X is rolling out support for 4K video uploads

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Techme101

X is now allowing select creators to upload videos in 4K resolution, and will roll out the feature to all premium subscribers soon.

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Britain at risk of losing ground to rival fintech and crypto hubs, execs warn

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Techme101

“I think the U.K. will get it right — but there is a risk if you get it wrong that you drive innovation to other markets,” Coinbase’s U.K. head told CNBC.

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Sarah Tavel, Benchmark’s first woman GP, transitions to venture partner

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Techme101

Eight years after joining Benchmark as the firm’s first woman general partner, Sarah Tavel announced on X that she is transitioning to a more limited role at the storied venture firm. In her new position as a venture partner, Tavel will continue to make investments and serve on existing company boards, but she will have […]

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OpenAI explains why ChatGPT became too sycophantic

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Techme101

OpenAI has published a postmortem on the recent sycophancy issues with the default AI model powering ChatGPT, GPT-4o — issues that forced the company to roll back an update to the model released last week. Over the weekend, following the GPT-4o model update, users on social media noted that ChatGPT began responding in an overly […]

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Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Techme101

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday said that as much as 30% of the company’s code is now written by artificial intelligence.

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Samsung’s first-quarter operating profit and revenue beat expectations on smartphone, chip sales

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Techme101

The South Korean company posted a record quarterly revenue, up 10% from a year earlier, while its first-quarter operating profit climbed 1.5%.

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Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Techme101

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI — during a fireside chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Meta’s LlamaCon conference on Tuesday. Nadella gave the figure after Zuckerberg asked roughly how much of Microsoft’s code is AI-generated today. The Microsoft CEO […]

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Meta’s LlamaCon was all about undercutting OpenAI

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Techme101

On Tuesday, Meta held its first-ever AI developer conference, LlamaCon, at its Menlo Park, California headquarters. The company announced the launch of a consumer-facing Meta AI chatbot app, which will compete with ChatGPT, as well as a developer-facing API for accessing Llama models in the cloud. Both releases aim to expand adoption of the company’s […]

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Waymo, Toyota strike partnership to bring self-driving tech to personal vehicles

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Techme101

It comes after Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said the company is exploring personal ownership of vehicles with Waymo technology.

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Robot vacuums ‘could water plants or play with cat’

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Techme101

Scientists, including researchers in Bath, have come up with 100 proposed uses for the robots.

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