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TechCabal Spiro appoints automotive veteran to lead West and Central African operations

The hiring is the latest wave of appointments at Spiro as the company reshapes its leadership following a $270 million fundraising...

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TechCabal Nigeria wants crypto firms to lock up 80% of customer assets offline

The rules are aimed at strengthening investor protection and reducing the risk that customers lose access to their assets when a d...

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – New wine, old wineskins

In today's edition: New wine, old wineskins || Terra Industries appoints ex-Palantir exec || Mozambique creates AI forum || JSE su...

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TechCabal Nigeria wants more assistive tech. Who is fixing its inaccessible digital platforms?

While Nigeria is actively fostering innovation in assistive technology, true digital inclusion requires addressing the systemic in...

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TechCrunch The US is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them

The U.S. is shutting out more foreign-made drones and robots. China’s scale means the global competition may simply move elsewhere...

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TechCrunch Grindr wants to be the everything app for gay men; investors are still deciding whether it can pull it off

George Arison is done letting Wall Street's "Grindr discount" go unchallenged — in a wide-ranging Q&A, the CEO walks us through ho...

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TechCrunch Liux’s Big microcar bets on sustainability to take on Chinese rivals

The Liux Big microcar is made in Spain. The startup thinks it can compete in a crowded market with its tiny electric car built aro...

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TechCrunch TechCrunch Mobility: The hidden human cost of robotaxis

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in...

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TechCrunch Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining

Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It's now bringing that experience to AI...

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TechCrunch Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem

Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster t...

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TechCrunch Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft

This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.

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TechCrunch At TechBBQ, Europe’s AI conversations kept coming back to: Who’s actually in control?

Investors, founders, and operators from across Europe arrived for the annual Nordic TechBBQ conference to talk about how humans ca...

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TechCrunch ‘We’re not doing 30 bets a year’: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4B at a16z

Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks abou...

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TechCrunch Hollywood celebs are getting into microdrama apps

Several Hollywood celebs are ditching the massive eight-figure checks and exotic movie sets for a rising format: microdramas.

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TechCrunch The Theragun Sense makes everyday recovery surprisingly easy

The Theragun Sense, which retails for $299, is a wellness-focused massage gun that’s designed for everyday aches, muscle tension,...

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TechCabal A Lagos car crash almost killed him. A €900 visa saved his dream of seeing the world.

A near-death experience in Lagos pushed Adewale Adekomaiya to leave Nigeria and travel across seven European countries with his wi...

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TechCrunch Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU

The new generation of data center systems is increasing efficiency with smarter traffic control instead of just more processor cyc...

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TechCrunch Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine

Technical progress has encouraged a new batch of companies to jump in on the promise of profits from humanoid robots. And they're...

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TechCrunch Is the best way to watch a movie on a pair of sunglasses?

Are XREAL's smart glasses the way of the future for home entertainment?

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TechCrunch Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips

Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of...

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TechCrunch An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI

Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one...

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TechCrunch Brave’s browser one-ups Chrome with its new support for email aliases

The feature, announced this week, allows Brave's users to sign up for websites and other online services without having to share t...

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TechCrunch Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets

There's a lot of capital pouring into the business of giving models away.

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TechCrunch How Sweden built one of Europe’s hottest startup ecosystems

Sophia Bendz, general partner at Cherry Ventures, stopped by Equity to break down the latest in the Swedish tech ecosystem.

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