Connie Loizos

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The Hugging Face AI break-in, as told through an increasingly committed bear metaphor - TechCrunch

Business July 31, 2026

Hugging Face on Monday published a technical timeline that walks readers through how an autonomous AI agent, built on OpenAI models and running inside one of OpenAI’s own cybersecurity evaluations, ...

The Zoom hack that says, β€˜Don’t record me’ - TechCrunch

Technology July 19, 2026

VC Jeremy Levine has a wry solution to something that routinely annoys him, according to a new Wall Street Journal article on the rise of AI transcription apps. On Zoom, he is no longer β€œJeremy Levi...

Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s no. 2 role - TechCrunch

Business July 11, 2026

Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s No. 2 executive, is stepping down from her full-time role, the Wall Street Journal reports. In a staff note Thursday, Simo said her ongoing medical leave has proven longer and ...

The fittest founder in the room got cancer. Here’s how he used AI to fight back. - TechCrunch

Technology June 28, 2026

Conno Christou doesn’t leave things to chance. He tracks his sleep with a Whoop band, cross-references it with an Oura ring, and gets nearly 100 biomarkers checked every year. He had been doing the ...

The US says ASML’s top chip tool may be in China. ASML says it isn’t - TechCrunch

Business June 20, 2026

According to Bloomberg, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has, in a series of recent meetings, told senior ASML executives he’s concerned that one of the Dutch chipmaker’s extreme ultraviolet...

Startup CEO Charlie Javice is reportedly angling for a Trump pardon - TechCrunch

Business June 16, 2026

Charlie Javice, the convicted Frank founder, is reportedly seeking a presidential pardon, with her camp quietly courting people close to the Trump administration, according to the WSJ. So far, her naοΏ½...

OpenAI is reportedly preparing legal action against Apple; it wouldn't be the first partner to feel burned - TechCrunch

Business May 15, 2026

OpenAI is so frustrated with Apple over a ChatGPT integration that failed to deliver the subscribers and prominence it expected that the company is now actively exploring legal action against the iPhοΏ½...

Thinking Machines wants to build an AI that actually listens while it talks - TechCrunch

Technology May 13, 2026

Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded last year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, on Monday announced something called interaction models, which, at its essence, sounds like AI that can interοΏ½...

We'll take it: a TikToker rallies pledges to buy Spirit Airlines after its abrupt weekend collapse - TechCrunch

Business May 5, 2026

When Spirit Airlines shut down overnight Saturday canceling all flights, letting go of 17,000 employees, and telling ticketholders to just not come to the airport people were flabbergasted but also bοΏ½...

The Stanford freshmen who want to rule the world . . . will probably read this book and try even harder - TechCrunch

Business April 28, 2026

Theo Baker is graduating from Stanford this spring with something most seniors don’t have: a book deal, a George Polk Award that he received for his investigative reporting as a student journalist, ...