Autonomous vehicle firm Waymo denied a media report that it plans to use data from its robotaxis’ interior cameras to identify individuals or personalize ads. The company’s statement to PYMNTS came in response to a Monday (April 7) TechCrunch report that said Waymo may use interior camera data from its robotaxis, tied to riders’ identities, to train generative artificial intelligence (AI) models and sell personalized ads. The TechCrunch reported cited a post on X from researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who said an unreleased privacy page from Waymo said the company may use the data for those purposes, while also allowing riders to opt out

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More. Meta’s new flagship AI language model Llama 4 came suddenly over the weekend, with the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Quest VR (among other services and products) revealing not one, not two, but three versions — all upgraded to be more powerful and performant using the popular “Mixture-of-Experts” architecture and a new training method involving fixed hyperparameters, known as MetaP. Also, all three are equipped with massive context windows — the amount of information that an AI language model can handle in one input/output exchange with a user or tool. But following the surprise announcement and public release of two of those models for download and usage — the lower-parameter Llama 4 Scout and mid-tier Llama 4 Maverick — on Saturday, the response from the AI community on social media has been less than adoring.Llama 4 sparks confusion and criticism among AI usersAn unverified post on the North American Chinese language community forum 1point3acres made its way over to the r/LocalLlama subreddit on Reddit alleging to be from a researcher at Meta’s GenAI organization who claimed that the model performed poorly on third-party benchmarks internally and that company leadership “suggested blending test sets from various benchmarks during the post-training process, aiming to meet the targets across various metrics and produce a ‘presentable’ result.”The post was met with skepticism from the community in its authenticity, and a VentureBeat email to a Meta spokesperson has not yet received a reply. But other users found reasons to doubt the benchmarks regardless

President Donald Trump’s aggressive new tariff policy last week has sent markets reeling, with crypto investors feeling the pain after trillions of dollars were wiped from global stock indices.On Monday, Bitcoin’s price recovered slightly after dropping below $75,000 during early morning trade. The crypto is hovering near $80,000, up 3% over the last 24 hours. Still, more volatility is to come as investors try to navigate a new global economic order under Trump. Paying attention to the U.S. bond markets is key. As pointed out by macro expert and crypto analyst Lynn Alden on X, bond yields on Monday jumped while the stock market plunged. But why should crypto investors or Bitcoiners care? "It's a lot of things that are not explained with a simple narrative, Michael Lebowitz, portfolio manager at RIA Advisors, told Decrypt. "Likely, when people sold their stock, they didn't need the bond with the hedge anymore, so they sold the bonds too.""I'm always very careful not to say, well, maybe China was selling, or maybe they think that tariffs are inflationary, because there's just so much volatility in these markets," he added.When investors buy U.S