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TechCrunch I took two iPhones on vacation. The Duo won me over.

The iPhone Duo has its frustrations, but it’s also fun and engaging enough that I didn’t want to switch back to my Pro Max.

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TechCabal Stablecoins gain ground in African trade but face hurdles to wider use

Stablecoins are giving African businesses an alternative way to pay overseas suppliers, but costs, security concerns and fragmente...

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TechCabal How Vectar Energy moved from selling solar generators to building carbon-market infrastructure

Vectar Energy is a climate finance company that began as a maker of solar-powered portable power stations and now brings small sol...

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TechCrunch Pile-ins, payouts, and pacing pressure: the investors behind the VCs open up

The money behind the money is thrilled, mostly.

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TechCrunch Nvidia weighs playing the cosigner for Nscale’s AI data center in West Virginia

When investors get nervous about AI spending, it helps to have the chipmaker that sells the chips offer to cosign the loan.

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TechCrunch Applebee’s exposed customers’ personal data after leaving database password in app

EXCLUSIVE: A security researcher discovered the hardcoded credential in Applebee's app, allowing unrestricted access to customers'...

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TechCrunch Last-minute Halloween costumes for tech nerds

No Halloween costume? Just be a deceptively cute AI agent icon, a PHP vulnerability, or sleepy time Bryan Johnson.

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TechCrunch Anthropic expected to receive high ‘junk’ rating from credit agencies following IPO, FT report says

Blackstone's forecast is just a prediction, but naturally, a high junk rating would make it more difficult and costlier for Anthro...

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TechCrunch Salesforce’s M&A spree continues with a reported $375M deal for defense tech startup Rune

The AI logistics startup will bolster the CRM giant's Missionforce defense platform.

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TechCrunch Intel’s stock crashes, knocking $12B from government’s stake

Intel is being hurt by PC sales as the AI industry gobbles memory and other components causing PC prices to rise.

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TechCrunch Ollie, a privacy-focused AI assistant, is shutting down

As an increasing number of AI assistants flood the market, the founder of Ollie, an assistant that respected its users' privacy, s...

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TechCrunch Cracks are emerging in the AI spending boom

Big Tech is pouring billions into AI infrastructure, but mounting debt, negative cash flow, and growing investor skepticism are ra...

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TechCrunch AI law firm Crosby bids on disintegrating, famed firm Weil Gotshal

Like a real-life episode of "Suits," the demise of famed white-shoe Wall Street law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has been the talk...

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TechCabal Credit Direct wants a bigger role in how Nigerians access financial services

Credit Direct, the consumer lending subsidiary of FCMB Group, a Nigerian financial services group, is expanding beyond traditional...

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TechCrunch Zest’s new AI agent finds restaurants and books reservations over text

Can't agree on where to eat? Zest's AI concierge can combine everyone's tastes, put restaurant options to a vote, and make the res...

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TechCrunch Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom is ‘a great opportunity to go deceive people’

The cautionary Theranos tale takes on a new significance in the AI era, when companies that have never turned a profit are raising...

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TechCrunch Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry

The first TPU in space is running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model and writing cheesy poetry.

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TechCrunch Satlyt takes another step toward turning satellites into space data centers

Satlyt ran a successful test this month bringing it closer to turning spacecraft, starting with satellites, into virtual data cent...

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TechCrunch DoorDash said it’s only received ‘several hundred’ orders from AI agents

DoorDash said that it is open to working with third-party agent makers.

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TechCrunch 5 days left: Your last chance to connect, scale, and save at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026

5 days to save up to $100, plus a second pass for free to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 in Boston on November 4. Register now.

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TechCrunch Can AI data centers be mass-produced like cars? This startup aims to find out

Runware is building a factory to turn out prefabricated AI data centers on an assembly line. The real test will be whether it can...

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TechCrunch Skip the small talk: Make game-changing connections at TechCrunch Founder Summit with Braindate

At TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026, happening November 4 at SoWa Power Station in Boston, networking powered by Braindate is design...

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TechCrunch North Korean hackers blamed for stealing record $6.3B in Binance breach

Hackers working for North Korea are suspected of hacking a Binance employee's laptop, which allowed the theft of billions in crypt...

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TechCabal Grey’s next bet is making African trade less dependent on the dollar

Grey says it has built direct currency conversion routes to help African businesses pay suppliers without first changing their mon...

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