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Startups

I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it | TechCrunch

When Alexandru Voica, head of corporate affairs at the video-generation startup Synthesia, sent me a link this summer...

Social

X will now let US users trade via Cashtags | TechCrunch

X will now allow users to trade from their timelines. The Elon Musk-owned social network on Wednesday launched...

Apps

Apple’s top App Store exec, Phil Schiller, follows wave of exits as CEO Tim Cook steps down | TechCrunch

Tim Cook is departing from his long-held role as Apple’s CEO — and a wave of top executives...

AI

OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure | TechCrunch

OpenAI has acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki...

AI

Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers | TechCrunch

Crusoe, a Denver-based AI data center startup that recently raised $3.9 billion, has ended plans to use a...

Hardware

Tim Cook’s parting message: Apple is in the hands of a product builder | TechCrunch

On his last day as Apple CEO, Tim Cook offered a rousing endorsement of his successor: John Ternus,...

Security

US military disabled ad tracking on troops’ devices following reports of targeted attacks | TechCrunch

The U.S. Department of Defense has disabled advertising tracking on troops’ phones and computers as part of an...

AI

Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge | TechCrunch

After images that users uploaded to OpenAI models were included in training data, AI agents operating in the...

AI

Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails | TechCrunch

It just became much easier to access one of the world’s most capable open-weight AI models, stripped of...

Startups

Mark Wahlberg is coming to Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch

Let’s just get this out of the way: Mark Wahlberg is as A-list as it gets. He broke...