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Pinterest experiments with new AI-powered personalized boards

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Pinterest announced on Monday new AI-powered upgrades to its boards to make them more personalized for users. These features include an AI-driven collage, “Styled for you,” that helps users create outfits from saved fashion Pins, and “Boards made for you,” personalized boards curated with AI.  “Styled for you” collages allow users to combine different clothing […]

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Pinterest adds controls to let you limit the amount of ‘AI slop’ in your feed

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Following backlash over an increase in “AI slop” taking over users’ feeds, Pinterest on Thursday added new tools that let users limit how much AI-generated content they see on the platform. Users can now personalize their feeds to restrict GenAI imagery in select categories, and the company said it will make its existing GenAI content

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Pinterest CEO says agentic shopping is still a long way out

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Pinterest CEO Bill Ready told investors on the company’s second-quarter earnings call that the social app and inspirational bookmarking site could be considered an “AI-enabled shopping assistant.” However, he thinks that the agentic web, where AI agents shop on users’ behalf, is still far in the future. The remarks were made in response to a

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Pinterest tests an AI feature that lets advertisers turn their catalogs into shoppable collages

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Pinterest is experimenting with “auto-collages,” an AI feature that allows advertisers to quickly turn their product catalogs into shoppable collages, the company announced this week. The new feature is designed to make it easier for advertisers to reach customers while saving time and creative resources, Pinterest says. The company notes that collages are one of

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Pinterest finally admits mass bans were a mistake caused by an ‘internal error’

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Pinterest has now publicly apologized for the wave of moderation issues that have swept across the social network over the past few weeks, leading to account bans and Pin removals that users said were unwarranted. In posts published to social media Tuesday, the company took responsibility for the issue, saying that an “internal error” led

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Pinterest lists DEI attacks as possible business risk latest filing

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Pinterest listed the latest attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion as a possible business risk in its latest 10-K filing.  The company wrote in its filing to investors that if its efforts around DEI “are perceived as insufficient or overdone,” then it “may not be able to attract and retain talent” and that the company

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Pinterest rolls out genAI tools for product imagery to advertisers

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Image inspiration and shopping site Pinterest is the latest tech company to roll out generative AI products to its advertisers, following similar moves by Google, Amazon, and others. At its Pinterest Presents advertiser event on Tuesday, the company unveiled new features for its Pinterest Performance+ suite, which includes both automation and AI. The latter which

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Pinterest launches a feature to let users remix collages created by others

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Pinterest created an engaging format with collages last year, which allows users to combine images and cutouts to create new content. The company is now banking on people creating more of them by introducing a Remix feature. Just like the Remix feature on short video apps, such as Instagram and Snap, the idea behind Pinterest’s feature is

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