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Allianz Life says ‘majority’ of customers’ personal data stolen in cyberattack

Posted on July 26, 2025 by Techme101

Exclusive: Allianz Life said the “majority” of its customers and employees had data stolen in the July cyberattack. The company said it has notified the FBI.

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Tesla wants to bring robotaxis to San Francisco. Here’s what’s standing in the way.

Posted on July 26, 2025 by Techme101

There will be an employee in the driver’s seat — a big change from how things have been working in Austin.

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India bans streaming apps you’ve never heard of — but millions watch

Posted on July 25, 2025 by Techme101

India has ordered the blocking of 25 streaming services — many with millions of viewers and even paying subscribers — for allegedly promoting “obscene” content.

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Index Ventures’ Jahanvi Sardana shares the truth about TAM and what founders should focus on instead

Posted on July 25, 2025 by Techme101

Index Ventures partner Jahanvi Sardana has a reminder for all those founders worried about finding TAM for their product or service: many startups have emerged from markets that, at the time, were essentially nonexistent.

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Intel is spinning off its Network and Edge group

Posted on July 25, 2025 by Techme101

Intel will remain an anchor investor in the stand-alone company, which produced $5.8 billion in revenue in 2024.

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AI referrals to top websites were up 357% year-over-year in June, reaching 1.13B

Posted on July 25, 2025 by Techme101

AI platforms in June 2025 generated over 1.13 billion referrals to the top 1,000 websites globally, up 357% year-over-year.

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Meta names Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI superintelligence unit

Posted on July 25, 2025 by Techme101

Shengjia Zhao, a former OpenAI researcher, will round out the leadership team at Meta’s new AI lab.

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A timeline of the US semiconductor market in 2025

Posted on July 25, 2025 by Techme101

From leadership changes at legacy semiconductor companies to wishy washy policy around chip exports, a lot has happened already.

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Sam Altman warns there’s no legal confidentiality when using ChatGPT as a therapist

Posted on July 25, 2025 by Techme101

In response to a question about how AI works with today’s legal system, Altman said one of the problems of not yet having a legal or policy framework for AI is that there’s no legal confidentiality for users’ conversations.

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Google took a month to shut down Catwatchful, a phone spyware operation hosted on its servers

Posted on July 25, 2025 by Techme101

Google has suspended the Firebase account of Catwatchful following a TechCrunch investigation. The spyware operation was caught using Google’s own servers to host and run its surveillance app, which was stealthily monitoring thousands of people’s phones.

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