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TechCabal Uber’s $14 ride problem in Nigeria

Uber spent 12 years in Nigeria and decided to leave because the market it operated in could not deliver the economies of scale req...

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TechCrunch OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them

OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question wh...

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TechCrunch XDOF, just 3 months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation

The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.

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TechCrunch AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing

Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcom...

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TechCrunch Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge

It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.

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TechCrunch No little kids allowed, and other new info about Tesla’s Cybercab

The company says no children under 13 can ride -- even with a parent. That's more restrictive than the Model Y SUVs it's using as...

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TechCrunch What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?

It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John...

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TechCrunch Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows ‘Tweet’ for now

A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned the “Twee...

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TechCrunch CD sales are making an unexpected comeback amid a retro tech boom

U.S. CD revenue jumped 58.6% in the first half of 2026, reversing last year’s decline as interest in retro tech and physical media...

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TechCrunch Less than 24 hours to apply for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Event

Less than 24 hours left to apply to host a Side Event during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and make your mark in the Silicon Valley scen...

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TechCrunch Google’s Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library

Gemini Spark can edit and curate photo albums, create shared collections, turn photos into calendar events, and handle other Googl...

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TechCrunch Krafton doubles down on India with another $250M bet beyond gaming

Krafton's planned investment in India is set to surpass $500 million with its latest commitment.

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TechCrunch US military disabled ad tracking on troops’ devices following reports of targeted attacks

A senator's letter confirms the U.S. military moved to prevent the tracking after foreign adversaries used location data to target...

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TechCabal TechBBQ’s Charles Kinga on what European investors get wrong about Africa

Charles Kinga does not immediately strike you as someone who can talk for hours. When we meet on August 25 in the lobby of Go Hote...

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TechCabal Uber came to Africa to disrupt transport. Then Africa changed Uber.

Africa spent a decade teaching Uber how on-demand mobility works in a cash economy on unmapped roads.

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TechCrunch Feds launch investigation into Tesla’s Cybercab deployment

The investigation was launched just a few hours after Tesla put the first production Cybercabs on the road in Austin.

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TechCabal Sun King joins Kenya’s growing smartphone financing race

The move puts the company in direct competition with M-KOPA and Watu, which have built businesses around financing smartphones for...

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TechCabal Uber restores Visa payments in Kenya after eight-month pause

The move reverses a decision that had pushed Visa users to rely on M-PESA, cash and other payment methods. It comes as Uber review...

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TechCabal Beyond chatbots, South Africa’s 4Sight sees AI running business processes

The company says its AI transformation is built around four pillars: data, process, training and change.

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TechCabal From 70 million to 317 million: How Serigne Dioum plans to turn every MTN subscriber into a MoMo user

MTN Group Fintech CEO Serigne Dioum, in this edition of Coffee With…, tells PHATHISANI MOYO how he plans to convert MTN’s 317 mill...

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TechCabal Glo’s decline, T2’s missing data widen MTN, Airtel’s Internet lead

If smaller players lose ground or their performance becomes difficult to assess, consumers could have fewer credible alternatives.

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TechCabal Should you buy the Redmi 17 5G? What to consider first

This phone replaces the Redmi 15 5G, but it’s easy to confuse it with three similarly named models: the 4G Redmi 17, the Redmi 17C...

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TechCrunch Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation

The round came together after the data center developer reportedly secured a $13 billion contract with Jane Street.

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Tolaram secures $51m debt

In today's edition: Quizzes || Tolaram secures $51 million funding || Nomba raises $3 million || Who secured the bag? 💰

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