Bret Taylor’s Sierra buys YC-backed AI startup Fragment
Sierra, the AI customer service agent startup founded by technologist Bret Taylor, announced today that it has acquired the YC-backed French startup Fragment.
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Redwood Materials loses COO amid layoffs, restructuring
Former Tesla executive Chris Lister is retiring, and at least three other VPs have left Redwood around the recent restructuring, TechCrunch has learned.
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Authorities arrest special forces soldier who allegedly made $400K on Polymarket bet involving Maduro operation
The soldier is accused of using classified government information to inform a wager on the prediction market Polymarket.
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Bob Iger rejoins Thrive Capital as advisor after Disney exit
The former Disney CEO hold a stake in Thrive and has previously held the role of the venture partner at the firm.
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Porsche is adding an all-electric Cayenne coupe to its lineup
Porsche will start selling the Cayenne Coupe Electric in late summer.
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AI | Enterprise | Hardware | TC
In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs
Meta has commandeered a big chunk of Amazon’s homegrown CPUs (not GPUs) for AI agentic workloads, signaling that a new kind of chip race has begun.
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DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models
DeepSeek says both models are more efficient and performant than DeepSeek V3.2 due to architectural improvements, and have almost “closed the gap” with current leading models, both open and closed, on reasoning benchmarks.
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Nothing introduces an AI-powered dictation tool
Nothing’s new on-device dictation tool supports over 100 languages.
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AI | Fundraising | Startups | Venture
Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga joins stacked StrictlyVC SF lineup for April 30 event
Surprise! StrictlyVC San Francisco, which will kick off this year’s events lineup for TechCrunch on April 30 at the Sentro Filipino Cultural Center, is getting a new addition to its increasingly stacked lineup of speakers. Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga will join the rest of the lineup to discuss operating at scale in the age of AI.
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Another spyware maker caught distributing fake Android snooping apps
Researchers have found a new case where government authorities used a fake Android app to plant spyware on a target’s phone. The company that allegedly developed the spyware was not previously known to sell this type of software.
