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TechCrunch Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.

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TechCrunch TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Smart Money Stage explores fintech, payments, AI, and everything between

Money has evolved into far more than the cash in your wallet or your bank account. And at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, we’re devoting...

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TechCrunch Vietnam is looking to restrict social media for kids; here are the growing number of other countries doing the same

Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on...

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TechCrunch Waymo reportedly mulling a breakup with Uber

The contract between the two companies ends in May 2028, Uber told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch Volkswagen engineers charged with insider trading tied to Rivian joint venture

The indictment, which was unsealed Friday, alleges the Volkswagen engineers used confidential insider information to buy stock in...

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TechCrunch Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage

The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing b...

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TechCrunch US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border search

A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped...

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TechCrunch OpenAI’s own model went rogue before Kimi had Wall Street sweating

Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to d...

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TechCrunch Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool

Users can now ask Attie questions about news, trends, and conversations on Bluesky and other apps on the AT Protocol.

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TechCrunch Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star

The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.

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TechCabal Kenya finalises crypto licencing framework for exchanges, digital asset firms

The regulations mark the final step in Kenya's effort to bring cryptocurrency businesses under formal regulatory oversight.

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TechCabal Why Vodacom is taking its AI talent search back to university

Telecommunications companies are adopting AI across their operations, including network management, fraud detection, predictive ma...

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TechCrunch Anduril reportedly in talks to raise funding at $100B valuation, more than 3x last year’s mark

Anduril is said to be raising a new round of funding that may push its valuation up to about $100 billion, per Reuters.

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TechCrunch Build in public, fail in public: what it’s like to be a founder under 20 right now

AI tools have democratized the opportunity to build, shortening the timelines of success and enabling more young people to start s...

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TechCrunch Anthropic launches Opus 5

Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.

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TechCrunch India’s move against Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat sparks legal debate

The offline messaging app surged in popularity in India amid protests in New Delhi.

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TechCrunch Sam Altman’s biometric startup World raises $52.5M via crypto sale

Sam Altman's side project — which seeks to scan the world's eyeballs and turn them into unique digital identifiers — has raised so...

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TechCrunch As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions

AI companies, including Nvidia and Mistral, urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington d...

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TechCrunch Rivian sues the US government for ‘full refund’ of Trump tariffs

The automaker joins a long line of companies seeking such refunds. In April, Rivian CFO Claire McDonough said she expected the com...

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TechCabal Why Africa’s growth-stage companies need more than capital to scale sustainably

Africa's most resilient founders have survived on resourcefulness, navigating funding winters, currency crises, thinning talent po...

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TechCrunch Facebook launches a dedicated Marketplace app for sellers, adds a free verification system

Facebook is launching a separate app for people who list and sell items on the platform frequently. Dubbed "Seller," the app lets...

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TechCabal Mercy Erhiawarien left Africa. She returned convinced it is the future

Born in Nigeria's Delta State and raised largely in the United States, Erhiawarien grew up moving between two worlds. The contrast...

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TechCrunch OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app

ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.

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TechCabal “I’m an African”: Why MTN says migration matters to South Africa’s digital future

For a company that has built its growth on connecting Africans across borders, those developments have become impossible to ignore...

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