Pinterest CEO touts open source AI: ‘tremendous performance’ with reduced costs
Pinterest CEO Bill Ready says open source AI is offering cost savings to the company, particularly in visual search.
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Amazon sends legal threats to Perplexity over agentic browsing
Amazon won’t allow agents on its site that don’t identify themselves as such. Perplexity is not pleased.
Rivian creates another spinoff company called Mind Robotics
It’s the second time this year Rivian has spun out a new company, after it created micromobility startup Also in March.
Facebook Groups can now go public without exposing members’ private posts
Facebook is making it possible for private Groups to switch to public without compromising members’ privacy.
Google pulls Gemma from AI Studio after Senator Blackburn accuses model of defamation
Senator Martha Blackburn argued Gemma’s fabrications are “not a harmless ‘hallucination,’” but rather “an act of defamation produced and distributed by a Google-owned AI model.”
AI researchers ’embodied’ an LLM into a robot – and it started channeling Robin Williams
AI researchers at Andon Labs embedded various LLMs in a vacuum robot to test how ready they were to be embodied. And hilarity ensued.
AI mania tanks CoreWeave’s Core Scientific acquisition; it buys Python notebook Marimo
CoreWeave’s failed buy of Core Scientific is another sign of an AI bubble. But it’s still shopping.
Reddit CEO says chatbots are not a traffic driver
Reddit doesn’t see a lot of traffic coming from chatbot answers
Scenes from TechCrunch Disrupt
Thanks to everyone who made this year’s San Francisco event what it was — and to the 10,000 of you who filled the halls, made the connections, and left with more than you came with. Couldn’t make it? These images tell part of the story.