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TechCrunch Oura shelves its $2.2B IPO, citing ‘uncertainty’ in the market

The postponement of the IPO will delay some of the company's plans for its proceeds from the IPO, as well as those of its sharehol...

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TechCrunch With Dazzle, Marissa Mayer bets your camera roll has more info on your life than your inbox

Mayer argues that if a photo is worth a thousand words, your camera roll is worth millions. By analyzing all the photos stored on...

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TechCrunch Meta is expanding its AI agent Muse to small businesses

The tech giant says the agent can help owners run their business and find new customers.

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TechCabal Zimbabweans can buy Dangote shares, but not quite through an app

The process also reveals how much of cross-border investing remains manual even as fintech platforms make domestic investing incre...

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TechCrunch Still running iOS 26? Update your iPhones, iPads, and Macs for this urgent security fix

Apple says the bug was used to attack "specific targeted individuals" running iOS 26, which the majority of Apple customers are st...

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TechCrunch Fireflies adds dictation to its desktop notetaking apps

Fireflies said that it won't charge extra for the new dictation feature, which can be used with any desktop app.

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TechCrunch OpenAI apologizes to Australia after its AI agents breached government sites

The company also detailed how some of those breaches had happened, and outlined additional measures it is taking to assess the imp...

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TechCrunch Reco raises $55M as AI agent security startups crowd the market

The round builds on a $30 million fundraise in February, taking the company's total funding to $140 million.

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TechCabal Africa’s AI problem isn’t talent

Africa has no shortage of AI talent—so why are developers struggling to build? There's a missing layer between Africa's tech ecosy...

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TechCabal Kenya’s digital payment boom is leaving mobile money agents stranded

Between March and June, Kenya lost roughly 34,000 mobile money agents. The total number of registered agents dropped by 5.6%, fall...

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TechCabal Algeria is opening the door to telco-led mobile money. Can it work?

Algeria has yet to develop the mobile money market seen across much of the continent. Djezzy's authorisation is a first step towar...

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TechCrunch Protego Ventures closes debut $125 million fund for Israeli defense tech

Protego Ventures, the first and largest dedicated defense tech VC in Israel, just completed its final $125 million closing, TechCr...

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TechCrunch Ex-Tesla team raises $12.5M to put supply chains on autopilot

Atomic's agentic supply chain software is now being used by companies like DoorDash and HelloFresh.

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TechCabal Nigeria’s central bank data localisation push is about more than local servers

Data localisation is often framed as keeping data in-country and protecting it, but the Central Bank of Nigeria’s new rules are ab...

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TechCabal The competency illusion: Why Africa’s tech ecosystem is firing top engineers

Technical skills alone no longer guarantee success in tech careers in Africa. Now, companies are prioritising business literacy, l...

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Ghana courts a Leo

In today's edition: Ghana in early talks with Amazon Leo || Sidama Bank goes public in Ethiopia || Spar's refreshed Spar2U goes li...

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TechCrunch Anthropic’s prospectus details losses, growth, and, yes, a warning that its AI could end humanity

In its prospectus, Anthropic just told investors it's losing tens of billions of dollars a year, but also growing like crazy, and...

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TechCrunch OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns

A top executive at the AI lab told the Wall Street Journal that the model in question had displayed a poor aptitude for following...

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TechCrunch Aurora CFO says 30,000 driverless trucks by 2030 isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds

Self-driving truck company Aurora laid out an audacious plan for 2030. Its CFO says its targets aren't aspirational.

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TechCrunch Peak XV ups Surge seed investment ceiling to $5M, unveils 18-startup cohort

Thirteen of the 18 startups in Peak XV’s latest Surge cohort are targeting global markets, while more than half are based in India...

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TechCrunch Source: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation

The new financing is expected to more than triples the AI infrastructure startup's valuation from just four months ago.

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