Photos: Tech CEOs mingle with Trump and Saudi Crown Prince at investment forum in Riyadh

Posted on May 13, 2025 by Techme101

President Donald Trump met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as several deals were announced between the two countries.

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M&S says customer data stolen in cyber attack

Posted on May 13, 2025 by Techme101

The retail giant is still not taking online orders following a cyber attack three weeks ago.

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Microsoft is reportedly about to layoff 3% of its workforce

Posted on May 13, 2025 by Techme101

Microsoft is about to trim its worldwide workforce by 3%, CNBC reports. The company had around 228,000 employees worldwide as of June, it says, meaning more than 6,500 could be affected by the cuts. It would be one of the company’s largest staff reductions since it cut 10,000 people in 2023. A Microsoft spokesperson told […]

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Elon Musk says Starlink was approved in Saudi Arabia

Posted on May 13, 2025 by Techme101
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Apple Music introduces Sound Therapy, songs for focusing, relaxing and sleep

Posted on May 13, 2025 by Techme101

Apple Music is introducing a new “audio wellness” collection of songs called Sound Therapy. Designed in partnership with Universal Music Group (UMG), the feature combines songs that subscribers already know with other sound waves that promote focusing, relaxing, or sleeping. Songs may include auditory beats or colored noise, sound waves where the intensity varies at […]

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Trump admin officially rescinds Biden’s AI diffusion rules

Posted on May 13, 2025 by Techme101

After a week or so of rumors, the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) formally rescinded the Biden Administration’s Artificial Intelligence Diffusion Rule days before it was set to go into effect. The Artificial Intelligence Diffusion Rule, which was introduced by former president Joe Biden in January and set to come into force on May 15, […]

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GM’s New Battery Tech Could Be a Breakthrough for Affordable EVs

Posted on May 13, 2025 by Techme101

General Motors has cracked the chemistry of lower-cost, energy-dense electric vehicle batteries. Budget-conscious gasoline holdouts may soon have no excuse.

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Nvidia sending 18,000 of its top AI chips to Saudi Arabia

Posted on May 13, 2025 by Techme101

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the cutting-edge Blackwell chips will be used in a 500 megawatt data center in Saudi Arabia.

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Microsoft is cutting 3% of its workforce

Posted on May 13, 2025 by Techme101

It’s likely Microsoft’s largest job purge since it said goodbye to 10,000 employees in 2023.

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Notion takes on AI-notetakers like Granola with its own transcription feature

Posted on May 13, 2025 by Techme101

Meeting transcription space is a hot commodity for all productivity suites. Companies like ClickUp and Zoom have added transcription with an AI summary to take on another upstart in this vertical, including Read AI, Zoom’s assistant, Circleback, Granola, or Otter. The latest entrant in the race to build meeting transcription tools is Notion. The company is rolling out an […]

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