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OpenAI will soon begin testing a way for business customers to connect apps like Slack and Google Drive to ChatGPT. OpenAI plans to start beta testing a new feature called ChatGPT Connectors, according to a document viewed by TechCrunch. ChatGPT Connectors will allow ChatGPT Team subscribers to link workspace Google Drive and Slack accounts to ChatGPT so the chatbot can answer questions informed by files, presentations, spreadsheets, and Slack conversations across those accounts. OpenAI plans to expand ChatGPT Connectors to other platforms, like Microsoft SharePoint and Box, in the future, according to the document. “This will allow employees using ChatGPT…

Less than a week after the rollout of patchesfor a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Apache Tomcat, exploit code has been published on a Chinese forum showing how to hijack servers with a single PUT request. According to a bulletin from Wallarm, there are signs the bug is being exploited in the wild prior to the release of exploit code. The Apache Tomcat vulnerability, tagged as CVE-2025-24813 and patched last Monday with an important-severity rating, affects Apache Tomcat 11.0.0-M1 to 11.0.2, 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.34, and 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.98. “This attack is dead simple to execute and requires no authentication.…

Artificial intelligence continues stirring things up in chemistry. To wit: Y Combinator-backed Cambridge, U.K.-based ReactWise is using AI to speed up chemical manufacturing — a key step in bringing new drugs to market. Once a promising drug has been identified in the lab, pharma firms need to be able to produce much larger amounts of the material to run clinical trials. This is where ReactWise is offering to step in with its “AI copilot for chemical process optimization,” which it says accelerates by 30x the standard trial-and-error-based process of figuring out the best method for making a drug. “Making drugs…

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has selected a fifth algorithm (HQC) to add to its PQC portfolio. It plans to issue a draft HQC standard in early 2026, with the finalized standard expected in 2027. In a report (PDF) on the fourth round of the NIST post-quantum cryptography standardization process, NIST states, “The only key-establishment algorithm that will be standardized is HQC, and NIST will develop a standard based on HQC to augment its key-establishment portfolio.” Four other algorithms have already been selected, and three of these have been released as finished standards: FIPS 203 is ML-KEM…

The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday said that all-rounder Khushdil Shah has been fined 50 per cent of his match fee for breaching level 2 of its Code of Conduct in the first Twenty20 against New Zealand in Christchurch on Sunday. The tourists began the five-match series in disastrous fashion, reduced to 11-4 at the end of the fifth over after towering paceman Kyle Jamieson ran amok with the new ball. They were eventually dismissed for their lowest score in a T20 on New Zealand soil and the home side had few problems in responding with 92-1 off just…

Children like Samantha are the core group currently eligible for Colombia’s temporary protection permit (PPT), since eligibility for adults was restricted in 2023. Colombia established the PPT programme in 2021 to encourage Venezuelans to seek legal immigration status. It was hailed as a breakthrough in addressing the migration and refugee crisis: The permits are valid until 2031 and allow Venezuelans to access Colombia’s education system, employment and other services. Andrés Moya, a professor at the Universidad de Los Andes School of Economics, has studied the benefits of the PPT. He found that Venezuelans with regularised immigration status had higher monthly…

Last year, security researchers uncovered 7,966 new vulnerabilities impacting the WordPress ecosystem, most of them affecting plugins and themes, WordPress security firm Patchstack notes in a fresh report. Only seven of the WordPress bugs that came to light last year affected the WordPress core. Most of the flaws were found in plugins (7,633 defects, representing 96% of the total), and a small percentage in themes (326, or 4%). According to Patchstack, despite their large number, most of the vulnerabilities did not pose an active threat: 69.6% were considered unlikely to be exploited, 18.8% could be exploited in targeted attacks, and…

GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, begins Monday and runs till Friday in San Jose, with the biggest announcements probably coming Tuesday. TechCrunch will be on the ground covering the news as it happens — and we’re expecting a healthy dose of announcements. And we’re making it easy for you to follow along. CEO Jensen Huang will give a keynote address at the SAP Center on Tuesday at 10 a.m. PT, focusing on — what else? — AI and accelerating computing technologies, according to Nvidia. The company is also teasing reveals related to robotics, sovereign AI, AI agents, and…

GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, will return this week, with the biggest announcements probably coming Tuesday. If you can’t make it in person, don’t sweat it. TechCrunch will be on the ground covering the major developments, and we’ve made it easy for you to follow along. Many of the biggest presentations, talks, and panels will be livestreamed as well. The conference starts Monday, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is scheduled to deliver a keynote from the SAP Center on Tuesday at 10 a.m. PT, which you’ll be able to stream and watch online at Nvidia.com without having to…

Last week, at the Abundance Summit in Los Angeles, billionaire entrepreneur Travis Kalanick gave attendees a rare glimpse into his vision for the future of his newest company, CloudKitchens. While today the eight-year-old L.A.-based outfit is known for a growing real estate portfolio that it uses to it host – and set up – restaurants that use its kitchens to fulfill food deliveries, Kalanick hinted at a full-stack future. In fact, he appears to be aiming to eventually deliver AI-perfected meals directly to customers. Kalanick brought up the topic twice, in different contexts. First, during his informal sit-down with conference…