Lucas Ropek

Articles by Lucas Ropek

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

Business September 1, 2026

Tim Cook is departing from his long-held role as Apple’s CEO and a wave of top executives are heading for the exits as he does. On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Phil Schiller, long the head of Ap...

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI - TechCrunch

Business August 28, 2026

Over a hundred tech companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft have signed an open letter urging both the private and public sectors to work together to defend themselves from AI-reοΏ½...

Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation - TechCrunch

Technology August 28, 2026

Instinct, a startup founded only last year and helmed by a 23-year-old, has managed to ride the wave of AI enthusiasm toward a gargantuan valuation over the course of the summer. The company, which οΏ½...

OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continues - TechCrunch

Business August 27, 2026

OpenAI has lost yet another executive, and the timing of this one stands out in particular given this individual oversaw the execution of the company’s data center strategy. Chris Malone, OpenAI’...

Situational Awareness, star AI hedge fund that nearly imploded, now being probed by the SEC - TechCrunch

Business August 26, 2026

Situational Awareness, the AI focused hedge fund that was Wall Street’s fleeting obsession, is having a very bad month. The company, led by twentysomething OpenAI alum Leopold Aschenbrenner, went a...

Amazon hikes hardware prices by 60%, blaming memory shortage - TechCrunch

Technology August 25, 2026

Over the weekend, Amazon significantly raised the prices of its hardware devices, jacking them up by as much as 60% in some cases. The price explosion impacted Fire TVs, Echos, Kindles, and Eeros. OοΏ½...

Apple is reportedly cutting hundreds of jobs from Siri, Vision Pro teams - TechCrunch

Technology August 23, 2026

Apple is chopping down the team behind the Vision Pro, its long-suffering VR headset, while eliminating positions across a number of other teams, Bloomberg reported. Over 200 positions, all told, haοΏ½...

ChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plug-in - TechCrunch

Technology August 22, 2026

If you’ve ever wanted to share all of your digital conversations with OpenAI, we have good news for you: The AI lab has just launched an Apple Messages plug-in for ChatGPT, allowing interested users...

AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team - techcrunch.com

Technology August 18, 2026

Relay, an AI-powered workflow automation tool that was launched in 2021 with the goal of becoming the new Zapier, is shutting down, and some of its staff including its top executive are joining GooglοΏ½...

Talks to sell PayPal to Stripe and Advent are heating up - TechCrunch

Business August 16, 2026

PayPal CEO Enrique Lores’ turnaround plan for the fintech company could include a sale of itself. The prospect first popped in July when Stripe and private equity giant Advent offered to buy PayPa...