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TechCrunch Spotify launches paid podcast memberships with perks beyond bonus content

Spotify's new paid memberships let podcasters offer fans exclusive perks, including ad-free listening, early access, and bonus con...

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TechCrunch Oura adds new fitness metrics to show how workouts impact your body

While Oura has largely dominated the smart ring market for years, rivals like RingConn and Ultrahuman are emerging to dethrone it,...

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TechCabal A data centre is not a cloud platform: Why the distinction matters

Data centres and cloud platforms have been used interchangeably but are not the same thing. With the Central Bank of Nigeria requi...

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TechCabal NCC’s device verification tool exposes vulnerabilities in Nigeria’s mobile imports

The NCC’s new device verification tool helps buyers identify unapproved phones. But Nigeria’s import-dependent mobile market and f...

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TechCrunch Yelp can now call on your behalf to check wait times at a restaurant

Yelp is embedding numerous new AI features into its app that can do everything from call to check on restaurant wait times to crea...

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TechCrunch Otter.ai raises $320 million from General Catalyst’s growth fund for its meeting tool

Meeting note-taking tool Otter.ai announced on Tuesday that it has raised $320 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund...

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TechCabal High spectrum costs squeeze African telecom investment and digital growth

African operators face a higher spectrum cost burden despite holding fewer frequencies than their global peers. Lower fees could u...

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TechCrunch Blackwall quadruples valuation to $2.2B as websites wrangle an increasingly crowded internet

Blackwall has raised $100M at a $2.2B valuation to continue building security and filtering tools that help websites grapple with...

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Nedbank checks into Nairobi

In today's edition: Nedbank completes NCBA takeover || Why Onafriq shut down its Nigerian agent banking business || Union calls fo...

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TechCrunch Walmart’s Flipkart is quietly building a food delivery challenger in India

Flipkart has expanded access to its food-delivery service to thousands of employees ahead of its public launch.

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TechCrunch Mamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday night that New Yorkers must resist the narrative that an AI takeover is inevitable and demand reg...

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TechCrunch Nscale and Anthropic are reportedly in talks for yet another $45B compute deal

If the deal goes through, it would be the latest in a long string of giant compute deals Anthropic has struck over the past year.

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TechCrunch Embedded AI evaluators won’t be an easy solution, Hugging Face’s policy chief says

The idea of embedded evaluators — in which supposedly "neutral" third-party observers are placed inside AI organizations — has bee...

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TechCrunch Microsoft says AI agents are like insider threats as ‘frontier models can’t be trusted’

Microsoft wants enterprises to closely watch the agents that employees use with systems not controlled by AI labs like OpenAI and...

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TechCrunch Rivian’s CEO says autonomy will enable ‘dramatically different’ vehicle designs

Founder and CEO RJ Scaringe said he thinks autonomy will allow his company to build radically different kinds of vehicles than the...

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TechCrunch Laplace Intelligence red-teams robots and self-driving cars before they hit the real world

University of Michigan spinout Laplace Intelligence uses AI agents and interactive simulation to stress-test robots and self-drivi...

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TechCrunch Tolan snags $30M for its AI companion that helps users navigate life

AI companion app Tolan has raised another $30 million after attracting more than 250,000 active users.

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TechCrunch Replika’s founder built the AI assistant she pitched at Disrupt 12 years ago

Eugenia Kuyda's newest startup Wabi is positioned to take advantage of an idea she had more than a decade ago. Wabi offers a perso...

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TechCrunch Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips

After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.

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TechCrunch AI assistant startup Town nabs unicorn valuation 4 months after launch

AI assistant startup Town nabbed a unicorn valuation on Monday, announcing a $108 million Series B round co-led by Forerunner Vent...

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TechCrunch Amazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool

Amazon wants to break Nvidia’s hold on PyTorch, the free toolkit used to build most AI apps, so that more developers run their app...

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TechCrunch Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts

OpenCode is an open source AI coding agent that's become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into par...

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TechCrunch People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again

Fed up with ads, tracking, and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take...

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TechCrunch Nvidia launches new open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCs

Nvidia is leaning hard into the trend of enterprise companies wanting to run their own open models in their own data centers and a...

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