Bret Taylor’s Sierra buys YC-backed AI startup Fragment
Sierra, the customer service agent startup founded by Bret Taylor, announced on Thursday that it has acquired the…
Meta will record employees’ keystrokes and use it to train its AI models
Meta has found a new source of training data for its AI models: its own employees. The company…
Sam Altman throws shade at Anthropic’s cyber model, Mythos: ‘fear-based marketing’
OpenAI and Anthropic continue to take swipes at each other. This week, during a podcast appearance, OpenAI CEO…
Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return
Anthropic announced on Monday that Amazon has agreed to invest a fresh $5 billion, bringing Amazon’s total investment…
Google Photos adds new touch-up tools for ‘quick’ fixes
Google Photos’ image editor is getting new touch-up tools to allow users to apply subtle edits and fixes,…
Accel raises $5B to back late-stage bets
Accel announced on Tuesday that it raised $5 billion in fresh capital to back late-stage companies. The venture…
Factory hits $1.5B valuation to build AI coding for enterprises
More than three years after the emergence of generative AI, AI-assisted coding remains by far the most popular…
Anthropic CPO leaves Figma’s board after reports he will offer a competing product
Mike Krieger, Anthropic’s chief product officer, resigned from the board of interface design company Figma on April 14.…
Google rolls out a native Gemini app for Mac
Google announced on Wednesday that it’s introducing a native Gemini app for Mac, catching up to rivals like…
Microsoft is officially killing its Outlook Lite app next month
Microsoft is shutting down Outlook Lite on May 26, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. Launched in…