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TechCrunch Google DeepMind alumni are building tools to accelerate fusion power for the grid

Fusionality is developing control systems and simulation environments to help fusion power startups move faster.

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – ‘How to licence data centres’

In today's edition: Kenya to licence data centre operators || Leila Fourie to join Vodacom board || Global payout options are shri...

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TechCrunch CloudNC raises $20M to automate manufacturing’s most pressing bottlenecks

UK-based manufacturing software startup CloudNC announced Wednesday a $20 million B extension round, bringing its lifetime total r...

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TechCrunch White House takes down ‘Build the Wall’ game after the Tetris Company complains

The Trump administration's short-lived arcade game "Build the Wall" is now nowhere to be found after the Tetris Company posted tha...

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TechCrunch Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers

Last month, a Claude user noticed his account was consuming tokens even though he wasn't working. Anthropic has since warned users...

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TechCrunch Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market

Cognition's valuation multiple is higher than Cursor's was before selling to SpaceX.

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TechCrunch The Exploration Company nabs $450 million to challenge SpaceX

The Exploration Company (TEC) has raised $450 million to build reusable spacecraft, in what it describes as “the largest-ever Seri...

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TechCrunch How to watch Apple’s foldable iPhone announcement

Apple's annual iPhone event will stream live on September 9 at 10 a.m. PDT, and we're expecting big news.

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TechCrunch OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician

There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.

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TechCrunch Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it?

Meta's new personal AI agent Muse wants access to users' email, calendars, payments, health services, and more — making the compan...

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TechCabal This AI research company wants to put 1,000 African languages into AI

African Languages Lab has spent years building data for underrepresented African languages. Now, its Mansa AI platform brings 30 l...

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TechCrunch Chrome is now shipping updates every 2 weeks as AI changes the security landscape

Google is speeding up Chrome’s release schedule to ship security patches and new features faster.

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TechCrunch Google’s revived nuclear power plant gets $1.9B loan from US government

Google said it would bring an Iowa nuclear power plant back from the dead. Now the plant's owner is getting a $1.9 billion loan fr...

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TechCrunch Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture deal

Google Cloud expands its enterprise AI push with Accenture, betting on forward-deployed engineers to drive adoption and overcome d...

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TechCrunch Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business

The French AI lab has raised €3 billion at a €21 billion valuation in a Series D round led by Samsung, Scaleup Europe, and PSG Equ...

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TechCrunch Poseidon Aerospace lands $60M ahead of first pilotless test flight

The startup is trying to rethink the economics of cargo aircraft by removing pilots from the equation entirely.

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TechCrunch Nuclear startup Bluecore Energy raises $50M seed round, just two months after launch

Bluecore Energy announced Tuesday an oversubscribed $50 million seed round — just months after raising a $10 million pre-seed and...

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TechCabal Kenya’s Flowt raises $550,000 as it targets a $1 million loan book

The Nairobi-based company uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse financial records, including bank and M-Pesa statements and...

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TechCabal Africa’s last-mile electricity problem cannot be solved by markets alone

Kenya illustrates the problem. Successive governments have spent years extending the national grid, including through the Last Mil...

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TechCabal Power Brunch: Nigeria’s data sovereignty push goes beyond local servers

With Nigeria’s financial sector facing a January 1, 2027, deadline to comply with the Central Bank of Nigeria’s data-localisation...

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TechCrunch A hacker stole $340M in a crypto heist, then returned most of it

The latest heist is one of the largest thefts of cryptocurrency to date.

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TechCabal The platforms that help Kenyans get paid are changing the rules

Kenya’s digital economy faces fresh disruption as PayPal, Sendwave, Hurupay and Twitch change services used to earn and move money...

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TechCrunch Stoke Space raises another billion to rival SpaceX at re-flying rockets

Stoke has "completed the initial closing" of a $1B Series E round intended to help it reach orbit and prepare a new, larger rocket...

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TechCabal Fintech won in Francophone Africa. Now what?

Fintech dominates in much of Francophone Africa. But now, the region needs more proven tech economies to deepen participation.

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