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TechCabal Cirquu opens AI business platform with subscriptions from $7 a month

Cirquu has opened its AI-powered business management platform to public sign-ups, offering African companies tools for sales.

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TechCrunch Amazon updates Alexa to help you manage shopping lists and subscriptions and update delivery instructions

The update allows you to use Alexa to create lists, register them, see what's on them, and add or edit items. You can also manage...

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TechCrunch Mistral releases weights for its trillion-parameter AI model, targeting cybersecurity

Mistral says its new model can afford organizations a kind of control over its cyber defenses that closed models can't.

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TechCrunch Agent identity startup Mintive lands Cowboy Ventures, Coatue, angels Jeff Dean, Andrej Karpathy

Mintive was founded by two engineers who have been working on AI for decades through Google Brain and Coursera. It's platform prom...

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TechCrunch SuperMe raises $20M for its network of AI expert profiles

SuperMe is a network of AI profiles built from the knowledge of real-life experts. When you ask a question, the platform determine...

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TechCrunch Ex-Palantir execs launch Dream with $17M from a16z to build AI world models for construction

Dream is grounded in real physics and construction standards. Just as LLMs learn from text, Dream's world model is trained on more...

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TechCrunch US investigated Chinese spy plot aimed at Nvidia CEO

A top executive of a Singapore AI cloud company that was accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China could also have been a...

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TechCabal Africa’s creator economy needs more than talent to turn creativity into money

Africa’s creative industries have no shortage of talent or stories to tell. What they lack is the commercial infrastructure to dis...

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TechCabal Safaricom dismisses 118 staff for fraud, four times the 2021 level

Safaricom dismissed 118 employees for fraud in the year to March, even as fraud incidents fell 82%, pointing to a declining inside...

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TechCabal “It has to touch the lives of people”: the Gates Foundation’s challenge to Africa’s AI builders

Africa’s AI builders must measure success by sector growth and incomes, not just products launched, the Gates Foundation told Tech...

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TechCrunch Bluesky blocks links to leaked DHS employee data as government seeks takedowns

The social networking site is facing criticism for blocking access to the site, which identifies thousands of ICE agents and other...

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TechCrunch DoorDash to acquire Instacart for $17B

The acquisition would bring two major players in on-demand delivery under one roof, combining DoorDash’s dominance in restaurant t...

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TechCrunch Deepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily to bolster its voice AI infrastructure

With Pipecat, Deepgram will likely gain a deeper understanding of real-time voice and video infrastructure.

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TechCrunch Amazon updates Alexa to help you manage shopping lists, subscriptions, and update delivery instructions

The update allows you to use Alexa to create lists, register them, see what's on them, and add or edit items. You can also manage...

1 week ago Read here ›
TechCrunch Who will you learn from in 6 days at TechCrunch Founder Summit? Meet the founders and investors taking the stages

Six days from now, on November 4, TechCrunch Founder Summit brings experienced founders, investors, and operators to Boston to sha...

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TechCrunch Wabi, the AI agent that builds mini apps, now valued at $1.25B after latest round

On Thursday, AI app Wabi, now describing itself as a "personal agent," said it has raised $55 million at a $1.25 billion valuation...

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TechCabal “It’s for the person in your village”: Oji Udezue’s $10mn Enzi Prize to crack AI’s cost wall for Africa

Oji Udezue’s has said his $10 million Enzi prize aims to make frontier AI cheaper and more relevant to African languages and conte...

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TechCabal Device Checker: Nigeria introduces app to simplify phone verification

TechCabal’s analysis of the device verification system on October 20, 2026, had examined how the country’s complex phone distribut...

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TechCabal “It has to touch the lives of people”: the Gates Foundation’s challenge to Africa’s AI builders

Gates Foundation urges African AI developers to prioritise healthcare, education and incomes over product launches at Moonshot by...

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TechCabal Bluebulb launches treasury platform for African businesses trading abroad

Bluebulb has launched a treasury management platform to help African businesses oversee cash, currencies, and international paymen...

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TechCabal Grey pitches direct China payments to African businesses at Moonshot

rey is offering businesses direct payments to Chinese bank accounts to reduce currency conversions and intermediaries involved in...

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TechCabal Payment providers must look beyond transactions, fintech executives say

Payment providers must help businesses manage cash flow, understand customers and reduce fraud as accepting digital payments becom...

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TechCabal Nigeria’s securities exchange urges founders to list on local bourse

Nigeria’s securities regulator has urged local founders to look closer to home for capital, arguing that crowdfunding and debt mar...

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TechCabal Paystack’s Akinlade puts business infrastructure at centre of next growth phase

Paystack will look beyond payment acceptance to address more of businesses’ financial needs as it enters its second decade, co-fou...

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