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TechCrunch Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba and Baidu

The deal, which was rumored to be in the works last year, marks an important step for Apple's AI ambitions in a key market.

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TechCrunch Ultrahuman’s former hardware VP raises $5.5M for devices that control AI agents, not just record you

Aina is going to pilot a new device in the coming weeks.

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TechCrunch Meta now alerts parents if their teen discussed suicide or self-harm with its AI chatbot

The updates come as Meta and other tech companies are facing scrutiny from regulators and parents around how AI chatbots respond t...

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TechCabal How teaching AI your career could become the smartest job search strategy

Every new technology promises to save people time. Artificial intelligence is beginning to promise something more ambitious: memor...

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TechCabal Nigeria’s central bank wants every retail dollar traced with digital tracker

But while that earlier policy reopened official FX access, the latest framework is a digital infrastructure for monitoring the mov...

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TechCabal Schneider Electric says Africa’s electricity grid is the next AI battleground

Schneider Electric, an energy management and industrial automation company, believes Africa is preparing for it with the wrong que...

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TechCabal Paystack expands Pesalink partnership to bring bank transfers into checkout

The expansion reflects a broader shift in Africa's payments ecosystem as fintechs increasingly compete on payment infrastructure r...

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TechCabal OnePlus is pulling out of the US and Europe: What we know so far

Bloomberg reported on Wednesday that the shutdown could begin as early as this week, as part of a wider restructuring at parent co...

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TechCabal Digital lenders top Kenya’s consumer complaint list despite reforms

The increase made digital lenders the largest source of consumer complaints in financial services, accounting for nearly two-third...

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TechCrunch Phone maker OnePlus says it won’t release new phones in the US and Europe

OnePlus could also wind down its operations in India by 2027.

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Amazon finds space in SA

In today's edition: Amazon Leo partners SA’s Herotel, to launch in 2027 || Standard Bank backs Helios Towers with $29 million || A...

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TechCrunch Lululemon backs nylon-recycling startup Syntetica in $30M Series A

Syntetica, a French startup that has developed a novel approach to recycling nylon, has already obtained big-name partners and inv...

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TechCrunch Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an AI model for the entire plant

Applied Computing has raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry.

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TechCrunch Why Greylock capped its new fund at $1.5B when it says it could have raised more

By keeping the number of investments to about 25 per fund, Greylock aims to remain what it calls "the most important partner" to i...

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TechCrunch Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic

Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors' models.

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TechCrunch Inside Ode with Anthropic, the startup betting AI services are the future of enterprise

Can a handful of engineers really do the work of an army of consultants? That’s the bet behind Ode with Anthropic — the joint vent...

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TechCrunch Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB confirms

The safety board confirmed Tesla's account of the crash, which the company shared days after it happened last month.

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TechCrunch Daniel Ek’s body-scanning startup Neko Health raises another $700M

Neko Health has developed proprietary body-scanning technology, which it couples with bloodwork, to assess a person's health.

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TechCrunch Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex

OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboa...

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TechCrunch Microsoft patches bug in video game Age of Empires II

The vulnerability in the decades-old game could have allowed hackers to take over victims’ computers with a malicious game invite.

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TechCrunch Apple bans home services from its upcoming Maps ads

Apple has published the policies governing its upcoming Maps advertising business, revealing a strategy that differs from Google’s...

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TechCrunch SpaceX falls to $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch

The stock has steadily fallen from the euphoric post-IPO high, showing that markets may be sobering up to the promises CEO Elon Mu...

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TechCrunch Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling

It's the company's first public proof point after a year and a half spent building AI infrastructure largely out of public view.

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TechCrunch Phone maker OnePlus reportedly plans to wind down US and Europe operations

OnePlus could also wind down its operations in India by 2027.

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