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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 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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 👨🏿‍🚀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 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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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 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 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 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 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 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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