iPhone maker announces plan to build Mitsubishi EVs

Posted on May 8, 2025 by Techme101

The Taiwan-made electric vehicle is expected to go on sale in Australia and New Zealand next year.

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Singapore’s Vision for AI Safety Bridges the US-China Divide

Posted on May 8, 2025 by Techme101

In a rare moment of global consensus, AI researchers from the US, Europe, and Asia came together in Singapore to form a plan for researching AI risks.

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Trump crypto advisor David Bailey launching $300 million bitcoin investment company

Posted on May 8, 2025 by Techme101

David Bailey, CEO of BTC Inc. and a Trump crypto advisor, has raised $300 million to launch a publicly traded bitcoin investment company.

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A ‘Trump Card Visa’ Is Already Showing Up in Immigration Forms

Posted on May 7, 2025 by Techme101

Donald Trump has proposed launching a “gold card” program offering US residency for $5 million. Elon Musk’s DOGE has begun rolling out the technology to enable it.

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Fastino trains AI models on cheap gaming GPUs and just raised $17.5M led by Khosla

Posted on May 7, 2025 by Techme101

Tech giants like to boast about trillion-parameter AI models that require massive and expensive GPU clusters. But Fastino is taking a different approach. The Palo Alto-based startup says it’s invented a new kind of AI model architecture that’s intentionally small and task-specific. The models are so small they’re trained with low-end gaming GPUs worth less […]

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Stripe unveils AI foundation model for payments, reveals ‘deeper partnership’ with Nvidia

Posted on May 7, 2025 by Techme101

Fintech giant Stripe announced Wednesday a slew of new product launches at its annual Stripe Sessions user event. The highlights include: a new AI foundation model for payments; stablecoin-powered accounts; a new Orchestration offering, and a recent migration with chip behemoth Nvidia. Stripe’s payments foundation model has been trained on tens of billions of transactions, […]

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OpenAI and the FDA Are Holding Talks About Using AI In Drug Evaluation

Posted on May 7, 2025 by Techme101

High-ranking OpenAI employees have met with the FDA multiple times in recent weeks to discuss AI and a project called cderGPT.

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Arm shares drop on weak forecast

Posted on May 7, 2025 by Techme101

Arm beat on earnings and revenue but issued a disappointing forecast in its quarterly report on Wednesday.

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AppLovin shares pop on earnings beat as it announces sale of mobile gaming business

Posted on May 7, 2025 by Techme101

AppLovin shares soared in extended trading after the company beat first-quarter expectations and announced the sale of its mobile gaming business.

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Nvidia shares climb on report Trump will end chip export restrictions

Posted on May 7, 2025 by Techme101

AMD CEO Lisa Su and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang have both opposed the semiconductor export controls.

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