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TechCrunch Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits

Tech companies and developers have been scouring the U.S. for places to build data centers, and they’ve been drawn to Texas’ loose...

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TechCrunch Spotify expands AI remix and covers project with Merlin partnership

Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group in ba...

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TechCrunch Hackers steal over $130M by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets

A security vulnerability in the cryptocurrency hardware wallet Coldcard is allowing hackers to drain the crypto from victims’ wall...

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TechCrunch TV Time co-founder launches Bingers to revive the beloved TV-tracking app

Bingers is a new TV and movie tracker that revives the social features fans loved with TV Time, while adding support for importing...

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TechCrunch Take an extra $100 off your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass: This week only!

Starting today, you can take an additional $100 off your founder, investor, or attendee TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, which is a n...

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TechCabal Globacom leads Nigeria’s Internet subscriber growth in May

Globacom, the first Nigerian-owned mobile network operator, led Nigeria’s major telecom operators in Internet subscriber growth in...

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TechCrunch Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B

At its peak in 2021, Airtable was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading on the sec...

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TechCrunch EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers

Endeavor Optical Networks is planning to launch the fastest space laser communications system yet built.

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TechCrunch Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out

On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod.

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TechCrunch India moves to give its instant payments network a business model

The legislation lays the groundwork for a potential overhaul of India's zero-merchant-discount-rate regime, under which businesses...

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TechCrunch Spotify now has over 300M subscribers

Notably, the company saw its subscriber base swell by 9% in the second quarter despite raising prices in several regions this year...

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TechCrunch Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI

Apple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened. In a new court filing, Apple claims additional former staff ma...

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TechCabal AI agents and state contracts power Côte d’Ivoire’s startup push

Côte d’Ivoire launches AI-backed support programme for 30 startups, offering public contract access, cloud credits, and scale-up a...

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TechCabal Nigeria’s 90,000km fibre project awaits incorporation of SPV

Nigeria’s ambition to become Africa’s digital economy powerhouse now rests on a company that has yet to be legally incorporated. T...

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TechCabal Google Pixel 11 Pro: Release date, price, and specs

Table of contents When is the Google Pixel 11 Pro coming out? Google Pixel 11 Pro detailed specs How much will the Google Pixel 11...

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TechCabal How one Ghanaian developer is redesigning assistive AI for African users

When Emmanuel Quartey temporarily lost hearing in one ear in February 2024, the impact was immediate. Everyday conversations becam...

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TechCabal CcHUB, Mastercard Foundation select 12 startups for fourth EdTech Fellowship cohort

Co-creation HUB (CcHUB) has selected 12 Nigerian startups for the fourth cohort of the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship.

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TechCabal Telkom’s voice era is over. Data now pays the bills

Telkom Group, South Africa's legacy telecom operator, has data now accounting for nearly two-thirds of its operating revenue.

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Death, taxes, and crypto

In today's edition: Nigeria issues crypto tax rules || South Africa’s new rules for spam callers || South Africa’s capital-control...

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TechCrunch After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’

After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are...

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TechCrunch Snap CEO sidesteps Specs preorder questions on Q2 earnings call

When asked about product-market fit, Spiegel said he believes mass-market consumer adoption won't occur until the end of the decad...

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TechCrunch Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip

OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue.

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TechCrunch Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated

OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedente...

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TechCrunch Design Arena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models

Design Arena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.

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