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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – A MNT of fresh air

In today's edition: MNT-Halan share price rises 6.6% || Netflix lays off Africa content boss || Trading for NCBA shares suspended...

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TechCrunch Anthropic pitches AI safety bill that may block a model if 50+ people could be killed

The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI running amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model...

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TechCrunch Anthropic’s cloud partnerships are getting messy

Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competitor, even a...

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TechCrunch SpaceX’s AI business is beating expectations

SpaceX hit profitability in the third quarter, with net income of $4.4 billion. AI was the engine.

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TechCrunch OpenAI acquires startup Orchestra Bio⁠ to beef up its biotech business

OpenAI says it's adding Orchestra's team and technology to work on Rosalind, its AI model for life sciences research, and to its r...

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TechCrunch SpaceX and Tesla boards form special committees to review merger

Elon Musk likes the idea but says he is not on either committee, which is made up of independent directors.

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TechCrunch Hugging Face CEO warns that Netflix’s OpenAI hack documentary isn’t accurate

Before you share the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue," take note. Clem Delangue, Hugging Face's co-founder who is featured in t...

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TechCrunch Google is bringing a more personal version of its Gemini AI assistant to your car

Google is bringing Gemini's Personal Intelligence feature to cars, allowing its AI assistant to draw on information from Gmail, Ca...

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TechCrunch GM to close Detroit battery-assembly plant, but not for reasons you might think

GM is shuttering the Brownstown Battery Assembly Plant, though the closure has nothing to do with the automaker's electrification...

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TechCrunch Google has joined Amazon in attacking Nvidia’s stronghold with AI app developers

Google has joined Amazon in releasing a developer tool that makes it easy for PyTorch users to move their apps off Nvidia GPUs.

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TechCrunch ChatGPT now lets you lock your chats

The company says the feature is designed for situations where users might be discussing something personal or planning a surprise...

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TechCrunch Eric Schmidt reportedly owns about half as much of Anthropic as CEO Dario Amodei

Eric Schmidt’s fortune is about to get even bigger.

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TechCrunch Plants can speak using electricity, so this startup built an AI model to decipher their language

Electric Plant has built an AI-powered translator to help humans listen to what plants are saying with the subtle electricity cour...

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TechCrunch TikTok staff raised child safety concerns, but executives reportedly failed to act

Court documents show TikTok employees were frustrated with how executives responded to their concerns about risks to children.

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TechCabal Eva Ngigi Sarwari, Equity’s head of payments, dies on business trip to China

They described the news as a “sudden and profound shock” and said they would make further updates as details became available.

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TechCrunch Meta’s Muse hits 10M US downloads in 40 days, a milestone reached by only 11 other apps

New data also shows Muse is retaining users at higher rates than its AI rivals.

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TechCrunch Ex-Nvidia-turned-VC Amulya Vishwanath: ‘Physical AI is in its LEGO era’

It’s the moment everyone is waiting for — the ChatGPT moment for robotics, Amulya Vishwanath explained to TechCrunch’s Equity.

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TechCrunch Streaming guide JustWatch becomes a streamer itself

JustWatch, the popular streaming search guide used by 50 million people, is launching its own streaming service, offering free, ad...

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TechCabal Gabon’s first angel network is building more than a portfolio

Building a startup ecosystem takes more than funding. In Gabon, GAIN is working to bring together the investors, expertise and con...

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TechCrunch Figma co-founder Dylan Field thinks MCP is not a perfect protocol

Figma said it plans to support as many standards as possible without exposing all of its data.

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TechCrunch SpaceX alum’s aviation startup, Reliable Robotics, lands $115M, topping $1B valuation

Reliable Robotics extended its Series D round with $115 million in equity and $25 million in debt.

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TechCrunch US orders federal agencies to remove China’s DeepSeek AI from their systems

The U.S. has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party services built using its technology, ci...

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TechCrunch Eka is worth $1.45B thanks to a physical AI model that has experts raving

Eka Robotics may be the first robotic arm that is actually good at picking up a wide range of objects, and it is so smooth and hum...

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TechCrunch Inspired Capital closes $450M fourth fund as New York pushes back on Silicon Valley’s gravitational pull

The raise comes as venture dollars pile up on the West Coast.

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