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Google Adds Exception to Privacy Pledge on Gmail, Drive and Photos Ad Targeting
Google’s October 16 privacy revision adds an advertising exception for content users share with other Google services. We separate the policy’s permission from a reported AI Mode ad test and explain why app connections, ad personalization and retained history require separate attention.
Read the full story →Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend
Jack Dorsey's Block announced an AI model called Dessa that's trained "from scratch on nothing but human conversation," and to show off the model, Block shared chats it has had with humans that can occasionally be a little awkward and uncanny. Take this one, for example, shared by Dessa lead Ragavan Thurairatnam. The conversation between the model and the speaker does have a mostly natural back and forth (though for…
The Verge AI · 2026-10-23T19:32:39.000Z Read the story →
From Toast to Bessemer: Who founders will hear from at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026
Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch, developing founder leadership, and scaling companies both inside and outside traditional startup hubs.
TechCrunch AI · 2026-10-23T19:06:23.000Z Read the story →
Designing an AI serving harness built to last
The next competitive advantage in enterprise AI has less to do with which model you choose than with what you build around it. That’s an important shift. For the past several years, much of the AI conversation has centered on model capability: bigger models, better reasoning, larger context windows, higher benchmark scores. Those advances have…
MIT Tech Review AI · 2026-10-22T21:17:29.000Z Read the story →
Coding & Developer AI: This Week’s Routing, Cost and Security Signals
Duration: 10:32
A selective October 13–20, 2026 market roundup covering reported model-routing changes, MiniMax’s launch, the OpenCode incident and Microsoft’s testing-tool headline—with practical next steps and explicit evidence limits.
Watch on the site →Read the primary coverage behind "Jack Dorsey’s Block made an AI model that talks to you like an awkward new friend" (The Verge AI) directly, rather than relying on this summary alone -- useful for anyone tracking policy_development closely. Read: The Verge AI →
Reuses this edition's own freshly link-verified Pulse evidence rather than introducing a new, unverified link.
- Whether "From Toast to Bessemer: Who founders will hear from at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026" (TechCrunch AI) develops into a broader pattern worth tracking, or remains an isolated development. Follow: TechCrunch AI →
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