Tag Archives: TechCrunch

Trump set to delay TikTok ban with yet another extension

Posted on June 18, 2025 by Techme101

U.S. President Donald Trump will issue another extension to decide the fate of TikTok, pushing it by 90 days, the White House said on Tuesday.

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Pope Leo makes AI’s threat to humanity a signature issue

Posted on June 18, 2025 by Techme101

Pope Leo XIV, the new American pope, is making the threat of AI to humanity a key issue of his legacy, even as the technology industry has spent years attempting to make friends with the Vatican. 

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After Shopify bought his last startup, Birk Jernström wants to help developers build one-person unicorns

Posted on June 18, 2025 by Techme101

With Polar as their ‘Merchant of Record’ responsible for handling billing and taxes, developers can sell online products and SaaS subscriptions globally from day one.

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Police shut down Cluely’s party, the ‘cheat at everything’ startup

Posted on June 18, 2025 by Techme101

The latest San Francisco startup culture drama happened on Monday night. And it occurred over “the most legendary party that never happened.”

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Sam Altman says Meta tried and failed to poach OpenAI’s talent with $100M offers

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Techme101

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on something of a hiring spree lately, trying to staff up Meta’s new superintelligence team with top-tier AI researchers from competing labs. To work on a team led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr … Continue reading →

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OpenAI’s $200M DoD contract could squeeze frenemy Microsoft

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Techme101

The contract could put the model maker in competition with the OpenAI services that Microsoft wants to sell to the DoD.

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EVs dominate the most American-made cars index and it’s not just because of Tesla

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Techme101

Tesla, Kia, and Volkswagen took six of the top 10 spots in the 2025 American-Made Index, which ranks vehicles built and bought in the U.S.

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Google’s Gemini panicked when playing Pokémon

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Techme101

AI companies are battling to dominate the industry, but sometimes, they’re also battling in Pokémon gyms. As Google and Anthropic both study how their latest AI models navigate early Pokémon games, the results can be as amusing as they are … Continue reading →

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Tumblr’s content filtering systems have been falsely flagging posts as ‘mature,’ users blame AI

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Techme101

Tumblr users are complaining that content is being falsely labeled as mature, the latest tech company to grapple with automated flagging and takedowns.

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Meta is reportedly building AI smart glasses with Prada, too

Posted on June 17, 2025 by Techme101

Meta is reportedly working on a pair of AI smart glasses with Prada.

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