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EU investigating Meta over policy change that bans rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp

Posted on December 4, 2025 by Techme101

The European Commission is is launching an antitrust investigation into Meta’s move to ban other AI companies from using WhatsApp’s business tools to offer their own AI chatbots to users.

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Nexus isn’t going all-in on AI, keeping half of its new $700M fund for India startups

Posted on December 4, 2025 by Techme101

Nexus Venture Partners manages $3.2 billion in capital across its funds and has invested in more than 130 companies over the years.

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Gemini was Google’s top trending search term in 2025

Posted on December 4, 2025 by Techme101

Gemini wasn’t the only AI chatbot to make the list, as DeepSeek ranked seventh among the year’s trending searches.

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New unicorn Brevo raises $583M to challenge CRM giants

Posted on December 4, 2025 by Techme101

Brevo, a customer relationship management company headquartered in Paris, is now a unicorn.

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Day One Ventures’ Masha Bucher on why every founder needs to be an influencer

Posted on December 4, 2025 by Techme101

Tech is racing ahead while society struggles to keep up. Masha Bucher, founder and GP of Day One Ventures, built her firm around closing that gap by combining venture capital with hands-on PR to help portfolio companies not just raise money, but actually break through the … Continue reading →

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Amazon hopes to jump start its AI coding tool Kiro by giving it away to startups

Posted on December 4, 2025 by Techme101

Can Kiro win the hearts of startup founders above the many AI coding tools they already have? Amazon hopes a free year will tempt them.

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Andy Jassy says Amazon’s Nvidia competitor chip is already a multibillion-dollar business

Posted on December 3, 2025 by Techme101

Can any company, big or small, really topple Nvidia’s AI chip dominance? Maybe not entirely, but Amazon is already making big bucks trying.

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Trump administration rolls back fuel economy standards, again

Posted on December 3, 2025 by Techme101

The regulatory decision would make it harder for future administrations to implement stricter fuel efficiency standards.

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WordPress’s vibe-coding experiment, Telex, has already been put to real-world use

Posted on December 3, 2025 by Techme101

Though WordPress’s Telex is still an experiment, the vibe coding software has already been used to help build real-world websites.

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‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted

Posted on December 3, 2025 by Techme101

Kohler, the makers of a smart toilet camera, can access customers’ data stored on its servers, and can use customers’ bowl pictures to train AI.

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