Lucas Ropek

Articles by Lucas Ropek

Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s longtime COO, is leaving to β€˜start something new’ - techcrunch.com

Business August 12, 2026

Brad Lightcap, one of the longest-serving executives at OpenAI, is leaving the powerful AI lab to β€œstart something new.” In an internal message that Lightcap shared online Tuesday, the outgoing e...

OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400 - TechCrunch

Technology August 8, 2026

More details continue to trickle out about OpenAI’s mysterious new hardware device described previously as an AI-fueled smart speaker that will be the β€œphysical manifestation” of ChatGPT. Bloom...

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

Business August 7, 2026

Meta, considered a bit of a straggler in the AI harnesses realm, is making strides to catch up. This week, the company released a new terminal coding agent aimed at programmers looking for assistanceοΏ½...

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

Business August 6, 2026

Jeff Dean, one of the longest-serving and most influential executives at Google, is stepping down from the search giant to launch his own AI startup. Coming with him as co-founders are several otherοΏ½...

OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok - techcrunch.com

Business August 2, 2026

Much has been made of the incident in which one of OpenAI’s agents broke out of its sandboxed test environment and proceeded to hack the AI hosting platform Hugging Face. OpenAI has since launched a...

Friend, the lonely AI wearable, returns with a new voice and a much bigger price tag - TechCrunch

Technology August 1, 2026

Two years ago, tech founder Avi Schiffmann launched Friend, an AI wearable that you could talk to and that would send you text messages about your day. The idea, ostensibly, was to use artificial intοΏ½...

Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity system - TechCrunch

Technology July 28, 2026

Microsoft on Monday launched its first cybersecurity-specialized model alongside a new AI cybersecurity platform at a small event in San Francisco, taking a big swipe at major players in the space naοΏ½...

I tried out OpenAI's new AI keypad β€” which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else - TechCrunch

Technology July 26, 2026

OpenAI launched its first piece of hardware last week a fancy little keypad built to pair with ChatGPT. Micro, which was developed in collaboration with specialty keyboard designer Work Louder, is esοΏ½...

Apple and Google ordered to purge β€˜nudify’ apps from App Stores - TechCrunch

Technology July 18, 2026

The city of San Francisco has ordered Apple and Google to remove dozens of β€œnudify” apps software programs that can digitally alter pictures to unclothe the people in them from their app stores. ...

Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex - TechCrunch

Technology July 16, 2026

OpenAI is officially entering the hardware market with the launch of a $230 light-up keyboard designed to pair with its AI coding assistant, Codex. The Codex Micro, co-designed with specialty keyboaοΏ½...