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TechCrunch Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat

Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on projects,...

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TechCrunch That fake Grand Theft Auto VI demo is actually just malware

Grand Theft Auto fans, eager for news about one of the most anticipated video games of all time, appear especially vulnerable to t...

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TechCabal MTN has 5 million fintech users in Nigeria. It wants 30 million.

That opportunity is most pronounced in Nigeria, where the telecom giant has five million fintech customers but sees a path to as m...

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TechCabal YC-backed startup ThriveAgric raises $3.93 million in commercial paper sale

The move marks ThriveAgric's first foray into Nigeria’s debt capital markets and opens another channel beyond bank lending for a c...

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TechCrunch Apple debuts its ‘most powerful chip ever’ in M5 Ultra and M6

Apple unveils these new processors alongside an updated Mac Mini and Mac Studio.

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TechCrunch Self-driving truck startup Gatik raises $200M following PepsiCo deal

The funding, Gatik's largest so far, was led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies.

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TechCrunch Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica

Lica co-founders are going to work on Gamma's new research team.

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TechCrunch Apple rescues Hide My Email feature from the privacy scrap heap

Apple says it will no longer ditch using its icloud.com domain for hiding people's email addresses.

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TechCabal Fibre is changing Nigeria’s Internet. The hard part is getting everyone connected

Nigeria’s fibre boom is reshaping the country’s broadband market, lifting speeds and bringing more users onto faster networks. But...

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TechCrunch Apple’s latest Mac Mini runs on a new M6 chip, and starts at $899

The base model of the Mac Mini comes with 256GB of storage, 16GB of RAM, and costs $899.

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TechCrunch Andy Dunn’s startup Pie becomes less of an events app and more of a social network

The social app founded by Bonobos co-founder Andy Dunn is expanding beyond events with new digital homes for groups to connect, or...

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TechCrunch WhatsApp tightens account security with stronger two-step verification and more

WhatsApp’s two-step verification previously relied on a six-digit PIN, but now users can choose a longer, alphanumeric password wi...

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TechCrunch Accel-backed Keenable is indexing the web for AI agents

Now exiting stealth mode with a $26 million seed round, Keenable has been building a vast web search index for AI agents.

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TechCrunch Uber launches live video streaming for teen accounts

Uber said no one will be able to access the video once the ride ends.

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TechCrunch Fiat Ventures combines venture and advisory divisions into new brand, raises $35M Fund II

In an environment where emerging fund managers struggle to attract LP attention, FGV is betting that a different venture model can...

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TechCrunch OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale, benchmarks show

Tested on SemiAnalysis’ InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño registered both more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt than...

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TechCabal Moniepoint is phasing out MonieWorld, its UK remittance product

Less than 18 months after launching MonieWorld to serve Nigerians in the UK, Moniepoint, the Nigerian fintech unicorn, is disconti...

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TechCabal This Senegalese startup is giving old wardrobes a second life

From the city of Dakar in Senegal, Fatou Dieng is building Maket, a company that sells secondhand clothes.

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TechCrunch ‘The world seems to be ready’: An interview with OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux

TechCrunch talks agents, UX, and reporting to Greg Brockman with OpenAI's head of product.

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TechCrunch Fitbit founders launch Luffu Link, an LTE health and safety band

Luffu Link combines all-day health sensing, voice logging, location awareness, and the ability to get help from trusted contacts i...

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TechCrunch India’s Airbound bags $37M to take on trucks with rocket-like drones

Airbound's ultra-lightweight approach to drone delivery has attracted backing from Greenoaks, DoorDash, and Silicon Valley investo...

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – New landlord, same old tenant

In today's edition: MTN secures Nigeria’s approval for IHS deal || MTN’s new data centre company || Kenya’s gambling regulator to...

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TechCrunch Situational Awareness, star AI hedge fund that nearly imploded, now being probed by the SEC

The AI hedge fund went from "the talk of Wall Street" to "subject of federal subpoenas" faster than you can say "diversify your po...

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TechCrunch Oura is reportedly eyeing a September IPO that could value it at more than $16B

We all knew it was coming. The expected valuation may surprise, though.

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