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TechCrunch No agenda, no rush, no leaving San Francisco: Benchmark’s partners on investing in a frenzied market

Benchmark may have grown its funds and swapped out some partners, but onstage the five who are left sounded like friends who just...

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TechCrunch Everyone’s watching the Elizabeth Holmes documentary ‘You Can See Everything’

"You Can See Everything" is having the second biggest opening weekend ever for a documentary film.

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TechCrunch TechCrunch Mobility: Rivian’s next act

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in...

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TechCrunch Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character AI’s workforce

The filing also says that the “vast majority” of Character.AI employees who were offered jobs at Disney accepted them. However, th...

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TechCrunch Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns

A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.

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TechCrunch Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings

The composition of Anthropic’s workforce and the type of work getting done have changed significantly in the past year.

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TechCrunch TikTok says it’s restored ‘Musk’ documentary advertising account

A four-hour documentary about Elon Musk continues to meet resistance from social media platforms.

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TechCrunch Replit makes OpenAI its default over Anthropic, CEO says

Over the weekend, Masad clarified that OpenAI would replace Anthropic as its default model provider. Claude will still be availabl...

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TechCrunch Ember’s new temperature-controlled mug makes my nightly tea ritual even better

The biggest change about Ember's new mug is that you no longer have to open the app to adjust your drink’s temperature.

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TechCabal Why an Ethiopian nurse swapped her scrubs for software

Medanit is a digital healthcare platform that is aiming to make healthcare easier to access in Ethiopia.

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TechCabal Cracking the Nigerian syllabus: How Ex-UNILAG students engineered an exam cheat-code

UniBeta uses AI to help Nigerian university students prepare for exams.

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TechCabal JAMB’s Canadian ambition: A $20 ticket to a system parents fought to leave

JAMB plans to offer its entrance exam in Ottawa from 2027, using Nigeria’s diplomatic mission rather than building a new facility....

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TechCrunch Mark Wahlberg wants to take on the longevity-startup crowd with an affordable gym concept

Mark Wahlberg, who once sank money into a gym chain that got kicked off the NYSE, is now building his own, and he promises you’ll...

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TechCrunch Porsche’s electric Macan Turbo is an automotive existential crisis

The 2026 Porsche Macan Turbo EV is a two-row crossover with 630 horsepower and a 100-kilowatt-hour battery.

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TechCrunch Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says

Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in...

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TechCrunch India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity

The agents got in through credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and ov...

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TechCabal Six years after Stripe, Paystack is learning to keep money

Six years after Stripe's historic acquisition, Paystack is pivoting from moving money to keeping deposits to survive currency deva...

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TechCrunch An Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn’t hit its ChatGPT moment, yet

Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in...

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TechCrunch Elorian’s first AI model wants to reason with images, not just about them

According to Elorian's evaluations, Glimpse outperforms even GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captio...

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TechCrunch Jev is Vercel’s fastest-adopted AI model ever

The data comes from Vercel's AI gateway, a unified API service similar to OpenRouter.

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TechCabal Inside Roqqu’s plan to tokenise Nigeria’s stock market

Roqqu wants to make Nigerian stocks available to global investors through blockchain-based tokens. Its plan could expand foreign p...

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TechCabal Onafriq shuts down its Nigerian agent banking business after five years

Baxi was one of Onafriq's large bets on Nigeria's offline payments economy, built around the idea that a vast network of agents co...

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TechCrunch Veritas expands its anti-counterfeit chip to jewelry, trophies, and fragrance bottles

Counterfeiters are getting better at replicating brands' marks and passing off dupes, known as "superfakes," as genuine items. A s...

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TechCrunch Tressfecta wants to make hair braiding a less arduous task for hairstylists

Tressfecta builds products for textured hair. Its first project is a tool called Plait Pilot that helps braiders with the initial...

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