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OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree

Ai News Security

At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companies—and did it all right under the company’s nose.

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OpenAI’s Browser Could Be Hijacked to Spam Your WhatsApp Contacts

Ai News Security

Researchers at security firm Zenity found more than a dozen flaws in AI browsers—and managed to get OpenAI’s Atlas to make an unauthorized Amazon purchase.

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Get up to $400 off your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass until Friday

Tech Crunch Startups

Starting today, you can take an additional $100 off your founder, investor, or attendee TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, which is a nice bonus on top of our current discounted pricing. 

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Nikita Bier steps down as X’s head of product

Tech Crunch Apps

The serial entrepreneur is stepping down a little over a year after taking the "24/7 job" of overseeing X.

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Travis Kalanick’s robotics startup Atoms taps former Uber finance chief as CFO

Tech Crunch Transportation

Kalanick continues to get the band back together, after acquiring Anthony Levandowski's autonomy startup, and even soliciting investment from Uber.

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Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases

Tech Crunch AI

Meta expanded its AI coding offerings with a new agent that, it promises, can handle complex tasks with complex software.

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Trump’s DOJ gains oversight of OpenAI’s green-card employee sponsorships

Tech Crunch Government & Policy

The DOJ alleged that OpenAI did not meaningful attempt to hire U.S. citizens before seeking permanent residence for Visa-holding employees.

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Moove raises $250M to become the backbone of the robotaxi industry

Tech Crunch Transportation

Moove is scaling up the autonomous vehicle fleet management side of its business and plans to someday own, not just manage, Waymo robotaxis.

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Why Lightspeed is going all-in on creator-led venture capital

Tech Crunch Social

Venture firms are turning to creators to build trust with the next generation of founders before a check is ever written. It’s a trend that’s been building with a16z’s acquisition of Erik ...

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How Lightspeed found its newest hire … via Instagram DM

Tech Crunch Startups

Lightspeed partners Josh Machiz and Claire Zau stopped by the Equity studio to talk about the strategies behind their growing social media presence and their podcast, Lightwork.

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Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders

Tech Crunch AI

The serial entrepreneur joins the e-commerce company as CPO to lead its AI agents.

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From: yesterday

The Most Dangerous AI Hacking Techniques Still Have Humans in the Loop

Ai News Security

Security researcher James Kettle tried to push the limit of AI’s hacking abilities—and discovered how effective it can be when combined with human expertise.

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Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup

Tech Crunch AI

The legendary Google executive is joined by other outgoing Google execs in a joint mission to use AI to push forward the process of scientific discovery.

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AI Hacks Are Bad. AI Worms and Viruses Will Be Worse

Ai News Business

Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses.

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Reddit aims to make ‘karma’ less important for first-time posters with shift to AI moderation tools

Tech Crunch Social

Reddit is expanding its moderation tools and building stronger abuse prevention systems that it says could eventually reduce communities’ reliance on karma and account-age requirements, making it ea...

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Lucid Motors just delayed its affordable EV. Now what?

Tech Crunch Transportation

The Cosmos EV is now slated for release in the second half of 2027. CEO Silivo Napoli said he's focused on getting the EV right as well as its nearer-term robotaxi project with Uber and Nuro.

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Meet the eight startups pitching at Startup Battlefield Australia

Tech Crunch Startups

The applications are in, and the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield team made their decisions!

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PSA: Apple’s Private Relay can leak your real IP address

Tech Crunch Security

A bug in how Apple implements its Private Relay feature, which in theory masks users’ IP addresses from the sites they visit, can reveal users’ real IP addresses.

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Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

Ai News Security

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving to Launch Discovery Loop

Ai News Business

Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in everything from drug discovery to chip design.

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Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google

Tech Crunch AI

Shopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers. Instead, AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify stores tripled year over year in Q2.

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Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks

Tech Crunch AI

Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.

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Zoox to start charging for robotaxi rides in Las Vegas

Tech Crunch Transportation

This marks the official launch of Zoox's commercial operations.

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Real World AI Stage features robots, automated factories, and extinct animals 

Tech Crunch AI

On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.

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