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With ‘F1’, Apple finally has a theatrical hit

Posted on June 29, 2025 by Techme101

Looks like Apple has its first bona fide box office hit.

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Authors call on publishers to limit their use of AI

Posted on June 28, 2025 by Techme101

An open letter from authors including Lauren Groff, Lev Grossman, R.F. Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and Geoffrey Maguire calls on book publishers to pledge to limit their use of AI tools, for example by committing to only hire human audiobook narrators.

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Meta reportedly hires four more researchers from OpenAI

Posted on June 28, 2025 by Techme101

Looks like Meta isn’t done poaching talent from OpenAI.

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Week in Review:  Meta’s AI recruiting blitz

Posted on June 28, 2025 by Techme101

Welcome back to Week in Review! Lots of news for you this week, including Travis Kalanick’s possible return, CoreWeave’s CEO is now worth $10 billion, Apple users aren’t happy with how the company is promoting its new F1 movie, and … Continue reading →

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Vitalik Buterin has reservations about Sam Altman’s World project

Posted on June 28, 2025 by Techme101

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is arguing that the digital identification approach being promoted by Sam Altman’s World project has real privacy risks.

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Anthropic’s Claude AI became a terrible business owner in experiment that got ‘weird’

Posted on June 28, 2025 by Techme101

Researchers at Anthropic and AI safety company Andon Labs gave an instance of Claude Sonnet 3.7 an office vending machine to run. And hilarity ensued.

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FBI, cybersecurity firms say a prolific hacking crew is now targeting airlines and the transportation sector

Posted on June 28, 2025 by Techme101

The fresh wave of attacks targeting airlines comes soon after the hackers hit the U.K. retail sector and the insurance industry.

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As job losses loom, Anthropic launches program to track AI’s economic fallout

Posted on June 27, 2025 by Techme101

As warnings mount about AI’s potential to displace millions of jobs, Anthropic on Friday launched a its Economic Futures Program, new initiative to support research and policy development that addresses AI’s economic impacts.

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YouTube’s mobile video editor is coming to iOS

Posted on June 27, 2025 by Techme101

Google is preparing to bring YouTube Create to iOS devices nearly two years after the video editing app launched exclusively on Android. Job listings reviewed by TechCrunch reveal the company is actively hiring engineers in India for the iOS development … Continue reading →

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Meta is offering multi-million pay for AI researchers, but not $100M ‘signing bonuses’

Posted on June 27, 2025 by Techme101

Meta is offering multi-million pay packages to AI researchers. But no one is really getting an $100 million “signing bonus.”

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