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TechCrunch Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders

The serial entrepreneur joins the e-commerce company as CPO to lead its AI agents.

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TechCrunch Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup

The legendary Google executive is joined by other outgoing Google execs in a joint mission to use AI to push forward the process o...

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TechCrunch Lucid Motors just delayed its affordable EV. Now what?

The Cosmos EV is now slated for release in the second half of 2027. CEO Silvio Napoli said he's focused on getting the EV right, a...

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TechCrunch Reddit aims to make ‘karma’ less important for first-time posters with shift to AI moderation tools

Reddit is expanding its moderation tools and building stronger abuse prevention systems that it says could eventually reduce commu...

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TechCabal Here’s what a ₦1 million crypto trade could cost under Nigeria’s new tax rules

A ₦1 million ($733.92) Bitcoin transaction can attract multiple taxes amounting to ₦64,250 ($47.15) before accounting for exchange...

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TechCabal The surveillance system that helped Nigeria curb piracy wants to fight banditry

Falcon Eye, developed by Israeli defence company RTCom Defense, helped Nigeria fight piracy. It is now pushing to join the war on...

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TechCrunch Meet the eight startups pitching at Startup Battlefield Australia

The applications are in, and the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield team made their decisions!

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TechCrunch As Gen Z reconsiders dating apps, Tinder’s IRL events expand to dozens more cities

Tinder is expanding its in-person events feature from an initial Los Angeles test to 26 cities worldwide by the end of September.

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TechCrunch TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Real World AI Stage features robots, automated factories, and extinct animals

On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll con...

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TechCrunch Zoox to start charging for robotaxi rides in Las Vegas

This marks the official launch of Zoox's commercial operations.

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TechCrunch Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google

Shopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers. Instead, AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify...

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TechCrunch PSA: Apple’s Private Relay can leak your real IP address

A bug in how Apple implements its Private Relay feature, which in theory masks users’ IP addresses from the sites they visit, can...

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TechCrunch Trump EPA wrongly canceled $20B in climate funds, appeals court rules

Climate nonprofits can again access their federal funding more than a year after the Trump EPA ordered Citibank to freeze their ac...

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TechCrunch Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks

Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.

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TechCrunch MacPaw taps Liquid AI to offer on-device inference to devs building for its app store

MacPaw is building a local version of its AI assistant Eney using Liquid AI's models.

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TechCrunch Robinhood to list a fund that lets anyone back Y Combinator startups

Robinhood's latest financial instrument intends to let any retail investor feel like they, too, can make money by backing Y Combin...

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TechCrunch Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team

Anthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips. The Claude maker said it would co-design hardware and models t...

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TechCrunch Disney+ looks to TikTok creators to bring fan content to its short-form video feed

As streamers compete with social media giants for viewer attention, Disney+ is partnering with TikTok to bring creator content to...

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TechCabal Omowonuola Akintola wants Africa to build its geospatial future

An unmapped village. A community overlooked for development. A disaster response slowed by missing data. Those are the kinds of pr...

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TechCrunch Saudi Aramco backs India’s Mitti Labs to make Asia’s rice farming more water-resilient

Mitti Labs plans to expand beyond India and enter the Philippines and Indonesia while growing its carbon credits and agricultural...

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TechCrunch AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative?

WindBorne Systems has raised a $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.

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TechCabal Exclusive: Kenya’s Cloud9 acquires Chpter less than a year after founders left

Cloud9, a Kenyan startup that offers digital banking services for businesses, has acquired social commerce platform Chpter in an a...

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TechCabal IHS shareholders back MTN’s bid for full ownership

MTN Group has secured shareholder approval to acquire the remaining shares in IHS Holding Limited

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TechCrunch Indian EV startup River raises $120M Series C to scale production, launch more models

River plans to build a new factory, launch additional models from 2027, and target profitability as it scales production.

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