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TechCrunch Venus Williams-backed WeWard can now lock your apps until you hit your steps

With funding from tennis star and angel investor Venus Williams, the French app WeWard says that it increases walking time by almo...

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TechCrunch Former OpenAI exec Kevin Weil is now on the board of Stoke Space

Kevin Weil's new role at Stoke Space suggests reusable rockets are the next hot thing in Silicon Valley.

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TechCabal When every call leaves a trail: Why can’t Nigeria still find kidnappers?

Hundreds of kidnappings occur every year, and relatively few perpetrators are identified or prosecuted through telecommunications...

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TechCabal Koko Networks administrators begin sale of collapsed clean cooking startup’s assets

Administrators have begun marketing the assets of Koko Networks, the clean cooking startup that served more than one million Kenya...

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TechCabal Safaricom seeks shareholder nod to give Vodafone CEO nomination powers

If approved, the amendments would mark Safaricom's first constitutional overhaul since Vodafone Kenya became the company's majorit...

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TechCabal Kenya lets families block relatives from gambling under proposed rules

The proposals, published in regulations gazetted on June 30, would also allow betting companies to suspend customers they believe...

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TechCrunch Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips

ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has now released ZML/LLMD, software that could make runni...

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – A Circle in Flutterwave

In today's edition: Flutterwave raises from Circle Ventures || Kenya launches ICT sandbox || Nigeria wants one rulebook for the In...

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TechCrunch AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round

AI chip maker SambaNova has raised at an $11 billion valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1....

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TechCrunch Final extension: Startup Battlefield Australia applications now close July 20

If you're building something ambitious, this is a fast track to the people who can move your startup forward.

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TechCrunch Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos

The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising and decorating, and creator-based opportunities.

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TechCrunch Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet

Open source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the sam...

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TechCrunch Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models

Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.

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TechCrunch Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images

The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with an additional 200 users banned over the weekend b...

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TechCrunch Google’s Pixel event is set for August 12

Google's upcoming event in August will introduce new Pixel devices.

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TechCrunch Figma acquires team behind a vibe-coding app

The Y Combinator-backed company started a vibe-coding platform and later built an agent-creation product.

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TechCrunch Netflix dabbles in shorter video content with its new set of publisher deals with Variety, others

Netflix is bringing 2- to 20-minute videos to its platform through new partnerships with digital publishers, including Rolling Sto...

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TechCrunch Hacked, leaked, and held for ransom: The worst breaches of 2026 so far

From a massive DOGE data breach and the hacking of critical energy and water systems to the hack of an FBI surveillance system, he...

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TechCrunch Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web

With this update, users can start a task from their desk, get status updates on their phone, and pick up the finished output later...

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TechCabal Starlink pauses new subscriptions in parts of Kenya after demand surges

Starlink has stopped accepting new customers in seven Kenyan counties after demand outstripped available network capacity, a sign...

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TechCabal How state tech agency became South Africa’s biggest digital transformation bottleneck

The report revealed that the bigger problem is an organisation unable to consistently procure, manage and deliver technology for t...

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TechCabal Wahala App thinks public safety deserves its own app

Wahala App is betting that the same instinct that sends Nigerians to X during emergencies can power a platform built specifically...

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TechCabal TechCabal’s Road to Moonshot brings Africa’s startup debate to Nairobi

More than 120 founders, investors and operators gathered in Nairobi on July 2 as TechCabal brought its Road to Moonshot series to...

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TechCrunch X adds a video editor to encourage creators to post original content, not stolen reposts

X is rolling out a new video editor and recorder for iOS with multilingual captions, green-screen effects, and other editing tools...

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