# OpenAI Secures $12.2B Funding & Salesforce Unveils AI-Powered Slack

**Podcast:** TechCrunch Daily Crunch
**Published:** 2026-04-02

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TikTok's quietly added a secret emoji game that you can access in your DMs.
Now the goal of the game is simple.
Use your finger to bounce as high as you can by hopping across alligators.
Easy as that.
Avoid the skeleton alligators and be careful.
Broken alligators disappear after just one landing, so you need to quickly bounce to the one above.
If you guide your jump to a floating emoji, you'll get a speed boost that helps you climb faster.
Now, the same happens when you land on an alligator with a propeller on it.
If you fail to land on an alligator or land on a skeleton, it's game over for you.
The object of the game is to bounce higher than your opponent.
As you play, you'll see both your score and your opponent's high score displayed in the top right corner.
Now TikTok told TechCrunch on Tuesday that the game is available globally and can be accessed in both one-on-one DMs and in group chats.
You can access the game by sending an emoji in any chat and then clicking on it to enter the game.
The emoji you click on is the same one that'll float across the screen to give you a boost.
And you can use any emoji you want, but you can only access the game by sending a single emoji at a time.
TikTok says it launched this Easter egg to make messaging more fun and to add a playful element of competition to DMs on the platform.
With this launch, TikTok is taking a page out of Instagram's book.
Instagram, you see, introduced its own hidden emoji DM game two years ago, and TikTok's version follows a similar concept.
Instagram's version has players using their finger to move a paddle to keep an emoji bouncing, with the game ending once the emoji falls.
OpeningEye has closed a deal to raise 122 billion dollars at an $852 billion valuation, its largest funding round to date, as the company's expected to hit the public markets this year.
The round will add to OpenAI's war chest as it spends enormous amounts of money on AI chips, data center build-outs, and hiring top talent.
About $3 billion came from individual investors via bank channels.
OpenAI also said it expanded its evolving credit facility to about $4.7 billion, supported by several of the top global banks.
The facility remains undrawn, the company said, which suggests it's bolstering its financial flexibility as it ramps spending on compute and infrastructure rather than responding to near-term liquidity needs.
OpenAI included updates on revenue and user numbers, claiming it's generating $2 billion in revenue per month and taking a shot at competitors.
Quote, at this stage, we are growing revenue four times faster than the companies who define the internet and mobile eras, including Alphabet and Meta, unquote.
The company also said it has more than 900 million weekly active users in consumer AI and over 50 million subscribers, with search usage nearly tripling in the last year.
OpenAI said its ads pilot is bringing in more than 100 million dollars in annual recurring revenue in under six weeks, opening up a serious potential revenue stream for the company that built its user base without ads.
OpenAI also called itself an AI super app, making it clear that it wants to own the primary interface for how people use AI.
Well, the cloud software giant Salesforce has been remaking its business around AI.
And at a small gathering in San Francisco on Tuesday, CEO Mark Beninghoff and his team unveiled the latest results of those efforts, an updated version of Slack with a plethora of new AI features.
Now, the most significant of these is a serious glow-up for its AI agent, Slackbot.
The 30 new features, which will be available in the coming months, follow a January update that gave Slackbot agenc capabilities, including the ability to draft emails, schedule meetings, and sift through your inbox for specific info.
Perhaps the most notable feature announced on Tuesday is what the company calls reusable AI skills.
Now, those allow users to define specific tasks for Slackbot that, once created, can be applied in a variety of different scenarios and contexts.
Slackbot comes with a built-in library of AI skills, Salesforce says, but users can also create their own custom versions.
Once these skills are set up, they significantly reduce the work an employee might need to do.
The agent can also now operate outside of Slack and monitor your desktop activities.
Salesforce lists your deals, your conversations, your calendar, and your habits as the kind of data it draws on.
In short, Salesforce is clearly trying to take Slack beyond its roots as an enterprise communication tool and position it as a more versatile platform that can handle a wider variety of business tasks.
And folks, that's your daily crunch.
Today's stories were reported by Lucas Ropeck, Aisha Malik, Rebecca Ballan, and more awesome TechCrunch journalists.
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