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TechCrunch TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Gamma’s Grant Lee, Engine’s Elia Wallen, and GV’s Crystal Huang on landing your first 1,000 customers

Leaders from Gamma, Engine, and Google Ventures join TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to talk how to get your first customers. Register now...

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TechCabal “You already had your chance”: The silent shame of online dating after divorce in Africa

Runo is a dating platform engineered specifically for widows, widowers, divorcees, and single parents.

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TechCabal What a banker discovered when he started listening to farmers

Don’t get Watson Matsa started on farmers and banks, as we did. He talks on why banks don’t understand farmers from an insider poi...

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TechCrunch Surveillance company Flock cuts staff as privacy backlash grows

Flock would not say if CEO Garrett Langley would take a pay cut following the reduction in workforce.

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TechCrunch Xona’s commercial GPS alternative is about to go live

Xona's precision timing and navigation service will enter beta testing after SpaceX launches six satellites designed by the compan...

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TechCabal The 20-metre neobank: How Mukuru is solving the gap between receiving cash and spending it

For the Spanish-born executive, the future of African fintech is about eliminating the friction that hinders how people receive, s...

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TechCabal Lagos Life maker Vatar raises $500,000 one week after launch

Vatar Inc., the company behind the viral Nigerian browser game Lagos Life, has closed a $500,000 angel round at a $10 million valu...

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TechCabal Why Moove is leaving the Nigerian market it was built in

Moove's future is in robotaxi depots in the United States, so its Nigerian business, which had challenges, no longer represents a...

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Moove-ing on

In today's edition: PiggyVest, Class of 2016 || Moove exits Nigeria || SA offshore gambling plans || Who secured the bag? 💰

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TechCrunch Elon Musk questions Ambani’s influence as Starlink India launch stalls

“Is Ambani the real boss of India?” Elon Musk asked as he questioned why Starlink has yet to launch its satellite internet service...

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TechCrunch Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect

Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that the...

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TechCrunch President Trump awards Big Tech donors with nation’s highest science prizes

Together, the awardees have donated nearly $6 billion to efforts tied to Trump and his administration.

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TechCrunch Pretend you’re sitting at Elizabeth Holmes’ desk on this weirdly detailed website

With over a thousand emails, slides, texts, and documents from the United States v. Elizabeth Holmes trial, Extend engineer Bo Lau...

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TechCrunch Anthropic changes usage policy to ban model abuse and election interference

Anthropic's updated usage policy explicitly prohibits users from repeatedly abusing Claude in extreme cases, though ordinary frust...

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TechCrunch Ben Affleck is an AI nerd, and the internet is impressed

Ben Affleck is going viral for his deep knowledge of AI, from neural networks and transformers to open weights. The actor, who sol...

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TechCrunch OpenAI’s math solutions aren’t meeting the field’s standards yet

OpenAI's flood of proofs deviated from the guidelines set by a group of mathematical researchers consulted by the frontier lab.

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TechCrunch Watch the trailer for ‘The Altruists,’ Netflix’s show about the FTX scandal

A fictionalized Sam Bankman-Fried is coming to your TV screen on November 19.

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TechCrunch A startup founder who served time in prison is looking to court an untapped market: ex-cons

Richard Bronson, a former Stratton Oakmont partner who served time in federal prison for securities violations, has launched Commi...

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TechCrunch The complete Side Events lineup at Founder Summit 2026

Boston, are you ready?! TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 is about to explode with energy — and the real magic kicks off with an epic...

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TechCrunch Popular AI leaderboard Arena nearly doubles valuation to $3.1B valuation in 10 months

The company behind the popular LMArena leaderboard has raised $200 million led by Lightspeed and Khosla, and is now measuring AI m...

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TechCrunch OpenAI’s revenue is reportedly $20 billion less than previously projected

It had previously been reported that the AI lab's annualized revenue was some $70 billion, but a new report claims it's a whole lo...

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TechCrunch Google brings agentic AI to Gemini, starting with businesses

Google is turning Gemini into an AI agent that can plan, execute tasks, and work across business apps and systems. The agent can d...

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TechCrunch Natura’s $99 smart ring puts AI agents on your finger

Natura’s $99 Interface smart ring lets you summon AI agents with the press of a finger to complete tasks, capture thoughts, and co...

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TechCrunch Goodfire says its new ‘inside-out’ monitors catch rogue AI agents at a fraction of the cost

Goodfire just launched what it says is a cheaper way to keep AI agents in check: Instead of paying a second AI to read everything...

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