OpenAI to acquire the team behind executive coaching AI tool Convogo
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🗓️ 9 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | This is TechCrunch. |
| 0:06.5 | OpenAI made a new acquisition. |
| 0:09.1 | I'm Aaron Shake and your Friday Daily Crunch featuring three big tech headlines and a little bit of startup business news starts right now. |
| 0:16.9 | Following the success of TikTok and Instagram Reels, Disney announced that it's bringing short-form video content to Disney Plus in the U.S. this year in a bid to boost daily engagement. |
| 0:27.7 | Now, Disney made the announcement at its Tech and Data Showcase event at CES 2026. The company said in the blog post that the experience will evolve as it expands across news and entertainment |
| 0:39.5 | and delivers a more personalized dynamic experience that reinforces Disney Plus as a must-visit daily destination. |
| 0:47.6 | Disney told Deadline that the videos could include original short-form content, |
| 0:51.6 | repurpose social clips, scenes from TV shows or movies, or a combination. |
| 0:56.4 | We're obviously thinking about integrating vertical video in ways that are native to core user behaviors, |
| 1:02.1 | Aaron Teague, EVP of product management for Disney Entertainment and ESPN told deadline. |
| 1:07.3 | Teague continued, so it won't be a kind of a disjointed random experience. |
| 1:12.7 | The move comes as Disney launched a personalized vertical video feed in the ESPN app last year. |
| 1:17.4 | By introducing short-form video content to Disney Plus, the company's targeting younger users |
| 1:22.8 | who are accustomed to watching quick clips on their phones rather than long-form content |
| 1:27.1 | like TV shows and movies. |
| 1:29.0 | Now, Disney Plus won't be the first streamer to explore vertical video, |
| 1:33.2 | as Netflix launched a vertical feed last year that lets users scroll through clips from its original titles. |
| 1:39.0 | The Health Department for the state of Illinois has confirmed that a year's long security lapse exposed |
| 1:44.8 | the personal information of more than 700,000 state residents. The Illinois Department of Human |
| 1:51.1 | Services, IDHS, said in a statement on January 2nd that an internal mapping website containing |
| 1:57.8 | residence personal information, which officials used for assisting |
| 2:01.4 | with the allocation of state resources, was inadvertently publicly viewable as far back as |
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