Robinhood acquires Pluto: Not the former planet, but the AI-powered research platform Pluto Capital Inc. The company says that Pluto will allow the investment app to add tools for quicker identification of trends and investment opportunities, help guide users with their investment strategies, and offer real-time portfolio optimization. Read more
AI, be gone: You can now request YouTube to take down AI-generated or other synthetic content that simulates your face or voice. The change allows people to request the removal of this type of AI content under YouTube's privacy request process. Remember, though, it's a request, and that doesn't mean it will be removed. Read more
AI is hard: In May, Meta started tagging photos with a "Made with AI" label to distinguish between real photos and those made by AI. Well, who would have guessed that the algorithm would get it wrong and put the tag on real photos? Now Meta is changing that tag. Read more
Vaire Computing raises $4.5M: The London- and Seattle-based startup is betting that reversible computing will be the way forward. Instead of running a calculation in only one direction (inputs followed by outputs) and then feeding the output to a new calculation and running it again, the computing can be done in both directions (known as "time-reversible" computing). Effectively, energy is retained inside the chip instead of being released as heat. The theory is that this method would generate negligible amounts of heat, vastly reducing energy consumption. Read more
Host your own event at Disrupt: Take advantage of all those thousands of attendees to throw your own side event. TechCrunch can help. Read more
