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Elon Musk’s brother slams Trump tariffs, calls them ‘permanent tax on the American consumer’

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Techme101

Kimbal Musk, the brother of the world’s wealthiest person, took to X on Monday to criticize President Trump’s tariffs.

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OpenAI and Google Reject UK Government’s AI Copyright Proposal

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Techme101

The government’s proposal suggested a system that permits AI developers to use creators’ online content to train their models unless rights holders explicitly choose to opt out.

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Try Midjourney’s V7 AI Image Generator, Then Share Feedback & Show Off Your Creations

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Techme101

Midjourney’s V7 launches with default personalization and upcoming upgrades to Moodboards, SREF, and performance, while core edits still rely on V6 for now.

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Meta Unveils Llama 4 AI Series Featuring New Expert-Based Architecture

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Techme101

The Llama 4 series is the first to use a “mixture of experts (MoE) architecture,” where only a few parts of the neural network, the “experts,” are used to respond to an input.

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Meta exec denies the company artificially boosted Llama 4’s benchmark scores

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Techme101

A Meta exec on Monday denied a rumor that the company trained its new AI models to present well on specific benchmarks while concealing the models’ weaknesses. The executive, Ahmad Al-Dahle, VP of generative AI at Meta, said in a … Continue reading →

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Analyst says Apple, Tesla have biggest exposure to Trump’s tariffs

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Techme101

Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives slashed his price targets for Apple and Tesla over the weekend as President Trump’s tariffs threaten to disrupt both businesses.  “The tariff economic Armageddon unleashed by Trump is a complete disaster for Apple given its … Continue reading →

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Trump’s Tariffs Hammer Big Tech as Apple, Meta, Amazon Shares Plunge

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Techme101

The 10% baseline tariff plus additional “reciprocal” levies on China, India, and Taiwan has undermined investor confidence in the U.S. tech giants.

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Former Tesla exec Drew Baglino’s new startup is rethinking the electrical transformer

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Techme101

Heron Power is raising between $30 million to $50 million for a Series A, according to a report.

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Waymo may use interior camera data to train generative AI models, sell ads

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Techme101

Waymo is preparing to use data from its robotaxis, including video from interior cameras tied to rider identities, to train generative AI models, according to an unreleased version of its privacy policy found by researcher Jane Manchun Wong.  The draft … Continue reading →

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Google’s AI Mode now lets users ask complex questions about images

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Techme101

Google is bringing multimodal search to AI Mode, its Google Search experiment that lets users ask complex, multi-part questions and follow-ups to dig deeper on a topic. Users who have access to AI Mode can now tap the feature to … Continue reading →

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