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TechCrunch Google’s new Fitbit Air brings Pokémon Sleep to your wrist

Google teamed up with the Pokémon Company to introduce a special-edition Fitbit Air that works with the Pokémon Sleep app.

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TechCrunch Fashion startup Atorie raises $9.5M to bring consumers luxury goods without the markup

Shoppers can visit the Atorie website and buy handbags or clothes made from the same material — and coming from the same factory —...

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TechCrunch Hoomanely’s building a smart feeding bowl and an AI platform to help owners spot when their pup is sick

Hoomanely has developed a smart bowl to measure and record dogs' feeding data, then tells owners if behaviors change.

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TechCrunch Google’s AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and more

The updates indicate that Google is looking to position AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond simply helpi...

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TechCrunch Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck

Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, said the Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learni...

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TechCrunch Hold up, there’s a new Twitter in town

Former Twitter trademark counsel Stephen Coates said in a LinkedIn post that the company is not trying to re-create Twitter.

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TechCrunch Sprains, pain, and whiplash: Waymo and Zoox test drivers are getting hurt as robotaxis scale

Test drivers for Waymo and Zoox sustained more than two dozen injuries in 2024 and 2025 from hard braking or other sudden movement...

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TechCabal Redmi Note 17 Pro Max: Release date, price and specs

Table of contents Redmi Note 17 Pro Max at a glance Release date Price Specs Redmi Note 17 vs Redmi Note 17 Pro vs Redmi Note 17 P...

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TechCabal Kenya’s EV push gets boost as NCBA, BasiGo seal financing deal for 1,000 vehicles

NCBA Group has partnered with BasiGo to finance 1,000 electric vehicles, giving public transport operators, businesses, and instit...

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TechCrunch Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting Mercor, OpenAI, and others

The arrests come after a wave of cyberattacks earlier this year targeting tech companies that rely on high-profile and widely used...

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TechCabal Sony Xperia 10 VIII: Release date, price and specs

Table of contents Sony Xperia 10 VIII release date Sony Xperia 10 VIII price Is the Sony Xperia 10 VIII Worth the price? Sony Xper...

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TechCrunch This former PG&E engineer is building a ‘Google Maps for the underground’

The startup just raised a $26 million Series A to grow its customer base and help reduce red tape for utility and construction wor...

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TechCrunch Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies

A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and...

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TechCrunch AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps

Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lowe...

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TechCrunch Plaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents

Called Plaud One, these adopt the simple bare-bones style of Apple's AirPods, and can record calls, while their case can be used t...

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TechCabal Three companies now control nearly 70% of Nigeria’s ISP market

Nigeria’s internet service provider (ISP) market is growing, but the gains are increasingly going to a few major players.

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TechCabal AWS wants businesses to turn AI ideas into products in 45 days

Amazon Web Services is betting that putting its engineers directly inside customer teams can help businesses overcome a common pro...

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TechCrunch OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India

OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go...

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TechCabal Confessing to a computer: The hidden danger of AI in vulnerable spaces

Where should AI not be allowed to operate without a human being ultimately responsible? Healthcare should be an obvious starting p...

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TechCabal Bolt backs Mombasa County push to formalise 400 delivery riders with training and licences

Bolt has partnered with the Mombasa County government to launch a programme to help 400 delivery riders in the county obtain forma...

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TechCrunch Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidi...

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Pick n Pay, pick n scroll

In today's edition: Ventures Platform closes $84m fund || Kenya’s Musalia Mudavadi wants the country to join global cyber-police |...

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TechCrunch Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350M at a $2.5B valuation

The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy conce...

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TechCrunch Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’

Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships st...

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