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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2272184430.jpg?w=1024″] Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has launched two preview versions of its newest large language model, DeepSeek V4, a much-awaited update to last year’s V3.2 model and the accompanying R1 reasoning model that took the AI world by storm. The company says both DeepSeek V4 Flash and V4 Pro are mixture-of-experts models with…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/GettyImages-1415078085.jpg?resize=1200,721″] Amazon just scored a major coup with Meta thanks, once again, to Amazon’s own homegrown chips. Meta has signed a deal to use millions of AWS Graviton chips to power its growing AI needs, Amazon announced Friday. Note that the AWS Graviton is an ARM-based CPU, (a central processing unit, the chip…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/porsche-coupe-white.jpg?resize=1200,801″] Porsche will start selling an all-electric Cayenne coupe in late summer, the latest signal from the German automaker that it still sees market demand for EVs. The Cayenne coupe EV — which has four doors, unlike a traditional coupe — will join several other all-electric variants of the SUV when it comes…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2246607264.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Bob Iger is returning to Thrive Capital as an advisor, just one month after stepping down as CEO of Disney, a role he held for nearly two decades. Iger previously served a two-month stint as a venture partner at the firm in late 2022 but left when the Disney board asked him…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/GettyImages-2254192130.jpg?resize=1200,800″] A special forces soldier involved in the operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been indicted by the U.S. Justice Department. His alleged crime? Making numerous bets on the prediction market Polymarket that Maduro would be removed from power, for which he is said to have made upwards of $400,000. Authorities…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Modular_Data_Center_2.jpg?resize=1200,675″] Redwood Materials chief operating officer Chris Lister is leaving the battery recycling company to retire, TechCrunch has learned — and he’s not the only executive that recently departed. Lister, a former vice president who led operations at Tesla’s Nevada Gigafactory, has been with Redwood since late 2023. He started as the company’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/AP22166762615783.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Sierra, the customer service agent startup founded by Bret Taylor, announced on Thursday that it has acquired the YC-backed French startup Fragment, which helps businesses integrate AI into workflows.  This is Sierra’s third public acquisition. It previously bought Japan-based enterprise AI solutions company Opera Tech (which it acquired in late March) and…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Instants-by-IG.jpg?resize=1200,712″] Instagram is testing a new image-sharing app called “Instants,” the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. The app, which is available in Spain and Italy, lets users share disappearing photos with their friends that can be viewed only once and remain available for 24 hours. With Instants, you capture a photo in…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/doomscrolling-GettyImages-2195349954.jpg?resize=1200,800″] What if you could outsource your doomscrolling? That’s the premise behind the new startup Noscroll, which is offering an AI-powered bot that can browse your social feeds, news sites, and other online chatter, then text you when something important happens. “no feed. no brainrot. no ragebit,” reads Noscroll’s pitch to users. just…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/sean-plankey-2226115701.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Trump’s twice-chosen pick to run the U.S. federal cybersecurity agency CISA has requested to withdraw from the position, leaving the agency without any clear person to lead it on a permanent basis. In a letter to the White House on Wednesday, Sean Plankey requested that the Trump administration withdraw his nomination, citing…