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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Discord seeks to solve a problem that it created

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

Discord is entering its second decade as a company and seeking to go public. Along the way, it’s changed the way that online communities interact, turning groups that may have previously existed as forums or message boards into multi-channel instant message servers. Now, everything finds a home on Discord, whether it’s an AI platform like […]

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Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

The deal could be interesting if it went through, as Digg could leverage Pocket’s existing user base to fuel interest in its relaunch.

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Intuit shares pop 9% on earnings beat, rosy guidance

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

Intuit shares popped on Friday, a day after the company reported strong quarterly results.

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Why Trump’s iPhone tariff threat might not be enough to bring production to the U.S.

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

For now, most of Apple’s most important products are exempt from tariffs after Trump gave phones and computers a tariff waiver — even from China — in April.

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp sells more than $50 million in stock

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar, co-founder and president Stephen Cohen and other executives also dumped millions worth of shares.

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Trump Threatens 50% Tariff on E.U. and 25% Tariff on Apple

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Techme101

The president threatened both Apple and the European Union with higher tariffs on social media Friday morning, saying that trade talks with the Europeans had stalled.

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