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Lapsus$ publishes a data leak site on the dark web threatening to release about ~1B records stolen from Salesforce-hosted customer databases (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/03/hacking-group-claims-theft-of-1-bi…

Hacking group claims theft of 1 billion records from Salesforce customer databases | TechCrunch
The hacking group claims to have stolen about a billion records from companies, including FedEx, Qantas, and TransUnion, who store their customer and company data in Salesforce.

Meta unveils communities on Threads, starting with 100 dedicated spaces for casual conversations around topics like basketball, television, and K-pop music (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/02/threads-takes-on-x-with-new-communities-f…

Threads takes on X with new communities feature | TechCrunch
Threads officially debuts communities, dedicated spaces to have casual chats around a topic.

Salesforce launches Agentforce Vibes, an enterprise vibe-coding tool and IDE featuring Vibe Codey, built on a fork from Cline's open source AI coding agent (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/01/salesforce-lau…

Salesforce launches enterprise vibe-coding product, Agentforce Vibes | TechCrunch
Salesforce is also releasing a vibe-coding agent named Vibe Codey to help companies foray into vibe coding with enterprise security.

WordPress showed off Telex, its experimental AI development tool, at WordCamp US; CEO Matt Mullenweg called it "V0 or Lovable, but specifically for WordPress" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/02/wordpress-show…

WordPress shows off Telex, its experimental AI development tool | TechCrunch
WordPress CEO Matt Mullenweg introduced the new WordPress AI tool, called Telex, at the company's WordCamp US 2025 conference in Portland last week, alongside other AI experiments.

Anthropic hires former Stripe CTO Rahul Patil as its new CTO, taking over from co-founder Sam McCandlish, who will move to a new role as chief architect (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/02/anthropic-hires-new-cto-with-focu…

Anthropic hires new CTO with focus on AI infrastructure | TechCrunch
As part of the change, Anthropic is updating the structure of its core technical group, bringing the company's product-engineering team into closer contact with the infrastructure and inference teams.

An interview with CEO Amjad Masad on Replit's slow growth, leaving the professional developer market to focus on non-technical white-collar workers, and more (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/02/after-…

After nine years of grinding, Replit finally found its market. Can it keep it? | TechCrunch
While AI coding startups like Cursor raise brow-raising rounds on barely three years of existence, Replit's path to a $3 billion valuation has been anything but swift.

OpenAI acquires AI-powered personal finance app Roi; source: CEO and co-founder Sujith Vishwajith is the only member of Roi's four-person team joining OpenAI (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/03/with

With its latest acqui-hire, OpenAI is doubling down on personalized consumer AI  | TechCrunch
OpenAI is acquiring the CEO of Roi, an AI financial companion. Roi will sunset its service as its talent heads to OpenAI, ostensibly to help boost revenue in consumer apps.

Simple, an AI-powered health coaching app to help users lose weight, raised a $35M Series B led by Kevin Hart's HartBeat Ventures (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/01/kevin-harts-vc-firm-leads-35m-series-…

Kevin Hart’s VC firm leads $35M Series B for weight-loss app Simple | TechCrunch
Simple is an AI-powered health coaching app that helps people lose weight.

Google says it has removed its AI model Gemma from AI Studio; in a letter to Google, Sen. Blackburn said it fabricated sexual misconduct allegations against her (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/02/goog

Google pulls Gemma from AI Studio after Senator Blackburn accuses model of defamation | TechCrunch
Senator Martha Blackburn argued Gemma’s fabrications are “not a harmless ‘hallucination,’" but rather “an act of defamation produced and distributed by a Google-owned AI model.”

Interview with Lovable CEO Anton Osika on competition, staying in Europe, and more; the company now has 2.3M active users, including 180K paying subscribers (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/01/lovables-ceo-is…

Lovable's CEO isn't too worried about the vibe-coding competition | TechCrunch
Lovable specializes in helping people build apps and websites, especially people with no coding experience. It's one of the standouts in the popular AI category known as vibe-coding, which lets users guide AI models as they produce code, websites, or whole applications.