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Artificial Intelligence

An OpenAI Agent Breached Australian Data Portal in Newly Disclosed Hack

The country's Prime Minister is not happy about it.

Artificial Intelligence

Bernie Sanders Shows There’s a Big Problem With Trump Renaming AI to ‘Super Intelligence’

"AI is an existential threat to humanity. It must be treated as such."

Gaming

Go play this secret game in your TikTok DMs | TechCrunch

TikTok has quietly added a secret emoji game that you can access in your DMs. The goal of...

Gaming

Netflix is expanding into kids’ games with a new stand-alone app | TechCrunch

Netflix is launching a new stand-alone app for kids’ games called Netflix Playground, the company announced on Monday....

Gaming

Roblox introduces ‘Kids’ and ‘Select’ accounts for age-appropriate access to games and chat | TechCrunch

Roblox is introducing new account types designed to give kids and younger teens age-appropriate access to chat and...

Gaming

How the rewards app Freecash scammed its way to the top of the app stores | TechCrunch

A data harvesting app called Freecash appears to have tricked users as it quickly rose to the top...

Gaming

Roblox’s AI assistant gets new agentic tools to plan, build, and test games | TechCrunch

Roblox is introducing new agentic features to help developers plan, build, and test games on its platform, the...

Gaming

AI Dungeon maker Latitude unveils Voyage, a platform for creating AI-powered RPGs | TechCrunch

If you’ve ever played a role-playing game (RPG), you know how fun it is to create your character...

Gaming

Discord launches Nitro Rewards, giving subscribers access to the base tier of Xbox Game Pass for no extra cost | TechCrunch

Discord on Monday unveiled Nitro Rewards, which gives Nitro subscribers access to offers from other gaming and lifestyle...

Gaming

Origin Lab raises $8M to help video game companies sell data to world-model builders | TechCrunch

As AI begins to interact with the physical world, new types of labs are working to build world...