Your Personal Note-Taking Assistant Is Just $39.99 for Life

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

Record, transcribe, summarize, and keep all your notes organized with this powerful app for Apple devices.

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Hugging Face claims its new AI models are the smallest of their kind

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

A team at AI dev platform Hugging Face has released what they’re claiming are the smallest AI models that can analyze images, short videos, and text. The models, SmolVLM-256M and SmolVLM-500M, are designed to work well on “constrained devices” like laptops with under around 1GB of RAM. The team says that they’re also ideal for […]
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Snap launches a new way to reward AR creators, rolls out student pricing for Spectacles

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

Snap announced on Thursday that it’s introducing a new “Challenge Tags” rewards program for AR developers to win cash prizes for submitting Lenses. The company also announced that it’s launching educational pricing and a student discount for Spectacles, its developer-focused AR glasses. The theme of the first Challenge Tag is humor and is open through […]
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Why Mark Zuckerberg Is Ditching Human Fact-Checkers

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

This week, we take a look at Meta’s new era of content moderation.

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ChatGPT down as thousands report issues worldwide

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

It comes a day after owner OpenAI announced a massive investment in artificial intelligence (AI).

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Quantum VC QDNL hits €25M first-close on new fund

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

VC investment into Quantum computing declined by 50% last year according to the ‘State of Quantum 2024’ report, dropping from $2.2bn in 2022 to $1.2bn, with funds switching in favour of Generative AI. However, government spending on quantum was predicted to hit $40 billion over the next decade. Now a new VC European fund hopes […]
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Everstone acquires bootstrapped Indian startup Wingify for $200M

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

Private equity firm Everstone has reached a deal to acquire a majority stake in Wingify, one of India’s earliest bootstrapped software-as-a-service success stories, for about $200 million, three sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The deal, finalized this week, marks a significant exit for Wingify’s founder Paras Chopra, who built the SaaS startup without […]
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African fintech Moniepoint gets Visa backing, plans to work on contactless payments

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

Visa has joined African fintech Moniepoint as a new investor. The business banking and payments platform confirmed to TechCrunch that it received a “strategic investment” from the global payments giant as both companies look to drive financial inclusion and support the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Africa. Sources close to the deal […]
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‘Neo-Nazi Madness’: Meta’s Top AI Lawyer on Why He Fired the Company

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

In an exclusive interview with WIRED, celebrated intellectual property lawyer Mark Lemley elaborates on why he quit and what he makes of the AI copyright battlefield.

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Reddit groups ban X links in protest at Musk arm gesture

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Techme101

Moderators of groups with millions of users say the block is a result of the billionaire’s on-stage gesture.

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