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VC Victor Lazarte is leaving Benchmark to launch his own firm

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Techme101

Lazarte has only been at Benchmark for two years. He backed startups like Mercor, HeyGen, and Decart AI.

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Intel continues to pull back on its manufacturing projects

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Techme101

Intel cancelled multiple manufacturing projects in Europe and delayed its Ohio chip plant for the second time this year.

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X to test using Community Notes to find the posts everyone likes

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Techme101

X is piloting a new feature that will help to identify the platform’s best posts. The system is similar to how Community Notes fact-checking works.

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Chime backer Lauren Kolodny bets on AI to revolutionize estate processing

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Techme101

Acrew Capital’s Kolodny led a $20 million Series A in Alix, a startup that uses AI to automate estate processing.

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This industrial AI startup is winning over customers by saying it won’t get acquired

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Techme101

In red-hot acquisition market, this CVector founders answer this key question in its first conversation with prospective customers.

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AI companions: A threat to love, or an evolution of it?

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Techme101

As AI companions from companies like Replika, Character AI, and Nomi AI abound, love is no longer strictly human. In this debate, we ask the question of whether it should be, or whether dating an AI could be better than … Continue reading →

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Apple iOS 26 public beta arrives

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Techme101

Apple released iOS 26 in public beta. Here’s everything you can expect, from the Liquid Glass design to features powered by Apple Intelligence.

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Google’s new Web View search experiment organizes results with AI

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Techme101

Google’s new Search Labs experiment will organize the search results using AI smarts.

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Amazon introduces a more affordable color screen Kindle

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Techme101

Amazon launches a more affordable, $250 Colorsoft Kindle and a version for kids.

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Preston Thorpe is a software engineer at a San Fransisco startup. He’s also serving his eleventh year in prison.

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Techme101

A senior software engineer for Turso, Thorpe is part of an experimental program in the Maine state prison system that allows incarcerated people to work remote jobs from custody.

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