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TechCrunch Uber is spending $2.3B to get into catering

It's the latest in a string of deals meant to grow Uber Eats into a food delivery behemoth.

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TechCrunch Get all your questions answered at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: The full breakout session agenda revealed

Get all of your scaling and tech questions answered at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Here's the full breakout session agenda, happening...

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TechCrunch Paramount closes historic Warner Bros. merger to form Skydance

The deal brings together two major streaming platforms, Paramount+ and HBO Max, along with networks including CBS, CNN, MTV, TBS,...

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TechCrunch Glimpse wants to give hardware companies an X-ray view of every critical part

Called Explore, Glimpse's new image processing software lets hardware makers speed up quality control checks using CT scanners.

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TechCrunch LibreOffice says ‘no AI’ is now a software feature

The maker of the open source document editor says it has no plans to add AI to its software's default configuration, citing user p...

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TechCabal Nigeria’s global hiring push must create jobs, not just train workers

The economic opportunity depends on matching workers with international employers and turning their skills into reliable, well-pai...

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TechCrunch Anthropic is giving startups a free year of Claude Team and $1,000 in credits

"We created this program because we believe the benefits of AI will reach most people through the companies that build on top of m...

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TechCrunch Facebook tests going Reels-first in India

Meta is testing a new Facebook UX in India that sends some users directly into full-screen video when they open the app, putting R...

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TechCrunch Type One Energy raised $200M to build a fusion power plant by 2034

Type One Energy is betting that its lean approach to fusion power will get a power plant on the grid faster, and investors have re...

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TechCabal Pesa is taking its cross-border payments business to Australia

Pesa says it offers its Australian service under authorisation from the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRA...

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TechCabal WAEMU’s free-transfer rule could make cash withdrawals more expensive

BCEAO is making 75% of WAEMU transfers free from November. Mobile money operators now have to figure out how to earn from cash tra...

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TechCabal Who owns the wealth beneath your feet? The AI engine exposing Nigeria’s ‘hidden’ miners

Across rural Nigeria, host communities watch heavy machinery dig up their land daily. But ask locals who hold the operational lice...

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TechCabal The strategy behind Equity Bank’s new digital wallet

Equity Bank is responding to the neobanking race with EMMA, a wallet launched by its fintech arm, Finserve. Customers can access i...

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TechCabal Antimicrobial resistance in Africa: The data gap behind the crisis

Africa carries one of the world's highest burdens of drug-resistant infections, yet the laboratory data needed to track it is ofte...

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Koko’s clean-up is taking a while

In today's edition: Kenyans are watching two IPO deals // Koko’s continued search for a buyer // Senegal maps rules for satellite...

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TechCrunch Lucid Motors’ EV output falls to lowest level in almost 2 years

The company is deliberately limiting production after years of struggling to find mass-market demand for its EVs.

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TechCrunch OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT’s text in the EU

OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU to comply with the AI Act. Editing can make the invisible marks harder to d...

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TechCrunch Etched fields funding offers at $40B+ valuation, sources say

Just a couple of months after its last big raise, the AI chip startup is already being plied with investment offers at double or m...

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TechCrunch After Factory’s public spat with Khosla, Menlo proudly invests

Days after Vinod Khosla called Factory a struggling also-ran, Menlo has shown up with a check and a glowing blog post.

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TechCrunch Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost

Reflection is aiming Beam and future models at enterprises and sovereign nations. The pitch is to build “AI factories,” a product...

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TechCrunch Instinct brings its AI agent to group chats, even for friends without an account

Instinct is launching group chats that let friends use its AI agent together for tasks like planning trips, organizing carpools, a...

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TechCrunch HackerRank’s AI interviewer offers a glimpse into what job interviews could become

HackerRank’s AI interviewer has already conducted more than 500,000 interviews, with Snowflake, Snorkel, and Capgemini among its e...

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TechCrunch At 19, founder raises $11M for Ghost, maker of a $3,499 computer for personal AI

Ghost's first product is Core, a personal computer designed specifically for AI agents that can take actions on a person's behalf.

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TechCrunch Hot Girl Hotline is like ‘Dear Abby’ for the AI era

Founded by two sisters, Hot Girl Hotline uses AI to give young women personalized dating and relationship advice, with an emphasis...

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