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TechCrunch Castelion hits $13B valuation to mass-produce hypersonic missiles

Founded in 2022, Castelion set out to manufacture hypersonic weapon systems at a lower cost and at faster speeds than traditional...

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TechCrunch Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule

Linkdaze's smart digital calendar stands out for not putting its features behind a paywall, including an AI meal planner tool.

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TechCabal Nigeria’s SEC wants crypto firms to share transaction data

Under new rules, crypto businesses targeting Nigerian users to register with the SEC, even if they operate from outside the countr...

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TechCabal Google is giving Nigerian students a year of free AI access

The offer is Google's latest effort to bring its AI tools into education in Africa.

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TechCabal AI is making Africa’s cheapest smartphones harder to afford

Africans planning to buy a new smartphone this year may have to spend more as rising AI demand makes the cheap devices that helped...

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TechCrunch Inertia Enterprises finds a way to make its fusion fuel fast

Fusion power startup Inertia Enterprises reduced the fuel filling process from a week to just a few hours. It's one of 10 hurdles...

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TechCrunch There are less than 48 hours to save up to $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket

If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of...

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TechCrunch Apollo Atomics wants to make nuclear power cheaper by shrinking an overlooked part

Y Combinator alumnus Apollo Atomics is shrinking a key nuclear reactor part, which promises to slash the cost of electricity below...

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TechCrunch Patreon launches 30 new creator features, including short-form Clips and revamped discovery

Patreon is overhauling how creators get discovered, adding short-form Clips, topic-based communities, and a revamped recommendatio...

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TechCabal African content has found a global market. Now comes the fight over the money

That visibility is one of the clearest signs of how much Africa’s entertainment industry has changed. A decade ago, the challenge...

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TechCrunch Senators demand answers from TikTok over experiment that disabled safeguards

The safeguard was designed to prevent users from being overwhelmed by harmful content, but TikTok wanted to determine whether it m...

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TechCrunch Meta brings Pocket, an app that lets you vibe-code and share games, to US users

Meta is bringing Pocket, its experimental AI-powered app for creating and sharing interactive games, to users across the U.S. afte...

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TechCrunch The 2026 Startup Battlefield 200 is here — see who made the cut

We’re thrilled to unveil the 2026 Startup Battlefield 200, our annual handpicked list of the 200 most promising early-stage startu...

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TechCrunch AI data giant Alation confirms cyberattack

The data search and AI giant confirmed unauthorized access to its systems during an incident on Tuesday, and said it was investiga...

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TechCrunch For a16z, AI gives foreign founders an advantage

a16z’s Borderless Founder network initiative supports immigrant and international founders. "Having one foot in your home country,...

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TechCrunch US says hackers are targeting vulnerable water systems with the help of AI

Hackers are targeting internet-connected Siemens controllers used in water facilities around the United States.

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TechCrunch Meta AI’s new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps

The company said that the dictation feature works across all apps, just like other tools such as Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Mon...

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TechCabal What AMACO’s $1.5bn Kenya AI project can teach Africa about energy

The company's HERCULES project combines electricity generation, cooling and AI data-centre infrastructure. The idea is to reduce d...

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TechCabal Galaxy Watch 9 vs Galaxy Watch Ultra 2: Full comparison

Both watches run on the same Snapdragon Wear Elite chip and Wear OS 7. They also share the same core health sensors.

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TechCrunch Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users

Binance's Agent OS works with tools such as ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor.

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Absa, but make it Nigerian

In today's edition: Absa eyes Nigerian entry || Terra Industries taps former SpaceX executive || DStv adds sports channel || Whats...

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TechCrunch Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’

What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the s...

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TechCrunch Waymo’s cheaper, next-gen robotaxi is now open to all riders in these three cities

The next-generation robotaxi, called the Waymo Ojai, is central to the company's push towards mass scale, and eventually, profitab...

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TechCrunch OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections

A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer...

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