OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPOΒ TechCrunch By: Rebecca Bellan 18 June 2026 at 20:59 OpenAI is bulking up before its IPO, landing Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump AI policy official Dean Ball in the same week.
Apple opens up App Store to new competition in Brazil TechCrunch By: Sarah Perez 18 June 2026 at 16:48 Appleβs grip on iPhone app distribution is loosening in another major market: Brazil.
A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Techβs $100M gunfightΒ TechCrunch By: Rebecca Bellan 18 June 2026 at 16:13 Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom.