AI infrastructure company Pinecone’s CEO Edo Liberty will step aside and into a new role as chief scientist; ex-Google executive Ash Ashutosh will become CEO (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
Signal announces a backup feature that includes 100MB of storage for texts and the last 45 days’ worth of media for free, or 100GB of storage for $1.99/month (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
In a September 5 filing in the US v. Google ad tech trial, Google said “the open web is already in rapid decline”, contradicting Google’s recent statements (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
Local Nepalese media reports that 19+ people were killed after police opened fire on “Gen Z protests” against a government ban on major social media platforms (Andres Schipani/Financial Times)
The US Army awards a $159M contract to a partnership of Anduril and Meta and a $195M contract to Rivet, to produce competing prototypes of a new combat goggle (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)
Pinecone founder Edo Liberty discusses why the next big AI breakthrough starts with search at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
