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xAI blames Grok’s obsession with white genocide on an ‘unauthorized modification’

Posted on May 16, 2025 by Techme101

xAI blamed an “unauthorized modification” for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok to repeatedly refer to “white genocide in South Africa” when invoked in certain contexts on X. On Wednesday, Grok began replying to dozens of … Continue reading →

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Sam Altman’s goal for ChatGPT to remember ‘your whole life’ is both exciting and disturbing

Posted on May 16, 2025 by Techme101

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out a big vision for the future of ChatGPT at an AI event hosted by VC firm Sequoia earlier this month.  When asked by one attendee about how ChatGPT can become more personalized, Altman replied … Continue reading →

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Vibe-coding startup Windsurf launches in-house AI models

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Techme101

On Thursday, Windsurf, a startup that develops popular AI tools for software engineers, announced the launch of its first family of AI software engineering models, or SWE-1 for short. The startup says it trained its new family of AI models … Continue reading →

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Fake fired Twitter worker ‘Rahul Ligma’ is a real engineer with an AI data startup used by Harvard

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Techme101

The morning after Elon Musk’s 2022 acquisition of Twitter (now X), reporters encountered two men with boxes outside the company’s headquarters. One introduced himself as recently laid-off Twitter engineer “Rahul Ligma.”  His real name is Rahul Sonwalkar but the prank … Continue reading →

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Viral outrage over Apple’s EU payment warnings misses key fact

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Techme101

Apple says the warning messages now appearing next to EU App Store listings that use third-party payment systems are not actually new. According to a number of recent reports, Apple added a warning with a red exclamation mark next to … Continue reading →

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Redpoint raises $650M 3 years after its last big early-stage fund

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Techme101

Redpoint Ventures, a San Francisco-based firm that is about a quarter of a century old, has raised a $650 million tenth early-stage, according to a regulatory filing. Redpoint’s new fund matches the size of its prior fund, which was raised … Continue reading →

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Fieldstone Bio is building microbes that can sense everything from TNT to arsenic

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Techme101

Fieldstone Bio recently raised $5 million in seed funding.

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Anthropic’s lawyer was forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated a legal citation

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Techme101

A lawyer representing Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company’s Claude AI chatbot in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers, according to a filing made in a Northern California court on Thursday. Claude hallucinated the … Continue reading →

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Does Meta Have a Social Media Monopoly? Here’s What the U.S. Has Argued.

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Techme101

The government showed hundreds of internal documents as it sought to prove that the social media company bought Instagram and WhatsApp to neutralize a threat.

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S.E.C. Investigating Whether Coinbase Misstated Its User Numbers

Posted on May 15, 2025 by Techme101

The inquiry continued even after the commission dropped a lawsuit accusing Coinbase of illegally marketing digital currencies to the public.

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