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TechCabal Copia Kenya ordered into liquidation after court finds rescue efforts exhausted

The ruling closes one of Kenya’s biggest startup funding stories and raises a bigger question about the economics of serving consu...

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Keeping it micro

In today's edition: Class of 2016: BuuPass || Copia’s assets fall short of its debts || MTN bets on Africa’s micro-drama market ||...

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TechCrunch America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch

For the sake of national security, it's a relief to learn that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it's penning len...

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TechCrunch OpenAI reportedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation

The new round is anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut.

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TechCrunch Tesla secures $30B in new credit lines as it looks to scale Cybercab, Optimus

The company says it won't draw on the new debt facilities this year, as it has already planned at least $25 billion in capital exp...

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TechCrunch OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model

OpenAI is building out the pieces of an alternative to the traditional app store model, turning ChatGPT into a place where softwar...

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TechCrunch OpenAI repotedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation

The new round is anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut.

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TechCrunch Your car and its mobile app are probably handing over all kinds of data to tech companies

Researchers at Northeastern University found vehicles and their companion apps regularly shared detailed data with some of the lar...

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TechCrunch a16z-backed EliseAI raises $350M, doubles valuation to $4B

EliseAI raises $350M, doubles valuation in a year.

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TechCrunch The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch

Before OpenAI launched its new AI agent, Dots, on Tuesday, Elon Musk's xAI had already acquired the domain name "dot.com," which n...

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TechCrunch OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol, says it nearly matches GPT-6 Astra and costs less

OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol delivers significant improvements over GPT-6 Sol across complex professional tasks, including code writing...

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TechCrunch OpenAI expands ChatGPT’s plug-ins with app-like interfaces and automations

OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT plug-ins with dedicated sidebar homes, interactive panels, file viewers, improved discovery, and suppo...

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TechCrunch Can a chatbot fix the government maze? The White House is about to find out

America.gov is intended to simplify the process of navigating government bureaucracy, but large language models are imperfect and...

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TechCrunch AI-powered app maker Wabi pivots to a messaging experience

Wabi is repositioning its prompt-based app builder as a personal AI agent that can create interfaces on demand, combining chat, ap...

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TechCrunch OpenAI launches Dots, its bubbly agentic avatar

Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in the backg...

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TechCrunch OpenAI gives Codex reusable cloud environments that work across devices

OpenAI is expanding Codex with reusable cloud development environments, a revamped CLI with voice controls, new code review tools,...

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TechCrunch OpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT’s own office suite

OpenAI's newly announced suite of office features puts it into more direct competition with more traditional software companies.

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TechCrunch More Ways to Disrupt: New 2026 Side Events from KOTRA, WayFounder, Enterprise Ireland, SafetyWing + Descope

Disrupt doesn’t end when you leave Moscone West. 👀 Founder dinners, investor meetups, happy hours, workshops, roundtables and more...

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TechCabal How a Berlin-based developer turned Lagos traffic into a viral game

Built by Opeyemi Adeniran, a Berlin-based senior frontend engineer who posts on X as Eureka, the game has drawn more than 20,000 p...

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TechCrunch Dutch police arrest ShinyHunters hacker accused of planning two murders

Dutch police said the hacker, arrested for being part of the ShinyHunters cybercriminal gang, had plans to organize the murder of...

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TechCrunch Apple Pay finally launches in India after years on the sidelines

Some of India's largest banks are holding off on supporting Apple Pay initially.

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TechCrunch Here’s why OpenAI is absent from Nvidia’s industry-wide effort to end rogue AI agents

OpenAI isn't a public supporter of Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform, but it is privately working with Nvidia, TechCrunch has le...

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TechCrunch Instinct founder said more than 50% of transactions on the platform are travel-related

Instinct founder said the platform is growing 10% day by day, with transaction volume increasing at a similar rate.

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TechCrunch After losing his voice to cancer, this founder is building ‘glasses for voice’

Uhura Bionics, part of the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt, wants to replace flat, robotics voice devices with one t...

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