloud infrastructure provider that serves 20% of the web, announced Tuesday the launch of a new marketplace that reimagines the relationship between website owners and AI companies — ideally giving publishers greater control over their content. For the … Continue reading →

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Elon Musk’s xAI raises $10 billion in debt and equity as it steps up challenge to OpenAI

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Techme101

The funding will go towards xAI’s efforts to build out its AI infrastructure and develop its Grok chatbot.

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China’s Huawei open-sources AI models as it seeks adoption across the global AI market

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Techme101

Huawei has open-sourced more of its AI models. Tech experts say it’ll help the U.S.-blacklisted company continue to expand throughout the AI ecosystem.

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As nations build ‘sovereign AI,’ open-source models and cloud computing can help, experts say

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Techme101

Panelists at CNBC’s East Tech West 2025 in Thailand discussed how emerging nations can begin to build their own “sovereign AI.”

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