Temu slashes U.S. ad spending, plummets in App Store rankings after Trump China tariffs

Posted on April 16, 2025 by Techme101

Trump’s tariffs have upended Temu’s business model and its advertising strategy.

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US Blocks NVIDIA Chip Sales to China – Company Projects $5.5B Hit

Posted on April 16, 2025 by Techme101

The US is keen to maintain its sovereignty in the chip market by blocking China from access to NVIDIA’s state-of-the-art hardware.

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Apple says zero-day bugs exploited against ‘specific targeted individuals’ using iOS

Posted on April 16, 2025 by Techme101

One of the bugs was discovered by Google’s security researchers who investigate government-backed cyberattacks.

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OpenAI partner says it had relatively little time to test the company’s o3 AI model

Posted on April 16, 2025 by Techme101

An organization OpenAI frequently partners with to probe the capabilities of its AI models and evaluate them for safety, Metr, suggests that it wasn’t given much time to test one of the company’s highly capable new releases, o3. In a blog post published Wednesday, Metr writes that one red teaming benchmark of o3 was “conducted […]

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Will Meta Really Have to Sell Instagram and WhatsApp?

Posted on April 16, 2025 by Techme101

On this episode of “Uncanny Valley,” we unpack the trial between Meta and the FTC.

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US Officials Target Nvidia and DeepSeek Amid Fears of China’s A.I. Progress

Posted on April 16, 2025 by Techme101

China’s success in artificial intelligence has the Trump administration and lawmakers weighing rules and investigations to slow Beijing’s progress in the industry.

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India’s Uber-rival BluSmart appears to suspend service in wake of EV loan probe

Posted on April 16, 2025 by Techme101

BluSmart, India’s all-electric cab-hailing startup that was once seen as an emerging rival to Uber, appears to have suspended service in some cities just as the country’s market regulator launched a probe into Gensol Engineering, the publicly listed company that shares two of its co-founders. The cab service, which had been operating in Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, […]

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Meet The AI Agent With Multiple Personalities

Posted on April 16, 2025 by Techme101

A new AI agent from the startup Simular switches between different AI models depending on the task at hand.

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At Meta Antitrust Trial, Zuckerberg Calls TikTok a Competitive Threat

Posted on April 16, 2025 by Techme101

The Meta chief executive testified for a third day in a landmark antitrust trial accusing his company of quashing competition through acquisitions.

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Amazon Sellers Struggle with Trump’s Tariff Plans

Posted on April 16, 2025 by Techme101

An Illinois couple who sell party supplies on Amazon have been frantically trying to understand and adapt to new costs caused by President Trump’s tariffs.

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