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YouTube's custom feeds let viewers type what a feed should include and exclude, with Gemini building it as a pinned tab, rolling out to web and mobile next month. Spotify opened Taste Profile to US Premium users over 18, showing how it models their taste in an editable text box, with Home updating within hours (TechCrunch). Two of the largest recommenders now accept natural-language instructions from the people being recommended to. I want to know what happens when the stated preference conflicts with the engagement-optimal one, because that's where the product decision actually lives.
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TechCrunch reports a VC-backed founder replaced his entire customer service department with Claude Code — not with a CS SaaS tool, but by having AI build a custom solution. VC Lex Zhao: "The barriers to entry for creating software are so low now that the build-versus-buy decis...
Rolling out August 14, the Media Watermark setting removes the visible mark from images, video and music from the Nano Banana, Omni and Lyria models, with the toggle in Flow and Search support coming. Invisible SynthID and C2PA provenance metadata stay embedded. TechCrunch Det...
TechCrunch reports growth from 750M in February to near a billion, roughly 250M added in five months. Distribution beats benchmark parity. Google ships the model into Android, Search and Workspace surfaces no independent lab can reach.
Two data points that tell the same story. First, Value Add Pulse counts four frontier launches in 30 days: Gemini 3.5 Pro, Grok 5, Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5, plus open-weight GLM-5.2 and Kimi K2.7. The model-layer moat compressed from quarters to weeks. Second, TechCrun...
paddo.dev published a production run of TypeSafe's Jev over Pricogni's backlog of 9,081 low-confidence product matches. 150 lines of code. One bernoulli query asking whether two products match, one choice query for the type of difference, competitor descriptions capped at 1,50...
Guillermo Rauch told TechCrunch that the industry is decoupling models from agents, with customers moving to plug-and-play stacks spanning OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, and GLM 5.2 rather than betting on one lab. Over 1 trillion tokens daily through Vercel's AI gateway....
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