Top Stories; Pinecone founder Edo Liberty discusses why the next big AI breakthrough starts with search at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
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- Pinecone founder Edo Liberty discusses why the next big AI breakthrough starts with search at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — TechCrunch
- Nvidia's Huang joining Trump on UK state visit next week — CNBC
- Traders see a chance the Fed cuts by a half point — CNBC
Pinecone founder Edo Liberty discusses why the next big AI breakthrough starts with search at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Source: TechCrunch • Published: 9/9/2025, 12:05:00 AM
Pinecone founder Edo Liberty discusses why the next big AI breakthrough starts with search at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
AI needs a better brain — and Edo Liberty is building it.
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, Pinecone founder and CEO Edo Liberty will explain why the next wave of AI-native apps won't be driven by bigger models, but by smarter search. With 10,000+ startup and VC leaders expected in San Francisco from October 27–29, this fireside chat and presentation is a must-attend moment.
As AI becomes more embedded in every workflow, the real differentiator isn't just the algorithm — it's how you access and use the right data at the right time. Liberty believes that retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and purpose-built infrastructure are the next frontier, and search is at the center of it all.
In his session, "Why the Next Frontier Is Search," Liberty will unpack how vector databases and high-performance infrastructure are unlocking the full potential of AI. With so much data in play, knowing how to find what matters — fast — is everything. This talk goes deep on the stack that's powering smarter, more scalable applications across industries.
Liberty helped build the backbone of AI at Amazon, and now with Pinecone, he's scaling next-gen search for hundreds of thousands of developers and enterprise teams. If you're building with AI, this is your roadmap to where the ecosystem is heading next.
Get your pass to Disrupt 2025 before Regular Bird pricing disappears.
Read the full story at TechCrunch.
Nvidia's Huang joining Trump on UK state visit next week
Source: CNBC • Published: 9/9/2025, 12:02:32 AM
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will join President Donald Trump next week on a state visit to the U.K., a person familiar with the plans told CNBC's Kristina Partsinevelos on Monday.
The person asked to remain anonymous in order to discuss the trip.
The Nvidia chief is one of several U.S. business leaders who are expected to accompany Trump, including OpenAI's Sam Altman, Blackstone CEO Steven Schwartzman, and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, according to Sky News, which first reported the trip.
Apple CEO Tim Cook was invited, according to the report.
The luminaries are expected to join Trump at a state banquet hosted by King Charles scheduled for next week, according to Sky News.
Though Huang was notably absent from Trump's White House dinner for tech CEOs last week, his attendance on the U.K trip highlights how committed the chipmaker is to managing its relationship with the president as Nvidia seeks new licenses to sell its current-generation Blackwell chips in China.
Since the company's access to the Chinese market was thrown into question earlier this year, Huang has developed a close relationship with Trump, praising the president's commitment to U.S. manufacturing.
Huang has tried to convince the president that allowing Nvidia to export its chips to China is good for U.S. national security because it means that the U.S. will continue leading the AI race.
Trump has praised Nvidia for being a technological leader, and was pleased when the company topped a $4 trillion market cap, Huang previously said.
Nvidia said earlier this year that its access to the Chinese market had been cut off by the Trump administration using export controls. Huang then met with Trump at the White House twice over the summer and secured export waivers for its China AI chip, called the H20.
Trump said that he negotiated a 15% cut of those chip sales with Huang. Nvidia said last month that details of the U.S. government's cut had not been finalized.
Huang also joined Trump on a trip to Saudi Arabia for an investment forum in May.
Nvidia previously said it had to scrap H20 chips that could have accounted for $8 billion in sales in a single quarter. It said it could sell as much as $5 billion of the H20 chips this quarter, depending on the geopolitical environment.
But Nvidia is now focusing on getting licenses to sell newer chips to China, and Huang told investors last month there is a "real possibility" that it can get approval.
Traders see a chance the Fed cuts by a half point
Source: CNBC • Published: 9/8/2025, 11:57:52 PM
Traders are leaving open the option that the Federal Reserve next week could cut its key interest rate by half a percentage point, though most on Wall Street think the bar for doing so is pretty high.
In the most likely scenario being priced in by markets, the Fed on Sept. 17 will lower the overnight funds rate by 25 basis points, or 0.25 percentage point. Odds for a quarter-point cut were around 88% Monday afternoon, according to the CME Group's FedWatch tool that measures odds of Fed action based on 30-day fed funds futures contracts.
However, that left open a remote chance that the central bank's Federal Open Market Committee still could enact a half-point reduction, as it did at the September meeting in 2024. Chances of that were at 12% as traders disregarded any possibility the committee might stay put.
Market sentiment shifted even more toward Fed easing after Friday's jobs report showed that nonfarm payrolls expanded by just 22,000 in August while the unemployment rate rose to a nearly four-year high of 4.3%.
"The soft August jobs report will help drive consensus across the committee that not only should rate cuts resume this month, but that further cuts will likely be appropriate in coming months," Citigroup economist Andrew Hollenhorst said in a note after the payrolls release.
While Hollenhorst thinks there could be some support on the FOMC for a bigger move, "we do not think the majority of the committee would support a 50 [basis point] cut." Those possibly favoring a larger move include Governors Michelle Bowman and Christopher Waller, as well as Stephen Miran should the Senate confirm him before the Fed convenes.
Citi holds a slightly out-of-consensus view that the FOMC will cut at each of its next five meetings as officials look through the current inflation trends and focus more on weakness in the labor market. The call is predicated on Fed officials continuing to worry about inflation but focusing more on jobs.
"The August employment report solidifies the case for the Fed to deliver a series of insurance cuts at upcoming meetings," Nomura economist David Seif wrote. "With inflation risks elevated, we expect officials would need to see clearer evidence of labor market stress or a sharp tightening in market financial conditions before delivering more aggressive easing."
Current market expectations are that the Fed cuts next week, skips October and lowers again in December.
In the era since FOMC chairs started having news conferences after each meeting — begun in 2019 with current Chair Jerome Powell — it's been rare for the Fed to skip meetings during periods where it was adjusting rates.
However, Apollo economist Torsten Slok said policymakers are in a ticklish spot now with inflation still above target and the soft jobs picture, putting the central bank's dual goals of stable prices and full employment in conflict.
Fed officials will get inflation data later this week on producer and consumer prices, the last major data releases before the meeting. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones expect the all-items inflation rate to rise to 2.9% though core is expected to hold at 3.1%. Higher-than-expected CPI would likely cement the quarter-point move.
"In the worst case, if inflation surprises to the upside, it will really make it tricky, and we could begin to have a discussion about this sense next week," Slok said Monday on CNBC. "Namely, how does the Fed do policy making when one side of the dual mandate says it should be cutting and the other side says it should be hiking?"
Slok said he still expects the Fed bias to be towards easing even with stubborn inflation.
"I think that they will begin to talk more about inflation expectations and begin to put less weight on current inflation and instead on future inflation," he said.
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