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TechCrunch Tesla turns to Turo to boost adoption of Full Self-Driving (Supervised)

Eligible Turo hosts will also get a one-month free trial of Tesla's FSD software.

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TechCabal The Next Wave: The high cost of cutting out the middleman

Attempts to cut out middlemen in informal produce markets have repeatedly underestimated what brokers do.

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TechCabal Raenest expands beyond cross-border payments with stablecoins and savings

The products include stablecoin payments, cryptocurrency deposits, two new virtual card options, and a physical card.

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TechCabal DStv slashes Kenya prices as Canal+ tries to revive subscriber growth

From November 5, DStv will replace six packages with four, priced from KES 750 ($6) to KES 7,300 ($56) a month, according to a sta...

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TechCabal Tanzania’s Medikea raises $1.2 million to expand integrated healthcare network

Baobab Network, Catalyst Fund, develoPPP Ventures, Madica, Impacc, Hustle Fund, O’Shaughnessy Ventures, Madiro, Boehringer Ingelhe...

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TechCabal Nigeria to get two new AI-ready data centres in a $1 billion investment

INFRAGORA plans to begin building two AI-ready data centres in Nigeria by Q2 2027, backed by a proposed $650 million–$1 billion in...

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – OPay wants $336 million

In today's edition: Banque du Caire confirms 45% stake sale || OPay's $336 million target || Starlink blocks roaming in South Afri...

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TechCrunch The best apps for tracking your reading and discovering new books

There are numerous apps on the market that promise to do just that, so we’ve compiled a list of some of the best ones to help you...

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TechCrunch ‘Cyberselfish’ author takes aim at techno-libertarianism as her book returns from the dead

"That's a 12-year-old view of the world."

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TechCrunch Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’

The footage looks okay, as long as you're not seeking artistry, inspiration, or human interest.

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TechCrunch AI delivers ‘zero financial payoff’ to most companies, Apollo economist says

"Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payof...

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TechCrunch TechCrunch Mobility: Blue-green is the color of autonomy

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 The hottest AI wearables and gadgets you should know about

We compiled a list of all the hottest AI wearables, including Muse Charm, Bee, Friend, Plaud, and more.

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TechCrunch Will AI expose the rickety infrastructure of the internet?

The moment you realize the internet is "held together by glue and dreams."

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TechCrunch Starlink seems to be working normally again in Ukraine

Elon Musk reportedly ordered SpaceX to throttle Ukraine's Starlink access.

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TechCrunch The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it

From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or m...

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TechCrunch PHP-ocalypse: How two critical web bugs almost broke the internet

Two critical bugs in the PHP web programming language, used by the majority of the internet, threatened to upend the internet — an...

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TechCrunch These clever apps show off the iPhone Duo’s potential

From retro cassette players and virtual notebooks to flight trackers and even a digital toaster, developers are finding creative w...

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TechCrunch Instacart reportedly discussed selling itself with DoorDash and Uber

Instacart might sell itself to a larger competitor.

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TechCrunch Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human

Block said that the voice model can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max

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TechCrunch Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.

A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI m...

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TechCrunch The Boox Palma 2 Pro finally got me to stop reading on my phone

The $400 Boox Palma 2 Pro is a smartphone-sized e-reader designed for people who want to read books, articles, and documents on a...

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TechCrunch Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages

We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed fo...

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TechCrunch OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”

OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.

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