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TechCrunch Anduril reportedly in talks to raise funding at $100B valuation, more than 3x last year’s mark

Anduril is said to be raising a new round of funding that may push its valuation up to about $100 billion, per Reuters.

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TechCabal Why Vodacom is taking its AI talent search back to university

Telecommunications companies are adopting AI across their operations, including network management, fraud detection, predictive ma...

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TechCabal Kenya finalises crypto licencing framework for exchanges, digital asset firms

The regulations mark the final step in Kenya's effort to bring cryptocurrency businesses under formal regulatory oversight.

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TechCrunch Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star

The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.

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TechCrunch Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool

Users can now ask Attie questions about news, trends, and conversations on Bluesky and other apps on the AT Protocol.

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TechCrunch OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app

ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.

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TechCabal Mercy Erhiawarien left Africa. She returned convinced it is the future

Born in Nigeria's Delta State and raised largely in the United States, Erhiawarien grew up moving between two worlds. The contrast...

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TechCabal Why Africa’s growth-stage companies need more than capital to scale sustainably

Africa's most resilient founders have survived on resourcefulness, navigating funding winters, currency crises, thinning talent po...

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TechCrunch Facebook launches a dedicated Marketplace app for sellers, adds a free verification system

Facebook is launching a separate app for people who list and sell items on the platform frequently. Dubbed "Seller," the app lets...

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TechCabal Duplo brings business finance software to Wema Bank’s ALAT Business

Wema Bank is the first commercial bank to distribute Duplo's software. The move reflects an emerging pattern across Africa's finan...

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TechCabal “I’m an African”: Why MTN says migration matters to South Africa’s digital future

For a company that has built its growth on connecting Africans across borders, those developments have become impossible to ignore...

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TechCabal South Africa’s most important crime witness isn’t human. It’s a smartphone.

Every WhatsApp conversation, location ping, cloud backup and piece of metadata can help investigators reconstruct relationships th...

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Mr Price, Mr Europe

In today's edition: Quick Fire 🔥 with Zubair Timilehin || Mr Price takes over German retailer || Airtel Money sets sight on London...

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TechCabal Quick Fire 🔥 with Zubair Timilehin

Meet Zubair Habib Timilehin, the founder and CEO of Bitoshi. Under his leadership, Bitoshi has grown to serve nearly 100,000 users...

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TechCrunch How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers

We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how...

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TechCrunch Meet the judges who will crown Australia’s next breakout startup

TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is coming to Australia — and we're partnering with Stripe to find the country's most exciting early...

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TechCrunch Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua to step aside as company pushes into robotaxis, robotics

Shashua has been invited to take the chairman of the board seat.

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TechCrunch Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models

Claude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email.

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TechCrunch AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system

AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.

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TechCrunch Patreon lays off 20% of its workforce

In a memo to staff that was posted online, Conte said the company's core business is strong, but the platform has to respond to ma...

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TechCrunch Insurance startup Corgi reportedly raised more money at $4B — its third round in 8 weeks

In the AI-funding frenzy, many startups are raising back-to-back rounds at ever-increasing valuations — but even by those standard...

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TechCrunch Meta drops out of a major clean energy pact as its natural gas buildout accelerates

Meta has made significant investments in natural gas over the past year. Now it's dropping out of an industry renewable energy gro...

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TechCrunch Tesla’s door handles may spur new US safety rules

The new rule-making process follows a series of incidents, including fatal ones, in which people have become stuck inside cars.

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TechCrunch AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing

AegisAI co-founders developed AI agents that quickly analyze each message as a human would, paying attention to small anomalies th...

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