Author Archives: Techme101

How one country is engineering its way out of a construction cost crisis

While a building boom is good for the economy, it presents challenges, with construction costs in Singapore consistently ranked among the highest in the world.

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India’s Varaha bags $20M to scale carbon removal from the Global South

Varaha’s fresh funding is part of a $45 million Series B round led by WestBridge Capital.

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Nvidia, OpenAI appear stalled on their mega deal. But the AI giants still need each other

Five months after OpenAI and Nvidia announced a $100 billion deal, no contract has been signed and no money has changed hands.

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The Minneapolis tech community holds strong during ‘tense and difficult time’

Founders and investors in the Minneapolis tech industry told TechCrunch they’ve put much of their work on hold to help out their community.

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AMD shares drop as forecast comes up short of some expectations

AMD’s first-quarter forecast fell short of what some analysts were hoping for amid an AI spending boom.

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Match beats estimates, but issues weak guidance on higher spending

Match is in the middle of a three-year business overhaul that includes bringing Hinge to $1 billion in annual revenue next year.

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Intel will start making GPUs, a market dominated by Nvidia 

Intel has been bulking up a team to focus on this effort and will develop its GPU strategy around customer needs.

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Apple adds agents from Anthropic and OpenAI to its coding tool

Apple is introducing agentic coding to Xcode, jumping into one of the biggest trends in technology.

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Intel is moving into GPUs and has hired a chief architect, CEO Lip-Bu Tan says

Nvidia and AMD are leaders in the GPUs, which power large language models and have skyrocketed in demand with the data center buildout.

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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang denies OpenAI deal rumors: ‘There’s no drama’

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the chipmaker’s plan to invest in OpenAI remains “on track.”

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