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TechCrunch Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted ouster by board

Automattic says Mullenweg is back as "chairman and CEO of Automattic, with full support of the board."

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TechCrunch Tesla says it will finally unveil the second-generation Roadster on October 1

Tesla’s halo sports car was first announced in November 2017.

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TechCrunch OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be ‘ill-advised’ to go public in 2026

While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman.

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TechCrunch Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests

Revolut said it notified affected customers and alerted the relevant government agency, law enforcement, and financial regulators.

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TechCrunch Anthropic CEO outlines plan to slow AI development

Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman seem to agree that it's time to "pace the frontier." What would that actually loo...

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TechCabal Uber is gone. Shuttlers wants Lagos commuters to share their next ride

Shuttlers thinks that by assuring drivers a fixed amount, giving riders cheaper options and relying on customers' trust, it can ma...

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TechCabal Why a $103,000 US visa tax might be the best thing to happen to Africa’s tech ecosystem

Empirical data now confirms that the $100,000 surcharge did not suppress American demand for foreign tech expertise; instead, it f...

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TechCrunch Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data

The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.

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TechCrunch Roblox is making it easier to build games with AI — and play them outside Roblox

At its annual Roblox Developer Conference (RDC), the company announced several new features, including new game-creation tools, ex...

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TechCrunch Central Eurasia names its 2026 Road to Battlefield winners: Cerberus, WeGlobal AI, and LOOQ

Cerberus, WeGlobal AI, and LOOQ took the top three spots at the regional final of Road to TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 2026 and...

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TechCrunch One week left to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Only one week left to secure your exhibit table. Tables are limited and can sell out before the September 18 deadline.

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TechCrunch OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating

Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.

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TechCrunch Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too

Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving t...

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TechCrunch Final, final, final call for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Events

The absolute last chance to apply to host an official Side Event during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is tonight, September 11, at 11:59...

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TechCrunch Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2B in annual revenue

While K3's usage figures have declined slightly in recent months, OpenRouter data currently shows as many as 300 billion tokens be...

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TechCrunch Khosla Ventures is opening a New York office this fall — its first outpost outside Sand Hill Road

"It's actually allegedly being built out now," said Rabois, who has clearly dealt with a missed construction timeline or two.

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TechCrunch Scammers target hundreds of thousands of crypto owners after Trezor confirms data breach of email provider

This is the second data breach affecting a company that hardware crypto wallet maker Trezor relies on.

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TechCrunch Matt Mullenweg tells (trolls?) Automattic staff, saying he’s back in control after CEO ouster

In a Slack message seen by TechCrunch, Matt Mullenweg told Automattic employees he’s back in control of the company, days after it...

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TechCrunch Nscale adds former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo to its board ahead of potential IPO

The No. 2 exec at OpenAI also led Instacart through its IPO in 2023.

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TechCabal Musa Mishamo: The young Tanzanian engineer watching African farms from space

Mishamo was born near the shores of Lake Victoria, around Mwanza, in a village where they connected with the outside world through...

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TechCabal “Take the worker out of the pit”: How ABB’s Charl Marais sees the future of African mining

AI could make African mining safer and more efficient by connecting machines, systems, and workers and moving people away from dan...

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TechCabal South Africa hands Nigerian romance scam suspects to FBI over $6.2 million fraud

The case highlights a broader shift in the cybercrime economy, where criminals can exploit human trust without ever breaching a de...

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TechCabal Kenyan political operator used Claude to mass-produce election propaganda, Anthropic says

Its discovery offers an early glimpse of how generative AI could shape Kenya’s political ecosystem ahead of the next election.

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – New CEO at Absa Kenya

In today's edition: Kenya's new rules for cross-border data protection || Yusuf Omari: Absa Kenya's new CEO || SA police and body-...

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