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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Banks want their crypto cake

In today's edition: FNB’s crypto journey begins || Starlink pause in Kenya enters month three || Airtel Money eyes card market ||...

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TechCabal What prediction markets must fix to remove the “gambling” label

Prediction markets are entering Africa, promising to turn informed conviction into useful signals. But as money, sports and specul...

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TechCrunch Ex-Ramp engineers raise $20M for platform Melius after scrapping their first product

Instead of helping marketers manage and optimize ad spend, the company is focusing on building the tools that generate the creativ...

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TechCrunch How to find out if Amazon thinks you have ‘flat buttocks’

"I stumbled upon a page of assumptions that Amazon has made about me based on my purchases and I’m literally speechless," one shop...

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TechCrunch Apple is reportedly partnering with LG to launch a smart lock, thermostat, and doorbell

Apple appears poised to push into the smart home market with a slate of new devices and a key partner.

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TechCrunch Silicon Valley’s AI wunderkind launches Underdog, the most private Instinct/Muse competitor yet

Sigil Wen, backed by a Silicon Valley who's who, has built an on-device AI assistant that promises to be free, fully private, and...

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TechCrunch How AI decision models could change content moderation

On Tuesday, Musubi announced a lightweight decision model made for real-time moderation called PolicyLM-1.7B, released with open w...

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TechCrunch AI computing startup Lambda to raise $4B ahead of planned IPO

Nvidia-backed Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation ahead of a planned 2027 IPO, led by Coatue...

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TechCrunch The next hurdle for AI agents: getting websites to let them in

Personal AI agents promise to shop, book flights, and make reservations for you. But deliberate blocks and anti-bot defenses are g...

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TechCabal The biggest AI security risk may already be inside your company

The corporate security perimeter now extends beyond networks and devices to employees and the AI tools they use.

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TechCabal Why Airtel Money’s $7bn IPO doesn’t include its Nigerian fintech business

When Airtel Money lists on the London Stock Exchange later this month, it will do so without its struggling Nigerian fintech busin...

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TechCrunch Learn all about scaling, fundraising, founder how-tos, and more at TechCrunch Founder Summit, November 4

There isn’t a single manual to read or prompt to give an LLM that can equip you with the skills and knowledge to build a company....

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TechCabal Glovo names Reni Onafeko as new Nigeria country managing director

Her appointment comes as Glovo continues to expand in Nigeria, which it says closed 2025 as its fastest-growing market globally.

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TechCabal Crypto accelerator Alliance invests $500,000 in Kenyan fintech Cloud9

The investment comes two months after Cloud9 acquired social commerce platform Chpter in an undisclosed all-stock deal, its second...

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TechCrunch Hark releases an AI personal assistant with a focus on privacy

The AI lab's personal assistant is an operating system from the future designed to compete with Muse, Dots, and Instinct.

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TechCrunch India’s JioHotstar takes partnership route for Middle East expansion

JioHotstar will be offered inside Starzplay rather than through a stand-alone service.

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TechCrunch Mirror Particle is building a ‘world model’ of human behavior

Mirror Particle will launch at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield 200 with a world model built from scratch to predict human...

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TechCrunch Furientis lands $25M from Benchmark to mass-produce low-cost missile interceptors

The storied Silicon Valley firm makes its first pure defense investment.

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TechCrunch Pinterest’s AI now turns beauty Pins into action plans

Pinterest’s new AI-powered Beauty Guides translate hair and nail Pins into salon terminology, with estimated costs, appointment ti...

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TechCrunch Flai’s AI dealership software is booking 50,000 appointments per month

Flai's revenue has grown 20x in a year, and the company just closed a $27 million Series A funding round.

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TechCrunch Vinod Khosla believes ex-DeepMind engineer’s Wajo will win agent market on trust

Wajo's Fo agent can hire humans to complete a task.

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TechCrunch Bluesky wants to give you your own domain on the open web

Bluesky says the process will still take 18-24 months, so don't expect your new, shortened 'bsky' handle any time soon.

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TechCrunch Emmys will move from broadcast TV to Prime Video in 2027

Non-Amazon Prime subscribers will be able to watch the awards show on the platform.

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TechCrunch Mistral’s new 1T model aims to leapfrog closed and open rivals

French AI lab Mistral AI has released Mistral Large 4, a new large multimodal model aiming to leapfrog both American and Chinese r...

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