Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Perplexity says it has no plans to further pursue advertising, which it introduced in 2024, phasing out ads late last year over fears it would erode user trust  —  Leading start-ups have recently embraced sponsors as they search for revenue  —  AI start-up Perplexity has abandoned advertising …

Rachel Swan / San Francisco Chronicle:
Tesla agrees to stop using the term “autopilot” to market its electric vehicles in California to avoid a 30-day suspension by the state's DMV  —  Tesla has stopped using the term “autopilot” to market its electric vehicles in California in order to avoid a 30-day suspension by the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
YouTube services are fully resolved after a brief outage starting at ~7:45pm ET due to a recommendations system issue  —  If you're trying to access YouTube right now and running into problems, you're not alone, as a widespread outage appears to be affecting YouTube and, to a lesser extent, YouTube TV.

The Information:
Anthropic expects to pay Amazon, Google, and Microsoft $80B+ total to run its models on their servers through 2029, plus an additional $100B for training costs  —  Anthropic expects to pay Amazon, Google and Microsoft at least $80 billion to run its Claude AI on their cloud servers through 2029 …

TechCrunch:
Emergent, which offers an AI-powered software development service, says it is generating annual run-rate revenue of $100M+, just eight months after launch  —  Indian vibe-coding platform Emergent was launched just eight months ago, and it now says it's generating annual run-rate revenue …