Zoox issues second robotaxi software recall in a month following collision 

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company Zoox has issued its second voluntary software recall in a month, following a collision between one of its robotaxis and an e-scooter rider in San Francisco on May 8. The latest incident involved an unoccupied Zoox vehicle operating at low speed, which the company says was struck by the e-scooter after […]

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Indian IT giant investigates M&S cyber attack link

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

M&S said earlier this week that the hackers got into systems via a third party – but did not say who that was.

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Landa promised real estate investing for $5. Now it’s gone dark.

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

The idea of becoming a real estate investor for as little as $5 may seem too good to be true. And for many users of Landa, a proptech company that promised just that — it has been. Landa emerged from stealth in August 2022, announcing a total of $33 million in funding and a pledge […]

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Marjorie Taylor Greene picked a fight with Grok

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

Last week, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok experienced a “bug” that made it tell users about the “white genocide” conspiracy theory in South Africa, even when prompted with questions that had nothing to do with the topic … and soon after, Grok expressed skepticism over the Holocaust death toll, which it chalked up to a “programming […]

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Inside Anthropic’s First Developer Day, Where AI Agents Took Center Stage

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said everything human workers do now will eventually be done by AI systems.

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A Helicopter, Halibut, and ‘Y.M.C.A’: Inside Donald Trump’s Memecoin Dinner

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

On Thursday evening, US president Donald Trump attended a private banquet with 200 of the largest investors in his personal crypto coin. Here’s what happened.

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Let’s Talk About ChatGPT and Cheating in the Classroom

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

Today on Uncanny Valley, we address one of the most pressing questions in education right now: What constitutes cheating at school in today’s world of AI?

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Why Making an iPhone in the U.S. Would Be So Difficult

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

Apple has resisted pressure to make its most important product in the United States since 2016, and instead has moved some production to India.

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TechCrunch Mobility: Uber Freight’s AI bet, Tesla’s robotaxi caveat, and Nikola’s trucks hit the auction block

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! For those U.S.-based readers out there, enjoy the long Memorial Day weekend, and if you’re on the road, expect it to be crowded. AAA projects 45.1 million […]

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OpenAI upgrades the AI model powering its Operator agent

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

OpenAI is updating the AI model powering Operator, its AI agent that can autonomously browse the web and use certain software within a cloud-hosted virtual machine to fulfill users’ requests. Soon, Operator will use a model based on o3, one of the latest in OpenAI’s o series of “reasoning” models. Previously, Operator relied on a custom […]

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