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Author Archives: Techme101
Cardless swipes up $30M to build a new generation of co-branded credit cards
More than a quarter of all U.S. residents use co-branded credit cards today to get discounts and other extras from brands they use regularly, but not all is rosy in the world of loyalty commerce. Major brands like Uber, Starbucks … Continue reading
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How Do You Get to Artificial General Intelligence? Think Lighter
Billions of dollars in hardware and exorbitant use costs are squashing AI innovation. LLMs need to get leaner and cheaper if progress is to be made.
Orange partners with OpenAI, Meta to develop custom African-language AI models
Orange is working with OpenAI and Meta to build custom AI models that can understand West African languages not understood by most conversational systems.
Crypto market sheds $180 billion in a day as bitcoin slides further from $100,000 milestone
Bitcoin’s price retreated further from the psychologically important $100,000 milestone as investors booked profits from the token’s post-U.S. election gains.
MrBeast says game show allegations ‘blown out of proportion’
Beast Games is set to stream next month amid allegations contestants were mistreated on set.
Apple ordered to open up in-app purchases in Brazil
Brazil’s antitrust regulator Cade has ruled that Apple must lift restrictions on in-app purchases within 20 days, Reuters reports. Otherwise, if the iPhone maker doesn’t comply, it faces fines of $43,000 per day. This decision is the result of a … Continue reading
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Say goodbye to ‘dockless’ e-bike parking in London following new rules to reduce bike mess on streets
London is putting the brakes on the mess of electric bikes that litter the streets of the city. Today, the local transportation authority, Transport for London, announced a new enforcement policy that will restrict parking for the tens of thousands … Continue reading
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Is This New AI Better Than ChatGPT?
With preset prompts, a built-in Chrome extension, and unlimited usage, it might be the best new AI tool.
Google to test plain ‘blue link’ results for hotel searches in EU markets in latest DMA twist
Google has announced it’s making more changes to how it displays search results in the European Union in response to continued complaints that it’s failing to comply with the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). This will include what it bills … Continue reading
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Intel and Biden Administration finalize $7.86B deal to fund domestic chip manufacturing
The U.S. Department of Commerce today confirmed it has awarded $7.865 billion to chip giant Intel under the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, a federal statute signed into law by President Joe Biden in 2022 to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing. … Continue reading
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