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TechCabal One platform, many realities: Yango’s playbook for scaling across Africa

Adeniyi Adebayo, Yango’s Chief Business Officer speaks on scaling digital services across fragmented African markets.

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – ‘Crypto averts catastrophe’

On today's edition: South Africa reverses proposed crypto rule || Foreign capital reduces in Kenya’s KCB || Bolt expands EV bet in...

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TechCabal Africa must own its digital future or risk exploitation, says Luminate CEO

At the Build 2026 Conference in Abuja, Luminate CEO Melanie Hui warned that Nigeria loses millions annually to foreign cloud depen...

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TechCrunch Tesla says it will start selling Cybercabs by end of year

There is at least one obstacle that could throw off Tesla's Cybercab fleet plans. The NHTSA announced last month that it had opene...

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TechCrunch Meta wants to pay for its broad AI buildout with a newly created class of stock

The social media giant is planning a new stock strategy to help power its broad investments in AI models and services.

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TechCrunch Meta says Muse has over 10M users, with shopping a top activity

Meta Muse users are adopting the app for shopping and personal productivity, the company said during its Q3 earnings call. The AI...

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TechCrunch Year-old AI lab Flapping Airplanes raises $1B at a $6B valuation

Just 9 months after raising a $180 million seed round, Flapping Airplanes has landed a $1 billion Series A for its mission to buil...

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TechCrunch Tesla starts Optimus robot production in California as profit falls 43%

Tesla's revenue was flat and its expenses skyrocketed as it pressed the accelerator on its Optimus robots, AI, and autonomous driv...

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TechCrunch TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Everything you need to know

TechCrunch Founder Summit is a full-day gathering in Boston on November 4 where founders across all stages connect with top VCs an...

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TechCrunch Blackstone’s Jas Khaira says fears over AI-buildout debt are overblown

Blackstone’s AI head on why the PE giant isn't panicked by market jitters.

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TechCrunch Airbnb limits chores for guests, sparking backlash from hosts

Hosts are threatening to leave the platform after Airbnb says that they can no longer require guests to strip beds or do other tim...

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TechCrunch Automattic begins layoffs following board upheaval and executive departures

Sources say more cuts could follow as the company looks to improve its finances.

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TechCrunch Legal AI startup Legora raises $550M Series E at $8.8B valuation

Legal AI startup Legora announced Wednesday that it raised a $550 million Series E round, valuing it at $8.8 billion.

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TechCrunch Meta ordered to pay $25B in case related to Cambridge Analytica scandal

The payout is related to a recent trial involving the social media giant that revolved around its data privacy practices.

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TechCrunch GM is giving OnStar an AI makeover

It's one of the biggest overhauls ever to the 30-year-old connected car product.

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TechCrunch Recursive launches Flint, a laptop coding model it says was largely built by AI

Startup Recursive has released Flint, a free, laptop-sized coding model built largely by its own AI research system, as an early t...

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TechCrunch PHP Armageddon: OpenAI, Google’s Wiz find ancient holes, panicking the internet

This is the kind of security issue that was found and prevented by AI, but is also a high risk because of AI.

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TechCrunch The internet is having a very bad cybersecurity day

From AI-discovered PHP vulnerabilities to flaws in Node.js and popular AI tool LiteLLM, cybersecurity teams have plenty to worry a...

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TechCrunch GM is betting compute and AI will help it compete with Chinese automakers

To compete with Tesla, Rivian, and a host of Chinese automakers, GM’s fourth-gen EV platform will roll out a new central computer...

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TechCrunch While Amazon blocks AI agents, Walmart rolls out the welcome mat

As Amazon blocks AI agents from shopping on its site, Walmart is taking the opposite approach, introducing new technology that let...

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TechCrunch Waymo starts offering rides at the Las Vegas airport

Waymo only just started offering rides to the public in Las Vegas in September but is already serving a 24-square-mile area in the...

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TechCrunch Blacksmith hits unicorn valuation after Sequoia leads Series C

Blacksmith, a platform that lets companies build and test AI code more effectively, just announced a $66 million Series C round le...

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TechCabal African banks may be sitting on payment technology they aren’t fully using

“Technology is important, but modernisation should ultimately be driven by business priorities and opportunities,” Bautista said.

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TechCrunch Heat pump tech is 170 years old — Pascal thinks it’s time for an update

Refrigerants startup Pascal has a new take on heat pump and cooling tech using a sponge-like material that promises to be 20% more...

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