Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity

Posted on December 5, 2025 by Techme101

The newspaper is alleging copyright infringement and calling out Perplexity’s Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) as a culprit.

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It’s Time to Save Silicon Valley From Itself

Posted on December 5, 2025 by Techme101

Big Tech has lost its way. At WIRED’s Big Interview event, Techdirt editor Mike Masnick and Common Tools CEO Alex Komoroske announced a manifesto designed to help the industry get back on track.

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Circle’s Jeremy Allaire: We’re Building an ‘Economic OS’ for the AI Era

Posted on December 5, 2025 by Techme101

The cofounder and CEO of Circle says “money as an app platform” is the next step in a digital-based global economic system that’s right around the corner.

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SoFi’s stock drops on $1.5 billion share sale announcement

Posted on December 5, 2025 by Techme101

SoFi said it’s selling $1.5 billion in stock after the company’s market cap almost doubled this year.

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Meta Weighs Cuts to Its Metaverse Unit

Posted on December 4, 2025 by Techme101

Meta plans to direct its investments to focus on wearables like its augmented reality glasses but does not plan to abandon building the metaverse.

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Feds ask Waymo about robotaxis repeatedly passing school buses in Austin

Posted on December 4, 2025 by Techme101

The agency already opened an investigation in October over Waymo’s performance around school buses.

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Micro1, a Scale AI competitor, touts crossing $100M ARR

Posted on December 4, 2025 by Techme101

Micro1 started the year with roughly $7 million ARR. Now, it claims to have surpassed $100 million in ARR, double what it reported in September.

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Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei Believes the Market Will Reward Safe AI

Posted on December 4, 2025 by Techme101

The Trump administration might think regulation is killing the AI industry, but Anthropic president Daniela Amodei disagrees.

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What Happens When Your Coworkers Are AI Agents

Posted on December 4, 2025 by Techme101

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk to writer Evan Ratliff about how he created a small startup made entirely of AI employees—and what his findings reveal about the reality of an agentic future.

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Apple announces departure of general counsel and policy chief

Posted on December 4, 2025 by Techme101

The two executives previously reported to Apple CEO Tim Cook and represent the latest sign that Apple’s senior leadership is seeing a slew of exits.

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