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TechCrunch Harvey hits $15.5B valuation, months after reaching $11B

The legal AI startup and VC darling has nearly doubled its valuation in nine months.

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TechCrunch Viral AI assistant Instinct now has its own email address

Instinct’s new email feature lets the AI agent create and manage accounts, contact businesses, handle support requests, and do mor...

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TechCrunch ‘Gambling with our lives’: Anthropic researcher quits, warns against self-improving AI

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned over AI extinction fears, calling for pacing agreements between labs.

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TechCrunch Shipt becomes the latest delivery app with an AI shopping assistant

Users can ask the assistant to do things like "Create a cart for my Saturday tailgate for 25 people and include some brunch items,...

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TechCrunch Uber rival inDrive scales beyond ride-hailing to capture more consumer spending

First piloted in July 2025, inDrive's ad business has served more than 2 billion impressions and attracted over 2,000 paying adver...

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TechCrunch Apple CEO John Ternus says the best AI device is still the iPhone

The company also argued that its on-device models offer consumers more privacy.

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TechCrunch Apple launches iPhone 18 Pro with upgraded camera

Apple's new iPhone 18 Pro lineup upgrades the camera and comes in burgundy.

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TechCrunch DOJ wants more answers on Fox’s $22B Roku deal

The investigation also comes as the DOJ has faced criticism over how it handles major mergers, including questions about political...

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TechCrunch Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it?

AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging F...

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TechCabal MTN Nigeria becomes first telco to cross 100 million subscribers

The addition of more than 2.2 million subscribers was MTN’s strongest monthly growth so far this year and its biggest since Novemb...

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TechCrunch AI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August — summer doldrums or a warning sign?

Falling token costs, cheaper models, and less spend per employee — AI adoption isn't playing out the way hyperscalers hoped.

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TechCrunch Suno replaces its AI models with a new one trained on licensed music as copyright suits pile up

As it grapples with a bevy of lawsuits, Suno said its new model, Suno v6, is not trained using music it used to train previous ver...

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TechCrunch Besxar is building an orbital semiconductor factory, one SpaceX rocket at a time

If you want to manufacture in space—and bring the products back again—there’s a limited set of options: Wait to go to the Internat...

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TechCrunch Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks

Cymphony was valued at more than $100 million in a $25 million Series A co-led by Sequoia and SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund.

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TechCrunch Autonomy pivots to gas vehicles to keep the dream of car subscriptions alive

Scott Painter, founder of TrueCar, is still trying to build a business around vehicle subscriptions, where you can cancel at any t...

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TechCrunch Instacart launches an AI grocery shopping assistant called Clementine

Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform.

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TechCrunch Group of bipartisan lawmakers ask US government to ban several hack-for-hire firms

The three Indian companies are accused of using hackers to steal information used to sway litigation.

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TechCabal Kenya’s first locally domiciled ETF get securities exchange approval

Wall Street Africa (WSA) has received conditional approval from the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) to list its banking exchange...

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TechCrunch Uber invests $10M in Indian fleet operator Carrum at $168M valuation

Carrum Mobility operates about 5,100 vehicles in India and is Uber's largest fleet partner for its premium Uber Black service in t...

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TechCabal What to expect from the Apple Surprise and Shine event today

This is Apple's first big event under a new boss, John Ternus, who resumed as CEO on September 1, eight days before this keynote.

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TechCabal US-based Pigee to acquire 55% stake in Nigerian logistics startup ShipAfrica

The acquisition will occur in three stages over the next 18 months and will be funded through a combination of cash and equity, ac...

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TechCabal dLocal Ghana secures enhanced payments licence to deepen local operations

dLocal Ghana can now provide local payment collections, merchant acquisitions, mobile-money acceptance, bank-transfer collections...

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TechCabal She gave up her childhood dream of becoming a doctor to fix what doctors cannot

At 14, Dami Oyenekan watched a patient die at LASUTH, an experience that changed her dream of becoming a doctor and led her to hea...

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TechCabal Africa doesn’t need to build the next ChatGPT to win the AI race

Africa’s AI opportunity may lie beyond chatbots, with AI transforming mining, business processes and other industries that power i...

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