Viral band finds itself at the centre of AI claims and hoaxes

Posted on July 4, 2025 by Techme101

Velvet Sundown has racked up hundreds of thousands of streams on Spotify – without anyone even being sure if it’s real.

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Slate Auto drops “under $20,000” pricing after Trump administration ends federal EV tax credit

Posted on July 3, 2025 by Techme101

Slate Auto has updated its website after Congress passed President Trump’s tax cut bill, which will eliminate the federal EV tax credit.

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Everyone in tech has an opinion about Soham Parekh

Posted on July 3, 2025 by Techme101

You got into Y Combinator, raised $20 million from a16z, and then exited to Meta? That’s cool, I guess. But did Soham Parekh apply to work at your startup? There is now a new badge of honor for startup founders: your proximity to one previously unknown Indian software engineer named Soham Parekh. The Anna Delvey […]

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Trump’s Defiance of TikTok Ban Prompted Immunity Promises to 10 Tech Companies

Posted on July 3, 2025 by Techme101

Newly disclosed records show Attorney General Pam Bondi gave cover to not only Apple and Google, but also several other companies that help TikTok operate in the US.

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TechCrunch All Stage brings back early launch prices for a limited time

Posted on July 3, 2025 by Techme101

Ticket rates have officially rolled back with savings of up to $425, as TechCrunch All Stage becomes startup central July 15 in Boston.

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Stripe’s first employee, the founder of fintech Increase, sort of bought a bank

Posted on July 3, 2025 by Techme101

Competitors to Darragh Buckley’s Increase are so nervous about his ambitions to “own” a bank, someone has been trying to stop him.

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Final GOP bill kneecaps renewables and hydrogen, but lifts nuclear and geothermal

Posted on July 3, 2025 by Techme101

The final bill is largely what emerged from the Senate Finance Committee in mid-June.

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Ilya Sutskever will lead Safe Superintelligence following his CEO’s exit

Posted on July 3, 2025 by Techme101

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever says he stepping into the CEO role at Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup he launched in 2024.

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CoreWeave is the first cloud provider to deploy Nvidia’s latest AI chips

Posted on July 3, 2025 by Techme101

AI developers still clamor for the latest Nvidia chips, which have improvements that make them better for training and deploying models.

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Trump admin unlawfully killed health websites related to gender, court rules

Posted on July 3, 2025 by Techme101

U.S. District Judge John D. Bates ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration’s Office of Personnel Management did not comply with all necessary laws when it ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to speedily comply with the president’s executive order on “gender ideology.” On the first day of his term, President Trump passed […]

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